You must know me by now.

In this world I am known as Zabio, which of course means “talentless” and “zero potential” in the Hyerian language. However I must impose that you call me as Cipher.

Why Cipher?

Well, aside having the name Juan Rico while I was still on Earth it wasn’t my birth name to begin with. The name Juan Rico was something that was given to me by a person who was a very fanatic of Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers novel after its protagonist.

In addition, I am known by many names; Saheed, Petrov, Li, Stewie (yes the baby from Family Guy) and many others.

While the name Cipher on the other hand, was something that I felt strong connection with. I fly in the skies bannering that name even before I was commissioned in the United Nations Air Force.

For someone like me who lacks real identity and an orphan raised to be a weapon in conflict, it gave me a sense that really describes and made me as a person.

Cipher means a zero. A nil that defines nonexistence.

It connotes of my unknown origins in the past. My lack of real identity, the lack of experience what familial love was, and my lack of emotions during my childhood and pre-adult years.

Though I could attribute the latter from the torture and mental conditioning that I’d experience from terrorists.

So I stick with that name.

It was something that I could say I own and describes “me”.

Maybe it was the main reason why, after the war, I felt left out. With the conflicts been resolved, my skills and expertise was unneeded in the time of peace.

Hollowness and emptiness.

Those emotions invaded my heart like a virus and maybe that feeling was another justification for me to bury my past, along with the blood that stained my hands from my crimes, to seek out what was denied from me.

Redemption, acceptance and love.

With a goal of starting a new life as a civilian, I enrolled in a university and took up a degree in Software Engineering. It was a subject that I can relate too since during my childhood and adolescent years I spent my life creating programs and hacking government servers.

It was also the first time that I felt pressure. As a 28 year old adult attending school, the young ones stare would gave off a vibration, like they expected something from you.

Though it was agonizing, I managed to endure any ridicule statements and managed to get my diploma.

Add to that I’m still not used to in a peaceful life.

And about love…

Yeah…that one. I remembered how jittery I felt when it struck me. It was for me an absurd yet warm feeling though it ended in a disaster.

I love my fiancée, I really do.

A relationship that I heartily let myself be emotionally invested.

That’s why when I found out about her betrayal, somehow it hammered me hard and questioned my self-worth.

Well, I couldn’t blame her for choosing my handsome friend and co-worker over an average looking person like me.

However, I had a part on it.

I wasn’t truthful to her.

I kept my past hidden to her, fearing that if she knows about it then she would saw me as a monster.

It sounds crazy but that’s what I really felt.

What would you do if you found out that your fiancé was a murderer and a former member of a terrorist group for most part of his life?

I think everyone knows the answer.

Anyway, I’d forgiven her.

But the treacherous act made my trust issues with people to resurface, something that I thought had been nulled.

Okay, I think that’s enough of my past.

I should get back to my current predicament.

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In any case, as per Ghost Eye’s suggestion I started my training.

For someone like me who had just unlocked his Kinetic potential (as Ghost Eye referred to), the first and foremost appropriate step was to learn how to control the energy involved with it.

Energy can be dissected in several concepts.

In physics, it is the property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on – or to heat – the object, and can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed.

In esotericism, it is a concept used by various esoteric practitioners in spiritual and alternative medicine that linked to vitalism.

In psychology, it is a concept of a postulated unconscious mental functioning on a level between biology and consciousness.

Aside from this concept, there were many different forms of energy though there were five most prominent types that were mostly stated by countless fictions; spiritual, mental, natural, physical, and cosmic energy.

In order for someone to grasp this quantitative property, one must sense this concept through sensing and manipulating techniques.

Two of these were meditation and programming.

The first part was something I've mastered for a bit, me being in my innerworld was the proof of my proficiency in such skill. Initially there were many types of meditation though I used the more common Zazen style.

The second part, programming, was something not new to me. In esoteric sense, it is used as a way to command the energy circulating around an individual's body both in form of actions or traits. It is what keeps all energy shapes and construct together, what makes them function, and what gives anything made of energy purpose.

It is said that all energy can be programmed and all energy contains some form of programming, this includes chakras and the energy system.

Programming has three forms.

Command Line Programming - creates a set of instructions on how the energy should behave and how it will function. Visualization Programming - uses perception to visualize the resulting construct before and during creation. Tactile Programming - uses to give the construct attributes as it forms, such as the feeling of a brick, stone, fire, or ice.

