Chapter 56 Looking Like An Idiot In One Easy Step (2/2)

The moon light was dim, but the energy coming from the plant and the pond were quite illuminating. Looking at the two, Laz could see the tiny motes of light, flying between the two. He remembered when he laid there before and passed out, it felt like the light itself was nothing more than an extension of life of the two oddities. Closing his eyes once again, Laz stopped trying to move this invisible and intangible energy and instead, focused on moving himself.

He wasn't trying to step forward, he was trying to move forward without stepping. With this thought in mind, the energy seemed to react slightly.

Laz, encouraged by the reaction, took a single, sliding step forward, without using an ounce of strength. Although the energy reacted, it only fizzled a bit before returning to it's normal cycle. Not being discouraged in the slightest, Las continued on, over and over again. Moving across the park with his eyes closed, Laz could feel the energy in the forward step moving hard and more fiercely each step he took.

Laz felt like his mind had entered into a special state where things were getting more and more clear.

Then, after an untold number of steps, Laz burst through with his full focus and BANG, he kicked a giant, rusted metal spring that was sticking out of the ground.

His foot felt like it was on fire while he stumbled and he yelled ”SON OF A BITCH.”

Getting his footing back, he used his own sense to look at his foot and noticed that it was perfectly fine for the most part, despite how hard he had kick the metal spring. It wasn't even bleeding. If anything, the part that pissed Laz off the most was that his concentration was broken and he wasn't sure he could get it back again so soon.

Walking around a few steps to release his anger, Laz aimed a forward step 'kick'at a collapsed metal slide and without even understanding why, his foot blasted into the slide like a 10 ton hammer and sent it flying. It only stopped when it hit a tree on the other side of the park.

Although it was brief, he noticed a slight light that appeared from his foot that made contact with the thin, sheet metal based slide.

'WHAT? Wait wait wait...'

Laz, taking a deep breath, composed himself pretty quickly as he thought about that feeling.

Remembering back, he could feel the anger in his broken focus and his sense of loss at being so close and yet still coming up short. Seeing the slide, he didn't really think but just brought his foot forward. When it made contact, his mind was just thinking about sending the slide flying and his inner energy responded. It had answered his call.

Taking another moment, Laz focused in on himself and realized that in terms of his inner energy, it seemed somewhat dimmer, but was pulsing while growing brighter with each pulse. It felt like a heart beat.

Once his energy got back to the strength it was at before, it stopped pulsing almost immediately, but continued to circulate.

'So the circulation is like the energy within me, waiting to be used. And the pulsing is in its recovering itself,' Laz thought while paying attention to it.

'Wait. Am I seeing things or does it look a slight bit brighter than before?' Although Laz had the question in his head, he knew he wasn't going to get the answer from himself.

He walked back over to his start point, the stone bench and sat down to try to feel his energy again. Even though it was nice he got it to work, it was worth exactly jack if he couldn't do it when he wanted to.

While he did this with his eyes closed, he noticed with his sense that a few motes of light were coming into him again. He also discovered for the first time that he didn't feel full.

'This is soooo very weird,' Laz thought. He didn't do anything other than observe the energy enter him for a time until it once again stopped. He felt full again, but it wasn't as stuffed as before when he directly consumed the two liquids.

Standing up and walking a few steps away, Laz once again focused on the one step, however he ket a good distance away from anything in or on the ground.

After only a half hour of work, he was able to control the energy to some extent and send it forward through his leg.

After a few small tests of success, Laz braced himself on the grass and took on a horse stance. If someone looked at him from a distance, he would have looked like he was about to take on a very serious life or death battle.

Opening his eyes, Laz's gaze looked forward and in a slight moment, his eyes glowed a brilliantly bright red. With a step that he was sure would succeed, Laz performed the first step of the 'Dragon Fist' scroll and released his energy out from his leg.

Of course, had he been more careful about taking an actual step and not just exploding his energy, he probably would have discovered sooner that he was very off balance. As it was, he could no longer stop himself and while his right leg exploded out with the power to send broken and busted playground equipment flying, his left leg stood firmly in place.

The result was his body moved at half the speed of his front leg and double the speed of his back leg, resulting in him doing a show stopping split followed by a high pitched yelp of pain.