Chapter 13: Progress (1)

The news of the recovery of three out of four kids was withheld from the public since these kids wanted to practice in seclusion. Only some high ranking officials in the Liberation union were aware of this, not even the chairmen and chairwomen of the Oscuro group were aware of this. With that settled, each member of the fall group, with Zero as the only exception locked themselves in various corners of the mansion to improve their strength as much as they could.

Dan remained locked up in his room for days and had Alfred supply him with a decent amount of spirit growth herbs. The spirit growth herbs are extremely rare items that could cost up to three hundred thousand Lu! Its main purpose is simply to improve the abundance of one's spirit energy, expanding his reserves making one capable of storing more spirit energy.

Dan's phantom king's ability is placed in the specialist category and could be considered one of the most powerful specialist abilities of all time. His ability at this particular level may not grant him offensive capabilities like others but each strike could be considered lethal and dangerous, coupled with the fact that he could be considered as the most difficult person to kill in their little group should he decide to flee. This could be considered as a peak superpower but the problem now, which his father also faced at a younger time during the bloody war was their spirit reserves were unnaturally small.

Call it the drawback of inheriting such a crazy, overpowered ability or just nature trying to fight them, this is a problem they have always faced. In a drawn-out battle, they will always end up dead! This is because little spirit energy reserves and the massive volume of spirit energy their techniques end up consuming. To be honest, the fact he is able to go intangible up to four times was already considered terrifying! When compared to his father who could only use this ability twice when he was Dan's age, it was obvious the kid possesses more potential.

Even though the spirit herbs effect are very minor, most times it is considered almost negligible, this was the only path forward for Dan, at least the one he could see at the moment. For this reason, Dan spent about twenty million Lu to acquire one hundred spirit herbs. He had Alfred and a few trusted subordinates extract the liquid herbs liquid for him.

"Who knew a day would come where I will sit in a room, with a glass cup filled with this disgusting white liquid worth 20 million Lu… Ouch! The smell, it's really bad… If there were any other solutions I wouldn't be doing this" Dan complained as he quickly grabbed the glass cup and chugged down the content in one breath!

His face twisted and turned violently and he looked like he would throw up at any moment. Dan held it back and sat in a cross-legged position and began meditating. This would help the herb take effect quickly, giving him enough time to practice his combat technique.

He has always been excited about combat techniques as it could easily change the tide of battle but after watching Zero use his, in the battle against the assassin at Headquarters, he almost lost his mind. Any normal person may ask…

Why waste time on crappy combat techniques? Especially since it does not improve one's overall power. But as a child who watched his old man closely, Dan could tell the amazing difference between using normal random abilities and a combat technique.

Combat techniques could be considered as the deciding factor in a battle between two people. The person with a more complex and effective combat technique will easily steal the win. These techniques are just opportunities for people to create something effective for a specific situation.

With his emitter abilities, Zero could easily create an offensive combat technique but he chose to focus on defensive abilities. Since the team already had two massive damage dealers like Akila and Kira and then the assassin, Dan. They definitely need a person who will act as support and defense and this is where he comes in.

They all trained in seclusion so neither of them knew what kind of combat technique the other would come up with, that's until they are finished. When Zero used the turtle shell, Dan was completely stunned by how effective the ability was.

The turtle shell technique took everyone by surprise. Being able to create numerous turtle shells, each capable of tanking blows of yellow belt martial art practitioners and then a massive moving them skillfully with one's mind to cover up each and every gap in a friends defense while giving way for he or she to be a to retaliate, this was something extraordinarily effective and stunning. To be able to create such an effective technique all alone without any help really left an impression on Dan.

The kid in the group who always possessed a weak body had the most brilliant mind amongst them. For some reason, he began to feel inferior to Zero but this did not kill his fighting spirit. Instead if fueled it more!

'Hahahahahahaha!" Dan laughed hysterically as his aura spread in the form of a gray mist, filling the room until Dan could not be seen! Only his resounding laughter echoed in the room and the guards positioned at the entrance felt weird and a bit wary of this kid with white and black hair.