Chapter 70
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Although much later than Loki, Rykar had also decided to meditate in an attempt to calm himself down. Just like his brother, he had been shocked when he realized the changes that had come across the surroundings in this state. This shock quickly turned into glee as he pulled the sparkling lights into himself while feeling the slight hunger that had built up, slip away as.
As opposed to the grey lights that Loki had been drawing to himself, it was more like the world had turned into a fragmented rainbow for Rykar. Fireflies of different colours and shades clouded his consciousness while over a hundred times the particles available to Loki had opened themselves up to him.
Due to the density of the motes of light, he was drawing them in from the surroundings at a much slower rate than while on the planet they had ascended from, but the amount he was drawing in was staggering.
It was at this time he felt the disturbance around him, as though a ripple was spreading out from just next to him. 'seeing' the strange movement of the darker particles, he opened his eyes to see Loki sitting there with a calm look on his face. Despite not knowing the intricacies of the situation, there was no way he couldn't tell that there was something completely different when comparing the feeling he got from their meditative states before.
'He figured it out.'
Clenching his teeth, he tried to push the thought from his mind, but he was becoming more certain as the minutes passed. Loki had figured out how to turn the tornado into its smaller branches, just like it was shown in the book. Whereas he was still stuck doing it wrongly like a bumbling fool.
It was this moment when Loki fell to his side before looking around the room, finally locking his gave on his brother.
After the short interaction, Chance and Rob seemed to pick the perfect moment to wake up and split some of the tension coming from Rykar's silence and blaming gaze.
Two hours, seven portions of lunch and countless questions later, Loki had finished recounting the entirety of the day's events to Chance and Rob.
"You kids aren't seriously thinking of going through with this 'thing' are you?" Chance laughed slightly as he looked between the twins. "Sure, he makes it sound all fun and dandy. But it's a 'training' session where you don't know where you're going, or how long for. Hell, you don't even know who you're going with or what the hell The Guild is. Its obviously a criminal organization at best.
Were you both dropped on your heads as babies? You're telling me, a guy basically kidnapped you. Took you to a park, into an invisible temple. Beat you up. Played with magical butterflies. THEN asked you to come back in two months, and you agreed?! The most you can tell me about him is what his f*cking mouth looks like!" By now his voice was so high that he was practically singing.
"You don't get it. This was crazy!" Even with his calm attitude, Loki was finding it hard to keep his cool while explaining what was so crazy about the experience. The feelings that Marcel, the leader and the entire hall inspired were in a league of their own.
Despite the danger they felt initially, there was a certain yearning when seeing the few mysterious things that they had encountered. Honestly, it wasn't as much the mysteriousness of it all that drew them in. Neither was it the access to resources they were promised.
All in all, wasn't this JUST like all the books and stories they had been reading?!
Mysterious organizations.
Special abilities.
Super speed and strength.
There wasn't a chance in hell they would miss out on the opportunity, much less with the development of their own abilities which seemed to make no sense. F*ck staying in the city and buying a house, this whole thing was literally SCREAMING the word adventure.
"I don't know about Rykar, but I'm going." Loki's mind was dead set.
"F*ck that. You two aren't getting into this." Chance replied with hist as much conviction as Loki had, if not more.
"Oh? I didn't realise we had to ask your permission to go anywhere." With this final counter, Loki sank into the mattress as he closed his eyes and entered meditation.
"Ry-"
"I'm going." With that, Rykar also closed his eyes and ignored any attempts to speak sense into the boys. With Loki already having explained the method he used to split the initial whirlpool into two separate tendrils, he began to throw all his focus into achieving the same result.
"Take care of the kids, he said. They are like family, he said." Rob muttered sarcastically from the side which drew a glare from Chance.
"F*ck all this!" Chance jumped to his feet while stretching aggressively. "Let's go for a walk."
"Walk? And leave them here?" Rob looked at the silent twins while mentally comparing them to caged birds. "What if they end up heading out again? Why not take a look through though the books they brought back? They're both the same by the looks of it."
