After both Yaacov and Moshe had such amazing progress, Mormo told them that from now on, they will divide the day into two parts, at the morning they will continue to learn about essence manipulation, and in the afternoon, they will start to practice their own unique essence power.

Every morning they switched between object manipulation, trying to make an object fly, inserting and extracting essence from objects, and locking each other in place. And later, they started to try and explore their own power.

To Moshe’s and Yaacov’s utter confusion Mormo said, “I really lack understanding of my own power, I just got it and experienced fighting against a human only when we first met, so I can’t teach you anything … We will have to figure everything together, I’m a complete novice in this area”.

“Aren’t you a god??” Moshe asked innocently.

Yaacov looked at Moshe with a belittling look, reminding himself yet again that this fucker is better than him at essence manipulation. “He is a human … just like us … but his life journey is probably nothing like that of a normal human” Yaacov stated.

Mormo ignored both of them as he kept talking, “I know a few things about my power, they are not 100% correct so we will need to reconfirm them. I will tell you everything that I think I know; from here on, we will have to experiment with it to understand it better”.

“For a start, the power of my essence is the power to manipulate and transfer emotions” Mormo said.

“The power works on animals as well as on humanoid creatures, but if the target’s emotion stability or its own experience is stronger than your own, you are the one who will receive metal damage.”

“To make our essence stronger and our heart firmer, we can take the experience of others and make it ours, which will make your powers and your essence much stronger.”

“We can transfer our essence into other creatures momentarily. When I fought with the gnome, I transferred some of my essence to Moshe who managed to use my power and ascended briefly into the 4-god-level while I was still at the 2-god-level, note that when he started to collect his own essence he managed to only rose into the 3-god-level so I still need to make a lot of experiments before we can conclude anything about this option”

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“Last but not least, you can serve a section of your own emotion to gain more power, but after you will serve it, you will never be able to sense it again or to use it, in your daily life, or with your own power. You will never be able to understand it again” Mormo stated.

“There is a chance that the two last parts are unique only for me so we will try to confirm it, and apart of the three of us, never tell or discusses it with anyone” Mormo finished.

It took some time for both Yaacov and Moshe to understand everything that Mormo told them, and after a rain of questions, most of them got answered with “I don’t know”, they started to train.

Mormo started by trying to attack Moshe, he extracted all his essence out of his body and through it into Moshe, the essence came near Moshe, but it actually did nothing to him.

Moshe looked at him dumbfounded, he waited for some horrible experience, but nothing happened.

Moshe extracted his own essence and tried to attack Mormo but his essence just entered Mormo’s body, inflicting no damage. The opposite, Mormo experienced a temporal boost to his strength.

Both of them tried to do something but nothing happened.

Yaacov eventually joined them when he tried to attack Moshe, immediately both of them cough up blood.

Yaacov looked in horror at Moshe, and so did Moshe as he looked at Yaacov with a little touch of pity.

“Attack me!!! Attack me!!!” Mormo shouted happily, but when Yaacov attacked him absolutely nothing happened.

After a little bit more experiments, they confirmed that Mormo couldn’t attack or receive any damage from both Moshe and Yaacov, he could extract all of their essence out of their body so they will become completely helpless, but a part of that, his essence is useless against them.

Mormo could do nothing but watch both of them fighting against each other learning about their own powers, while he was watching helplessly, bored out of his mind.

The only point of light in all of that is that he could see and experience what both of them experienced in their fight, so all of them grew together.

Yaacov knew a lot about how to handle the essence’s power, he managed to find another aspect of their power which is creating mental illusions.

All three of them could create any scenario for their victim, as long as he lacked the mental power, he will have to live in it until they will want otherwise.

They couldn’t read minds, but they could absorb a fucked-up experience from their victim’s past and make him relive it over and over again while extracting his emotions over and over again.

Mormo was impressed by Yaacov’s cruelty and the fast grasp of his essence power.

Both, Yaacov and Moshe, tried to extract the emotions and experiences of the other while creating illusions that took after the emotions that they just extracted.

Unlike how it was with Mormo, the extracting of emotions didn’t make the other forget or overcome his struggles, when both of them extract the emotions, it was more like they are sharing the same emotion and not stealing it.

“Apparently my power is quite different from both of theirs” Mormo thought but said nothing.

He just watched as both of them become more familiar with their own power, as he studied how they use it again and again.

After only a week or so Mormo got bored as he declared excitedly “It’s time to exit this cave, we should start to try and conquer the inner region of the forest”.