330 Sea Depths (1/2)
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Six months after Raven left the Gentle Primates Tribe.
Tenrou's Spatial Abode flew within the fabrics of space, completely isolated from the senses of dangerous beasts that were surrounding it. Raven remained inside, constantly sharpening his skills and making steady progress on raising his strength to greater heights in order to ensure his safety in these dangerous area.
Inside one of the rooms, Raven could be seen fluttering in and out of existence like a ghost. His movements were precise and calculated, free of any excess movements which allowed him to conserve more energy to last longer.
He was being assaulted by hundreds of arrows, each arrow heads a dipped in paralyzing poison which could render him immobile if he got grazed by one. Nevertheless, the arrows failed to touch even the hem of his clothes. In fact, Raven was dodging these fast moving projectiles while he was blindfolded and he still looked relaxed.
Raven had been sharpening his enhanced awareness for a good amount of time and his gains were considerable. By default, he could sense everything within 500 meters around him with profound clarity. If he uses it alongside his ocular technique, he could stretch it out up to a kilometer in radius which definitely helped him out a lot. He could also maintain this state for about 30 minutes before starts feeling dizzy and his vision becomes blurry. His absolute limit is 50 minutes for now, but he's been working hard on his stamina as well.
Raven's also made progress on developing his Time Skin. He had adjusted to the 6th level of Stagnation Zone. This caused him to remain unperturbed by the slight delay in time, enabling him to move unhindered. He only had to reach the 10th level and his body would finally condense a Time Skin.
He had also started learning another skill from the Spatial Branch. The skill is called Spatial Folding.
Just like the name implies, it requires one to fold space. While this might sound extremely simple, it is very difficult to achieve.
Spatial Folding is the basis for many kind of Space related techniques. Teleportation, substitution, isolation, and etc. The concept of Spatial Folding is simple.
Space could be seen as a piece of Paper, then the distance from Point A to Point B is the opposite ends of the paper. Folding the Paper would cause Point A to overlap with Point B, effectively shrinking or even ignoring the distance that needs to be taken normally. That's Spatial Folding in a nutshell.
Teleportation could be seen as folding the paper and poking a hole on it. Substitution is taking a piece of paper on both ends and switching it's positions. Isolation is making the gap between Point A and Point B invisible from the naked eye.
All of these are had simple concepts behind but actually doing it is a different matter.
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”We're here.”
Raven muttered as he stared at the monitoring room of the Spatial Abode. He sighed and placed on a solemn expression.
The monitoring room had a huge screen made out of light that showed Raven his surroundings even without going outside.
The Spatial Abode is currently suspended on top of a vast sea that spans as far as the eyes could see. The ocean bustled with activity. Raven saw some regular marine animals and few oceanic beasts jumping out of the surface of the water. The water seems calm for the most part but Raven knew too well that he shouldn't be fooled by what's happening on the surface.
He placed his hands on the controls and drove the Spatial Abode to dive onto the depths of the sea. His goal is not to sail the expanse of this sea, his destination is its depths.