a wagon strode to the road and broke the silence of the night. Those that were awake peek through their windows only to see a wagon moving forward with a monster as it's chauffeur. a drunk person walk out of a bar only to run into the wagon, ready to scream up and fight the driver like he always does. he looks up only for fear to strikes him from his head to his toes, lock in place the wagon moves past him and keep moving towards the castle. once the wagon is far enough the drunk recuperate his body only to scream as he falls to the floor crying like a kid who has just seen his worst nightmare.
people run outside from the bar with a worry face but after seen him they started to tease him
" what happen "
" are you okay"
"hey" " no more drinks for you jajaja"
the drunk on the floor answer with a broken voice " ghu..ghu..ghu...ghost" then he gets up and runs non stop home. leaving a group of people staring the same way the old drunk was looking at. only to see darkness follow by the whistle of the wind.
saito and jack arrive at the castle, it was a old castle that look like the Hohenwerfen Castle above the Salzach Valley, Austria. not a single light could be seen coming out of the castle only darkness, follow by the sound of broken wood windows opening and closing. it was a good thing that saito could not see or else the only thought that would run to his mind would be " we are going to get murder here tonight"
the only good thing about the scenery was the full moon, that lighted the castle giving it the gothic look.
" let's hope we do not find Dracula here" joke jack
" said what" called out saito with a worry face
" nothing master, just enjoying the beautiful castle, wish you could see it"
" can you share the image with me like what you did for you."
" akm not enough energy later I share the image" answer jack trying not scare his master
" ok let's go in I am hungry"
" yes, I cook for you, what would you like? " ask jack
"anything it just have to taste good okay"
saito is guide inside the castle, after that jack starts to clean a room for saito to rest and wait. " master the bed is change and the room is clean, you could rest here and I will come to get you once dinner is ready" inform jack as he walks aways from saito
saito sits on the bed and started to think, ' I need more golem since I can not have any retainers, but what type of golem should I create. jack is a good steward so I need a maid and bodyguard, and then those to take care of my stuff outside this walls, mmm' jack can work as my bodyguard for now but he won't be able to protect me if he has to always Clean and cook and I need a 3 months rest for every golem. I also have to worry about the prince trying to send more assassin, I need to cultivate my Qi at least for self defense.'
" master food is ready" said jack as he interrupted saito from his thoughts
" ok let's go" answer saito as he raises his hand for jack to guide.
sitting on the table while he eats a hamburger saito ask jack, " jack is there a way for you to get the formation for golem and a Mana core to make another golem to help around here, is there any Technics hidden around your memories to increase the soul power or reduce the time needed to recuperate." " sir your necklace has two more Mana core with the formation engraved on them, but even if I could get my hand on them we could not use since it need somebody with true body to engrave which means only you could if you want to keep it hiden. I could teach you but it would be hard for you to follow since you are blind and even if you could get image send to your mind your would not be able to draw the formation perfectly. as for the soul power, there exist none that the previous owner knew, however I did saw that one if his professor said that there where people that could cultivate their soul but for some reason they could not pass it on to their offspring. which lead people to believe it not worth researching since it only leads to individual gain. however the professor did mention that one of those ancestors wrote that it felt like your life been pull from every inch of your body everytime he cultivate so he had to return to his body. That is all the professor said about the ancestors notes.
" return to his body, return to his body" saito repeat those words again and again until he jumps up from his chair.
" I get it now, it's the astral form to cultivate the soul one needs to separate the soul from the body and according to the Tibet monks one needs to release any attachments at least when practicing the astral form. " saito continues to explain, " the ancestors felt pain because he refuses to release his attachment to this world and almost everyone fails, because on this world you can feel power and no one would give up the power."
feeling happy for his hypothesis for soul cultivation saito gave some commands to jack, " jack can you engrave me some golem formation on a wood or medal plate so i can learn their dimensions and possibly replicate it so we can keep this as secret as possible, also wake me up tomorrow early before the sun comes out so I can practice my astral form. ohh it's weird asking this from a man, but could you take me to my room since I still new here "
saito enter his room and lies on his bed, closes his eyes, minutes later rhythmic breath follow as saito falls to sleep, only the moons show her self through saito balcony like a mother protecting her child wishing him a good night sleep.