As I kept my silence, he knew that I was waiting for him to teach me the right way to detect and defuse these bombs.
"I got to affect time in the worlds I'm in," this was the first time that such a thing even crossed my mind.
I always took my ability for granted, never thought to deeply delve into the true might and depths of my ability.
I never thought I needed to do so anytime anywhere before. I always felt really blessed to have the time manipulation ability activated at the places I visited. And never felt the need to actively control time except on a few rare occasions.
So hearing such words made me lost in thoughts, jolted awake by what he added next:
"It's expected for you to not actively activate your time powers. That's of course if you got them. Watch me carefully, I'm going to start the initial and basic moves needed to activate the time powers you got. Once triggered, you will experience a few things that I can't easily explain."
"Do it then," I didn't get why he didn't tell me or try to describe what I'd feel when getting the time ability triggered. And yet I asked to see these moves, and try to experience them myself.
As I said it, he left his hands, started to do something that was best described as a lousy dancing move! He raised his legs, shook his hips, and kept moving his arms right and left. What a weirdo he was! What a weird race this was!
Don't tell me they got banned and trapped here as a punishment for this bad dance!
"Keep memorising my moves, and try to mimic me," he shouted, as if he was enjoying what the hell he thought himself doing.
"Do you want me to do this?" I pointed to myself, then to him, then towards me again.
"Don't be shy, shyness is for pussies and not real men!"
"Don't tell me you killed all your women back there! How the heck did you manage to survive without girls by your side? What a poor race you are!"
"Stop joking," he said when he saw me shake my head in disappointment and say these words, "start doing the same moves like I."
"These… You dare to call these moves? Call them the right name for god sake! I swear even the god race will find these moves quite insulting to dance!"
"Stop mourning and whining, and start following my steps," he shouted again, irritating me more, "you asked for it! If you don't want to learn, then f*ck off!"
"Tsk!" In front of such stubbornness, I couldn't help but start and try to mimic what he was doing.
At first I felt really embarrassed, I didn't know what the heck I was doing in the first place! These moves, especially that hip part of it, was something quite embarrassing for a man to do it!
However, after a few minutes, and when I managed to mimic part of his weird moves for the first time, something hit me!
It felt like I got bathed into something quite warm and cozy, yet to get abducted out of it in the next moment.
I got paused in my actions out of my shock! And for unexplained reasons, I felt a little lost!
I felt like I lost something precious, something extremely important for me.
"Damn! You weren't lying! You got my race powers in you! What the hell is that? How did something like this happen in the first place?!!"
And as I stood in my place with a freezing and puzzled look on my face, that dude kept spouting nonsense like this.
"Thank a mysterious old man who I don't know what his name is for this," I waved my hand, before adding, "tell me, what did I just feel?"
"Can you describe it?"
"Well… No," I found it hard to even grasp the same feeling again.
"That's expected, as you already started walking down the long path of my race in controlling time," he paused before adding in a serious way, stopping his actions from the moment he got shocked by realising that I got his race's power.
"Luckily to find and get rid of these bombs, you just need a superficial level of control over your ability. Or else, even if you remained here for ten years, you won't be able to do it!"
"This…"
"Don't take it personally," he waved his hand, interrupting my words, "my people start learning this ability and walk down this path since the age they can stand and move! The latter one starts, the harder it'll get. Only in the case you have an unbelievable talent, which is something I truly doubt, then you can truly reach higher stages."
"..."
I didn't know why, but it felt like he was looking down on me or something.
"Don't take it personally, I'm telling you the mere facts," he sighed when he saw my expression, "just keep training. I believe in one day or so you'll be able to perfectly control the ability for the initial startup level."
"And?" I took this chance to take more of my forces out. During our past talk, the forces I took out already vanished and cleared space for more to get out.
"Then I'll tell you how to sense the locations of these bombs in any world or area you are in," he paused before adding, "we can use our world here as a training ground. If you are lucky and grasp things fast, then you'll be able to detect these bombs in less than a month."
"M… Month?!! Did you say month?!!!" I was shocked by what he said, and he nodded in response to my words.
"Tsk! Then let me train alone for now," I got something to help me in doing this. Before that, I focused on taking forces and assigning tasks to them.
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