-Then sir, first close your eyes and try to feel the world around you, it might sound strange but it is possible, just do and try to use your ability to walk around without hurting you- Mike started doing as the assistant mentioned since it was similar to what he tried doing first with his ability, he just tried earlier to use his ability to feel the things around him interacting with objects,
It somehow gave him a feeling of some illumination in his brain, but now he needed to be in totally dark while closing his eyes, he was not very familiarized with this place so it was a good chance to train like this.
-Now sir, try walking, remember to use your ability before proceeding, and remember your ability is not like having an arm it can be more than an arm, I saw how you used your abilities to get those men in the garden get afraid of you, but that was how telekinesis variant is trained, not how the bloody hand is trained or used-
-Bloody hand variant? That's the name of my ability as I read earlier, childish name, I can see the name was taken from my family's name, rig...- *THUD* Mike got hurt with a dumbbell since he reached the area where dumbbells were placed, and the dumbbell he got hurt with was the same he left in the ground just before.
-You can talk while training like this, but is better if you focus more on using your ability than talking, sir-
-... you are heartless...- said Mike with pain while massaging his feet, but never dared to open his eyes.
-Yes sir, I don't have a heart since I am an artificial assistant...- said the mechanical voice, and after some silence talked again -I tried the joke to lighten the mood, but my sensors told me it didn't work, right? -
-No, but is ok- said Mike while trying to walk again.
-Sir, try going slower, you are not yet used to your ability at a...- the assistant corrected its words mid-sentence - you are improving faster than average at initial steps, after 5 minutes if you are comfortable with it, I can tell you more ways to increase the difficulty of the training your family used to do. Also, to answer your previous words, the bloody hand variant didn't have its name due to the family having it, but due to the interpretation of the ability your ancestors had, one of them created a technique to take the life of his opponents effortlessly; many of the techniques your ancestors had summarized in bloody and stealth assassination techniques-
Another surprise for Mike, but that one didn't break his concentration, and slowly got faster while going around the training area for some minutes.
-What's the way to strength the training? - asked Mike to the assistant without opening his eyes and kept walking around.
He got better at handling his power, the problem he had all this time was the wrong feeling on how to use his ability, the Bloody Hand was not an arm nor a hand, it can be, but it can be other things too, even unshaped ones, what he read earlier and what the assistant just told him helped in understanding this. The stealth part of his ability was to not use force on the invisible "part" and it could not only be detected but also could feel everything around him without using any force... or almost any force.
-That might require activating my physical body, sir-
Another surprise, but Mike had resistance to it.
-I see no problem, tell me if I need to do something special-
-Just one thing, my physical body is not fully constructed, to start the construction I need your permission, and the presential authorization of the house master in the laboratory, Do you need guidance or would you rather not go? I can still theorize another method-
-Show me the way then- said Mike with confidence, he felt nothing wrong and maybe could explore with his eyes closed meanwhile.
After getting the order the assistant showed him the way around the basement, Mike stumbled sometimes but nothing really bad, and got more proficient with this way of walking so quickly that surprised a little the cold assistant.
Then he reached the laboratory; it was just a common door, even less elegant than the training room.
-So, this is the laboratory, judging from the place I come from is not very wide, right? - he said and opened the door with his eyes still closed, the assistant said nothing, and he got inside, since he had his eyes closed, he could only feel the things close around him and soon felt some kind of fence close to the entrance.
-Take the stair on your left, sir- said the assistant, waking up Mike's curiosity.
-Ok, now I want to see this thing... why is it so big? - said Mike while opening his eyes.
-As you guessed, correctly, the size of the laboratory, horizontally, isn't wide, but vertically, it has 3 floors and a hidden floor even below that is the lower sector of the house-
-Is this a fucking mansion? -
-Depends on your point of view-
-That was sarcasm...-
-I know-
-Oh...- Mike said no more comment on it and went downstairs.
-My physical body is on the hidden floor, and, sir, aren't you asking this time what those devices all over the laboratory are for? -
-I am not sure-
-...- the assistant had been showing strange behavior since the start, but now instead of asking about it, Mike just kept saying nothing, maybe his resistance to shocking news? Cannot be surprised anymore, right?
On the lower floor, one of the walls was illuminated and opened side to side, revealing more stairs, downstairs was big but not as big as Mike was thinking at the start, anyway, he saw a half-human life form in a capsule.
-Is that, a living being?!- he was about to say human but could not call it human since his grandfather will not keep a human in a basement, right?... right?!
To his relief the assistant spoke -That's not a living thing, sir, is an android body half made, it only has the basic to start constructing my body from it, to say less, is my main body-
-Oh... I thought you were like, you know, more mechanical, because your voice, you know-
-I have no gender but can get a voice close to a human voice once my main body is constructed and working, it was made that way to integrate better in society depending on the work of the artificial assistant or the work of the artificial soldier-
-Ok then, first things first, how do I authorize you, do I need to say it or what? -
-You can manipulate the computer in the capsule containing my body, in there you can choose your preferences at how you want to be my physical appearance, or you can just input the basic commands and tell me to mold it myself-
Mike used some kind of tactile screen in the capsule, there were too many option there, so he just decided to let it to the assistant, it was its body after all, but before doing so, he ordered in the screen to be female and appearance around his age and also some minor adjustments, that was mandatory for him, not like he cared for the android, but he cared for his eyes after all. It was normal for humans... or so he thought... anyway it was too late to think about it, he had already given authorization to the assistant and would not think about it twice.
-I received authorization and now I have a connection to a few of the hidden laboratory functions. From now on I will continue constructing the body from the parameters you instructed. Meanwhile, you can go and have dinner, and also can train your ability while cooking, it may be beneficial as the notes of your ancestors talk about doing so as training-
Since it didn't mention anything against the parameters, he set he just left and went to the kitchen on the base floor. How could his grandfather not get tired of too many stairs, did he not know what elevators were made for? Anyway, he took the time to go all the way to the kitchen with his eyes closed.
That was a simple task for him, train is what he would do the most, once on a task given by himself, he would put all his effort and time into doing that task. He trained all his life since knew about his powers and achieved just nothing, being underestimated for having low skill control, while it can still be trained?
Many said that his ability had a limit since he comes from a normal mother, but now that some truth was revealed he would put all his effort and concentrated power of will on improving his ability.
He never liked cooking, but the situation could not help him even when he would rather eat outside or buy a delivery, and even if so if cooking using his ability would make it improve, then he was willing to cook for hours no matter what.