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Chapter 7 - First step

After he was done imagining himself a superhero, he started to look through the breathing technique. He read the whole page including the chant. Okay, time to start, he said. Following the instructions on the manual, he adjusted his breathing according to the instructions.

He then started chanting the chant but doing so while also focusing on his breathing turned out to be harder than he thought. He kept either messing the chant or his breathing rhythm and sometimes both. This kept on for hours until Anele came to check on him.

You're too distracted, she said. I can feel excitement oozing out of your body, your mind is filled with too many distractions. She went towards a certain shelf, came back with a book. It a Buddhist mantra, she gave him the book, it will help clear your mind off the distractions, she told him

Meditate while chanting this mantra for a while, do so until your mind Is clear, then you can start practicing again, she told him. Yes ma'am, he replied. She went out for a few minutes and came back with tray filled with snacks and a drink.

Here, eat something and go back to your meditation. After he was done eating, he followed the instructions on the meditation book. He sat down crossed legged and started chanting, for the first few minutes he just kept getting distracted by his own thoughts.

He was about to give up when his breathing changed and he felt all those wild untamed thought in his head fade away slowly. He continued with the meditation for a few hours until he eventually opened his eyes, they were clear like a recently cleaned pool on a Monday.

He began the thunder Beast Breathing again, this time he was able to maintain the breathing rhythm and the chant for much longer, he felt his chest tingling, his eyes gained a small tinge of blue, he could feel the essence course through his body, it was a comfortable feeling.

Essence gathered at his chest, he could feel it trying to form a pool, he got too excited, lost focus and the gathered essence dissipated. He calmed himself down, tried again and this time he was able to gather it, wisps of essence combined in his chest forming a tiny drop of essence.

Noel got excited, he tried to do it again when he suddenly felt a splitting headache. He stopped, got up and went back to the main house above. He found Anele watching tv on the living room and decided to consult her about this. He felt mentally drained.

Aunt, I've been trying to form a core all day and all I've managed is a tiny drop, Anele suddenly coughed, what do you mean all you've managed, you did that in hours, do you know how long it takes others just to gather that drop?she asked.

I must be pretty awesome then, he said with a sheepish smile. The thing is, when I tried again I felt like my head was gonna split in two, why is that? Oh, no, you fine, your spirituality is just not high enough, your breathing technique and chant are too high grade for a person with your level of spirituality to use for too long. Go rest, you'll be okay.

There should be a meditation technique and chant to increase spirituality in that book, almost every high grade technique has one. Don't be mistaken though, although those techniques help,there's a limit to how much, increasing spirituality is dependant on the person themselves.

The most effective way know is mastering a technique, when an artist experience a moment where nothing but their art exist, that when their spirituality increases, there are other ways of course but that the most effective one, she said.

Thanks, he said smiling, he went upstairs, went to bed and fell asleep immediately. The next morning he woke up quite early, refreshed, although the difference wasn't high, he could tell he's stronger than before. He went to take a shower, put on his clothes and took his backpack and went downstairs.

What for breakfast? he asked Anele who was sipping coffee while reading the news on her laptop, you woke up early, why?she asked while still looking at her laptop. I'm going to school of course, he answered.

You still doing that?she asked looking at him. Yeah why would I quit school? I don't have a girlfriend yet, he answered with a serious look. She just sighed, stood up and told him to sit down. She went to make him breakfast.

While she was gone, he looked at her laptop, on the screen was a page showing a snow leopard close to metres in height, it was laying dead on the ground, with hundreds of wounds on it body, they looked like they were made by hundreds of very sharp tiny weapons.

The headlines read, rank one middle stage snow leopard slaughtered an entire village of over 70 people, in a fit of rage, the youngest disciple of the peach fairy Fang Lin, Meifei went out to hunt the beast and slayed it, there was a long description of their battle which he didn't bother to read.

In another article, an old witch in Nigeria had kidnapped multiple virgin girls in an attempt to use them to create some sort of potion that increases ones lifespan, fortunately there are strict conditions on the time and position of the moon for the spell to work and before that, the girls could not be harmed.

That gave the local sorceress who proclaimed herself the protector of that region enough time to act, she confronted the witch, their battle lasted two days and two nights before a warrior came to assist her and the witch was caught.

Her execution is scheduled to be five days from now on a full moon, the destruction left by a battle between three rank two's is devastating, sorcerers who possess the wood attributes are still trying to fix the forest. In KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, a cobra over 20 metres in length was spotted in a farm, it devoured the cattle and the farmers dog.

The farmers were compensated and asked not to spread the news, or they just mind controlled them, he thought. In Egypt, a giant pet scorpion of Lady Amunet the sand whisper escaped, it was brought back by a six year old boy.

Seeing a child riding a scorpion the size of a a dog impressed lady Amunet, she said the boy had a natural talent of a whisper and took him under her wing. There were a lot of other headlines, mostly about people seeing weird phenomenon or their pet suddenly growing bigger and more ferocious.

In most cases the local awakened authorities acted pretty fast and as such,there were not a lot of casualties. Anele came back with breakfast, he ate then got up and went to school. Charlize was not with him this time, he was still worried about her, he had not seen her since that day and plan to go see her later.

At school, he could barely focus on the lecture, all he could think about was this amazing world he didn't know existed a week ago. Bored, he started checking the spirituality of his classmates, non even met the threshold of even pre-awakened human, they had normal level of a dormant human except the lecturer.

His spirituality was higher than others but still far from a pre-awakened let alone an actual awakened, there was another, a girl with glasses, her spirituality was quite high as well, even higher than the lecturer, she was the class genius. It had actually reached the threshold to be considered pre-awakened.

It like she could feel his gaze, she turned and looked at him like he's a creep, he avoided her gaze. He kept looking until his eyes fell on a guy at the back of the lecture hall, he seems to have a vague memory of him, somehow he knew the guy was his classmates but he seems to have a vague memory of him, like his image is blurred.

Weird, he thought, when he tried to check the guys spirituality level, he was surprised, it was high, insanely high, even higher than his own. He could instinctively tell it was not at the awakened level but it was pretty close, most likely at the absolute peak of dormant level.

The guy turned his head slowly and looked at him, his eyes were cloudy, as if he's sleepy, his hair was disheveled and he looked tired. He was a coloured with a handsome face even though he looks like he doesn't take care of his appearance. He had an overall gloomy aura

He just looked at him without blinking for a while before turning his head forward. Noel felt weird, this guy is creepy, better stay away from him, he thought, while he was lost on his thoughts, a black man who seemed to be in his early twenties walked into the lecture room.

The lecturer introduced him as the new student. Both the girl with glasses and the gloomy guy looked at this man with caution, he was handsome and exuded confidence, most of the girls seemed to be drooling over him. He looked like a kind fellow, nice to meet you everyone, his voice was beautiful, one girl moaned just hearing him.

Even Noel and the glasses girl seem to be taken by him, Noel eyes turned slightly blue and broke out of it, the girl eyes turned slightly golden but because of her glasses, nobody noticed, she too came back to her senses, the gloomy guys didn't seem to effected even a little bit.

Shit, cursed Noel, and no it wasn't because he was jealous that girls were fawning over this guy, not at all,not at all, it because he could sense danger and trouble from him. The guy looked at the glasses girl with fascination and a bit of possessiveness. He then looked at Noel and the gloomy guy and clicked his tongue a little, besides the three nobody else noticed. He introduced himself, my name is, he said

Imani Makamba.