Time Chamber In DxD

Chapter 20

[Since the world has bullshit people that can escape my current senses, I just have to sharpen my body's instincts. As long as I can feel the displacement of air, I can react quickly enough.]

He continued lifting, that momentary revelation bringing a confident grin to his face.

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|DxD|

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Time Chamber: 3 Years Later (4 years after entering)

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"Times four!"

Gruuuu Su Su Su Su Su Su Su

Three years have passed and Igor was making massive progress, especially with his Kaioken. The learning speed of the Kaioken helped him to shorten the learning curve of one of the most difficult techniques the blonde has learnt and is still learning to date.

On the last volume of 'Basic Ki Techniques For Survival', the blonde was introduced to the concepts of spirit control.

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'Volume 3: Spirit Control

We've now covered advanced ki-manipulation and aura sensing. Now, it's time to move on to spirit control. To put it bluntly, spirit control could be described as the ultimate form of ki-manipulation.

To briefly touch upon how it works, it is relatively simple. Spirit control, is ki-manipulation aided/enhanced by the power of the soul. No, this is not magic. Magic is the cheaper form of spirit control because magic uses the spiritual aspect of chakra, also known as Yin and is closely related to the imagination or the mind. The soul, is NOT the mind.

Well, it is, but not in that way...not completely.

The mind as you know it, are only the 'emissions' of the soul. Every human's soul is equal, but not their emissions. The mind and consequently, intelligence, are affected by the amount of emissions their soul releases. The soul itself can be viewed as yin and by association, its emissions are also yin. But whereas spirit control deals with the soul itself, magic can only interact with the soul's emissions. Those emissions gather in the mind, which as I've stated previously, affects a person's intelligence, willpower, empathy, and so on.

Magic users can also use these emissions to fuel their magic attacks. This is why magic users have high soul emission and consequently, 'FEEL' more than normal people. I haven't went through this but I want to explain to you how magic works so that you can further understand how spirit control works.

As I've stated in my first book, magic is the combination of ki and the spiritual/yin aspect of chakra, which in this case, is the mind. Combining ki with your soul emissions or imagination, leads to the creation of magic and a new sub-form of energy called mana. While there are cases of people who can switch between mana and ki, those cases are rare. But I will not delve into that right now. What you need to understand is that combining your ki with your soul emissions is the same as DECREASING the quality of your ki. Using magic once or twice is fine. Maybe you'll create some new clothes, or dry yourself of water. That is fine. The problems start when you incorporate magic into your fighting style. Now listen to me when I say this. Soul emissions are called EMISSIONS for a reason.

Ki users harness the passive energy radiated by lifeforce. Do not start me with wordplay. I know that can be considered emissions as well. What is important here, is that soul emissions and ki do NOT work well together. Bluntly, their relationship can be described as one of toxicity. Soul emissions decrease the quality of ki and eventually turn it into mana. That is the same as gradually turning a fully-fledged warrior into a bottom boy. While mana has both the traits of ki and chakra (man and woman), it can be considered as neither and can be dominated by both.