Michaelos: Okay, it's been ten days since we started strength training, and I can see that you are improving a lot, but you still have a long way to go.

Jake: I don't understand why you prevented us from using our abilities, and what our training has to do with increasing our skills. You didn't even teach us how to use a sword!

Michaelos: Because you are not ready to use a sword yet... The idea is not to carry a sword and use it to fight, but rather when you can carry a sword in your hand... Someone who can't carry the weight of a sword for a long time won't be able to fight with it! From the beginning, I saw that you lacked physical fitness and experience and relied too much on your abilities, but even hot water needs a strong container that won't break when heated. How can you increase your abilities if your bodies can't handle it?

Our friends understood what he was saying.

Michaelos: Your grip is weak, which indicates that your nerves are weak. Since you use your hands to generate your power, this means that your hands must be able to control the resistance of the power. Do you understand me?

Everyone: Yes.

Lisa: Wow, Michaelos is amazing.

Emily: We're lucky to have him as our coach.

Jake was a little upset and still had some objections.

Jake: If what you say is true, then why don't we use weights to strengthen our nerves and tendons?

Michaelos: Well done, Jake, that's what we'll do... I've already prepared these boxes.

Michaelos pointed to some white boxes next to the house.

Damon: I didn't notice them. When did you brought them?

Michaelos: Graiden delivered them with some young men this morning.

Michaelos unloaded their contents, which consisted of thick metal plates and bars of varying weights and thicknesses. Michaelos picked up one of the bars and threw it to Jake to catch.

Michaelos: Catch it.

Jake was easygoing and caught it easily, but he quickly fell down because of its weight, surprising our friends.

Jake: What the hell! Why did you throw something heavy at me?

Michaelos: Catch this.

Michaelos threw another one at him, but Jake quickly stood up and scrambled to catch it. He caught it with difficulty, but it didn't knock him down.

Michaelos: See? You caught it successfully... That's because you didn't take the first one lightly, and you made an effort and prepared yourself to catch the second one.

Jake, annoyed: yeah,yeah

Michaelos: From now on, we will increase the types of training... In the morning, the first hour will be our daily warm-up exercises... Then we will do sword training... And then we will finish with ability training.

Our friends stood in front of Michaelos, ready and prepared. When he signaled them to start, they all generated a ball of energy. Michaelos walked among them, looking at their abilities while asking them to increase it.

Michaelos: More, more, more.

Our friends felt anxious that they had reached their limit.

Michaelos: Good. Has everyone reached their limit?

Everyone: Yes.

Michaelos: Now absorb it.

Everyone was shocked by his words.

Lisa: How?

Michaelos: If it came out of your bodies, then put it back in.

Emily: Impossible, I can't.

Michaelos: Nothing is impossible... Try.

Our friends tried hard to extinguish their powers, but for Jake, it was the easiest thing to do.

Jake: Easy... I'm done.

Jake easily absorbed his power, leaving his friends in awe.

Lisa: Wow, Jake.

Michaelos: Well done, you have excellent control.

Damon and Lisa tried as well and succeeded.

Lisa: Yayyy!!!

Emily kept struggling, feeling anxious about her friends' success and their watching her as she tried her hardest.

Emily: It's not working.

Lisa: Try harder, Emily, you can do it.

Jake: She can't, her power is explosion, how can she turn a bomb into nothing?

Emily felt extremely frustrated, but she insisted on trying harder.

Damon: Emily, try not to push yourself too hard and absorb it slowly.

Michaelos saw that Emily was trying hard but failing, so he asked her to stop.

Michaelos: It's okay, Emily, you can stop... Get rid of it like you usually do.

Emily, frustrated: Okay.

She moved away a little, then hit it on the ground, causing a small explosion, and returned, embarrassed.

Emily: I'm sorry for failing.

But Michaelos stroked her hair to encourage her.

Michaelos: It's okay... You still have plenty of time to master it. Take your time.

Emily: Okay.

 the next training began. Michaelos placed a large thick metal plate in front of each of them.

