Testing Out The Ability

A second later, the lightning bolt exploded in the air. Fortunately, no damage was done to the ceiling and neither of the duo was harmed.

"It seems like you can't pull on my lightning bolt without destroying it," Rio commented thoughtfully.

"That's all you are going to say? What if it struck me?"

"Relax kiddo, nothing is going to happen to you. Before that lightning bolt could have exploded on you, I would have destroyed it." 

"Kiddo? How old are you again?"

"I am 22." A smug expression appeared on Rio's face. "You are a kiddo to me."

"You are barely 3 years older than me…" Lex facepalmed.

"Hehe. Anyway, I have heard of people being born with magnetism ability. Usually, they can pull on the objects created by others as long as their ability level is higher than their opponent's level. The same thing might be possible with your ability."

"Then doesn't that mean that I can basically abuse my powers against most single ability user?" Lex could already see all the possibilities this could open for him.

"In theory, that's what it should be but from personal experience, I can tell it will drain you a lot if you try your ability against high level ability users. You will require a lot of training and battle experience before that can happen."

Lex nodded as he had already anticipated this. "Then how am I going to start my training?"

"You will need objects of different sizes as well as weights to practice the basic push and pull usage of telekinesis. After mastering that, we will further divulge into your ability." Rio suddenly took out her phone. "Time to Zamazon."

"You can use that as well?"

"Yup, I can. I just use the address of another mansion around me. Since they are empty, the packages are left on the doors of the mansion and I bring them here."

"I see. How long will it take for stuff to arrive?"

"With the platinum membership, it would take an hour. Sadly, I am blocked from buying memberships so it will take a couple of days."

"That's slow."

"It is what it is. Till then, we will work with pillows."

Rio grabbed hold of Lex again and vanished. The duo returned to the basement after a few minutes.

"I told you to warn me about this!" Lex complained as he put down the items he was carrying.

Pillows of various sizes and shapes fell down on the basement's floor. Rio looked at them with a satisfied expression before she picked one from the ground.

Rio held a small cushion in her hand that was the same size as her head.

"Let's warm you up first. Try pulling this pillow towards you." 

Rio held the pillow in her hands and stood a couple of meters away. Lex took a look at the cushion before raising his hand towards it.

He focused on the cushion's outline and pulled it in his direction. A second later, the pillow shot out from Rio's hands. It hit Lex in the chest before falling on the ground.

"Nice! Now make that pillow levitate." Rio instructed. "Imagine two things. First imagine that someone is pushing the cushion from below. Also imagine that someone is picking the pillow up."

Lex followed Rio's instructions and much to his pleasure, the cushion began to levitate. It reached his eyes level before Lex stabilized the cushion.

No headache arrived by doing these actions.

"Push it towards me. Imagine that you have applied force on the pillow to make it fly in my direction."

Lex did as instructed and the cushion went flying in Rio's direction.

[ She is a good teacher. I am impressed. ]

Lex was also impressed by how well Rio taught him. If he practiced on his own, it would have taken him a few days to formulate methods to smoothly control an object.

"Now, let's do one last thing before calling it a day. Here, grab this."

Rio hurled the pillow back to Lex who caught it with ease.

"No more practice?" Lex was surprised to hear that they were going to rest after five minutes of him using his ability.

"We will practice again in the evening. Too much ability usage early on can be lethal." Rio explained. "Now, make the cushion hover in front of you before punching it."

"Punching?"

"Yes, punching. Just before you punch the pillow, imagine that numerous people are punching the cushion along with you. Trust me on this."

"All right."

 Lex trusted Rio's words and followed her instructions again. He bent his right hand to punch forward.

Just before the impact, he imagined multiple people punching the cushion alongside him.

*BAM!*

An exploding sound filled the entire basement as the cushion burst open. 

"Ouch!" 

Lex immediately grabbed his head as a sharp pain stuck him. Rio nodded at this scene before appearing in front of him.

"Your powers are terrifying, Lex. If you slowly master them, you can be extremely dangerous. However, they will take a toll on your body."

"I don't think bursting a cushion takes that much strength."

"Lex, what you just did had the power to knock out half a dozen men at once."

"Say what?!"

Lex momentarily forgot about his headache after hearing Rio's words. He never thought that his punch contained that much power.

"I have a lot of knowledge on your power so I can help you a lot. In a few months, you will be strong enough to go toe to toe with a high level ability user." 

"I see…"

"For now, I will take you to my room. Rest up and eat something. We will play some video games then."

Rio princess carried Lex to her room and placed him on her bed. After that, she vanished again.

"Well, so much for being her butler…" Lex muttered while lying on the bed.

His headache was slowly vanishing and he was able to think more clearly. He was happy to know that his powers were strong.

[ Hmph, I told you so! ]

'Yeah yeah.'

[ By the way, I have a feeling Rio's past has more trauma than we can imagine. She also sounded a bit sad when she mentioned that she knew a lot about your ability. ]

'You caught that?'

[ Yes, I did. Just make sure you don't say anything that might cause her trauma to reemerge. ] 

 'I know, Elfie.'

With a sigh, Lex sat up. Simultaneously, Rio appeared back in the room. She held two plates in her hand and each plate had cup noodles placed on it.

"I cooked for you. Let's eat!" Rio said cheerfully.

Lex looked at the cup noddles and Rio's face. She seemed genuinely excited to make him eat her cup noodles. Seeing her cheerfulness, a smile appeared on his face.

"Sure." 

There was no way that he was going to make her trauma reappear after seeing that smile.