Chapter 220: Getting the Art
When James heard those words he immediately sat down cross-legged on the floor and began to think about meditating again, there was no way of telling how wrong he was, he was quite the stupid kid on this topic.
As he sat cross-legged on the floor, Ruby gently approached him, opened her hand, and grasped James' head firmly.
James didn't feel any pain at that moment, but he was really filled with a strange sensation. It was as if someone in real life, not in a dream, was holding his skull tightly and making it close to exploding. It was really a strange and terrible feeling.
"Now I'm going to put as much pressure on your mind as possible, you need to do this to gather all the information, remember you may not feel pain, but your mind will shake, you must stay awake," Ruby said and with these words, the surroundings slowly began to darken.
Ruby seemed to have started to put the art of death into action again.
In a way, this art was almost like the art of cloning. After all, even if the beings that appeared when Ruby used this art did not have a specific form, they had identical shapes and could fight strangely, or rather, they managed to do so according to Ruby's orders.
These beings also had enough intelligence. James already had thousands of ideas about the possibilities he could have if he developed this art.
He could create beings exactly like humans or other living beings, and in line with this art, he could have beings with their own minds, but fully under James's control.
It seemed like slavery in a way, but it wasn't, after all, these beings would be things created by James' energy.
As he pondered these thoughts, he suddenly realised that the strange sensation in his mind was becoming more intense. A strangely subtle feeling of numbness spread through his body. It was as if someone had given him an anaesthetic injection.
His vision was blurring and his breathing was becoming laboured.
Yet, despite all this, he could indeed see clearly all the information, large and small, that was forming in his mind.
This was magic, but apparently, there was no 'system' based use of this power. In other words, like the elements themselves, it would have a use without being based on a system.
It could be thought of in the same way that elemental mages could fight properly with only the elemental cores in their bodies and the small part of the spell.
One way or another, James realised that a very powerful technique had entered his mind.
He was lucky again, he was so happy that he had created the Mind Palace ability on the tutorial floors that there was no way to describe it. After all, almost every one of the beings he had encountered so far had the power to shatter his mind into hundreds of pieces.
Even the weaker Fallen Gods could destroy his mind, let alone Ruby or Vladimir.
James waited normally, there was nothing he could do, even as that strange feeling of numbness trapped and possessed him from the inside.
After almost ten minutes of waiting, James opened his eyes. When he opened his eyes, he realised that he was no longer in a dream and was in fact back in reality.
"How was it?"
Suddenly he heard this question from Ruby and then, holding his head, James said, "Terrible."
James' words were quite accurate. Maybe he hadn't felt any pain in the dream world, but in reality his body as red, his skin colour seemed to be dyed a light red, and his body waand s so hot that he seemed to be in a sauna to the point of fainting.
Even though smoke was coming out of his body and his head was hurting like crazy, he could clearly see that his automatic healing ability had already kicked in.
After a few gasps of air, she thought it would be better to speak before anyone texted her and then said, "I'm fine, don't worry, it's just too hot."
However, he suddenly stood up and, as if remembering that there was an easier way to cool down, he left first his room and then the house and jumped into the snow in front of the house like a diver.
Passing elves and other beings were looking at the almost half-naked James and giggling.
"Master James, are you all right?" a passing elf asked. Everyone could clearly see that the snow was melting around James.
"I'm fine, you can ask that bird over there why I'm like this, I really have no idea," James said and not only the elf who had asked him that question but also the other passers-by looked at Ruby.
Ruby shook her head a few times and then said, "I taught him a technique, I used the fire element to teach him, his body warmed up, blah blah blah, never mind." and with that she seemed, to close the subject.
James saw that there was no more snow around him after all these words and then stood up and started to walk.
"Please carry on with your work, sorry for the inconvenience," James said.
After almost twenty minutes of walking, he managed to come in front of the forge where he thought the group would be, leaving flames behind him with every step he took.
"Daddy!" the little girl Miracle suddenly shouted, running to hug James, who of course didn't object, after all, he couldn't just hurt a Supreme Dragon, no matter how hot it was.
Soon she was surrounded by others and Ariel tried to hug James, but he blocked her and said, "I'm warm."
Then he yawned incessantly and began to empty his inventory one by one, telling those around him to move away.
After hundreds of items and tens of thousands of tonnes of minerals came out of his inventory, he said, "These are for you," and then suddenly left.
He hadn't told the group where he was going, he just wanted to continue his training as soon as possible, after all, he had to become his most perfect self, or rather the strongest he could be, before his floor mission was over before he could be fully disturbed by anyone. After all, he did need to learn and get better.
After all, there was something James wanted to prevent. There was a future he wanted to prevent. He hadn't forgotten it yet, he still remembered it clearly. He still remembered the future that the Philosopher's Stone had shown him, he had seen it and he was well aware of it.
He would do his best to prevent that future.
Yes, he might have been angry with both Nyx and Titans after the last words, but he was not going to accept that future after a mere argument, or rather a one-sided shouting match.
Nyx was still James' mother, Nemesis was still his wife, and all Chaos-Born were still his family members.
The one thing everyone had to accept was that James was not Desmond himself. He was just an heir, perhaps the best heir, but still just an heir.
When he came to an empty field after a long walk, he closed his eyes and then started to recover his energy in line with the information that had been loaded into his mind by Ruby, and then slowly began to release it.
When he started to release his energy, he opened his eyes back and started to create an energy just like Ruby had created...or rather, similar to her.
Still, it was not enough.
The energy was constantly swirling around like an ocean in motion, but nothing was changing. It seemed like he could barely do 0.1% of what Ruby could do.
Still, even that was a good thing for him, he had everything. He had time, he had a place to practise, and he had the exercises he needed to do.
"Calm down, you shouldn't rush everything. You don't need to act like you're going to fight the moment you go out, calm down and then try again. You won't succeed right away, it's impossible, after all, this is not a system-based spell, even if you can use it, it will take a while for you to be able to do it like me. It took a year for me, but it will take a little less time for you." Ruby suddenly said.
James, who was demoralised after these words, shook his head and strangely realised that he was very wrong and Ruby was right.
[You can do it for sure kid!] Nyx had sent a message, and with that James had asked, "Aren't you mad at me"
For a few dozen seconds, he hadn't received any messages, but after only a few moments, he received a message saying [You're the one who should be angry, aren't you?]
With these words, another problem seemed to be solved.