Chapter 39: Introspection (1/1)

"Whew" Wiping the sweat offnearby, I put my robe back on I stood on the backyard patio with only the fullthe area Sylvie was curled up besidethe pace of her breathing

With everyone else asleep, I had the peace of training tolittle outside of training rowth of Elijah and my father, with a few pointers forress was still pretty decent I predicted that she'd awaken around eleven if she kept at her pace,when I watched my sister play with the friends she had made at the School for Ladies, a sether to be taught etiquette and basic household skills Early on, I learned that this general population believed that "proper" and "refined" ladies should have both theable to cook and sew for her husband

In the world I lived before, women worked just asbeca the wrath of many females and other s Ellie learned in school seeh Ellie was asleep now, she'd o to bed if I didn't stay with her until she fell asleep

I couldn't help but chuckle when I coraceful façade she'd put on in front of her friends, acting all lady-like and whatnot I'd al when she addressed irls her age at her tea party

My sister's birthday was co what present I would give her Knowing her, she would probably love whatever I gave her as long as I gave it soive her so functional as well The proble costed ht a little bit about what I could do to earn e I had was the fact that my mind contained ideas and inventions that hadn't been developed in this world yet

With a satisfied grin on s I was focusing on outside of developing e by the ti heavily onand ice attribute skills, which were by far est assets

I decided I'd keepmy years there, and since Lucas had only seen eon excursion and at the testing grounds, it'd be even harder for hiic If I purposely didn't train ic at all until I entered the acadeh to pass off enius' that wouldn't raise too ht with ed to find so a few seg, there were two menters opted to One was internal, and the other was external Because of the unique properties of lightning compared to other elements and their deviants, there were so skills, which was stated as much more difficult

Thunderclap I techniques that I had developed, which could be seen as the stepping stone into much more powerful skills The book only went on to say that, for internal lightning users,quite early on before ulti to external techniques Thisskills hadn't been developed enough for people to actually find advantages in it

This was also the route that I chose to go While I would have so skills under my belt, I knew from experience just how much more powerful internal skills were compared to the external counterparts Of course, it ht shoanted absolute power It'd take time and patience to develop but I already knew the rewards would be tre a s to quicken my reaction

As for e skills to fight against multiple opponents The coest skill, which I could only use under the on's Will, Integrate I iined that, for now, even if I had the technique and theory down for either lightning or ice, I'd need to be in the Integrate phase if I wanted to use the row a little impatient at this fact but there wasn't es but I was still dissatisfied with the level of power I had I could say with confidence that, if I were to fight against the former me from my old world, I would win The aon's Will alongside mana rotation, I could easily overpower my previous self However, the world I was in was filled with dangersco detriht, which was on beast wills I'd already read it once so I skipped to the part on training it, which , but I couldn't help but grow disheartened when I read it the first time It seemed that the best way to train the beast will acquired was being taught by the beast itself The only other alternative hly about the beast itself so the beast tamer could learn and practice the traits of the beast

Option one was obviously out of the question, seeing as Sylvia either died or becoure was Option two had its limit as well The fact that I could even use one of the 'acquire' skills and even go into Integrate phase was because of the perks in being a Legacy Taside the Will Even for a dragon, she seeine what sort of powers she had I wished she had left me so happened

"Snap out of it!" I said aloud while sto solve anything

Besides training ic, the other skill I wanted to learn was ic cancellation

The theory was that eleh the fore of the skill, into the projected destination or into the caster's own body Speaking very technically, these mana particles were basically coded to affect either the atet to produce a certain outcoe casted the coded mana particles and when those particles had an effect and for that delay, if I was able to potentially disrupt those mana particles with mana of my own, I would be able to discreetly ter

While in theory that sounded a, there were several problems One, in order for this to even work, I would have to knohat spell the opponent was using That wasn't a proble, or even instacasting, I would have to knohat the spell was by thethe near split-second the manipulated mana particles were cast before it took effect and for a tre out which skills could effectively cancel the about that left ic theory but being able to almost instantly think of the correct spell to counteract the opponent's meant I needed to know it by heart However, I knew thatthis skill would be a priceless asset, especially for someone like me, as able to manipulate all four elements

I picked up my books and toith one hand and picked up Sylvie with the other and headed back up to my room Vincent offered another room for Elijah but uest, which meant he should just stay in one of our roo in another bed for Elijah, since the roo back to ht on his back with his ar in a coffin

Even when he slept, he looked like such a straight and proper fellow Elijah was a good friend and it helped that our personalities complimented each other Elijah was pretty peculiar Despite his straight-laced, stern appearance—lasses—he was a very eical in a here he had set principles that he never strayed fro him very honest and trustworthy, but when it caht with his 'heart,' leaving hie of him

As for me, whether it was because I lived and remember my previous life, I could only seeI had to ad people completely and always tried to think a couple steps ahead I soretted the lack of innocence I had corown to realize was that, when it came to the few close relationshi+ps I did have, I would become very invested in the an orphan in my previous life? Because the only close person I had was the caretaker that picked , I couldn't say with confidence that I had been the most mature, and in -like, but one thing that I couldn't change was the amount of i a quick shower, I sunk into bed, causing Sylvie to stir in her sleep She cuddled by ain, and the slow rhythm of her breaths lulled me to sleep