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WD - Chapter 32: Power Scale
🕑 Added 2024-06-26 17:58:20 +0000 UTCA week passed since Luke confronted the hag.
He had his date with Enid on the last day of the festival and had to bring Edgar, who was very annoying, but he didn't mind. He was happier for possessing three different auras.
According to Edgar, a psychic can inherit both auras from his parents. It is a very rare and rarely seen case. However, it is even rarer, that in this psychic the gene of an ancestor is activated. Awakening the third aura.
The patriarch of the Poe family, Ezekiel was the only member of the family to have three different auras. Luke was the second. Both Edgar and Ezekiel had a white aura.
Edgar explained to him that people with white auras can perceive extrasensory perceptions. One of these abilities is what allowed Luke to dodge the hag's deadly attacks despite not being able to see because of the smoke. A kind of sixth sense.
This ability is very useful for combat. It reminded Luke of Spider-man's spider-sense or the observation of haki in One Piece.
These are useful skills for combat. In addition, clairvoyance has other utilities such as the ability to see the aura of psychics or have a stronger spiritual connection.
Luke didn't care much about the spiritual connection. He didn't want to see scary ghosts, while he was taking a piss or a shit in the middle of the night. What good would it do him in a fight?
It would be uncomfortable if he was taking a shit and a ghost was staring at him. Although in the future he could work as an exorcist or ghost hunter. It could be interesting and fun. He watched a lot of movies of that nature.
With his new aura unlocked Luke began his white aura training. Mostly in the skill that allowed him to defeat the hag. Predicting the enemy's blows and dodging them. Luke called it Observation Haki since it didn't have a name.
He was not ashamed to give this name to this ability. He was a big fan of One Piece in his past life. In this world of outcasts and monsters, there was no One Piece. So he didn't mind giving this name to this skill.
In this world of normies and outcasts, works of his past life did not exist as Stephen King's books or One Piece. History changed because there were humans with powers and monsters. However, some works were repeated such as Edgar's or Bram Stoker's works.
The initial training to improve this skill was simple. Be blindfolded and have someone beat you to a pulp. You must try to dodge the blows. According to Edgar, it is important to remember that every enemy attack carries an intent and a clue.
Luke trained with Enid. It was much harder to dodge his girlfriend's blows, as she had no murderous intent against Luke like the hag. But he had no other hag to train this skill with, so he had to do it this way.
The fight against the hag brought more benefits besides awakening his third aura. His telekinetic abilities had improved. Several months ago his weight progress was slow, i.e. being able to move objects with his telekinesis.
Thanks to his death match, he managed to overcome this slow progress and reach 195kg. Although he did not move very heavy objects in the fight against the hag, his mind was in tension and stress. He managed to improve and overcome the limit he couldn't before.
How did he know he could move 195kg? In Nevermore, besides the gym where they train fencing. There is another gym. A place to train full of weights and discs. Some discs weigh 25kg each, and there are dozens of them.
Luke goes here and moves these discs with his telekinesis to find out what his current limit is. He does this at night when the gym is empty. He is very close to reaching 200kg.
In the Yellow Aura, some levels categorized how much weight the psychic could move. This was a sort of power scale that was universally accepted.
There are seven levels in total. Level 1 is the lowest of all. The beginners or newly initiated. These telekinetics can move objects from 1kg up to a maximum of 50kg.
Luke's partner Rowan, who had a yellow aura in his presentation some time ago, could move 40kg. He was close to passing level 1 and entering level 2. That figure is usually considered a good talent.
Luke at that time could move 180kg and did not improve until now, as he was at a bottleneck so to speak.
Level 2 is moving objects between 50kg to 200kg. This is Luke's current level, and he is almost at the top. In the next few days or weeks, he will be able to reach 200kg and finally enter level 3.
From what Edgar told him, his father when he was his age could move up to 140kg, and his talent was considered one of the best in Nevermore and the American underworld. So Luke had a monstrous talent when it came to moving objects with his telekinesis.
Let this go to Luke's head, Edgar told him that he too had that talent at his age, and by the records the patriarch Ezekiel was the same. So he was not unique and had to keep his feet on the ground. He didn't want his great-great-grandson to be arrogant and in a battle to the death get overconfident and end up dying.
However, this scale did not mean that someone of level 3 would win 100% against someone of level 2, as it is only based on the weights a person can move. In a battle, it is not only objects that will be thrown left and right. There are many more factors and telekinetic techniques possible to use.
