Everyone was getting used to their suits and the little quirks that came with them. Virtual reality was still only an approximation of reality and what worked in VR didn't always translate to reality. Muscle memory and reaction time couldn't be accounted for.
Lisa was happy to train on her own with her suit, but the 3 children were excited to try out their suits. Jania was so happy that she challenged both Null and Chris to a 2 on 1 training battle. Before they could engage in the battle they had to change out their weapons for some training equivalent weapons as they couldn't afford to injury anyone.
These weapons were designed to feel approximately the same but would not be as deadly. The lasers had their power reduced so that they should still be effective but not lethal if something went wrong.
Null and Infy were excited to see how their new designs would handle in the real world. They were apprehensive about the effectiveness of the shielding spell. The threshold for when the shield would activate had to be set especially high or it would be activating every time someone walked or moved near heavy objects.
Jania started the battle strong by throwing her marker towards Chris and cast blink just before it arrived. This enable her to teleport right in front of Chris, she threw the weighted end of the rope to wrap up Chris's legs. This turned out to be ineffective as Chris used his newfound speed to evade the attack.
Chris then cast the spell Mirror Image creating 5 doppelgangers images throughout the room.
"That won't work on me!" shouted Jania. She attacked the image of Chris where he was originally standing. Mirror Image had a fatal flaw, the original person didn't magically change locations so unless you obscured the enemy view it was useless. Except her attack had phased straight through the image.
"You aren't the only one who knows that weakness!" Chris and Null had come up with a solution after casting Mirror image, Null would place a marker near one of the images and Chris would blink to the marker near instantly.
As Jania was attacking the fake image, Null had tried to grab her from behind to use his stun glove only to end up getting the weighted end thrown against his stomach. Jania didn't need eye contact to see anyone. Thanks to her AI and sensors she had a complete 360-degree view of the battlefield.
Null wouldn't give up that easily and was currently engaging Jania in a full-blooded battle with fist and weapons flying. Chris had now deployed his laser and was taking potshots at the battle mainly to be a distraction by getting the shield to constantly engage.
Jania was enjoying herself and the longer the battle went on. The more in tune she felt with the universe. She could suddenly understand more about her body how each move flowed into the next. Jania was somehow directly channelling the motion field and it had directly affected her speed and strength she was currently launching a frenzy of attacks that no ordinary human would be able to keep up with.
Null and Infy were anything but ordinary, as the speed and strength of the attacks increased they were being put under more pressure. The only way for Null to match the speed and strength of Jania was for him to merge with Infy into their Angel hybrid form. Infy was now powering Null body allowing him to match the speed of Jania.
Null was missing his shield. He had found that not having any way to block or parry blows left him at a disadvantage. He was on the defensive trying to avoid the gleeful berserker in front of him.
Jania had never felt so satisfied, it was like her body was made for this. Everything just flowed and she was sure if she was fighting anyone else she might have been able to succeed. The Match was heading towards a draw with neither side being able to land a conclusive glow.
Chris was too engrossed in the battle and missed the fact that a marker had just been placed behind his feet. The next thing he knew Jania was behind him and had used her Rope to successfully wrap up his legs and held her sickle against his neck. "I win!" Shouted Jania. Null and Infy would have liked to disagree as she didn't beat them, but they had failed to protect Chris.
They had managed to stress test the three suits and had found many flaws that did not exist in VR testing. Null and Jania suits could not keep up with the demands placed on them when they were in their enhanced state.
Chris AI needed improving so that it could have detected the marker and prevented him from being taken by surprise.
The suits themselves had been completely ruined and would need to be completely rebuilt to specifically take into account the stress they would undergo.
"So how could Jania fight like that, is that from the super-soldier training?" inquired Lisa. She had been intrigued by the battle, but she couldn't keep track of them once they both seemed to have transformed.
"No, I've never done anything like that before. Maybe it was the suit?" Jania was just as confused. She had tried to re-enter the state but couldn't.
"If it was the suit, does that mean me and mum could also do that?" asked Chris.
"I don't think so, Jania was somehow using the fields. We could hear the voice of the universe changed around her." Infy had a better idea of what might have been happening but would need to do some more testing to ensure he didn't get her hopes up.
Null on the other hand. "That was so awesome, you have even more superpowers nows. Now we just need to give Chris some superpowers. Then we can be superpower buddies"
"Hey, you are not getting anywhere near my brain!" Chris wasn't stupid clearly whatever changes the experiment had done to her brain had caused her to have this ability.
Lisa mind was elsewhere. 'if the experiment was a success then that means it's humans that could evolve into true magi, or at least so form of true magic. If either humans or the council finds out about this, there will be trouble.'
"So how do I activate this superpower? how do you boys do it?"
"I suspect it's was triggered either by emotions or chemically most likely by norepinephrine. We trigger ours by focusing on the sounds in our head. I'm not sure if you have the same thing" Infy speculated it was most likely a mental trigger but once again he would have to run some more tests.
Jania spent the rest of the day trying to get back into that same state but hadn't been able to. Lisa and a clone of Infy researched the now ruined suits to see where they could be improved. While Chris keep on training Null in solar standard but this time teaching some of the more improper words. He reasoned that everyone need to know how to swear if they wished to fit properly into society.