38 Seals (1/2)

Taku almost jumped in fright when he saw the shadow but then Chiwenga spoke. ”Don't mind him. He is an old friend who does not want to leave me alone.”

Taku calmed down a bit after hearing this. He stared at his Master and the shadow behind him silently, he could tell from his Master's expression that he was truly shocked by what Taku had told him. Taku could only imagine how he would take it if he told his Master the whole truth. It took a while but Chiwenga finally calmed down

”This world has too many mysterious things! So what happens when the two entities start fighting again?” his Master's gaze contained a bit of worry when he asked this question.

Taku's expression heard this question and he stiffened a bit before saying. ”Did you hear about the incident at one of the Elephant foot guard bases four years ago?

Chiwenga nodded as his expression turned grave. ”I slaughtered a quarter of the participants that time. Whenever they begin fighting I usually lose control and turn violent. I will kill anything that has a pulse.”

Even though Chiwenga had anticipated the answer, his face still turned grave when he heard it. Taku was relatively weak in physical power when compared to other people. So Chiwenga could not help but ask. ”Did you have your awakening early? Most people like you rely on such means to know which type of cultivator they are. But some noble families have a way to awaken their children's ability without using such a risky technique.”

Taku just shook his head which caused his Master to sigh. ”This is the first time that I have met someone like you… I thought that my situation was bad, but yours is just on another level.” By the time that he was done talking the shadow behind him had already disappeared. This further led Taku to believe that his Master was far more powerful than he had initially thought. He chose not to ask questions and just kept his suspicions to himself.

Seeing this his Master smiled and took out a book which he handed to Taku. ”This book is a soul skill. It's a nameless technique and its purpose it's to create these things called soul seals. These seals are similar to inscriptions that you find on certain weapons.”

Chiwenga stopped explaining when he noticed the confused expression that his disciple wore. He sighed when he knew that his disciple did not even know this.” Most spirit weapons have these things called inscriptions. When you pour your zesa into your weapon this inscriptions will light up and will either increase the weapons offense or defence. These soul seals are similar to that. The only difference is that you don't put these on weapons after you make them.

Instead you place them on your soul. Now here is how it works. The more seals you create the better. Each seal you create has a different use, for example I have created 10 seals, one is for tracking, if I place this seal on anyone then no matter how far away from them I am I can find them or my arrow will always follow until it hits its target.

The other on is a zesa amplification seal, every time I want to increase the power of any skill I sue this seal. It can amplify your zesa to a terrifying degree, but it has its side-effects. the side effects aren't that severe if you use it once every two or so days but if you use it repeatedly you could lose your battle strength for hour or even a couple of days. I will only tell you about these two for now.”

Taku opened the book and realised that it truly only had descriptions of these two seals. ”But Master, what about archery?”

”You will spend five hours every day on target practice. As for archer skills, I will only impart you some when your accuracy reaches 90%.” Taku's expression turned blank when he heard this. His Master smiled and continued. ”There is another seal that I will teach you later on. This seal will allow you to control weapons with your soul power. Like you know how you can spread your soul outside your body and see everything around you? This seal does something similar. Only when you place the seal on a weapon it will carry a carry a strand of your soul. You will be able to see whatever is around that weapon. And you can also control that weapon even though it's not in your hands.”

Taku quickly began reading the descriptions of the seal. He fully engrossed himself in his studies to the point where he forgot the flow of time. He only lifted his head and went to practise Archery after his Master had told him to do so. The Master and disciple duo left the Training hall and left the town. The town was surrounded by a desert, this desert was called the Kalahari. It was awefully barren and had nothing really to spectate.

The duo walked for about an hour before they arrived at a place that looked like a place that held archery competitions. His Master stopped when they were about 20 meters away from the targets. ”We will start from here. If you reach 95% accuracy at this distance then we will increase it to 50 meters. The maximum distance that I want you to when training with me is 200 meters.”

His Master had offered him bow, which Taku refused. Stating that he wanted to familiarize himself with his own weapon. Chiwenga was shocked by this, he had never seen Taku with a Bow before, so he began to think that Taku had put it in a storage ring or storage sack. He quickly passed some arrows to Taku and told him that it was easier to use real arrows for target practise instead of using those that he created by using his Zesa.

Taku grabbed the arrows and nodded. He calmed himself down and raised his hand whilst he began clenching his fist like he was about to catch something in mid-air. He did not fully clench his fist as some smoke began forming in the middle of his hand. The smoke then began taking shape and in a couple of breaths it formed a bow that was rather rigid.

Chiwenga's eyes at the moment were wide open with shock evident in them. He could clearly see that this bow made from smoke looked similar to his own spirit weapon. He did not know much about the smoke that Taku possessed. All he could think about at the moment was to go and seek out the Muroyi who helped out all those years back. But he only intended to do that after the week was done, for the upcoming days he needed to spend every bit of them to study his student.