Just looking at these all calm and silent spheres of black energy without having any way to control them was really, really frustrating.
I wanted to complete this technique. I could feel it deep down my bones. I was close, so damn close to get it finished.
But for some reason, there was a thick wall standing between me and seeing the answer.
[They might be missing a circle to join them together] Sith proposed such a solution, which seemed logical in my eyes.
But as I tried to draw a circle with one pillar and my blood, it crumbled down on itself the moment I did it.
It felt like there was something missing, deep inside the balls themselves. “The circle isn’t the answer,” I muttered, “what is missing from my other techniques?”
I started to recall how I performed my other techniques. The more I thought, the more puzzled I got. “Only my fist getting in the middle of the technique… But I used to do such steps once the technique was done… Or is it done here?”
I held my right fist, moved it against the sharp edge of my glaive to reopen the wound. Then I tried to raise it towards the balls.
At a brief moment, the spheres moved. Their quiet surface got stirred up as if they were responding to some sort of a stimulus.
But as it appeared fast, it ended fast as well. In a blink of an eye, that change disappeared and the balls returned to their calm status.
“That’s… Not working…” I muttered.
[Perhaps you are thinking wrong] Sith spoke in such a mysterious way, [You aren’t doing a technique, you are mimicking a contract, right? What’s missing from any contract you sign?]
As he asked, my mind started to steer in a fast way, thinking about what he just said. I got the conditions stated in any contract in the form of my spheres.
The words inside each represented a condition in any contract. So what was missing? Hmm… Could it be…
“My name,” my eyes suddenly flashed in realisation, “I got to sign any contract first with my name before letting others sign with theirs.”
[That monster will sign later on, so it’s not needed for now to complete your technique, right?]
“Yes… It’s missing my signature, my name! It’s the missing piece… I found it! I found it!!” As I shouted in a loud tone like a crazy scientist, I started to work fast.
Another pillar came, and I left a large amount of blood on it. I didn’t want any room for failure, so I prepared enough beforehand to write down my name and that monster’s.
“Hye!” I said my name out loud, in such pride and domineering tone. The moment my pillar wrote it down, a weird thing happened.
Before, at any word I wrote, the pillar writing it would get attracted and merge with it. Even the last word I wrote experienced the same, getting only one pillar to form the black sphere.
But this time the pillar didn’t merge, didn’t show the familiar reaction and changes like the others. Instead, it got repelled like it was slammed fiercely with a hammer.
Just as I watched that pillar fly away in such a weird way, I saw the thirteen spheres floating and starting to finally move.
Each one started to move into a place, circulating around the central word of mine like my name was the sun and these spheres were planets orbiting it.
The speed of their flying increased remarkably with each passing second until they left behind afterimages then flashed to form a unified wall of blackness.
A much massive black ball appeared in front of my eyes, slowly coalescing together while shielding my name inside.
[Hurry!] as I was absorbed in watching this, the urgent voice of Sith rang in my mind, jolting me awake, [Use your right fist, hurry bind it with your blooded fist]
Yes! That was the last ingredient missing from this recipe. I didn’t hesitate to raise my right fist, close it up and let the blood even fall over my face.
It didn’t matter! Nothing mattered at this moment except for getting this damn technique done!
The moment I raised my bloody fist high in the air, a great turbulence occurred from that big black ball up there.
A thick black arm extended from there, fell towards my fist in slow motion. Or was I too nervous and excited to feel it this way? I didn’t know!
It kept twisting, like a great snake coming towards my fist. Once it got near it, it hurriedly engulfed my fist with such a cold liquid that started to condense over my hand.
A glove appeared there, a dark blue glove that had an external scaly appearance, bright shimmering blue lines in between the scales, and ending up an inch or two above my elbow.
It felt… Amazing! This was the first time any technique of mine left something like this. I felt not only strong and mighty, I also felt a deep connection with a massive source of energy.
I felt like if I wanted, I could move lands and destroy mountains. I could do anything at this moment. I felt… Invincible.
“This…” I raised the glove in front of my eyes. The thick arm of black energy got wasted and vanished when this glove appeared.
I closed my fingers, felt the power circulating in that part of my body. I closed my eyes for a brief moment, examined that arm in contemplation, feeling the changes in it.
The meridians there were filled with dark blue energy that was in the form of a minute sphere. It wasn’t like my spiritual energy, not like the energy I absorbed from the bones, not even like the berserk black energy I once channelled through my body.
It wasn’t in a unified form. It was formed of a massive number of minute spheres, moving around, vibrating like they were breathing in the middle of my spiritual energy.
They gave me the feeling of blood cells circulating my veins and arteries within plasma.
It was… Such a new experience and a very amazing feeling.
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