Ashborn Primordial: A Progression Fantasy Epic by Vowron Prime

Author:Vowron Prime [Prime, Vowron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2024-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Vir glared at the enormous log about to smash into him. With a deep breath, he jumped into the air, sailing high above the ram, and effortlessly bypassed the obstacle, albeit probably not in the way Riyan planned.

His knees shuddered from the impact when he landed on the other side.

High Jump was the second Talent he’d learned, after Leap. It had come easily, as the ability was almost identical to Leap. After gathering prana within him—the hard part—instead of focusing his intent on darting forward, he merely positioned himself to jump up. Now, he could easily jump as high as most of the buildings in Brij.

In fact, the two Talents were so similar that Vir wondered why they even had different names. The underlying activation principle was identical, except he shunted the prana into slightly different muscles and crouched a bit differently. Apart from that, it was just a matter of ‘willing’ himself to either move up or forward, altering the amount of prana used.

The light of the sun had long given way to darkness, and the Magic Lamps embedded into the walls had flickered to life hours ago. With a long day of effort done, he hopped onto the wooden pole that led down to the beginning of the course, landing softly on the sand.

Wiping the sweat off his brow, he departed the training dome for the warm bliss of the grotto, grimacing as he showered off and slipped into the tub. Grimacing not only due to pain and soreness, but because he’d been forced to use a Talent in the training dome.

While perfecting Leap, he’d run into a terrible problem. Consecutive usage of his Talents depleted the prana in that area. His recently honed Prana Vision only confirmed what he felt. There was hardly any black prana left within the dome, and from what he could tell, it did not return, at least not with any alacrity.

Which meant Talents were far less reliable in the training dome now. He’d outright failed to activate Leap a few times on account of that. If the same happened when he needed High Jump to avoid a hazard, he’d be in serious trouble.

He’d even tried to draw on the prana within his body to power Talents instead of relying on ground prana, but that proved impossible. The issue was that activating the Talent meant commanding his prana—and thus his blood—to move away from his leg. He then had to allow prana to come back to the leg without also letting his blood return, or there would be no supersaturation effect. The bond between blood and prana was not so easily broken. If he could’ve managed that, it would at least allow him to ‘pre-charge’ a Talent by consuming prana from his body.

As such, Vir abandoned the use of Talents entirely while inside the dome. It hadn’t been an easy decision since Leap made the obstacle course far safer and easier to navigate. He now relied on his Talents only for emergencies.

This did not bode well for him—both for the course, and in general.

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