Michaelos: Everyone form a ball like before. Your next task is to pass through these plates.

Everyone smiled challengingly.

Damon: This will be fun.

Jake formed a fireball and tried to push it onto the plate, but the plate was unaffected by the heat.

Jake: Damn it!

Jake failed, then it was Lisa's turn. She clenched her fists defiantly and confidently.

Lisa: This is my specialty. It'll be easy.

Lisa tried to push her ball into the board, but she couldn't. She tried harder to destroy the metal with her magnetic field, but it was unaffected, so she also failed.

Lisa: Impossible! What is this board?

Michaelos: Hahahaha, it's not easy... Okay, next.

It was Damon's turn. Damon formed his united ball, which impressed the others with its power, so they focused on his attack. Then he attacked the board with force and tried so hard that everyone thought he had succeeded, but in fact he had not, which surprised everyone and shocked them because he was the strongest among them.

Damon: Damn it! .. it's solid!

Emily was worried that the others had failed, but she made up her mind, gathered her energy, and focused it on one point, which attracted the attention of the others to see the result.

Jake: "Huh, even Damon couldn't break it. There's no hope."

Jake hadn't even finished his sentence when there was a loud explosion and a strong wind that reverberated loudly off the metal. Everyone looked over at Emily's board and were shocked to see that she had made a small dent in it. She was shocked too, but she felt so happy that she turned to everyone with a big smile.

Emily: I did it!

Michaelos: Impressive! Your power is strong, no your control is even stronger!

Lisa: How did you do that?

Emily gave a victory sign and smiled confidently, which made our friends eager to try again.

Echoes rang out among our friends as they tried to break the board, while Jake, who was also trying, looked angry as he thought about his friends' abilities: Damon's fighting skills and ability to clone, Lisa's ability to break and carry metal, and Emily's explosion that destroyed that large vehicle. He looked at his burning hand, which seemed like a mere flame compared to his friends' abilities.

Jake: "If only I could..!!"

Jake suddenly stopped trying, which caught Michaelos' attention, so he went to him to find out why.

Michaelos: What's wrong?

Jake: I want to try something else.

Michaelos: What is it?!

Later, our friends noticed that Jake was not with them, so they turned to look for him and found him standing away with Mr. White and Michaelos.

Mr. White: Are you sure about your decision?

Jake: Yes, I want to try it.

Mr. White: Okay, I'll monitor the changes happening to your body.

Jake: Okay.

Jake took off his shoes and shirt and stood firmly in front of Michaelos and Mr. White, who stood away from him while Mr. White set up his thermal imaging equipment and screen, then signaled to him to begin.

Mr. White: Everything is ready. Begin.

Jake took a deep breath and focused with both arms. Instead of forming a fireball, he ignited his arms, which attracted the attention of his friends. They rushed over to stand and watch while Mr. white monitored his temperature levels.

Mr. White: "It's amazing his heat levels are rising so much even though he's maintaining his normal internal temperature. It seems like his skin is responsible for this tremendous heat!"

Jake was trying to reach the limits of his thermal endurance, focusing his heat only in his arms this time.

Jake: "I feel the heat rising in my fists, but my hands can still tolerate the temperature."

 Jake felt confident that he could withstand high temperatures that no human had ever been able to endure for even a few seconds, so he increased the heat more and more until...

Emily: Amazing! It's extremely hot!

Lisa: Yes, but does that mean he's completely immune to heat, Damon?

Damon: I don't know! A normal human being couldn't withstand this heat without turning to ash!

Suddenly, Jake felt a strange sensation, as if a piece of leaf had reached the end of its combustion and was beginning to crumble into ash... He looked in horror at his fist, moving his fingers, and screamed in terror, surprising everyone.

Jake: MY HAND! MY HAND!!

He extinguished the fire in his hand, but he was still panicked, moving his fingers without feeling anything, as if he had lost his senses.

Michaelos: Jake,

what's wrong? Are you okay?

Mr. White: His levels are normal. What happened to him?!!

