Chapter 5
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I don't know how long i've been feeding the energy to my body, it could be hours, minutes or even days, i've lost track. However i started to notice something nudging my physical body. I stopped feeding energy and returned my consciousness to my body.
I open my eyes to see Tenelux standing above me poking me with a stick.
“Good you're awake, we must speak” He said in a neutral tone.
“Did you have to use a stick to wake me up?” My voice full of indignation
He smiles
“No, merely personal preference”
At this I narrow my eyes and get out of the bed, I notice immediately that my movements have become smoother, almost graceful. Tenelux also notices and smiles. He motions for me to sit in a chair, I do and he sits in the one across from it. He looks at me shakes his head, i'm puzzled he looks like he doesn't know what to say
“I see you were excited to start using magic” He says
“How can you tell” I ask
“I can tell because of how your refining your body, Frankly i'm jealous that your body does it naturally at this age”
“Naturally” I question
“Yes haven't you notice how much stronger your body is since sleeping, Your inner soul must have noticed your desire to practice magic and refined your body”
“What are you talking about, I wasn't sleeping I was directing the energy from the sea into my body”
As I say this he goes slack jawed and asks for clarification. I repeat that I moved my consciousness to my soul and controlled the energy. Apparently this is a strange occurrence.Maybe I am genius, who knows.
“Is there a small island in your sea?” Tenelux asked quietly
“Ill need to check, what would it mean” I respond
“To tell the truth before seeing your essences shape and attributes you would need to strengthen your body, once your body is minimally strong enough an island would appear and upon it would be your shape and essence.”
Upon hearing this I return to the sea to check, I see no island. However upon closer inspection I see evidence of an island a few feet from the surface of the sea. I relay this information to Tenelux. He is impressed, he instructs me to continue refining my body as to raise the island. He also advises me direct energy towards my senses.
I lay back down and enter my soul, the sea seems larger than before, I plan to ask where the energy comes from.
Adding another stream of energy towards my head I split the stream and direct it towards my eyes, ears and mouth. Continuing like this I slip into a trance like state. Hours pass while I continue on the task at hand. I awake from this state when I feel a rumbling.
Observing my soul's’ sea I see small waves appearing and the island rising. I feel my excitement rising. It took some time for the island to fully rise. When it was finally surfaced like a mirage my shape appeared as well as three orbs above the shape.
I drew closer to the island and observed the shape first. It was identical to me except for a few crucial aspects. First and foremost where the wings on its back. They were black and feathered. To me they looked magnificent, moving on my eyes were glowing a vibrant celestial blue and silver. My body was naked yet not, it was covered in what seemed like black carapace armour, it was a matte black color. The style wasn't exuberant, it was functional. I wondered what this shape allowed me to do, questions for later.
Moving on to the orbs. There were three in total. I chose one to look at first, it was pitch dark, there was nothing and there would never be anything, inside it was a total void. I tried to see into its depths, I just got a headache for my troubles.
Moving on to the next one, it looked like a storm in a perfect sphere. Clods were whipping about in a savage manner and and dark royal blue lighting could be seen quite frequently. I probe towards this one with my mind and it gave the feeling of explosive power and speed. I smile it seems useful.
The third and final one was different. It was crimson red and silver. The two colours were like liquids and never fully mixed. I probed this one, I felt the same emotion I felt when I killed the monster, Bloodlust.
After observing the orbs and my shape, I exit my soul sea and open my eyes. I see Tenelux nearby fiddling with some weird metallic box.
He notices me waking up and chuckles.
“Gotten tired for the day?” he asks
“No I feel quite energized”
“Oh really, How much closer is the island to the surface” Ha asks.
Ah I see he underestimates me again. He obviously thinks it will take much longer. I think I will toy with him.
“How much do you think” I ask with a innocent voice
“I expect a couple of inches at the most, Ha worry not boy within a month we should be able to see your magic” He says
he seems quite excited. I grin.
“Wrong”
“What boy”
“You’re wrong it wasn't a few inches”
By my tone of voice he seems to have guessed that it has exceeded his expectations. I decide to go easy on him and tell him.
“The island has fully risen and my shape and essences are there”
His face momentarily goes blank he then asks for confirmation. I repeat what I said.
A few minutes pass and i've survived a barrage of questions. From his initial disbelief he seems to have settled into a state of grudging acceptance. From there we collapse into a discussion about my essence and shape.
Apparently human shaped shapes were not unheard of especially ones that resembled yourself and had some additions. I asked what a shaped really represented. He says that they represent how we can use our power. My shape seems to be a rather good all rounder.
With my essences he vaguely recognized two of them. One he called storm essence, with it I could use variations of wind and lightning magic. The crimson red and silver one took a while to recognize. However he came to the conclusion it was battle sense. He attributed this to my calm and savage demeanor after my awakening. Battle sense makes one adept at weapons and most forms of combat.
However the final one he couldn't figure out. He said I must figure out what it does.Speaking of this he moved on to how to use my essences. Essentially I must make my essence a physical form in my body. Much like directing energy in my consciousness he had to direct the spheres essence towards his body to establish a connection. I began with the storm essence.
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Making a stream of energy like I did before with the seas energy I connected. The feeling this time was sudden brief sparks of heat and some strange energy rapidly rotating through my body.
I open my eyes and immediately notice differences. I feel an energy at my finger tips and I can see floating wisps of white and green in the air. I didn't really know what to do. I asked Tenelux and he told me to experiment. Apparently no one person can tell you how to use your magic, you must learn yourself while being taught guidelines.
