As he thinks, he opens his eyes and looks at the woman on the ground, who is slowly opening her eyes.

The young woman opens her eyes slowly and starts to look around as she gets up on her two feet but staggers as her head still feels dizzy from getting knocked out.

She quickly looks at her clothes, and seeing that everything is intact, she gives a cold breath. "I am not raped," is the thought in her mind.

"I didn't think your first thought would be whether you'd been raped or not."

The young woman looks at Jack in silence; there are no words that come to her mind that she would like to say to the man in front of her.

"What can I say to him to save myself?"

"What can be done?"

Her thoughts tried to find something to save herself. Nothing, absolutely nothing, comes out of her mouth at all.

Jack looks at the young woman as she is shaking from fear.

"I understand you are not going to talk."

"I have no problems with it."

He then takes a deep breath and smiles.

"The young woman is an ordinary human being with no soul power."

"The Mystic Category is about detaching the soul energy from the body and using it to create objects or effects."

"Let's try something."

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He points at the young woman, and then his grayish-colored soul energy leaves his body and, in less than one second, goes straight to the woman like a tidal wave.

He feels pretty weird but strong at the same time; his soul energy completely covers the young woman.

"Wow, this feeling is something to be obsessed with."

"I know from the depth of my soul that everything about the woman is mine."

"What if I imagine she falls to the ground?"

Second, he imagines and wills it, and it happens...

The young woman feels heavy, and her eyes close, and she drops to the ground. The "thump" sounds of her body hitting the ground resonated in his head. He knows the sound is not that loud, but he heard it in his head because of his soul energy.

"Energy expenditure is next to nothing."

"Against non-soul users, a soul user has a tremendous amount of power."

"As they do not have any kind of thing to defend themselves against soul users and soul energy,"

"The magical category involves things that create things out of nothing." But, in a sense, it can be used to create effects too.

"I used Mystic Category to create a wave of soul energy and then covered the young woman."

"I imagined she fell to sleep." "My soul energy responded to my imagination, and it happened."

"If the young woman were a soul user and stronger, she may be able to resist it."

"Or I would need to use a huge amount of force."

He did not use any kind of extra-complicated means, as a young woman is not strong enough to stop any kind of attack from soul energy.

as the young woman sleeps on the ground.

He looks at the tree and then switches his category to Control again, then looks at the tree with great concentration this time.

The soul energy starts to cover the tree in a heartbeat, and Jack's eyes turn sharp, similar to the blade of a samurai.

Crunching sounds resonate as the ordinary tree splits into two horizontally and then explodes and turns to smithereens.

He can explode and split a tree with just his thoughts.

The soul's energy expenditure this time was much more than putting the young woman to sleep.

"Let's try it again, but this time use a different approach."

He concentrates on the tree at first, then wills it to split in two and explode. He did not put any vision into it. Other than desiring what he wants to see

This time he is not going to will it directly but will cause the same effect by controlling soul energy with more precise thoughts and imagination.

He looks at another tree in the surrounding area and whispers.

"My soul energy turns into a huge axe made up of fire elements and splits the tree in half and burns it to ashes."

As he whispers, the tree splits into two, much faster this time, and begins to burn. This time, there was no explosion.

After the experiment, he starts laughing.

"This time I used 40% less soul energy, and the speed of activation increased by three whole seconds."

He understood the value of controlling soul energy and giving it to himself to complete what he wanted.