Chapter 126 Rapid Training (1/2)

Arran worked through the night, then into the next day, foregoing breaks and sleep as he absorbed Essence Crystals one after the other With each new Essence Crystal, he could feel his affinity to Essence growing stronger — more and more, it felt like his Essence was part of him, rather than some alien substance he could only barely manipulate

After just a day, Arran had finished absorbing the Purified Essence of close to a hundred Essence Crystals, and the effect left hi at how much his control of Essence had i a letter while holding the pen with only his elbows, and looking back now, he was al spells at all

But now, things were completely different He could feel that the Essence was truly his to control, to be used however he wanted, and the aard cluic was rapidly an to understand the real difference between the Shadowflaes he had es had this kind of control, then Acadees would be like cripples coress lay at his fingertips, and excited with the prospect, he continued to work his way through the Essence Crystals He continued until he could go no an to interfere with his concentration

Then, he paused to sleep, though not for more than a few hours And within ain

He spent the second dayPurified Essence and slowly transforic

Yet where the first day had seen hiains came far slower By now, each new Essence Crystal only barely brought hiains, and it seeet the progress he gained frole one on the first day

Still, he did not let up He continued to advance, albeit more slowly, and by the end of the second day he had burned through another hundred Essence Crystals

Again, he slept only when he becaan his work anew the ress slow even further Now, he needed a full dozen Essence Crystals just to ress, but he persevered nonetheless — even at this slower pace, he was still achieving in hours ould have taken years otherwise

Only after he had rested again, on the fourth day, did he finally stop

So far, he had worked his way through more than three hundred Essence Crystals, and he knew that any further progress would take both tih that did not stop hi to continue

But first, he wanted to see the results of his work

He started off by trying out his Shadowsight, and soon found that his Sense see with his control, if nowhere near as h he could now spread the ood thirty paces around him before it became too thin to Sense, the improveht, he tried to move the mist, and immediately, he felt excitement at the result It seemed that while he could still not expand the mist much further, his control had increased to the point where he could manipulate it without much effort

Curious to see how far this control would go, he opened the door of his room and sent an invisible cloud of Shadow Essence into the hallway Soon, a smile appeared on his face as he discovered that he could both control and Sense the cloud even at nearly two hundred paces away