For example, immobilization. The level 3 psychic may not have a great command of this technique. If the level 2 psychic has a great mastery of this technique he can defeat the level 3 psychic despite being able to move fewer kilograms/pounds.
Another example would be the amount of objects at the same time that you can control and the speed they reach. Maybe the level 3 psychic can move 300kg, but not on many objects. On the other hand, the other psychic has more practice with many objects at the same time and his throwing speed is higher.
That's why it's important that in training you don't just try to move a single object heavier. What's the point of moving 200kg if you can't move 20 objects of 10kg each at the same time? Maybe in battle, there is not one object that weighs 200kg, and you are ruined.
In the other auras, they also tried to make a similar power scale, but with different measurement parameters.
The problem was that in some auras it was very difficult since it is not as easy as telekinesis where you move heavier and heavier objects.
For example, in the blue aura there were a lot of mental abilities, how do you rank that? With the red aura, how do you measure the user's ability to manipulate a person? Those are difficult things to measure and make a ranking. So, the current rankings are not very accurate.
Psychics won't be willing to tell you the extent of their abilities so you can make an accurate ranking.
"Finally, over 200kg," Luke muttered with sweat on his forehead, as 8 x 25kg discs and 1 x 5kg discs dropped to the gym floor. A total of 205kg.
It was late at night, and he was alone training in the gym.
"Welcome to level 3. Well done," said Edgar, looking at his great-great-grandson with some pride.
"Thank you... By the way, what level did you reach when you were alive?" asked Luke curiously. He knew his great-great-grandfather possessed a yellow aura. In addition to the white one.
"I already told you that the ranking is not very accurate, but if we take into account only the amount of weight I could move with my telekinesis I reached the top of level 5," answered Edgar.
"Just that? I thought you would have minimally reached level 6" said Luke. He knew his great-great-grandfather was a very powerful and famous outcast when he was alive.
"Only that?" repeated Edgar with a vein on his forehead, "Level 5 is something achieved by few psychics in the whole world!" he added.
"You'd find yourself at the top of the food chain! Besides, I was only forty years old!" he said with a slightly arrogant smile.
'Well, it's true. He had a hundred years and a bit more to live. He could have made it to level 6,' thought Luke, looking at his ancestor differently.
"If you were at the top of the food chain, why did you die...?" asked Luke with a raised eyebrow.
"That scoundrel Edward Spellman reached level 6 thanks to his demonic pact. Besides, that it was two versus one... That's how they defeated me. The deal not only improved his ability to move objects but also his other abilities," Edgar replied with hatred in his eyes.
Luke already knew the name Edward Spellman. His great-great-grandfather had mentioned him before, and whenever he did it was to insult or rant against this person.
He was the head of the Spellman family in Edgar's time and his arch nemesis who murdered him started the grudge between the two families.
"He's dead, isn't he?" asked Luke. Edgar was born around 1800, considering Edward was of the same generation, he must have died in about 1950 or so.
"He is alive. The deal with the demon not only improved his powers but also extended his life expectancy. So you'll have to get to level 6 if you want to defeat him," Edgar replied matter-of-factly.
'Doesn't he have too high expectations?' Luke thought with a frown. He wanted a fourteen-year-old to defeat a 150+ year old psychic who made a deal with a demon.
Not only that. The Spellman Family continued to function unlike the Poe's. They had more family members to fight. In contrast, Luke was on his own. His only companion was Natasha.
"Didn't he go bonkers? Like the hag?" asked Luke.
"No. Deals with demons don't make you lose your sanity. However, they do have other disadvantages which I'll tell you about later. Many psychics who want to increase their lifespan would rather use dark rituals and the possibility of becoming insane than make a deal with a demon," replied Edgar.
'Why not now?' thought Luke, but he didn't say anything. He knew Edgar wouldn't talk about demons if he didn't want to. He's very stingy with the information he tells him.
"The patriarch Ezekiel, did he reach level 7?" asked Luke.
"It is not known. In his time there were no such rankings. So, there is no record of what level he reached. I would estimate that minimally he made it to level 6. In my time there was no record of people reaching level 7. Level 6 is considered the peak, and the people here are very few. Besides Edward, who made a pact with a demon to get there, there must be ten psychics or less at level 6 alive today." replied Edgar.
"So few? Worldwide?" asked Luke in amazement.
"In the USA," replied Edgar.
'Then it was true that he was at the highest in power,' thought Luke, looking more respectfully at Edgar. He was at the peak of level 5 and possessed another aura. And he was only forty years old.
His great-great-grandfather despite having possessed one less aura than Ezekiel is on par with the patriarch of the Poe family.
