Skill Creation in the Fantasy World

Chapter 37: Aura

While everyone was getting shocked at the news of the upcoming war, Felix was busy reading the aura cultivation manual.

With the skill to learn any one language, he could now perfectly understand the language of the aura manual book and had spent 3 hours reading it.

In simpler terms, Aura is the energy that a living being manifests when they unlock the true potential of their body through meditation and training.

By following the meditation method mentioned in the manual, the nerves inside the body of the cultivator get stimulated and they start to greedily absorb the nutrients present in the blood, stomach, and atmosphere.

Getting a lot of nutrients absorbed will cause some deficiency in the body, that was why it was mentioned that the cultivator must cultivate diligently while maintaining a suitable diet. Whereas meditating in an area filled with magical energy didn't need the use of a diet.

The nutrition-filled nerves later convert all the energy and transfer it to the various parts of the body like muscles, bones, brain, organs, and others while strengthening and improving them.

The newfound energy breaks the potential limits of the body and allows the will of the cultivator to manifest in the form of Aura. The energy then can be used in a lot of different ways in battles.

And when the amount of Aura in the body reaches a threshold, the cultivator will break through and advance a rank.

It was mentioned in the book that the cultivators who practice Aura are called Warriors and the first three ranks in this power system only focused on their body while the information for the later ranks was written in a different book.

"Hmmm"

Felix narrowed his eyes and processed all the information he had read in the manual. Overall, it was easy to understand as only some basic things about aura were written in it.

As for the different ways to use Aura, it was only mentioned in the book that there were a lot of methods to control aura and battle but the most basic one of them was improving the overall aspects of the human body like strength, speed, and thought process.

There were a lot of battle arts that used Aura as the energy for their actions in tandem with weapons and artifacts. But these battle arts were not common and thus most of the warriors only used aura to strengthen themselves.

Felix closed the last page of the book and pondered on the chair for a few minutes.

'Let's do it!'

Getting up, his eyes gleamed with determination as he sat on the bed in the meditation form as depicted in the manual and focused his mind.

A few hours went by but he didn't feel any change. There was no movement of energy nor was there any strengthening, he only felt his mind wander as he sat on the bed in silence.

At last, he gave up trying to feel anything as his stomach started to grumble in hunger.

"Sigh...This must be the result of having two-star talent, making me just average at many things."

Shaking his head, he felt dejected and sat up from the bed to go to the dining hall.

Wasting time doing something fruitless was never going to be useful. So he decided to meditate later and satisfy his hungry stomach for now.

Coming out of his room, he walked to the farthest corner and entered the dining hall.

It was the exact time for dinner, so there were a lot of guild members busy eating while chatting.

Felix glanced around curiously as he got himself a plate full of food and searched for a seat.

"Yo Felix! You're name is Felix right?"

A boy with dark green hair chewed pieces of chicken thighs from both of his hands and called out.

Felix turned around to look at him and remembered he was a teammate of Roven, named Steve. The guy who laughed and made trouble for his other teammate Eric.

"Umm yes, my name is Felix. Is there anything you need from me?", he asked politely as he didn't want to get in a mess with this troublemaker.

"It's not me who needs something from you, rather it's you who needs something from me.", he spoke while letting out a chuckle from his food-filled mouth.

"Sorry?"

Felix tilted his head as he felt confused standing in the middle of the dining hall and looking at Steve.

"A seat. How much longer are you going to stand around for?"

He answered his own weird riddle and pointed at the empty seat in front of him.

"You can sit here if you want."

Felix stared at the chair and realized what that guy was talking about before he nodded and sat on the chair.

Steve looked at the innocent boy trying to sit on the chair and pulled back his leg he was trying to prank him by kicking away the chair the moment the kid sat.

He thought that making another person hate him was not a good idea when he could just trick the kid in front of him into joining in his pranks.

Gulping down the food, he drank some juice and asked the boy in front of him.

"So how is it going? I heard you became an official guild member today. Are there any things you're confused about? You can ask me if you want. I may not look it, but I'm a strong and trustworthy person in the guild.",

"Some guys in the guild even used to call me guru and mentor as I have helped many of them with their problems."

He started ranting on about himself with a prideful expression, not minding the stupid glares the people in the vicinity were giving him.

Felix heard him talk while eating and did not reply to anything. More like, the guy did not give him a chance to reply as he boasted and glorified everything about him.

"...And so I was given the mission to handle most of the...."

His mind started to get dizzy when the guy did not stop at all and he regretted sitting on the same table as him. Now he realized why there was an empty chair here as everyone just refused to sit with him.

Even though he felt some pity for this guy for being sitting alone in the dining hall, Felix still waved his hands in an attempt to stop the crazy dark green-haired boy from continuing.

"Hey hey hey, do you want another of that chicken thigh?"

He picked up a piece of chicken thigh and waved it before Steve's eyes. At the sight of it, he turned silent and eyed the piece of meat.

"Take this."

Ignoring the saliva leaking from the boy's lips, Felix placed the meat on Steve's plate and indulged in the silence that followed. But that was only for a few seconds before he completely ate the meat and was about to start talking again.

Felix grew anxious and stopped him from talking as he quickly asked him a question.

"Hey Steve, do you know how to cultivate Aura?"

The dark green-haired boy raised his brows as it was the first time in a long time that someone actually asked him a question. But he didn't waste time thinking before answering.

"Oh you mean the energy that warriors use? Hehe, it seems you have found the right person to ask that question as I'm both a warrior as well as a mage. Don't worry, with my help you won't even realize how quickly you become able to use aura. In fact...."

Felix's face paled as he gulped in fear for having willingly released the unstoppable beast. His confused mind though quickly reached for a solution as he tried hooking the boy in front of him with a strategy.

With an evil grin on his face, he decided to use the boy for his personal gain and potentially a free information broker.