Zach decided that he will train the techniques he had from his Void body and affinity. For now he could warp to a certain distance but he couldn't aim properly to where he would land, he had trouble for the distance he would travel as well.
Zach had only one idea to improve it, it was to do it again and again until it became better. He could not train in the middle of the palace, first he would get in trouble.
Second even if he already used it in front of other he didn't want to let anyone observe it closely. He decided to get out of Constantos and go in the forest near the town, he wanted to find a quiet place where he would be able to practice peacefully.
After searching for a few hours he finally found a place, it was a small plain in the midst of the thick forest, it was hard to get there, all around there was thick and old trees which prevented anyone to see what happened in the plain.
The grass in the plain was of a beatiful green, it reminded him of the golf course in his old world. A small brook bordered the West side of the plain.
When he looked around Zach found this sight soothing. 'It's the perfect place to train, whenever I will need a quiet place to train I will come here.'
Zach stopped admiring his surroundings and focused back on his training, he gathered his void energy in his legs and flexed them.
He was visualizing where he wanted to land and the next instant he went forward.
However when he looked back he saw that he was farther by 30 meters than where he wanted to land. Zach was a bit lost, he didn't understand why it happened, he tried a few times again but each time it was the same, he landed tens of meters farther.
'Why I land farther ? I don't understand, I visualize where I want to land perfectly but I always land farther.' Zach was confused and took a break because he was starting to be tired and to think about it.
He would not achieve anything by doing a wrong thing again and again, he had to find what was wrong.
Every time he used it he had a familiar feeling than when he runned for his life and felt like the space was bending, he had to understand from where this feeling came.
He was about to try warping again to experiment this feeling again but he heard noises coming from the sole entrance possible to this plain. Zach took out his scythe and looked at the entrance ready to fight or flee if necessary.
However a person that Zach didn't expect to see appeared; "Zoe ? What are you doing here ?" When she heard this Zoe was surprised, never she would have expected to find Zach in this place.
"I have always came here, it's the spot where I go when I want to be alone to think or to train, afte all from time to time the palace isn't a good place to be." She explained, she didn't think she would stumble upon Zach but in the end she was happy, it was a good friend in her opinion.
Zach looked at her and suddenly had an idea. "Can you help me ? I want you to tell me what you think is happening when I use my skill." Maybe with her opinion he would be able to understand something and finally master it.
Zoe was a bit confused, she didn't know which skill he was talking about but she nodded her head, if she could help him she would do it willingly. She observed Zach carefully and saw him contracting his legs muscles, the next instant he disappeared.
She was totally lost, she looked around to see where Zach was and when she looked behind her she saw him. She was stunned, the next instant she exclaimed. "I knew it ! You are a space cultivator, why didn't you tell me."
Zach smiled and shook his head. "I am not, even though I can more or less warp from a point to another, it should be different. The problem I have is that I don't end where I want to, and every time I end farther."
At first Zoe didn't believe him but when she heard that he was failing to end where he wanted she started to have doubts about him being a spacial cultivator. After all a spacial cultivator shouldn't have those problems.
She thought about why he couldn't go control where he would land, she summoned a roots' wall and declared. "Try to do the same and stop before the wall." What she didn't say was that she did this to see if Zach could go through the wall with his warp like ability.
Zach placed himself and tried, yet again he ended farther, he was behind the roots' wall and didn't succeed in landing before it.
When she saw that Zoe was more and more confused, at first she thought that his warp like ability was more a hyper speed ability because he couldn't control his landing but if it was the case he shouldn't be able to go through the roots' wall and leaving it in one piece.
She voiced her thought. "Your ability is making me think of a hyper speed ability crossed with a warping one, did you try to put more or less power when you activate it ?"
When he heard what she said he had a revelation. 'If it was like she said ! What if my ability was to temporarily go in the void where the distance isn't the same than in the world !'
Until there he always jumped when he released the power he gathered and warped. This time he would try to warp again but he would only took a normal step when he released the power.
Zach readied himself once again, he was aiming to land just before Zoe, he was at about 25 meters from her. At the moment he released the power gathered he only took a step instead of jumping.
When he opened his eyes the next instant he had Zoe's face at a few dozen of centimeters from his.
He was extremely happy, he had found how this ability of him worked, he was so happy that he hugged Zoe and carried her high in the sky.
Zoe taken aback from Zach's hug, she was red from embarassment and didn't know what to do. However the next moment the surprise was gone she punched Zach's head and made him fall on the ground.
"OUCH !"
Zach was rubbing the back of his head and understood why she had done that so he admitted in a low voice. "My bad, sorry."
After all Zoe was still a peak rank 2 cultivator, she still had more power than Zach so his head was aching form the hit.
"I ... I know I helped you but ... but you should have stayed calm." She was still quite embarassed, she didn't get hug often, in fact the last hug she got should be when she was 10 or 11.
Zach had a bright smile, it confirmed what he thought, this ability of him to warp was linked to the void. He was able to enter the void where he could travel and in the void the space was more compact, it made it so when he took a step in the void he traveled 25 meters in the world.
Zach noticed that entering in the void put a great burden on his body and he should be able to do it only 5 or 6 times before needing a good rest.
It also explained the bending of the space he saw when he was running, he was also more or less going in the void but it was unconsciously and less powerful so he traveled a lesser distance and it put a lesser burden on his body.
For the day it would be enough, he now understood how it worked, now the only thing he had to do was to train it to master the distance he traveled and make the time to use it smaller. After all he couldn't took 3 seconds in the midst of a fight to use this ability, in the end he wanted to make it so he could use it a any time out of the blue.
"I'm going back to the palace, this training is a great success and I need to rest. What are you doing Zoe ?" Zach announced.
"I came here to think in a peaceful envirnoment, even if I'm happy to have helped you I haven't had my peaceful time so I will stay there and come back to the palace later." Zoe answered while laying on the ground looking at the sky.
Zach smiled and nodded, he exited this small isolated plain.
Days went by, Zach decided to named the method the Void step and he was becoming greater and greater at landing correctly however he didn't diminished the casting time by much for the moment.
In two days it will be a full moon night, Zach was invited to see the awakening ritual because he had brougth back the book, in addition for this first ritual the royal family should undergo it.