Chapter 1917 - Falling Down (1/2)

Step!

I took one more step, and as I did, I felt like the world was crushing me as I nearly fell to the floor. I did not let that happen and resisted with my all as I kneeled to stabilize myself.

Once I fell on the floor, it would be impossible for me to get up, and I would have to look up for old women to drag me out; it would be a little humiliating as she had warned me about it.

So, as I got the breathing time, I started to circulate the bloodline energy again, as fast as I could. My bloodline energy began to take this energy, and very slowly, like trickling water from the tank, I felt the pressure on me is lessening little by little.

The circulation under this pressure is not easy, but I am doing it as I have no choice but to do it; without it, I would not be able to bear the pressure.

As pressure lessened with my circulations, I slowly began to get up before I was able to stand tall and bring my back leg in front.

While I stood up, I still did not take a step ahead; the pressure was still too much for me, I will only take a step ahead only when my bloodline finished absorbing all the energy it could, and that would take little time.

Twenty minutes passed by, and pressure on me decreased considerably; though I am still facing the immense pressure, it is still is not much as before.

”You are right; this energy is really helpful, but why suddenly it stopped working,” Councilwomen Marla asked behind me. ”Like the fruits, the energy also is limited. You have to take a step forward before you can start absorbing it again, and this energy will be of higher quality than you are absorbing,” I said, and her eyes lit up.

She flew one step forward without changing her sitting position and closed her eyes again, ”You are right; my method had started working again,” She said without opening her eyes. A few seconds later, her face had become completely focused as she lost completely in practice.

I also tried to circulate faster and faster, and fifteen minutes later, my runes had finished absorbing all the energy of this step.

As I took the step, the crushing pressure increased on me tremendously, and I had not been prepared. I would not have been, I would have fallen down on the floor, but still, it had made me kneel with my whole body shaking; it looked like I could fall down any moment.

I started circulating, which itself had become a struggle, not to mention the difficulty of itself; the energy and gravity also make it harder to circulate that I am circulating at the pace of a snail, with each second trying to get faster and faster.

The more energy my bloodline take, the more it will help me relieve the pressure, and for it, I have to circulate faster.