Shiro and Shin went over to Shiro's apartment, their bodies were stressed out and they couldn't move back to their lecture hall, they decided to go over to Shiro's apartment to test out somethings.
When they arrived Shiro was about to knock on the door when he remembered that Lydia was no longer staying there, he began using his martial awareness to search for the keys to the building, it took him a long three minutes before he could find them, he smiled wryly, if he still had his sight then finding his keys wouldn't take him this long.
He and Shin then entered the building before going to the chairs and collapsing, their bodies had finally given in to the stress which made them fall unconscious.
The two slept for a few hours before waking up, when they woke up they both felt unimaginable pain all over their bodies, they could only attribute it to their excessive use of power during their fight.
"Alright, let's test something out, speak to me using only your mind"
Shiro told Shin, he wanted to confirm the old man's words from back then, the old man had told them that their souls were linked and they couldn't be a certain distance from each other.
Shiro wanted to know just how much that distance was, but first he needed to know if they could really communicate using their minds.
'Alright, can you hear me?'
Shin thought while trying to send those words to Shiro, sure enough Shiro heard Shin's thoughts in his minds, it was like speaking but with less time.
'Okay, let us use this method any time we need to talk about things we don't want others to hear'
Shiro responded by sending his own thoughts.
"Now to test the range of this method, stay here while I see how far we can be apart for this method of communication to work"
Shiro said before leaving the apartment, he sprinted a long distance while sending mind messages to Shin who was still in his apartment, the messages kept on going till he reached the 1000km mark, once he passed that mark, he was no longer able to send messages to Shin, but he noticed that he was able to tell Shin's accurate position from where he was.
Shiro then tried going a lot further than that trying to see how far this detection method could go, he moved for a while before stopping, he stopped because he realized that no matter how far he went he would always be able to tell Shin's position, the only difference was the accuracy reduced the farther he was from Shin.
After ascertaining those facts, Shiro went back to his apartment and began explaining to Shin the things he had figured out.
The two then moved outside the apartment so that they could test some other things. When they were outside, Shiro tried activating the God stigma, he infused spiritual energy into the mark trying to see if there would be any reaction from it. After a lot if trials he finally gave up.
Shin smiled before activating his own mark, the mark on his body spread quickly while stimulating the mark on Shiro's body to activate, it was like a resonance had taking place.
"It seems there are things even you don't know, well Yato didn't expect you to know anything about this since it was not something that founding gods could use"
Shiro saw Shin activate the God stigma, he felt a rush of energy entering his body, the infinite chaos energy inside of Shin's body was converted into spiritual energy as it entered his own body, his eyes showed the same pattern as before which enabled him to see while Shin could feel his thinking rate increase, his reaction speed had also increased which made him feel like he had a lot more time on his side.
'So this are the effects of activating the God stigma, we exchange qualities which aid us in battle to make each other stronger'
"When I went back to Yato's house, he told me about the God stigma and explained to me its uses and how to activate it"
Shin then began explaining to Shiro the things Yato had told him, with his faster thinking ability, he was able to send everything through thought messages to Shiro which saved the two a lot of time.
The God stigma was a mark or title giving to two people who were specifically chosen by a god to compete for who would become the god's vessel, it was a mark which linked two person's souls while allowing those two people to share the qualities that gave them advantages during battle. It was activated by compressing all the energy in one's body and using it as a link to connect to the other person's body, the link could be created instantly as long as the two people remained within a set distance.
People who have been marked with the God stigma have no other choice but to become candidates who would compete to take over the god who gave them the marks, in other words, they become candidates for a god selection.
Shiro paid attention to Shin's explanation, if what Yato said was true then the masked man who had put this mark on them was either a god or someone who was sent down by a god. For better or worse, they had been given the chance to become gods.
After his explanation, Shin deactivated the God stigma and let Shiro try activating it on his own. Shiro tried to activate the God stigma using the method Shin had described to him, the mark spread all over his body which also caused a resonance that activated Shin's mark too.
"The method is easy but I reckon that we would only be able to use this ability within the range of our soul connection...,"
"...let's just hope there is a way to increase this range but for the mean time we can't go more than 1000km away from each other, any more than that and we wouldn't be able to use this special privilege"
The two then continued to test some other things before going their own way, the apartments were in the same district which meant that it was still within the 1000km distance.
Shio thought of going to the arena to increase his battle points, he scanned his badge to check how much battle point he had accumulated.
Name: Shiro Kusikage
Age: 13
Class: 1-Gold
Cultivation Type: Body Cultivation
Cultivation Level: 4th Stage Blood Replacement/ Initial Third Grade
-Battle Points: 14
-Challenge Points: 1000
-Awarded Points: 100
-Total Points: 1114
-Rank: 1/100
He had now moved to the top of his class, he looked at his records and was able to deduct a few things from it, the number of people he had defeated in the arena was 14 and his battle points were 14 which meant that the two increased together.
His challenge points were calculated based on how many challenges one had gotten, he had only challenged one person since he came to the academy which meant that his challenge points increased one thousand points per challenge won.
His awarded points were still the same so he couldn't deduct anything from it and his total points was the combination of all his points which amounted to 1114.
Shiro smiled at his stats, although he had not increased much in cultivation, he was happy to know that he had gained a new power to add to his arsenal. Shiro continued his journey to the arena, classes for the day were over so he was not surprised to see some of his classmates also heading to the arena.