Bab 17: Mind Sabotage
Zamright was suddenly surprised to find a bank at a corner. It seemed like a big vault of high technology. "Lady Sisi is very hard-working…"
Zamright words trailed as he found Van's eyes closed and slowly moving toward him.
Van was trying to reach for Zamright like a zombie or as if he was possessed.
Clap!
A certain frequency clap from Zamright snapped Van back to normal.
"Master, you said something!" He doesn't remember behaving strangely.
"Have you eaten?" Zamright asked out of concern.
"Yes. I have." Van replied.
"Good, go and rest!" Zamright ordered.
"I can go on. By the way, it was Lady Shisha who sent the Bank. She bought one of Blue Blood's mansions in her territory and innit was the Bank." Van explained. "She said she will try to get more."
"Oky. Now, go and sleep." This order can't be denied.
Van did feel there was something wrong but he went and lied nonetheless. Nothing happened to Van again.
Zamright checked the Century Blood Bank. It was different from the one he had knowledge of. He sat properly and pushed his body to make another Impure Essence.
It has gotten harder, he felt as if he was scratching his spirit in doing so and when he managed to do it, he gasped as an entirely different coin was made.
A rough larger coin with a bit of marking on it. At one side was the word "one" in an old language that denoted numbers.
"Now I understand. The First Purification was the real Blood Essence Purity but this one was Whole Nature Purity. I'm removing the very existence of my master's energy from me. I'm removing whatever spell or intent placed on me by just being around them!"
Usually, a lower being gets affected by being around higher beings. Their relevant power may affect them with either positive and negative effects or both.
This Second Purification can help remove all that, and if there was some bind or hold placed on him, Zamright will be breaking and purifying himself from that.
Zamright smiled, his heart filled with gladness as he muttered to himself, "This coin can even be considered to be the presence or aura or remnant of my master. To me, it is more valuable than the first impure essence."
After making the new iron coin he felt the amount of exalted energy in him increased.
He smiled as he understood the benefits of the coin. His new blessing of Exalted energy will have a trace of his master but through this batch of coins, he can remove that and make the energy truly his.
Zamright felt he had recovered and was about to do it again when the scenery changed and he found himself elsewhere.
He turned and stood in the changed scenery. Van Neem was a distance away on the floor, lying and snoring. But around him were rings of strange writings.
Zamright felt something was trying to reach him but Van Neem was resisting somewhat despite being asleep. Whatever it was, he was overpowered and the rings expanded and reached Zamright.
Next, he felt a pull toward the rings, to touch it, to read it, and to allow the knowledge to enter him.
Zamright smirked at this and he just followed what was coming from the energy writings. Immediately, he felt some questions asking him things about his visit to the Great Lantern.
He doesn't need to answer directly but with agreement he will give answers to all the questions being asked. Zamright resisted this one.
Clap!
Van Neem jolted awake and he looked around.
Shock and fear gripped him and he looked around, "Not this dream again!" he said in frustration but then he saw Zamright reading at the writing on the floor.
He became more shocked. "Master Zamright. Are you here?"
"Someone has dragged us into a mental connection for some kind of information gathering!" Zamright said casually.
"Oh." The man was confused because things of this level were oblivious to him.
Zamright studied the man before he smiled, "You have been resisting it for months but you didn't know. I have to change that!'
"Van come sit down here!" Van did as he was ordered. "Tell me about your combat experience. "
Like a robot he answered, "Well, I have an above-average physique which allows me to join combat training in the early years of my life. At 18 I was deployed in a war in the middle of the continent. Which lasted years. I was in that service when I got married at the age of 21. The war ended when I was 29. I was injured but my willpower impressed the doctors and I was transferred to Human Supremacy for an experiment that turned me into SuperHuman."
Van said with some grimace, certainly, those were some bad memories he had.
"It was five years ago that I was left to retire, however, the toll of the drugs and strength serum has taken a toll on my body. I spent 1 year in a coma and another year unable to do anything. After I recovered, I gained one last serum that I can use before my body stops functioning anymore!"
Zamright didn't allow him to continue before he said, "I want to know about your battle technique and skills!"
He wasn't asking about some long boring history. Everybody has those.
"Ah. I trained using a Shifting Blade. A technique that emphasizes dodging attacks and swordplay to confuse opponents. But the organization make us train in other weapons and techniques however I'm not allowed to share them"
"Okay. I will teach you something. But if we wake up, give me that serum!" Zamright acknowledged the confidentiality Van wanted to keep.
"Yes. Master."
They stood and Zamright began to move in a circular form while moving his body strangely. He repeated that numerous times until he knew that Van grasped a bit of it.
Then he allowed the man to practice while correcting mistakes until he was barely correct.
But the moment he did well, the dream broke and Van woke up with fright in the real world.
He then dashed out and found Zamright busy checking the Bank.
"It's a dream again!" Van uttered out loud with gladness.
He turned around to leave and Zamright asked, "Do you know what that technique was?"
Van froze!
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