Nobody knew this but Candor despised Selene as much as she envied her. Both of them were of similar age and highly accomplished ordinary women in their respective fields, but that was where the similarities ended. The difference were much more than anything they could have in common. Selene was not just accomplished, she was a genius who was hailed as a peer by people of very high distinction and could compete with those way older and more experienced than her in her field. She was also beautiful, self-confident, and daring, all of the things Candor was not. Candor’s appearance was average—she neither gorgeous nor unattractive nor was she as accomplished as Selene. For her age, Candor’s accomplishments only made her worthy enough to become Krasin’s assistant whereas Selene was a rival that Krasin obsessed over. Every time, Candor was always compared to Selene by Krasin who said things like, “why can’t you do such a simple thing? Look at Selene, she was able to come up with a sol

“If I’m going to do this then it must be on my own terms, therefore I must deprive them of the ability to harm me. But how do I do that?” Cale thought rapidly. He planned to use this opportunity to practice control of his spatial power but to do that comfortably he couldn’t let Candor electrocute him willfully. Eyes darted quickly around the room, Cale reasoned, “Both times I was shocked i was in contact with the wall and floor so if I assume that electricity can flow through every surface in this room to affect me, then the only place it shouldn’t reach me is in the air.” “I must ascend into the air and remain suspended without touching the ground. But how am I going to achieve that? What I have is the power of space not flight… so how can one use space to fly?” Candor watched Cale remain silent without replying to her words, but this time, instead of pressing the button to electrocute Cale, Candor became curious and asked, “What are you doing? Are you still thinking of resis

When Cale used his power, his view of the world changed completely. In his eyes, it was like Cale was looking at a high definition model of the entire world on a scale that was limited by regular three dimensions but extended beyond that to even higher dimensions.Unfortunately, perhaps due to his lack of strength, the higher dimensions in Cale’s perspective appeared blurry and out of focus. It was like they existed but could only be observed through fog-covered lenses that made it impossible to distinguish their exact information.But Cale could make out in clear detail everything in the three dimensional layer of space that he occupied, and even beyond that. Cale, with his spatial perspective could observe the interconnected and overlapping layers of three dimensional space, and could detect the basic information that comprised them. And amongst all of these dimensional layers, one stood out like a blazing sun to Cale, its light drawing and pulling him inwards.Cale knew without bei

Invisible waves rippled in the testing room as Cale exerted his powers to affect himself and the space around him. As a result, Cale’s body gradually elevated into the air in defiance of gravity.Cale was flying…When the others in the monitoring room saw this, their mouths hung open in disbelief, for they never expected such an outcome to happen.“How is he doing that?” someone asked.“I have no idea. His power should be spatial in nature with a focus on opening rifts in the fabric of space… then how is he flying now?”Just then, Candor quickly reacted and ordered, “Quick, check the readings. What are they telling us?”The blonde who was in charge of monitoring the spatial integrity of the testing room quickly reported.“The readings are negative for spatial destabilization, and spatial integrity is holding at normal levels. Whatever this is, it is not affecting the surrounding space, making it unlikely that the subject is using his powers.”Hearing this, Candor felt a burst of anger

Beep, beep, beep!“Mana activity level is beginning to rise again. The subject is attempting something,” a researcher quickly warned.In the testing room, picking himself off the ground once again, Cale floated into the air, still lying in a prone position that left him parallel to the ground. With a single thought, Cale righted himself until he was now facing the wall. Following that, he began to rotate in the air and perform various aerial feats like doing a flip in the air and moving his limbs around as he would when on the ground.Cale was practicing, trying to get used to this new ability of his, and Candor and the others just watched him. This time, nobody interrupted him and just let him be to discuss how he was flying.“The subject remains uncooperative. What do we do now? We have no way of explaining how he is able to do what he is doing. From the looks of things, this test is a failure.”It was the blonde researcher who spoke, and the words he uttered were what everyone else