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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:42:08 GMT
Training Ren 2:
1. Night had fallen and Merv was long gone. Normally, Shinzu would be in bed by now recovering and resting to be able to wake up early to play more video games in the morning. Instead, he was sitting cross legged on the floorboards meditating. Highly reactive to this, his aura seemed to spew from every pore in his body. The act of meditating seemed to help relax his body and allow the aura to seep through like a permeable membrane.
Shinzu’s goal was fairly simply. By mediating, he wondered if he could explosively increase how much aura his body was capable of outputting. Like how calm individuals during sports could conjure up more energy during a game than more hyper and aggressive people, he wished to achieve the same to ensure that his body always constantly had a large supply of aura to work with.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:42:23 GMT
2. As always, Shinzu meditated by focusing on calming thoughts. Thoughts of him relaxing on the park playing video games in the sun and enjoying a nice pizza in the comfort of his own home. This brought his heart rate down and allowed him to better control his breathing with long deep breaths and even lengthier exhales. Overall, he felt at complete peace with himself.
However, not satisfied, Shinzu continued on pressing forwards with his act of meditating. He did miniscule things that he knew would have a large effect when combined together. For example, rather than picturing thoughts with aggressive colours like yellow, red and orange, he pictured more mellow blues and greens to help improve his overall mood and relax his body in a much calmer state.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:42:33 GMT
3. In reaction to this, Shinzu’s aura flared outwards and gently enveloped his entire body like a cowl. Suddenly, his outline was shrouded by a warm gooey aura. An aura he further intensified by focusing on it intently. ‘Hatsu’ was the word Merv had taught him earlier in the day. By focusing on his Hatsu, Shinzu knew he could give his aura new and abstract properties. In his case, it forced his aura to turn pitch-black.
Just to test that this was indeed the same aura that he had been calling upon all this time since awakening his Nen, Shinzu focused intently on the black cowl. Specifically, a spot near his face where he triggered his transmutation ability and summoned forth a smiling maw. Confirming this was the same aura he had complete control over and not another technique, he dismissed the maw and set to work.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:42:45 GMT
4. Rather than stopping here, Shinzu focused on outputting even more of his Hatsu. Carefully, he focused on the warm energy he was constantly birthing inside of his core and pulled upon it in order to drag it out into the world around him. Slowly but surely, the outline of black aura around him began to thicken and enlarge like a thick cowl.
Shinzu kept this in place by pushing down on the aura as he expelled it outwards. He thought of it like forming a bubble around him. Half the job was blowing the bubble by blowing outwards in all directions to allow it to expand. However, at the same time, he knew he had to control it and prevent it from pushing too far out by pushing it back towards himself.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:42:56 GMT
5. “This seems… Easier than before.” Shinzu thought to himself as he pulled upon his aura even more. The outline of energy around him thickened and expanded even more. The strange sensation it emitted also intensified. It almost felt like slugs or worms crawling along his body and giving his skin a slimy massage. It was almost an otherworldly sensation – which made sense considering how strange all this aura business was.
However, it was difficult to focus with such a weird and creepy sensation surrounding his body. Gulping, his aura began to flicker as he struggled to focus on controlling it. Simply, he stopped training for a few moments and simply sat there with his aura hugging him. He wanted to grow more accustomed to the strange feeling so that it didn’t hinder himself during battle.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:43:06 GMT
6. With massive amounts of aura being outputted, Shinzu decided to put it to good use by seeing just how easily he could manipulate it. Extending his arm and finger forwards, Shinzu transmuted a tendril of dark aura to appear on the tip of his finger. With a quick flick, he ordered it to shoot out his bedroom window. Sadly, it only travelled about half a meter before stopping.
Pulling the tendril back by curling his finger, Shinzu ordered it to shoot out again by flicking his aura forward. Carefully, he watched the tendril trace the movements of his finger before violently shooting outwards. It reminded him of someone playing around with a long strip of bubble gum. Sadly, once again, his aura didn’t travel far. Only half a meter again.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:43:16 GMT
7. “No good.” He thought to himself as he pulled back the tendril and shot it out even further. His aura seemed to refuse to go beyond a certain radius of himself. However, he had plenty of aura surrounding his body to work with. Smiling, he forced some of this aura into the tendril and watched it enlarge almost immediately. Tugging upon this tendril, he managed to command it to stretch out a full meter.
However, the aura was unstable and simply flopped to the ground upon extending a meter. It was like a long tape measure. After a certain point, it seemed unable to hold its own body weight while this thin and simply collapsed. To rectify this, he pumped even more aura into the tendril until the Nen construct was strong enough to support its own mass.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:43:27 GMT
8. With its length effectively doubled, Shinzu began slowly pumping more of his aura into the tendril while simultaneously stretching it. It was difficult to control his aura while he energised it with more ‘fuel’, however, it there was one thing video games had taught him, it was multitasking. With his sheer focus, somehow, he was managing it. After a few moments, his tendril had easily stretched to around seven meters in length.
However, while seven meters was impressive, the ability was rather taxing. Controlling this much aura at once seemed to exhaust Shinzu and strain his mind slightly. As his vision began to blur, he countered the effects of fatigue by inhaling and exhaling deeply to ensure his body was producing as much energy as physically possible. He needed to ensure he didn’t pass out while training.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:43:40 GMT
9. Terrified someone else may see his training, Shinzu commanded his tendril to curve back inside of his bedroom. Rather than extending it outwards, he ordered it to coil around the outer edge of the room. With each lap it completed, the tendril would twisted closer and closer around him. Not only was this more practical than simply stretching his aura in a straight line, but it also helped Shinzu better control his aura.
The only issue was the amount of control it required to order his Nen to curl around the room clockwise while he pumped more aura into the construct. To achieve this, he was forced to go much slower than he would have liked at first. Slowly and carefully, he ordered his aura to curl around the room and hug the walls until he was confident enough to go faster.
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Post by Shinzu on Jul 15, 2018 17:43:50 GMT
10. After a while, Shinzu felt pretty confident with his aura. He continued stretching and pumping more aura into the lone tendril. In a matter of a few minutes, the Nen construct had become so large that most of the floor was covered in black. It now reached a estimated length of around 14 meters, a length he had never been able to even come close to due to exhaustion. To ensure that this wasn’t a fluke, Shinzu immediately dismissed his aura tendril and allowed it to dissipate into nothingness. Now forced to start from scratch, he pushed his aura out from a tightened fist and allowed it to shoot out to form another fourteen-meter tendril. This entire process happened in about a few seconds – much quicker than the minutes it had just taken previously. [Ren Lvl. 2 Unlocked!] |
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