Fire (Buryoku Book 5) by Aaron Oster

Author:Aaron Oster [Oster, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: GFS Publishing Inc
Published: 2021-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Roy groaned as Aika pulled him to his feet. His head still throbbed with the strain he’d placed it under before, and his Core felt as though it had been wrung out like an old rag. Despite that, the small bead of gleaming gold remained, sitting at the center of his Core. He could feel it. It was heavy and dense like a thick syrup, and radiated a sense of power that dwarfed that of Qi. It wasn’t just the purity, though. There was more, something that Roy almost thought he understood but didn’t quite get just yet.

“Are you sure it’s Chakra?” Aika asked again as he opened his eyes.

“I’m sure,” Roy replied. “It can’t be anything else.”

“It’s…”

“Impossible, I know,” Roy said, placing a hand over his chest.

The earliest he should even be able to form Chakra was at Purple-Belt, though using it safely would require he become a Red-Belt. But for a Blue-Belt to have it was impossible.

Nearly as impossible as advancing randomly in the middle of a fight, Roy thought.

“Maybe it has something to do with how you advance?” Aika asked, voicing his thoughts aloud.

“It has to be,” Roy said, studying the small bead of Chakra once more. “Question is, is it safe for me to keep fighting with that thing sitting there?”

“Why not?” Aika asked. “So long as you don’t actually use it, you should be fine.”

Roy sighed, rubbing at his temples and wishing he knew what was happening to him.

“Geon? Any ideas?” he asked the Core.

“Nothing,” Geon replied. “Unless you’ve been lying to me about how strong you really are, I can honestly say that I don’t know something.”

Roy felt cool fingers on his arm and opened his eyes to see Aika looking at him worriedly.

“Are you going to be okay?”

Roy let out a long, shuddering breath.

“To be honest, I have no idea,” he replied. “Ever since advancing to Green, nothing seems to be normal. From my random advancements to discovering techniques that should have taken months, if not years, to figure out. Now I have corrupted Qi coming into my Core, and I’m apparently making Chakra—”

“Forging.”

“What?”

“It’s what the process of making Chakra is called. Like you weave Qi from Essence, you forge Chakra from Qi,” she explained.

“Well. Problem solved then,” Roy said, throwing his arms in the air.

“We’ll figure this out,” Aika said soothingly. “I know it has to be scary, not knowing what’s happening to you. But I’m sure the answers are in here somewhere.”

“I’m not so sure about that anymore,” Roy muttered.

He’d felt nothing since he’d come in here, and his Core hadn’t been acting up — until he’d accidentally forged Chakra out of nowhere.

“How about we keep moving?” Aika suggested, putting a hand on his shoulder. “Training and fighting is always a good distraction. Plus, we still need to find another safe zone before we can stop for the day.”

Roy sighed. The last thing he wanted to do right now was keep going. He wanted to turn around, leave and never come back.

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