- chapter 12 -
Lumi and Arcana are sitting in a thick sheet of ice in the middle of an ocean. Lumi now wears his set of clothes. Looking like a prince of northern kingdom. With ice mist and snow fog obscuring their sight to see him, you can only see a blue glow, like a will-o-wisp. He said to the white wolf.
"Tell me about your world."
"Hm. What do you want to know, master?"
The white wolf ask.
"About the structure of your world."
"Hmm. The only living being in our world is us, ice spirits. The ice spirits rule our world by powerful families, the Spirit Wolf Clan, Sphinx Clan, Gryffin clan, White Raven, and the others. And each clan have partriarch or martiarch to lead them. I am from the Spirit Wolf Clan, the son of the partriarch and the genius of the clan. There are also other elemental spirit world out there, like fire or lightning." Said the white wolf, with visible pride on it's eyes, it patted it's chest, like asking for a praise.
"Oh, so you have a background." Lumi said uninterestingly.
"O-oh...yes..." The white wolf slump it's shoulder and began drawing circles in the ice, dark aura surrounds him. The white wolf is depressed....
"Do you have any martial arts out there?" He ask the depressed wolf. "Yes we have, from the contractor of our ancestors. We records their martial arts in our library. With this, we can give it to our contractor to strengthen him/her further."
"Give me all of it." He demand to the wolf. And the wolf only agrees because it knows that it's master is monster. He sees the other skills he had, but it needed for stronger body thus he can't practice it, he might face a severe backlash if he persist in using it, he already knows to use [darkness manipulation], [Wings Of Despair],[Transformation], [Devour], [Six-Extreme of Emotion], [Death Scythe]. The wings of Despair give immense speed and Despairing aura, the transformation skill is much more versatile. He can transform his body into anything he wants, and that is terrifying considering that ice is versatile in all areas. Devour is good, even though it is a bit sinister to use it but how can you consider that in this kind of situation?
Women, men and child, some are getting r*ped, killed, etc. Without the laws hunting them down. Because the laws are gone, the rulers are gone. The state of the world is, might makes you right, isn't? So why would he care about this things. Plus he can strengthen himself. The [Six-Extreme Emotion] is kinda hard for himself, he is basically emotionless now. He throw away his emotions, so this will be very hard for him, but the [Pain] and [Mourn], he knows how to do it. Because he experience it, he knows what kind of feeling is that.
Arcana tap the forehead of Lumi and information started to stream in his mind.
A lot of technique is here, ranging from sword to fist and spear techniques, he started reviewing them one by one.
He open his [Insight] [Sinister Eyes] and [speed-thought-processing] skills.
In his time-slowed mind. He is reviewing the techniques, he is viewing what is the best to learn, with [insight] activated, he began his search, Muscle and Tendon Body Transformation technique, he quickly saw this technique, this technique is great for laying foundations.
'what the hell is this qi and blood. Well I'll see it for myself then.' he is confused in this new words.
This Muscle and Tendon Body Transformation technique is an ancient technique from the martial arts world. This expells the impurities the body, then strengthening the Muscle and Tendon, transforms the bones and joints into steel like state. In which result in harmony in body and mind, and much purer mana you will draw in surroundings. This technique is hard to learn but with his skills activated, this is easy as pie.
'strengthening your body, this will make you compatible with any martial arts, footworks, and killing techniques too.'
[Mana increased+2]
[Mana increased +1]
[Mana increased +3]
His mana reserves increased too, the flow of mana in his body is much smoother this time.
'what if, you make a lot of cores instead of only one. A minor cores. A lot of minor cores, each core in every joint of the human body. Then what will happen? Of course, I can make explosive moves, like a sudden knee kick filled with power, or strengthen my body because of the mana, the existence and use of mana, my bones, muscles, tendon etc. will gastate it and further strengthen it. Okay, let's try it.'
[You are pioneering a new path.]
[Minor mana cores]
[Hela is interested]
[Hades raise an eyebrow]
[Message from Hela: hehe, my my, your overworking yourself, but your gains are really tremendous.]
[Message: you are genius in mana, huh. Even mastering the techniques and skills of mine, you can do it too. I must say, you've impressed me.]
He open his left eye then said. "I don't care."
[Message: wow, you're even colder than the ice in my realm, shivers*]
[You've block the connection between you and Hela]
Helheim.
"Ugh, this guy is so cold! Even jokes aren't getting anywhere! And ugh! Even me, a GodKing, you're still cold! Ungrateful bastard, I gave you my skills but you..." She started complaining about the treatment Lumi gave her.
" I wonder, when will your eyes soften? Will it happen or not?" she thought, with a lovely smile on her lips, she unconsciously smiled as she thought about him. There is something different about him, he is not just talented, but also hard worker, his talents paid off, because of his real hardwork. And most of all, the charisma, to become strong.
And there is this one woman, feeling as if someone is stealing an important part of herself. She frown at the thought of losing something important, her eyes glowing eerily. Jessica is already near on the shore, she is order to wait in the shore, because he is training in the middle of the ocean, even though she worry about him, but she knows that she will be holding back Lumi if she insisted.