The lady nods, “Anyway, do you want to learn power expulsion now or are you coming back later?”
Jason laughs, “As you pointed out, neither of us have much else to do! Might as well get to it right now. Here’s the ten gold.” And he pulls the money out of his coin purse.
She smiles and receives the money, “Since this is going to be a thing, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Jenny, I’m a deep one hybrid, and I specialize in support skills. While I don’t know many active abilities, the ones I do know are boosted like crazy. Now while I am sure you’ve learned all about Power Expulsion, I will go over my personal understanding of the skill.”
Jason holds up his hands, “Woah there, now I don’t care much about a person’s species but travellers have a few stories related to deep ones.”
Jenny gives a sad smile, “At least from what I’ve gathered from other travellers, they are only stories in your world. Yeah, deep ones aren’t a friendly race. Then again, none of the races created by a god to worship said god has turned out well. Luckily, I’m a hybrid and not a spawn or pureblood. Otherwise there wouldn’t be any hope for me. Instead, I need to worry about a many times removed relative coming along and trying to turn me. At least there are now seals that prevent the change, so I’m basically a human. So now that we’ve gone over my dark past, can we get to learning the skill?”
Jason rubs the back of his head and laughs, “That was a bit rude of me. But yeah, we can continue.”
Jenny waves it off, “I wouldn’t say it if I wasn’t willing to explain. Besides, I’ve found it is a lot better to be upfront with it when talking to travellers. Otherwise your kind ends up finding it out on your own. That and for some reason once they find it out they assume the guild doesn’t know and I’m some kind of spy.”
“Anyway, as I was saying. I will go over my personal understanding of Power Expulsion. First of all, way too many people get the skill and end up trapped in the assumption it only works for the power source they learn it with. An easy mistake to make when most assume when it refers to power it means Mana, Qi, and Energy. Instead it counts any usable pool including health.”
Jason holds up his hands again, “Before you get too far into trying to convince me of that, I already know. I have war stomp and can use it with not only Energy but Stamina as well.”
Jenny raises an eyebrow, “Well, that makes things easier on both of us. For most skills I wouldn’t try to push this knowledge so hard, but if you use multiple power sources to practice the skill, you learn it quicker. Since you already have experience doing so with another skill, I would almost be willing to guarantee you will learn it. No promises though.”
“Now the second half of what I believe about this skill is that you need a system to how you do it. Most people just shove their power out and the skill obliges them. The problem with this is that a lot of the skills assistance goes to helping guide the power, and so there is less help in pushing the power. I will not ask about specifics, but do you know such a system already?”
Jason nods and Jenny smiles in response. “Good, you seem to have all the boxes checked for making this skill easier to learn. Now let’s move over to the magic training area. While the skill isn’t specific to magic, that is the best area to train it.”
With that, she guides Jason into one of the side rooms. This time, the training room isn’t behind a door and instead just through an open archway. Jason shrugs at this. It isn’t like this is some secret skill.
Jenny looks around and chooses an empty corner, “Okay, now sit down on the mat while I explain how we will start. There are some catches to learning the skill, which is why people need a trainer to learn it. With how simple the concept is, everyone would pick the skill up if that wasn’t the case.”
“Now you know how you have a system for moving your power around? Don’t use that. At least not to start. There is a process to this and the first step is trying to do it in the most direct way possible. I want you to grab a small chunk of your Energy and shove it out of your body. Just keep trying that until you succeed. With your experience, this shouldn’t take all that long.”
“Once you succeed with Energy, give me a thumbs up or some such sign to tell me you did. Then do it all over again with a second power source. You can use your stamina or what have you, just don’t use health. This first method is more literal with health and will force a large quantity of blood out of you. Magic can clean it up, even so, not a good look. Now give it a try.”
Jason shrugs and settles down to try. He hadn’t done this, but with the general practice in moving Energy around it should be quick to pick up. With eyes closed, he looks toward his Energy pool. Where his heart used to be is a white fuzzball. Normally at this point he would draw off some of the threads. Instead, he just grabs a small chunk and pulls. As the Energy separates from the fuzzball, Jason can see a smooth sphere in the center, presumably his core.
Now while this is interesting to him, Jason can feel the handful of Energy trying to escape his grasp so he refocuses on the task. With the chunk already separated, it is now just a matter of pushing it out of his body. This proves easy enough, and so he gives Jenny a thumbs up and moves on.
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