"Shysha, is this really necessary?" Liu Yang looked at the two devices in her hands. He was a little skeptical about this.
"Yes." She joked. While playing with the stun gun.
Both items look like an electric razor, but when the button is pressed, a line of lightning appears in the middle.
zzzzzzz ... zzzzzz ... zzzzz ...
"Shysha, I know that I already learned to absorb the energy of the world, but isn't using these two things too insane? I can handle putting a fork in the power plug, but isn't that too dangerous?" Liu Yang did not believe that his body could handle the power of a stun gun, let alone two at the same time.
"Liu Yang, have you read the entire manual?" Shysha put the two items on the table and asked.
"Yes. Because I chose the path of lightning, to get stronger faster, I need to stay in a place that has a lot of lightning, or I can absorb the energies of the world and refine them into lightning energy. My body needs to absorb lightning or refine the world's energies to become stronger. After that, I will be able to use the power of lightning so I can use the Thunderbolt spell and will also be able to make a contract with my first elemental creature. The basic manual ends with this part but there's still one more sessions that I can't see" Liu Yang had already read the entire manual after he learned to absorb the energies of the world the day before.
After making the connection with the lightning element, Liu Yang was able to automatically learn to absorb the energy of the world, he just had to close his eyes and concentrate so that his body could absorb the energies.
Shysha was not surprised to see this happen. Liu Yang had already done the most important thing, which was to learn the power of lightning.
Now, he just needs to meditate and absorb the rays to get stronger before looking for the second part of the manual. What he has learned so far was the basics of being a Shaman.
The first thing is to get in touch with any of the energies of nature, the second is to learn and how to use his power and the third thing is to make a contract with an elemental spirit. These are the three basic things that every Shaman needs to know how to do.
"Liu Yang, as it says in the manual, you need lightning to temper your body, the lightning Shamans do this to get stronger, besides absorbing the energies of the world, this is the second way to train. But how will you be struck by lightning? Will you go through a storm? That great amount of lightning striking your body at the same time, you wouldn't even be able to handle all that power and your body would be reduced to ashes." Shysha explained.
Being struck by lightning in the middle of a city is extremely difficult, besides, the buildings had lightning rods. Liu Yang couldn't go to these buildings to train, the clans will find out about him.
If Liu Yang tries to train near a storm, the dozens of lightning and thunder can reduce his body to ashes. So he could only train most slowly, using electrical energy.
"Liu Yang, electricity may not be natural, but it is the only thing that we have at our disposal. Besides, this will also be a good workout for you. You will learn to purify the lightning and in the future, the other elements too" Shysha thought a bit and decided to change Liu Yang's training a little.
Since electrical energy was not lightning that nature creates, it had many impurities. Liu Yang will need to cleanse these impurities with his body before absorbing the lightning, otherwise, the accumulation of impurities can damage his body and delay his training.
"Shysha, do you know anything about alchemy?" Liu Yang remembered something in the novels and asked.
"Alchemy? Liu Yang, do you mean making magic potions?" Shysha understood the question.
"Yes. It exists, right?"
"Alchemists exist as in the novels you read. They do just that, creating pills and magic elixirs to improve the training speed of others. These things are very expensive, at least the best things. Poor quality items are reasonably priced"
"But do you know how to make these potions too?"
"I only know how to make something called medical paste, but it is only the first rank." Shysha replied. She was not very proud to know how to do this, as the first level is the most basic of all.
"Medical paste? What is it?" Liu Yang has never heard of this before.
"Liu Yang, you may have read in your novels that there are many items created by alchemists, right?"
"Yes. I remember that there are pills, elixirs, potions, precious metals, and medicinal liquids"
"Other than precious metals, the other items are almost the same. They heal injuries and illnesses, help people during training, or can temporarily increase power. Some of these items can also rejuvenate a person's appearance."
"Would the medical paste be like a medicinal liquid?"
"It is similar, but the shape is different. The medicinal liquid is more common in nature and is very difficult to make. The medicinal paste is made from ingredients found in nature, think of it as a pill, but the shape is like a paste made with natural ingredients. Liu Yang, do you remember that I said that each country had a way to call its cultivators?"
"Yes. In China, they are called as the cultivators and in Europe, they are the Knights, Paladins, Mages, Druids, Shamans, and Berserkers because of the various regions with different histories and cultures."
"They are the same when it comes to training, but each of them had some subtle differences that I will not comment on. In the case of items made by alchemists, the items are the same, but there are also some subtle differences. The medicinal pill, which is common in China, is created from medicinal ingredients and compressed into a small pill. The medicinal paste is created after the ingredients are melted and its impurities are discarded, after mixing all this smoothly, the paste is created and does not need to be compressed into pill form."
"I see ... In this case, the difference between the pill and the medicine paste is in the form?"
"Not only in form but also in the amount of energy and ease of use. I will use the pill and the medical paste as an example. The pill concentrates all of its medicinal energy within a small finger-sized sphere. When someone takes the pill, all that stored energy is released in one go. If the person is not strong enough to withstand that energy, his body can explode. But the effects are also quicker because of the large amount of energy.
Since the medical paste is not concentrated, someone can use only a part and save the rest for later use. Thus, the energy is less, but the person is not at risk of exploding and the effects are a little slower. In general, each item has its advantages and disadvantages." Shysha explained calmly.
"Ohh ... Shysha, is it possible to create a medicinal paste using common ingredients?" Liu Yang asked curiously.
If Shysha could create something like that for him, he could improve the speed of his training.