Chapter 4 (XO)

"If you say I have telepathic powers, why do you I have super strength and speed?" I doubt that it is only mind powers I have, I must have other powers like speed, strength, and invulnerability.

"Well your power works this way," it picks up a stone, "you can make this little stone have the weight of a boulder even though it doesn't originally and it doesn't seem possible for a tiny stone like this to have the weight of a boulder," it points its index finger at my forehead, "but with your mind you can make this stone as heavy as a pebble if you just think about it, then it will happen, that's your power, to make the impossible become possible."

I stare at the stone and focus my mind on it, I feel power leave me and I get a little bit weaker.

I collect the stone from my subconscious and it is quite heavy. My eyes widen and I stare at the stone with awe, if I can make this tiny stone have the weight of a three-ton boulder then I can do anything.

But...

"What are the limits of my power?" I know that every power has a limit or a weakness and I can't be too naive to ignore that fact.

My subconscious smiles and it raises its hand and points it towards me, dramatically, "I am glad that you asked. Yes, your powers have limits and weaknesses," It danced around funnily like a 1970s clown. "Yes you can make something that seems impossible possible, but yet the thing should not be far from reality, just like the stone in your hand you made it as heavy as a boulder, that is impossible but still close to reality, but making that stone have the weight of a planet is too far from reality and it won't be possible for you to achieve something like that."

That makes sense if I could just change the weight of the stone to anything I want it would make my power limitless, and no power in this world is limitless, everything has a limit.

I threw the stone at a tree and the tree fell because of the impact of the stone.

I noticed that when I threw the stone its speed was equivalent to its weight, instead of being faster and having the quick speed of a small stone it was slower and had the speed of a real three-ton boulder. So even though my powers can make the impossible possible, it does not do this outside reality, just like me changing the stone's weight to that of a boulder, the small stone behaves like a boulder irrespective of its size.

"You have not yet reached the level of using your powers on humans, the only thing you can do is just to read their minds while you are in contact with them, you can't change the reality of a human as you did to that stone presently."

So just like the stone, I can't make a human heavier or lighter, but that does not mean I won't be able to do this later. I can also read people's minds, that's why I could read my parents' minds when they came in contact with me in the hospital. Interesting.

"You have one weakness," it tells me and I stared at it, I was expecting to have a lot of weaknesses but having only one was very cool. "You felt weaker when you used your power on that stone right?"

"Yes," I answer it staring at my palms.

"Your power using XO, the more you use your power you lose XO." Even without it telling me I know that XO was energy, maybe that's what they call energy on their planet.

"XO is not just energy," it beams and I keep a soured face...I hate being wrong.

"What is it then?" I ask it and I am still adamant that XO was energy, all powers in this world are made out of energy, nothing in this world lacks energy, it must have one form of energy or another.

"Well, XO means pure energy, and it is only gifted ones in Zryon who are blessed with this type of energy. XO gives you powers." I glare at it and I feel like slamming its head on the tree behind it, but I doubt that I can come in contact with it.

"What's the difference?" I say facepalming myself and it chuckles.

"Nothing," it says with a mischievous smile on its face and it scratches its head. "Well when you use your powers on other things apart from you, it reduces your XO, the more impossible the thing you want to achieve the more XO you expend. And the lesser XO you expend when you do things that are not too far from reality," it pointed its index finger at me as it danced around, "I am sure that by now you have figured out whoy you have super strength and super speed."

An impish grin creeps into my lips, I figured out when he told me how my power worked. I do not have super strength and super speed, I used the power of my mind to change my reality, I made the impossible-that is me not having super strength and speed-become possible. So the reason why I have so much strength and can run fast is because of my telepathic powers.

What I understand from my subconscious explanation was that my powers work because of XO which is pure energy and it is only special Zryonites that are blessed with powers. And when I want to accomplish a large task I expend more XO, and when I accomplish a small task I use up very small XO.

"Can XO be gotten?" I ask my subconscious. It won't make sense if I only use up XO without getting it back.

"Yes it can," it clears its throat, "XO is energy and energy can always be regained."

"How is XO regained?" I know that to regain XO you would have to do a special kind of ritual or do a series of tiring meditations.

"By eating good food, especially vegetables, exercising, training and then having plenty of rest," it tells me with a weird smile and my face becomes comical.

To regain a powerful energy like XO which grants anyone that possesses it extraordinary powers like mine, was just by eating good food and having plenty of rest?

This must be a joke! I thought I would need to do a complicated ritual, or a long meditation or retrieve a special artefact that will help me regain XO, not by eating and sleeping!

"I know you are surprised how it's so easy to regain XO. When you are tired, and lack energy and then when you eat and have a good sleep won't you regain your strength?" It spreads its hands in the hair. "That's how to regain XO"

This is logical and not too complicated, XO is energy and when someone is tired, that person can regain his energy by eating and resting...I have not eaten for hours now so I will be low on XO.

"And also you will find it difficult to use your powers when you are low on XO, but you are special Kovex you are a royal and you are blessed with a surplus amount of XO, so you have XO more than anyone in Zryon." My eyes widen and I feel curiosity and excitement slowly overwhelm me, I have a large amount of XO which means I can use my powers for a long time without blacking out.

I turn around and take a step forward, I am so engrossed in my powers that I forget to ask him why he keeps on calling me Kovex. I raised my hands and stretched them towards a huge sequoia tree in front of me, I want to make it disintegrate. I focused on the tree and in less than thirty seconds it disintegrated. I fall to the floor and I begin to bleed through my nose, and I feel weak.

I am quite tired now so I can't use my power to its full extent. I need to know all the principles surrounding this power to use it to its fullest. Imagine what I can do with this power when I master it, I can finally achieve all my plans. Now I need to eat and take enough rest so that I can regain XO.

"What level will I reach to master this power?" I ask him with my fingers running through my hair.

"Level 7," it says and I grin. I am in level one currently so there are six levels left for me before I master it, if I can get my former memories back things should have been easier for me. But I don't want things to be easier for me, I know that I am the reason why I can't get it back right now, I know that I might have made it this way before I came to earth, this is something I will do. I believe everything has to be done with hard work and effort, if I get my memories easily I will master my power quickly which would make things boring, I want to master it without my former memories.

"Then I will reach level 7 in no time and master this great power," I asserted with my arms outstretched in the air and my head facing up.

The higher level I reach the more XO I have, and since I need more energy to accomplish large tasks, if I master this power, I might be able to do something that is very far from reality, I might be able to make a little stone have the weight of a planet, I might even be able to do something greater than that!

My subconscious puts on a serious face and says with his voice barely above a whisper, "Now it's time for us to talk about Hermedox, the tyrant that will soon bring great suffering to this universe." I get suddenly interested in what it is saying and then I begin to wonder, who is Hermedox?