Chapter 3: Demons and Training
Alexei during the day decided to do physical exercises to lose all that fat he gained by staying behind his desk during the last 2 years of being a policeman.
Simple training like push up, squat, etc.., In the end, he was exhausted and went to sleep to speak with the entity to begin his training.
In his mind, Alexei opened his eyes to totally different scenery, a gigantic space made of white.
"I see that you changed your mind about the training rather quickly." Alexei turned to see the entity speaking to him only to see a human-shaped entity but a bit more detailed, everything was still blurry but now Alexei could see it was a man.
"Yes but before we start I want to know what was Kevin and why he did that," said Alexei hoping to gain information.
"Kevin was like you a human but he got possessed by a Demon, the demon gave him strength and took control of his body but Kevin was only in the first stage of possession, at this stage the Demon can at moment control the body of its host giving him strength equal to the maximum a human body can have if Kevin was in the second stage Kevin would have lost his body but its soul would still be there and need an exorcism to save the souls, in the second stage the demon would have 2 to 3 times the strength of the maximum for a human and in rare cases have access to demonic magic, if Kevin was at stage 2 you would be dead even with basic Psijick powers. And finally, the third stage is total control, the soul of the host become corrupted and the demon is starting to produce demonic corruption, everything touched by demonic corruption starts to rot and dies, water becomes poison, the air becomes a gas that only demons can breath and earth become infertile."
Alexei was seriously afraid now, he needs to train and fast before one of the demons chose that he would be a good target.
"As for why its simple demons are by nature destructor of life and corruptor of souls."
"Now that you have your information let's begin to train you in the Psijick arts, first of all, we need you to establish a defense in your mind to protect it against intrusion. First of all, imagine a place where you want to protect your most precious memories and I speak about memories about family, love interests and friends, a demon with access to these memories can threaten those loved ones and force you to obey. First, imagine a rough image of the building, don't expect to finish today it will exhaust you, we will see in the next coming days about details and defense inside the building."
Alexei was a big fan of medieval stuff, so a castle was the first idea but he decided to not aim too high because it will take too much time to make one so he settled on a medieval tower, at least 20 meters high with a spiral staircase leading to the top where the memories would be stocked and protected.
"Good, now imagine the stone appearing one by one, imagine the there hundred of builder constructing this in matters of seconds, imagine the sturdiness of the stone."
While the entity said that slowly transparent blocks of stone started to appears in a circle pilling to until it formed the body of the tower it took 1 hour for it to be finished now only the roof needed to be created and in 10 minutes it was done after hundreds of transparent roof tiles rushed to form the top of the tower.
Alexei finally opened his eyes and he finally sees the result of his hard work, in front of him stand a tower approximatively 28 meters high formed with huge blocks of transparent stone, he could see them because a little bit of grey was apparent on the stones, and a roof made of slightly blue tainted roof tiles.
Alexei was in awe in front of his creation and even more when the entity speaks to him.
"Good job not everyone could imagine and construct such structure in one go, next time we should be able to reinforce it like a true medieval tower, wow I didn't see but you actually created arrow slit for the tower which could be used later but for now this is enough actually not enough to hold memories because it is not fully formed but enough for today you must be tired let me just tell you about real-life exercises for Psijick."
Now that the entity says it Alexei feels aches everywhere on its body and he had trouble listening to the instructions.
"In real life, the first exercise is to sense other minds use Tom your Goldfish, stand at first 1 meter aways from its fish tank and close your eyes imagine your eyes are open and try to detect the presence of Tom mind, it will be an excellent exercise since have a faint presence and mind, when you detect it, don't try to reach it you are not ready to contact other minds with yours, just open slowly your eyes and distance yourself and try again do that only for 30-45 minutes otherwise you will be too exhausted to train in your mind."
Alexei just nodded and collapsed on the ground too exhausted to even speak with the entity.
The entity watching everything happen just disappeared while saying: "Such a Strong will maybe the Psijick Order will be reborn by him;"
A couple of hours later Alexei woke up feeling refreshed and his mind was clear he has objectives to attain and a couple of peoples to call.
First, he's parents needed to know that everything was ok and that he was taking a break from everything and will stay at home, he could not say that he was training to be a Psijick everyone will believe him crazy so he was just taking a break after everything that happened.
At first, Alexei's parents were worried about their son, they keep saying that isolation was not the solution to the problem until he told them he had to kill a man to protect himself and one of his colleagues, they were silent during a good 30 seconds and his father said: "Take your time son, as a surgeon I understand seeing the death of someone is not something a young man like you should see but I want news about you every week not to reassure us but for you if you have any question ask me."
Alexei was silent for a couple of seconds and asked: "How are you dealing with it, every time I look at myself in the mirror I keep asking myself what if I just shot him in the leg and call for help while he was down?"
Alexei Father responded, "Son, I know this feeling of guilt and regret, when one of my patients died on the table while I was operating, two days later I was in the office of the hospital giving my resignation because of my failure but my boss at this time just told me to go see the family and express what I was feeling, after a rather heated conversation I have come to the conclusion that I did my best and it was not enough and from there I just practiced harder the same case to deal with this sort of complication but enough of my story I think you should see the family of the man you killed and the colleague you saved and form a conclusion but one thing I'm sure Son, living believing yourself guilty will not help."
Alexei after that said goodbye to his parents and hang up.
He sat on his sofa and thought about what his father said, he just sat there during the day not even practicing the exercise until he came to a conclusion.
He needs to learn how to exorcise a demon from a possessed body to never have to kill a human again, he will go see the parent of Kevin and express his feeling toward the situation, he will also go see at the hospital his colleague Viktor, he not really a friend but more a friendly colleague and finally, he will go the funeral of Alex the one who got killed by Kevin, Alex he was a friend without really being friend they always joked about having the same name, Alexei always told him that his parents were too lazy to name him completely and Alex always responded that my parents where sophisticated ass with a false sense of nobility for calling him, Alexei.
Now that Alexei remembered all the good times with Alex, he was feeling like shit.
To get out of the mood he was in he decided to start the exercise it was 4 pm and since he could only train 45 minutes maximum he decided to do it now and visit Viktor tomorrow since he was certainly gonna be exhausted.
Approaching the fish tank Alexei remembered that yesterday too absorbed by the event he forgot to feed Tom so he did and sat down in front of the fish tank and his eyes trying to remember the feeling he got when he created the tower.
At first, only darkness was there then he remembered that he needed to imagine that his eyes are open while being close such a weird explanation but Alexei followed the instruction, and little by little he started sensing something in front of him.
At first, it was just a little light with no color it was there but he could not "see" it, then le light became taking the form of Tom the Goldfish the color was starting to appear, Tom was light blue when Tom moved the light started to blur just to focus a couple second later, it was hard to keep track of Tom since he rarely stopped but Alexei supposed that's why the entity told me to train with Tom.
Since he succeeded he slowly opened his real eyes and look at the time, he started 30 minutes ago, Alexei decided to stop there and prepare himself a good meal with whatever was in his fridge, yeah just eggs with some cheese should be enough it's not like he has a lot of choices last time he had to go buy food was 5 days ago.
After a good meal and a shower, he decided to sleep since he was exhausted from all the emotions of the day.
He opened his eyes and was welcomed by the entity.
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