Open Challenge [I]

For the next two weeks, I threw myself into training.

Fifteen hours a day, every single day.

And yet, despite all that effort, I had barely scratched the surface of the circulation technique I learned from Michael.

You'd think it would be easy for me.

After all, I played the game.

I understood this technique down to its smallest details — how it worked, why it worked, its every hidden function.

But as I had come to learn, reality was nothing like a game.

Knowing how it functioned was one thing. 

Mastering it was a whole different struggle.

As I've said before, Michael's Essence Circulation Technique — the one granted to him by the Sixth Demon Prince himself, Xaldreth — was special in many ways.