Luis nodded eagerly as his mom told him she would teach him
"Luis, outstretch your arms again, but don't project aura outside your body this time. Instead, just put as much aura as you can into your hands."
Luis did as told
As soon as Luid gathered as much aura as he could in his hands. His mother grasped both his wrists.
"Now, Luis, don't try and reject my aura, I'm gonna use my aura to help you, you will understand what I mean. My aura will feel weird and uncomfortable for you, but don't try to reject it, don't even think about it, because it's very easy to take someone else's aura out of your body."
Elena's aura flowed through Luis, it had a warmth to it, but it also felt weird, like something that wasn't supposed to be inside him.
"Don't resist it, just remember the feeling you're going to experience."
Then it happened, Luis felt what his mother had meant when she said you would understand.
His mother's aura surrounded the aura in Luis's hand. The aura guided Luis's aura. It took Luis's aura outside of his body, but didn't cut the connection from his body. Luis could still feel how his aura moved.
His aura slowly transformed into many shapes. A gauntlet, a dagger, a sword, a claw, and so forth. The transformations were very slow and deliberate. It was slow, so Luis could feel the way the aura moved to make each shape. Some movements being more intricate than others.
His mother's voice was calm and told him what part of his aura he needed to focus on.
"Focus on how the hilt is made, remember the difference in the shape between each weapon's blades. Don't lose focus or zone out, and close your eyes if it helps you focus on the aura more. With this weapons, pay attention to how the aura in the air interacts with your aura. How does your aura move out the aura in the air. The way your aura interacts with your surroundings and how it resists the air."
Luis closed his eyes, only focusing on the sensations in his hands, feeling the aura outside his body, the different shapes it took.
This was nothing like the small threads of aura Luis could produce. It wasn't like anything he had done before. The sensation felt so alien. And more than anything, the feeling of the aura in the air interacting with his own aura felt weird. Instead of absorbing aura like usual, he had to push it away.
Luis's heart was pounding when his mother let go of his hands.
Luis opened his eyes in awe, his breath caught in his throat. He had never experienced anything like this. "Wow," he whispered.
Elena smiled while ruffling his hair.
"Now just remember this feeling and go to bed, it's very late now."
Luis wanted to protest so he could experience it again, he wanted to understand how it worked more, "But.."
"No, it's too late now, and look at how much aura you actually have left. Go to your room and sleep, I better not see you awake and practicing, I will go to your room to check."
Luis only pouted and didn't argue while walking back to his room because he knew she would actually check his room.
Even though he couldn't practice more, he still felt happy, it finally felt like he knew what to do next.
Back in her room, Elena realised she had forgotten to explain to Luis the next step. [" I guess I'll tell him tomorrow"]
While Luis was being taught by Elena.
This past month has been a busy one for Noah.
With the plan of moving the Phoenix clan to the great storm, there was a lot of preparation needed. One of the main ones being relocating all the Phoenix clan members to the Xoliti clan. The more members that arrived through the portal, the more hectic it got.
There were people arriving every day. Noah had to help the Xoliti clan navigate these people to their new living situations and future plans. Elena and Noah were in charge of this because many of the strong Phoenix clan members went to the great storm, and with Elena being the daughter of the previous chief, her opinion was more easily accepted by the newly arriving clan members, and Noah's since he was her husband.
Across the continents, all of the scattered Phoenix clan members had been gathered. It was approximately seven thousand members, with half of them being non-fighters. It was a small number compared to the past, before the tragedy.
Noah was happy seeing all the members regathered, meeting old faces and new ones. But more than anything, he was surprised at the Xoliti clan networks, how they were able to keep track of everyone.
Today was the last day of gathering Phoenix clan members. It had taken a month to locate the location of the last members, but finally the Xoliti clan had found the Phoenix Clan Guardians locations.
Noah was currently waiting outside the city at one of the portal locations.
From what Noah remembered, twenty out of the two hundred Clan Guardians had survived from the Phoenix clan tragedy.
These were the strongest and most trusted Phoenix clan members. They had all been given the two forbidden Phoenix blessings, one of which was the reason for the Phoenix clan tragedy.
Phoenix blessing: Rebirth
Phoenix blessing: Soul Explosion
Thinking of the Clan Guardians reminded Noah why everyone wanted the Phoenix clan's blessings.
The rebirth blessing was as the name suggested. It allowed someone to be reborn when they died, there were many different ways they could do this. But the reason it was forbidden was that one of the ways was to reincarnate inside a new body. But that wasn't the main issue, there was a side effect to the rebirth. Loss of emotions, each rebirth took away more and more emotions.
This didn't matter to the empires, though, because many of them could find the bodies they always wanted, whether that be a tall body, a muscular one, a beautiful one and so on. If they got the Phoenix clan blessing, they could do it. They could get new bodies and live longer lives.
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Luis Tatcheton
Advanced Tier - 4 cores
Age 12
Height 5'5
Short Black Hair
Bright Brown Eyes
Host of the Phoenix Essence
Baby Rock Golem Blessing, Blessing name: Phantom Leather
Lightning Lynx Blessing, Blessing name: Tempest Flow