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On Monday,the class started a new lesson as Professor McKinney had promised. Professor McKinney strolled in that afternoon dressed in black trousers and a black shirt together with a brown robe.

"Good afternoon class." Professor greeted the learners. The learners mumbled a greeting in reply.

"I hope you're all ready because today we are beginning a new lesson," professor began as he swept his gaze across the students."you guys do remember that I taught you guys how to create an energy ball last week. At this stage, every learner in the class is probably capable of doing it by now so please,create an energy ball for me."

At his request,the entire class began conjuring energy balls. Some learners took a while to properly mould and create one while others easily created the energy ball in an instant.

"Good,good. You can release your energy now,listen to what I'm going to begin telling you." Professor said waving his hand as he spoke.

The students all stopped maintaining the energy ball and all over the entire class, it went off with a poof.

Now, you're all capable of creating simple energy balls. But you need to be able to do more. You need to control the energy. This simple energy ball is a stage 1 technique but it can be used to attack. The higher the level of the user or their technique,the more efficient it is." Professor Lucas explained, before conjuring his own energy ball.

It was blue in colour and was transparent. The energy ball exuded fearsome energy and every student in the class knew that that simple energy ball would be able to cause a good amount of damage on an opponent.

"Now,this is what I want you to do." Professor McKinney said turning around to face the large empty space behind him. The energy ball hovered in the air next to him and easily moved around as he willed.

Raising his left arm, professor McKinney flicked his wrist, causing a model of a person to instantly appear. Anyone could guess it would act as a puppet for him. The puppet had no facial features and resembled a manacian which one would find in a clothing store.

After creating the human puppet, professor lightly swung his arm towards the puppet.

The energy ball which had been floating in the air all this while suddenly moved and flew towards the puppet. The energy ball neared the puppet in a blink of an eye and in the next second it struck the target right on the chest. The impact of the attack caused the upper part of the puppets body to be completely decimated.

"Woww!" A student exclaimed. Plenty of students were surprised at the power of Professor McKinney.

"Now,for this oncoming week,you children will practice and try to hit the training puppet. It may look easy but trust me,it's far from easy," Professor McKinney said turning to face the class. He waved his hand and at different parts of the training room, training puppets appeared."now, everyone start practicing. I simply want you to try and hit the puppet."

"Yes professor." The class replied in unison. They all took up their position which was about a dozen metres away from their target. On professors command, everyone began conjuring energy balls and throwing them towards the target.

Nobody could hit the target. One or two times, someone would hit it due to luck but most of the energy balls missed the target.

"This Professor of yours is very interesting." Jago said to Timmy.

"What,why?" Asked Timmy who was creating another energy ball.

"Every lesson takes a week at most but he clearly knows that it's impossible for for you guys to actually hit the target." Jago explained to Timmy.

"Than why did he tell us to practice?" Timmy asked.

"I think he simply wants you all to familiarise yourself with your power." Jago said.

"Oh?" Timmy said as he threw another energy ball. This one missed too and veered off course. It flew an extra couple of metres before it dispersed into the air.

"Yeah,you'll probably be able to reduce the size of the energy ball. Your control over mystical energy will definitely improve with this exercise." Jago said sounding thoughtful.

"Well,that's good." Timmy said conjuring another energy ball. He focused and tried to hit the target again. He missed again.

The period went on without much success for the learners and when it was time to leave, Professor McKinney had to speak words of motivation as he needed the disgruntled learners out of the class.

"How do I kept missing?" Leah asked, disappointment evident in her tone.

"Professor McKinney said it would not be easy." Timmy said to her as they walked to their next lesson.

"Still,it can't be that difficult," Leah said as she ran her fingers through her hair."I'm going to train after school, anyone willing to join me?"

At Leah's proposal,a handful of the class's learners decided to come. Timmy was going to but his words had little weight in the matter. Timmy didn't mind anyways since he wouldn't mind the practice.

"Remember, you've still got individual training to do." Jago reminded him.

"Oh," Timmy said remembering."I'll manage."

"You don't have to compress the energy ball for this week." Jago said to Timmy.

"Oh? Why?" Timmy asked.

"Well,the target practice you're going to be doing is more than enough for you. Compressing the energy ball is much more difficult so don't worry too much about it." Jago explained to Timmy.

"Okay." Timmy replied as he sat down, waiting for the lesson to begin. The next subject was fiend studies.

The rest of the day ended quite rapidly for Timmy. After all his classes ended,he went to the training grounds outside to join the small group that had gathered for training.

The people who had gathered there consisted of Neo,Amy, Leah,Timmy, Lizzie,and a few others.

At the training grounds, actual training puppets were set up. They weren't made out of mystical energy like professor McKinney's.

The group begin training and continued their training for about 20 minutes until they ran out of mystical energy. Every gifted had a certain amount of mystical energy which could also be exhausted.

Energy ball was a stage 1 skill which meant it didn't use much energy to use. Even with this skill,it took 20 minutes too exhaust the energy of all the students.

It was because they were at a low level and didn't have much control over their powers. They had a low amount of energy and when using the skill they wasted a lot of energy.

After resting for a few minutes they began training once again, repeating the process until almost 2 hours later when everyone decided it was time to leave.

After exchanging their goodbyes, everyone went their own ways.

Timmy went back to his room to rest for a few minutes before heading to the training room. His body was a little exhausted from the previous training but he was willing to force himself to head to training.

After reaching the training room. Timmy sat down in accordance to Jagos instructions and began spreading the energy around his body. When the energy reached his entire body,he felt a cool feeling rush over him. Than Timmy stood up. The energy dispersed when he stood up.

"Now repeat the exercise you did yesterday." Jago instructed him.

Timmy complied and began spreading the energy to his right fist and attempted to throw a punch. As he expected,most of the energy dispersed.

Timmy repeated the process and threw another punch. As he threw punches,over a long period of time he'd realise that there would be a little more force as he punched.

Timmy threw punches until Jago told him to go rest.

"Okay." Timmy replied in between heavy breaths.

"Impressive, you've improved to almost 10%," Jago said to Timmy."you'll be ready in no time."

"I hope so," Timmy said as he walked out of the training room, wiping himself with a towel."Jago, I have a question."

"What is it?" Jago asked.

"Will I have to send energy particles to your body every time I punch or kick?" Timmy asked.

"No. When you completely master the art, you will enter a mode called algorithm. You'll also become much more physically powerful than normal when you acquire that form." Jago explained.

"Ohh." Timmy said in realisation as he understood Jagos words.

"Yeah,now go get a shower. You really need to clean up yourself." Jago said.

"Okay." Timmy replied.