8 MAGIC TUTORIAL 001 (2/2)

”Buy me some time.” He told his men, and they engaged with the beast.

He took a deep breath, and nasally chanted a spell. The spell had little words, yet each word brought some changes in his body.

He felt the familiar sensation of energy travelling from his entire body towards his hand holding the spear. The spear was made of a special alloy created to withstand high temperatures.

The energy flowed into his palm and then into the spear, where it turned into heat. The spear heated up and became red. General Yokusei felt resistance from the environment due to Profound Pressure.

Most of his soldiers fighting the beast earlier were heavily injured. The Sage beast was worthy of its title. He had developed the feeling of compassion, even for his enemies.

Yokusei was surprised, grateful, and sorry. He gave a short kind smile to the beast.

The Sage beast looked at him tiredly, and raised his middle finger.

The general's eye twitched. This beast has to die !

He ran towards the beast, and the beast bent towards him to knock him down. He raised his spear near the beast's hand and stabbed into it. The beast moved its hand and it was lightly grazed.

The beast roared, not because of the graze but because of the burn it got from the spear. It stumbled and the general stabbed it's hand. The beast roared in agony and fell along with the spear in its hand.

Yokusei wasted no time and grabbed another spear and thrust it into the beast's throat. He stabbed again and again until the Sage Beast stopped twitching.

Totally exhausted, he collapsed on his knees near the dead beast. The reserve soldiers were treating those who were injured, and some of them were preparing to carry their prize, which was the beast.

Yokusei had a nasty feeling after this fight. He dragged his legs away from the battlefield. He won't be able to bear seeing the child-like Sage beast getting dismantled.

Only little Harumi can make him feel better now.

***

”I am invincible !!!” Shur gave a yell and pierced into a savage beast. The sword finally broke and remained inside the throat of the panda like beast.

Shur breathed deeply, feeling confident with his progress. The did not notice the awkward expressions over the soldiers faces. How could they not feel embarrassed ? Their prince had this peculiar habit of declaring himself as invincible whenever he performed a fatal strike.

Elder Accha was even more embarrassed than the soldiers. He could not deduce how his descendant have this kind of habit. So he turned to other direction, as if telling others- I do not know this kid !

***

Param and Madhu brainstormed and tried to think of various solutions. The major problem they faced was Profound techniques. They had no backing and no individual strength.

Madhu was a little more lucky than Param, as she seemed to be able to subconsciously control some

amount of Profound Energy in her body. She could move a minute part of it from one random point in her body to another- that was it.

Param was a not surprised. Her species was at the apex of the Fairy Race, so it was possible that she would have some kind of bluffs.

He tried to detect the energy inside his body. He concentrated and focused, but after all this the only thing he could do was to barf.

Maybe I'm trying the wrong approach, he thought.

He sat down on the ground in a lotus position and calmed his mind.

He wanted to test something out. He inhaled a deep breath, and chanted the 'Om' word.

”Oooooommmmmmm....”

He wasn't used to meditating, so his chanting was short, stiff and broken.

He took a deep breath again, and chanted the 'Om' word again. This time it wasn't stiff or broken, but it was shorter than it should be.

He tried again and again. Their tent was filled with the vibrations of 'Om'.

Madhu didn't know what he was trying to do, so she continued experimenting on her own after watching him for a while.

Param gradually began to grasp the technique and started to feel extremely minute changes in his body.

He could feel something, like an itch inside his body. He could feel the vibrations through his whole body. As he continued, these vibrations resonated and allowed him to vaguely feel the structure of his body. Like how one is able to sense the structure of their entire mouth through their tongue, he was trying to use these vibrations to sense the structure of his body.

Although circumstances forced them to rediscover Profound techniques, they would open a new path which would lead them to the apex.