The Art Of Sword

Back in his hotel room, Sunz put his sword and the water bottle on the table next to his bed. He then proceeded to lie on the bed, with both legs dangling off to the side of it. His mind started to rewind all of the events that have lead him to this place.

(Being friends with Jihu. The battle that introduced me to a new friend Laikan and Laikan’s guardian Archibald. Then Sword and Merchant two people that came from different worlds.)

(Now in Korea I also meet some new faces. Sogae an unpredicted girl. Grimm a mystery guy with cool stories. Yama help me tap into the unknown. Grace… she has unique personality.)

Sunz: I guess that my life has been pretty eventful. But there are still so many things that are unknown to me.

Sunz: Jun told me to rest and train tomorrow, but I guess instead of physical training I can do mental training. There is still one more element that I haven’t put much thought into it “EMOTION”.

Sunz gets out of his bed and grabs his sword. While doing it Sogae’s water bottle caught his eye and he thinks (Yeah! Not taking any of Sogae's special drug this time.) He then makes sure that the curtain is closed and the door is locked.

Standing in the middle of the room while holding the sword Sunz wonders (How does this emotion work): During that vision, the Merchant said that the reason why the woman was still alive while losing that much blood. Was all because of her hatred.

Sunz: Hmm but how can I incorporate it with my sword? Ok first let’s just think of how to trigger strong emotions. Anger, happiness, and sadness all can’t be triggered at this point. But even if I can those aren’t potent enough.

Sunz: Except for “FEAR” and I can trigger it instantly right in this room. It’s time to meet you once again old friend!

Sunz slowly steps closer to the light switch in the room. The closer he gets, the more his muscle started to tense up but he tried to calm it down by slowly breath in and out. After getting close to the light switch, with one finger on it while the other hand clutching on the sword.

Taking one last breath to calm his whole body down and with that he turns off the light.

The room slowly turns to pitch dark. The curtain has blocked all of the light that can come into the room. Surround himself with darkness also mean losing one of his main sight (His eyes).

Inside the darkness, his fear starts to grow. Sunz knows that he can stay calm but it’s his mind that is playing tricks on himself. He can only reassure himself to a certain point until he has to embrace it.

The temperature inside his body starts to get colder while on the outside it is different, sweat starts to flow down his face and back. Even though he can’t see, his mind starts to fill in the darkness with shadowy creatures that aren’t real or with the one that he has only seen once from scary games and movies.

Combine with the ambiance noise from inside the hotel with the cold air from the AC, make it feel like these creatures are moving, crawling around him.

Sunz: This is such a great idea! Both my mind and body are unstable but my arms feel different. It feels like they know that they are the only thing that can protect me. And the sword also feels different from before, a bit heavier.

“Well then! Let this swing be something new!”

Sunz then proceed to swing the sword, and what he feels was correct. His sword did feel heavier but it wasn’t the weight that change. It was what the sword interacted with that changed.

Darkness is something that is untouchable. Now is being sliced through like a thick blob of ink. During this whole time, Sunz didn’t close his eyes at all and now is witnessing something unimaginable. As the sword making progress Sunz can see part of the darkness turning into light.

Sun putting all his effort into that swing, result in something that is surreal. Finish his rotation, all of the darkness attracted to his sword like positive attracts negative.

The room before this was pitch dark, there is nothing to see. But now it is being lit better than when the light was on. The blade of the sword was shiny steel color before, but now the whole blade is covered in pure darkness, the original color of the blade is no longer there. Which makes it looks like a brand-new blade.

Holding the new blade in his hand. Sunz's next action is to strike the blade to the ground. Then all of the darkness blast out of the sword in an instant making the room pitch dark again…But this time the darkness feels different.

It’s not the normal darkness like before. The vision is still the same but Sunz can now touch it. The darkness now has the consistency of smoke. And about the blade, it now illuminates as strongly as when the room gets all of its darkness sucked out.

Sunz's action to strike the blade to the ground was not accidental. It was on purpose because he knows what is going to happen next after that action.

Sunz: What is going on? What are all of these information that just got inserted into my mind? How can I understand them so easily? This is so different from when I learn the water and lighting clan element.

“Back when I learned these elements I didn’t absorb the information that instance, I only know the basics and then try to elevate them later on. But this is way too different the element and its information came to me like I already know it!”

Sunz was surprised that the illuminated light from the sword can’t even pierce through the darkness. He proceeded to move the sword slowly through the dark and the same thing happened like before.

But this time the darkness covers only one side of the blade while the other side still shines brightly.

Sunz: Hmm! Now I wonder, is my brain making all of this up, because I don’t know what I just created? One of the information I gained was, these elements can’t harm anyone. Suck to know that it can’t hurt people but at least I know that before the real fight.

Sunz then turns on the light. When the light is on the sword return to normal, then he turns it off again but nothing happens. “So it true that darkness can make light but light can’t make darkness.”

Sunz turn the light back on and leave it like that.

Sunz thinks (Let’s test this out before the real fight.)

He then proceeds to shove his sword under the bed, wiggle it around under there then pull it out. The sword has now taken the darkness from under the bed and isn’t disappear when comes in contact with a different light source.

Sunz returns the darkness to the bed and put his sword away. After that, his vision starts to get blurry and he can’t stand still.

Sunz: Well all that mental energy is gone. Probably gonna faint soon.

Sunz doesn’t have enough energy left to get on the bed. So he decided to pull the blanket off it and put on the floor. Sunz then quickly lay down, and wrapped himself from head to toe. Luckily he done it all before fainting again.