Chapter 12: Chapter 12: Going to Higabana
Chapter 12: Going to Higabana
~Albus POV~
After wrapping up my arms and putting on the eye patch, I began to shop for some items I need to leave.
Sadly though I ran out of Lien once I bought enough food for me to last a few days and sleep gear.
Still though having the means to eat again is good to have as I began to leave Irlam village as soon as I could since I got what I needed from the racist people here.
With that, I was on the dirt road path again to Mistral City but with some renewed vigor now honestly.
I already got the general idea from the memories I absorbed from the souls that were inside the philosopher stone where to go.
Heading some distance away from the village I began to go nearby the tree as I began to break it apart using the deconstruction arm on it.
*Zzz*
*Crack*
Breaking a chunk of it I began to draw the basic transmutation circle on the wood and used Alchemy on it to reconstruct it into a wooden blade katana I grabbed hold of it as I talked to myself holding the blade, "Could be better. But I won't argue with it though. I could get a better weapon at a later time for the time being."
*Swoosh*
Swinging the wooden blade I can get a good grip on it as I smirked at this.
*BRR*
My Cursed Energy began to course through a wooden blade as I see it and try it out on a nearby tree.
*SWOOSH*
*BAM*
A loud cracking sound of the tree fell down as I felt the sting of the force feeling my hands going numb from that.
Ow…
That was a dumb idea but I got the general idea of how strong it is.
Still ouch.
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Finally going away a distance far enough I began to set up camp with some firewood using the nearby trees as I began to reconstruct them as a small hut and use the stone to reinforce the walls from Grimm attacks.
Setting up the fire was done as I began to cook.
Now though I would start to train up a bit.
Grabbing my wooden sword I began to start swinging in one motion till it was perfected.
*Swoosh*
One.
*Swoosh*
Two.
*Swoosh*
Three.
*Swoosh*
Planning to swing my sword around for the first few tries would help me get used to the katana I have helping me out in my Breathing Style when I began working on it.
Breathing Styles are swordsmanship styles practiced and taught by members of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Breathing Styles are swordsmanship styles that make use of an esoteric breathing technique known as Total Concentration Breathing practiced and taught by members of the Demon Slayer Corps and are used in combat by Demon Slayers which is later passed on as traditional dances post-time skip.
All known Breathing Style currently taught within the Demon Slayer Corps is derived from Sun Breathing, the first one ever created.
The majority of known Breathing Styles mimic a certain element of nature flame, water, and wind and replicate it with the user's movements, techniques, and abilities.
The weapon attacks of Demon Slayers who use Breathing Styles are also longer-ranged, possibly due to shockwaves or air pressure generated from their weapon itself when swinging and striking.
When utilizing a Breathing Style, users automatically visualize themselves manipulating the subject behind their style, making it seem as if they were using magic, though those that are less apt and proficient in their style will visualize less of it than one who is.
But then again it made for kick-ass anime to work.
As the different Breathing Styles were created by swordsmen combining what little they could of Sun Breathing with their own sword skills to display their maximum power, it is possible to mix different Breathing Styles if the user cannot master one particular Breathing Style alone in order to use the stronger aspects of different styles to compensate.
Total Concentration Breathing is an advanced and esoteric breathing technique where a user inhales the maximum amount of oxygen within a specific breath pattern to raise their physical and mental prowess to their utmost limits.
The effects include a plethora of enhanced physical and mental abilities, like superhuman physical characteristics strength, speed, stamina, durability and agility, faster thought processes, maximizing concentration, and hyper-information processing.
At a more advanced level, Total Concentration is also capable of clotting wounds from severe injuries and slowing down the circulation of poison in the bloodstream.
Tanjiro Kamado displayed a technique called Recovery, which, by taking a brief moment to focus and steady his breath, allows him to recover from fatigue and stiff muscles that prevent his body from moving, which he uses to overcome the whiplash of using Hinokami Kagura techniques twice in a row.
That could prove useful against some poison users if I managed to master it.
Then again I have about 4 or 2 years give or take to accomplish that goal so I'm not in a rush that much.
Total Concentration: Constant is a Total Concentration Breathing state during the morning, noon, and night, and even while asleep that advanced Demon Slayers, such as the Hashira, can constantly maintain.
There is an immense difference in strength, speed, and stamina between someone who can maintain Total Concentration Breathing at all times and someone who cannot.
Learning to maintain a constant state of Total Concentration Breathing requires tremendous effort, though, the skill itself is noted to be quite elementary despite the required effort.
The training process involves blowing into a special type of super durable gourd. The objective is to blow into the gourd with enough strength to make the gourd break apart.
As training progresses, the gourd is replaced by larger and larger variations of the same type of gourd. The largest known gourd is about the size of a chair.
Heh.
Maybe I should go for something bigger to use the gourd to break down using my breathing but that's beside the point.
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*Swoosh*
*Swoosh*
*Swoosh*
*Swoosh*
"Huff… huff…"
I've been doing my swing toss for about 15 minutes and I only managed to tire myself out.
Fucking hell, I'm out of shape.
Mana and Cursed Energy enhancing my body is cheating if I can't naturally grow if I only enhance my body I'll still be weak.
But fuck this is pathetic as hell.
*Thud*
Slumping down feeling the pain in my hand for repeatedly handling the katana for a very long while I can wince from the muscle pain I feel.
Fuck I'm really this weak but somehow survive dangerous encounters?
This is kind of sad.
Whew…
Using my Cursed Restoration I began to restore myself together again which includes my stamina as well as being restored so I can try again.
In all honesty, though I really need to increase my body strength first.
Because this is just sad for me since I never worked out in my life as I only do the bare minimum of physical workouts.
Guess that's got to change.
Mana and Cursed Restoration is just increasing my healing rate of me doing this multiple times no matter how much of a pain training is.
When I was done swinging my sword around I began to do the most traditional means and memes of training known to me from the greatest gag character ever…
One Punch Man training Saitama style.
As he did the most, I started to do the Saitama training program of finally becoming stronger.
To my knowledge at least.
The One Punch Man workout comes from the manga and subsequent anime series of the same name. ... Saitama claims to have developed his strength by following the One Punch Man workout, which consists of 100 situps, 100 pushups, 100 squats, and a 6.2-mile (10-km) run.
To be able to do this every single day for years is practically impossible for the normal man as it rips the muscle fibers with too little to no time at all for them to recover with the Saitama schedule destroying the muscle fibers of the body over and over.
At least according to Death Battle, they said it so but it's possible for me to break myself down using this method and by that, I would obtain greater strength by repairing and breaking down my muscle fibers doing so.
All in the name of strength and not to die with no near-death experience after what I went through.
No seriously.
I literally almost died twice in a single week and got lucky for the most part that needs to change.
First is the weird rat Grimm and the other avoid the White Fang with Adam.
I need to be self-reliant on my matters to keep myself alive.
Hell, I haven't even figured out what my stance is the timeline of RWBY is at currently here so everything I'm doing is going blind.
At least seeing the Adam Shorts helped narrowed down some events that are prior but for how long though?
2 or 4 years perhaps before the plot begins?
Sigh… no use worrying about it honestly since I need to start focusing on increasing my body strength first.
Welp time to change that with a bit of training.
But first though…
Glancing at the reflection of a nearby water source and using the Ultimate Eye on myself I wanted to know what my magic affinity is in Re: Zero magic system-wise.
…
Oh…
I guess it was basic after all but only one though?
That's a shame but still having an element is useful to have in dire situations.
And apparently enough as common as I am I belong to this category of magic.
The Wind Magic element.
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