960 Did I Win? 1 (2/2)

However, there were also wills like Demonic will that had more subtle effects than the usual. It could be used to strengthen the body, and could also be used as a psychological attack.

Then there was killing intent. Interesting enough, there was no killing will or killing dao, this was what had Dyon lost in thought. He felt like he was back in school where experts would unnecessarily name things similarly as though they were purposefully trying to confuse those who came after them.

Killing intent was more like a martial art than anything else. And like other martial arts, it was reliant on the mind and the body, nothing more.

Presence was cultivated by tempering the mind. Perception was also cultivated by tempering the mind. As for Killing intent, it was no different. It was just that the approaches to each was vastly different.

Dyon's first comprehension of Perception came within the first trial maze. It forced his mind to work and think faster than it ever had before to solve an almost impossible problem.

Dyon fostered Perception before he even stepped into the martial world. It was a mind state he received from imitating his father and hero, while also constantly withstanding his father's Presence.

Killing intent, however, wasn't something Dyon had in a dense enough form to label it as true Killing intent. He simply didn't have the proper mind state to achieve it.

Dyon considered himself to be a person who paid debts where they were due, but he didn't kill indiscriminately. For example, he had no intention of killing the nine opponents that were priming to fight right now. In that way, he fell short of Donari who killed for the slightest slights…

But, was that really the way to groom killing intent? Why was it that Dyon had massacred millions of beasts during the third trial, yet hadn't grown a killing intent of his own? Did he really need to have the will to kill any and everything before he could? Did he even need killing intent since he had his Presence? Didn't they function similarly?

That was when Dyon thought of something else. Killing intent seemed like a regular martial art on the surface, but if he remembered correctly, normal martial arts solely required the body, yet killing intent was heavily linked to the soul as well… What if he didn't foster any killing intent after slaughtering all of those beasts because his soul was sealed then?

Just as Dyon felt he was reaching enlightenment, he suddenly felt gusts of wind rush toward him.