CHAPTER 68: TECHNIQUES

Speaking with him as if she’s a nagging elder that is trying to guide the younger generation to improve themselves, this enigmatic beauty said with a serious expression on her face as she moves one of her hands, pointing a finger and using it to touch Azrael’s forehead.

Which doesn’t even surprise him as he doesn’t even realize that the lady did this, only realizing that she did something the moment she returns to her current position, the guide popping up in front of him once again indicating that he acquired something, most likely from this mysterious lady herself.

[Detected a sudden increase in the ascender’s mental activity. Identified the reason for this to be a technique transference.]

[The technique tab is now available for the ascender to view]

[Acquired the technique: Immortal Forging Art]

[Immortal Forging Art (S-Grade Technique)]

[Use the entire environment to one’s favor, defy the natural rules and transcend mundane mortality to ascend to the immortal and unending, forge one’s body with the heaven and earth and turn the most primitive of tools into the invulnerable.]

[Effects: Grants the ability to enter a meditative state for an indefinite amount of time. Once in this state, absorption and refining of surrounding life force to Immortal Energy will begin, the rate of improvement depending on the mastery of the technique.]

[Mastery: Entry-level (Increase maximum Immortal Energy by 1 point every one hour)]

[Requirement/s to reach the next level of mastery: Use the technique for a total of a thousand hours.]

[Note: The absorption rate is also subject to the quality of the life force in the environment, with the rate possibly decreasing down to ten percent and increasing up to one thousand percent based on the location it is used. (Current rate of absorption 150%)]

Reading through the information of this technique, he couldn’t help but close his eyes and try reading it once again, wondering whether this is true as just a while ago, he believes that he needs to spend a lot of time just to improve the Immortal Energy he has, and yet now, he already has a way for it to directly improve without waiting for his strength to improve.

"What the hell are you dilly-dallying for huh? Go and practice!!" looking at the dazed expression of the young man in front of her, the mysterious beauty couldn’t help but feel proud as it seemed like her inheritance landed in a good hand, to a person who clearly appreciates the value of such wondrous technique.

’Some naïve bastards will think that the rate of increase in Immortal Energy is quite slow, but comparing it to other technique of the same caliber, it is already extremely fast...’ she thought to herself as she watches the young man closing his eyes trying to follow the technique in his mind, his progress surprising her a fair bit as she never expected that he would be able to properly use the technique from the get go.

’Even I took three to four times before I properly circulated the technique...’ she thought to herself as she watches the young man drawing in the inert, yet abundant life force within this so-called Immortal Realm, his rate of absorption surprising not only her, but him as well as this is just way beyond what the information on the technique stated.

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

[Detected an abundant amount of life force being absorbed and refined by the ascender. Maximum Immortal Energy +1]

After just a single hour of meditating, Azrael managed to acquire much more Immortal Energy than he initially anticipated, this fact making him smile as he looks at the mysterious lady who gave him this technique in gratitude, said lady extremely shocked as she witnessed the young man enter a meditative state for an hour straight.

"You’re not tired?" seeing that he is now looking at her direction though, the lady feigned composure as she flashes a brilliant smile that took the young man by surprise, now no longer taking a significant control from him as his heart just skipped a beat from her smile rather than the usual more absurd response.

"Miss, why are you even asking that? I feel so energized that I think I can still go with this for a few more hours, no, actually, if only there are things that I need to do, I think I can do this all day..." Azrael replies as he starts checking the changes in his body, no matter how miniscule it is, just the additional three points of Immortal Energy alone making him feel like it is no small progress at all.

Hearing the words from the young man however, the lady becomes all the more shocked as if she just heard of something absurd, in her mind a thought forming, her gaze changing as she looks at the young man, the previous one that is as if a senior guiding a person from a younger generation now as if an ascender who just found a treasure trove all by herself.

’I heard of rumors about them but... for them to truly exist...’ as she thought of this, the lady couldn’t help but double check once again, trying to dispel such thoughts in her mind unless she is absolutely certain, as if what the young man said is true, then she just discovered something even more precious than a diamond in the junk.

"T-that’s great, continue meditating then, don’t worry about taking too much of your time if you don’t have anything else important to do, time here flows twice as fast compared to outside" the lady said, this time her words shocking Azrael as well, who is only now starting to realize the absurdity of this place’s existence.

With the assurance from this mysterious lady though, he is able to focus more on the task at hand, consistently increasing his Immortal Energy, his rate of improvement and ceaseless meditation putting the lady observing in the distance in quite the shock.