[Next day]
Ace was sitting inside the training hall, carefully reading all his power's descriptions. He noticed that his disability went away soon after the awakening, and his condition improved. But that isn't enough. He wants to train his physical body to withstand the pressure of his powers.
His parents wanted to assign instructors to train him, but Ace refused. He didn't trust others and didn't want others to know about this power. Although the world saw his awakened stats, they got no idea what that power does, and he wants to keep it that way.
Ace stood up and walked over to one of the metal dummies, "Super Strength is passive but becomes active while using it with God's skills" He threw a punch.
[Baaaam] A massive shock wave swept over the room. The metal dummy exploded into tiny pieces like shredded paper. But Ace's Stamina didn't decrease like the last time.
"Hey, System... Why didn't my Stamina decrease?" Ace asked the System for an answer. He was confused about the stamina usage.
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[System]
[Stamina shows your body condition. The higher your stats, the longer you can fight and use various abilities. But yours is worse than a baby.]
[A common grade superhuman has more than 2000 stamina. And you, a Limitless Grade, should have infinite Stamina. Instead, you have a mere 100 Stamina. Haaa, blame your luck for this.]
[Super Strength doesn't drain Stamina as it's passive and remains active all time. The thing that drained your Stamina was your Enhanced Vision. You forcefully used them in rage to get out of that barrier which resulted in stamina drain.]
[Then, you used lightning Aura and even infused sound energy into your punch with that untrained body, resulting in a massive Stamina drain. I don't even know how you did it.]
[But, if you can perfectly control it...]
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"Argggg!!!!"
"I am worse than a common grade... Only 100 Stamina..."
[Zing] Ace threw another punch on a nearby metal dummy in anger, shattering it, and the next one to it also shattered on its own. But there wasn't any sound.
"Eeehhh!!!" Ace's eyes widened, and his jaw seemed to drop from his face as he looked at the floor. There was no metal shard on the floor, only black dust. The metal dummy turned to dust.
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[System]
[That's what I am talking about. You did it again without realizing it. The sound waves broke the atoms and turned the metal to dust.]
[Stamina: 90/100]
[Try it again... Don't let that feeling get away...]
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"Humfff!!!" Ace dashed to another metal dummy, imagining all the worst things that happened to him. He imagined everyone laughing at him after knowing his Stamina level. He wanted to increase his anger level as it seemed to work in his last attack.
[Baaam] He threw another punch. But nothing happened. He slowly grabbed his right hand, "Arrrrrgggg!!!! Freaking hell..." He screamed in pain and fell on his back.
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[System]
[I see... After using the sound energy, your Super Strength seems to deactivate as it becomes an active skill on its own and enters a 20-second cooldown. It's fascinating...]
[Sorry, my bad...]
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"You bastard... Hunnggg!!!" Ace's right fist swelled around his wrist, and his knuckles were bleeding, "You telling me now!!!" It seemed that his fist twisted.
A few hours passed. Ace managed to grasp a full understanding of his Super Strength but failed to use the sound energy. It becomes an active skill when fused with other energy and drains Stamina. According to the System, after using it, the skill enters a certain period of cooldown, depending on the fused power.
"This Skin power is too dangerous... I should save it for an emergency. But, to think it comes with a bonus power..."
"Or, maybe ask for some help... Aaahhh!!! Everyone is busy with Ivan's situation. I should wait until this mess is over..."
Ace decided not to use the frenzy mode that activates when Stamina drains below 20%. He thought it was too dangerous to use without any prior precautions as it might make him berserk like before. But he was happy to know that he could now detect danger around him.
"Humm... I didn't notice it, but... What the heck is this? Enhanced Vision?"
Ace mumbles to himself. He was seeing cracks with various colors emitting from them on everything around him.
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[System]
[Incorrect. It's Weakness Finder mode. Right now, you are seeing all the weak lines around you.]
[Enhanced Vision is mainly battle oriented and allows you to predict an opponent's movement up to a certain degree. It also allows you to pick up different traces of more or less everything. It's like Irina's scanning power. But, you need to master it to use it efficiently.]
