novelraw Chapter 23: Stagnation
Chapter 23: Stagnation
[Name: Quash Ogmore]
[Race: Human]
[Title: None]
[Level: 1]
[Class: Apprentice Knight]
[Physical Stats]
• Strength: 70→71 (Rising Trend)↑
• Dexterity: 89→90 (Rising Trend)↑
• Vitality: 65→85 (Rising Trend)↑
• Endurance: 75→89(Rising Trend)↑
[Abstract Stats]
• Intelligence: 98
• Wisdom: 164
• Will: 278
• Spirit: 309
[Energy Stats]
• Aura: 15
[Skills]
• Aura Cultivation Method [Master Lv.10]
• Tri-Sword Formation [Intermediate Lv.10 →Master Lv1]↑
• Flowing Water Footwork Technique [Intermediate Lv.9→ Expert Lv. 10]↑
[Special Conditions]
• Aura Charged
"Hmm~."
Quash looked at his status window with a bit of disappointment. His Dexterity and Strength has barely increased. But his Vitality and Endurance have increased exponentially. Mostly due to the training he went through and because of being Aura Charged. His body was improving over time.
Quash closed his status window with a sigh. He was sitting by the window of his room. Looking at outside.
The outside was raining heavily. Qatar drops fell into the lack water, making it seem like small explosions were happening. The rain water was wetting everything.
The water in the ground was smearing a bit because of the constant trapped electron discharge.
Suddenly, a thought struck his mind. In many Cultivation novels, lightning is often associated with purification.
Maybe he could somehow use that small smout if lightning in the Lighting Rain to accelerate the Impunity Expulsion process?
Quash opened the window and shoved his hand out. He felt nothing at all. This fist is because his Endurance stats that was nearing Class Limit, second was the constantly circulating Aura inside his hand.
Quash was looking at his hand and inside his hand simultaneously. Studying even the smallest changes.
The moment the electricity reached inside his blood vessels, it would get washed away in moment. Destroyed, or devoured, he couldn’t tell. But since there was nothing happeni g to him, he decided to jump out of his window. He jumped from the second floor but he barely made any water splash. Displaying his insane Dexterity.
Quash stood under the rain with his eyes closed. He didn’t have his shoes on so even nearby electricity was coming towards him. Trying to use his body as a conduct. But they were getting sucked in instead. Their fate unknown.
Quash was keeping close tab of his insides. There was no visible changes inside, or outside. But he waited. He will stand under the rain until it passes.
Quash also noticed the Natural Energy dispersing in the air, making the energy in the atmosphere a bit Denser. He wasn’t suking them in and just let them go. Increasing his Aura wasn’t the priority. Once he expelled all the impurities, he would start then.
Quash stood under the rain for five minutes before he noticed any changes. He noticed that his Aura has a blue tint to them. And also, the colour of his Aura now was mostly white. So the blue tint was rather obvious.
He pulled up his status window and something have changed in the Special Conditions section.
[Special Conditions]
• Lighting-Aura Charged
[Lighting-Aura Charged]
Description: Natural Energy infused Lighting mixing in with Aura Charged Condition, resulting in the Condition named, Lighting-Aura Charged. Has purification effect.
Quash raised an eye brow at the list part but a smile involuntarily appeared on his face. The Lighting Rain came in as an unexpected boon. Instead of hindering him, it was helping in expelling impurities.
Quash stood under the rain while his eyes closed. Unmoving. The rain continued for for half an hour before stopping. But he still didn’t move and stood where he was. His Aura has now patches of blue in it. It was fully white. Pure and pristine like a fine jade. It gave the obedient students vibe of Pure Aura.
A wide smile appeared on his face. He knew he had succeeded because he was feeling the same uncomfortable feeling but less intense. There was no irritation. Just mild light headedness. Probably because of the impurity amount is small. Quash didn’t wait and directly went to the bathroom, striped off of his clothes and waited under the shower for the impurities to be expelled for the final time.
Quash felt the same warm sweat like feeling slowly oz out of his skin. Since his Impurity Expulsion was partial, it was never black like those in the martial arts novels. The highest amount of Impurity was expelled on the second time, it was murky and ashen. Followed by first time where it was grey-ish. And in the third time, the impurities looked like thick jelly like water instead. But the smell was foul every time.
Quash relished the feeling of sudden clarity. Like something was clogging his consciousness was finally removed. A cools sensation spread through his body. It slowly enveloped everything. His muscles, bones, blood vessels, even skin. It wasn’t unpleasant. It was like rubbing ice on the skin under the sun of summer.
"Khuachk!!"
But sudden, Quash felt everything inside his body tighten. His bones, blood vessels, muscles, skin, everything. His eyes went wide from the pain. But his focus was on his Aura that was running through his blood vessels at 14,000 meters per second. Fearing that something has gone wrong. He immediately stopped circulating. If he somehow exploded from the inside, there would be no saving him.
Quash felt his body increasingly tighten. He couldn’t standing because his body was involuntarily curling into a ball. His limps shook violently, trying to regain control. But he felt like his body was trying to collapse onto itself.
Like everything was rearranging after there was more space for better construct. Quash realised that it maybe bue to all the impurities getting expelled.
His body was rearranging to its most optimal form.
With that thought, he gave up resistance and just lay in the bathroom floor, curled like a balls his body shook like he was having a seizure.
His eyes where closed. Teeth closed shut. He didn’t scream a bit even though he felt like every fiber of his muscles were having cramps, bones felt like they were being squeezed under hydraulic press and skin felt like someone was pulling it then scrapping it together like paper.
He lay like that as he kept an eye on his inside for any possible harm. And after ehat it felt like an eternity, everything suddenly stopped just as suddenly it had started. Quash could finally move. He just exhaled loudly, laid on the bathroom floor while looking at the ceiling.