“Haaa!” Selena clapped. Her avatar gradually turned into liquid and started moving around the dummy. “Kh…”
She gritted her teeth, having a hard time matching every single detail like that of an armor.
Even when she managed to create it, they were wobbly, providing no defense at all.
Ultimately, the liquid Ena burst in all directions, resulting in a failure.
“Another failure.” Selena panted a few times. “The technique takes a toll on my mind, but I know I’m progressing. I can’t stop!”
Selena took a deep breath to restart her mind before starting again.
Before she could summon her avatar, Vivian’s voice echoed in her ears. “What are you doing here? You should be in the student council, no? Shouldn’t you finish your work and play here after that? I mean, Nathan will surely be delighted to see you in a dress.”
Selena shook her head. “I finished my work last night.”
“!!!” Vivian raised her eyebrows, noticing the meaning behind her words. “Oi. Have you slept at all?”
“I will do so later. Right now, I should be training.” Selena bit her lips. “If I don’t progress at all because I’m too occupied with all those documents, Nathan will leave me behind.”
“Seriously…” Vivian scratched the back of her head. “Still, if you want to improve, you need a proper rest. It’s especially true since you’re training a technique with a high stress level.”
Selena hung her head low. “That’s what I want to do, but… well, let’s just say I can’t sleep fully aware that saintess is seducing him.”
“Pfft!” Vivian chuckled. “You have truly picked up the bad things from him. You know how to joke now?”
Selena thought for a moment before asking, “There’s something I want to ask.”
“What is it? You’re not my disciple, but I’ll answer your question nonetheless.”
“I have been thinking about armor this time, but is it possible to create a weapon or any other things with this technique?”
Vivian nodded. “Indeed. The armor requires a lot of details, so it takes a toll on your mind. In fact, I’m quite curious why you practice this instead of other techniques? Knowing the Sage, he will probably ask you to focus on Flow instead of Augmentation.”
“That’s…” Selena sighed. “A certain person always says that they’re suggestions, not orders. It can be a direction, but you don’t have to follow it.
“That was what he said when I asked him about his bullets.”
“His bullets?”
“Yes. Do you remember the two-day lesson when he was suggested to program his bullets to ease the computation of those bullets?”
“Of course. It’s straining his mind, especially now that he has a lot of Ena. More bullets will mean more computation.”
“I saw him continue practicing that technique, half taking the suggestion. He basically controlled all 60 bullets at once.”
“Huh? Really? I don’t really observe his training unless it’s an important one.”
Selena nodded, recalling what happened during their training on the beach.
Nathan raised his finger as seven bullets suddenly moved toward his fingertip and hovered around. “These seven bullets are a single group. In other words, I only need to compute their trajectory as a single entity instead of seven of them. And since I have 60 bullets, I can control eight groups at once while maintaining four bullets as an emergency.”
“Huh? What’s the point? Can’t you just follow what the Sage said, like programming them? If you just program curves, straight, and other paths, it will be much easier, no?”
“Hahaha. No way. Programming the bullets will make my life easier, but not stronger. I need to control them manually to make it more effective. Since it’s not possible to control 60 bullets at once, I create these groups so that I only control ‘eight’ bullets at once, reducing the computation. In exchange…”
Nathan walked forward and formed a bullet. The bullets suddenly spread horizontally before flying forward.
Four bullets hit the dummy while the rest missed it.
“Spreading the shot will allow me to have an easier time to target a moving person. Then…” Nathan continued. This time, he gathered the bullets into a single circle and released them at once.
All the bullets hit the dummy and produced more impact than the first one.
“This is…”
“I gather them so that they will produce more power. This will be what I mainly use. There are also others like creating a straight line to increase their penetrative power or combining all those bullets into one to ‘blast’ the enemy. Instead of programming their trajectory, it’s better to program the way I shoot them. It will create a different kind of impact, which will become variety. The answer we reach is different, but the Sage is right about one thing… Ena has infinite possibilities.”
Selena was utterly shocked at that time. In her heart, she couldn’t help but wonder if Nathan was more suitable to be the sage’s disciple than her or not.
That was why, to make it look like it wasn’t a mistake, she had to work hard, much harder than before.
Vivian smiled when listening to that story. “I see. That’s interesting. If that’s the case, what you need right now is not training. You need to sleep and think about what you actually want to use. Isn’t your avatar the product of your thinking? So, please use this time to think instead of training with no goal in mind.”
Selena froze as if she had realized something more important. She bowed. “Thank you very much.”
She didn’t hesitate to go back to the room, making Vivian shake her head. “This girl…”
And that was what Nathan’s opponent, Rain, was going to face.
Bam!
The Dragon Fist blasted the bear-person away.
Shocked, Rain hurriedly made a diagonal slash.
Nathan jumped to the side, avoiding his attack. When Rain was about to make another sword strike, Nathan made a gun sign and pointed it at the sword.
The normal bullet had turned into a laser beam, which pushed the sword back, resulting in Rain being unable to swing it down.
“Kh!”
Nathan took another jump to gain some distance.
The bear-person and Rain had regained their form and were ready to fight Nathan, this time being more careful.
Nathan then formed all 60 bullets around him. “It’s time for my bullets.”