"How are you doing with your training?" Lara asked Silver while on their nightly training.
"I followed your teachings and was able to find those nodes where Auras are leaking from my body. There 6 on each of my hands.
, 1 at the tip of each finger and 1 at the center. 1 each on my knees and elbows. 1 each on my feet's sole. 1 on each eyes and ears, 1 at the center of the brain. 1 on the nose and another on the tongue. 1 on the chest and lastly the heart.
'Whattt!!! So many for a beginner. Is he a protagonist of a book or something?'
*ehem* *ehem*
"Very good. You are very talented on this. It is as if you were meant to learn Nen." Lara was shocked by her student. "Normally beginners can only sense either the Main node and/or the major ones. But you managed to find the minor nodes as well. Even advanced users are sometimes limited to locate only their major nodes. Then there are those without talent that can only locate the main one. Then there are those unlucky ones who can't find them at all."
"The ones you mentioned are mostly the major nodes and some minor nodes. The major nodes are the ones in the joints, the center of the palm and feet, the center of your chest. Learning to control these major nodes allows you to control the other minor nodes. For example, you can control the Node on your palm to fully open or close the aura on your whole hands including the fingers, however you cannot use to control the node in your thumb to to control the aura on your whole hands. The node in your thumb can only control the aura in your thumb. Then there is one main node. It is the one in your brain." Lara pointed to her brain. "You can think of it as the on and off switch of your body's overall aura."
"You said that there are other Nen user who can't even locate their Main node? How do they control their aura then?" Puzzledly asked by Silver.
"Instinct. Have you seen a baby? They are not mature enough to control their eyes to blink on their own terms yet they know how to anyway. You can imagine those Nen users as a baby in terms on using Nen. They don't know the mechanics in controlling it but they know how to use it." Explained Lara.
"No more distractions. Your next training is focusing on the main node on your brain. Feel and learn to control your Aura to reign it in via your main node. Remember your training is to feel it reign in and not out. This is the most crucial part. Remember I've told you before that I saw others grow old from teenager to their 70's in mere seconds? This is the step where it happened." Lara warned seriously.
"From here on out you can only practice when I'm around until you mastered to reign your Aura in."
"Osu!" 'This training is good stuff. I wonder why Bisky didn't taught me this? Is it because I learned Nen by initiation from Charanko and I don't have to go through this?
Silver then contemplated and focused on his Aura node in the brain. 'I learned Nen unorthodoxly and I have fully neglected to learn about these nodes.' He then felt around the node on his brain and ever so gently reigned in his leaking aura instinctively. Then he felt the sensation in his brain node move as if a muscle he never knew existed but knows how to operate instinctively.
~To put an analogy to it, imagine a person who can't voluntary enlarge their noses; however, once they are able to control the muscle that does it once, they will be able to do it forever.~
Then he controlled his leaking aura in. In a span of 2 minutes entered the state of Ten.
'Amazing, this kid never fails to amaze me. In 1 week, he has learned Nen. Even Bradford has been training for ten years yet failed to learn it. It even took me three months to learn Nen and I was already 19 at the time.' "Congratulations, you have finaly entered the world of Nen. The state you are currently in is called Ten. You are actively controlling your Nen to not escape your body. With constant use of Ten you will be able to maintain your stamina longer and get tired slower. Some say that if you fully master Ten as if breathing, you will age very slow and hypothetically can live forever." Lara explained.
"Now focusing on the same node, fully reign in your Aura. That would be the state of Zetsu. Maybe you haven't noticed but you have already done this before when we were first training sensing Aura. You might have done it unconciously when you were focusing on my Aura. In the state of Zetsu, your senses sharpen after all and your body might have decided it is the best state to sense me."
Silver while still in meditative stance focused on his Main node and commanded it to reign all his Aura in instead of using his instinct to command his Aura like what his been doing for the past year. And true enough, he entered the state of Zetsu faster and easier than usual. 'This is groundbreaking. I feel like I have another arm that I just recently discovered.'
"Good, you maintain that for a while."
"Then slowly release your control of it and go back to the state of Ten, where you are just controlling your Aura not to leak."
Similar to what he did in controling the main node, he simple let go of the command to reign it in and just control it not to leak. Then he entered Ten in rapid speed.
"Perfect, maintain this for a while." 'He already mastered Ten and Zetsu this quick!'
"Now go back to Zetsu. Good. Don't be in a rush. We are here to train to control it after all. Perfect."
"Now back to Ten... Zetsu... Ten... Zetsu..."
"I think you are ready. The next is the best part. It is called Ren. Opposite to Zetsu, Ren is used to unleash your Aura. Using Ren you will be stronger than you are currently is. It may go from double to a hundred fold. No one have really measured it. However be careful, with Ren you will get easily exhausted in exchange of that strength. In worst case, if you have overdrafted your Aura to the limit and unable to stop it from draining even further, you will age continously. And I tell you it is hard next to imposible to regain that youth back. So when you feel you are getting tired, immediately release Ten and go to Ten, Zetsu or just simply stop using Nen." Lara warned for the Nth time.
"Are you ready?"
"As I'll ever be." -Silver assured.
*haaaah*
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asdbsa - a little improvised world building here and there. Enjoy!