With the entire afternoon left, Daron opened up the booklet again.
"The third step of the technique is to infuse the aspects of your physique into your body. This is different from a typical technique. This step consumes the energy of your physique, but as you progress further into the technique, the energy loss will start to decrease. Physiques enhance the body through just the presence of the energy, but infusing the energy into your body gives a larger enhancement. This larger enhancement is temporary and will be discussed further in the technique. For now, you just need to learn how to infuse the energy."
"If you have knowledge of using the physique energy outside of your body, this step should be easier. Infusing the energy into your body is of the same concept, of course, a little different as well. As the energy will still be within the realm of your body, but it will be escaping from the energy path. However, a new energy path is not to be created in this step. Nor in any future steps. As the energy is released from the energy path, you must will it to enter your muscles, your bones, your organs. After all that is done, you will have completed the third step."
Setting the booklet down, Daron got to work on the third step. The booklet didn't give much information on how he was supposed to infuse his aspects, especially with how the energy flows in the path were. For now, he decided he would just infuse his strength aspect into his body as it was the outermost flow of the path.
He focused on the strength aspect energy flow and thought about how it felt when the energy escaped from his body when in contact with the power artifact. As he thought of that feeling, he tried applying it to the energy flow. It seemed to give a reaction, but before he could let the energy escape, a notification appeared.
[Energy is trying to escape an energy flow]
[Do you want to allow it to?]
[Y/N]
The notification made Daron lose focus, but he realized that the energy he was focusing on hadn't moved from what he had been doing before. It was as though the notification put it into a stasis for him to approve the action before anything happened.
Clicking yes, Daron focused back on the energy as he felt it escape the energy flow. It also seemed that with the system confirming the escape, there was no chance of a new energy path being created, which was one less thing for Daron to worry about.
With the energy being released from the energy flow, he willed it to enter his muscles. As it seeped into his muscles, a few notifications appeared.
[Energy being infused into muscles]
[Strength temporarily increased]
[-50 Energy/Min]
Looking at the loss of energy, Daron knew he didn't have much time to infuse his strength aspect. He imagined infusing into his bones and organs would increase the cost as well, which meant he had to hurry.
He willed the energy to seep faster, and it reached his bones in under a minute. Daron was surprised that he had managed that and wondered how he was able to. But thinking back, maybe it was his increase in understanding of the flow of energy. Even without the energy being in the energy path, he was able to control it with success quite easily. As the energy seeped into his bones, even more notifications arrived.
[Energy being infused into bones]
[Strength temporarily increased]
[-100 Energy/Min]
Daron could feel his energy draining and found it an odd feeling. Only severe injuries would drain his energy when using the Life-Saving Energy Focus technique, and even then, it wasn't much. This was on a whole other level. He wondered if the other steps would be as energy draining, and if so, how long would it take him to complete them?
Focusing back, he pushed the energy further and further to reach his organs. As the energy hit his organs, it was consumed entirely. More notifications had appeared.
[Energy being infused into organs]
[Strength temporarily increased]
[-150 Energy/Min]
[Progress added in Physique tab]
As Daron saw the lost notification, he stopped his focus on the technique. Clicking onto it, he frowned.
[Aspect Combination and Supplementation]
[Progress: 4.67% Learned]
Though he had infused his energy into his body in a few minutes, it was only one aspect, and it had drained him of nearly all his energy. It would take a few hours for it to accumulate back, meaning he couldn't progress through step three until the evening. Still, when he could progress back, it would only take a few minutes. But the progress was still slow. At least comparatively to his first two days with the system.
He supposed he should've expected it. But he knew his progress was most likely incredible in the time he did it as well. From what he had gathered, the system made progress much easier and could even increase his understanding and skills without him doing much of anything. Even with the slowing of progress, he was still sure he could learn the technique in the final month of his fourth year. He wondered what benefits it would have to his system.
Unable to learn the new technique for the time being, Daron decided to practice his combination of his techniques until his energy had filled up again. The hours ticked by, and notifications appeared, but only after five hours had Daron stopped his practice to read them.
[+60 Experience in Expand/Retract Progression]
[+40 Experience in Life-Saving Energy Focus]
[+60 Experience in Expand/Retract Progression]
[+40 Experience in Life-Saving Energy Focus]
[+60 Experience in Expand/Retract Progression]
[+40 Experience in Life-Saving Energy Focus]
[Energy has been restored]
It seemed like his experience gained had slowed in his other techniques as well, but now he could continue the third step of the new technique.
Focusing on the aspect of constitution, he willed it to escape its energy flow. Getting the same notification as before, he clicked yes and started the infusion process.
[Energy being infused into muscles]
[Constitution temporarily increased]
[-50 Energy/Min]
He immediately followed that up with seeping the energy further into his body, and it had reached his bones.
[Energy being infused into bones]
[Constitution temporarily increased]
[-100 Energy/Min]
With only his organs left, he again felt them absorb the rest of the energy as the notifications appeared.
[Energy being infused into organs]
[Constitution temporarily increased]
[-150 Energy/Min]
[Progress added in Physique tab]
[Aspect Combination and Supplementation]
[Progress: 5.33% Learned]