Return of the Fallen Volume 6 Chapter 63
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Author: Blue_Rat
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Oren eyed Kazuki up and down reassessing him.
(“What ya said is right. Aura is energy and since it is in our world it is therefore affected by the rules of nature. Because of this, aura being energy it has a physical weight to it. That is the pressure or heavyweight ya can place on someone or something.”)
“I get that it has to weigh something but why is it enough to increase gravity?”
Oren shook his head.
(“It’s not the gravity that is increasing rather the aura itself is incredibly heavy. Ya know aura comes from the soul but its power originates from a person’s physical body. This means that however strong ya body is, it directly correlates to how strong ya aura can be.”)
Kazuki raised a brow in doubt.
“Senior…er I mean Oren, I’ve used aura for a few months now but it’s never been anywhere near what the actual strength of my body is. It’s not that I doubt you but if I could crush things with my aura equal to my strength I would have never lost to your son in the first place.”
(“Ya didn’t listen to me Kazuki. I said it correlates to how strong ya can be, not how strong ya are. Ya don’t know how to use ya aura properly so your only drawing out a fraction of its true potential. Once ya fully master it, ya aura will be capable of crushing things as much as ya arms or legs could. Not only that, ya aura would be able to do so much more. With proper control, ya aura can not only be used to strike, cut, smash but also be used to lift objects, defend ya self and more. For example, when I used my aura to destroy that plater earlier, I directly tore through the wind thereby reducing the friction on my attack allowing it to cause even more damage. This is just one of the ways aura can be handled and manipulated.”)
Kazuki gulped hearing all of this.
(If what Oren says is true and I can use aura to lighten things, couldn’t I use aura to then lighten my entire body and fly the fuck out of this underground shithole. Can I really learn to use aura in such a way.)
Kazuki’s hopes were starting to rise and two faces flashed in his mind.
(Nunully, Asuna, just wait a little bit longer.)
“Oren please teach me!”
Oren nodded.
“Okay okay in just a minute. I still need to clear some things up about aura.”)
“There’s more?”
(“Hmpf, Kazuki your impatience will be the end of ya. Of course, there’s more. As I said a moment ago, the strength of ya aura can be as strong as ya body is. The reason being is because ya aura is a part of ya soul and is therefore connected to both ya body and mind.
“Wait it’s connected to my mind as well?”
Oren clapped his feet together and said sarcastically.
(“Good good your catching on, now if ya could stop interrupting.”)
Kazuki wanted to roll his eyes at that statement. It was Oren who mostly interrupted him but Kazuki resisted the urge and listened.
(“Where was I…Right if ya can produce aura then it is already connected with both ya mind and soul. Because of this when ya aura grows stronger ya body becomes slightly stronger as well. Before ya interrupt me, ya aura growing stronger is different from ya pulling out all of its potential to match your bodies strength. If ya ever learn to fully master aura and are able to use the entire strength of ya aura in line with ya physical strength you’ll come to understand. At that point when ya aura is as strong as ya physical body, ya aura can still improve beyond ya body’s strength but due to the fact that the ya aura is connected to ya body, when ya aura grows ya body will improve a tiny bit as well. This might sound a bit confusing at first but you’ll come to know later on.”)
Kazuki nodded. He actually understood this point. When he first manifested his own aura, his aura absorbed some of the godly aura from his golden compass. He didn’t understand how this came to be nor why but after doing it a few times he felt his body had become slightly stronger. He knew it had to do with the aura being absorbed and when he understood that, he wished to absorb more of the godly aura coming from his compass but the aura from the compass dipped and dodged his own aura and he could no longer absorb it. It was like the godly aura had a mind of its own and made up said mind to no longer be eaten by Kazuki’s aura.
“Oren, how does one improve the strength of their aura?”
(“Good question young Kazuki. The answer to that is a mixture. How does one create an aura in the first place…It’s a combination of a few things. Struggle, intense emotion, and when life and death are on the line. These things mixing together can help one to create an aura. No, it doesn’t always work, and there are a few more factors involved but those none the less are the main ones and the most important. in order to improve one’s aura, these factors must once again come into play. Not necessarily all at once but the combination improves it at a much greater rate than those three by themselves. To produce these three effects one way is to fight for your life obviously. Another way to improve your aura is to use it exhaustively. Using it dozens of times or even hundreds of times is not enough. Like a muscle, ya have to use it again and again and again. It has to become second nature like breathing. Again, when ya get to that point it’s about testing one’s limits and going further and further. If ya use it like that in combination with the other three things, ya aura will improve tremendously.”)
Kazuki stared blankly for a moment before asking.
“What about with other aura’s. For example, let’s say my aura absorbs or eats another stronger aura, could my own aura improve in that way?”
Oren tilted his head in obvious confusion.
(“That cannot happen. Ya can’t eat another being’s aura. Sure it’s possible to absorb another’s aura but that would likely never ever happen and even if ya did I don’t think ya could improve your own strength it doesn’t make any sense.”)
“Could you enlighten me”
Oren stroked his beard a few times in thought.
(“If ya remember what I said a few seconds ago, an aura is part of one’s soul and is connected to the mind and body. For a being to lose some aura to allow someone else to directly absorb some of it or all of it, that being would be losing part of their soul. This would directly weaken them and if the entire aura was absorbed, that much of ya soul being taken away, technically speaking it should kill ya.”)
“Technically speaking?”
Oren nodded.
(“Yes, ya should die from losing that much of your soul but I suppose there are three beings that wouldn’t necessarily lose their life from it.”)
Oren held up three toes on one foot and counted off.
(“Number one would be a Demigod or a part god. Obviously, number two would be a full god and the third would have to be a Titan. These three beings would be able to survive with their lives intact after losing that much of their soul but to give up some of your soul would be giving up some of your own power. There’s no way those three great beings would ever do such a thing. That alone though isn’t the end of it. Even if they did decide to give away a part of their soul what would be the point. The recipient wouldn’t be able to handle something so foreign……….Well maybe unless they were related. Giving up part of your soul to a relative, they should be able to carry it but this is all a guess on my part. Hmm, Kazuki to think after all these years I never went down this line of thinking. It’s definitely interesting but why are ya curious about this?”)
Kazuki was dumbstruck. He had in fact absorbed some of the godly aura coming from his compass and both his aura and body had improved. Kazuki had wondered about his compass time and time again and the clues kept pointing to whoever’s aura came from the compass was somehow related to him and now Oren’s words had again given him more substantial evidence to point it as being true.
Kazuki didn’t know what to say to Oren and just shrugged his shoulders.
“Just something that popped in my head. Don’t take it too seriously.”
Oren could tell something was off but at the same time he didn’t care too much and Kazuki’s business if he wished to keep it private was up to him.
(“Ok, skipping over the ways to improve it, none of that is important right now. What is important is the utility and technique. Ya need to learn the proper way to use it rather than strengthen it. Improving ya aura can come later. Turning it into a weapon, that’s what we need to focus on.”)
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