Then Jake knelt on the ground and began punching the rocky ground hysterically while screaming. Damon rushed to him to try to stop him.

Damon: STOP!, JACOB! What's wrong with you? STOP!!

Jake: I CAN'T FEEL MY HAND!!. Why can't I feel my hand?

He continued to hit the ground hard until his hand bled, still in a state of panic. Damon couldn't even stop him. He kept pushing him until Damon was able to knock him to the ground and grab his bloody hand.

Jake:LET ME GO!! LET ME GO!!

Damon: jacob! Calm down!

Suddenly, Jake felt a tingling sensation in his hand, so he stopped for a moment to open his fist and look at it amid the wounds. The feeling of pain returned to him, so he moved his fingers with difficulty and pain, and finally felt relief and calmed down.

At another time, Jake was sitting inside where Mr. White bandaged his wounds and Michaelos stood rom behind, watching our friends train from the window. They were carrying iron sticks and practicing with them like swords, and whenever one of them lowered his hand below the required level, Michaelos spoke to them through the loudspeaker he was holding.

Michaelos: Don't lower your hands, I'm watching you! Lisa, don't use your power, or I'll double your exercises.

Lisa and everyone else felt implicated and listened to his instructions while Michaelos laughed enthusiastically and admiringly into the megaphone.

Michaelos: Wow, what an amazing invention.

As for Jake, he hung his head in disappointment as Mr. White explained what had happened to him.

Mr. White: Nerve endings are found in the skin, which is the first line of defense in the human body and the first to feel things like cuts, burns, and even touch. Since your ability is fire, it means that your level of sensitivity to fire is somewhat weak, as it does not affect you negatively. I have observed all the changes that have occurred in your body since you started, and nothing has changed... You are fine... But most likely, your body was not used to this before, so it was its first experience, and this coincided with an increase in adrenaline, which gives you energy. Adrenaline is known as the danger hormone or energy hormone, and it provides the body with a lot of energy and temporarily disables the sensation of pain or feeling. But I advise you to stay away from this thing. If the loss of sensation is severe for you, then perhaps this is the limit of your ability. I hope you let your hand heal for now.

Then Mr. White took his medical bag and left him to go to his laboratory, while Jake remained frustrated, sitting and looking at the white rolls in his hands. When Michaelos noticed his frustration, he said

"What's the matter? You don't seem happy with your results, even though the heat you reached is capable of affecting heavy plates."

Jake: No... it's not that powerful.

Michaelos: Don't be so sure, you haven't tried it yet.

Jake was silent for a moment as Michaelos sat down in front of him.

Michaelos: You... hate your power!

Jake was surprised that he read his mind and looked at him.

Michaelos: Powers are just tools that you can use however you want to help you. No power exists within a person who doesn't deserve it! I don't know where your power came from, but I know that no one else in the world can handle it better than you!

Jake: But it's weak! Why do I have the weakest ability among them? I'm like a candle that can be easily extinguished!

Michaelos: Have you heard of lava before?

Jake: Yes.

Michaelos: It can melt anything and turn similar rocks into different metals just by changing its temperature and cooling speed!

Jake: What does that have to do with me? There's a difference between normal fire and lava!

Michaelos: How do you know you can't generate similar heat?

Jake: I can't!!! How can I control it!

Michaelos seriously: Do it then control it!

Jake's eyes widened as he understood, while Michaelos smiled confidently at him. Jake's expression changed and he regained his confidence.

Jake: Alright.

Outside, Jake and Michaelos left the house and headed toward our friends . As soon as our friends saw them, they were happy to see Jake back and that he was okay. Michaelos clapped enthusiastically to get their attention.

Michaelos: Alright, alright, now that Jake is back, let's start the training over from the beginning.

Our friends shouted in protest in a funny way.

Emily: That's not fair!

Lisa: No way, I can't do it any more!!

Damon: Damn you, Jacob!

Jake, annoyed: What do I have to do with it? Quit training if you don't want to.

Michaelos: Anyone who objects will do 50 push-ups.

The rest fell silent and began training .