Chapter 6
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Days have passed since the incident at the inn, We have since then left apparently heading back to Teneluxs main group, this reminds me I still didn't know to which faction he belonged.
When we left the small city where they originally stayed there wasn't much commotion, all of what happened had somehow been kept quite. We just walked out of the city.
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So far we had travelled for a few days, mostly in silence. I think the three are still digesting the fact I killed those men who came for me. I suppose it would be a shock, I had killed three men in cold blood.
Secondly judging by the shock tenelux has had at my progress I would assume it takes longer for most to be able to control and use their power. So far we had travelled for two days, the second day was coming to an end. We make camp that night. Through the journey the twins have been whispering between themselves and often gesturing towards me obviously making me the topic in their conversation. Tonight however they include Tenelux in their talk, I see him nod and give some sort of confirmation of something.
They come to me know and speak.
“We will help you train” said Helion.
I tilt my head confused.
“The way you cut the men back at the inn, Good on vital points however you were messy, too messy” She says
“And if you were against another with power, you would die” Added Havesh
I nod and agree, after all any type of teaching is good.I also had no idea about this power, at least not in detail. However their style of teaching does not involve any fighting at the current moment. I nod and agree.
They begin immediately.Much to my annoyance Havesh decides to explain at first. He likes to speak in riddles.After spending hours he and I were at each other's throats, Me for my annoyance at his riddles and him for his annoyance that I didn't understand them. At this point Helion interveined. She explained what to do in simmpler terms, also while glaring at havesh she said it was what beginners need to know, He walks away mumbling.
It seems that pouring essence into my body only increases my body's natural physical limits. Putting it into visual terms. A man who had poured essence into his body and strengthens himself through weights and other physical exercises yet looks thin and frail can beat a man who is a hulking monster with little effort. Due to the concentrated power of his body.
The act of pouring essence into one's body is merely compounding the power that can be stored within. This also improves the amount of magic power one can use without passing out or becoming too tired to continue. She also gives me a warning, pouring in too much essence before the body can handle it Is dangerous and has caused deaths in the past.
Helion gives me a training regime to improve my basic physical standing. Although I believe half of the regime is just grunt work for me to do as they are lazy. The regime includes push ups, core body work, carrying all of our packs and gear and pull ups. Often times when doing pullups the branches were on average 20 metres off the ground we couldn't find any that were lower, naturally I couldn't reach them, realizing this Helion and Havesh grab and throw me at a branch. Once im done im usually in pain, mostly from the drop. Whilst doing these exercises I was also told to cycle my power of lightning through my body. Apparently this increases the rate on which my body improves.
We continue on our journey, I still don't know where we are headed. I continue with my regime and throughout the course of around two weeks I now longer looked my age (9) I look like a boy reaching his teens. Rapidly cycling my lightning through my body had influenced my bones to grow and toughen as well as my body structure had become more refined. Speaking with tenelux about my body's growth he said this wasn't strange for lightning users and my rapidly enhancing body strength was most likely largely influenced by the silver and red sphere.
The days passed like nothing at all. We reached a mountain. It wasn't very big, i'd grown up seeing bigger ones. However looking at the attitude of the three around me the seemed like they had returned home, My suspicions were confirmed when we left the path into the forest surrounding the mountain. We enter a small cave, of which there was nothing noticeable or strange about it, if anything it was boring and simple enough just ignore.
Tenelux nods and we continue forwards, we reach the back of the cave however the three keep moving as if nothing is there. Then when they reach the rock its surface seems to ripple like water in a small pond when something moves on its surface. I walk up to the wall and put my hands on it and push, nothing happens I dont phase through like the others. I look at the wall up and down and frown, I know tenelux wouldn't just leave me from what I know of him he isn't that type of person, at the most he could have...forgotten. That is most likely the reason. Over our journey I had spoken with Tenelux over the different uses of magic, a fake wall/ door was among them.The wall probably had a cooldown of some sort and tenelux forgot to tell me to come with them at the correct time.
I am not a patient person, So after waiting a total of 3 minutes I expand my net. It's the name I have given the black sphere. Over the course of our journey I had explored how to use this power in particular. I discovered that when moving and then teleporting my velocity resets. I discovered that when falling from one of the 30 metre pullups, I landed very lightly that time and from then on. Furthermore the net will shade things in different shades of black. When an object is very dense is has pitch overcoat, when something is hollow or less dense there is almost no overcoat. The rockwall in this case has no overcoat, so i directly teleport in, right into the middle of a verbal fight.
On one side was tenelux trying to convince the other man to open the door again. The man had a condescending tone and expression, he was stating something about the rules of once per day. His expression went slack jawed as I appeared in front of him.
