Tengen was confused with the whole plan being changed upon learning the fact that Ryukyu didn't trust any outside sources except for their own station. "Any reasons why we are changing everything?" The white haired male asked before the incarnated being responded back, "That's because there could be surveillance on them that can't be detected."
It made sense but he wondered how there would be any surveillance at the Sasaki Clan when they cared more for the investment with their current golden spoilt and the sorcerer who was supporting them the most.
The white haired male noticed how Ryukyu was always involving Eunji during the discussion before asking the incarnated being for the reason behind it. "That's because she looks oddly similar to that fxcker." Tengen raised an eyebrow, taking note to search anything or anyone who had the same look or similarities of sorceress in the past that was related to Eunji but decided to do it after the deed had been done.
"Alright. You sure this one is gonna work right?" Tengen asked while Ryukyu nodded his head, "Yup. This is for the backup plan if they get a gist of what we are doing. So, I suggest for you to have any spies or anyone behind the walls to survey their behaviour for today and tomorrow."
The white haired male agreed to his suggestion before calling one of his servants to do the bidding, commanding them as usual with his rude yet professional behaviour as a couple of masked individuals immediately scattered out of the way to start their duty.
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Ha-Eun knew her limitations personally from being very far behind her sister. She wanted to be like her but she could do little so much until now. Her prowess, 'Soul Shockwave' only allowed her to send vibrations and shockwaves into one's soul upon landing a critical hit physically by a palm strike or a punch.
Her obvious innate technique, 'Soul Shockwave' granted her the ability to channel her spiritual energy that came directly from her soul to send out powerful shockwaves.
Then her technique, 'Resonant Shockwave' which was entirely focused on sending out shockwaves through an opponents soul by putting a lot of output to either knock them out of commission or put them in vegetative state only if she needed it but had never tried.
However, when the training began with the ancient being guiding them individually. Ha-Eun learned more about her own innate technique and prowess techniques that she could develop herself.
The difference between Eunji's 'Soul Manipulation' and Ha-Eun's 'Soul Shockwave' was her being more simple and deadly rather than being the same as Eunji's. Eunji's arsenal heavily focused on harmony and resonance to balance the spiritual energy output and reserves for perfect execution henceforth the ability to copy directly when using her technique.
Eunji Jeong has two types of techniques.
'Harmony' - The ability to let her harmonise through soul connection through spiritual energy flow to which she labelled it normally as wavelength which grants her the authority to copy the innate technique that the soul she connected with.
'Resonance' - The ability to control her output and reserves to match the spiritual energy that's being emitted from her opponent which allows her to either match the firepower, durability, speed, strength and defense. In addition, she could also boost her own output by using 'resonance' to increase her firepower and other stats to double or triple the amount similar to 'soul force' that grants an awakener a double of their spiritual energy reserves and understanding of spiritual energy manipulation of output and execution.
Which is why she has the title of the strongest in Kamigami Academy and Ethereal despite being a sorcerer-student.
"Again. You are good with maintaining the shockwave but you gotta perfect the wavelength if you wanna reach your sister's level." Keith said towards Ha-Eun as the latter decided to repeat the same steps, pushing her limits to refine her current technique and to learn her new technique.
The new technique, 'Wavelength Resonance' which was helped by Keith's implementation upon understanding her prowess at first glance. Instead of sending out shockwaves to disable someone, she uses the wavelength of the spiritual energy flow of an awakener to allow her to detect them within her vicinity.
Ha-Eun had gotten better with her technique but the new one was a lot to take in especially when she's still trying to expand her skill with the sensory part since she's not used to trying to get a sense of one's wavelength from far distances.
"You're almost there. Just a couple of more refining then more training with both techniques. Then you'll be alright." Keith said before focusing with Rei by sending out invisible slashes that the latter managed to dodge at the last second.
"Keep training brat! Expand your dxmn senses to detect things immediately!" He said towards the male before focusing back to Ha-Eun, helping her refine her new technique and current technique.
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Meanwhile, Sylvie was baffled as to why Keith was also training her despite her status until being revealed that her training was harsh as Rei's since she had to dodge, block or to counter him while he was powered up.
Each hit and strikes were devastating but the healing from him was worth the reward when she was getting used to it. Keith had informed her that the training that she currently has was enough to face a high level mid-tier to low level elite-tier.
That was enough for the magenta haired girl to keep working hard despite Keith already telling her that's done for the day but liked her spirit so he didn't bother to let her know when it was breaktime unless her body gave up on her.
The others had it either in between easy or max difficulty. Jinwoo thought he had reached his potential until Keith showed him how to use shadows to their full potential. The Korean male was used to summoning creatures that he possessed the same as Jinah's who is currently training with using more shadow summons then his extreme arsenal with manifesting weapons out of his shadows prior to his usage of daggers.
The training that Keith had put him in was to simultaneously use both shadow manifestation and summoning similar to Rei except the latter had to combine both of those for the latter while Jinwoo only focused on the simultaneous part only.
For Rinka, they already had a training regime but a slight difference. Rather than focusing on the output and execution of her current techniques such as manifestation and release, she is heavily focused on creating tendrils similar to Rei's and his. What she needed to focus on was the durability, power and output to maintain the tendril to act like a second limb and a weapon for her.
Keitaro had himself focused with manifesting flames and transformation of the flames simultaneously to become like second nature of his from Keith's training methods. The unorthodox training with his own clone training them individually was effective since most of them were able to improve immediately prior to his menacing presence when things were not met to his expectations.
The ancient being was satisfied before being hit with a flash of memory that was still fresh to him. A memory of the same training regime but it was him then a couple of people that he couldn't recognise except for the strawberry blonde that was striking similar to Eunji.
Same face structure, build except for the height then her bright aqua blue eyes. The only difference was the fact that the girl acted more positive, modest and friendly in contrast to the 'Ice Queen' that he had dealt with.
Keith knew something was up as he tried his best to focus with their training rather than pressing things that were fresh on his mind. He couldn't comprehend whether those were just hallucinations or actual memories that he either lost due to him that had lived for a thousand of years and could only remember the tragedy then his calamity that feared his entire existence.
The tall male was trying his best not to show his concerns especially with how Eunji was kidnapped and wondered if she'll still forgive him for everything that he had done before their unusual situationship had happened.
It is true that he did harass her from their first meeting then to the past few months by catcalling her whenever she was around near Rei. However, those became small as he started to compliment her dearly after that fateful spar and especially with the first time he manifested himself in her dorm with Rinka who was present.
Keith knew that he shouldn't get attached to them but still felt that lingering attachment especially when the incident happened with Rei. The trio that used to hang out with his vessel intrigued him especially with their questions about him. He enjoyed their company despite being inside Rei most of the time yet the moment he found out what happened to them.
He didn't hesitate to save them at death's door although he still wasn't sure if Eri was able to save their lives as the only thing he knew was that they were dead from what the others had said. Keith is supposed to be the ruthless, arrogant and powerful being yet here he was becoming a bit softer than he had expected.
Was it because the more time he spent with Eunji made him realise things? Or is it just him trying to look for another thing to entertain him?
He'll never know…
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Additional Information…
[Ethereal Gauging Results]
[Name: Keith Seishin (The Fallen, Five Tails out of Nine)]
[Prowess: N/A (1200)]
[Incarnated Relic, N/A]
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[Name: Rinka Yamashita]
[Prowess: Blood Manipulation (7.0)]
[Fifth Year Student, Assault Division]
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[Name: Eunji Jeong]
[Prowess: Soul Manipulation (8.0)]
[Fifth Year Student, Assault Division]
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