I finally did it! It was a bona fide [Wind Rope]! It took too long to get so far. Now that it looks like it’s supposed to, I will have to practice in combat. Time to send some monsters packing!

  Is what I wanted to do, but I’m yet again hitting myself more than my targets. These [Wind Ropes] are not as rigid as the wires. I’m not used to their flexibility. It’s worse than training in the Hurricane Path simulation room.

  I might have to wake Giana, this is bullshit. I sat down to apply nature energy to myself. I was dripping with blood, and it wasn’t the blood of the monsters. Only 1 monster had gotten hit.

  The simulation got canceled, and I took a pause to recover.

  Hey Nilah, can you go and get Giana?

  Nilah sat down in protest.

  I’ll stay here, and I’m not activating the simulation. Please? I’ll teleport you to their room.

  Nilah got up and got ready to wake a vixen. The teleport went off, and I focused on nature energy to get my wounds healed. It did take a while, but I might almost be there. I always knew why people don’t tend to explore elements they don’t have affinities for, but now I actively experience it. My mana control is doing wonders here, else this might have taken months.

  Is this how Giana and Yv feel when I push skills upon them? How can I make it easier for them? Or am I too stupid to understand how to do that?

  [Hattrick for Noobs] came to my mind. I had to reframe my way of thinking to write that. It was quite difficult.

  I took a deep breath and attempted to reframe my way of thinking. Can’t say there have been many positive things in my mind lately.

  The focus went back to my spirit tethers and I tried to go back to my spirit core. It forced me to clear my mind. Is this how meditation started?

  The spirit core hadn’t changed. Still empty, it was quite comfortable. A state of emptiness. Is it a good idea to dump a skill in here? What if I make it a comfortable skill to look at, a pleasant skill. Something that calms me. It seems the magic volume version of [Foxfire Lunacy] needs a lot of adjustment.

  Magic volume also needs a different name. I might have to start writing a dictionary for words I make up. What would be a suitable name for it? Use Protia again? How about a different ancient language.

  Let's go for gramps ancient language. I don’t know how its called, but I know it. Well, some words sound not cool enough, how about Morphi? [Morphi: Foxfire Lunacy]. Heh, I like it.

  I got kicked out of my spirit core as I lost focus and saw Giana ‘run’ in. “Nilah woke me up. Let me heal you.”

  Giana was wearing a nurse outfit. I’m sure she drew a lot of attention.

  How long did it take you to change into that…

  “I made haste, so only 40 minutes. How does it look on me?” Giana asked as she spun around.

  Seductive…don’t tell me you need more…

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  “I’m sorry, I’m insatiable. What were you doing, by the way?”

  Practicing [Wind Rope] and clearing my mind, I might have to do so again to clear my mind from impure thoughts…

  “Why?!”

  To reach nirvana!

  “What?”

  Dunno, I read that word somewhere and it sounded cool. Is Yv still knocked out?

  “Yeah…I always knew vixens changed when in season, I never knew we cause our partners to change too.”

  I ignored Giana as I needed to clear my mind and not get pulled into impure thoughts. But maybe my deception detection got boosted by it.

  I found something that wasn’t of this world. I couldn’t identify it. Another problem might be lurking in the background. It's currently delegated to the AA though.

  I explained what happened today.

  “I want ice cream too…”

  Here, have some guava ice cream. I will continue my training.

  The gluttonous vixen got her ice cream and I recommenced my training. Everything operated better on a clear mind, fueled a bit by wanting to impress Giana. I only hit myself 12 times and obliterated all the monsters with [Wind Rope].

  That stings…I might get it tomorrow or the day after, or the day after.

  “Did you tell me why you needed that skill?” Nurse Giana said as she healed me and checked my heartbeat for some reason.

  I have skills that represent people important to me, I will use most if not all of them to prime [Foxfire Lunacy] and [Morphi: Foxifre Lunacy].

  “Morphi? What does that mean?”

  The name I gave to magic volumes. As ‘magic volume’ could sound confusing and sounds lame.

  “Will I ever be able to learn those?” Giana helped me up after she collected some blood from the last wound, she healed.

  Dunno.

  “You’re not going to ask what I need this blood for?”

  You have my best interest in mind. I’m sure you will tell me when you have the results you want.

  Giana smiled and kissed my cheek. “Thank you for trusting me. Will you come over tonight too?”

  I had a mental struggle. It wasn’t a long struggle, as there was a clear winner.

  Sure. I will work on [Morphi: Foxfire Lunacy] in my room and then come over. Come pick me up if I don’t come, I might have forgotten the time.

  I tinkered on [Morphi: Foxfire Lunacy] and visited Giana and Yv. Something I continued to do for the two weeks we stayed in Gittrian. Collecting mana, practicing [Wind Rope] and tinkering on [Morphi: Foxfire Lunacy] were things I had progressed greatly on.

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