Where am I?
Did I die?
Those were Ery's thoughts as he found himself slowly drifting in seemingly endless darkness. He didn't know where he was exactly going nor had any control of his destination. It was like flying through a vast void.
There was nothing, but his lone thoughts that kept echoing throughout his mindspace, doing his best to keep what probably proved him still alive. He could perceive the ti, as he could still count seconds and minutes, but none of his senses would tell if he was in fact still alive.
A few monts later, as Ery continued on experiencing this ethereal-like state, he started to feel so kind of energy appearing on his left and right side respectively: one was shining brightly full of life, the other let out pitch black glow and had a completely opposite feeling to its counterpart.
Seeing the two forms of energy floating next to him, Ery finally understood where he was.
'These are my two cores," Ery muttered to no one in particular.
Upon further recollection, he finally rembered he had once felt this kind of feeling. It was like when he was entering his cores with the help of Killgragah, only that this ti he couldn't feel the connection to his body - it was like the tether between them had disappeared.
At the mont, Ery could clearly feel how his two cores were gradually refilled. becoming stronger with every passing mont. Slowly but surely, he could finally sense sothing, but not through his ears or other bodily senses as one would expect.
Knowing very well what it was, Ery swiftly got into a lotus position and started to concentrate his mind on Spirit Reading. The process was awfully difficult and the result was diocre. He could only perceive so faint noises and a blurry shadow of a figure moving around him.
It took him what felt like hours of trial and error, before he could roughly sense what his situation was.
'It seems my consciousness is severed from my body, and from the way it looks, I am stuck inside my spiritual core,' concluded Ery, after getting the gist of the situation.
At least, that was part of the [Soul Tempering ditation] he read before everything happened.
Ery was currently still unable to tell what happened to his body, but he knew that he could not just sit around and let fate work its magic. Therefore, he decided to continue the diation technique he read before.
However, this ti, instead of channeling spirit energy from the head (crown) towards the solar plexus, as written in the book, he had to do it the other way around. From the solar plexus to the heart, then toward the throat before making its way to the crown, after passing through the third eye.
A few hours into the ditation, Ery discovered that his [Spirit Reading], which he had been using since he got himself into this predicant, could perceive a much larger area. It was able to pick up the blurry pictures of two different figures that seed to be coming in and out. However, he had no idea who they were.
"At least it looks like the ditation is working"," Ery thought to himself.
Fueled by the successful result, Ery decided to continue his endeavor in diation.
After days, he finally managed to feel one of the major spirit points: the heart.
Dum... dum…
It was faint, but Ery knew his heart was still beating; that his body was still alive. At the sa ti, with a bit of concentration, he regained his sense of hearing through Spirit Reading and was finally able to sense the situation outside.
"Brother, co here! It was faint, but the spirit core had managed to connect to the heart again!"
"You are right, brother. Thanks to Titan's beard, it finally works!"
"To think that all these ingredients we have been pumping to his body finally work. Brother, do you think we can get reimbursent for them?"
"You are hopeless! Don't talk about such matters before we make sure the acolyte is back to life!"
Ery was surprised, because he recognized who the owner of one of the two voices belonged to. It was his apothecary master, Master Grom. Apparently, the other party together with Master Dulin were trying to bring him back again.
"I should not give up either!"
Ery returned his attention to the diation and subrged himself in it, as he threw aside any unnecessary thoughts. At the mont, in his mind, the [Soul Tempering diation] was the only one that existed.
Gradually within days, Ery managed to channel his spirit energy to the other major spirit points. Eventually, he reached his final destination and was about to open up the last one - the crown spirit point in the brain.
By this point, he mustered all the concentration he had, because he knew this was the last point of the endeavor. He could not afford and definitely did not want to fail in the last stretch of his journey.
Ery was so imrsed in his efforts that it took him so ti to realize a notification had appeared in his mind - this was after he had finally been able to connect to the crown spirit point.
[You have mastered Soul Tempering diation - stage one]
At the sa ti, Ery felt a deluge of spirit energy rushing from his solar plexus to his head and he was finally able to gain complete control over his body again.
All of his five senses returned. Ery could feel everything through the body again, through the skin, the nose, the ears. Every stimulation was coming back into him. When he opened his eyes, Ery found himself subrging in a familiar liquid inside a familiar tube.
It was also at this mont Ery's eyes locked with those of the two dwarves, who were looking at him with joyful eyes.
"We did it!!" Master Dulin exclaid happily.
"Urgh, finally!!" Master Grom said with relief.
Ery, however, was busy familiarizing himself with his body and discovered he had a hard ti attempting to move his body. Even though they had seen the forr's struggle, the two dwarves still hadn't opened the tube and let him out yet.
"Welco back to the land of the living! You stay there for a minute!"
Ery was still trying to feel every part of his body. When the liquid was finally drained, he suddenly felt the strangest feeling he had ever experienced. Alas, he didn't have a chance to ponder what it exactly was, as the tube door opened.
The sight of Ery walking out of the tube would surely remind those who saw him of a baby learning to walk. His body was swaying left and right, while his legs wobbled as they were lifted to the air.
However, from just the one step he had managed to take with great difficulty, Ery felt as if he was filled with an unstoppable power.
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