[SKILLS AND ABILITIES]
[Skill Name: Limitless Body]
[Skill Level: 2]
[Description:
Allows the user to circulate Limitless Energy simultaneously through the entire body, enhancing speed, strength, reflexes, and durability.]
[New Skill Name: Limitless Interval]
[Skill Level: 1]
[Description: Creates an infinite spatial interval that appears as an invisible barrier between the user and external targets.
All incoming objects and entities experience exponential deceleration as they approach.
Direct contact becomes harder unless the effect is bypassed.]
[Important Note: User is not invisible.
Powerful attacks, most especially infused with awakening energy, can bypass space and still crack the barrier, reaching the user.]
[Skill Name: Limitless Collapse]
[Skill Level: 1]
[Description: Forces Limitless Energy into a single point in space.
All matter and energy within range are drawn toward the point, triggering a law of space and resulting in a forceful correction blast, dealing extreme damage.]
[Note: High energy consumption. Limited range.]
Even though Limitless Body was his first skill, obtained from him amidst battle, hence making it easier to understand, somehow, White was able to easily understand the two new skills.
"If Limitless Body is an all-round improvement skill, then Limitless Interval should be a defense skill, while Limitless Collapse should be an attack skill."
He summarized.
Rising to his feet, White didn't waste any more time.
"Activate Limitless Interval."
He said.
FLICKER!
The second he ordered that, his eyes glowed blue, strands of his white hair moving and hanging around, defying gravity.
It looked like something powerful was about to be unleashed, yet... nothing happened.
"Huh?"
White looked around him, expecting some sort of barrier, but there was nothing.
He even stretched his hands out, yet felt nothing still.
[You're an idiot.]
The system panel flashed, and his expression plummeted.
"What am I missing?"
[It's an invisible barrier that slows down attacks targeted towards you.]
[Invisible...slows down attacks towards you.]
[Got it?]
The system panel said with obvious snickering, and White rolled his eyes before deactivating the technique.
"Well, I'll try out the next technique then,"
"Activate—"
[STOP!]
The system panel flashed red, and his words died in his throat.
"What again?"
White roared back like a child denied her lollipop.
[You idiot. You'll ruin your living room!]
'Huh?'
[Limitless Collapse draws everything around you into a point of space.]
[Space has its laws that keep things stable, and drawing something into part of it is breaking that law.]
[So it will naturally react, flinging away what you drew inside it.]
[That's the basis of Limitless Collapse.]
"So why can't I use it?"
He asked.
[Because activating Limitless Collapse here draws in all of your sofas and tables into a point.
And when space reacts and violently throws everything away, what happens?]
"I'll lose the sofa and the table?"
White mused, his expression plummeting.
"Did I just almost destroy my own living room?"
[You did, dumdum.]
It mocked, and he sighed, before conviction flashed in his eyes.
"Well, fuck it. If I can't do it here, then I'll find a place to do it!"
White said, reaching for the exit.
He remembered there was a training building or something like that somewhere on the map
Besides, there's a mission on his tab that will reward 5 points for going out and exploring the academy.
He might as well kill two birds with one stone, and with that, he was out the door, the light quietly going off, reducing the room to darkness.
________
"Please, you can't do this. 100 points is all I've got!"
The words, mixed with tears and begging, resounded through the dark alleyway where a chubby brown-haired boy was forced into a corner on his butt, tears and snot streaming down his fat cheeks.
"Shut up, you stingy pig! We don't want your 100 points!"
One of the three boys surrounding him replied as he kicked him in the legs.
"Then what do you want?"
"We only want 99 of your 100 points!"
"Waaaaaaah! What difference is there!"
The boy screamed in disbelief as the boys laughed out loud, kicking him in his torso.
"Should have asked your mum, you pig."
"Hey, do it fast. We have a five-student target, remember!"
A guy who stood 2 meters away, with a cigarette stuck at the corner of his lips, shouted at the boys, who increased their intensity of kicking as the wailing grew louder.
Unknown to all of them, standing 10 meters up on one of the castle roofs was a white-haired boy, uniform whipping rhythmically with the breeze.
[Wanna be a hero?]
The system panel flashed, and White snickered.
"You know what I learned back in my fourth year of the UEF?"
He asked rhetorically.
"The heroes die first."
White completed, and it wasn't a lie.
The fourth year of the United Earth Federation was having students join real supernatural missions, and White had personally observed that those who liked to fight on the front lines, who wanted to protect the other students from danger, were the ones who died first at the hands of the Supernaturals.
Being a hero guarantees you the first death in this world.
[Then get on moving, then? Aren't you looking for a training hall?]
The panel flashed, and a smirk appeared on White's face.
"I already found one."
With that, both of his hands reached towards his mouth and then,
WEEE O WEEE
White whistled loudly as all the boys immediately snapped their necks upwards.
What they found next was the scene of a boy descending onto the ground with both hands in his pockets, and landing on the ground with a heavy
BOOOM!
"Tsk, and here comes the bloody prince in a knight's armor wanting to save the princess from distress?"
The boy who was smoking said as he exhaled a cloud of smoke, before standing upright facing White.
Though White's reply almost made him choke on his cigarette.
"..."