The Destruction of Batana

THE CREATION OF MONSTER 3

“Eh, why wait a week?”

“The first reason I mentioned earlier was an energy issue. Making a shield in large quantities will drain a lot of energy. But let's put that aside. The second reason is your health. As you know, the trigger for the wave is from your mind. If you use your mind too much, it can cause pain in your brain. Therefore if you fail to do this session, we should continue next week.”

I, huh? I thought I'd always be able to use this way over and over again. I can only use it occasionally. Yeah, maybe I know that Ador's overreacting right now. In his eyes I was only a child with a physical twelve years.my soul had grown up faster than my age. I've been through a difficult test of life and tasted how bitter street life can be. I had to take care of my paralysed brother right when my parents left us there. That's what makes me grow up faster. My brain is wrought to think harder every second. My heart is polished by the cruelty of street life. That's why I've always shown an unnatural attitude. Plus I was once a thinker in a group. From the results of stealing it we can collect millions of dollars. If we had been caught, we would have been in the local news. The person who caught us will be rewarded with some money. We're nicknamed The Invisible Thief in people's mouths. Who made us get to that point? of course I am. The heart of our success. Even though all the money I got ended up in vain. Burning under a fierce fire. Ash and buried under the elite project of housing development or royal location for the rich.

I nodded again as my obedient form of Ador's statement. At least for now let me be a obedient dog who follows all the commands of his master. Someday I will bite him. That I am not a little dog who always obeys, but a wild dog who can stick his fangs to the neck of his master at any time.

I turned my right hand forward and used my mind as he explained. The orange hexagons sprung up and swirled and then fell silent and grew bigger. As soon as the hexagons were perfectly wrapped around my body like a tube, I nodded as a signal that I was ready.

“Well, I'll turn on the baseball tossing machine as a simulation to test the durability of the shield you've created. The machines will move randomly and attack you from different directions. Make sure you stay focused and work on your shield to stay stable and firm. Do not let your panic or fear break the concentration on your mind. True feelings and thoughts are connected.” Ador started to turn on the machines.

I took a deep breath. It's like tradition if you're going to be faced with something very stressful. The hexagons around me are still stable. The machines rippled and began to move around me. One baseball was thrown right in front of me. Maybe it was some sort of experiment whether I was currently focused or not. The answer is that I am very focused. The ball hit my hexagon and bounced to the side of the room. In total there were five machines that circled me randomly. This time two balls were thrown simultaneously from two different sides. One ball bounced off but the other managed to break my hexagon and hit my body.

“Ah, what a pity..” Ador covered his face with both palms.

Uh, that fast? I don't accept it! “Ador, I only made one of the shields break but the one around me is still stable.”

Ador held his chin. Middle weighing. “Alright, it looks like I will count it as your fault in the concentration of mind. I'm sure it's not because of your fucked-up mind. If your mind is fucked up right now, you would've canceled all those shields. Okay, we can continue back.”

I re-built a new layer of hexagon to cover the hollow. The machines are back on the move. It starts with two balls being passed simultaneously. I focused my mind as quickly as possible to the point that the ball would hit. It worked! Both balls are bouncing. It's just that one doesn't bounce too far. Ador stopped the machines. Evaluate what just happened.

“You should not just focus on those two points because it will affect the other points. If one of the shield waves has a strong pressure, then the point that has a weak pressure will be bumpy and not form the sturdy shield you want. The nature of the wave is like a jelly because that's your ball will only bounce a little. But what happens if what strikes you is a bullet. I'm sure you're dead by now.”

I put on a flat face. Okay, that was my fault.

“We continue for the next session.”

I nodded, re-stabilizing my entire shield. This time I did it evenly. Three balls are thrown randomly from three points. I did as told by Ador. Flatten my mind on the whole shield. The ball was silent for a moment right inside the hologram but the hologram looked more transparent than the previous one. Then a few moments later the balls were reflected back to the side of the room.

“No, not like that, Nak.” Ador waved his hand.

I bit my lips. What else this time?

“You did flatten your whole mind. But you just flattened it. The equalization is too weak to make the balls not bounce directly but make it stuck for a moment among the weak waves you create, so he managed to penetrate your transparent shield a few inches. Then reflected back though not too strong.”

I breathe out slowly. “But this way can still be used, right?” I finally spoke. Very upset it feels to get a long chat and theoretical explanation. Even though I know those theories are very useful later.

“Indeed can be used, but not very efficient. That way you can use to stop for a moment some objects that shot towards you, then with your mind you can return it as you please. But what happens if you're faced with a moving object. An example is a drone”

I swallowed spit. Hearing the word drone made me think about the fire for a moment. It affected my shield. They all just disappeared.

“What are you doing, son?” Ador exclaimed in surprise that the shields had disappeared.

