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Paragon
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Training grounds
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Although, I have found my Speed Force attributes, I didn't directly advance to B rank. The real journey of a meta human begins at B rank, so they are advised to prepare a perfect foundation before advancing ahead to a new rank.
There are mainly three conditions for creating a perfect foundation.
Firstly, a metahuman must reach the age of fifteen years. After reaching fifteen years, a metahuman's growth process will speed up along with their talent.
Secondly, mastering their ability as much as possible to maintain their control over it. Some metahumans destroy themselves in the process of ranking up, these accidents happen due to their lack of control over their ability which causes it to consume their user. Some herbs and medicines can help stabilize the ability if the user lacks control over it.
And thirdly, stamina. The most important of them all, metahumans are advised to train their stamina to it's limit before attempting to rank up. Without enough stamina a metahuman might faint half way through the rank up process causing them to damage their body permanently.
Since the time loop resets all my abilities except, Sage Force, mastery and attributes mastery, it was the perfect place to create the perfect foundation for Speed Force and Still Force before I move on to Sage Force.
Honestly, I had no clue about my Still Force or Sage Force attributes. So, I concentrated on mastering my abilities before figuring them out.
And while I am at it, why not run some tests while I master my abilities.
The first thing I thought of was to use [Speed Force Aura] along with the [Still Force Aura].
[Speed Force Aura] was a technique created by Barry Allen, the first speedster. It creates a coating of lightning around your body, that protects anyone you want to protect when you use the Speed Force. It keeps others safe from your harmful energy, and prevents the lightning from running rampant. A technique suitable for a true hero.
Although I didn't want to learn it at first, I learned it anyway to keep my cover.
[Still Force Aura] was a technique that I created myself after mastering the Still Force. It coats my body with a greenish lightning that slows down anything that comes close to me. This ability depends on my speed, the faster I am in Flashtime, the slower the person becomes. Unless, someone has an ability to control the space around me, they can't really get through it.
Now, I could just use both of them together but that would be a huge wastage of stamina. I mainly wanted to combine the properties of the two skills. The property to differentiate between allies and enemies, and the property to slow down anything that comes in my way. I will keep the lightning colour white, it just looks better.
I channeled the lightning within me and gradually entered Flashtime, and then proceeded to activate the Still Force causing my body to be coated with sparks of green lightning, and further dampening the speed of others around me.
Then I guided the green lightning to minimise the area of effect to the point where it only coated my body, this also caused the speed dampening effect to be strengthened. Now to add a property to it, I needed to run a test.
I walked towards the training dummy and turned on the attack mode on it, turning it's metre around its neck to ranged mode.
The training dummy made of the same extraterrestrial alloy the wall was made from, walked towards away from me creating enough distance for it to use ranged attacks and transformed it's arm into a energy handgun, before aiming it at me.
Bzzt!
An energized bullet shot out the hand cannon and moved towards me at great speed. Even in Flashtime, I could see it moving at one metre per hour. However, after it got close enough to my body, it stopped moving at all.
Now, to differentiate which ones to stop and which one to pass through, I just had to think about it. Yep, it's that easy, when I used [Speed Force Aura], I needed to think about what to protect and what to destroy and my lightning will follow my will. Similarly, when using the [Still Force Aura], I needed to think about what to stop and all that.
I then moved away from the energized bullet and casually flicked a concentrated bolt of lightning towards the dummy.
Crackle Boom
The training dummy's upper section burst into different parts and scattered across the room, keeping it's lower section burning.
... I just wanted to shut it down. I am so bad at controlling it, I have to train more.