Trials of Talent: Training and Perception

It was a couple of minutes later after Damian got the training manual for his talent, and he had to just call the school and explain he will not come to school as he thought that he called them.

"Hello Damian, it's the principal. May i ask why you called? If it's about how the bullies got reprimanded, it's the order from above. I could not do anything about it," came the principal's voice from the speaker.

"No, that's not why I called it mister principle. I called to say I will not come to school for a few days because I need some time and to deal with something on my side," he said to the principal on the phone.

"I can, at most, give you a week's leave, but I don't think you want to leave for so long, do you? It is the last week of school," said the principal with some pity.

'To think a rising star of SCS would get a useless talent and get bullied. Ahh, what a shame! If he had another talent, he would at least reach Supreme Rank. But fate has turned her back on him at this cruel juncture. Poor boy,' principle thought. He shook his head and dispelled his thoughts and brought his attention to Damian. 'He wants a few days leave. I wonder why. It can't be because of them, can it? Because of them f*cking Leon his grades are poor. It was just because he had potential to awaken a talent that's why he was in Talent awakening class but that does not excuse his actions against young Damian but I will deal with it later,' he thought.

"Young Damian, may I ask what's your "something" to do? that's only if you want to share it my boy," said the principal.

Hearing this, Damian did not know what he should do. Should he say his real talent is or should he hide it for now while thinking about that he thought of another thing. 'Why hasn't he said anything about my eyes they have changed colors from my blue eyes to now purple eyes that I have is it only me who could see it but that would not make any sense the mysterious person said my eyes have changed colors so it can't be only me who could see it thinking about it and making his mind he asked the principle "Mister principle can you see my eyes clearly"

"No i can't see it clearly my boy it's just too dark but it kinda gives a deep bluish or purplish my boy is something wrong with your eyes" he asked

Hearing this 'okay so it's not just me who could see my purple eyes so i just need to make him ignore it for now til i get more control over my new abilities' he thought about it looked down at his hand and sighing "no it's nothing Mister principle because i could not see it clearly from screen but it was all that i wanted to talked about so see you in a few days Mister principle goodbye"

"Ah ok my boy it would be good to see you in school and have a good night my boy good bye" said the principal as he put down the phone and looked at the sky from his window in his office at the top of the college building and muttered something under his breath.

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Damian put the phone down. "Huhh, it was more draining to talk to the principal than running 25 km in under one and a half hours. I need to train and get better with my talent sooner than later so I can defend myself from Leon and others and… Lea. Even she tried to follow me and beat me like others. I can't take it lying down. I need to show them what I could do and get EBS attention so I could get some money from them because the AI they sold to SCS wrongly identified my talent as Light Switch. That was the worst talent I ever heard of, and I got bullied because of that," he thought for a minute and came to a conclusion. 

He went to his computer and said, "I need to search for information about energies and learn as much as I can, such as light or heat, or even better lighting. If I can learn how they harvested lightning, it can make me more powerful. Like I can be like Raven the Barbarian, I can adapt to almost anything by absorbing their energy, but that's in the future," he thought happily about the future prospects of his talent as he went on the internet to search for such information. It can't be that hard to find it; it's just some information. Even if it was classified by the government, I just need to prove my Energy Manipulation talent and after they reviewed my talent and investigated my background, they would probably give me the information. 

Good thing all of this happened in his brain. If others heard he had such insane thoughts about the government giving classified information that easily, he would be beaten to death by his mother. She would probably rise from the dead to beat his ass for having such foolish ideas, but anyway, back to the story. After finding the related information about his goal, he went to his sink trying to absorb the heat out of it and make himself warmer? Even he himself did not know what would happen as he went to absorb the warmth out of it. He suddenly remembered he did not know how to do it. He was lost to the happiness of his talent being one of the strongest not the weakest. "Ahem, I totally did not forget. I do not know how to absorb energy. When it happened with Night's Heal, it was subconsciously and I can't even remember how it felt. So, I need to start from scratch. I hope it won't take very long. Sigh," thinking about this he could only train his hand in warm water to absorb it. 

He was already regretting it because his hand would be in warm water for many hours, but he did not cave in. He steeled himself to continue to sacrifice his hand to this warm water to consume. "Okay, I can do this. Just need the will to submit to me and let me absorb it. I am your master. Let me absorb you and make this water cold. Listen to me, heat," just as he was commanding the heat to let him absorb it, he suddenly felt the water becoming many times hotter. He almost burned his hand if he had been any second slower he would have suffered first-degree burns. Seeing his first attempt backfire on him, he was feeling down like how could make the water hotter not colder it was the opposite of what he was trying to achieve not letting himself down for any moment longer he continued to torture himself for the grind.

[Scene Shift]

It was Tuesday, and in the classroom of the History of Supers, was Lea and all other students. They had to pull an all-nighter because they had to finish the unfinished assignment that they had.

