20. Learning

I woke up in a contradictory state, so it seems like I got a whole new element for the 1 + 1 promotion, but it was so sudden that it feels like it was forced on me.

The habitual immersion into a deeper level of one's spirit brought the expected result, but it did not make it less desirable. My sun, a neutral source, already has three planets, in addition to the already known elements, a new ball of brown energy appeared, which even had a certain monumentality in appearance. From killing an average spirit, the source turned out to be quite strong, quite a bit was not enough to reach the average rank, if I use it often enough, I will be able to raise it soon.

The energy industry is in tension now, it's worth giving yourself a couple of days to rest. It's all strange, being a lower spirit I could have one element, but now being on the average I can have two more. There are several ways of developing the situation at once, for example, each new rank will give me one additional element, then at the highest I will be able to take three new elements. Or let's say, at a new level, the number of elements multiplied by two is given, there was an element of water, on the average they just gave two new ones, so at the highest there are already 6 new ones, of course, not counting the neutral source. Maybe even now I can have another element. Okay, you can guess at least as much as you like, it's enough just to be extremely careful after each new element at the highest level.

If they really give me such a huge number of elements, you can think about looking for rarer elements, the bending of life, death, maybe even souls. But while it's worth focusing on the main four, it's easier to pump them, there are already trampled roads on them.

Everything is later, now you need to check in in front of your family, swim and go for a couple of hours, the state in which I digested the new source can not be called a full rest.

After a couple of days, with renewed strength, I began to play with new elements. It's a pity that they will have to be mastered without scrolls and books, in the library I came across only a couple of books describing racks and techniques for fire bending, which are still left from the war, but this is still very little. Although, it will be even more fun, I still remember all the techniques from the cartoon itself, it's worth trying to repeat them, maybe I'll make mistakes somewhere, but you can always retrain.

I think I'll start with fire bending, what do I know about it at all?

The true benders of fire in nature are dragons, they also trained the first fire benders, who at that time were called the Warriors of the Sun, it seems that their direct descendants still honor dragons and worship fire, they also taught Aang and Zuko fire bending.

For the sake of training this element, I had to go far out of town so that not a single soul would know about my gift, after all, the impressionable people here can completely imagine what to think about, and then I have to fight with the result of their undoubtedly "correct" conclusions.

I don't know if I'm so gifted, or if the average rank of the spirit in fire bending makes itself felt, but the basic techniques that I brought out for myself in my mind turned out to be one or two.

This list includes the most popular techniques, which were used by all characters who own fire.

The first in line was a fireball, and as soon as I did not pervert with it. I found as many as two ways to use it, you can make it explode on impact, or vice versa, it burned the target of the attack, even tried to make the temperature of the fire even higher, but it seems there is a certain limit that I can give out now, it turns out to make it less hot, but it is no longer possible to raise it above a certain value. I've already been dreaming about blue fire, like Azula's.

The next technique that I tried to create was a simple fire jet, but even here I could not stop at a simple release of a jet of fire from my hand. As a result, I learned to release such jets from each hand, foot, finger, there was an idea to launch such a thing with my fifth point, but I managed to stop my childishness in time.

Only after playing with fire jets and balls, I remembered the ancient form of Dancing Dragons, trying to repeat it, I myself did not expect much, but with each new movement, fire bending seemed to be trying to show me how to use it more correctly. By turning on some movements with the use of different techniques, I was able to feel a completely different effect, if earlier the element was still something distant, as if it did not recognize me as its master, now it has completely fallen into my arms, you can say I am leading the dance now.

That day I fell into something similar to enlightenment, it felt like my body was controlled by an already experienced fire master who showed me the ways to conquer a wayward element.

The fire wave in this state came out no worse than what would have happened only with the comet Sozin. By compressing the fiery jet, it turned out to create a fiery blade, which had an even greater range. Having finished practicing these techniques, I switched to the fire wheel I saw, the advantage of which is the unpredictability of movement in flight.

I managed to create a fire whip, dagger, sword and shield already being in a normal state, and that's all I had enough for that day. This state of enlightenment drained all the juices out of me, my whole body ached, both physical and spiritual, the channels ached from the unaccustomed following of such an intense pressure of fire energies.

- Phew - exhaling finally a small jet of fire with air, I realized that I was several meters below the main layer of snow, even the air around me was above zero temperature.

This will definitely be noticed by someone else, I had to sit in the same place for another couple of hours until the channels stop whining, and then with the help of water bending to fill the gaps from fire bending with snow.

I didn't touch the bending of fire for another whole week, I was oversaturated and digested in my mind everything that I had created while under the effect of the elements, so I decided to call that state.

But the holy place is never empty, the thirst for bending carries me to explore new facets of the elements available to me, worse than the blood elves who lost the solar well.

