33 The reason for rage (1/2)
After breakfast, Shalmoon stepped over the sleeping Rogun. He excused himself saying he had a few morning meetings to attend to and left.
This left Sheina and Harrison alone in the dining room if you don't count the snoring Rogun. She relaxed and started asking him questions.
”Where did you go last night?”
”I went to the cave where we met to get some stuff I left behind.”
He was embarrassed to say he went to the woods to get some relief, so he made up a lie.
”We were worried about you. Please tell us next time you leave.” Sheina said as she looked at him, expecting any signs of remorse.
Harrison didn't know how much the girl cried after he left, so he just nodded.
”Anyway, are we doing language lessons today?” Harrison asked.
”Sure. Meet me in the library in a while. I will go get my books.” Sheina replied before leaving.
Harrison went to the kitchen ignoring the snoring Rogun and talked to Gordo about lunch. He wanted to cook, to raise it to at least level five, but had no time.
Gordo told him they will make ormash stew for lunch today, and they will barbecue a leg for dinner. After that talk, Harrison went to the library, where Sheina was already sitting at a desk.
Harrison spent the whole morning asking her words he still didn't have in his vocabulary, using the translation sphere when needed.
Harrison tried multitasking learning the language together with meditation. He was somewhat successful, but it was far from the speed of energy recovery when he was doing it as a sole task or when walking. The interruptions were too frequent, as he needed to divide his attention to Sheina's lesson.
When it was almost lunchtime a stumbling figure of Rogun who just woke up after his nap in the dining room interrupted them.
”Boy, are you even human?” Rogun said as he saw Sheina and Harrison sitting at a desk in the library.
Sheina laughed while saying, ”Are you alright uncle Rogun?”
”I have a headache and my pride is hurt, that's all. I still can't believe he drank me under the table. Look at him. He is scrawnier than you are.” Rogun said while pointing at Harrison.
”When do we start our lessons?” Harrison said as he tried to divert the topic.
”After lunch? What do you want to learn next?” Rogun asked.
”Do you have any more advanced spear manuals? The one you gave me feels like a basic introduction?” Harrison asked after he thought about it.
”You are right. That one is just an introduction and preparation for the main course. There are four books for this spear art. You can learn two of them now. For the third one you would need to have internal energy and learn how to imbue it into the spear. And for the last one.”
Rogun thought for a while before saying, ”Even my friend who left those books to me could not get this to work. Since the key requirement is to manifest your internal force on the outside of your body, you need high spiritual energy control.”
”What is internal force?” Harrison asked, although by now he had some idea what it could be.
Rogun held his head as he had a throbbing headache before replying.
”It's just a way to implement spiritual energy into your body strengthening it. Someone who can use internal force can strengthen their body to unimaginable heights.” He grumbled while waving his hands like it was something too far off into the future for Harrison.
”What about manifesting the internal force outside?” Harrison asked.
”When you reach such levels of control that you can push the spiritual energy to the outside of your body you can form it there as an external object. You would become unbeatable by those who can't. Only mages can fight you then, and people with the same amount of control.” The pale Rogun replied.
”Mages?” Harrison asked. Sheina was also intently listening to their conversation. This topic was hardly ever mentioned in her school, so she was particularly interested.