I rolled my eyeballs while shrugging both my shoulders. “Maybe I'm tired.” Reply origin. Actually not because of that. My mind is fucked because Ador said the word drone. I don't want him to know my weak side because I hate him. To be honest, it took me a while to forget that. I am not afraid at this time. It's just that the thought of those damn drones sometimes bothered my mind. Occasional events of the day can appear in dreams. It was only a moment but enough to make me open my eyes in that short dream. But I don't want to let that dream destroy me. That's why I've always fought back. If I dream, I just need to wake up and go back to sleep. Maybe I'll dream the same thing in one night.

“Then we have no other choice but to wait for next week. During this week I will give you many theories about the shield wave. Make sure you read more books about mind control. That is the key to this exercise.”

“That's where your mistake was, son. You'd be very troubled if that thing had the ability to move. Okay, I'll take a sample from a drone. Drones in this age have an average speed of eighty meters per second. It's just an ordinary model. However, ordinary models are still equipped with propellers and turbos that allow to move vertically or horizontally. When a drone approaches the weak shield you created and comes to a halt at some point, then the drone will rotate their propeller at the maximum stage so that the weak wave will be disturbed by the vibration of the drone. Making such a weak shield would only break due to the small vibrations created. Because the way you simplify your mind and divide it evenly across the whole shield you make is very inefficient. Therefore I call it a failed shield.”

“What about a bullet? Does the shield also break if it is bombarded by bullets?”

Ador thought for a moment. “It looks like it can still. I'm just suggesting you not use it. Better to use the way I described. Encourage your mind but still maintain the WAVE flow as much as possible evenly. I'm sure that's the only way to go.” Ador clapped his hand. “Okay, we'll suffice for today. One more thing, I ask you to keep this matter a secret to other children. I do not want events like the previous time repeated again.”

“More precisely you don't want the bionic body this time broken, right?” I added while waving my right hand.

Ador laughed and patted my shoulder. “You're good at joking, huh?”

“I'm not kidding. My words were very serious earlier.” I refute his argument.

“Alright, this time you're not funny anymore. Now go back to your room. Make sure you don't mess with those shields. Remember, I'm watching you.” Ador put his two fingers under his eyes and pointed them at my eyes. He signaled that he would always be watching me.

Damnit damnit! If there were no CCTV in my room, tonight I would have tried to use the shield again.

But there's one place I can do it.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, I woke up and headed for the bathroom. As I said before, the bathroom is the only area that is not under CCTV surveillance. If tomorrow-tomorrow Ador asks why I spent so long (just fifteen minutes) in the bathroom, I can simply say that my stomach is heartburn or I am experiencing indigestion.

But of course I don't practice in the bathroom. There's a place I want to visit. The roof of this laboratory building. Yeah, tonight I'm gonna sneak back through the vents. Yesterday I only had the intention of peering into what was behind Ador's secret room. But tonight will be different. I'm going to visit another place that can't possibly be under CCTV surveillance.

This time I was very easy to go through the ventilation for the sake of ventilation. Not like before. Right now I can move fast with my new bionic body. In addition, thanks to the synthetic leather created by Ador this time, making my bionic body does not make a sound even though it rubs against the ventilation wall.

I found a vent equipped with stairs leading up. I began to climb the stairs and arrived at the end of the vents covered by iron bars. I opened the bars and opened them slowly. Put me on the roof of the lab.

I always wondered where I was. Tonight the curiosity was answered. I was in a city. As I expected, this laboratory is in the city only the distance of the laboratory with other buildings is very far. Even the buildings look small from here. Hey, which means Ador's lab is slightly up in the hills. I looked behind me, it turned out that there were several buildings back there, only that the buildings did not look magnificent. More like an old apartment that's about ten years old. The magnificent buildings were a great distance away from this location. I sat on the roof of the laboratory. I watched Ador's lab page look green. Near the fence is filled with shady trees. Actually I could have run away by now. Moreover, I have used this advanced bionic body.

No, I'm not gonna run tonight.

I decided to lie on the roof looking at the bright moon. The view of the sky was clearer because I was on the roof. The sky looked big and beautiful. I pointed at one star and connected it to the other stars as if it were forming a constellation. Until it hit my mind to train that shield at this time.

I put my hand forward. A shield is created. The hexagon-shaped orange hologram glows brightly in the dark of the night. I tried to set the distance of the shield a little far from my position. It is beautiful to see that orange glow between the glittering star formations like glitter grains. I made the hexagon light go round and round. I laughed for a moment. Now it feels like I'm under the spotlight of a stage light.

You must be wondering why I didn't decide to run tonight. That's because I still haven't set my next goal. At least I need money, not to achieve my goals. Because I no longer want to move in the shadows. I no longer want to be a lowly thief like a dirty rat roaming the got. I want to be something big. Where everyone will know me. I want everyone to bow down under me. That's my aim.

I made the number of shields in front of me more and more and spread them on several sides. But the hexagon's position still leads to me. So far I can only control it up to here.

Waita minute! that cube. Holy hooch! Today's practice made me almost forget about the cube. If I take the cube one day, doesn't that mean I don't have to bother putting my energy and mind into controlling the shields? Also true. That's a good idea. But I'm not gonna take it tonight. Let it take years, until finally the day I will take the cube. Until I finally can create a small alliance.