Maxwell was gazing intently at the small materials he got
"Energies... Energies... Energy Controller... what does it mean...." He keeps muttering
"Would those energies be the ones i think? If thats the case then its no wonder nobody could use this power" He keeps muttering while trying to discover the secret of this power
"Lets do a little test to see if im correct" As he says this, he grabs a little stone from the ground
"Test num. 1, Kinetic energy" He takes a pen, a paper and starts to record his first real experiment in this world
He lift his hand and... drops the stone, making it fall to the ground
The stone goes down and...
*thud*
It reachs the ground, Maxwell looking intently all the time
"I didnt feel anything... Well, if it was that easy then many people would have used this power"
Not feeling bad, he keeps doing it again and again
Time pass and its night time
*grumble*
His stomach grumbles and he looks outside only to see that its night already
"*sigh* I have been letting a stone fall over and over and still i got nothing... could it be im wrong?" He mutters while thinking what he has forgotten
" 'Make a visual image of what you want to do' " He remembers the words of the mage leader who teached him on how to use his numeric sigh
"I need to have a visual image of it... how can i visualize Kinetic energy?" He starts to ponder this issue as he always got tools in order to measure it
"Wait, tools?" He suddendly got inspired, remembering his Numeric Sigh power
"Lets try it!" Ignoring his hunger, he starts to experiment again
Lifting the rock and letting it fall down
Just when the rock is falling down he asks loudly in his mind
'How much Kinetic energy the stone im lookin has?!'
{0,1} the answer appeared on his sight
The number reachs 0,2 just before reaching the floor and
*thud*
After reaching the floor the number goes back to
{0}
"I see... I SEE NOW!" Shouting in glee he starts to laught
"Its this world's will to give me this pair of powers?! Or maybe im just too lucky!" like a mad kid he starts to shout and laught
*Knock knock*
His outburst was stopped by a knock on the door
"Young master are you... alright?" A maid asks from outside, a little scared thanks to his young master mad outburst
" *Ahem* Its nothing, its just that i made a advance in my mana gathering so i got a little happy, you can leave" Trying to act like nothing happened, he shues away her to let him continue experimenting
"Its time for dinner, Lord and lady Silverwing are waiting in the dinning hall"
"Ah... Sure, im going" Remembering grumbling stomach, he follows the maid to the dinning hall, there his father and mother were waiting for him
"Hi mum, Hi dad" He greets them and sat on a chair
"Hello Maxy, did you find something good? We could hear your laught from here" His mother asks with a smile
"Ah, nothing great, im just having fun testing my new powers" Maxwell answer and he is technically not lying
"Thats good, atleast your powers wont damage your surroundings, unlike others" His father comments
"Yes, now lets eat, i guess Maxy is eager to keep playing" His mother says while signaling the other 2 to eat
The family has a good time eating and chatting
Just after finishing Maxwell went running upstairs
He enters his room and close the door, preparing again for more experiments
...
After some more tests, he confirmed that throwing that little stone from his height to the ground generates a maximum of 0,02 kinetic energy
'Now how do i start 'Controlling' this energy...' Maxwell thought while thinking of a stone falling
'How about... using the same line of tought of storing mana but... with energies?' He suddendly tought of how he created a way to store mana inside his body
'First lets try to move that energy'
He grabs the little stone and, instead of letting it fall he throw it up to the roof
While looking intently at the stone flying, he gaze at the number
{0,1}, {0,3}, {0,4}
Thinking of 'Removing' a part of the number, he starts to concentrate
The little stone, which was gaining more speed while falling down, slow down a little
The number went from {0,04} to {0,03}
Now he could feel 'something' floating and being moved by him
Moving that something, he tries to bring it inside his body, visualizing a storage vessel in which it goes
*thump*
His body convulses a little and he faints for a few seconds
After waking up, he feels like he has something inside of him which he can control
While gazing at his own body, he tries to numerize how much kinetic energy he has stored
{0,1} Was the answer, making Maxwell glad that his experiment went well
'Lets store a bit more and then ill use it somehow...'
After a few more tests he gains and store more kinetic energy
{2} He now has 2 points stored, which he gained after 20 or so tries, he can only remove 0,1 from the stone for now
"Now... what if i apply all of this stored energy to this stone?" He mutters and looks at the little stone on his hand
After concentrating, he starts to visualize the energy entering the stone just after gently throws it
The stone which was slowly moving suddendly speeds up
*swoosh*
Like it was throw by a crossbow, the stone reachs the wall instantly, making a loud sound and breaking in many pieces, leaving a tiny scratch on the stone wall
Maxwell: ....
"That was... pretty powerful for a little stone" He says with a great smile
'If i can store a lot of kinetic energy and bring some stones or little object with me... i think i will be able to defend myself to some extent, and im just starting with this power' He thought while looking at the pieces of the little stone
'From now on i need to gather mana and kinetic energy... i still dont know my limit in both of them, so lets absorb until i reach it'
With that, Maxwell monotonous days of only gathering mana were spiced a little with the {Energy Controller} power
Time pass slowly and Maxwell is 12 years old