21 Strenght

I knock on the door.

"Hey Jon."

A hoarse voice comes from the other side.

"Hey."

"Can I come in?"

There's a long pause.

"... Okay."

I gently open the door to see jon wearing the same clothes as yesterday,his face pale and his eyes red. Seeing him like this broke my heart.

"I'm sorry."

He looked conflicted for a bit until he came to a decision.

SLAP

He slapped himself right across the face with almost all he had.

"FUCK, THAT HURT."

What the hell?!

"JON!"

"Hey hey, don't worry. I just decided to man up and stop feeling bad about it."

I looked at him, shocked that he had such a mature side to him. Of course, that was a complete lie. Noone could just magically shut away their feelings just like that because that's not how we work. What I'm actually impressed about is that he stopped sulking this fast. It only took him one day to sort out his feelings to the point that he realized what he should be doing, which is getting stronger.

Since he decided to stop sulking I would be a bad friend if I stayed on the subject.

"Alright, you wanna join me on my jog soon or do you need a day or two more?"

"I'll join you in a sec, let me just shower and eat breakfast first."

Then after we finished getting ready, we got back on our usual schedule. Or atleast that was what I thought. On our run I could sense a bit of energy in the air. Nothing much, just a tiny little trace, barely noticable even by me, a grizzled veteran. Nevermind the ordinary people who probably wont even be able to feel energy until they've formed their crystal.

After we get home I ask Jonathan what his skills are, as they should be displayed on his ability window. To be honest I'm pretty shocked I hadn't asked him this already.

"It says I have a gravity-type ability with-"

"WHAT? YOU LUCKY FUCKING BASTARD!"

Gravity type is a very rare variation and as such it has very unorthodox abilities. However, it's strongpoint is that since it's very rare most people won't have had a chance to fight it before- throwing them off in a fight. The mistakes you can make when gravity suddenly multiplies by three is not to be underestimated. You could also do some seriously cool things with it once you level it up high enough. For example you could increase gravity on a small point enough to get the same effect as a bullet would.

"My skills are [Gravity manipulation] and [Gravity domain]... wait? I only have two skills?"

I almost punched him. Gravity manipulation is such a versatile skill that it can supplement two or three skills. Increase the gravity in whatever direction you want on any object you want. This would make a punch with the force of 500 newton be multiplied by whatver you want to multiply it with. As mentioned earlier you don't even need to touch someone to inflict a bullet wound on them. Not to mention It's ability to support your allies and throw off your enemies.

Gravity domain is also extremely usefull as it will be much easier to manipulate gravity in this domain. Want your enemies to fly up? No problem. Want your enemies to have the force of an entire truck weighing down on them? EZPZ.

Of course he can't do that right of the bat. His energy core has to be very strong and he must have a very good control over his abilities.

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