Thinking for a moment, Chance quickly took a seat on one of the chairs before reaching for the book that Rob was offering him.
The book wasn't exactly thick, but it also couldn't be called thin at all. It was at least 100 pages but it looked slimmer at first due to the length of the spine being around 50cm. Out of the 100 pages, Chance hadn't even flicked through 20 before he put down the book and slapped himself in the face before picking it up again to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
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Following in his footsteps, Rob grabbed the other book from the book before flicking through the first few pages only to find them filled with detailed drawings and notes on various plants and trees. On each of the pages, there were at least four different plants offering basic explanations on the environments they were found in, their features and some of their basic applications.
Creating numbing paste, foods, poisons, clotting blood, alleviating stomach pains, soothing sores on the feet. The book had it all, along with a handful of animals which were more commonly seen and likely to be found during the training assignment.
He had only been looking through the book for a while, but unlike Chance's reaction, Rob was greatly interested in the contents of the book. It wasn't particularly awe inspiring or something he wanted to pursue but, having lived in the city his entire life, he hadn't come into contact with plants in their initial forms aside from those which were edible.
It wasn't just the first few pages that were filled with these things. Over two thirds of the book was dedicated purely to plants with a few animals far and few in-between.
"Are they sending them to become f*cking herbalists or something?" Chance muttered while turning to the later portions of the book.
The next few pages went over some basic equipment that anyone would be familiar with had they been camping out in the woods before. Knives, flint, rope, bandages, flasks. It was all listed with their applications just in case anyone was dumb enough to be unaware.
*Elementary Meditation Technique*
This newest heading caught his attention before he had even finished reading the third word. What welcomed him further down the page were a set of diagrams which were similar yet entirely different from those they had been looking at until now.
The diagrams were still depicting the human body and various routes through it, but the way the energy was flowing through it was completely different.
The most crucial thing being that the technique they had been using up until now seemed to turn them into bottomless holes. Energy in the surroundings would be effected as through there was a force pulling them into their bodies. Their bodies would then absorb this energy when it came into contact with them.
The technique in the book could be described more as a… breathing technique?
With each breath, energy in the air would be swept into the lungs. After which, the technique would come into effect, filtering this and causing it to be absorbed into the body from within. Without even trying it out, it was difficult to image this being even a fraction as effective as that of what his father had been working on.
Determined to try this out regardless, Chance mentally laid it to the side as he zoned in on the contents that accompanied the technique on the next few pages.
These pages actually laid out the basics. Like, the BASIC BASICS that hadn't been included in his fathers notes or had been lost when they had split up. The technique that he received was as complete as he could hope for, however there was nothing in the way of development or explain exactly what was happening when he was using the technique.
It was as though he was given a cake to eat but had never seen any of the raw ingredients before.
For half an hour, he read over the next three pages three times over while completely ignoring any questions or comments from Rob.
What they were currently going through was the 'post-natal'. This was best explained as the body accumulating enough energy for it to realize its full potential, similar to a caterpillar being within a cocoon.
Without sufficient accumulation, either by slowly accumulating energy or by a strong external stimulus, the body would never usually reach the point where it was able to complete this metamorphosis. While metamorphosis was literally the most basic requirement possible for one to continue down the path of harmonizing with their respective attribute.
Thinking of potential and latent energy, humans could be compared to a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom. As they become, not only does the bucket get bigger, but the whole also gets larger. With the bucket starting at max capacity, it's then on the decline from then onwards.
In order to achieve the metamorphosis mentioned, one would have to start accumulating energy in a bid to refill this 'bucket' past bursting point after a certain amount of time and by doing so, allow themselves a second birth.
Hence, what followed the pre-natal was the post-natal.
Information further than this was omitted with a simple message ending the book. Along with a positive note prompting the applicants to strive for success, there were five pages dedicated to nothing but a few of the potential things that could be acquired through their private channels.
Just this list alone left Chance wondering if it was too late to join the assessment himself.
