spirit master

all alone in the dorm and not allowed to cultivate, i was bored to tears by the end of 10 minutes. i am fully charged thanks to the treatment i was given and now i can’t rest. now fully charged and filled with active imagination i kept wondering about what went wrong. thinking back many times over, i understood some key points.

i made a big vine without knowing my limits.

the drain when i mentally visualize does not correspond to what i actually manifest.

i got greedy

something must be wrong with my method of summoning my vine. i will need to compare it with the others to understand where i went wrong.

my vine is small and yet it drains me so much

looking at these points i decided to relook at the steps i had when i summoned my vine.

unlike the first time which was from the orb into me and from every part of me into the summon, the second time was purely from me into the summon. step 1 was to draw it from oneself. step 2 was to bring it out from the body into the summon. it was just 2 steps. or at least that is what i was told and what everyone is doing. but something must be wrong for me. it does not suit me or at least something is still missing. firstly, my vine is small and yet it drains me so much. it can be one of the few possibilities that i can think of. problem 1, i have a small reserve. problem 2, my summon puts a huge drain on my reserve. problem 3, i am doing something wrong. problem 4, a combination of the previous 3.

there is nothing i can do about problem 1, i am not allowed to cultivate for now while resting. from problem 2 i have a huge drain. i may have to find a way to limit the flow of power to my summon. as for problem 3 there is nothing i can do about it. i can do nothing about what i yet to know is at fault.

looking back, i wondered what was different from drawing power out from the orb and drawing power out of myself. i started visualizing that feeling again that warm feeling that flowed from the orb into me. with that image i visualized what i did just earlier. the feeling was just different. but what was it that was different? i could not tell. however, just from the feeling it was plain. it felt like pure energy only. but it felt empty like it was missing something. something that i can feel in the power i visualized and not in the one from the orb. something felt wrong though. like i was holding power the wrong way. there was nothing i could do about it. with no prior training and strict instruction to not manifest it there was nothing i could do about it.

with nothing better in mind, i decided to visualize my mental realm. not being allowed to cultivate did not mean i could not take a walk in my own mind to see what was different after the second manifestation. visualizing my mental realm, i began sounding off in my head. sending a pulse of energy in one direction and feeling it travel, mapping my realm at the same time. little did i know i am using a modified form of a very advanced technique of spirit echolocation usable only by tier 3 spirit masters. most tier 3 masters can't use it as their mental realm is still not as powerful. this method that i was using however, was less practical but drains much lesser of power. this technique is supposed to send a wave of energy out in all direction within the mental realm from one point of origin. this technique like its namesake is a echolocation ability, meaning that it can be used as a detection ability.

after sending multiple pulses, i noticed one peculiarity, the lump of power that was fired of was passing through 2 types of energy. one that i could feel belong to me and the other that was not. not knowing what the other could be i pondered hard for a five year old. what could have caused this. sitting down in the room, i could not figure out what could be the cause. with that being still an unknown, i started pacing about in the room. no one was going to be back so soon anyway. after pacing about for the umpteenth time, i paced into the corridor and that was to no avail. with that in irony, i paced back all the way to the examination hall to ask Amy.

waiting near the door to where the evaluation is done, after multiple kids entered and left, eric guided one of the kids out and saw me waiting outside. he looked at me bemused with a raised eyebrow and walked over.

“why are you still here? i thought we told you to go back and rest. why are you back here?”

“ I have a question and i think it would be best to ask Amy.”

“why her and not anyone else? her element is not the same as you so how can she help?”

“ I do not know who else to ask for this question of mine.”

“wait here then. i will talk to her about it.”

Eric walks back into the hall to talk to Amy.

“Amy, Marcus is back and he has a question to ask. let him in?”

“i guess it is fine. we three need a break anyway. let him in.”

Eric got back and brought me back into the hall.

“Marcus what is your question?”

“ I was bored and was visualizing my mental realm. you said i was not allowed to do cultivation and is supposed to rest but i can’t sleep so i visualized what my mental realm was like in the meantime. i was bouncing multiple pulses of energy in my head then after some time i realized that it was passing through 2 types of energy. one that i could feel belong to me and the other that was not. i am not sure what to do about it so i came back to ask.”

Eric, Joyce and Amy were all stumped and stupefied by my reply. it only took them a moment to understand and replicate what i did in their mental realm. they realized that i just used a modified form of spirit echolocation.

Amy gave Joyce a bemused face. “looks like you have to be his instructor as well. he seems to be a spirit master as well in the future.”

“what is a spirit master?”

Joyce looked at me and smiled. “ someone whose spirit is strong and sensitive. not only that, they have the ability to control and use spirit energy without channeling it through their tree to use it. only one in ten masters are spirit masters and only one in one hundred is a natural. and you are a natural. not only that you rival a tier three spirit master in ability. a one in a thousand if not a one in a million level genius. even if you never gain a branch all the major families would want you and invest in you heavily to get you.”

Joyce then grabs me firmly and told me grimly and firmly. “ You are only five and you have that level of ability. it is an ability to die for and even kill for. you will not tell others about this until the day when you can protect yourself.”

Amy then adds “from now on you will be under my personal protection and from osprey’s protection. however, all these will be in secret. you will not tell anyone about it. not even the teachers and other instructors. only the 4 of us in this hall and Daniel and one or two of the higher ups will know about this. Joyce will be with you when Daniel is having training sessions with you. she will be giving you spirit master’s training while you are with Daniel.”

“we will have to make some changes for today then. he will be with us while we are having the evaluation so that he can convert all my spirit energy without further risk.”

“OK Marcus, try this visual these two different powers in your mental realm. one that is yours and one that is not yours. visualize separating them so that your power is gathered into a ball and those that are not is expelled out. then i want you to visualize a hole opening up from the ball a small portion of those powers that are not to be be eaten up by the hole and close up. then slowly visualize it spinning and mixing together until all of it becomes just like your power. i want you only mix a small bit at a time. there can be no rush you understand me?”

“yes”

“good. now sit on the floor here next to me so that i can monitor you while the evaluation goes on.”

with that i sat next to her and the evaluation continued as per normal with me inside the hall.

it was a boring task. eat a small bubble and mix. eat a small bubble and mix. after doing about 100 bubbles of power, i decided to pick up the pace. i split my collated ball of power into two and started doing 2 bubbles a time. everything seemed to be fine and after another 100, i decided to bring up the pace and split the bubbles to 4. after another 200 bubbles i decided to split again. but after in doing so i realized that i slowed down instead and returned back to 4 bubbles.

quickly and efficiently, i picked up in pace. it was like sanding down a rock with sand. you chip a rock and put the chipped pieces among the sand and started spinning the sand to grind the chipped pieces until it turns to sand. an idea hit me while i was ‘sanding’ it down. i was not maximizing the “space” in each bubble. i could grind more than one chipped piece in each bubble. with that i doubled if not tripled my speed in mixing the powers together.

Joyce who sat next to me observed from the side while evaluating the others could only turn her head in surprise each time my speed pick up by a little. it was her powers i am mixing with so she was very much aware what is going on.

using her spirit force, Joyce channeled a message to Amy : He just went from Priority 10 to Priority 5