So I did just that, Experiment. To begin with I started off with the floating wisps, the energy feels more...volatile. Reaching out with his mind I tried to influence the wisps, I found it easy to do. However I couldn't make them do much. I couldn't make them do anything note worthy. I made the wisps drift and pass by Tenelux, He noticed my disappointed expression. And laughed, apparently he noticed what I was doing. It was to be expected at my current level of power that I can only summon a breeze. I would have to increase my essences power to be able to use more of the power of wind.
I moved on the the energy in my body. I willed it out of my hands and lightning haphazardly started to flay about. Not hurting me in anyway but when it hit the wooden chairs and table it left small scorch marks. This was a combat ability no other way to look at it. Seeing it Tenelux nodded, in a storm there was always lightning.
Finishing with that sphere I made a mental note to practice with the wind later, it really was too weak.
Moving on the the second orb, battle sense. I used the same process as I did when connecting myself to the storm sphere. The feeling this time was calm and methodical the way it traveled through my body, it seemed everything slowed down. That seemed the current limit to it. Increasing my perception of the world around me. Useful though for many things.
Finally I reached the final and slightly mysterious sphere. I connected to the sphere the same way as before. The feeling was like a seperation of my physical body and my mind, around me a circular net of matte black lines appeared. Judging from Teneluxs expression he could not see the net. The net seemed to stretch 5 meters away from him as well as above and below, when he moved the net moved with him. I wondered what the net did, i tried moving and shrinking it like an actual net that didn't work. I notice there's another energy much like the lightning except it feels more… thick. I bring out the power and incorporate it into my body. As if a new instinct appeared I knew how to use this sphere. Tenelux was inside the circle with me, I smile and he tilts his head confused. As he opens his mouth to ask a question I disappear in front of his eyes and materialize behind him. I chuckle audibly and he turns around his mouth gaping, it's obvious he is in shock. I laugh it seems that I can teleport to any location and change my orientation at will while in the net. I explain this to tenelux and he is shocked, it appears this is a unheard of ability.
After performing the ability a few more times, he has calmed down enough for me to ask questions, Such as where does the energy in my soul come from. He responded saying that energy was slowly collected from the air around them. Interesting I thought. He then mentioned something that peaked my interest, From now on my body can absorb more essence however to increase my magical power I must also feed energy into the spheres, apparently I will run out of energy as there is a limited amount in the sea at one time. However there were techniques in which one can increase their absorption from the environment, I would learn these methods later.
He tells me to sleep now and not practice, Too much is bad. So I follow his advice and sleep.
Tenelux POV
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The boy has shocked me yet again, His third sphere has the ability of instantaneous movement. An ability most only dream of, I will tell the twins about it on our mission tonight we will go when the boy sleeps. I must say if there is one problem with the boy it's the amount of questions he has, I almost can't keep up.
I walk to the lobby of the inn and meet the twins I inform them of the boys developments, they don't seem surprised to be expected considering their race.
We depart on our mission, To destroy the local light church of this area. We leave the inn and traverse the streets, As we near the church we change our location from the road to the room tops. We arrive near the church. It's a large marble made circular building that surrounds a large tree. The church of the Holy tree, the name makes more sense now.
We infiltrate the churches ground killing any acolytes we see, it seems this is a weak church. They progress to the large tree at the centre, their target is their ritual area most likly within the roots of the tree.
We enter the tree, this is where things go wrong. We enter the trees roots its a trap. They incapacitate and subdue the twins and face me. I know we can get out of the situation intact however they inform me of something I didn't expect. They sent men for the fourth in our group. They sent people to Azron.
Azron POV
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I wake to the sounds of conflict and shouting underneath me. A voice I don't recognize is asking where someone is the inn owner is telling them where, I pay more attention when i learn that the inn owner gave my location. I hear people running up the stairs so I hide, under the bed. Three men enter the room.
“Check everything, find the fourth member” (Deadman walking#1)
Deadman 2-3 nod.
They go through everything including the floorboards and closet. I wait till one approaches the bed to look under while the other looks in the closet. The first guy is still standing at the entrance. As the man checking the bed bends over I teleport directly behind the first guy at the door and enter battle sense. Immediately I notice a knife attached to his leg, I grab it and slit his throat in seconds. He drops to his knees with blood gushing from his neck. It seems like some got on my face, oh well.
The two remaining, after seeing their comrade die attack me with no second thought. One attacks with a straight punch directed at my face, it seems slow, I take the knife and stab his side under his arm the one that is trying to hit me, I pierce his heart. He gets a vacant look and starts collapsing, the one behind me attacks with a sword, he was the only one to get it out in time. He swings it down on me, I can't block i’m recovering from extending my arm for the strike earlier, so I teleport to his left side which he has left open to attack with his downward swing of the sword, I stab into his ribcage and pierce the lung, again another body hits the floor this time emanating breaths that sound as if he is drowning, He is I suppose, drowning in his own blood.
The fight has ended and I am left standing in the middle of three corpses breathing heavily. I didn't notice it at the time but using these powers, especially teleporting is tiring. I stumble to the bed and sit. I wait there for a few minutes before I hear another commotion downstairs, it's Tenelux. He seems to be asking why there is blood, it appears it's dripped through the floorboards. I hear him running up the stairs and then he stands in the doorway observing the scene before him.
I grin with a face that somehow has been smeared with blood, I can't remember when that got their. He looks back in shock, when the twins arrive they have the same expression.
“I take this as a sign we are leaving soon then” I say acting as if nothing has happened.
End of chapter 5
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