Kage's lessons were the literal opposite of what Adam taught him. Adam's lessons were geared towards essence control. Adam had tried to teach him how to efficiently control his essence so he would have an easier time creating and refining his skills. Kage however was doing something entirely different.
"I don't have time to sit you down and teach it affectively so bear with me. Close your eyes, shut down all your five senses and try not to pay attention to anything going on around you. You're on the move so it's going to be harder, but if you get the hang of it you should unlock your sixth sense. Look for a white glow at the center of your chest, then focus on expanding it. It's a slow process but try to do it every chance you get. What I am teaching you is called the sense of essence. It's a visual technique that allows you to do a lot of wonderful things that I'll leave it to you to discover. If you train, you'll discover it soon enough." Kage gave a small lesson while they were moving in the forest.
So far they had not encountered any Spires in the forest. Alsvid had been hoping to find some of those monkeys he fought against before so he can sharpen his reflexes because he felt a little stiff. As they walked the area started to clear up little by little. Trees were less, there was more sunlight and grass had started forming in small patches. They came across a clearing in the forest but it wasn't empty. At the center of the clearing stood a monolith with a large green crystal gem embedded in it.
"Listen closely monarch, this is a dungeon." Before he could continue Alsvid had something to say.
"That's impossible, am not stupid I know what a dungeon is, this is not a dungeon. Dungeons from what I heard are large places who a huge amount of monsters reside. I don't see any entrance so how can that be a dungeon." Alsvid said.
"If you let me finish you'll understand. This is a dungeon. More precisely, it's an instance dungeon, that's why it has no entrance because it's based in a pocket dimension of its own." Kage clarified.
"Oh, wait how exactly do we get in?" Alsvid asked.
"You seem eager to fight something." Kage said.
"Yeah, I've been feeling stiff since I woke up and I want some action." Alsvid replied.
"Ok, follow me." Kage said as he grabbed Alsvid's hand and walked over to the monolith.
"It's important to keep physical contact with your raid party so that you don't get left behind when the dungeon opens." Kage said to Alsvid as he grabbed the crystal gem embedded in the monolith and channelled essence into it. The crystal light up for a while and then the light descended onto the two of them as they vanished.
"Woah." This was all Alsvid said as he looked around. He was expecting the dungeon to look like a cave of something but what he saw was marvelous. He was surrounded by beautiful blue plants going up to just under his neck, the ground was red and very solid and the sky was green. His vision was then covered momentarily with a message.
[You have entered the grade 2 dungeon scorpion's valley]
"Umm Kage, I thought the system only appeared once and you would never see it again." Alsvid said.
"That's another lie your old mentor told you, the system is a part of you. Just will it and it will appear, you focus your essence into your eyes so you can show those around you your information and it automatically keeps records of important information about you. Check it out." Kage replied.
Following Kage's words he started thinking of the system he saw when he was with Adam and as promised, the system appeared in front of him.
[Name: Alsvid Murion (Monarch)]
[Age: 15]
[Apparition: Abyssal Domination]
[Current skills: Charged punch, Essence burst(unstable), Abyssal shield (unstable)]
[Class: Sentinel]
[Trait: Berserk]
"It says I have two unstable skills, what does that mean?" Alsvid asked.
"An unstable skill simply means an unmastered skill. It can have many downsides from draining too much essence to causing too much destruction which is bad because it can draw in other people or in your case, injure those around you." Kage explained before asking "What are the names of the two unstable skills?"
"Umm, they're called essence burst and abyssal shield but I don't remember using a shield." Alsvid replied.
"Well maybe that's how your old mentor left you, you couldn't master the skills he tried to teach you. Don't worry, I'll help you." Kage said.
"How?" Alsvid asked.
"By teaching. When it comes to the activation of skills each of them are different. For instance, your abyssal shield being a shield type is meant to protect you, therefore it will activate automatically if you are under attack, all you need to do is get more essence and put yourself in situations where you get attacked more so you can strengthen it. I don't know much about how your essence burst works but if I am to go by the name then it's a burst of essence. I don't know whether this burst is around you or which direction it flows to. Those are the complications you need to settle with your skills. A tip to creating a skill is never do anything until you have all the complications squared away. Thankfully we're in a dungeon so you'll have the perfect test subjects to both strengthen your shield skill and stabilize your burst skill, don't worry about essence either, the more monsters you kill, the more origin cores you can absorb so go wild. Oh and finally, this is a grade 2 dungeon meaning you'll be facing intermediate to high grade spires so be careful, I'll be keeping an eye on you but this dungeon rade is all yours." Kage said before his shadow rose up and swallowed his body, he was gone.
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