1022 Sunlight 2 (1/2)
Boom!!
There was the sound of the palm hitting a body of flesh from inside the ground.
A black shadow was thrown out of the ground, and crashed hard into some shrubs nearby.
Second Brother hurriedly chased it, and some bees darted inside for a luck, but all they saw was a dead black wolf rapidly freezing into ice, its body a mess of flesh and blood.
”It's that kid's Black Wolf!” Second Brother snorted coldly. ”Is he trying to lead us away? He must be nearby! I'm sure of it!”
”Didn't you say you could find him?!” said Boss angrily as he landed. ”Why is it a black wolf instead?”
”Even I can only determine his general location over here, don't you think I want to find as soon as possible as well?” said Second Brother coldly.
”If you have any more tricks up your sleeve, take them out now! Otherwise that punk will secretly get away!” said Ron impatiently.
Barlow narrowed his eyes, and then pulled out a black sphere. With the white sphere in one hand and the black one in the other, he put them both on his palms and then abruptly smashed them together.
”I'm going all out this time, damn it!”
He said fiercely, watching as the two spheres collided with each other. They did not crash loudly, and instead fused together rapidly.
The red dot on them also instantly became a lot clearer.
”Here! Found him!”
”Let's go!”
The two of them leaped into the air, and flew straight toward the marker on the sphere.
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Garen slowly opened the third page of the secret scroll, and imprinted the contents on it into his brain.
The fourth page, the fifth... The sixth!
This was the last page, and the blue electric pillar that rose from it was not like the others. It was only as tall as a pen, intricate, with a faint blue-golden color, but without any arches of electricity. There was just a deep shade of blue that moved slowly, almost like a liquid, as though it was just a crystal pillar that was filled with a spinning blue-golden liquid.
”This is the Inherited Power?” Garen had never seen Inherited-Level Origin Power before, so he could not be sure whether this was that legendary Inherited Origin or not.
With a hiss, a line of words appeared underneath the delicate little blue-golden pillar.
'Learn the Secret Method, and thou shalt absorb the Origin.'
The words were made of some special and strange letters, and Garen recognized them. These were Ancient Motherese, a language used in the past on the Mother Planet, and it was somewhat different from the universal language used these days. Still, there were only minor differences in the syntax and morphology, he could still interpret the general gist of the contents. It was basically the difference between simplified and traditional Chinese writing(1).
Closing his eyes, Garen started to recall the entire secret method that he had just memorized.
”Secret Method Magic Light Fist: Possesses unimaginably great power. Nobody knows where this power came from, and nobody knows why there was this change reminiscent of a scientific chemical reaction, but this secret method had saved me from many a tight spot and granted me victory from the jaws of defeat. My heir, if you wish to absorb my Inherited Origin, you must first learn this secret method so that you may attain a basic level of self-defense capability. Otherwise, even if you do absorb the Origin Power, and subsequently enter the Inherited Level, you will still face some problems even more troublesome than regular Inherited Levels—Message from: Karim Giles.”
There was this message at the end of the secret method. Clearly, the Inheritor had believed that once his heir learned the Magic Light Fist, they would be equipped with the basic power to defend themselves. That was how much faith they had in their secret method.
Garen continued to read the contents from his memory.
'There are only three grades to the Magic Light Fist, namely Sunlight, Moonlight, and Starlight, going from the bottom to the top. Starlight is the highest level of completion, and at that point, the speed of your fists would be terrifying. They will be everywhere, cover everything, and the explosive power will also be tremendous. But at the same time, you will need more energy to reach a higher level secret method.'
This was followed by detailed explanations of the training contents for all three grades.
Garen flipped his hands so that his palms faced skyward, and then he opened his mouth, spitting out a scarlet glow that began to spin slowly in front of him, slowly absorbing specks of faint white light.
The white light gathered between his palms in front of him, and slowly formed a white whirlpool.
The whirlpool started by spinning extremely slowly, its color extremely faint, but as time passed by, it began to spin at faster speeds, faster and faster, and it also began to gradually shrink in size...
Time flowed past, second by second. Garen's eyes were slightly closed, as the whirlpool of white light in front of him slowly shrank from the size of a human head to that of a fist.
”Why is the process so simple?” Garen sensed that he had already broken past several of the challenges and roadblocks detailed in the Magic Light Fist secret method. The scroll kept saying how hard it was, how he had to carefully absorb the solar energy around him carefully, and gather them into a Sun Whirlpool, how it would take at least a dozen hours to complete. And that included several other challenges of middling difficulty.
But he had already successfully formed the Sun Whirlpool after just a couple of minutes.
The extreme difficulties described in the secret method were as simple as eating or drinking to him.
Garen suddenly remembered that book of Reflective Mastery that Senior Sister Rainy had given him.
He had destroyed that book completely after memorizing it, but he could only use Reflective Mastery after he reached the Resonance Level. Only then could he properly showcase the power of his Water Mirror grade, and not now.
”In that case, what's the reason behind this process?” Confusion flashed past Garen's heart.
When he sensed it carefully, he realized that his control over his own body far surpassed that of others, and this should be the true key to grasping the Sunlight Whirlpool日光漩涡 quickly. From the past few worlds, Garen realized that he had always been training the way to control his own body. Secret techniques were by nature a form of self-control, and that was his advantage over the Energy Machinists in this world.
Garen had simply learned too many secret techniques, be it the peak-level Living Secret Techniques or the regular ones like the Golden Statue Technique or the Black Water True Technique, or even the Nine-Headed Dragon Queen Nadia's Ominous Space Path. These secret techniques were all different, significantly widening Garen's horizons, to the extent that no one in the world could compare to him. If it were not for the different laws of physics in each world, if Garen could use his power from before directly, he would have long since reached a terrifying level of power.
But even so, Garen was absolutely powerful when it came to the level of control required by such high-difficulty challenges, when it came to the extremely precise and high level of control needed. That was because he had just experienced too much, in the field of secret techniques, his experience was nowhere near what the Energy Machinists, with their emphasis on the scientific modification of living creatures at their very core, could match.