Cultivating Darkness and Rank 2 Elements

20 minutes later, Bryan opened his eyes and let out a smile. "Brother, this technique is amazing. It's so strong once I get to the basic rank of both elements plus I get a super strong physique which makes me even stronger. When both elements reach the advance stage, I get to fuse skills from both elements to make an even stronger one. But I do have a question though. Where can I cultivate these elements. the technique says I have to cultivate the elements from a natural source." he asked. "Basically, a natural source is anything hat is not man made, but produced naturally by nature. These natural sources give off energy that correspond to specific elements. Some have energies of multiple elements. The sun for example is a natural source for fire and light. In storms, if there is thunder or lightning, you can cultivate the lightning element. When it's night, one can cultivate darkness, and light as long as the moon or stars are shining." Ares explained to him patiently. "So, in the morning I can cultivate the fire element, but in order to cultivate lightning, I have to wait until there is a storm? Who knows when that will be. The game releases the day after tomorrow. I don't know if i will be able to get the physique by then." Bryan said with a frown. "Don't worry. I looked at the weather forecast a couple days ago, and there is supposed to be a thunder storm tomorrow night that will last throughout the night. I also confirmed it earlier. my perception and senses have improved after my physique improved and I feel a storm arriving soon. That will be our chance to cultivate it before game launch. Tomorrow, you should wake up just as the sun rises to cultivate fire as much as possible. You should be able to reach basic rank stage 2 before nightfall. Then at night when the storm starts we will cultivate lightning. Another thing, at the start, draw in a little bit at a time as it will burn your body a bit. It will be a bit hard at first, but as long as you push through it for a couple cycles, it will be better and you'll be able to draw more in and cultivate faster. Tonight, I am gonna cultivate the darkness and get that to rank 1 of basic stage. You can either sleep or watch me. it doesn't matter." Ares warned as he got up and headed outside. "I think I will just hit the sack for the night. I am exhausted. Plus I think just watching you will be boring and I don't want to disturb you. Goodnight bro." Bryan said as I stepped out of the apartment. "Night man.".

Outside, Ares found an empty spot of grass and sat down. He closed his eyes and sensed the darkness energy around him. He then started to draw it into his body and circulate it through. with this element it only barely improved his agility. However, once it got up to basic rank 1, his physique would improve once more and boost his senses and physical attributes to another level. Plus, the darkness element boasted the perk of stealth and assassination skills. he would be able to hide better, conceal his aura and presence, as well as use dark attack skills. he looked forward to reaching rank1 of basic stage with it. It didn't take too long. A couple hours later, he was able to amass enough and condense it into a ball. It was white, with a black number 1 on it. With that done, he contemplated whether he should continue and get both darkness and light up to rank 2, or go to bed. He looked at the time and it was just past 10. "I got just about 7 hours until the sun will start to rise. it will probably take around 3 to 4 hours to get one to rank 2. I can get darkness to rank 2 first, then use the rest of the time to cultivate light. The sun will be up by the time that gets to rank 2, and hen I will cultivate fire for the rest of the day until the storm gets here. Plus, with my physique, I am not really tired so, I might as well continue on." he thought. With that, he continued on with cultivating the darkness.

Getting darkness to rank 2 took a bit longer than he initially expected, with him achieving it just after 2:30 in the morning. Once it got to rank 2, he noticed that the boost he got to his physique was a bit more than when he achieved rank 1 with other elements. "Not bad. it seems that the higher rank I achieve with an element, the bigger the boost. I got to be a bit faster. Continue." Ares muttered and focused on the light energy. he tried to speed it up by drawing more in at once but since there was less of it now since it was night, it took quite a bit longer for it to achieve rank 2. It got faster toward the end as the sun came up, but it wasn't completed until just before 8. Once again, he felt a bit lighter and his physique got a bigger than normal boost compared to rank 1 element attainments. despite being up for a whole 24 hours, Ares felt refreshed and full of energy. A perk of having a good physique and constantly improving it. He got up and stretched before he went inside to eat some breakfast and wake Bryan. However as he got to the kitchen, he noticed Bryan was up, and eating, looking like he was energized up like the energizer bunny. Ares chuckled at the sight. "So, you ready to start huh?" he asked as he took out a yogurt from the fridge and started to eat it. "Oh yeah! I can't freaking wait my dude! Once I finish eating I will get to it and try for rank 2 by the time the storm hits. Were you up all night?" he asked with a mouth full of food. Ares nodded and said "Yeah. I got darkness and light up to rank 2. Plus, to help boost your motivation, you will get a bigger boost to your physique when your elements reach rank 2 compared to when they reach rank 1." Hearing that, Bryan immediately swallowed the food he had in his mouth and shouted "Hell yes! Time to start!" and ran outside to cultivate. Ares just shook his head lightly and chuckled at his antics. He finished up his yogurt and went outside to join him. Time to push fire up to rank 2 and then Lightning.