BXBX NOVEL Chapter 390 Activating His Spirit
William got his three spirit elements from the silver monster he killed and absorbed its soul before.
"I can\'t form clones, and I don\'t have any time to train over techniques that will generate clones. In theory I can\'t do it like that damn monster, but I have another way… I hope it works…"
William\'s idea was simple. Instead of making clones, he decided to use his spirit elements separately, leaving behind the one he wanted to activate in his spirit.
Of course, darkness was brutal and useful, but it was also used by his enemies. So it was foolish to use the same weapon his foes had, and it was better to use one that would negate the enemy\'s strength instead.
So, he got to select between light and lightning. The former was brutal and explosive, and the latter was deadly and got a purifying effect in it.
William knew if he used the light element quite well, then there would be no one to rival him even one grade higher. But he wasn\'t adept at all in using that element.
During his past life, his sole weakness lay in his lack of good spirit elements. And in this life, he kept depending more on the lightning element.
So, he decided to stir up his spirit using the lightning element first. Of course, he could activate his spirit using the other two elements, but he had first to get himself familiar with the right way to do it.
And before anything else, he had to know if this theory would work in the first place or not. He had no other idea but this.
To make use of his darkness and light elements, he got to use two techniques at the same time. The darkness element was already stirred up in the final version of the Holy Sword strike. But if he used that move, he\'d also use the lightning element as well.
"I will start with the darkness technique, moving fast, then use the light move with my sword. This way it will be like starting the Holy Sword strike of mine but with a darkness element in the place of the lightning one…"
He knew in theory, this would work. But actually, there was no guarantee it would. After all, he was going to use two antagonising elements at the same time, and it\'d make perfect sense to expect them to clash and fight, not merge peacefully together.
William didn\'t need this strike to work. He just wanted a single moment, a chance to stir up his spirit at the time his other two spirit elements were busy by his technique.
*Boom!*
Just as he expected, the first attempt ended up with a big failure. The two elements went berserk, but that wasn\'t the thing that made him jump in the air, land in agony and twitch his body over the ground like he was having a seizure or something.
"Sh*t! Trying to stir that spirit ended up with stirring that damn darkness element!"
Everything just went exactly as he envisioned it. The two elements got busy in executing the technique, and even that little fight that started between them helped in making things easier for his lightning element to get stirred up.
But the moment he was this close from success, the darkness element kicked in. it was like a sleeping beast inside his spirit. And just before his spirit would get activated at last, the darkness gushed out and crushed the lightning element.
That darkness crushed everything, leaving his body weak and numb. To add more to his miserable state, the fight between the two elements exploded and his body ended up twitching for long seconds before everything got settled down.
It was indeed a hellish experience, but he learnt a lot from it.
"The theory is correct, in general concept at least," William sat with utmost difficulty on the ground, took out the potion he extorted from Ben, and drank two drops at this moment.
He felt his body as if it got washed clean by a refreshing cold water. It felt great, and William\'s fatigue and pain started to vanish fast.
"That darkness element… Even trying all this in the daytime didn\'t help at all! It\'s unstoppable!"
William knew by this failed attempt that if he tried to stir up his spirit using the darkness element alone, then he\'d succeed. However, that wasn\'t good news at all.
He didn\'t want to use any darkness element in activating his spirit. He wanted to use the lightning or even light element instead.
"Worrying about which element I shall use isn\'t going to work… I shall first try and see the end result of using this method. Then I\'ll worry about which element to use…"
He muttered while giving his body enough time to recuperate and heal. He decided to let go of all the deep worries about the right element to use and focus instead on activating his spirit first.
He was fighting all this time without the biggest asset any spirit master with a unique spirit would use. Having a darkness spirit wasn\'t going to be this bad, at least he got another weapon to use.
Even if his enemies were adept at using darkness spirits, it didn\'t mean it\'d end up that bad for him. He fought all this time and won, crushed all the enemies he faced, and that was without even using his spirit even once.
So, he started to change his mindset and began to accept the idea of activating his spirit with the darkness element as a gain and not a loss.
He didn\'t hurry to stand up. Aside from the pain he felt and the exhaustion his body suffered during the past failed attempt; his spirit power got depleted by more than seventy percent.
It was mainly thanks to the fierce clashes that happened between his three spirit elements. And so, he spent one hour replenishing his lost spirit power before doing anything else.