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Although much later than Loki, Rykar had also decided to meditate in an attempt to calm himself down. Just like his brother, he had been shocked when he realized the changes that had come across the surroundings in this state. This shock quickly turned into glee as he pulled the sparkling lights into himself while feeling the slight hunger that had built up, slip away as.
As opposed to the grey lights that Loki had been drawing to himself, it was more like the world had turned into a fragmented rainbow for Rykar. Fireflies of different colours and shades clouded his consciousness while over a hundred times the particles available to Loki had opened themselves up to him.
Due to the density of the motes of light, he was drawing them in from the surroundings at a much slower rate than while on the planet they had ascended from, but the amount he was drawing in was staggering.
It was at this time he felt the disturbance around him, as though a ripple was spreading out from just next to him. 'seeing' the strange movement of the darker particles, he opened his eyes to see Loki sitting there with a calm look on his face. Despite not knowing the intricacies of the situation, there was no way he couldn't tell that there was something completely different when comparing the feeling he got from their meditative states before.
'He figured it out.'
Clenching his teeth, he tried to push the thought from his mind, but he was becoming more certain as the minutes passed. Loki had figured out how to turn the tornado into its smaller branches, just like it was shown in the book. Whereas he was still stuck doing it wrongly like a bumbling fool.
It was this moment when Loki fell to his side before looking around the room, finally locking his gave on his brother.
After the short interaction, Chance and Rob seemed to pick the perfect moment to wake up and split some of the tension coming from Rykar's silence and blaming gaze.
Two hours, seven portions of lunch and countless questions later, Loki had finished recounting the entirety of the day's events to Chance and Rob.
"You kids aren't seriously thinking of going through with this 'thing' are you?" Chance laughed slightly as he looked between the twins. "Sure, he makes it sound all fun and dandy. But it's a 'training' session where you don't know where you're going, or how long for. Hell, you don't even know who you're going with or what the hell The Guild is. Its obviously a criminal organization at best.
Were you both dropped on your heads as babies? You're telling me, a guy basically kidnapped you. Took you to a park, into an invisible temple. Beat you up. Played with magical butterflies. THEN asked you to come back in two months, and you agreed?! The most you can tell me about him is what his f*cking mouth looks like!" By now his voice was so high that he was practically singing.
"You don't get it. This was crazy!" Even with his calm attitude, Loki was finding it hard to keep his cool while explaining what was so crazy about the experience. The feelings that Marcel, the leader and the entire hall inspired were in a league of their own.
Despite the danger they felt initially, there was a certain yearning when seeing the few mysterious things that they had encountered. Honestly, it wasn't as much the mysteriousness of it all that drew them in. Neither was it the access to resources they were promised.
All in all, wasn't this JUST like all the books and stories they had been reading?!
Mysterious organizations.
Special abilities.
Super speed and strength.
There wasn't a chance in hell they would miss out on the opportunity, much less with the development of their own abilities which seemed to make no sense. F*ck staying in the city and buying a house, this whole thing was literally SCREAMING the word adventure.
"I don't know about Rykar, but I'm going." Loki's mind was dead set.
"F*ck that. You two aren't getting into this." Chance replied with hist as much conviction as Loki had, if not more.
"Oh? I didn't realise we had to ask your permission to go anywhere." With this final counter, Loki sank into the mattress as he closed his eyes and entered meditation.
"Ry-"
"I'm going." With that, Rykar also closed his eyes and ignored any attempts to speak sense into the boys. With Loki already having explained the method he used to split the initial whirlpool into two separate tendrils, he began to throw all his focus into achieving the same result.
"Take care of the kids, he said. They are like family, he said." Rob muttered sarcastically from the side which drew a glare from Chance.
"F*ck all this!" Chance jumped to his feet while stretching aggressively. "Let's go for a walk."
"Walk? And leave them here?" Rob looked at the silent twins while mentally comparing them to caged birds. "What if they end up heading out again? Why not take a look through though the books they brought back? They're both the same by the looks of it."
