[New Talent Acquired: Instant Drive]
[The user can reach maximum speed from a complete standstill, skipping the normal acceleration phase.
Movement begins at full output the moment the body commits. This applies only to straight-line movement. Each activation consumes 30 energy]
Francis read the description twice.
Then he read it a third time, slower.
'No acceleration phase.'
That was the detail that mattered most.
Every talent he owned up until now — Muscular Acceleration, Spring Joints, Kinetic Calibration — they all worked by building momentum.
One layer stacked on top of another until his speed peaked.
The process took fractions of a second. Not long by any normal measure.
But in a high-level fight, fractions of a second were everything.
This talent removed that window entirely.
The moment his body decided to move, it was already moving at full speed. No wind-up. No tell. No gap for an opponent to read and respond to.
