The Secret Technique

"Lets go.", said Attok, leading Lance and the twins away at the site, satisfied with their reactions.

A few seconds later, Sellax appeared on the ground in another lightning flash. He was unhurt except the dust that had accumulated on his face and clothes.

"This is not over Attok. Just you wait.", he said to himself before turning around and leaving.

Attok and the rest walked to a waiting room near the medical bay. Attok had offered to take them to their dorms but they wanted to wait for Darius and Entsy to come out of the healing pods.

Attok left saying that there was something to take care of. The twins also left briefly after enquiring about the time that the two would be out. They promised to fresh up and come back in a few minutes.

Left alone, Lance sat down and reflected on what had happened back in the time manipulated chamber.

Right after he had passed the PP test for the second stage, he had not hesitated to beat down the gloves. It just required a little finer control.

Afterwards, his master had started to teach him about how to choose between power sources. For this purpose, he had finally been awarded the secret technique promised to be tailored for him in case he managed to finish the training as soon as possible.

It was in the form of a golden round ball with the words "The Scholar-789675" written on it. Apparently, all custom techniques by the Scholar only had secret numbers, not names.

He only needed to squeeze the ball in his hand and details about the technique flowed through his mind.

Lance had decided to nickname the technique the "Power Core" technique.

This was because essentially, the idea was to generate a power source in one's dantian by absorbing energy and storing it in a complicated pattern.

This was actually a very famous and guarded technique. But, it was a Legend level technique.

This was because it required very high levels of mental strength in order to comprehend the complex patterns to store energy in. Also, to utilize the energy, it required similarly complex unfolding of the patterns to use the energy.

In essence, it was like a 10x10 rubik's cube box. One would have to solve a random cube each time they wanted to put something in the box and solve it again in order to remove something from the box which was in this case, energy.

The modification done by the Scholar was to decrease the complexity to store energy. This in turn increased the complexity to retrieve energy by many times, which was acceptable.

This was because of Lance's quirk. It allowed him to absorb from any absorbed source regardless of the complexity inherent. Practically speaking, absorbing energy from stored fat was a very very difficult process. But, his quirk made it possible.

So, Lance actually melted the power core to access its energy instead of having to unfold it. This made the technique perfect for him.

He had only absorbed energy for a day before rushing to the arena. Now, all of that energy was depleted.

The red jacket and gloves were a gift from Attok. It seemed that they were part of a suit made for people for power INs. Lance had yet to discover its wonders though as he had only put it on and run onto the arena after getting it deactivated by a judge.

Thankfully, he had been on time. He vowed to never let such a situation arise.

His friends were now his family. And he would be there for them no matter what.