Thinking for a moment, Chance quickly took a seat on one of the chairs before reaching for the book that Rob was offering him.
The book wasn't exactly thick, but it also couldn't be called thin at all. It was at least 100 pages but it looked slimmer at first due to the length of the spine being around 50cm. Out of the 100 pages, Chance hadn't even flicked through 20 before he put down the book and slapped himself in the face before picking it up again to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
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Following in his footsteps, Rob grabbed the other book from the book before flicking through the first few pages only to find them filled with detailed drawings and notes on various plants and trees. On each of the pages, there were at least four different plants offering basic explanations on the environments they were found in, their features and some of their basic applications.
Creating numbing paste, foods, poisons, clotting blood, alleviating stomach pains, soothing sores on the feet. The book had it all, along with a handful of animals which were more commonly seen and likely to be found during the training assignment.
He had only been looking through the book for a while, but unlike Chance's reaction, Rob was greatly interested in the contents of the book. It wasn't particularly awe inspiring or something he wanted to pursue but, having lived in the city his entire life, he hadn't come into contact with plants in their initial forms aside from those which were edible.
It wasn't just the first few pages that were filled with these things. Over two thirds of the book was dedicated purely to plants with a few animals far and few in-between.
"Are they sending them to become f*cking herbalists or something?" Chance muttered while turning to the later portions of the book.
The next few pages went over some basic equipment that anyone would be familiar with had they been camping out in the woods before. Knives, flint, rope, bandages, flasks. It was all listed with their applications just in case anyone was dumb enough to be unaware.
*Elementary Meditation Technique*
This newest heading caught his attention before he had even finished reading the third word. What welcomed him further down the page were a set of diagrams which were similar yet entirely different from those they had been looking at until now.
The diagrams were still depicting the human body and various routes through it, but the way the energy was flowing through it was completely different.
The most crucial thing being that the technique they had been using up until now seemed to turn them into bottomless holes. Energy in the surroundings would be effected as through there was a force pulling them into their bodies. Their bodies would then absorb this energy when it came into contact with them.
The technique in the book could be described more as a… breathing technique?
With each breath, energy in the air would be swept into the lungs. After which, the technique would come into effect, filtering this and causing it to be absorbed into the body from within. Without even trying it out, it was difficult to image this being even a fraction as effective as that of what his father had been working on.
Determined to try this out regardless, Chance mentally laid it to the side as he zoned in on the contents that accompanied the technique on the next few pages.
These pages actually laid out the basics. Like, the BASIC BASICS that hadn't been included in his fathers notes or had been lost when they had split up. The technique that he received was as complete as he could hope for, however there was nothing in the way of development or explain exactly what was happening when he was using the technique.
It was as though he was given a cake to eat but had never seen any of the raw ingredients before.
For half an hour, he read over the next three pages three times over while completely ignoring any questions or comments from Rob.
What they were currently going through was the 'post-natal'. This was best explained as the body accumulating enough energy for it to realize its full potential, similar to a caterpillar being within a cocoon.
Without sufficient accumulation, either by slowly accumulating energy or by a strong external stimulus, the body would never usually reach the point where it was able to complete this metamorphosis. While metamorphosis was literally the most basic requirement possible for one to continue down the path of harmonizing with their respective attribute.
Thinking of potential and latent energy, humans could be compared to a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom. As they become, not only does the bucket get bigger, but the whole also gets larger. With the bucket starting at max capacity, it's then on the decline from then onwards.
In order to achieve the metamorphosis mentioned, one would have to start accumulating energy in a bid to refill this 'bucket' past bursting point after a certain amount of time and by doing so, allow themselves a second birth.
Hence, what followed the pre-natal was the post-natal.
Information further than this was omitted with a simple message ending the book. Along with a positive note prompting the applicants to strive for success, there were five pages dedicated to nothing but a few of the potential things that could be acquired through their private channels.
