Chapter 66 - Workshop Battle (11) (1/2)

Two days later, Androssi and Lumen were in the training room.

Four miniature suns were floating around Lumen, and they were shooting light beams at Androssi at a rapid pace.

Around her, there were four shields in the shape of a circle, that were blocking the light beams.

Androssi had already taken the Test for a Circle User and had passed it. With her Shinsoo control, which was also enhanced by the Thorn, she had no problem passing it.

Her Shinsoo control wasn't the only thing that was improved by the Thorn. Both her Shinsoo resistance and physical strength had also been increased as well.

Androssi already had a physical strength that was even higher than Rankers, thanks to being a Princess of Zahard, but now, she was even stronger.

With the four shields defending her, she dashed towards Lumen. By strengthening herself with Shinsoo, she was able to compete with him in close quarters combat.

With each exchange between the two, she would learn and adapt to his style of fighting, which mostly relied on high-speed kicking. A few more exchanges later, she was imitating Lumen's fighting style to near perfection.

With Bam being merged with the Thorn, Androssi had inherited his special ability, Technique Replication. She can copy the opponents' techniques, regardless if it's Ranker-level or Regular-level, simply by seeing it or by being struck with the technique.

However, Androssi wasn't able to imitate Lumen's light abilities. The moment he transformed his body to light, she wasn't able to keep up with him.

Lumen kicked out with light speed, and Androssi was launched into the room's wall.

”That should be enough for today.” Lumen told her.

”Just a bit more. I want to try copying your light abilities again.” Androssi replied. She had already tried numerous times today, but she wanted to attempt it one more time.

Being weaker than him even with the Thorn's power didn't sit well with her. Androssi wanted to be at least as strong as Lumen. So that she could fight beside him in the future and not drag him down.

A sphere of dark red Shinsoo formed next to her, and it started shooting dark red beams towards Lumen. Androssi had managed to copy his technique, but without the light powers, it was lacking in power.

Lumen didn't even need to defend himself and allowed the beams to hit him without taking any damage from them.

”Damn it. Why can't I copy your light abilities?” Androssi cursed out. His light powers were something that she really wanted to get.

”Try copying this.” Lumen said and applied his gravity powers to her. Androssi tried copying them but failed. She could do something similar, but she would have to rely on her Shinsoo to do it.

”No luck with this one as well,” Androssi replied.

”Hmm. Then let's try this.” Lumen shot a wave of darkness at her. He didn't want to use his black flames since they were too dangerous for testing something like this.

Androssi let the attack hit her and got blasted into the wall again. However, she was mostly uninjured from the wave of darkness.

”Yes! I finally did it!” Androssi exclaimed. ”Now, you have to teach me all of your darkness techniques!”

”That's fine with me, but not now. We have to check our Shinsoo qualities and see what we can do with them.” Lumen replied.

”Fine.” Androssi frowned and crossed her arms. She wanted to spend more time with him, but she knew checking their Shinsoo quality is important for their progress.

Just as they were about to leave the training room, the rest of the group entered it.

”Are you guys finally done with your sparring?” Leesoo questioned. ”Because we need to use the training room as well. We already had our Shinsoo qualities checked, so we have to practice manifesting them now.”

”Yeah, we are done.” Lumen replied. ”So, what are your Shinsoo qualities?” He asked.

”Well, this is mine,” Leesoo responded and gathered Shinsoo around a small device in his hand. A light-blue whip made of liquid manifested in front of him afterward.

”Gustang was pretty surprised when he saw this. Since water-based Shinsoo qualities are inherent to the Po Bidau Family.” Leesoo said.

”Are you saying your family is a branch of the Po Bidau?” Androssi asked. ”Because you are too weak to be a branch member of one of the 10 Great Families.”

”Hey! Stop being mean. I'm weak compared to you guys, not to the rest of Regulars! But no, my family shouldn't be a branch of the Po Bidau one.” Leesoo answered.

”Then why do you have a water-based Shinsoo quality?” Lumen asked him, and at that point, Gustang entered the training room as well. ”Because his family comes from a direct descendant of the Ancient One.”

”The Ancient One? What's that?” Androssi asked.

”The Ancient One was a giant being that was able to control all the elements. His power was unmatched in the entire Tower. At some point in time, the Ancient One had split himself into multiple beings for some reason. Each one was able to control a single element. Had I not know that you are an Irregular, I would have ȧssumed you are also a descendant of the Ancient One.” Gustang explained to Lumen and Androssi.

”Those guys sound pretty strong.” Lumen said.

”They are. A few of them even climbed the Tower with us. But they were later killed off by Zahard. Some managed to escape, but he placed a curse on them. I'm surprised Leesoo family had managed to bypass the curse.” Gustang replied and turned towards Rak, who was in his compressed state and looked like a chibi crocodile-man.

”I was even more surprised when there was a second descendant of the Ancient One. That one has a stone shield as his Shinsoo quality, but his Shinsoo control is even worse than the weakling.” Gustang said and pointed at Leesoo.

'Stupid Glasses Turtle. Just you wait, I will hunt you down in the future.' Rak thought to himself after hearing Gustang's comment.