“Now dear student, try to use the water ball ray.”
Shin nodded as lapis said this, and put his hands on his front just like her. He closed his eyes and visualized about using the water ball ray the same way he had used the orb against the tree, Lapis was looking at Shin with a smile.
The water ball just like the one Lapis had conjured up was now floating in his hand. The water orb was translucent with a light blue color.
“Good job dear student, you did this too in a single try.” Lapis was not as surprised at Shin using this ray, compared to him copying the Orb before against the tree. It was because this was just a 1-Star ray, many talented individuals could learn it after a single try.
“Now dear student, try to shoot out water like this.”
Lapis slightly moved her right hands finger, and aimed at a small tree nearby. A little water droplet shot out from the orb; it was as fast as a 9mm bullet shot by a pistol.
It hit the tree without any sound, and pierced right through it.
Lapis explained, “Dear student, to shoot water droplets imagine the orb as a bag with a lot of pebbles. Then visualize throwing that pebble at your target.
Shin faced the tree with his hands still in front of him, and visualized about throwing a pebble from a pouch full of them. Suddenly a water droplet shot out from the orb, it completely missed the tree and disappeared after 20 meters.
Shin was slightly surprised seeing this, since water droplet shot, out in an instant, before he could aim. If shooting out water droplet bullets was compared to throwing a pebble, the water droplet shooting out was like the pebble slipping from your hand, just as you were about to throw it.
Seeing this Lapis said, “Don’t worry dear student. Timing the water droplet takes a bit getting used to, keep on trying until you can hit three consecutive shots at the tree.”
“Yes,” replied Shin with a cold voice.
***
[Initializing of the ???-Star ray ‘Helpful’ has been successfully completed.]
These words were echoing on Azura’s head. As it was happening Azura’s vision got slightly more blurred. It Azura the world looked like looking through a car window covered with dense vapor.
Not knowing Azura’s condition, Christina spoke, “Now, try to shoot the lightning bolt as I did.”
Azura didn’t hear Christina’s words, she felt her vision blur even more and she went unconscious.
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Azura was conscious again, in her surroundings she could not see anything. It was different from what you see when you close your eyes, what she saw was really nothing. If someone was to describe what seeing ‘nothing’ meant. It would be the same as looking through your toes, you really see nothing.
There also was complete silence, all her senses seemed to not exist in this world.
At this moment, she felt as if she was free and was not constricted by anything.
All our lives, we are in contact with something. Be it a mobile phone, floor. Even your clothes, you are in contact with something all times of your life. Even if you were to be naked, you would still be in contact with the air.
But at this moment, Azura was not in contact with nothing. Not even herself, this feeling of not touching anything. It was mildly euphoric!
As humans we naturally have the desire to be free, maybe from the society or our family, friends and peers. We can gain freedom from these things, but there is always one thing you can’t be free from, it’s the feeling of being in contact with something.
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This was the reason she was feeling this feeling of euphoria ceasing through her, that she was not binded by anything
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[What is happening, there was a voice in my head, and then…]
Azura was still having the feeling of euphoria, but she was keeping it in control. A normal person, under this feeling would absolutely loose his sense of self.
[Master Azura, this is your absolute realm.] A voice came from somewhere in the
nothingness, it was the same one as before.
Azura was startled by the sudden voice in absolute silence. But the euphoric feeling made her regain her cool. [Who are you, my Absolute realm?]
[Master Azura, I am your ???-star Ray Helpful.]
[Helpful?] Suddenly she recalled the time the goddess was granting her wish, and how she wished to become helpful to Shin.
The voice replied, [Yes master, I am the skill bestowed upon you by the goddess.]
Azura thought, it can read my mind! But she also felt at ease knowing this was the skill bestowed by the goddess. So, it should not hurt her, but it was not certain.
The voice replied [Yes master, due to you not having your body in this world to speak. Only way to communicate is through thoughts, that’s how me and you have been conversing all along.]
Hearing this she suddenly realized, that she had not been talking this whole time, but just thinking.
However, Azura was really worried about something, the feeling of Euphoria was still coursing through Azura’s entire body. She was trying hard to suppress the feeling, yet she somehow knew if she gave onto this feeling. She would lose her sense of self, she needed to get out of here quick.
[How do I get out of here? Also why, did you bring me here.]
The emotionless voice replied, [Master Azura, the reason you got here is because I, your ???-Star Ray skill just completely manifested into you. The skill needs to stabilize, you will need to wait for at least an hour, according to Earth time until you can leave.]
Hearing this Azura was worried, since it would too difficult to fight against the feeling of euphoria for even half an hour, let alone an hour.
[Master, if you are worried about losing your sense of self, please don’t worry. This is your Absolute realm, even if you lose your sense of self it will roam around here, and when you get out to the world outside. You will regain it.]
Hearing this Azura was slightly relieved, but still she felt a bit at unease. Because she was scared to lose her sense of self, even if she would regain it. A person losing himself, would still be a terrifying feeling.
But there was nothing she could do about it, so she moved on to know more about this mysterious skill.
[Since you are my skill helpful, what is your use.]
[As my name applies, I am helpful. I have knowledge on a lot of things in this world, I can also process things for you and can assist you with almost any task in this world. In earth terms you would call me ‘Artificial Intelligence.’]
Azura was pleasantly shocked by this. What she asked the goddess was to be helpful to Shin, with this skill not only she would be extremely helpful. But also, it would be a lot easier to get into the Persephone Academy, so she could finally meet Shin.
Suddenly Azura had a realization. [If I am here, then what is happening to my body!]
***
After practicing for less than 5 minutes, Shin was now easily able to hit the water droplets with pinpoint precision. Lapis was not surprised by this, since she had already seen Shin do various extraordinary things.
“Now that you can hit the water droplets well. I think its time to teach you a 2-Star Ray.”
Shin asked in a bland voice, “Sudden jump from 1-Star to 2-Star?”
“Yeah, there is not much of a learning gap between 1-Star and 2-Star. But the gap widens enormously jumping from 2-Star to 3-Star, it keeps exponentially widening from there on. Normally it takes an average person 3-4 months, to be experienced enough to learn to manipulate enough ray to just be able to learn 2-Star Ray.”
Lapis looked at Shin with a smile, “But you dear student, you are extremely talented to be able to use 4-Star Ray with just a glance, so it won’t matter if we jumped straight to 2-Star ray.”
On saying this Lapis gazed at the clouds, they were not many clouds in the sky, just a few small ones. The few clouds at the sky were at their whitest, “The 2-Star Ray you will learn first is, Water-Cloud.”