Chapter 5. Am I in Danger?
After returning to her dormitory, Fulan put down everything she was carrying and imdiately picked up the sheet of paper labeled 【Swift Wind Breathing thod】.
She carefully read through its contents and soon found the corresponding skill on her panel.
【Swift Wind Breathing thod (Not Initiated) (Proficiency: 0/10): Once mastered, you can gain the assistance of the wind while moving.】
This made Fulan extrely happy. The only problem was that the breathing thod she had bought was incomplete, yet the panel did not indicate this in any way.
But that did not matter. Since the panel allowed her to practice it directly, she could simply start training. She had long been fed up with her weak body.
As soone from the modern world, she truly could not imagine how adjusting the rhythm and depth of breathing could produce any miraculous effects.
But practice revealed the truth.
She began adjusting her breathing according to the instructions written on the page.
“Haah… haah…”
It had to be said that the breathing thod described here was not sothing an ordinary person could easily perform.
What did it an to exhale all the air in your lungs and then force out another burst afterward? Her face quickly turned red from holding her breath.
But there was an effect.
After barely completing the breathing pattern as instructed, she felt her body beco noticeably lighter, and the speed of her arm movents increased.
“There is nothing after this!”
While adjusting her breathing according to the instructions, she suddenly realized the text ended abruptly—right at about seventy percent of the thod.
At that mont, she felt a strange pressure building in her chest, as if a mass of air were stuck in her lungs. She tried repeating the previous breathing steps, but nothing worked.
Finally, she forcefully exhaled, releasing the trapped air in one violent burst.
The sudden lack of air in her lungs caused her to gasp violently. Only after about a minute did her breathing gradually return to normal.
“As expected of an incomplete Breathing thod. It is worth exactly what I paid for it.”
After all, it had cost only five silver coins. With such a massive flaw, practicing it incorrectly could easily cause soone to suffocate on the spot.
Fulan silently called up the panel. There had been a notification earlier, but she had not noticed it because she was struggling to breathe.
【You attempted the Swift Wind Breathing thod for the first ti and gained so insight. Proficiency 2】
She estimated the ti. Practicing it once took roughly half an hour, and she needed another ten minutes afterward to recover her breath.
Today, she decided to focus on reaching the beginner level of this breathing thod first. Improving her physical constitution was the priority.
…
About three hours later, Fulan was drenched in sweat, her skin flushed red. She lay on the floor without the strength to move—but she had finally succeeded in bringing the breathing thod to the beginner level.
【You diligently practiced the Swift Wind Breathing thod. You can now allow the wind to assist your movents. Proficiency increased. Skill has reached Beginner Level.】
【Na: Fulan
Profession: None
Attributes: Constitution 1.0, Spirit 1.4
Skills:
Herb Identification, Herb Processing (Proficient)
Harmonization thod (Not Initiated)
Swift Wind Breathing thod (Beginner) (Proficiency: 0/100): You can allow the wind to accelerate your movents.
Astrology (Not Initiated)
Trait: Move With the Wind (Wind clings to your body, making your movents lighter. You possess slight affinity with the wind elent.)】
It had to be said that those five silver coins were extrely well spent.
Not only had she achieved her original goal of improving her constitution, she had also unlocked an entirely new section on the panel—Traits.
She tried standing up. Without even using the breathing thod, she felt as if sothing was gently pushing her forward. She rose to her feet with ease.
She suspected that this was the effect of the Move With the Wind trait. If she combined it with the breathing thod, her movents would probably beco even faster.
But why did practicing this breathing thod grant her a trait, while her herb-related skills—already at the Proficient level—gave her nothing?
After thinking about it for a mont, she guessed it might be due to the difference in rank. Even a defective Breathing thod was still sothing capable of leading soone to the formal rank. Its level was naturally higher than ordinary herb-related skills.
Unfortunately, even after reaching the beginner level, the panel had not filled her mind with knowledge the way it had with Herb Identification.
She had hoped the panel might sohow repair the incomplete breathing thod. Perhaps reaching a higher level would make that possible.
Thinking about that made her glance at the Harmonization thod on the panel.
Logically, she should imdiately get up and use all fifty portions of materials she had purchased to grind its proficiency. Perhaps doing so might even unlock another trait.
However, she opened and closed her hand slowly.
Her body was already close to its limit. Practicing the breathing thod consud far too much stamina. If not for the Move With the Wind trait, she might not even have had the strength to stand up.
Just as she was preparing to sleep, she suddenly rembered sothing.
Did she not also have a skill called Astrology?
Perfect timing.
Lying on her bed, she opened the window and gazed at the stars in the night sky, wondering if she could practice Astrology before falling asleep.
Fulan stared intently at the stars outside.
At first, she felt nothing.
But she had to admit—the night sky in this world was completely different. The stars were unbelievably bright. So of the larger ones were even more prominent than the crescent moon.
Gradually, she began to notice sothing unusual.
The positions of the stars were not completely fixed. Several tis, she saw a star drift slightly to one side before returning to its original place.
Suddenly, inspiration struck her.
She rembered several diagrams she had seen earlier in “Astronomy and the Sea.” So of the star positions looked very similar to the patterns currently in the sky.
She frantically tried to match the image in her mory with the stars above. Whenever she found discrepancies, her ntal power instinctively adjusted the positions in her mind.
Her eyelids began to droop. She was already extrely tired, yet her mind remained strangely active.
Once every star position in her mind aligned with the diagram, a scene suddenly appeared before her eyes.
It was her own back.
She was watching herself from a third-person perspective.
Fulan stood on a barren field, holding a sword. Opposite her stood two people.
One of them looked extrely familiar.
It was the apprentice who had seen her earlier that day and imdiately run away.
Beside him stood a man wearing a gray robe and holding a bone staff.
“Apprentice, if I were you, I would stop resisting… Of course, if you tell the secret of your resurrection, I can grant you a less painful death.”
Watching this unfold, Fulan was shocked.
Soone wanted to kill her.
She quickly studied the man’s face carefully, trying to rember every detail.
At that mont, the version of Fulan within the vision spoke a single word.
“Richter…”
The observing Fulan felt a strange sense of admiration.
As expected of —straight to the point. That was probably the man’s na. She could try finding him in reality later.
When Richter heard his na spoken, he imdiately acted.
A pale beam shot from his staff, while his other hand unfurled a scroll. Several skeletons crawled out of the ground, each carrying weapons.
What happened next left Fulan completely stunned.
Wind suddenly began to swirl around her future self.
She imdiately recognized it—Swift Wind Breathing thod.
The breathing thod could also be used in battle to enhance the body.
Then her future self moved.
She moved so quickly that the observing Fulan could barely follow the motion.
By the ti she understood what had happened, Richter’s throat had already been cut open by a single strike.
The skeletons had been smashed apart, their bones scattered everywhere.
The other apprentice had also been stabbed through the body and died instantly.
Before she could even marvel at how powerful she seed—
Two notifications appeared.
【By blindly experinting with Astrology, you miraculously witnessed a scene from the future. Proficiency has increased to Beginner Level.】
【You witnessed a battle using the Swift Wind Breathing thod and understood how to fight. Proficiency 20】
…It works like that too?
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