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Chapter 2 - Dark Meditation -

From the shadow of the forest, a youth was praying on a wild beast drinking from a pond, the beast was not aware of the youth presence. His eyes were glowing in the dark with a silver glow, like two bright stars in the night sky. The strange thing was that his eyes didn’t have pupils, his eyes were like pure silver pearls, stainless and cold.

The boy flashed toward the beast who was drinking from the pond, every step he took was like the step of a shadow, there was no sound, no vibrations in the air, no change in the surroundings. Who could believe that this youth was only 10 years old?

With a rusted sword in his hand he jumped above the beast who was still not aware of anything.

While he was in midair, he pierced with his sword at the beast head, the sword instantly penetrated the beast’s skull and the beast died without even knowing it. The blood oozed out of the wound spreading in the pond’s water, staining it like poison. The youth watched the blood flowing out like a river, in his eyes no emotions could be seen.

“Good, with this we can eat for a while.” said the black haired youth, he then grabbed the beast from the neck and started to drag it deep in the forest. One has to understand that the beast was three times bigger than the youth but he killed and dragged it with ease.

In the depth of the forest was an old wooden house, the small house was deteriorated by the passing time, now it was more like an abandoned house than a habitable one.

Inside the house an old woman was lying on a straw mattress, her face pale, she was visibly sick.

A young boy entered from the wooden door, seeing the old woman, he called out to her. “Grandma, I’m back. Today I was lucky, I found a huge Mile Boar!” The boy walked toward the old woman. The old woman, slowly, opened her tired eyes, looking at the boy, she knew that she had little time left. “Shura, come close, I have to tell you something.” Hearing the weak voice of the old woman, his heart ached, he already knew that his Grandma had not much left to live.

Shura sat down on the wooden floor, next to old woman. “Grandma.” said Shura. “Shura, ten years ago, when I found you inside the forest I was unsure of what to do with you, life here is hard even by myself, I was not able to take care of a child. In the end I decided to raise you on a whim. As time passed I started to love you as if you were my own son, and now is you who is caring for me. But, Shura, my son, I was exiled here when I was your age and I don’t want you to end like me.” Then the old woman took an old book covered in dust from under the bed. “When I was exiled to this place, my father gave me this book, I tried to learn the techniques inside it but I was not able to. I give it to you, maybe you will be successful in mastering those techniques.”. Sura took the old book and examined it, the book was very large and thick, made from an unknown pelt, it was very old. “Thank you, Grandma.” Shura knew that this was her last gift to him, so he took it without hesitation. “I should be the one thanking you, the life here was too quiet and lonely, only after I found you my days became more lively. After I die, go outside this cursed place, go in the outside world and live your life however you want. This is not the place where you should live your life. Don’t forget, in this world, only the strong is free, while the weak is tramped on, me being exiled in this place is prof. Now, I want to rest a bit.” The old woman then closed her eyes, not breathing anymore. “Grandma…” Shura, for the first time in his life, felt like crying, but he didn’t.

A week after his Grandmother died, he stood in front of a grave, looking at it “Grandma, I’ll be leaving today, I will not let you down, I will become strong. Farewell, Grandma. Thank you.”

With his last words for his Grandmother, Shura started to walk away from the grave, leaving behind the place where he lived 10 years.

The days passed, Shura stood in the shadow of a large tree with the old book in his hands.

“World of Darkness” was written on book cover.

Turning the first page Shura started to read the content.

“Dark Meditation”

Dark Meditation is a unique Meditation training method, usually the Meditation techniques used the energy of nature to strengthen the body and the soul, increasing one’s Qi, but this technique used the darkness to achieve a better result. The Darker the place where the Dark Meditation users used to meditate, the better.

In order to learn the other techniques, the Dark Meditation was indispensable, that because all the techniques in the book were based on the energy of darkness.

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If someone practiced another meditation technique then it was impossible for him to practice the Dark Meditation.

Luckily, Shura never learned a meditation technique.

Following the instructions on the book, Shura tried to feel the darkness around him.

After about an hour passed, Shura started to feel the darkness around him. It surprised him, he could feel how powerful and boundless this energy is. Without losing time, he started to absorb the energy as the book instructed.

At this point, the place around Shura became darker and darker, as if night approached.

Time passed, after 4 days, Shura was still absorbing the dark energy.

Shura was not aware of how much time passed, he was in a state of mind as if he was sleeping. At this point the distance of a hundred meters around Shura was darker than the night, it was as if only in that place was night, while outside was day.

If the creator of the book were to see this then he could die from the shock. Usually, to achieve this result one has to have a natural affinity with the darkness, and that was impossible. The humans, from the moment they were born, were made from natural energy, like water, fire, lightning, wind, earth, so their affinity could only be with those five.

But Shura was not human, after so little time he achieved an impossible feat.

After another 4 days, Shura opened his eyes.

“What, is this?” Said Shura.

He was surprised to find out that he could sense everything in his surrounding for about a hundred meters. But not only that, he now could see in the dark more clear than the day. After absorbing the dark energy for eight days, his body changed too, his skin was a lot more healthier and now it was like white jade, clean and tender, his eyes are clearer and his hair darker. He felt as if his strength too, was increased by many times over and over.

This was a huge transformation.

Though, to achieve this result, a normal person would need at least a year or two, but Shura was no normal person. He didn’t knew that tough.

He took a huge breath and stood up to check his body. He was now taller and his body was like that of a 12 years boy. To his surprise, he could sense something strange inside his body, concentrating on that part, he was stupefied by what he found, inside him was a huge empty space, he couldn’t understand how something like that could exist, but what surprised him the most was what was inside that space, a black pearl was in the center of that huge empty space inside his body. The black pearl was absorbing a part of the dark energy he was gathering from outside. At the same time, the pearl was strengthening his body and cultivation.

Shura could feel that the black pearl was part of his body and that his strength was not enough to examine it.

Knowing that he can do nothing about it he decided to leave the black pearl alone for now. Shura decided to learn the first martial skill of the book. Strangely, after so many days without eating or drinking, he was not thirsty or hungry.

A week passed.

Shura learned the first skill In the old book “Shadow Steps”, like a shadow, his steps were impossible to detect, even more than before, now when walking or running, he was like a shadow. Darker the place is, the more this technique was strong. The technique have 8 steps, for now Shura mastered only the first step. Every step, the skill will became more profound and strong.

Another week passed but Shura still couldn’t see the end of the forest. He just couldn’t believe how huge this forest is. He was running at incredible speed, but he was still far from reaching the end of the forest.

Night approached, it was time for him to stop and rest, but then in front of him appeared a long plain, in the middle of the plain was an old ruined well, it was strange for a well to be in a place like this.

Shura decided to walk toward the old well. He felt some kind of attraction from that old well.

The well was old, you could say ancient, some stone bricks were missing and some were full of cracks, the major part was covered in moss. Looking inside the well, Shura was surprised that he couldn’t see the bottom of the well even with his sight. Shura took a stone and threw it inside the well, the stone hit the walls but there was no sound of the stone reaching the bottom, Shura couldn’t even guess how deep that well should be.

He bent one more time to look inside the well, but as he bent he felt someone pushing him from behind, he didn’t even have the time to react, when he understood what happened, Shura was already falling inside the well.

Shura tried to grab at the walls of the well but to his surprise the walls were too slippery so he couldn’t stop his falling, he disappeared in the abyss.