19 Investigating the White Blood (1/2)

”That was too many clients for one shift.” Rey complained, ”Break time for everyone else is truly my hell.” Rey let out a slight sigh.

”And ours, Rey.” Fiore smiled as she crossed her arm over her heart. ”A job well done, however. Many clients were happy and left satisfactory reviews!”

”But... my work is so mundane and boring. I'm meant for more than this, Fiore. I should be doing more important things.”

”Like what? You have to work here to earn money and improve yourself. How else are we supposed to obtain materials and cultivate to get strong?”

”Ever think about leaving Sanctuary to hunt creatures? It's the quickest and cheapest way to cultivate well.” Rey asked.

”You think it's that easy to kill those creatures?” Fiore sighed, ”Training in life and death battles are too risky, one wrong move and you are dead. There's nothing left after that. I'd rather work at WcDonnalds and be safe like most people than take the dangerous route of cultivating. Besides, this way I can meet people that might be helpful to me in the future.”

As Fiore was talking, Rey's facial expression changed as he fell deep into thought. Noticing it, she smiled and stopped talking.

”Okay, time for my shift again. See you tomorrow, Rey!” Fiore bowed and went back to the clients as Rey changed and walked out of WcDonnalds.

Heading back to the central plaza within Sanctuary, Rey found an informant to help confirm his payments.

”And you're sure about contacting Grey Kioko? You do realize that this is a large sum of money for someone of your status, correct?” a woman informant, who was in her late thirties with long brown hair and a warm face looked at Rey in shock.

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”Yes, I am certain about the purchase. Can you contact him for me? I need to meet with him as soon as I can.” Rey said with haste and determination.

”He can meet with you in two days, during the 3rd hour of his work.” The informant checked Rey's balance as she gave him Grey's contact number. ”Good luck, valued client! May Sol Invictus bless you.”

Thanking the woman, Rey felt uneasy with himself as he exited Sanctuary. Stepping back into the emptiness, he suddenly felt so alone in the void. With only his body and the portal in view, he sat crossed-legged and began to cultivate again. Humming a silent tune, symbols flickered and gleamed around him as they coalesced out from the void.

With a soft humming, the symbols were pierced into Rey's body with ease. Diving them deeper and deeper into his muscles, they touched his heart and pierced into it. White fluid came out of Rey's heart as the symbols crumbled to pieces. The wounds healed up before they even had a chance to bleed. Rey's eyes were opened wide with his mouth ajar.

”Weird... those symbols actually got destroyed? Hibari told me that was only to occur after reaching the 4th threshold. . . Yet I only just reached the 3rd threshold and still broke them.” After pondering for a moment, Rey decided to continue and move onto breaking through to the 4th threshold.

Humming a different, stronger and deeper tune, more symbols sheened and vibrated into existence. Continuing to sit in a lotus position, he urged then towards his head as they melded into his skin. Soothing warmth passed from his head to his toes, tingling and pulsating his whole body.

”Switching from pain to pleasure, the mind to the heart. Only through cultivating these different aspects can one train their mind and heart against all things. All of my desires: My want to be known, my greed to have everything, my love for my friends and family, let go of all pleasures and embrace mindlessness. Become one with nature, Rey.” He strengthened himself

”The wooden man does not contemplate the birds, flowers, nor the stars. He just exists. I am the wooden man, I exist and am mindless towards all. Nothing affects me, and I have no effect on it.” Chanting this, Rey pushed the symbols deeper into his head as they began to ring and he heard his voice once again call out to him. Each desire called him by name, offering everything he wanted, showing him visions and lies to tempt Rey.

Seeing everything he ever wanted, Rey was indeed tempted by the thoughts, enough to not know they were simply illusions. After a few moments, Rey's mind began to waver. When he sought to give in to the illusions, his heart thumped hard as his thoughts became clearer and more apparent. Taking the moment to clear his mind, he immediately retracted the symbols from his mind. The symbols were flung far away from him and disappeared into the void again. Cold opaque sweat formed on his forehead. Wiping it away, he noticed it was the same substance from his heart.

”Whatever that white fluid did, it helped me push through a whole level and even saved me from falling into my own illusions. I can't quit now, though. I need to push on for everyone.” The white fluid in his sweat was absorbed through his skin and pulled back into his heart as he felt it even deeper than before, coursing through his body.

Fascinated by the white fluid coursing around his heart, Rey decided to focus on that instead. Creating a symbol, he grabbed it and drew a small wound. The white fluid drew to the cut and healed it within a few seconds. taking a deeper cut into himself, the white fluid flew out of the cut in his chest and blocked any blood from seeping out.

Making a small cut on his hand, he drew blood to the wound in anticipation. But when his blood came close to the white fluid, it retracted back into his body and also healed the cut, albeit slower than the white fluid could.

”Strange. The white fluid has a repulsive effect on my blood it would seem. Then does that mean my heart is void of any blood?” Rey continued to test his blood and the white fluid.

Within the void where he sat, he madly cut and observed his body's reaction repeatedly. With each time his body was healed, the effectiveness dropped until it took a few minutes to heal the wounds on his heart and hand.