New Technique: Lightning Clad

Many people continuously came over and congratulated Kalan, he wasn't even able to extricate him from the crowd surrounding him. First, King Kai came over and pulled his arms while dancing around. Then Olive, Mijorin, Sarte and the many fighters from North Galaxy congratulated him one by one. When they finally left, the other fighters from the South, East and West Galaxies all came over and congratulated him eagerly. After an arduous battle of flight, he finally managed to get rid of the excited fighters and hurried over to Grand Kai's residence.

"Oh. Kalan-chan, you finally came. I even thought you would come anymore." Grand Kai teased, he had left the tournament several hours before Kalan.

"Sorry Grand Kai, I got held up by the excited fighters." Kalan explained. The Grand Kai was quite lax and didn't care about Kalan not using '-sama' honorific suffix after his name. And Kalan naturally didn't like to be subservient, thus he had almost never used '-sama' since he came to this world.

"It's alright, Kalan, you're still alive, I reckon you wouldn't be staying in the Other World for long, right?" Grand Kai hurriedly asked for how long Kalan would stay here.

"That's true, I'll probably be leaving in a year." Kalan nodded. He although the story would advance just fine, he was still happy to enjoy the story in person. He wasn't in a dire need of training anyway. He had a lot of time to slowly get stronger.

"I wholly agree, as a living person. How can you waste your time in the Other World before dying. Once you die, you'll have lots of time to stay here, so much you'll even grow sick. Hohoho." Grand Kai laughed.

"Grand Kai, I would like to learn your martial arts and if possible also Spatial and Lightning techniques." Kalan went directly to the point. How could he not tell that Grand Kai was more than happy to quickly kick him out.

"You still want to learn my martial arts? Your own martial arts techniques are already very refined..." Grand Kai frowned.

"I wish to see if I can merge some of Grand Kai's martial art into my own martial art and improve it even more." Kalan believed that if there were a higher level of martial arts, then it would be from the Kais or Supreme Kais. Of course the Angels naturally had a much higher level of martial arts as well. But how could he possibly find them? The universe was so large and he had no idea where to start looking.

"Alright, since you want it I'll compile a book over my martial arts and hand it to you later. As for Spatial and Lightning techniques, I don't know much about it..." Grand Kai didn't even want to spar with Kalan and chose to instead compile a book of his martial arts for Kalan.

Unfortunately Kalan did not get the opportunity to spar with Grand Kai, he was quite interested in collecting a Kai's bloodline. He had exhorted Grand Kai many times and learned a bit about the Kais. They were born from the World Tree's fruits. Normal fruits will result in a Kai while a golden fruit would give birth to a Supreme Kai.

Kalan also asked about the location of the Sacred World of the Kai, but unfortunately Grand Kai was not allowed there and had no idea where it was, and neither did he have a way to contact the Supreme Kais. And even if he could, he would not just simply contact them for a nonsensical reason like asking for the location of the Sacred World of the Kai for a mortal.

Kalan spent a long time going through the compiled book of Grand Kai's martial arts and managed to improve his martial arts yet again. As for Spatial techniques, Grand Kai only knew of Kai Kai teleportation technique. Kalan was unable to learn it since he did not have Divine Ki. But Kalan learned quite a bit about lightning applications, although Grand Kai did not use lightning techniques, there were many fighters and some uses lightning techniques. By merging all the knowledge he had learned, he created a new technique suited for him. By merging a large amount of high density lightning, he could momentarily increase his speed. Though at the cost of consuming the lightning at a high rate.

Kalan called this technique Lightning Clad. By merging with the lightning, there would be lightning moving both outside and inside his body, he could then move like lightning albeit at a much slower speed. But as his mastery increases, he will naturally be able to merge the lightning more proficiently and move faster. He could also apply this to one part of his body, i.e applying it on his arms allowed his to throw a barrage of punches several times faster than his fastest speed. This was much more efficient as the amount of lightning consumed was much less and was more battle efficient.

Although the new technique was very strong, Kalan still lacked proficiency in controlling lightning as well as converting Ki to lightning. For now he could not use Lightning Clad for long, maybe a few second tops.

Kalan continued to practice his lightning mastery as well as going around Grand Kai's Planet and spar with many fighters. What he did notice was that many fighters eagerly greeted him and when they lost in a spar, they would continuously praise Kalan and Grand Kai.

Many days went by as Kalan continued his daily training, but whenever he looked for Grand Kai, he seemed to always 'coincidentally' be busy or away. Kalan gave up looking for Grand Kai as he could tell from the subtle hints of him avoiding him.

Kalan had also sparred with Pikkon several times, in a fight without a stage, there was no out of bounds. The two of them fought arduously until one of them were unable to continue to decide the winner. Kalan had a hard time winning against Pikkon with simply Super Saiyan, it was mainly because Pikkon was a dead person and could use twice as much energy as Kalan because the dead consumed half as much energy compared to the living.

"But I have to say, the dead people have such a great advantage over me... Their energy expenditure is half that of when they were alive." Kalan complained. Since if he fought someone as strong as himself, but a dead person. That person could then fire twice as many energy attacks than Kalan.

As Kalan's mastery of Lightning Conversion increased, Kalan could use Lightning Clad for longer periods. But some problems also started cropping up, the use of Lightning Clad puts his body under huge strains. Leaving his body injured, it had a similar side effect as Kaioken, but instead of raising his powers like Kaioken, it simply raised his speed and only speed, which made the increase in speed much higher than Kaioken could.

The only way to lower the damages done to his body was to train his body stronger and to increase his mastery of lightning and be able to merge with lightning smoother.