Just this list alone left Chance wondering if it was too late to join the assessment himself.
Although much later than Loki, Rykar had also decided to meditate in an attempt to calm himself down. Just like his brother, he had been shocked when he realized the changes that had come across the surroundings in this state. This shock quickly turned into glee as he pulled the sparkling lights into himself while feeling the slight hunger that had built up, slip away as.As opposed to the grey lights that Loki had been drawing to himself, it was more like the world had turned into a fragmented rainbow for Rykar. Fireflies of different colours and shades clouded his consciousness while over a hundred times the particles available to Loki had opened themselves up to him.Due to the density of the motes of light, he was drawing them in from the surroundings at a much slower rate than while on the planet they had ascended from, but the amount he was drawing in was staggering.It was at this time he felt the disturbance around him, as though a ripple was spreading out from just next to him. 'seeing' the strange movement of the darker particles, he opened his eyes to see Loki sitting there with a calm look on his face. Despite not knowing the intricacies of the situation, there was no way he couldn't tell that there was something completely different when comparing the feeling he got from their meditative states before.'He figured it out.'Clenching his teeth, he tried to push the thought from his mind, but he was becoming more certain as the minutes passed. Loki had figured out how to turn the tornado into its smaller branches, just like it was shown in the book. Whereas he was still stuck doing it wrongly like a bumbling fool.It was this moment when Loki fell to his side before looking around the room, finally locking his gave on his brother.After the short interaction, Chance and Rob seemed to pick the perfect moment to wake up and split some of the tension coming from Rykar's silence and blaming gaze.Two hours, seven portions of lunch and countless questions later, Loki had finished recounting the entirety of the day's events to Chance and Rob."You kids aren't seriously thinking of going through with this 'thing' are you?" Chance laughed slightly as he looked between the twins. "Sure, he makes it sound all fun and dandy. But it's a 'training' session where you don't know where you're going, or how long for. Hell, you don't even know who you're going with or what the hell The Guild is. Its obviously a criminal organization at best.Were you both dropped on your heads as babies? You're telling me, a guy basically kidnapped you. Took you to a park, into an invisible temple. Beat you up. Played with magical butterflies. THEN asked you to come back in two months, and you agreed?! The most you can tell me about him is what his f*cking mouth looks like!" By now his voice was so high that he was practically singing."You don't get it. This was crazy!" Even with his calm attitude, Loki was finding it hard to keep his cool while explaining what was so crazy about the experience. The feelings that Marcel, the leader and the entire hall inspired were in a league of their own.Despite the danger they felt initially, there was a certain yearning when seeing the few mysterious things that they had encountered. Honestly, it wasn't as much the mysteriousness of it all that drew them in. Neither was it the access to resources they were promised.All in all, wasn't this JUST like all the books and stories they had been reading?!Mysterious organizations.Special abilities.Super speed and strength.There wasn't a chance in hell they would miss out on the opportunity, much less with the development of their own abilities which seemed to make no sense. F*ck staying in the city and buying a house, this whole thing was literally SCREAMING the word adventure."I don't know about Rykar, but I'm going." Loki's mind was dead set."F*ck that. You two aren't getting into this." Chance replied with hist as much conviction as Loki had, if not more."Oh? I didn't realise we had to ask your permission to go anywhere." With this final counter, Loki sank into the mattress as he closed his eyes and entered meditation."Ry-""I'm going." With that, Rykar also closed his eyes and ignored any attempts to speak sense into the boys. With Loki already having explained the method he used to split the initial whirlpool into two separate tendrils, he began to throw all his focus into achieving the same result."Take care of the kids, he said. They are like family, he said." Rob muttered sarcastically from the side which drew a glare from Chance."F*ck all this!" Chance jumped to his feet while stretching aggressively. "Let's go for a walk.""Walk? And leave them here?" Rob looked at the silent twins while mentally comparing them to caged birds. "What if they end up heading out again? Why not take a look through though the books they brought back? They're both the same by the looks of it."Thinking for a moment, Chance quickly took a seat on one of the chairs before reaching for the book that Rob was offering him.The book wasn't exactly thick, but it also couldn't be called thin at all. It was at least 100 pages but it looked slimmer at first due to the length