Apparently , Admiral Kizaru was not particularly a martial arts enthusiast in anyway but that didn't mean that he was lacking at all. From him Riley obtained knowledge , experience and skills in swordsmanship and kick boxing.
Basing on that alone , Riley was soon used to and fairly proficient in kick boxing and Swordsmanship within the next 3 weeks. All on his own with nothing but Kizaru's memories and experience to guide him.
As expected , his smaller body held him back abit , but he adapted within a short period and managed to use both fighting styles.
Integrating a template actually felt similar to remembering long lost or previously dormant abilities. The experience that came with the character allowed him to quickly and masterfully gain the abilities because he remembers using them before too.
The training didn't only centre around the template though because Riley had also given time to exploring his natural abilities and limits constantly inorder to know how much to hold back.
At first , Riley was already a near Captain America level Stat monster when he begun the template integration , but now , he probably sat firmly in the real Stat monster levels.
Currently , Riley could already carry an entire 14 tonne truck with little strain. (Obviously he had tried it and that is how he knew.)
The truck had been bought for him by Esme at his request just incase he needed to move things or simply blend in at some point since he could open a portal to the castle from anywhere.
'Ahh.....the joy of being rich.' -As someone who had been less fortunate before , Riley felt like this time it was his turn to be unnecessarily rich too.-
Obviously that didn't dull or hinder his training which , took first priority before everything else. His speed had also increased with the growth in strength and now. Riley could hear someone whispering from over 30 meters away very clearly.
With this level of strength, Riley had made one of his top priorities controlling and managing his strength carefully.
Most training dummies he used would end up cracked and dented despite being made from reinforced treant wood. Luckily , they were made of special materials which reinforced and automatically repaired the dummies , plus they were only the level one dummies.
When Riley had gained an acceptable control of his strength , he dived into constant meditation whenever he was not increasing the templates integration rate and mastering his Logia abilities.
From the books that Riley had been flipping through among his mom's introductory collection , Riley had understood how to get a basic read on his abilities.
The affinity measuring orb had already previously been used by Riley but the orb didn't only show him his initial inherited Divine power , magic and elements but it could also help show Riley's new affinities , growth in Divine power and Magical growth.
According to the records , he could use the orb to understand his Divine abilities and traits deeply. This was done by touching the orb in meditation and ibuing his pure Divine essence into the orb.
Riley touched the orb and first let it scan him again , showing him the results in clear English -courtesy of his mom- on the face of the crystal ball.
Light , Space , Healing , Serpents , Poison , Darkness , Sound , Fire , Nature and Phsychic.
After that it took 5 minutes of him sitting in place and meditating while holding the orb in hand. Golden pulsing Divine power flowed softly through the orb in his hand for quite sometime then suddenly , Riley's body shifted into his female form.
More changes continued as her skin paled and her hair elongated past her upper back down to her lower back. Scales quickly grew on Riley's arms , Shin , torso and back while her finger nails elongated into claws.
The Green and yellow scales gleamed slightly in the light and made her very pale skin even more visible while Riley's gleaming slit pupils also manifested.
The scales had clearly extended further since the last time she was in this form on her 3rd birthday , and Riley could feel the power increase in her natural form.
Previously , when his mom had sealed it at his request , she said it would affect him but not by much since even while sealed , his strength still grew and the traits developed.
Riley's fascination with his body was brought to a stop abruptly as information poured unto his head from the crystal ball and all of it was read and deduced from Riley's Divine energy.
(Enhanced speed , Heightened senses , Swordsmanship , Archery , Healing touch , Golden lightening generation and manipulation , Sonokinesis , Clairvoyance , Serpent manipulation and Biological manipulation)
That was everything that she got from Apollo's side of the family which was already alot considering the Greek demigod's were commonly seen dying to even weaker monsters because they barely had any divine abilities at all.
From her mother's side , the Divine abilities were also considerably more than expected.
(Shapeshifting , Illusion projection , Arcane attunement , Arcane awareness , Enhanced mental strength , Enhanced willpower , Serpentine dominion , Serpentine Physiology , Telepathy , Fire manipulation and generation.)
The abilities gave Riley atleast some measure of versatility but she noticed something even more interesting happening which drew her attention away from the abilities for a moment.
The scales along Riley's body had begun to shed off and fall while her pale skin also peeled off , a process which had started as painless but was beginning to spread with a dull ache.
She removed her shirt and remained in shorts as it happened and patches of skin and scales fell to the ground around her for a while then stopped and Riley's body begun to reconstruct and heal itself.
The clear glistening new skin left behind shifted as transformations begun in some sort of chain reaction , the pain was sharp and yet manageable so Riley gritted her teeth and watched in silence.
First , the skin on Riley's face and basically entire body had turned even more pale and smooth like marble.
Along her arms , legs , torso and neck , the scales continued developing and thickened into harder but still glistening dark gold and green scales with that looked alot tougher.
Her form suddenly shifted into male as well and the changes were the same with Riley now looking like some sort of fantasy Dragon in a human form because of the scales and glowing slit pupils.
Scanning the changes in his body using a mirror he just summoned from a nearby bedroom , he understood that this entire new evolution was as a result of Riley's body getting strong enough to assimilate all the remaining Ophiuchus constellation essence at once.
The growth in physical stats was serious but the best thing was the new abilities in Riley's head right now. Then there was also the very interesting unexpected thing that had happened to his body.