Limits Chapter 127

This ti hunting went smoothly. I was able to find a group of wolves very quickly, disposing of them took even less ti. With so at in my bag, I returned to the camp and continued playing lumberjack ga with my daggers.

By the evening, I was done with my new weights. I added so new modifications along the way and created more weights from the other half of the trunk. I cut one piece of the trunk to a size I couldn't lift, I left it like this on purpose. 'This large piece will serve as part of my training' I thought. I needed that kind of weight for the future exercises and to further develop my strength at the sa ti.

The other weights would allow to train my control of the lower to middle ranges of my strength. I also created heavier weights for the top middle range of my strength. I already had the weights for the upper range of my strength, those were created from the shorter but wider part of trunk. This way, I could learn to control my body much better. I would be able to train ranges such as 55% or 75% but also 80 or 90%. I didn't train anything else that day, I simply laid down and relaxed. The night was still young therefore I tried to figure out so words from the Ancient Language.

I tried different anings with words I already knew or heard. This gave so new ideas and I was able to get so more aning out of the language. I found that Therak could an "my" or "mine". The dark figure used that word often but not very often. It also used that word twice, when answering . 'If my guess is correct, then the sentence Lak? Lak Lan Therak Devorak would an "You? You are my/mine…" but my/mine what?' I thought.

I wondered about possible words that could fit that sentence 'It can't be stuff like "my father?" that's just stupid! The sa would apply to brother, sister or whatnot. It must be sothing else. Maybe "friend" but again, I don't know that… whatever this dark figure is, at all. How could it call friend?' I thought as I couldn't figure it out. I knew it referred to sothing that a person could be. The problem was that there were just too many words fitting that sentence.

The translation of the word Therak made sense but figuring out the last word would get nowhere. I decided to change to another sentence. 'The other thing that the dark figure answer to my question was Ze, Kiq Thes Therak Reles. This could translate as "No, don't … my/mine... ". This also doesn't help much with figuring out the other words' I thought.

I had to look at the context. I asked the dark figure "Can you do this?" and jump up. The dark figure answered "no". 'I didn't notice any emotions in its voice…. What could it be?' I thought. I wrecked my brain about it and tried to figure it out. Then all of a sudden, I found a sentence that would make sense in those circumstances.

'He could've answered "No, don't test my patience". This would make sense. I asked the "Who am I?" question and the dark figure answered... whoever I am. I then asked, "Can you do this?" and jumped. Maybe it got annoyed because I asked questions. I don't know if this thing is sohow alive to be able to respond to but then, what could it do? End the dream? This thing can't affect when I'm not asleep. Maybe it was just a generic answer, kind of prearranged into my dream' I thought.

The more I thought about that sentence, the more sense it made. It also fitted the circumstances. I decided to translate it as such. With this, I was one step closer towards basic understanding of the Ancient Language. I stopped thinking about the Ancient Language and prepared myself for the next dream. This ti, I knew I would be in a dream where the dark figure trains sothing. I was quite excited about the prospects of trying out those new exercises myself.

When I opened my eyes again, I stood in front of the dark figure. Without any introductions, the dark figure started by doing the 1st exercise. I got closer and wanted to join in but I didn't know how. I thought about different way of joining. After a while, I took a step forward and noticed that a glass like tile, shined a bit underneath my feet. 'So the exercises started. Let's see how this thing goes then' I thought and took a step forward.

"Baam!"

I felt a lot of pain and then darkness. When I opened my eyes again, I was still in the dream. To be precise, I was standing in the sa place I always stood when I entered my dream. I looked at the dark figure and it was still practicing the 1st exercise. I decided to give it a try again. 'There must be so sort of trick to it. This thing isn't really running on that path, it just walks or jumps sotis' I thought and again took a step forward.

A glass like tile appeared under my feet with a slight glint, barely visible to the naked eye. This was the beginning of the path, that much I knew. I wasn't stupid enough to again take a blind step. Instead, I had a look around . This glass like path was very hard to spot, I guessed that this was precisely the aim of this exercise.

I looked around and noticed nothing. 'This is harder than I imagined. I need to focus better' I thought and started focusing on one piece of ground at a ti. After a while, I finally noticed sothing. It looked like a square tile but seed invisible. It was about two steps away from where I stood. I decided to give it a go and jumped lightly on top of it.

"Thud"

I was glad that nothing happened when I landed. The floor beca more visible when I stood on it. I took a detailed look at the piece of floor before anything else. I touched it, jumped on top of it and so on. It was very sturdy, maybe even more sturdy than tal. When I jumped on it, it didn't make any sounds, other than the sound of my feet landing on top of it.

I wasted no more ti with that tile and started to search for the next one. It went like this for a while. I was only able to find 5 of them. The dark figure managed to finish already and started next exercise. The tiles I already uncovered disappeared, while I stood there as if bewildered. 'This probably indicates that I ran out of ti' I thought. I was bewildered because the next exercise didn't start automatically. I had to actually think about starting it before it actually did.

I thought about the 2nd exercise and what seed like tallic basin, appeared in front of . It was suspended in air. I checked it from top to bottom, there were no wires or strings attached to it. The basin just levitated like this, as if it was perfectly normal. 'Whatever, I will try this 2nd exercise. Let see what is this thing all about'.