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Chapter 16 - Hands of Time

As Adam left the room after speaking to Lucius, only Lilith and Lucius remained, Lilith once again asked if everything was okay in which Lucius once again reassured her, he was fine. "You haven't ate a proper meal in forever, let me get someone to cook you something" Lilith said and went out the room before Lucius could refute her. Seeing this Lucius just showed a helpless expression, if he had to be honest he quite enjoyed family life, after resting for a moment, he then re adjusted his mood and went within his brood space to begin the condensation of the gas present to a liquid. He did this by using the fire element present to heat up the gas until vapors were formed, eventually these vapors would condense and liquid would be created. Although this process sounded quite easy it was anything but, as it took a lot mental power to control the fire element and also manipulate the water element at the same time in a way that vapors would be formed after heating it. This method wasn't created by Lucius, but one of the images shown to him in what he regarded as a pseudo enlightenment.

The next day quickly arrived, as Lucius woke up early he went for a shower and then walked along the hall to the training room designated specially for him, Lucius was an important person within the King family and lived separately from everyone only his grandfather, grandmother, father and mother along with some trusted servants to take care of daily chores were granted access to Lucius living area. Although recently his grandmother and father were busy with the management of the King's family various businesses they still came to visit time to time. As he walked along the empty halls his every step carried with it the majesty of a ruler that was imprinted within his very soul, all the servants that saw him were shocked in awe, although this wasn't the first time witnessing his majestic bearing they would have the same expression every time.

As he arrived in front of a large door that was almost 2 times his size he pushed it and entered, the room wasn't empty as a middle aged man was waiting inside, his hair was blond as well similar to Lucius, he also had muscular features that resembled a hero from the folktale stories from Lucius past universe, this was Lucius grandfather, Adam. "Lucius you woke up early as usual" Adam smiled and said when he saw Lucius entering the room. This was a routine for them since Lucius was one year old he would come to this training room every morning to instruct Lucius. The first couple times they started Lucius was here before him, after witnessing that Adam decided to build a tunnel from his bed chamber to this room, so that he would be present before Lucius. Eve was obviously angered by this and still complained to this day about how ridiculous it was, but as a man Adam had his own pride he had to protect no matter how foolish it may sound.

Lucius greeted his grandfather as usual while taking a seat waiting for today's lesson to begin, it was obvious he was eager for this lesson to start. Seeing this Adam didn't waste any time and began to speak. "Firstly I'll describe what a combat skill is, a combat skill is a set of moves fused with the specific laws of the demigod that created them, and combat skills vary as well from the physical traits that the demigod cultivated to hold that law". "So for example they may be combat skill related to the use of eyes in which telekinetic power is used through to it to create a phenomena, however in our case since our ancestor law was eventually formed using his hands as the trait, our family has focused on hand to hand combat to get the best use out of the combat skill". "The combat skill our King family cultivates is called the hands of time". Listening to explanation this Lucius simply nodded at each sentence, he was obviously excited to not only learn more about the skill but improve his knowledge of the powers used by the top powers of the verger civilization. "The Hands of time, has 8 levels, however how far you can reach depends on the usage and application of your element in replacement to the law of time, as well as the bloodline concentration present within your body". "As this skill has been passed down for generations, many notes by predecessors have been made about the usage of the skill with the various elements" Adam continued. "The Verger universe had 4 known elements, water, wind, fire and earth". After Adam ended his speech he then passed Lucius a book that show the notes he talked about previously, each one of the notes was written by a previous genius of the King family no less talented than Adam, all of them possessed affinity with a law or even two. Lucius skipped straight to the expositions of the usage of water and fire in replacement of time.