Chapter 502: Peters Weirdness (1/2)

”You don't have the qualifications to know the secrets of the Flames of Olympus but I'll say this much…” Peter looked at him intently and continued: ”If it deems you unworthy to wield its gifts, there's nothing you can do to prevent it from taking it away from you. One day, when you're at the position to know more, you'll understand more. For now, this should suffice.”

Raven nodded at him and remained silent, he had his own thoughts about the subject but he chose to keep it to himself.

”Alright, since that's out of the way. Why don't we move on to the more important things?” Peter asked, to which Raven nodded. ”I'll perform the White Gloves and I want you to observe closely okay?”

Raven nodded again and his eyes began shining, Peter didn't notice this and even if he did, he won't care nor ask. Without even closing his eyes, he began chanting the same syllables for the technique. Raven immediately picked a huge difference just from that, however he remained silent as to not distract Peter from his concentration.

Once he's done chanting, Peter's hand was then covered with white flames. Raven saw the process closely and saw many things that he needs to improve on.

Unlike his version, Peter's version of White Gloves were undoubtedly better. It was steady, not fluctuating and dense. Just from the display alone, Peter's version looked like as if he was actually wearing white gloves.

Peter's eyes regained their focus, he then looked at Raven and asked: ”So? What did you notice?”

”The chant has a clear intent as well as varying intonations, which I failed to realize on my own.” Raven replied, ”I also see that difference between a seed bearer and a regular cleanser. Unlike me, the flames you invoked needed your Essence Energy as food in order to continue burning. As for me, I can directly tap into the seed and have it course in my body with the guide of the chants.”

”Also, it would seem that it's not called 'White Gloves' for no reason.” Raven muttered, ”Which means that if I want to get better, I need to make sure to keep the fluctuations at the barest minimum and make the density of the flames I invoke, greater.”

Raven looked up to Peter only to see him staring him, lips twitching, he tilted his head and asked: ”Did I mention something wrong?”

”Wha-No! No, you didn't.” Peter replied, silently thinking to himself: 'Damn, Monica said he was sharp but I wasn't expecting him to be this sharp. Who the hell is this kid and where did he come from?'

Peter then cleared his throat and said: ”The things you pointed out are the exact things that I want you to hone. Well, except for the chant actually. Like I said, the chants on the book are dispensable for you. You don't really need to focus too much attention to them. Instead, work on fire control.”

”Commune with it, play with it, talk to it, I don't care. So long as you develop a deep connection to it, you'll be good. If you reach the level where you can use it as if it's an extension of you arm, then that's basically all that you need.” Peter advised.

”The 9 Cleansing Plume is written by Senior Brother Theo. As the first Cleansing Flame Seed Bearer, he could use all of this technique subconsciously. He only made this technique for us - regular cleansers in order to help us achieve the results we're after. I can only show you how it's done and how you will use it to get rid of the Devil Emperor's residual will, but as for how you achieve the results, our paths will greatly differ from yours.”

Raven listened closely as he explained, nodding every now and then. He understood what Peter meant by his words.

”Well then, since you already knew which areas to improve upon, you may as well begin fixing them now.” Peter said, ”I don't have all day though, I'm needed there so I can only take you so far.”

”I understand.” Raven nodded once more as he began concentrating to invoke the flames.

Peter then sat down and watch as Raven tried correcting his mistakes by himself. As a Veteran Cleanser, time was Merit Points to him. It's unknown just how much merit points he's losing by remaining here and watching Raven corrects his mistakes but it didn't really matter that much to him.

If it means that their chapel would be able to save the lives of other more disciples and prevent them from turning into mindless slaves of the Devil Emperor, then every single Merit Points lost is a worth it trade.

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Peter remained with Raven for four hours, observing him closely and giving him hints to perfect his technique.