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Chapter 8 - Yellow, Green, Blue

In an inconspicuous cave.

A young boy with curly hair and as slightly thick lips and had a sharp gaze was sitting cross legged inside the cave as it was raining so heavily vision to a far distance was not possible outside. The Valley of Sirens that could be seen days ago, could not be seen anymore due to the change in weather. Only the several mountain range peak silhouettes could be seen through the whiteness caused by the rainfall.

"Its been a few days since I've awakened, looks like Zakia won't be making an appearance any time soon." Oliphant thought. Zakia had first absorbed  a large number of souls of his fellow disciple mates and then proceeded to absorb the soul of the rank two disciple of the Shadow Corp and then lastly did absorbing again at his village even causing the second soul in his body 'Oliphant' to also indirectly undergo awakening in the process. Although Oliphant was awakened he actually had a little to no idea about how he should go about rising in ranks with Spell casting, Oliphant has only ever use one Spell since arriving in this world, The Sky Movement Art. Even though Oliphant used this Spell he was starting to feel that it was too much of a coincidence that he was able to use it since he now even suspects that Zakia may have acted behind the scenes to secretly allow him to use the spell on his first try and make an escape from the High Elder. 

The Sky Movement Art is the only Spell that Oliphant received from Zakia's memories. Oliphant was even thinking that it may be a trap by Zakia to do something to him in the future, so all he could do was use the spell as reference to come up with his own spells. The use of spells depended how much energy ones psyche can produce to create and remember spells. What this means is that before an awakening if you were to teach a normal human a spell they would forget right at the next moment after you told them as their psyches cannot even produce any external psychic energy. This is also the reason why Oliphant did not want to learn the Sky Movement Art as he had actually used it before without even knowing anything about awakenings, psyches and the like, which is the source of his suspicions regarding Zakia, even though they had a Mind Hive like relationship, one was stronger than the other and could control what the other could see and not see,so the relationship between them was not harmonious. 

Even though Oliphant was in a difficult spot he managed to come up with own unique Spell by studying and analyzing the Sky Movement Art and the broken mask he had seen on the man from the Shadow Corp who Zakia had killed in the past few days he was in the cave, Zakia even had everything planned and he had enough food and water in the cave to last him for a while. First Zakia used his energy from his psyche and formed a spell not related to anything found in nature, just like the Soul Taker Spell that seems to devour and refine the essence of things and add it to Zakia's psyche thus making him stronger ,Oliphant got his inspiration for his new Spell from this, the spell Oliphant conceptualized was actually strength related, something more like a buff. This spell only had the framework of a how a spell is formed and cast and nothing related to the Sky Movement Art was in its design. When it is used Zakia can gain high strength and physical ability just like the three colored masked man Bwana in theory. 

Since Bwana belonged to the Shadow Corp, he had sacrificed certain parts of himself to three different elements of the world of which when their power is combined one can have strength to cover a distance of fifty feet in one leap. Oliphant had studied Bwana's strength  which means he was also indirectly studying the three elements of nature that Bwana made sacrifices to, and he was then able to form a spell, since Oliphant was only awakened at the initial level and had not reached the second rank, one could say his power would only be roughly half of the late Bwana, but with this strength he could continue on his way to the Valley of Sirens and be able to atleast avoid danger from beasts that may lurk in the area if his theory was successful. 

As Oliphant was contemplating as this was not the first time he used this theoretical spell, he had already failed many attempts before gradually coming to this stage of even trying to use the spell again. 

Oliphant breathed out loudly as he prepared himself to use his Spell. 

"Hoo... I hope this it works this time." 

Oliphant activated his Spell as his psychic energy started to drain, he was now covered from head to toe in a three colored light with shapes like runes floating around him and embedding themselves all over his body. Oliphant felt strength gathering and coursing through his body and having a feeling of being light weighted, the three colored light faded as only the runes that had been floating around were plastered on him like tattoos as they continued flickering in three colored light, yellow, green and blue,representing the sturdiness of the earth, the high life force of the green of the world and the flexibility and malleability of the water respectively. With these elements combined one can harness strength beyond an ordinary man. 

Oliphant clenched his fist and hurled it towards the cave wall. 

Crack!!! 

The cave wall sunk in as spider web pattern was formed on the wall and pieces of rocks fell from the crack formed by Oliphant's fist. Oliphant pulled out his fist from the wall and breathed out a breath of murky air from his mouth and nostrils,and the smell of rotting wood started being released from Oliphant's fist. 

"It worked, but the elements are not in harmony, how did that guy use them, this Spell uses too much energy just by maintaining the imbalance caused by the two lacking elements I should continue to improve it." Oliphant thought as he found the flaws in his new Spell as he shows a bit of disappointment on his face.