Chapter 86 - Bone of Enlightenment (1/2)

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”Grgh!”

The Salamander's pale yellow eyes bore into Sokka's terrified eyes as the youth could swear that he saw a thin trail of drool followed by a small puff of fire out of the said beast's mouth.

”She just likes to play.”

Nik chuckled, leaning on the side while looking at Karna, Yue and Katara practicing waterbending. Out of the trio, only Yue held a silverish glow as the movement of water tendrils was a bit awkward.

Of course, he enjoyed the sight of their bandaged bosoms and open hair, in some way, this scene could be regarded as a bunch of girls throwing water at each other, except, the moment the water struck, they would gain an additional whip-like mark.

”Woah! Bro! Are you sure that Miss Karna and Yue, both are your... uhmm?”

Sokka got closer to Nik and asked with a dirty smile, to which, Nik simply shrugged. Honestly, even though Sokka's personally was a bit refreshing, the only reason Nik tolerated the goofy dude was for the fact that he wanted to make him his brother-in-law.

”Well, yeah. If you play your cards right, you might end up lucky.”

”For real? Just playing your cards right?”

Sokka frowned and went into deep thought before looking at Nik.

”I don't have any cards.”

”You are 18, right?”

”Yeah.” Sokka nodded before another Salamander approached the duo, this one much larger in size.

”Oh, Ignit is back.”

Nik smiled and walked up to the salamander before placing his hand on the underside of its large jaws while rubbing the soft underside, much to Ignit's joy.

”Dude! Don't go off topic!”

Sokka immediately rushed, partly, to understand Nik's trade secret, and also, to get away from the annoyed Salamander that was obviously pissed by its leader— Ignit.

”Tell you what, the moment we enter Omashu, I'll get you hooked up.”

”You would do that? For me?”

Sokka looked at Nik, speechless, while his eyes slowly glistened.

”I really misunderstood you! Man, you're the best!”

He immediately jumped towards Nik and hugged him hard!

”Oi! Get away! Ignit, roast him real nice—”

Before Nik could complete his sentence, Sokka had already jumped away and vanished into the caravan.

Nik made a weird expression at such a display. It wasn't like Ignit was truly going to roast you.

”Right?”

He tilted his head and patted the Salamander.

The trio continued their practice for two more hours before they felt drained. Especially Yue, since she wasn't using the Gravity the way it was supposed to be used. The main method of utilisation, according to Nik, was supposed to be more in the department of control instead of actually bending gravity to form 'tendrils' or 'balls' of gravity.

But Nik did not know the correct martial method to slowly accustom himself with attuning himself to gravity and control it. He was more barbaric in this sense as he simply utilised the elemental energy to control the Gravity.

Therefore, his assistance towards Yue was the least.

By now, all Yue could do was slowly grow more proficient in the martial method of waterbending while using her affinity with Gravity to control the water as much as she can. This caused the original two-step bending to be transformed into three-step bending.

”You really worked hard.”