Chapter 966: Finishing (1/2)

Gran is using a extremely straightforward method to merge two elements. And all that needs is an extreme control of energy. When Sam saw this, he felt like his level of control might even be less than her own.

It is that critical and delicate.

But it is simple to explain. Unlike Sam who channels both energies at the same time by taking advantage of his beast like meridians, Gran channels one energy after another. She channels, shadow energy and space energy one after another in extreme speeds that there would be an overlap between both energies which gave her the opening to use both energies combined.

If one has a great command and control over their own energy with a perfect timing, they can merge any two energies.

Gran smiled at Sam as she reached a proper state to move, but just as she was about to make that move, Sam also returned her smile and used his own version of shadow and space elemental merge.

The shock of Gran is more than what Sam felt when he saw her use that.

Most of his surprise is due to the fact that he forgot that she has spatial element as she mostly used shadow element throughout the race. But her shock is due to the fact that she felt it is extremely unfair for Sam to possess spatial element too which she thought as an edge over him.

This made her more determined to win this race and she blinked and disappeared into the nearest shadow and in the next moment, she remerged on another shadow on the surface of the mountain.

Sam looked at her coming through that shadow and felt surprised once again and he looked at the setting sun on the side.

She is using the sun set to her advantage as it caused the rocky protrusions on the surface of the mountain, even the small protrusions to cast large shadows and she is using those shadows to her own advantage and created a technique similar to shadow transverse.

Generally, spatial blink takes a lot of energy, because the spatial enery used for transporting a person or an object is a lot and in addition to locating the next point the person wants to move to is also an extra energy expense.

Now she is eliminating all of this, she is reducing her body mass by directly entering the shadow nearby merging into it and then using the shadow energy to locate the shadows nearby and pinpointed the farthest shadow she could get access to and then using the spatial energy to blink her low mass body to that point.

That makes it easier for her move and use blink more often. Almost like a normal move.

Sam never felt this stupid in his life.

As he looked at her way of moving and felt like an idiot thinking on how he missed this kind of technique which uses the most basic principles of the respective energy usage.

Sometimes, it is really hard to notice the simplest of the things.

Sam decided to use the same technique and merged in the nearest shadow and reappeared in the farthest shadow he could access to.

When he did it for the first time, he is not as fast as Gran is nor did he cross the same distance as she did. But he didn't feel disappointed. Once he understood the principle it is only a matter of number of trails and he would be proficient in any thing. He is proud of his learning ability and there is not much to learn in this thing.

So, he started moving forward without much hesitation.

Gran, who is also moving upwards halted in her tracks as she hung with the support of a protrusion and looked at Sam who is using the same technique as her.

It didn't take long for her to figure it out that he is using her own technique in a race against her. She really wanted to curse Sam and his eighteen generations of ancestors out loud in the open.

But she controlled the urge and threw a knife downwards after observing a few moves of Sam.

Her knife hit a protrusion as soon as Sam disappeared into a shadow.

Sam who is in the middle of the motion, felt suffocated and stuck. He felt like he was being crushed by a compact space and he channeled his energy rapidly which made him reappear in the middle of the path.

As he was about to fall down, he slammed his palm into the mountain surface and held onto the small groove he made tightly.

He looked around to notice that the shadow he marked to transfer to was gone and that is reason why he was stopped midway. If not for his control, he would have suffered some severe backlash.