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_Name: [ Rei Sereno ].
_Soul Name: [ — ].
_Soul Rank: [ Exeedier ].
_Aspect: [ Phantom Mausoleum ].
_Skills: [
_Exceed Tree: [ Awakened ].
_First Seal: [ Phantom Seer ].
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Rei focused on the skill to know about it in detail.
_Name: [ Wind of Chaos: Arvale ]
_Level: [ 1 ]
_Attribute: [ Self-discover ]
_Mastery: [ Wind Intent+ ]
_Techniques: [ None ]
'Wait, techniques? So like using wind blades and shit… Damn, finally!!'
Rei was hyper-excited. He always had a thirst to get strong, but born without an ability of such caliber, he was immensely frustrated at that point in his life.
Especially those elemental abilities that people had, like fireballs, wind slashes, flying, metal control, earth spikes, freezing rays, and all that fantastic but shallow shit that he could only dream of was now possible! Shallow because he felt he could wield those powers better than those people; that's what he believed.
But he was not gifted like that and gave up on it. He had stopped caring about this for some time already, but now that he had gained such incredible power, he was thrilled, even more so when he imagined using this power in future ruffles and battles.
"Alright, so… I have no technique right now, which means I have to create them, khe-"
Rei was grinning silly. This part of creating techniques was the last straw that broke his patience. He stood up and left his room.
Everyone was fast asleep since it was a couple of hours past midnight.
Rei quietly left the spaceship after informing Terrana and looked into the sky with surprise.
"Well, this is beautiful," Rei muttered before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath.
This area was basking with gentle moonlight coming from three moons. It was not too bright, but just the perfect amount for a relaxing night that people of Earth could never experience.
Moreover, the air had turned gently cold, and it was filled with pure oxygen and energy. People could fill their bodies with life force just by breathing because of this region's versatile and beneficial greenery, minimizing their hunger to the extreme.
"Perfect place to practice."
Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and focused. The skill was in permanent activation since he could feel some kind of power source in him; the source that housed this wind of chaos.
'Wind Intent is my mastery, which means that I should have a certain level of control over wind,' Rei thought.
He felt the wind around him and instinctively grasped a certain level of control over it with his mind.
Air gathered around him, forming a slow whirlpool with him in the center.
'I can exert more control with my…intent, I see….'
Rei's mind focused on exerting control over the wind to the maximum limit possible. He had to will it, and it worked.
The whirlpool of wind around him had turned intense; his clothes ripped apart while white marks appeared all over his body.
Rei looked down and saw that he was stark naked. But he shrugged it away and continued; this time, he exerted flexible control over the wind, attaching it to his hand movements.
Rei raised his hand and waved in a slash motion toward a big tree.
*Swoosh!*
*Cra...Cracckk..*
A sharp wind slash two meters long cut into the tree but didn't pierce the trunk entirely.
"Cool." Rei grinned as he waved his hand several more times, throwing wind slashes after wind slashes.
*Crrackkkk….Crackk….*
*Crash!*
He stopped only after breaking the poor tree; Rest in Pieces.
"Rei, this new power of yours… You can control the wind?"
Terrana's surprised voice came from his comm watch.
"Ha-ha, you were watching? Yep, I can control it to a certain extent."
"Yes, it does seem like you gained an intent rank mastery of wind," Terrana replied.
"So you know about their ranks as well, eh?"
"Yes. Elemental powers are not rare among Exceeds. Usually, everyone starts at Intent-rank mastery."
"What comes after intent rank?"
"I only know two ranks that come after Intent-rank; Abstract-rank and Concept-rank. But I have heard there are more ranks, though this little Milky Way Galaxy does not have people of such caliber."
"Interesting. But let me show you an even more interesting thing for now," Rei replied with a grin as he closed his eyes.
Terrana was surprised, but anticipation rose in her hearing Rei's words.
The evolved AI awakened an element of curiosity, taking her closer to independent intelligence like humans and other races.
'Now, let's try the real deal.'
Rei focused and tapped into the power source that he felt. Up until now, he was just testing his wind mastery, not the skill's power.
The whirlpool of wind was still intense around him since he maintained this control. The wind was normal and transparent.
But in the next second, when he used the Wind of Chaos intent, the wind around him transformed into a dark-green wind with an ominous black aura!
It felt powerful!
Moreover, this wind was not hurting him anymore.
Rei's eyes danced with excitement and tension as he exerted control and formed a clearly visible wind sword after a few seconds of hitches.
'Hah, I don't need to grab it.'
Rei let go of the sword and aimed it at another big tree, purely using his mind to control the sword this time.
And then, he manipulated that ominous dark green wind sword as he cut that entire big tree into cheese cubes and slices with ease! Though his mind felt a bit drained, only slightly.
"This wind is hella strong, Terrana! It already has B-level lethality when It's just at level 1, ha-ha-ha!"
"That is indeed powerful for a newly gained power!" Terran replied in a surprised voice. "Moreover, this wind seemed to have some other effects. I am afraid you'll have to experiment more to find them."
"Yep."
Just as Rei replied, he heard a voice in his head.
[Do you want to register this Chaos Wind Sword as a technique?]
'Huh? Of course not! I am not registering a shitty technique like this,' Rei said with a snort.
"Terrana, techniques should be super cool and esoteric, right? I am not accepting any wind slash, wind bullets, wind fart, and generic shit like those."
"Indeed, boss."
Cracking his finger, Rei grinned and closed his eyes.
He wanted a technique, but a powerful and cool one. First, he visualized an image for his technique.
Weaving such a technique would take a long time, but he didn't want to register any unsatisfactory technique.
…
Half an hour later, Rei lay naked on the ground with his eyes rolled backward and his body twitching occasionally.
He drained his mind and stamina entirely in his first attempt at using the technique he weaved.
[Editor: Bruh, what the fuck did you create?]