"All of this is because of Damian! How dare he not take his beating like a weaker being should. They, all the people below our rank, should listen to us and worship us. We are the future of this country! f*cking bastard! Because of him, I needed to pull an all-nighter! And when I asked Daddy why we got such severe repercussions from the school, he said the secretary of Her Excellency Anna was talking to Principal Ironbeard, and it seems like Sophia Robertson did not lie. But why did she come to our school yesterday? If it had been any other day, this would not have happened. The principal would not dare to cross our family. Most of us in the class are from influential families. But I can't do anything about it now! But Damian, that f*cking! To think I even fell in love with him! A f*cking E-rank, the lowest of the lowest! They don't even want to recognize E-rank. That's why you can't find it in the official Rankings of Supers website or books! Because of him, the whole class became depressed! f*cking worm! All of this is his fault! I will beat his arse when he comes back! f*cking low-ranked worm!"

While Lea was having some disturbing thoughts, she was not alone. All her classmates were like her, wanting to beat his ass and make him regret even looking at them like they were friends before they awakened their talents. They wanted to beat his ass because they had to pull an all-nighter and exhaust themselves. They did not even have the energy to pay attention to the class.

Sophia Robertson could not help but look at the empty seat of Damian. She was worrying about him as she did not see him in the class in the morning. But she got a text from the Principal: "Poor boy, did he get trauma from them? If he got it, I can understand. I will talk to him when he comes to school. If he gets trauma, I will pay for his therapist. So he could get his mind healed. But what should I do about these troublesome students? Sigh. I'm too old for this beep, and I am not getting enough pay for this shit."

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After school, in the afternoon. "That bastard," thought Leon as he hit a wall with his fist, cracking it with spider cracks spreading quickly. "That motherf*cker! Because of him, I had to talk to the police and the school counselor," he began cursing at Damian, who was not there. 

Leon began shouting about Damian, "Motherf*cker! Why is it always you who gets special attention and help? Why were you the better one? Why did my parents compare me to you, Damian? Why? Why were you always better than me, stronger, smarter, just better? But what about now, huh? What about now, Damian? Now that you got E-rank and the weakest talent, and now I am the stronger one, I am the better one, I am better! I am better, not you anymore," he began to shout and began to transform, turning into a Lion, and began to attack everything in his sight. He began to cry a little, bit by bit.

[Scene Shift]

Damian let out a curse because even after two days he could not even absorb the heat from water to air like whatever he did. Like it was like his hand was cursed and everything he did was reverse. Like he tried to absorb heat from water/air, all he did was make it warmer, and when he tried with a light bulb to absorb electricity, he electrocuted himself. So he learned to not do that until he was stronger. While he was thinking this while sitting on his bed in a Meditative pose with his leg crossed and thinking, 'Hm, I can't waste time training and gain nothing from it. Like how could I train better and get better results faster? F*ck, I am dumb. I can just use my f*cking my body to absorb the energy of heat from the air, and I would not even need to move,' he finally thought of using his whole body to train using energy absorption. He had thought about using his whole body in passing, but he did not have the self-confidence to try it. He thought he did not possess the power to use his whole body to absorb. After a while, the room became much colder, and Damian's skin was turning red, but he did not seem in any discomfort, but the water on the bedside table was starting to freeze. But the cold did not seem to affect Damian as he was steaming, and his hair was rising up from the steam and change in air temperature from warm to cold to warm again, and Damian suddenly opened his eyes and his purple color eyes seemed a bit different and his whole aura seemed to change from an hour ago. As he looked at his room, he saw that the water that he put on the bedside table was frozen. Looking at his hand and seeing his red skin, he knew he had done it. 'I finally did it, I absorbed the heat energy from air and while I absorbed it, I made the whole room temperature lower than zero and I feel a bit stronger than before. So this is E+ rank because E rank can't be stronger than E- rank. So I'm not the weakest anymore,' he thought with glee as he felt his new power. He smiled like a kid who got candy, he was feeling great. 'Huuu, okay, calm down Damian, calm down. I am just E+ rank, still quite weak. They call this rank Apprentice rank, so I need to calm down. I still can't beat Leon because of that. I need to train my combat skills, I will get my revenge. Leon, do you think just because you got a higher rank I cannot reach you? Ha, think again,' Damian was thinking, but it seems he has changed from a gentle boy to this boy.

[Scene Shift]

Somewhere in Asia, the same tall woman was on a mountain looking at the scenery with hands behind her back. She started to talk, "They are starting to move, activate our hidden members in other countries, they are sending their subordinates," said the mysterious lady almost to no one but a split second later, hundreds of assassins appeared behind her and shouted, "Yes, General." She gave them a side-eye and smiled and thought, 'Damian, I hope you grow quickly,' and without a single glance, she jumped from the mountain and disappeared in a split second.