45 Strange Happenings (1/2)
After the cry had long since faded into the distance, Lineir relaxed and Mei began to instruct him again
”Alright, you can be said to have learned the basics of movement. The rest is practice.” Mei said after Lineir wandered through another group of golems.
”Your feeling is quite good, but these are inanimate enemies, they lack true intelligence. You will see that fighting people is tougher. But you have the feeling, that is the important part, with that, you can walk anywhere with enough time. Now it's time for me to teach you the technique you will be using.”
Lineir burst out at this statement,
”Wait, you're telling me that all that wasn't even the actual technique? What was that all for then!” Mei simply chuckled,
”Of course that wasn't the actual technique, what part of that looked like it did damage to you? No, I was simply teaching you how to walk. But don't worry, the actual technique is easy, the most important fundamental for any swordsman is footwork, you must get to the enemy to fight them. Now that you know, I can teach you what strike to use. First of all, gather the darkness element inside of the sword, as much as you can. Focus on the image of volume, you want as much as possible!”
Lineir mumbled as he concentrated,
”Volume... volume... ok, this is as much as I can hold!”
Lineir gathered a large amount of darkness inside the blade, it began to seem to suck the light out of the surrounding atmosphere. Mei then commanded,
”Good, not a bad amount for your first go, now in the center of this darkness, gather as much of the lightning element as possible. However, the image you need to focus on is not volume, but density! You are aiming for maximum density, the lightning energy must be compressed to the smallest possible! Do not let go of the darkness element, you must hold it and simultaneously form the lightning inside!”
Lineir began to sweat and his arms shook as his veins bulged. The amount of concentration this took was immense. As he was about to be unable to hold it anymore, Mei cried out,
”Slash the ground, release control of the energy and run away!”
Lineir hesitated a moment then did as she said, he slashed the ground, simultaneously releasing the pent up darkness and lightning energies inside, and then bounded away.
”Watch closely kiddo!” Lineir turned over his shoulder and looked. At the spot he slashed in the ground, a shallow cut was made in the rock. For a second, there was nothing, and then with a loud kang noise, a bolt of lightning surged from the ground to his sword. In doing so, the resulting explosion increased the size of the damage to the ground threefold!
”Heavens, what was that, lightning jumped from the spot I hit to the sword! And there was a delay?”