That night, I decided to train a bit more with my exo skeleton armor, so I took off the rings and began...

  Just like how webs shoot out of my wrists and fiips. The armor struct is simir to webs toanic fluids gush out of the skin pores and join to create a metal-like skin in the form of scales. As I said before, the fun part is that I manipute these scales acc to my wish and shape them however I desire. It's like a liquid metal with nahat's capable of f anything and everything. The only bad thing is I get tired and only maintain this form for like three minutes.

  So, I brought enough water and energy drinks with me.

  I gotta train more and increase my stamina, only then I'll be able to maintain my armor form a bit longer.

  As I tinued my training with the exoskeleton armor, I focused on maintaining the form for longer durations. The sensation of the anic fluids shifting and solidifying into the metallic scales was tig and at the same time, I felt powerful. But as the minutes passed and my energy reserves depleted, a stinging pain ran through my body. It felt as if the anic metallic liquid was trying to go baside my body.

  "Arggg! Not yet!" I gritted my teeth as I sat there, using every bit of my focus and willpower to ehe pain and exhaustion. I grabbed a bottle of water and chugged the ehing, the ess felt awesome. I closed my eyes, took a few calming breaths, and tried to keep the exoskeleton skin activated for at least another minute.

  Right now, I'm moving past the usual three-minute mark. Three minutes and thirty seds. Three minutes forty-five. Three minutes fifty. Three minutes fifty-five... Four... Fiv...

  Yes! I've crossed the four-minute limit. I still...

  Everything turned bd I could feel my body fall backward. Haaa... Four minutes... Not bad...

  Ugh... My head ached, my throat arched, and the dryhat lingered inside made me open my eyes. I'm so fug tired that I could barely move a muscle. Just give me a few minutes... I tried to trol my mind, trying to calm down. Yeah, meditation is the best option tain some lost energy. I let my muscles rex, the ess took a toll on me as the slow breathing apanied by the fast-beati pumped life into me and gave me back a sense of sciousness.

  Minutes passed and I mao calm myself down. The aches and tiredness were still there but more manageable than before. Just give me two to three hours and I'll be all pumped and ready. But right now, all I need is sleep. I chugged another bottle of energy drink and before I k, I fell asleep.

  I practiced it for another week or so alongside my magic learning. I sparred with Wanda every now and then, and then, I decided it was time to test out my perfected exo skeleton armainst real magic. I ow hold my armor form for ten minutes without sustaining damage. I wonder how long would it st while receiving damage.

  I stood iraining ground, outside, with my exo skeleton armor on.

  "Are you sure about this?" Wanda asked me with a hint of in her voice. Today, she's wearing a red t-shirt and bck jeans and tied her long red hair in a ponytail. She looked slightly different, maybe it was because she ged her style from a girl--door type of look to a sexy girl. Wait. What. Nope. I don't know what's going on with my thoughts.

  'Focus on the fight, Peter.'

  "Yeah. Let's go," I replied to Wanda who nodded. I felt an are flow in her dire as she made a couple of quick hand seals that reminded me of those anime fighters. After finishing the series of hand seals, she muttered something under her breath as a red agic circle formed underh her.

  She pointed her fi me.

  Red droplets of agic rose from the ground, surrounding her, and soon gathered around her finger, f a sphere of red e.

  "Chaos spear."

  In an instant, the red sphere was u me. But I repared for it. Time to find out how tough this armor is against the pure destruagic.

  It shot at me like a lightning bolt. In reflex, I brought my arms closer like the instinctive defensive pose. The red spear struck my arms.

  "Humfff!" I stood my ground. I feel the destructive power within this freaking spear. It's spinning like a drill mae, trying to drill through me. Yes, this is good. Although I feel the tremendous pressure, the armor is still holding on. I quickly grabbed it with both hands, trying to stop the spinning.

  Wanda's agic cshed against my anic armor.

  Sparks went up, sparks went down, some parts of the armor were crag under pressure, and I could feel the faint traces of hot, prickly energy seeping through the cracks. But she is doing well trolling the iy of it.

  "You alright?" Wanda yelled in .

  "Yeah. Increase the power. Don't hold back."

  "You sure?"

  "Yeah."

  Wanda's red-colored magic circle spread around the training ground, slowly getting bigger and bigger. In just a few moments, her entire circle covered the ground, encirg us, and giving an eerie vibe with its dim light.

  "This will hurt..." She unleashed a barrage of magic bullets from all dires.

  I feel my armor crag and her energy seeping through them. o focus more. I just use more fluids to create even tougher armor. Yeah! Si's a part of me and it's like using the toxins of my cws, why 't I just increase the fluids and trate to repair and reinforce the damaged areas? Just a sed. Just one sec, I do it. I increase and harden the surface.

  "Here we go!" Sparks of yellow lightning burst out of my body, shattering the old exo skeleton armor as a wave of energy emerged from my body, destroying Wanda's Chaos Spear and her magic circles. "hat the fuck is going on?!" I have no fug idea. Is this a new ability I've unlocked? Something iells me that this was my subscious self creating and hardening the existing fluid with statid some kind of charge. Whatever it is, it's incredible.

  I watched my arms as the old armor disied or I should say crumbling away. What surprised me was that my skin began to crumble away, yet I didn't feel any pain. I feel a weird feeling around my stomach. It's freaking hot and spinning like crazy. Is it magic or a new power? I have no idea. The air is cold yet my inner body feels really fug hot. It feels like I'm melting from the inside.

  "Arggg!" I yelled as the energy gushed out of my body like an exploding geyser.

  It was a bst! The yellow sparks and that weird energy tio send out wave after wave. If this tihings will get plicated.

  "Peter, what the fuck is going on?" Wanda asked me loudly. I wao expin but I 't. I have no clue and it's pissihe fuck off! What the hell is going on!? Is this anic evolution?!

  "Focus, Peter..." The A One's voice came to my ears. She's speaking to me through telepathy. "tain the energy. It's a part of you, so you trol it. Just like you weave magic, or shoot your webs, you tain the energy," Her voice spoke calmly.

  Hahaha! I'm already trying to do just that. Tell me something I don't know.

  It was hard, I won't lie. It felt awesome and this power is insane... I don't feel any pain or exhaustion. I closed my eyes and tried to absorb it all bato my body like how I retract my cws and the anic fluids. And it worked. The waves stopped.

  I... I kinda feel different... Something weird is going on...

  I flew up in the sky. I see far... Really far away... I hear things even the fluttering of the birds in the sky... I tell the differeween using my Spider senses along with magic versus this present me and... It's inte's more than before. Every muscle fiber felt lighter thahers. Every single sound, every movement was ing to me as clear as day. Everything is in my trol.

  My skin is glowing with a yellow glow...

  Ohing I tell is that this shit isn't magic. I'm 100% positive. I feel it. This is something simir yet different from magic.

  Think... What could it be if not magid this yellow glow?! Wait! No way! I looked down. The trainees and the teachers were all staring at me with shock. Huh?! Oops! My clothes! I quickly hid my junk with my palm and flew down on the ground. My clothes were burned and not a sihread was remaining... Damn. No matter.

  I once again tried to use my exo skeleton armor and it worked like a charm. It's faster than before. I mean, there wasn't even a little dey. Just a thought and the anic fluids transformed into my bck stealth suit.

  Wanda rushed to me with a wicked smile on her face.

  "Not a single word," I gred at her with a slightly threatening voice.

  "Tsk. Peter in full glory... Ahem! Anyway, how the heck did you learn to use Chi?" Wanda asked.

  "Chi?!"

  Yeah, other than magic, there's that Chi.

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