"Oh, you are quite early. I take it that you have already made your choice?"
It didn't take much ti to move back to the Wind Pavilion as I already knew the way, and I was easily able to enter the eting room with the help of my four starred tag.
According to the explanation of the servant when he was handing the tag, a mber's tag naturally gained one star as the ascended in status, which was exactly why my tag already had 4 stars on it to explain my status as a personal apprentice candidate.
"Yes, I have decided to exchange for 3 technique tos."
"Eh? Was I too vague with my explanation yesterday?"
It was pretty obvious that Wind was confused as to why I decided to choose even more than 2 techniques, especially after he took the ti to explain the disadvantage of practicing several techniques.
"Not really, I have made my decision based upon your explanation after all…"
"But… alright, you aren't going to use any ntal guidance either?"
The look on Wind's face seed to be sowhat bitter as he seed to have the impression that I got too high on my horse thanks to his praise. He seed to have given up on trying to explain more for so reason as if he had decided to let experience defeat first before reprimanding .
'That's better…'
"I will think about it after I have obtained the techniques first."
While I did already plan to use a limited amount of them, I decided to tread with caution first and check the nature of the tos first as my resources inside the sect were limited to the token I had received.
"As you wish… so you want Wind, Fire and Ice techniques, right?"
"Not, not exactly, I won't be needing a fire technique for now…"
"Hmmm? You will be learning two techniques of the sa elent?"
"Also no, I also want to learn an Earth technique."
"You… have a fourth elent?"
"Mhm. Is sothing the matter?"
"Not really, I just should stop getting surprised… Anyway, since you want to learn a Wind technique, let's start with the pavilion's library then."
'Indeed, this is better…'
Wind's behaviour could be said to be quite strange as he didn't refute that much or even question the authenticity of my claim about having a fourth elent. If the fact that he tried to help from the very beginning was also taken in consideration, then there was definitely a hidden order behind it.
Creeeak…
"Here we are."
The door of the library which was situated in a building of its own behind the main building of the Wind Pavilion opened slowly as silence perated, showing that the library was completely empty of the living.
"You can take a look and check the tos until you decide on one of them, you have two hours to choose in, I will explain the following step after you have chosen," Wind said before pulling one of the empty chair as he sat in silence, appearing to be totally carefree that it would be hard to imagine he was actually one the division masters of the 'Elental Sect Blade'.
Ignoring the smile on his face, I headed for the closest book shelf as I picked the first book I saw, labeled as 'Calm Sword', and opened it to check the quality of the overall content, which was supposed to serve as a general indicator as to how I should go about choosing.
However, as soon as I opened the book, what appeared before my eyes weren't inky words or wrinkled pages, all I could see was a sword pointed at the shadow of a human!
To be exact… my own hand was holding a thin sword as both my wind elents and sword energy started to surge to the sword on their own, the whole sequence of fusing both energy and elents which I knew nothing of finished on its own as my hand moved… Piercing the heart of a shadow of humanoid shape before the shadow scattered as if it never existed…
'Is this…'
The whole experience barely lasted for a re second, as I found myself holding the book and staring at the very first page…
'A ntal vision?'
Closing the book and returning it to its place, I sent a questioning look towards Wind who seed to be staring at in a mix of happiness and confusion.
"How did you experience the 'Archaic Guidance' for that long…?" Wind muttered in confusion.
"Pardon?"
"Nevermind, you are probably wondering about what you have just experienced now, aren't you?"
"Indeed."
Although I didn't actually know why it was called an 'Archaic Guidance', I understood that this was the nickna of the 'ntal Vision' that I just had, so I was naturally curious about its source.
"What you have went through just now is supposed to be the original 'ntal Guidance' of the writer who filled in the book with words and ntal intent that holds his understanding of the technique. Normally… you aren't supposed to even realize it as it passes by normally, but it appears that your ntal expertise which seems to be quite honed has allowed you to last that long…"
'Then…'
"If such a ntal signal is produced from just opening the book… shouldn't establishing a ntal connection the other way around be possible?"
Considering the experience that I went through, if I was able to make it last much longer, then it wasn't impossible to allow my understanding to reach the sa level as the one I automatically received along with the inheritance!
"Naturally, we already tried the eligibility of such a learning thod, but none of the mbers seed to have enough ntal fortitude to make the reverse session last for more than a few seconds, so copying the content of the to was considered a more plausible thod when compared to exhausting your mind only to understand so little…"
'I guess the question should be…'
"Can I take the to out with ?"
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