MIDNIGHT PRINCE: Empire of Sin

After Adam woke up from the pain of obtaining a few new skills, he spent the rest of the day having fun with Shuri and Cecilia.

It was after Shuri left that things became serious for Adam.

As Cecilia started the training in earnest. For one she was quite excited about the skills he had obtained. Genesis, despite its clear dislike for Adam, had fulfilled its role as an advisor and had chosen skills with great synergy.

For the rest of the week, Adam was completely wrung dry as Cecilia followed a series of tests to find exactly what where his limits.

Only by knowing those limits could she create an effective training plan.

The basement had thankfully some weight-lifting equipment from the day he trained with her.

His lifting strength was judged to be easily around a few hundreds of kilograms with no straining on his part. Cecilia judged that with those numbers, he should theoretically be able to reach near a tone if he strained and more if he used Prana.

After all, while the efficiency of reinforcement was far lower than hunters, it wasn't completely zero either.

From the get-to-go it was decided that Adam should be careful if he was to fight any normal human. He remembered quite clearly how easy it had been to snap the bone of the two men that had nefarious intentions toward Sae.

After his strength, came speed measurement. Once again it was clear that even without trying, Adam could outrun even the fastest man alive.

Cecilia was quite impressed as his body should not allow such prowess with no particular boost. But since he was not truly human, this was understandable.

In reality, it was impossible for most hunters to even reach the peak of what was humanly possible with pure training. Only by using Prana or special medicine could they truly reach the limit.

She had been quite clear that without the use of Prana, Adam was stronger and faster than her.

But this did not particularly please him. He knew very well that no hunter would be stupid enough to fight him without Prana and the most supernatural creature would be stronger than him.

As such, what followed was what truly interested him.

Firstly, after opening all his chakra points, the most important thing to note was that his domain had expanded greatly. Going from 20 meters at max to around 50 or 60 meters.

After obtaining Parallel thinking, Adam realized just how smoother the operation of his Telekinesis became. Currently, he could only separate his thoughts in two but this was enough. He could more easily control objects and was able to move four different things at the same time without having to focus too much. He knew that he would be able to do more in the future.

It would be incredible if he was able to reach the level of moving thousand of swords at the same time. But what he could do was already incredible.

The skills also helped him when absorbing information obtained by using The World. He could dedicate one mind to focus on the influx of information and the other on moving objects or simply acting normal.

They also tested his weightlifting this time. But while he could only lift around 100 kg of weight for now, he realized that he could move them at nearly the speed of sound.

In the future, he could say that he was truly a human-shaped gun or would it be more exact to say that he was a lance roquet?

What made truly scary this part was that the law of inertia did not apply to this case. He could make anything under his control immediately reach the top velocity and what was even better was that if the object did leave his domain, the law of inertia would then apply and keep the object moving for a long while even without his control. [1]

The more they tested his skill, the more excited Cecilia and Adam became. In fact, Cecilia seemed even more excited than him as she jumped and hugged him tightly.

Cecilia understood perfectly well how scary the current spec of Adams were. As long as he managed to obtain more experience and became more used to his power, he would be able to protect himself pretty well with no problem.

The only limit now was his own mind since, while his Prana was constantly replenished thanks to the Crown, this did not soothe the straining his mind had to go through.

But this did not deter him. He likened this power to a new muscle. Only repeated training would be useful or perhaps the use of Karma could help speed up things.

He would have to see if he could obtain some kind of meditation-type skills to help him trudge along.

The others skills he had obtained proved to be worth the prize. They all fused with the Eye of Truth. So it was a little hard to consciously filter through everything but Parrarel's thinking shone once again and helped him.

The most confusing thing had been how to differentiate the color from Prana and the one from Emotion but it was quite easy all things considered. The one of Prana showed internally, following the Chakra in the body.

The color of emotions, on the other hand, covered mostly the head. Like a small halo.

He needed to test a little and discover more emotion but when he looked at Cecilia, all he could see was an overwhelming gold color. The significance was clear in his mind.

This was one of an absolute ally.

Her feelings for him were firm and unshakable.

Knowing this made Adam tears up a little inside, but he showed none of this on his face.

Still, the feeling of knowing that no matter what happened in the future, he would always have her on his back was heartwarming.

Sadly for Adam. He had forgotten that Cecilia absolutely loved him.

She was also a tough instructor who accepted no-nonsense.

The rest of the weekend made Adam wonder if the golden color did not in fact mean hatred.

"Are you really my mom? I call this child abuse."

"Sorry dear, but right now you are only a trainee."

Adam groaned as he moved to avoid a hit coming at his head, only to receive another one at his midsection.

It was necessary to say that he was fighting completely blind.

The same thing had been happening for the entirety of the week.

Firstly, he had to keep a blindfold no matter where he was.

If she attacked him physically he had to move to dodge or block. If she threw something at him, he had to move it or stop it with his mind.

When watching the TV, she made him keep the remote floating and constantly changing the channels and asked him to bring her beer from the fridge without leaving the sofa as well as clean the house by moving the mop and everything with his mind.

Her argument was that she was following the instruction of a long-lost martial master who believed in using chores for training.

In his mind though, she was simply using him as a servant.

Of course, the result was clear. There was a great difference between moving the maximum weight as fast as possible and moving more fragile things with carefully.

Cecilia clearly thought the later was more important and he had to admit, she was right.

In simply two days, his level of control had grown tremendously.

While the number of objects he could control at the same time hadn't increased, he was sure he could do things many more things now.

Though when she said that he would only be considered to have graduated from this training when he could play an orchestra with just his mind—He began to wonder just kind of other wacky things she would make him do.

In a way, this was rather fun.

It was like this that the weekend ended.

In a weird, exhausting but very meaningful day.

This was also why, standing now in front of the campus, looking at all the students walking around with no care in the world, Adam couldn't help but feel a sense of incongruity.

He realized once again that his life had truly deviated from what was considered normal.

But this was alright. He just had to create a new normal every day.

At least this was what he thought until he gazed at Natasha and used the Eye of Truth.

[Name: Natasha Antonovna Nikitina

Affiliation: Great Wolf

Alias: Silver Princess

Race: Shapeshifter/Werewolf

Age: 21]

Life really liked throwing curveballs when you least expected them.

[1]: Summary. Even after reaching max speed in his domain, the speed won't suddenly vanish once it left his domain.

(AN: Haha, well I made a little accelerated training montage. There will be some more details down the line but heh. Now my boy Adam is truly stepping into the other world.)