"When are we leaving?" Ryan asked.

Alaric thought about it for a moment before answering. "This weekend. I'll ask for permission."

"All right." Ryan nodded. "See you then."

Having achieved his goal here, he walked toward the university's Training Center. Due to the time of day, it was a little lonely, just as he needed it to be.

He walked over to where the practice swords were and grabbed one.

It was thin but sturdy. It had the right weight so it wouldn't bend easily and a fairly prominent tip, although it had been worn down from heavy use.

He chose to enter one of the combat arenas, where several training dummies, some made of straw and others of concrete, were placed.

He ran toward them and struck one with his sword. As he expected, it didn't break, but it served his purpose for training by striking it repeatedly, just as he had been doing these past few days. His mind wandered to various things while immersed in frantic but steady movements.

These days of study had been fruitful for him, but that night of intense battles was the most fruitful he had experienced since arriving here. Although he used his Spiritual Projection little, the little he did use made him realize the correct way to reach level 2 of it.

Spiritual Projection is really just the ability to produce light, heat, and electricity using your own power. Being a magical concept employed by the spirit, it is strongly linked to your understanding.

Understanding of what?

From the concepts you want to project.

For example, what is light? It is electromagnetic radiation, a form of energy that travels as waves and is composed of photons...

That answer is correct and useful for learning the concept, but initially what you need is more of a basic understanding than a technical one.

You need to imagine light and its components visually, but then the question may change. It is no longer what it is, but how do I move it from one place to another? It is no longer how do I create it? That is answered in the first question. Now comes, how do I project it outward?

The same thing happens with the other concepts of Spiritual Projection. Heat and finally electricity are usually the most difficult because they involve realistic and multiple deadly dangers.

He had all these concepts memorized, so it was only a matter of time and training to level up, and these days he has focused precisely on that, on shaping his own spirituality quickly and concisely, also using the method Alaric had come up with before.

Although it was not the path he had followed before, it complemented it very well, and he advanced by leaps and bounds, looking like a true genius.

As proof of this.

While continuously striking the different training dummies without damaging them due to his lack of physical strength, Ryan suddenly stopped. He took a deep breath, which increased the temperature inside his body.

He raised his hand toward one of the dummies and pretended to stab it in the stomach with his sword...

A projection attack emerged from the tip of his sword, piercing through the concrete statue, which had numerous breaches open throughout its sturdy body.

This projection was a great flash of light, much like a comet. It had a fairly large trail that was part of the main attack. It was his own creation when he was a demigod, the Flash of Light of the Ancient Comet. The entire body of this "light" has the same power, making it extremely potent, regardless of the level at which it is made.

In addition to being much stronger than the ones he had made before in this body, it traveled at an astonishing speed and was also able to reach the protective barrier on the other side, more than 40 meters away, and send waves through it.

This distance and power were worthy of the second level.

The dummy in front of Ryan swayed from side to side, so he smiled smugly and began hitting them again continuously.

He seemed to have a pattern of attack.

The first mannequin was attacked from the left. He quickly moved to the second one in the same movement to attack it from the right, then moved on to the third mannequin and gave it a strong vertical upward blow, finishing with a vertical downward blow that allowed him to continue with the vertical upward attack on the previous mannequin and, in the same way, attack the previous mannequins again.

It was an exotic combination of precise and accurate movements that moved each dummy strongly but could not destroy them.

Even so, being able to leave marks on them made him feel that he was making remarkable progress.

The first few days he trained this way, his attacks on the concrete came back at him with more force than he struck, as he couldn't perfectly control the rebound power, nor could he even leave a small mark on it.

Now he not only leaves marks on them, but also leaves "wounds" with his pure blow.

He is growing stronger, spiritually and physically.

After a series of movements, he stopped again, and this time he did not attack with a lunge, but made a larger movement, from top to bottom.

His sword soon created an arc of heat. There was little light, but anything it touched would immediately suffer the consequences of having touched something extremely hot, as this was highly concentrated heat.

It wasn't bright but just as dangerous as the light attack. This attack formed a crescent shape.

The Crescent of Death.

It wasn't reaching its full potential, maximum capacity, or maximum power, but it was powerful enough to easily cut through the concrete dummy.

Its range was the same as before, but the attack was concentrated in the main form this time. A large wave formed in the protective barrier, causing the heat to spread throughout the room.

Just then...

[Congratulations. You have reached Level 2 in Spiritual Projection.]

Ryan smiled, completely satisfied.

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