CHAPTER 54: THE PATH TO GREATNESS (2)

"That's a bit cold."

"Well, I am you so I don't see the problem. This space is your subconsciousness and I am the manager. Here, you can do whatever you want. What you desire can appear here, you can even train here, although the effect on the real world might not be noticeable. For that power, it was already sleeping here even when I came to so I just made sure you could materialize it. That pool you fell into was a really helpful trigger since the energy was condensed enough for you to release it. Otherwise, you might have never been able to. But now that you did, your body has finally started to adjust. You should soon be able to use it without external aid."

"How soon is that?"

"I don't know, maybe twenty years. If you train here, maybe less. Or maybe more."

I must admit that there is a whole lot I don't understand. Who is this guy, really? If he is my subconsciousness, why does it look like he has his own consciousness? This is too much.

"You keep talking about training but how should I train? I was trying to use my physical aura and ended up here."

"Well, just do what you were doing up until now I guess. To be honest, I only know and learn from what you know and learn."

"Then why did you call me Dragonroad? And that power? Why did you tell me it was the World's Roar?"

"As I said, when this space and I appeared, that was already there, I can't describe it because it didn't have any form, it was just fog. And it told me that as Dragonroad, it was our duty and privilege to use it. Nothing more, nothing less." I wonder what that is.

Anyway, now is not the time for that. Let's sit down and try to train since I should be able to here as well. I sit and focus again. But, this time, it is different. In here, I can feel. I feel my own energy in my body, flowing like a rough and tumble stream. This is truly weird. When I pinch my cheek, I feel pain. I can feel everything!!

"Is it possible that..."

"Yup! In here, you can feel things normally." This will be very useful.

The sensation of the stream flowing inside my body is a bit confusing. It's like I have a worm going everywhere inside me but it doesn't hurt nor does it feels good. When I feel it in my right arm, I try to grab it but immediately, I feel pain, a sharp pain making my arm vibrates. It must be what was described in the book. I must endure it.

I try to send the energy from my arm to my foot, the pain intensifies but the energy is moving, slower than before now but it is moving. Then I bring it back to my arm and make it circle around the two until the pain goes away. When it does, I send it now to my other arm and foot. And finally to my head. It must have taken me hours to do that but when I open my eyes, I can feel my energy moving the way I decided. Does it mean I can manifest my physical aura?

"Two, how do I get out of here?" Two is sleeping? He can sleep? It's weird to see your subconsciousness sleeping.

"TWO!"

"What?"

"I want to go back."

"Okay." And he goes back to sleep.

***

"T-" The scenery is suddenly different. In front of me now is not Two but Excafol, sleeping. The sun is rising outside. I was there the whole night. I look at my hands, and there are two things I notice: first, I am sweating. The floor is also really wet around me. Second: there is a white hue around my hand, no, in fact, around all my body. Did my training really have an impact there? Out of nowhere, reality kicks in, my stomach starts grumbling again. Waking up Excafol in the process.

Excafol looks at me for a moment, then he scratches his eyes good and looks at me again.

"When did you? And how? Ah, I see, the book." He asks and answers his own questions without even waiting for any answers. He is not wrong though. "So, you can use physical aura. That will speed up the training then, you must learn to use elemental aura next. All of them. In one week. No, in three days." Why does he give me so much time?

"Is it really so difficult to master that?"

"It took me one week to manifest elements on my hands and six months to stabilize my physical and elemental auras. So, yeah, I think it is difficult. For you, however, I don't know. One thing is for sure, you are a prodigy." Me? A prodigy?