Boooom
Sending out a punch colliding with the walls of the isolation unit Kyle immediately felt a rebound which threatened to throw him back down to the ground, Struggling to maintain his balance Kyle turned to the spot he had hit just now and was shocked by what he saw, there wasn't even a single scratch on the isolation cube, it must have been made with far tougher materials than he expected.
fear immediately creept up his mind as his skin began to tingle sending warnings to his brain of the imminent disaster, clearly he wasnt the only one panicking as the captain was also caught in the same dilemma as him.
The urgency was a great boost to his strength as he sent blow after blows to the stalwart walls but he was soon interrupted by the captain.
" Don't bother trying those walls are made from far tougher materials than most space cruisers, it would be impossible to brute force your way out from the inside, the only way to open it is from the outside, and since we still haven't been let out by now it clearly means they can't let us out either " the captain had been quite shaken before but he was still an experienced officer and he knew though Kyle might be stronger than him physically he wasn't strong enough to break down those walls.
But Kyle couldn't be bothered by that, the danger he felt had simply began to overwhelm him.
Boooom
Another powerful blow hit the walls sending shockwaves everywhere, a smile creeped up Kyle's face as a dent was visble in the structure of the cube, but whether he would be able to create a hole was another question entirely.
Aether was a fuel to his strength and Kyle spared no effort in using it, seeing as he was still gathering more aether than he used, he didn't waste time in using his new skill Energy infusion to the max .
Strength filled his every cell as he released more powerful blows, the dent which was barely a fist sized soon expanded thanks to his constant assault and it didn't take long before it caved in thanks to his relentless effort, the captain visibly surprised by this couldn't help but stare at the kid in amazement.
Bang, Bang, Bang
More blows landed on the metal and before long the metal visibly began to give in.
Boom
With one final thrust the metal finally gave way, surprise was visible all over the two soldiers faces as the act of tearing through steel was a little shocking to behold.
Floating out of the cube kyle was hit by a wave of furious windings capable of decimating buildings and uprooting great trees, the outside world looked like a picture straight from a nightmare, his vision was been clouded by the dust been swept up by the gale so he relied on energy vision for sight, he could pin point some energy signature mere meters away from him and he could have gone there first to ask what the hell was going on but he could see the underlying issue as clear as day, the air was filled with copious amount of aether trapped in place with more gathering by the second leading to a volatile state in the nature of the aether and disturbing atmospheric condition, and although he was beginning to absorb more aether by the second with his core acting as a container the pace at which he absorbed aether seemed slow compared to the rate at which it was gathering.
Kyle taking a proper scan of his surroundings and the situation at hand was enough time for captain Jones to make it out of the isolation cube.
Taking aback by the sight in front of him his first action was to confront the one responsible for it, "Listen soldier you need to stop what you're doing, if this goes on for too long the result would be disastrous," Kyle was visibly taking aback by this but he couldn't do anything to stop the aether from converging, although he might have answered the voice of that enticing call which began all this in the first place there was nothing he could do at this point.
Kyle spent some time to calm his nerve before floating back down to the ground taking a seat on the ground and taking a crossed leg position, he focused on his core and the feeling it gave him when it sucked in the aether around he planned on replicating it, it all began with an intent to absorb and grow stronger but it wasn't nearly fast enough to keep up with the pace the aether converged so he took a different approach, using his perception he tried to feel out the aether in the air while he interacted with it, the aether in the surrounding air was volatile and also chaotic making it harder for it to be absorbed so based on that notion Kyle decided to familiarise himself with calming the volatile nature of the aether which he partially succeeded in due to the fact that he was already doing something like that but on a smaller scale due to his core already imparting his intent on the aether in his surroundings before being absorbed by him so he just carried on with the process manually but on a larger scale.
But one thing still stopped him from fully succeeding, the aether in the air almost had a mind of its own and was more harder to guide with intent alone, so he decided to be more sophisticated with his approach, it felt like he was using a more brutish way to absorb the aether particles when his core was doing a better job but with lesser range, so he simply focused all his perception on his core, due to only been with it for a little while he wasn't to familiar with it and mostly treated it like an item in him rather than an organ, but this time he wanted to focus on it more like an extension of himself more like he would an arm.
As if responding to his intent a status screen suddenly pooped up in his vision, though his eyes where closed it still appeared there anyway.
[𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄
𝐁𝐀𝐒𝐈𝐂 𝐓𝐈𝐄𝐑 : 7.25 / 10 ]
Kyle sensed how the aether being gathered from the surroundings where siphoned by his core and condensed into a more concentrated form in his core, deciding to accelerate the process his core suddenly became more active sucking copious amount of aether, it greedily took in the surrounding aether and his tier visibly increased, the once catastrophic aether state slowly began to cool down while his tier improved, before long the aether in his core began to rapidly condense and his core started to heat up, a blinding radiance shone from his core covering his body in a halo like manner, like a cartepillar going through metamorphosis his body was transformed he felt a strength he had never experienced before rising up in his body and a wave of notification soon covered his vision, his body slowly began to cool down, aether had stopped being gathered and although there was still more aether in the air his body soon took care of it until the aether levels reduced and the atmosphere became normal once again, he was about to go through the notification when he perceived the scientist and lieutenant in the distance coming closer.