155 Harsh Training

"… So I thought that giving that Esper ability to her was for the best."

While we were training, I was calmly explaining that I have told everything to Isabella and even gave her the same ability that I got at the beginning. I stepped sideways, and a giant hammer crushed the place I was the second before. And angry G slowly raised the hammer again and charged at me.

"Come on men!! This is humiliating at least stop using your time ability on me if you want to spar, this is useless for both of us!!"

After the routine training that included the regular workout and Krav Maga, we all started to practice our abilities and spar with each other.

Hope, Rose, and Hayley were told to practice hand to hand combat while I spar with G. I was planning to have a spar with Hayley too, there would be some rules in that match since she is not a melee fighter and the match would end the moment I got near her.

The results of the spar with G were underwhelming. Since most of the reinforcement from the sunlight was used to raise and move the hammer his speed was reduced a lot. Besides this, I was merciless and also used slow on him, so probably fighting Dana without using my powers was more challenging than this. I was his perfect counter when I use my abilities.

"You want me to go easy on you?"

I teased him. This didn't feel well for him, but I wanted to push him harder, maybe make the light reach the next level or that his muscles became able to handle and store more energy.

Any improvement was good, so I was a little cruel, I needed him to understand his weakness and find answers for it on his own, but he was right, and this was not helping either of us.

I decided to change the strategy.

"Hayley!"

Hayley who was in her break and was looking both fights looked at me.

"You two against me, and I can't slow G. What do you think?"

They looked at each other.

"I don't know man what if she freezes you and I blow you away with the hammer?"

"Don't worry that won't happen you are too slow, and Hayley will not fully freeze me."

G raised his brow at my last comment.

"Don't you think that you are a little reckless? You saw what she is capable of."

"I don't mean that she isn't capable, I mean that she will not use her power to that extent, her control is good enough to prevent it. Also, this is good for her, every time she fights, she will probably have a vanguard with her. I don't plan to attack her directly, but I want her to be focused and dodge my long distance attacks from time to time, which during a real fight will probably be the biggest threat to her… also being slowed down will help her reaction time and her ability to use her freeze against fast moving targets."

They thought for a second and appeared to reach an agreement.

As I promised this time I wasn't going to use slow on G, I prepared a little better and got ready some weapons. My reason for doing this was that I wanted to create a realistic battle situation, and without enough pressure that wasn't going to happen.

I checked my throwing weapons and took the metal spear that I got from the armory. I wasn't using the kukri or the tomahawk. The kukri was going to broke if I use it against that hammer, I chose a less important weapon, so it doesn't matter if it breaks.

"Go!"

Just as I finished saying the words, I could feel the cold air surrounding my feet. I used slow on Hayley and kicked the floor to move forward. The freezing couldn't slow me down one bit, my reaction was too fast and since she was slowed down her ability to track me was also reduced.

I couldn't put my whole attention on Hayley, G was coming right at me, without the slow he was able to see me moving slower than before. Well after fighting for ten minutes being slowed it was evident that he would feel that I wasn't moving as fast as before. It made no difference for me as I dodged to the side and used the bottom of the spear to hit the side of the hammer, so it went farther away.

This left G in a vulnerable position, but when I was about to hit him, I felt a cold air stream. I didn't want to risk it and jumped back before the air started to work on me. Since I couldn't attack G, I changed my focus and threw a knife at Hayley.

I canceled the slow on her and slowed the knife, so she should be able to barely avoid it according to my predictions.

As expected, she avoided it, but as planned, she also lost her concentration and stopped attacking me in that instant. I used the chance and got into melee range with G who had recovered his stance. I attacked with a direct thrust to his chest, he moved to the side, but he wasn't fast enough and was wounded on his shoulder.

The sunlight prevented him from being heavily injured, but I could see the pain on his face as he stumbled backward. Before he could respond once again, a threw a knife to Hayley to keep her busy.

The blood coming from G's shoulder surprised them, and even Hope and Rose stopped their own fight when they noticed it. G was about to complain, but I threw a kick at him, and he had no option but block it with his arms.

I see him clench his teeth from the pain. The cold air this time was moving faster, I forgot to use Slow on Hayley, so she managed to lock on me.

I lost my focus for a second as I wanted to counter Hayley's action.

"AAAHHH!"

After what just happened G was getting serious too, his right arm was shining in a way I haven't seen before, and with only one arm he took the hammer and made a full swing faster than the previous ones. I was using slow on Hayley so her freezing slowed down and couldn't follow me, I was a little cold, and since I promised to not use time distortion against G, I just have enough time to block the attack with my spear.

I think that this is how being hit by a wrecking ball should feel.

I was sent flying for a couple of meters, I rolled on the floor, and with a quick movement I pushed the floor with my hand and got back on my feet recovering my balance with a fluid motion just as I was at the border of the roof. A bruise with the form of a line that marked the exact place where the spear was pressed against me by the hammer was on my arm.

The rest of the people were pale after I was hit like that, but they became even more surprised when I got back on feet as it was nothing… but what made them lose their minds was that the bruise changed its color and faded away entirely as if it never existed.

I kicked the floor and threw a third knife to Hayley, G was so surprised by my sudden recovery that he didn't react to dodge or block my kick when I was at his side.

Hayley reacted better than G and tried to dodge the knife, but It managed to graze her arm.

"Stop!!"

It was Hope who stopped the fight.

"What is wrong with you? They are both hurt, and you almost fell from the roof!!"

Hope was looking at me clearly mad about the sparring going that far. Unlike Hope, Rose who knew about my new abilities was calmer, but she seemed worried about me falling from the roof too.

I looked the little cut on Hayley's arm and G on the floor… Ok, I admit it… I might have gone a little overboard with G.

I walked to Hayley's side who was pressing her wound with an apologetic smile.

"Sorry, I got worried when you almost fell from the roof, so I didn't react on time."

It was amazing that she didn't blame me, but herself instead.

"Don't worry I went a little overboard too, now let me see that wound."

She showed me the cut, and I focused on it. The wound slowly closed itself and after a few seconds there wasn't even a scar left behind, her skin was as perfect as it was before the cut.

Hope had to pick up her jaws as she switched her gaze between me and Hayley's arm waiting for an explanation.

Instead, I went towards G, since I wasn't talking to her, Hope directly asked Rose, whom naturally spill the beans right away.

"What is going on???"

"Last night he found points and unused tickets that he didn't notice and used them… one of his new powers is Time Heal."