Over the course of that meal, Lucas and Uryū became friends.
This was mainly because Uryū had already come to view him as one of his own kind, so as the two of them chatted, the friendship followed naturally.
Lucas was happy enough to be friends with him.
He had bamboozled the man, yes, but he held no malice toward him at all.
After the meal, the two exchanged contact information and went their separate ways.
Once he was back home, Lucas kept practicing the reishi-sensing method Uryū had taught him that day.
He was not a Quincy and could not learn their exclusive abilities, but the fundamentals were essentially the same.
Sensing reishi was no problem for him.
He grasped the basics quickly, and the whole thing felt as simple as eating or drinking.
He could sense the scattered reishi in the air, and within that reishi, he could make out white, ribbon-like strands.
Lucas recognized them as spirit ribbons.
White represented ordinary humans and Quincy, while red represented Shinigami.
When Ichigo awakened Zangetsu, it was these ribbons he had relied on.
What Lucas did not realize at this moment was that his sensory ability was improving at an extremely rapid pace.
After all, being able to sense reishi and being able to sense spirit ribbons were two completely different concepts.
If Uryū had been here, he would surely have called him a super freak.
His rate of progress was simply too fast.
You could only say that with the limiter lifted, Lucas could no longer be described as talented.
He was purely at the level of a monster.
“If an ordinary person’s reishi is a match, then mine is a blowtorch.”
He could sense the difference between his own reishi and that of ordinary people.
Set side by side, an ordinary person’s reishi was like a match burning slowly.
His burned with enormous intensity.
After realizing this, Lucas set about hiding his reishi according to the method Uryū had taught him.
This was something he had to learn.
Whether in the early, middle, or late stages of the story, unless an opponent actively releases their spiritual pressure, finding them is almost impossible.
Take Urahara Kisuke and the others.
They stayed in Karakura Town, and even though Karakura Town was an important monitoring site for the Soul Society, the Soul Society simply could not discover those people.
Once a Hollow stepped into Karakura Town from a Garganta, it would inevitably be detected.
Time passed quickly.
Lucas did not sleep all night.
For him now, going days and nights without sleep would have no effect at all.
He had become completely immersed in Reishi Manipulation, and it was not until the evening of the next day that he finally stopped.
Because he had achieved his first real results, a new ability had appeared on the panel.
〔Name: Chad〕
〔Spiritual Pressure: Ordinary Human (74%)〕
〔Abilities: Brazo Derecha de Gigante (Unawakened 86%), Brazo Izquierda del Diablo (Unawakened 7%), Reishi Manipulation (Elementary 9%)〕
As for his spiritual pressure, it had been 70% yesterday, and natural growth added 1%.
Now it read 74%.
Lucas recalled that he had started absorbing reishi to strengthen it around noon.
Five or six hours had passed since then, and the progress had risen by 3%.
Clearly, two hours of work raised it by 1%.
Moreover, he discovered that the awakening progress of the Brazo Derecha de Gigante had also risen significantly.
It had been 82% yesterday.
He had not continued training it, and since he had not yet learned to hide his spiritual pressure, the progress should have been 83%.
Instead it had climbed three percentage points.
This was undoubtedly caused by his spiritual pressure growing stronger.
And it was undoubtedly good news.
Being able to raise his spiritual pressure and his abilities at the same time, what else would you call that?
However, Lucas also discovered that while rising spiritual pressure could drag his abilities up with it, the improvement of his physical conditioning had slowed down.
He knew clearly why.
He had not been working out.
Alongside raising his spiritual pressure, he could not neglect his physical strength.
He could rely on spiritual pressure to temporarily boost his body, but that was only temporary.
It was like Armament Haki over in the world of One Piece.
While it was up, the defense was terrifyingly strong.
Once it dissipated, apart from a very few with special constitutions, even Roger would still be run through by an ordinary blade.
So his spiritual pressure had to rise, but his body could not be ignored either.
After all, his limiter had been opened.
If he did not mold himself into a complete all-rounder, he would be ashamed of himself.
Besides his own abilities improving, Lucas also took note of the Reishi Manipulation ability itself.
This ability had been born out of synthesizing a whole series of skills, sensing and hiding spiritual pressure among them.
And its progress already sat at 9%, the result of nearly a full day of work.
Reishi Manipulation was a very important ability.
In the manga, after Yhwach remodeled the Soul King Palace in the late stages, the reishi there fell completely under his control, and the Shinigami could not even fly inside it.
After all, what the Shinigami called flying was condensing reishi, relying on it to form footholds so they could step on air, or manipulating it to create thrust.
Once they could not manipulate reishi, the Shinigami would naturally lose the ability to fly.
So no, Reishi Manipulation was not a small thing.
“Judging by the current progress, I’m still 14% away from awakening the Brazo Derecha de Gigante.”
“So as long as I keep strengthening my spiritual pressure, twenty-eight hours and my Fullbring awakens. No, wait. There’s the 1% of natural growth too. Twenty-six hours.”
His goal was very clear now.
He had already learned Reishi Manipulation and knew how to hide his spiritual pressure.
The next step was the awakening of his Fullbring.
For now he only needed to keep raising his spiritual pressure.
As for working out, he planned to reorganize the whole training program once the Fullbring was completely awakened.
The most important thing right now was getting the ability online.
After that, his combat power would soar.
Plans made, Lucas went back to building his spiritual pressure.
As for sleeping, at a critical juncture like an ability awakening, how could he possibly sleep?
And so, over the next twenty-odd hours, apart from eating, drinking, and using the bathroom, he stayed completely immersed in it.