Chapter 57 - Power of Ki (1/2)
Ki, it was an important lesson that I needed to learn. So far anyone I had come across that knew how to use Ki, completely overpowered me. Harry, the dark guild and Delbert. If I didn't know how to unlock my skills, then I needed to learn to use Ki.
The old man made me stand around a meter in length away from him. He then started to explain and demonstrate.
”Before we can start practising Ki you need to learn what Ki is and how we can use it. Ki is very similar to how mages use Mana. Mana is the force borrowed form the world. A mages mana pool determines how much of the world's energy it can control, in mages, their mana pool determines how big or how many spells they can cast. So if Mana is the force from outside, what do you think Ki is?”
”The Ki is the power from inside our bodies.” We had learnt most of the basics from our time in school, most likely the old man was just testing my current knowledge.
”Good, then if a mage's mana pool determines how much force they can borrow from the world, what determines how much Ki we can use.”
I didn't want to guess a wrong answer so I just stood there until he started speaking again.
”The strength of our bodies, the stronger your body is physically the more Ki you can hold inside. This is why it is taboo for children to practise Ki, their bodies simply can't handle it. Using too much internal force in a weak body will just explode.”
The old man started to take his shirt off, in my surprise, the old man had the body of a Greek god, his chiselled muscles seemed to be carved from stone.
”I want you to hit me in the stomach as hard as you can.”
”Are you sure?”
”Do you remember the dark guild member you fought, he too was using a type of ki which I shall demonstrate now.”
I readied my hand into a fist, then stepping forward with all my power struck against his abs, the impact was like hitting a solid wall of metal. I barely managed to move the old man, only sliding him about an inch backwards.
The old man jumped towards me with Joy.
”Were you using Ki just now?”
”No, I just punched you as hard as I could.”
The old man's smile got even bigger.
”Boy, you have the strength of an Ox. let's sit down for the next part.”
The old man sat down first and I followed after.
Maybe I should have hidden my actual strength, I knew after absorbing the crystals my strength was greater than someone my age but at the same time, I wanted to see how strong my strike was against a Ki user.