I turn and look at tenelux and narrow my eyes, he averts his gaze obviously guilty.
I turn to the man tenelux was talking to.
“Hello my name is Azron” I say greeting the man.
My voice is still high because of my age. With the high squeaky voice and adolescent body the man is thoroughly confused.
He coughs and then responds.
“Hello, Young man I must ask how did you come through the door” He asks obviously very startled.
Before I can say anything Tenelux responds for me.
“You want him to spill his secrets when you wished to lock him outside for the night, shame on you Charles, shame”
It was apparent that Tenelux was now enjoying himself with this turn of events. The two start arguing again and I walk to the twins. I ask why the door wouldn't open for me.
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“The door can only be opened on scheduled occasions due to security, However you were left behind because you lagged behind a small bit, Tenelux was trying to get the door open again for you” Hevash responds
“You didn't help with the argument” I question
“Unlike Tenelux we keep tabs on your special ability, we had no doubt you could bypass the door” Helion replies.
“I see, So where are we” I ask, I had not been told anything about where we were heading.
“We have returned to our base,you will be informed of what we do later” Helion says
I frown, it seems like they're hiding something yet telling me what I need to know. I keep quite for now.
Hevash and Helion motion for me to follow them through the door on the other end of the chamber we were in, I ask if Tenelux is coming as he is still deeply in argument with charles. I'm informed that this is a regular occurrence whenever he returns it's best just to continue what you are doing.
We go through the large stone door which opens by itself, I find that interesting. Through the door there is a small flight of stairs and a square stone platform. At the four corners of the platform there are orange beams of light. We step on the platform and helion grins at me, I wonder why, then with us on the platform it drops however we stay on it without moving ourselves, it's strange and I panic for a moment. Then I straighten as I realize the fall is controlled,however I was panicked enough for helion to laugh at me.
We descend until eventually we stop and the two doors slide to either side and we enter a hallway. Apparently it's a large underground base that has been carved out over a few centuries. We travel through the large maze they called a base and arrived at what seemed to be a large room filled with books. At a different tables throughout the room people were reading, I should learn how to do that I think after seeing it. Hevash calls out to someone by the name of Henna, we wait and someone appears from the large walls full of books that looks exactly like the twins. Are they triplets then?
Hevash and Helion motion for me to sit down at one of the tables. I do so. They go to another to talk with the third of their siblings, I will make it a point to ask them how many of them there are later. I quickly realize they may talk for a while and leave me here to do nothing. I wait for a few minutes before getting up and looking around, however before I get up I hear a voice beside me.
“Now you aren't just going to leave without noticing me are you young one”
I look to both sides and see no one, I'm on guard now. I hear the voice chuckle again I look to one of the sides that I had looked at before, an man is now sitting there grinning.
“Well are you going to sit with this old man?”
Old man he looked just over 30 years of age.
I nod and sit back down.
“So tenelux brought you hmm” says the strange man
He knows me?
“Yes” I reply simply.
He chuckles and says interesting under his breath.
“So do you know where you are” He asks.
I shake my head
“No, I was only told we were coming to the base” I reply.
He squints and looks over at the twins. They don't notice.
He sighs
“It's not my place to tell you, However since i'm here I can answer any other questions you may have” He says
I'm not sure what he can't tell me, However I am curious about some things.
Before I can ask he says one more thing.
“Just so you know my name is Fernum. It's always good to know names”
He says with a smile.
“I'm Azron” I say back.
He stays quiet while looking at me. I suppose it's question time.
“What is this place, why all the books” It's the first question on my mind. I have never seen a place like this.
“It's a place where techniques and different ways of using essence can be taught or learned through reading” He replies
Interesting, I should learn how to read.
I nod. My next question is one tenelux couldn't answer on our journey here, Maybe this man knew.
“Do you know why I don't seem to care anymore, I see only with logic and reason, I have my memories from before yet I feel nothing for them”
He looks at me. It looks like he's thinking of an answer.
“Sometimes during an awakening your personality is wiped clean leaving you open to a new one. When this happens they can be the same afterwards however sometimes people can build new personalities from the ground up. In your case I recommend human interaction to benefit your growing personality”
“Why” I ask
“Because people need emotions, You want some of those, especially since you're a child”
We continue and I get answers to various questions. This includes where I should learn how to read, I should ask Helion, She's a better teacher than the other two. I also asked how many of the ‘twins’ there were, He laughed at this and said I would have to find out myself.
After a time he said he had business and needed to leave. Before he left he told me to tell Tenelux he says hi. He then disappears like he was never there.
That was interesting, I think I have a lot to think about.
End of Chapter 6
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