Chapitre 42: Trying The New Ability

After swallowing the last bit of crocodile meat that was already inside his mouth and then licking the area around his mouth to clean it up, Matthew then returned his focus onto figuring out how to use the wolf's innate aura ability.

To try and solve the problem, Matthew is now currently trying to break down the problems one by one.

'The main goal is to spread the aura that is released from my wolf head across my whole body and I have to prevent the aura from leaking outside through my chameleon body parts. But the problem is when I try to control my aura to do one thing, the other thing starts to crumble.'

'There is no problem when I first gather the aura on my head and release it. The problem starts when I try to focus on spreading the aura from my head to my whole body. How to keep the other aura in my body from moving outwards?'

Matthew then tried connecting with the white orb and activated his chameleon innate aura ability to try and get a better understanding of the aura.

Because Matthew is already quite familiar with the chameleon's innate aura ability, it didn't take Matthew more than a thought and a slight visualization to control the aura inside his body to activate the aura ability.

Matthew then repeated the process several more times and observed closely how activating the aura ability affects the movement of the aura inside his body.

After watching how the aura moved over and over again, Matthew realized that the aura never stopped moving inside his body even though he didn't control the aura. Even when Matthew is staying still and doesn't do anything, the aura is still circulating around his body in a fixed path through the aura pathway and doesn't stop moving at all.

But one thing that Matthew also noticed when activating his aura ability is that. When he visualizes the aura to move outwards towards his body, what actually happened is that not all 100% of the aura inside the aura pathway moved outwards to his body. But instead, the aura is split fifty-fifty. Half is moving outside to activate the chameleon's aura ability, while the other half stayed inside the aura pathway and continued its journey coursing around Matthew's body.

Seeing all this, Matthew finally realized something that might help him solve the problem of activating the wolf's innate aura ability. And that is the fact the aura is constantly moving.

Earlier when Matthew tried to stop the aura leakage, he tried to control them so that they stopped moving outwards, and while he succeeded in controlling the leakage after giving it his full attention, the aura that is moving from his head is constantly moving even without Matthew's control and resulting in the aura spreading all over the place instead of covering his whole body.

After getting a deeper understanding of the aura, Matthew finally realized why he needed to exert his full focus to stop the aura from moving which is the complete opposite of the nature of the aura to constantly move around even without control.

Now that he understood it, Matthew finally realized his mistake and now he had to find a different approach that didn't contradict the innate nature of the aura. Matthew then stayed still and racked his brain.

'If the aura liked to move so much then instead of telling them to stop moving, why don't I tell them to move elsewhere instead?'

'Yes, that must be it!'

Matthew then connected to his aura center and started manipulating the aura to course through his head and outside of his body. But before he controlled the aura from his head to spread evenly throughout his body, and at the same time, Matthew also controlled the aura inside his body to constantly keep flowing inside the aura pathway and not steer off course.

This slight change in Matthew's control over the aura affected everything in the process of activating the aura ability. Before using the new method, Matthew was forced to exert a lot of his attention to stop the aura from leaking outside. But now that he commands the aura to 'move' along inside the aura pathway and stay in its course. It doesn't even take a quarter of Matthew's focus to control the aura to do what they usually do every day, every hour, even every second.

Whilst Matthew's attention is still split in two, the command to control the aura to stay in their course didn't really give him a noticeable burden to his mind and enabled him to put his main attention on spreading the aura from his head to cover his whole body.

Now that Matthew didn't have to deal with the aura leakage all over his body, he is able to slowly move the aura from his head to spread evenly all over his body. From the sides, from over the top and beneath, covering all sides of his body.

And the moment the wolf's aura covered Matthew's whole body, Matthew suddenly felt that the aura seeped back inside his body. From feeling the sensation inside his body, he could feel that the aura that seeped back into his body is merging with his bones and muscles and Matthew could physically feel his body is getting stronger.

'This is definitely the wolf's innate aura ability!'

Different from the chameleon's innate ability that didn't have an immediate effect that he could recognize, the moment the wolf's innate ability activated, Matthew could clearly feel that his body was getting stronger and power seemed to well up inside his body.

Curious about his body's newfound strength, Matthew then walked out of his nest and the moment he got his feet out of the nest, Matthew started running.

Matthew felt that his body is lighter than ever, he could easily move his body without giving it much effort. And although he still couldn't run as fast as the wolves because his chameleon legs physiology prevented him from doing so, he could still feel a significant difference compared to when he just ran normally without the wolf's innate aura ability.

But the wolf's innate aura ability not only enhanced Matthew's speed but also his overall strength. His tongue became at least twice as strong and Matthew could now easily pull his body upwards as if his body was only as heavy as a pebble when he used his tongue to hang on a tree branch.

The aura ability also made his body even tougher, including his teeth and claws. When Matthew stabbed his claws as hard as he could while using the wolf's aura ability, he could even pierce through the crocodile's hard bony scales on its back, and the same also goes for his teeth.

While testing out the ability, Matthew then realized how dangerous and powerful the wolves would be if they activated their aura ability. And he felt that he was actually quite lucky that he didn't even get the slightest idea to mess with the wolves head-on and actually ambush them one by one catching them off guard and killing them before they're able to group up and activate their aura ability.

With this aura ability that enhanced his strength significantly, even Matthew is confident that he could defeat a deer one on one without using his camouflage ability at all and just run straight to the deer head-on. If there are actually 5 physically enhanced wolves, Matthew can't even imagine how much can they achieve with that kind of strength.

'I guess I'm lucky that I kind of overestimated their ability and be very careful when dealing with them.'

Satisfied with testing out his new ability, Matthew finally turned off the aura ability and checked his aura center.

'I've only used it for about 10 minutes but it already takes so much aura?'

When Matthew looked at the glowing white orb, it already lost quite an amount of its glow. When he used the chameleon's aura ability, 10 minutes of usage won't take this much aura, while the wolf's ability took about 1 and a half more than the chameleon's.

'If I can truly recreate the effect of this wolf's ability without actually using the ability, then I can even enhance myself while I'm in full invisibility… Isn't that...cheating...? I will have a broken advantage and there's no GM here that will patch my cheat-like abilities!'

'But for now, I need to practice activating the ability so that it would be as easy as activating the chameleon's ability. My opponents surely won't be just waiting idly for me to activate my ability for a minute.'

Matthew then spent the rest of the day training the activation speed of the wolf's ability and eating today's portion of crocodiles before finally went to sleep early, because he wanted to explore the new area again tomorrow and search for another snake while also testing the limitations on one of his abilities.