"How come there aren't any monsters though? that's kinda weird, not that I care too much about leveling or anything, was hoping to take advantage of my curse hmm..." Night muttered.

Seeing Night, Shade was quite confused to see his master talking to himself but he decided not to worry about it too much.

The forest wasn't particularly dense, in fact, it was just like a normal forest but it was empty, except for the chirping of the birds or a few animals moving around there wasn't anything that could cause trouble.

"Master, I hear the sound of water, perhaps it is the waterfall we're looking for?"

After following the sound for a while, they finally managed to find the waterfall, it was a normal waterfall except the water was crystal clear, even after the water fell down, it remained clear, which Night found weird but came to the conclusion that it was part of the game.

He was about to step closer and touch the water that was falling but Shade quickly held his hand.

"My liege please forgive me but I had no choice, the water is sharp enough to cut your hand off"

Night just patted Shade's head and thanked him, curious about the waterfall, Night found a stick nearby and stuck it into the water and proved Shade right, the water indeed sliced through the stick without any difficulty whatsoever.

'Damn, what's master Noel thinking? sending me to my death, how am I supposed to train my weapon aura here?'

"...."

"...."

"Damn it I'm such a dummy, thankfully master wasn't here to witness that," Night said after finally realizing what he was meant to do.

He had always used weapon aura as an offensive tool or maybe for sharpening his senses, perhaps even to see the opponent's innate aura but never as a shield that envelops his body and protects him.

With the constant pressure, the waterfall gives off and the sharp water falling on him, it would help him develop his weapon aura more and possibly understand it better.

"Shade, I'm going to try something, I want you to keep guard and protect me in case something happens"

He didn't even wait for Shade's reply and proceeded to close his eyes.

'I can feel the weapon aura circulating, *sigh* I can never get tired of this feeling,

unlike using it as an offensive tool where I think of it as an extension and visualize attacking, to cover myself I'll need to think of it as a part of me, no, perhaps its something like clothing? this is way harder than using weapon aura for offense but so far it's manageable.'

After 2 minutes of concentrating, he finally covered himself, he cursed himself internally, 'Dammn it, 2 whole minutes???! I'll be murdered by the time I cover myself'

His purple eyes were now slightly glowing and his tanned skin seemed to have some kind of dark aura surrounding it, upon seeing this Shade fell to his knees and looked at his lord in admiration.

"Of course, my lord is the greatest," he said with shining eyes.

However, Night didn't seem to notice any difference and wanted to double-check,

"Perhaps this is how it feels?"

With a great deal of caution he slowly pushed his hand under the water, at first it felt like the world's weight fell onto one hand, he could feel his aura bearing all the damage if it wasn't for the aura his hand would've turned to dust. Gradually, he managed to move his entire body, he felt like fainting, the worst part was he had to go through this while meditating.

Shade now witnessed his master finally meditating under the waterfall, directly bearing the pressure, Shade saw multiple wild animals approach the meditative Night and kneel, soon without the knowledge of Night, almost half of the animals that inhabited Kriol were now kneeling down to Night, as his subject Shade felt nothing but proud.