It seems that that state of enlightenment ate up a fair part of my mental strength. In the morning of the very next day, thinking about the practice of earth bending, I stood for a couple of minutes and ran my hand through the snow in search of this very earth…

Just after starting to dig the snow with this very hand, a light bulb lit up above his head. Heh-heh-heh, did you want to dig with your hand a few thousand meters of ice?! Okay, I'd better go to sleep, it seems I haven't completely recovered from the overexertion yet.

The very next day I was full of mental strength, to test my readiness, I began to remember the properties of logarithms, then I remembered that I had never taught them. Pushing away unnecessary thoughts, I thought about how I could get access to this very land. Well, except to dig this very path to the ground through thousands of meters of ice, it is difficult.

- Again, I think like a simple person, - I said after five minutes of thinking about how to build kilometer-long tunnels underground, - there is water bending, ice-water-I am a water bender, everything fits together. It's also worth stopping saying thoughts out loud, it seemed like I got rid of this habit in a previous life.

For the sake of the bending of the earth, I spent a whole week making a passage to the place where the ice I already hate ends and the earth begins. I spent more time creating the landfill itself, the bending of the earth is not inferior to the bending of fire in destructiveness, and even surpasses it in some places, so the site had to be made strong enough so that later without the risk of being overwhelmed to engage in the conquest of bending. It was necessary to compress the ice as much as possible, to create load-bearing columns, it was good that there was no need to steam at the expense of lighting. There were also glowing crystals, something similar I saw in the Cave of Two Lovers Om and Shu, they gave enough light. Before I found them, I thought that there would be motivation to learn to feel your environment thanks to seismic sensitivity, all the mole rats have it, and they also taught this Tof.

Next to the built landfill, having deployed all his senses of the spirit, he was able to feel the source of water. Removing the ice from my path and going in the direction that the sensor pointed out to me, I waited with increasing curiosity for the end of the path, after all, ice surrounds me everywhere, water can be said everywhere, but it is that place that the sensor "highlights" in a different way.

This is about what I expected, but still the view is just awesome. A whole lake, in a liquid state. I don't know why, maybe it is heated by geothermal sources or the water does not change its aggregate state due to the enormous pressure from above, but this is not the most important thing. Having tried to manipulate the water, I met some resistance, this water seems to be oversaturated with the energy of water, it is in about the same state in the Oasis of Spirits. That is, by practicing water bending with this water from the same lake, I can achieve more effect from training. Well, now I definitely didn't spend so much time with the polygon for nothing.

The development of a new element was in full swing, then that state did not come to my aid, but I did not run out of breath at the end of the day. The bending of the earth also went steadily and steadily to match the element itself, when manipulating it, it was as if I myself became an indestructible rock. The right attitude when using different bending is very important. If fire bending is a positive jing, that is, a constant attack, then earth bending is a neutral jing, holding, waiting, the earth bender must know exactly when to attack and when to defend.

In a few days of active practice, I managed to master the initial techniques of earth bending. The very first step in my path was the levitation of the earth and stones. Having fixed one technique, only then I moved on to another, there is no need to rush here. This was followed by a list of techniques that are included in one style, which I called the Destruction of the Earth, banal, but pathetic! It includes splitting, crushing, abrasion of stones and rocks, as well as pushing the earth apart to create tunnels – a multifunctional little thing.

The last technique that I learned was - compression, despite such a simple name, the technique had simply enormous damage, it was like compressing water, only here the damage is penetrating. All this is done like this, we take a boulder, the bigger the better, compress it to a smaller shape, for example a bullet, and just throw it at the enemy. The catch is that the mass of this bullet is still equal to the mass of the boulder, but somehow it is easier for the earth bender to disperse smaller stones, that is, the speed of such a gift will be lightning fast, such a projectile can also pierce through the tank of the people of fire.

Then I had a desire to practice fire bending again, so all sorts of stone golems, stone peaks and shields will be mastered a little later, I will not leave any of the techniques unexplored, I just needed a change of activity.

Sitting at the table with the whole family and having dinner with soup, I thought about those edible algae that are now floating in my plate, just as I know they are not grown anywhere, but at some time of the year they appear in our diet.

Having asked this question to my mother, I learned that they are too difficult to get from the ocean, so we eat them only after particularly strong tides, when the ocean does not naturally throw them to us on the shore. Naturally, I asked about the reason for not breeding it, we have a lot of water, there are samples, what else is needed? And no, I'm not the only one who is so smart, they have already tried before, but they could not find the right conditions for their mass cultivation.

- Try to add vital energy at first, our healers are sitting, they don't know what to do, let them try, experiment, - I said, having already lost interest in this topic, I would do it myself, but I have enough of my own affairs, and so they will create a certain base, kill the cones, and I can already come to the ready.

In theory, the chances of success are not small, there is vital energy in plants, but here it is simply different from ours and animal, but healers pick up the keys to a new patient all their lives, I think they will be able to adjust their qi here too.

- Exactly! I didn't even think about how smart you are - I already seem to look 11 years old, but my mother pinches my cheeks with enviable constancy.