Number one is the most common form, it can be basic or very complex though it can limit the function of the construct depending on the set of commands it was assigned.

Number two relies in using visual notes to program the energy of the construct, and much more effective than command line since it allows more complexity with a slight of flexibility in how many functions the construct can perform.

Number three is more dynamic than number two and is much more used in tandem with other forms of programming to create the most desired effect. This method relies on literally feeling the energy, shaping it into the form desired along with feeling what the effects of the construct will have.

In a nutshell, the first one is best for simple static constructs that have less than a dozen function, the second one is better suited for more complex tasks, and the third is very dynamic from the other programming types and can be combined with the other two.

All of these were essential in controlling or mastery in manipulating energy.

Knowing all of these stuff still bewildered me to a certain degree but nonetheless, I can live with it.

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With all of that came into my understanding, I began to meditate.

Closing my eyes, I visualize my entire body with all of its veins exposed. As a clear image sprouted in my mind, I began to picture my blood circling my entire frame constantly.

Then as I can sense my blood running, I slowly envisioned my veins carrying energy instead.

Steadily I felt a tingling and warm sensation coursing through my veins.

I could feel a tug from my forehead, then from my abdomen and lastly from my chest. As if the three parts of my anatomy were being churned up with unfamiliar fluctuations.

The same was happening to my throat, gut, the back of my spine, and my scalp.

This experience...was fascinating and flinching at the same time.

After spending a couple of minutes of getting used to this lukewarm force, I tried to move the energy towards my right arm.

Though it took me a couple of seconds to maneuver the slight heavy sensation, my right limb somehow felt a pressure.

As if it was weighing something of great density.

Then I slowly transferred it to my left arm and other parts of my body in a clockwise manner until I was able to speed up the process.

The longer I drowned myself in this lucid state, the more I got familiar with this unusual blood circulating within me.

Until...

BOOM!

My entire frame from head to toe felt an insurmountable burst as if something exploded within me.

It was very heavy like I was plunged deep in the deepest part of an ocean.

My head, torso, and the tail end of my spine began heating up more. The warmth from these regions became contagious, creeping through out my body up to the end point of my hair strand.

As I became familiar with the density, I opened my rondures and saw that my entire build was coated with seven layers of rainbow light-like substance; red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

These 7 vibrance were mixed perfectly together like oil paints drawn on a canvas with a beautiful brush stroke.

However, among the seven colors three of them, red, orange, and yellow were more dimmer than the others.

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Ghost Eye spoke to me as it hovered around me, running in circles in a slow pace. It seems that he was observing the energy cloak that draped all over me.

ZIP!

Another surge of data influx entered my consciousness. As this was happening, I felt the tip of my head was burning up with warmth sensation.

In a couple of minutes, I gained understanding on the "Wheel of Spinning Energy".

It appears that I opened the seven energy centers within my body.

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Well that's understandable.

Those three energy centers were linked to my physicality and since I have a body of a kid, the energy were lower in accordance to my build.

The Crown, Third Eye, and Throat Chakras on the other hand, were quite higher and denser. Maybe it can be attributed on my current mental age since these three were more related to the spiritual aspects of my being.

The Heart Chakra was, to me, in a state of losing its composure. This Chakra housed one's lifeforce and symbolizes harmony, so seeing its aura fluctuates in a disturbing manner indicates that my energy system were imbalanced.

"Well this is bad news."

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Hearing Ghost Eye, I let out a sigh of relief. It's presence really ease up things.

"It's okay. I still want to have some time mastering it anyway. Hmm, how's my progress?"

Saying that, with a single thought a holographic screen window emerged in the air.

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Nodding my head I was satisfied with the result.

As a Kinesis practitioner, which I'm currently tackling now, it would take a lifetime in mastering one art.

Luckily for me, I can train within my mindscape without any worries of time.

I don't want to speed up my training since I got a whole month in discovering other abilities hidden within me.

Glancing at the other screen that displays the outside view, the entire sky was dark. It seems that it was night time out there yet the red female was still sprinting like a wind.

Doesn't she felt any weariness?

In any case, I minded my own business as I restarted my training all the while having Ghost Eye both monitored my progress and the outside world.

If ever I could master Dynamokinesis within a 95% rate in a heart bit, maybe I could try my luck in Psionic Energy.