The weapon dealer's son

Chapter 36: Torture device.

On a small floating island among the heavy clouds, shaded by a net made from flexible steel wires with gabs smaller than a man’s head, Adam wearing a black armored space suit covering his entire body, was getting ready to start his flying test.

This suit had a safety mechanism in its exoskeleton to prevent any excess bending of any joint, muscle, or bone, to avoid all injuries incase of impacts.

He took a final nervous glance at his stats to make sure he have enough energy.

[strength: 20.

Stamina: 20.

vitality: 20.

energy: 199/200.]

‘Can you change the energy stats back to percentage! It was easier to keep track of it.’ He sometimes found it confusing as he was used to the 100% energy system, and turning it into a point system sometimes made him read it wrong at first.

[energy: 99.5%.]

Feeling better with the modification, he started to focus on the skill, and moderately exerted some force.

Keet was watching him but he didn’t manifest his human form, instead, he had several cables ready to catch Adam gently at the blink of an eye, incase he accidentally accelerate to his doom. Also the floor Adam stood on was soft and spongy, like a jelly, so if he lost control and generated too much gravity, he would just dive into the jelly instead of being crushed by his own weight.

Taking all the safety measures he could think of to avoid another near death experience, Adam started to float slowly, his legs weren’t touching the surface of the spongy floor any more. he tried to put his arms out to balance himself, but the complete opposite happened, he started spinning in the air with increasing speed.

Keet took this as a signal and caught him with two cables from both sides to stabilize him, once he felt the cable, Adam turned off the skill completely.

[Energy: 91%.]

‘8 percent energy in just one f*cking second!’ Adam’s blood boiled and a vain would be visible on his forehead if not for the helmet.

“I have an idea kid! Why don’t we do a little test first?! By scanning you just now I understand what you’re lacking.” Keet’s sound came from inside the island, his figure emerged from the ground.

When he saw that Adam was ready to listen to his idea, the island turned into a cube shape with them inside, and vanished from sight.

“The reason you can’t control your direction nor position is that your gravitational field is produced by your entire body, so the energy wave takes the shape of your entire body.

When your arms were down, the gravitational wave was semicircular like normal, but raising your arms disturbed that semicircular shape creating energy turbulence, like this.” Keet showed Adam a hologram of what he explained.

In the hologram, the waves traveled normally away from the body when the shape had his arms down, and when the holographic shape separated his limbs from each other, X shaped waves were created, but instead of traveling outwards, it started to collide between his limbs creating a vortex.

Something clicked in Adam’s mind when he saw the hologram. ‘Can we concentrate the gravity stones in one spot?! Or at least retract them from my limbs?!’

[Redistribution of mass will result in losing balance in movement, bodily functions, muscle growth, and blood flow.

Controlling Energy output can be possible with sufficient testing.]

Keet waited for Adam to have any response, but he seemed lost in thought. “My idea is to start by trying to reduce the weight of your body first! This should allow you to grasp the control better, and theoretically decrease energy consumption! I don’t suppose that running out of energy is a fun hobby of yours.”

Adam’s body shuddered at these last word, remembering the pain he had to endure when his energy wasn’t sufficient for even a digestion boost, but he very much liked the idea.

Seeing the agreement in his eyes, Keet created a small platform under Adam and caught his hands and legs with a cable each, hanging him in a X shape position like the hologram.

“What the f*ck! This looks like a torture device?” Adam yelled in annoyance.

“This is a very efficient way to train and test your control over the gravitational field. I’ve been a scientist and a researcher for 280 years before you were born kid, believe me.”

Keet’s scientific curiosity was ignited by finding something he wants to understand, it was a very good chance for him to experiment on Adam’s phenomenal body structure, he wouldn’t miss this chance for the world.

Screens with all sorts of information appeared In front of Adam, displaying his weight down to the gram, radiation level, gravitational wave shape, and many other information that Adam wasn’t interested in.

In his vision also the energy stat was visible, so he had a perfect safe environment to test the skill. “I hope this would be enough for you!” Adam inwardly chuckled, still wondering about the reason why the symbiote didn’t just make the easier like what it did with his other skills.

Weight: 52390 grams.

[Energy: 91%.]

Adam checked the important information, and started applying very low pulses of energy to the skill with the intention to have an upward momentum.

Instead of pushing him up, the turbulence produced by his limbs yanked him in all directions, the screen displaying weight went crazy going up to 100 kilogram and then down to minus 30 kilograms. If Adam wasn’t strapped to the platform he would’ve been spinning in the air like a flipped coin.

Without cutting the supply of energy he focused more on the skill, trying to get the feel of controlling his momentum and direction, glancing at the screen showing the shape of the wave every once in a while.

Weight: 12048—30948—17637—73934 grams.

[Energy: 90.5%--90%--89.5—89%.]

Energy was what Adam was focused on more, every recharge meant immense pain for him, he wanted to reserve as much energy as possible while getting the best results. his weight was starting to stabilize as he was trying to imagine the energy traveling outward without creating these turbulence he can see on the screen.

While Adam was giving all his focus to the screens in front of him, And Keet was observing him through multiple visions and scanners, Birdy was finished with his educational program, and he even played some games in the Virtual reality, he was so excited, he logged out and wanted Adam to play with him. when he opened his eyes, he was met with the weird platform and Adam hanging in the middle of it with all his limbs tied up, the platform was vibrating so hard, and sweat and pain were obvious on Adam’s face.

“excuse me sir!” Birdy tugged on Keet’s sleeve politely. “Is Adam being punished because of me?!” Birdy’s voice was low and shaking, he was sweating buckets, and he barely could stand on his shaky legs.