The Birth of the Demon Sword

Consciousness Solutions

Chapter 9 - 09. Ocean of Consciousness

William's fear came true, and he could not help feeling sad. After a moment of contemplation, he straightened his body and walked around the room. Then he started talking:

"I accept your decision and I'll help you practice with that method, but I have some conditions. First, I'd like you to train your mental energy for six months and if after that I don't consider you ready, I'm not going to allow you to." to start treatment. The second condition is that you have to train the twin sword style with me personally. Will you accept it?"

Noah looked at him a little confused and reprimanded calmly:

"May I know the reason behind this condition?"

William stopped in place and replied:

"To endure such pain and still be able to manipulate "Breath" you will need a mind that is much stronger than the average man. If you train your ocean of consciousness for some time, you will increase your chances of surviving treatment. As for the second condition, I will practice torture on a child and I do not feel good about it. At least I'll vent a little by training you and you might even increase your pain tolerance during that process.

Noah was a little surprised by this answer, especially regarding his last part.

"Sir, you don't have to force yourself to do the treatment to me if you don't want to."

"No one from the inner circle will help you do that and the only person in the outer circle who can use 'Breath' skillfully enough is me and the captain. However, my accuracy in its use is much better, so I'm the best candidate to do so."

Noah thought.

'Although he tried to deceive me before, he is not a bad character. Well, it was either trusting him or returning to the scam guard so I didn't have much of a choice.'

"I agree"

Noah said in the end.

William answered, then he took another piece of paper folded from his pants pocket. He handed the folded sheet to Noah and then began to explain again.

"In the sheet, there was a rune called the Kesier Rune after the magical beast species they had obtained. It was said that these ferocious beasts had such powerful mental energy that they could squeeze an adult man into a small lump of flesh with a single thought. They were similar to large monkeys and each type of them had a different number of runes on their backs, the more runes they had, the stronger their mental energy was. When humans learned that they could use these runes to empower their mental energy, a massive annihilation began, and the Kesier species, only runes remained now. The method to train mental energy was the result of years of experimentation on these runes. Currently, there were three sets each made of three runes for a total of nine runes."

William paused for a moment and then pointed to the folded sheet in Noah's hand.

"All I gave it was the first rune from the first set. When you read it, you will feel tremendous pain in the center of your brain, caused by your first interaction with the ocean of consciousness. Actually, there is a painless method to interact for the first time with the ocean of consciousness but it will take you a week and find out what kind of masochist you are, I found that this method will be more suitable for you. Go ahead and try reading the runes, after the pain has come, focus on it to enter your sea of consciousness."

Noah smiled as a little masochist, he just wanted to become stronger, isn't that the same for everyone?

He slowly opened the sheet in his hand until a scrap of ink was seen. Soon, he felt like his head was about to split open. He groaned, endured the pain and hid the runes again and then he focused on the origin of the pain.

He felt like he was in another world. The feeling of being on the ground disappeared and there was no smell, only the sound of the sea waves being constantly present. He opened his eyes and looked around. He sat cross-legged in the air, his figure half-transparent. Above him was darkness, separated from him by a ball-shaped barrier, beneath which was a blue sea, with a slight wave on its surface. After a few seconds of pure astonishment, he found himself back in the room with William staring at him, it seemed like only a moment had passed.

"Master, can you explain it?"

Noah asked completely dumbfounded by this out-of-body experience.

"You have just seen the ocean of your consciousness. Think of it as a personal dimension, where your thoughts, emotions, and mental energy are stored. The larger the dimension, the greater its effect on the material world. The water in it represents you the ability to think, so be careful when you train mental energy or cast a spell because it will drain that water, and once you run out, it will run out, your ability to think will be greatly affected until the ocean of consciousness is replenished, you may even faint in that situation and if it happens too often, you can even damage your Ball. Once the ball is broken, your mind will be destroyed and you will only be a living body without desire or mind."

William was talking with a very serious face at the time, it was hard to imagine how many men who had destroyed their own territory were trying to push their limits or force themselves.

as for the higher ones only the Shosti family or the high noble families might have it. Now, enough with the explanation, go back to your house and start practicing the first runes. I'll send you the form and description of the twin sword style to your inn including other swords. I'll see you again in a week from now to check your progress with those two. Remember not to exhaust your mental energy!"