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Chapter 221 - Living lightsaber

"I believe it might be a good idea if I step away from this house." I said as I stared at the intense white glow coming from my body.

"It's just light." she said reaching to playfully pat my shoulder only to yelp and quickly retract her hand.

"It's not just light. I don't know WHAT it is but it's definitely not something I think is good for indoors." I say seriously as she blows on her red palm.

"Yeah, I see that." she whined.

I walk over to the door and reach for the nob only for it to melt into slag in a fraction of a second the moment the light coming from me made contact. I stared at the molten metal puddle on the floor speechlessly.

I sigh "I'll pay for the door later." I said before putting my hand through the door that charred and crumbled to ash without even igniting. 

I closed my eyes and simply walked through the door leaving a me shaped hole in it.

"Well that's not something you see everyday. You good kid?" A rough male voice said from nearby as I opened my eyes.

I looked and saw it was a lanky man in a black t-shirt and jeans with short dark hair.

"Qrow Branwen, I am having a bit of difficulties with my powers right now." I said calmly.

"You walked through a door kid. I think "a bit" might be underselling it. I assume you are that wizard kid Tai mentioned, funny since he never said you'd be dropping by while I was sitting my nieces." he said casually.

"It was a rather spontaneous decision." I said honestly.

"Whatever, i'm sure Ruby is thrilled. Now what's the deal with the glowstick routine?" he said taking a sip from his flask.

"Acquired aura, it's caused a reaction between my magic, haki and devil fruit that led to this. I assumed it prudent to vacate the building. The door nob liquified the moment I touched it so I was forced to destroy the door to leave. I'll pay for it later." I said frankly.

"Aura? How'd you get that, exactly?" He asked with his tone changing slightly.

"Made a trade for it. Traded haki for aura. Not that anyone actually lost their aura mind you but the copy each person can generated was used up." I said calmly.

"You traded with Ruby?" he asked with slightly unfriendly eyes.

"No, I traded with Yang. She is now the only person native to this world with both aura and haki." I said pointing to the sheepish blonde peering out of the hole in the door.

Qrow just rubs his nose near his eyes "Of course it was her. And you didn't think to ask Tai first?" he asked with a sigh.

"Why would I? It's not his trade." I asked casually.

"Maybe because she thirteen?" he said pointedly.

"I'm twelve, try again." I replied leaving him speechless.

"Of fricking course you are! Damnit Tai!" he cursed under his breath.

"I'm genuinely surprised he didn't tell you." I said truthfully.

"Me too! Well this is awkward now. Just maybe run any trades with the two girls through Tai first from now on alright?" he asked as he took a deep drink from his flash.

"No promises." I say before starting walking further from the house.

Once I was good and far from the house I channeled my haki for the first time since this started. I'd like to say something amazing happened but that would be a lie. Instead the moment the coating of armament covered my hand the glow moved from my whole body to just my hand.-

My whole hand turned neon white which made me curious what exactly my semblance was. Left with no clue I checked my status.

{Name: Alexander Drake

Race: Homo Sapien(Anomalous subbranch)

Age: 12

Skills: Appraisal, Extraction, Magic Lv5, Speed reading Lv3, Linguist, Haki Lv6, Multitasking Lv2, Aura Lv1

Abilities: Magic Lv7, Haki Lv6, One piece physique, Goro Goro no mi Lv7, Aura Lv1(Semblance: Charge), Convergent core}

{Name: Charge

Type: Semblance/Unique

Description: Collect electron energies from the surroundings for use. Basic configuration: Corona , Additional configurations will be listed as discovered.}

'Well, that's certainly something. Explains the glow.' I thought a bit surprised.

It was an interesting semblance to say the least. Electrons were the negative charge in atoms and because everything was made of atoms collecting the energy was a constant process. Effectively giving me infinite energy at any given moment. The semblance was also one that I would need to actively control to keep it off unless I actually wanted it. That lightsaber comparison was actually pretty much spot on as I was basically covered in stabilized plasma which explained why anything I touched burned like that.- 

Just simple contact with something caused the dense energy to flood into the thing causing molecular acceleration by ridiculously fast standards. Basically touching me was literally like touching molten magma but way worse. Using armament caused the energy I was drawing to concentrate in that location which basically just made my touch the single most destructive thing on most planets. Turning off the collection process proved a bit tricky but I managed it after about an hour of experimentation. Using the other two types of haki also had interesting effects with my new aura and semblance. -

Conquerors caused a localized electron storm that was ridiculously dangerous to everything. Observation haki on the other hand just got a flat massive range increase covering easily ten to twenty kilometers. The really interesting thing was {Convergent core}.

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