novelraw Chapter 1021: I’m Thinking
Chapter 1021: I’m Thinking
Another day passes by. But it seems like the time when we were relieving ourselves in battle was so far away. Even though it was just yesterday.
But again, facing Pawzer, we are unable to do anything other than protecting ourselves.
"I know that you can still grow stronger. So come on! You can’t just protect yourself all the time! I’m sure you’re aware of it," Pawzer said after my tenth time being knocked out by him for the day.
He is right. I know that I have grown stronger. But it’s not enough. I need to be much stronger than I am now.
But how?
All this time, I have always depending on my Aura, my familiars, and a bit of air magic. But facing someone considerably stronger than me, they are not enough.
What do I need to be able to fight Pawzer on an even ground? Just speed alone won’t be enough.
I seriously in need of a teacher. Someone who can teach me Aura.
Timmy and the other Aura user ghosts back then seem to not be enough. They were strong, but Pawzer here who is not even an Aura user can easily defeat me. And there might be other creatures stronger than him.
"Are you not going to stand up?" Pawzer asked me.
"Not yet. I’m thinking," I replied.
"But you said that you have brain damage. Does thinking work for you?" Pawzer asked.
"It’s just making me hard to remember names or even some things in the past. As for thinking normally, I can do that. Though I’m not that smart. Just leave me be for now and train the other first," I said.
"Well, my training is actually so everyone can move without thinking. Since you’re thinking right now, I have to knock you out."
Just like that. He punched me unconscious while I was still lying down on the ground. He’s so annoying.
When I wake up, I didn’t move right away. And after a while, I checked where Pawzer was and I saw him using Victoria as a punching bag.
Victoria can’t feel pain. And even after getting hit so many times, she won’t faint. Or at least she won’t faint from physical attack. So she’s the only one who has always watched Pawzer while the others were knocked out.
And Pawzer quickly realized that I was already awake when I used Divine Vision.
But I have made a plan in that short time. To escape from him.
When he noticed me, I quickly opened a portal to the lake near Cassau. And before I jumped there, I summoned Victoria and have her transformed into a wall bigger than the portal.
It won’t last long as Pawzer’s single attack can undo her transformation. But it was enough for me to enter the portal.
"I said I was thinking! I’m going to think even more now!" I shouted before I closed the portal.
I also told Victoria that I will be back soon. Because I’m really going here just to think.
Seriously, what was that? Training to make us be able to move without thinking. I guess that’s good. But I don’t think that’s good enough.
The only way I can counter that is to be able to think so fast before my body moves on its own. But what the hell? I’m not even that smart. I’m not even a fast-thinker.
The training bore result. But if it’s just this much, even if we can defeat the cult on the back of the tortoise, I’m still far behind from Pawzer’s strength.
I thought that not being the strongest was fine. But it’s not when there’s no one else who can finish the job!
If it’s Angela, I think that she will be able to do it. Moving without thinking. That is why she’s a genius.
But I’m not a genius. I’m just lucky to be able to use Aura. And if it’s any other Aura user from the past who have went through the same thing I went through, they can be much stronger than I am now.
The reason I was able to defeat those Aura user ghosts were because they’re ghosts. After they died, they were unable to get stronger. And I learned many things from them all.
As for Timmy, I defeated him thanks to luck and the help of my familiars. As an Aura user myself, or should I say Aura Master, I’m still weaker than him. It was just luck that I could make a contract with Ray in time.
But for this training, Ray is with Victoria. And I’m on my own with just a spear in my hand.
Hmm... thinking too much make my head hot. It’s better if I just swim on the lake.
I jumped on the lake still with my clothes on and carrying Reizpear.
Should I change weapon? I don’t think that’s enough.
What else do I have?
As I submerged my body into the water, I started to think what I have that could be used to fight Pawzer.
He said that the training is for my body to move before my brain. But there might be a way to complete the training without achieving that. But what could it be?
My Divine Vision. That is what I can use. But that’s not enough.
But maybe it’s not that my Divine Vision is not enough. It’s just that I have never seen the need to train my Divine Vision.
What I desired most when I got this Aura ability was to see everything so I can make my decision. But if it’s not enough, it just means that I was the one who stopped desiring it.
It’s just a theory as there’s no other Aura user who taught me about Aura ability. There was one with similar ability, but I need to be much better.
That’s it. I need to improve my Divine Vision even more. Just defeating another All-seeing Eye won’t be enough. I have to train in it.
Maybe next time, when I see a master level mage in the face, they won’t even notice me. That would be great.
So how do I want to use my Divine Vision? Like maybe making everything around me moves slower. Like they are moving in slow-motion.
Even if everything is moving slowly, I can only move as fast as my body can handle. But that’s fine. Just being able to see more is better. And maybe I can increase the speed of my thinking.
So instead of my eye, it should be my brain that I train. To make it capable of capturing every moment even in slow motion.
So how do I train my brain? Maybe by seeing something fast moving.
...Well, aren’t I already in the middle of that training?
The torture will continue. But at least now I have clearer goal. To make everything seems like they move slowly. Including my own body.
And so, I returned back to near the Monsters Village where everyone is training. Or should I say getting beaten up?
"Wow, you’re soaked. What were you doing?" Pawzer asked me after I appeared.
"Thinking. While cooling down my whole body in the lake," I said.
"Since you’re here, I guess you’re done thinking. Then, let’s start the training."
I used my Divine Vision at full power right away. Not just to see everything around me. That was what I thought to be its full power before.
Just use everything. Even spending my mana if I have to. And finally, I can see it.
Pawzer has disappeared from his previous location. Usually, I can’t see him even after he hit me.
But now, I can see him. He’s moving at what seemed like a normal speed for ordinary person as he was about to throw a punch.
Finally, I can see him. But my body still can’t move fast so I can’t do anything other than letting myself get hit. I can’t dodge it yet.
But there’s at least my body can still move even though it’s several times slower than Pawzer’s speed.
I removed the spearhead and used it as a knife. I didn’t use it to slash or thrust it at Pawzer. I just placed the knife to where he’s coming.
And then, I got hit. And as usual, I got blown back so far back. There’s nothing changed.
Except for the blood coming out from Pawzer’s forearm. As even Pawzer himself looked shocked.
"...You did it? How?" Pawzer asked.
"The result of my thinking... Moving your body before you think is not the only way to complete this training," I said.
The others already awake by now. And they saw Pawzer’s forearm bleeding in shock.
"...Hey, you’re bleeding from your eyes," Pawzer said.
"Oh, no wonder everything is red," I said.
Seems like using this power takes a lot of toll in my brain. I even feel painful headache. As expected, I need to train my brain.
I see Kayla hurriedly running here and cast her healing magic at me. But my head is still in pain. I guess this is not something I can use all the time.
But it’s good that I learned something. Though for now, it’s best to get some rest.