Bab 496: What's Missing?

Just looking at these all calm and silent spheres of black energy without having any way to control them was really, really frustrating.

I wanted to complete this technique. I could feel it deep down my bones. I was close, so damn close to get it finished.

But for some reason, there was a thick wall standing between me and seeing the answer.

[They might be missing a circle to join them together] Sith proposed such a solution, which seemed logical in my eyes.

But as I tried to draw a circle with one pillar and my blood, it crumbled down on itself the moment I did it.

It felt like there was something missing, deep inside the balls themselves. "The circle isn't the answer," I muttered, "what is missing from my other techniques?"

I started to recall how I performed my other techniques. The more I thought, the more puzzled I got. "Only my fist getting in the middle of the technique… But I used to do such steps once the technique was done… Or is it done here?"