Aikoki is standing on the beach, cocky smile with arms by his side, just waiting for Michael to make the first move. Moving his mana in the pattern of a stick figure with the help of a hand sign two clones appear, one to the right and second to the left.

  As the smoke dissipates we move between each other till Michael is on the left, the 1st clone in the middle and the 2nd clone on the right, once the smoke dissipates we start running toward him.

  We each bring our arms up and pull on Psychokinesis, small rocks and sand begin pelting Aikoki who moves his arms up to block, covering his eyes. Michael and the 2nd clone move around to his sides to flank him while the 1st who’s in the middle jumps forward and throws a punch aiming for his nose.

  The punch is telegraphed on purpose and is caught, 1 starts wrapping his legs around Aikoki while bringing up his other hand to block his sight. At the same time 2 and Michael are behind him, bringing our Psychokinesis to control some thick sticks off the ground but Aikoki notices us.

  Dropping his hips he twists and places 1 into the path of the two sticks, smacking them into his head and making him disappear into smoke with an “Ouch!”

  Michael is about to move before 2’s stick is grabbed by Aikoki and then grabs his arms, with a twist and a throw straight out of Judo, 2 goes flying. Hitting the trunk of a tree with his back and upside-down, poof. I manage to bring my stick down only for it to bounce off his arm and do nothing.

  Backing off, Michael brings it up into a neutral stance with the stick held like a sword, pointing upright. Aikoki regains himself and looks at him, he grins and runs at full speed. He brings the stick up a little for a downwards strike only for it to be dodged and his wrist is grabbed.

  “Give up now?”

  “Nope!”

  Struggling with the grip, letting go of the stick with my left hand and bringing my fist back to swing.

  If I can get him to move back I might be able to break his grip.

  Instead Aikoki grabs his left with his other hand and starts pulling me in a circle, spinning around faster and faster, slowly walking down the beach a bit to the edge of the water.

  “Give up now?” he asks exasperated but not tired.

  “Don’t you dare throw me into the Ocean, Aikoki!” He says terrified.

  “Sounds like you don’t want to give up, oh well” and with that he gets thrown up and over, sailing over the water seeing Aikoki and Dr Rath on the beach.

  “crapcrapcrapcrap” He yells, landing in the water, all sound being cut off aside from my splash.

  Not again!

  “Aikoki, where did you learn how to do all that? That was an experienced move there.” asked Dr Rath while Michael was mid flight.

  “I’ve never told you what I used to do before coming here, did I?” After pursing his lips he replies a bit quietly.

  “Used to work as a bouncer in one of the big cities, one day some little snot came in. Graduation has just started and this guy starts partying it up. After a few rounds he gets a bit, let's say infatuated with the wait staff. I asked him to leave, he said screw off, I threw him and his friends out. Turns out that little shit was the great nephew, thrice removed from some government official or someone. I don’t know, in any case I had to leave quickly, headed east and landed here.”

  “I’m impressed, but at the moment I’m more worried that Michael hasn't come up for air yet.” A pause as both men look toward the place Michael was thrown.

  “I mean I’ve done it before, there's nothing there for him to hit. I checked”

  Before getting a chance to reply Michael breaches and takes in the air once again. Treading water he looks towards the beach and after coughing out some salty water yells out.

  “You rat bastard!” splashing water everywhere.

  “Well that's not very nice” Aikoki said with a happy grin, “I’m not sure what a rat is but a bastard is a bit much don’t you think?”

  “Perhaps a bit more combat training for today” said Dr Rath with a sly grin and side eye.

  After an ungodly amount of training he was up again the next day, doing more training. With only two days a week to rest, left him sleeping through most of his weekend. Catching up for the 8 days of working.

  Ugh, I know I may have been coming across full of piss and vinegar but it is exhausting to do this every day. Even when I’m seeing massive improvements.

  To quote a story I read once: How the hell did fantasy transmigration protagonists just… jump right into things? Is that why they’re always teenagers?

  He is starting to get worried, his training, improvement and clones have been getting noticed by the other farm hands that he hasn't been introduced to. It's kinda secret, being an OutWorlder so we’re not telling everyone who asks. Bet its raising some questions though.

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  That and why Aikoki keeps throwing some random guy into the ocean several times a day. He did give him some things to think on during his training.

  “You don’t have enough combat potential, all you can really do is throw stones and use your fists. You need something that will make people think twice.”

  Michael has also been talking with Abcier when he's around with Dr Rath and the others about a convincing cover story to use either here or on the mainland. The current thinking is a traveler from the far north west of the pangea-like continent. Maybe someone who had an illness that didn’t get treated till recently which might be used to explain away why I have so few Powers, my weirdly Australian accented speech and inability to read well.

  He’s also been asking around for equipment, he’d need a lot of equipment and rations if the idea of a secret base works out. Actually, are there Powers or tools to grow or make food quickly?

  Over the next few weeks the clones have been put to work with mana training and building a new Power, something like the Avatar from The Last Airbender with high levels equals the different sub bending abilities.

  Avatar training is not only picturing how the elements might react and any sub abilities but also how the body must move to move the elements. Practicing the different movements like a Kata while picturing the movements of the elements with each movement. He’s able to integrate Psychokinesis with Avatar so the training feels somewhat faster.

  Moving large chunks of material or generating elements is mostly tangential to how Psychokinesis works and with multiple clones practicing and visualising the training time for it is lowered considerably. Twenty days of picturing the movements, working through how it should work and lots of advice and combat training from Aikoki helping him getting used to his new body the Power quickly begins to manifest.

  If the System Interface is also following a pattern of ranking up after each Power creation then it stand that another Interface ability will manifest, so along with practicing with the Avatar Kata Michael and the clones also practiced imagining new upgrades for the Interface.

  After twenty more days of training, a result finally appears as Michael is finishing breakfast.

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  Haven't had much time to write recently, going to Portugal in a few months and still have a lot to organise!