Ch.11: Absorbing.

"You can either get out of those ropes by overloading it with your own Chi Energy or you can absorb the Chi Energy that's inside of the ropes."

Jasmine jumped in his direction. Clay ducked as she passed over his head and stabbed a Zombie straight in the head.

"Choosing to absorb it means you'll have to take on the Chi Energy of all those men, considering they poured in massive amounts of it into those ropes to keep you at bay. If you chose to use your own Chi Energy to override theirs, then..."

She jumped onto the shoulders of a Zombie. Like it was a pillar, she started stabbing at the zombies below.

"Okay, uhm,...which one would be easier for me to do?"

"Aborbing it! Since your just starting out, you don't have a chance at overriding the energy of 20 plus people. Aborbing it however will not only free you but give you a 'slight' power boost for the moment!"

He nodded and started scratching at the ropes tying his hands. 'These wooden looking ropes feel as strong as metal. They really went the extra mile to keep me locked up because they didn't know what my ability was, huh..?'

"Uh, Jasmine, care to explain how I'm supposed know what Chi Energy even feels like? Like, how to sense it?"

"It'll be hard for you to do if you've never seen it before as seeing is believing in this case. However, you have seen it before. Think back a little, yeah?"

She appeared in front of him and put her left fist out. It was then covered in a cyan colored aura, a memory triggering inside of Clay's mind.

He thought back to the alleyway. How he was in his own head about killing that guy who almost raped that girl. He then remembered looking up and seeing said girl.

Her fist, just like Jasmine's, coming down on him, but was too fast for him to perceive it.

'Inside my memories, my body can sense things better than they were when I was actually experiencing that memory in real time.

As the lady attacked me, I felt danger. Power that no human could wield and yet she was able to. All hope was lost in that moment and I probably would have died if..'

He felt that in his arms, his muscles may have tightened up.

'...if I Was Someone Who Could Die.

Instead of feeling despair and being outclassed, I can take hits from energy filled hands and live to see the next day. I can.... I can..'

*ZZZ*

*ZZZ*

*ZZZ*

Danger that he's never felt til now. 'So if I treat this as danger, I can sense it. And to absorb it, I have to..'

*ZZZ*

An electrical shock ran up his spine and into his brain. It was like a punch to the gut and he was slowly overcoming this pain. The pain would turn into energy that fueled him and boosted his strengths even further.

The more resistant he became to the pain that flickered in his head, the stronger he felt. 'By transforming the danger I feel from the rope into pain, I can, put simply, absorb it. These ropes..'

He pulled his hands away from each other and the ropes fell to the ground, clunking as metal on metal collided.

The board members, cowering but showing that they weren't afraid, made shocked and stunned faces.

Jasmine, who was in the middle of slicing the head off a zombie, had turned around and saw this, smiling and mumbling, "I knew it.."

Clay then extended his legs, easily breaking out the ropes tying his feet. Standing up, he looked down at his hands, surprised to see that from his hands, up to his shoulders and seemingly the rest of his body,...

'A Silver Aura..'

Before, he felt like he could lift a car, maybe a bus. But now, something as big as a sperm whale would be just an easy hurdle. He felt a though with one leap, he could travel hundreds of meters.

Power Was Coursing Through His Very Veins.

A zombie came running at him from the side. The way it moved was more human-like than zombie as it made facial expressions and had a sprinting technique like that of a human.

Clay's danger sense went off, but instead of the usual sharp stabbing sensation in his head, it was more of an actual sixth sense that just told him of dangers in the area instead of hurting him to grasp his attention.

The zombie sprung at Clay, its nails becoming longer and sharper. As they were coming down on him, Clay pivoted around in the zombies direction and punched.

His fist connected with the chest of the zombie and a moment later, the torso of the zombie had exploded, leaving only a floating head and limbs.

'I meant to punch a whole in his chest, but I obliterated his entire torso. Oops...'

The remains of the zombie flew past him and landed on the floor just behind him. "You're really adept in learning quickly, aren't you?" Jasmine came from behind, their backs together now.

"So this is Chi, huh? Hey, how long will this last for?"

"It'll last until your body completely absorbs it and becomes your own Energy. Until then, I'll teach you about lesson two.."

She touched the back of his leg and said, "Sorry, but I'm gonna need some energy to do this lesson. Damn zombies 'bout made me empty.."

The knife sized rod in her hand then grew into a fully sized Cyan-colored metal staff.

"Balance. I'm gonna teach you about Balance. Are you ready? Because the lesson gonna be quick!"

She readied herself as the once fallen zombies started getting back up. They would grab their lost limbs and stick it back onto their body.

Clay, feeling as if he could take on armies, had put his fist up, preparing himself for the hundreds of zombies that kept growing larger and larger in numbers.

"Yeah, I'm...ready.."

Everything was going too fast for him, but he knew this situation required him to be quick on his feet, so putting what little fear he had behind himself, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fist til his fingers pierced through his skin.

"No, I AM ready!"

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