[Thermal Vision auto activates when you want to look for heat signatures from a long distance.]
[You can change modes whenever you want without any cost.]
[If you upgrade to the second level, all the modes will activate automatically according to the situation, and new modes will be unlocked.]
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"Nice... Finally, something good..."
"Is this the start of my good luck? Hehehe... Whahahaha..."
"I can see weakness cracks... Kukukuk... The next level might allow me to see through walls..."
Ace began to laugh on his own. He was in a world of his own, thinking about possibilities that might seem absurd to others. But, is this the start of his good luck or maybe the calm before the storm?
"Let's see the next one..."
"Wow!!! Energy Drain and Stamina Regain... This is freaking OP. I don't need to think about my puny amount of Stamina... But to think I can drain 40% energy with a single touch..."
"Hehehehe... Come to daddy, my good luck... Wahahaha... I am like that girl mutant who absorbs others' power from that movie... Ahhh, I can't remember... Forget that..."
Ace couldn't hold on to his happiness after witnessing his power. His worry about low Stamina went away. He thought that it would be easy to fight an opponent stronger than him with his regain and drain skills.
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[System]
[Don't be delusional like that. Do you think you are the only one with recovery powers and energy drain? Although they don't even come close to yours, you can't be careless...]
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"Oh no... I won't be careless..." Ace replied and stood up.
He took a wooden sword and began to swing around.
"With these skills... Oh, there are that Judgement flames and the Weapon skills... I just need to harness these abilities to max as fast as possible..."
"But, how...? There must be some way... I can't let another situation like Ivan's self-destruct happen here..."
"Other threats must be on their way to kill me to prevent a Limitless grade from growing stronger... Must get strong..."
"Humfff... Haaaa..."
Ace thought while absentmindedly swinging his sword.
30 minutes have passed since he started swinging his sword. But he didn't get exhausted and was still lost in his thoughts. He was moving according to his instincts without any care.
[Outside the training room]
Jaxon took a little break and wanted to see his grandson's training. He slowly opened the door without any sound and peeked inside. What he saw inside surprised him. He has never seen such fluid movements along with the sword swings. It's like a dance, a sword dance.
"What the heck are those movements...? Can a human move like that? Where did he learn that sword technique?" He wondered about the source of Ace's techniques because it doesn't belong to the Silver family. But he thought, "Ace never had any outsider contacts... Then how is he using those weird techniques?"
Jaxon sat in front of the door to prevent anyone from entering the training hall. He was keenly analyzing Ace's techniques. After 20 minutes, he finally found one thing that made him shiver to his bones, "This is... How...?"
The technique Ace is practicing is the technique to counter the Silver family's swordsmanship. His every movement was the polar opposite of that of the Silver family's art. It's far better than the Silver family's sword arts and movement techniques.
"Aura!!!!"
"I have never seen white lightning... Did he find a new type of lightning Aura?"
Jaxon jumped up, seeing white lightning crackling around Ace's sword.
"Throw it before it explodes..."
Jaxon yelled. He got out of his daze and realized that Ace had overloaded the sword with Aura beyond its handling limit.
[Crackle] The white lightning Aura was shining like those white flames. The sparks were shredding everything around the room. Even the reinforced walls and floor cracked after coming in contact with the lightning.
[Inside the training hall]
"Waaa!!!"
[Crackle] [Crackle] Suddenly, he felt something warm in his hand. He looked down and saw his sword crackling with white lightning. He felt a jolt in his bones.
"Shit!!!" Ace clenched his teeth and threw his sword toward the window. The sword filled with lightning flew in the sky like a rocket, leaving a trace of white shining sparks on its way.
[Southern Border of Silver World]
"Finally..."
"Ohh!!! This f*cking stench..."
Covered in dirt and sewage wastes, Patrik finally saw sunlight after 9 hours.
He found a way to sneak into the country through a forgotten sewage system. He got out of the underground channels and slumped on the ground. Just like the map said, he was in the middle of an abandoned barren land where no one comes or monitors anymore.
"Lucky me... Phew!!! Finally, some fresh air..."
"What's that???"
[Crackle] He noticed something shining in the sky approaching him.