of the spine being around 50cm. Out of the 100 pages, Chance hadn't even flicked through 20 before he put down the book and slapped himself in the face before picking it up again to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Find authorized novels in Webnovelfaster updates, better experiencePlease click www.webnovel.com for visiting.Following in his footsteps, Rob grabbed the other book from the book before flicking through the first few pages only to find them filled with detailed drawings and notes on various plants and trees. On each of the pages, there were at least four different plants offering basic explanations on the environments they were found in, their features and some of their basic applications.Creating numbing paste, foods, poisons, clotting blood, alleviating stomach pains, soothing sores on the feet. The book had it all, along with a handful of animals which were more commonly seen and likely to be found during the training assignment.He had only been looking through the book for a while, but unlike Chance's reaction, Rob was greatly interested in the contents of the book. It wasn't particularly awe inspiring or something he wanted to pursue but, having lived in the city his entire life, he hadn't come into contact with plants in their initial forms aside from those which were edible.It wasn't just the first few pages that were filled with these things. Over two thirds of the book was dedicated purely to plants with a few animals far and few in-between."Are they sending them to become f*cking herbalists or something?" Chance muttered while turning to the later portions of the book.The next few pages went over some basic equipment that anyone would be familiar with had they been camping out in the woods before. Knives, flint, rope, bandages, flasks. It was all listed with their applications just in case anyone was dumb enough to be unaware.*Elementary Meditation Technique*This newest heading caught his attention before he had even finished reading the third word. What welcomed him further down the page were a set of diagrams which were similar yet entirely different from those they had been looking at until now.The diagrams were still depicting the human body and various routes through it, but the way the energy was flowing through it was completely different.The most crucial thing being that the technique they had been using up until now seemed to turn them into bottomless holes. Energy in the surroundings would be effected as through there was a force pulling them into their bodies. Their bodies would then absorb this energy when it came into contact with them.The technique in the book could be described more as a breathing technique?With each breath, energy in the air would be swept into the lungs. After which, the technique would come into effect, filtering this and causing it to be absorbed into the body from within. Without even trying it out, it was difficult to image this being even a fraction as effective as that of what his father had been working on.Determined to try this out regardless, Chance mentally laid it to the side as he zoned in on the contents that accompanied the technique on the next few pages.These pages actually laid out the basics. Like, the BASIC BASICS that hadn't been included in his fathers notes or had been lost when they had split up. The technique that he received was as complete as he could hope for, however there was nothing in the way of development or explain exactly what was happening when he was using the technique.It was as though he was given a cake to eat but had never seen any of the raw ingredients before.For half an hour, he read over the next three pages three times over while completely ignoring any questions or comments from Rob.What they were currently going through was the 'post-natal'. This was best explained as the body accumulating enough energy for it to realize its full potential, similar to a caterpillar being within a cocoon.Without sufficient accumulation, either by slowly accumulating energy or by a strong external stimulus, the body would never usually reach the point where it was able to complete this metamorphosis. While metamorphosis was literally the most basic requirement possible for one to continue down the path of harmonizing with their respective attribute.Thinking of potential and latent energy, humans could be compared to a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom. As they become, not only does the bucket get bigger, but the whole also gets larger. With the bucket starting at max capacity, it's then on the decline from then onwards.In order to achieve the metamorphosis mentioned, one would have to start accumulating energy in a bid to refill this 'bucket' past bursting point after a certain amount of time and by doing so, allow themselves a second birth.Hence, what followed the pre-natal was the post-natal.Information further than this was omitted with a simple message ending the book. Along with a positive note prompting the applicants to strive for success, there were five pages dedicated to nothing but a few of the potential things that could be acquired through their private channels.Just this list alone left Chance wondering if it was too late to join the assessment himself.
