Anyway, the manual says to first rest in a lotus position….
"How the heck is a cat supposed to get in Lotus position!" I meow angrily at the Lord who forgot to add multi-racial compatibility to his book.
I grumble and manage to awkwardly get into a position. "This looks retarded...", I grumble.
Time Skip Three Hours
I finally get it right and black mist rises around and seems to be absorbed by me.
"You have achieved it, you are quite good at this young cat." The Shadow Lord speaks in a surprised voice to me.
I feel stronger! Power is surging through my veins, apparently, this Thousand Shadow thingy is pretty effective. Suddenly, the world around me shifts and I am back to the familiar Stall with the familiar snoring werewolf with the familiar smell of spices. I look around.
"Where is the book-nya?" I meow in confusion.
Then I see it, this weird tattoo on the back of my paw. Weird, it is like this intricate pattern, six stars circling a cloaked figure. Creepy tattoo. Maybe like in those cliche stories the book turned into a tattoo? I think of the weird realm and look back at the tattoo. Closing my eyes I appear back in the realm.
"Nyahh!!" I cry.
"How am I supposed to sleep!" I shake my paws in despair.
You see, we cats spend a good amount of our day sleeping, and when we are deprived of sleep, we become devastated and sometimes grouchy.
"Ahem, you just think about this realm disappearing and it will disappear." The Shadow Dude coughs.
I thought of getting rid of the realm extremely hard and it disappeared, sighing with relief I fell into a deep sleep.
"NEXT MORNING"
I got up groggily, even if I am a cat and sometimes will prowl around during the night, I grew to get up in the morning because it is sort of hard to sleep during the day when everyone is yelling at each other. People bustle in talking and eating, scanning goods, and other things. Gregori is already up and at it, showcasing salt, pepper, paprika, fire salt, a salt named after being discovered thousands of years ago in volcanoes around the world, snow sugar, a soft and cold type of sugar that sort of melts in your mouth and some other things. People constantly approach the stall, buying different spices. I lazily yawn and stretch my body, scratching and grooming myself.
As my daily routine goes, Grigori gives me a small dried fish and a bowl of ice cold milk. Licking the milk I contemplate yesterdays out of the ordinary events. Hmm, I wonder what happened yesterday, did the blonde get away, or was he killed? I close my eyes and appear back inside the "shadow" realm. Here, I start to cultivate that weird thousand of Shadow art thing. The Shadow Guy does not speak much so I am left to my own accord, just me and the dark energy thingy concentrating around me.
"Boom!" Suddenly an audible sound spreads out around me. Dark energy spread throughout the realm, causing the very realm to shudder, I have broken through. So apparently this weird Thousand Shadow Art has six realms to match the six pillars. The entering darkness stage, very cheesy, at this stage you become faster, stronger and can control this dark energy thing, The shrouding darkness stage, even cheesier of a name, I will become faster and stronger and acquire the ability to manipulate the dark energy even better, making spears and swords, shields and barriers, sort of handy if you ask me. But the best thing about this stage is that you can become slightly invisible, good for walking around and not being annoyed, also handy for the "liberation" of food.
The next stage after that one is the Spreading darkness stage, cheesy, where I can become even more invisible somehow and create a domain of this "dark energy" thing. After this one is the Covering sky stage, the same, extremely cheesy. In this stage you can control more dark energy and warp between shadows, you can also do some more fun stuff which is also really cool, like making illusions.
The last two are really cool though, the fifth stage, as cheesy as it gets, the Foreboding Horror stage were, your illusions become even stronger and you can control all the shadows around for quite a distance, and lastly the Shadows Ascension, for some reason, it is slightly less cheesy than the fifth one but anyway, pretty cool. All of the stuff mentioned previously is raised to another level and you can manifest an avatar, this huge scary shadow demon-like thing that will help you, nice right?
Anyway, I leap off the side of the front of the stall and walk through a cluster of random things until I make my way into a small gap, my base. Inside is a small space where during the winter, I sleep here, as around here it can get pretty cold during the winter. This is where I will practice my dark energy thingy because if I do it outside someone will notice. Looking around, I curl up on a small ragged blanket.
I concentrate deeply, and that dark energy thing starts to gather. Soon I create an orb of the energy but it breaks, shattering, wisps of purple smoke dispersing at the area where it broke. I try again and again for the majority of the morning, repeating the process over and over, but every time it breaks, shattering. Finally, after repeating the process over and over, I manage to concentrate a small orb of dark energy which floats in my hand, wisps of purplish smoke dispersing from it. I throw the orb, it lands on the floor of the small space and disappears. I meow in my frustration. Seriously, it does nothing? What can it do? Pretty much nothing…