Chapter 19: Ambition and Desire
Azaire looked at his master with passion burning in his eyes but also a look of hesitation. Why was his power being restricted if he was allowed to cultivate the Life Diagram now?
Talya didn't miss the confusion in her pupils gaze and gave a begrudging chuckle as she explained.
"You were a little too efficient when you broke through and you gained your Chi and Ki too swiftly. This is bad for your foundation and if not handled properly can affect not only your cultivation but also your health and wellbeing."
With a gesture of her hand Talya invited her student to sit down in front of her as she continued her explanation.
"Excessive power uncontrolled and not properly formatted to your body will only run wild and do your body more harm than good.
The more powerful the more harmful. This is why whether it's martial, magical, spiritual or special artist's all artists use cultivation techniques. Why else would anyone go through all the trouble?"
Azaire understood now and his ambition grew stronger after realizing what his master meant.
"So you're suppressing it so I can form it naturally according to the diagram!"
Talya nodded once again happy to have such an intelligent apprentice. After confirming that he understood she hesitated before plucking another item seemingly from space.
It was a circular shaped item of about half an arms length made of wood from a divine tree but even Azaire couldn't place the origin of the tree and there were eight gems of different colors embedded into the top of the circle and a rod through the middle that acted as a handle. The edges were so sharp that even though it was wood it gave off the impression it could probably cut metal.
Altogether Azaire realized that not only was this a magical weapon but it was a magical chakram! Even a normal chakram would be an elite weapon not easily procured or mastered in all of the Elloris Empire.
"Hold it. I have a feeling."
With such a vague response Talya handed the precious weapon to her disciple and Azaire obediently and almost reverently took a hold of the chakram.
As soon as he grabbed the weapon a whisper slid through his mind that sounded old and unfathomable. It uttered only four words but each word seemed to hold the weight of a mountain. 'What Do You Desire'
Like a black hole the words spun in his mind with a powerful suctioning vacuum that pulled at his very essence and demanded the truth deepest in his soul and after only a moment an answer resounded that shocked Azaire and earned a deep rumble of pleasure from the ancient voice. After the question the voice seemed to scan him deep into his soul but stopped mid way in shock as it trembled. 'Yes' This one word was it's last acknowledgement before the voice went silent as if it had never existed. However in it's place a newfound connection to the chakram appeared.
All of this happened over a matter of seconds and surprisingly no one not even master Talya had any indication anything unusual happened until the connection had formed. It seemed even master Talya could not sense the voice. But after the connection was formed a look of surprise and joy flashed onto her face and the others not understanding the gravity of what happened but happy that Azaire got a new magical weapon looked on in pride.
"Such a pleasant surprise! Quickly come here and I'll help you refine it before it changes it's mind!"
Master Talya leaned over Azaire a power like spring with an irresistible pull to it enveloped Azaire and his own budding power guiding it so that he could refine the weapon into his body and power. The process seemed to go incredibly slow so Titania, Jared, and Roran set up camp and started dinner. Roran cooked this time since Jared had gone straight to Azaire and sat the man into his lap as carefully as possible so as not to interrupt the refining process.
Titania took the chance to take out her wings and go for a long awaited flight and stretch her wings. Skye was let out of Jared's heart lake since his healing progressed better with fresh air. The pup played around the camp when it wanted to but otherwise snuggled down in front of Jared and Azaire, forcing Talya to scoot back to give the pup space.
Like this time crawled by slowly and two days had already passed by. Jared fed the little man by hand as the time passed and massaged his arms and legs so that they didn't go numb from sitting in one place all this time. After another five whole days the refinement was complete.
At this point Titania had time to work on her own cultivation and Roran had made some progress on the stack of newer comics and light novels he'd brought with him. Even Jared who was mostly focused on his little man cultivated a little bit during that time.
Master Talya who was the most powerful person in their group showed clear signs of exhaustion as she'd been using quite a bit of power for a whole week and Azaire who was the only one besides his brother with no solid cultivation and having not even reached the enlightenment realm had passed out as soon as the refining had been completed.
So after a week of hard work and idleness everyone decided to rest together that day and Jared directly took Azaire into their tent with Skye and a field of raging lightning appeared protectively around their tent.
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