DELIVERANCE BOOK 1: Battle in Chimera [Revamped]

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: THE LAST TRAINING

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

The Last Training

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Audrey

"Let's focus on Air, first,” bulalas ng matanda na ikinatango ko. “I bet you already learned how to control the weather, right?” hula niya.

“Yes,” tugon ko. “Ginamit ko ito nung nasusunog ang Aqueldore.” Dugtong ko na ikinatango niya.

“What I want you to learn is to turn a certain area into a vacuum.” Akibara informed.

"You mean like the outer space?" takang kong tanong.

Akibara nodded. "Yes, all you need to do is to get rid of all the gases present on that area. The area's perimeter also depends on your desire. You can create a vacuum just a size of a head, or as large as a village. Basta ang kailangan mo lang ay mag-concentrate at pakiramdaman ang mga gas particle sa lugar na napili mo. ‘Pag nagawa mo, pwede mo na silang ilipat para walang maiwan na gas particle sa lugar na yun." Akibara instructed. Bigla nalang lumitaw ang isang apoy sa harap ko, nakalutang na parang santelmo. “I want you to extinguish that fire, using the vacuum.” Utos ni Akibara.

Napatingin ako sa apoy na sumasayaw sa galaw ng hangin. Ramdam ko ang init nito. It’s so satisfying to see it changed from orange to bright yellow, then back to orange again.

I closed both my eyes, and visualized the fire in front of me — burning endlessly. Then I started to imagine tiny gaseous particles hovering around it, like dusts in the streaks of the sun’s ray. There were lots of them, and almost blocking my view on the fire.

Oxygen was one of the most abundant gas element in the atmosphere and one of the component of the fire triangle. Fire needed this three component in order to exist. Kahit isa sa kanila ay mawala o hindi ma-meet, walang apoy na magagawa. So my goal was to get rid of the oxygen, that sustained the fire.

Una kong ginawa ay nag-imagine ng isang bola, at sa loob nito ay ang apoy. Then, I started removing the gas particles inside the sphere, palabas dito. It took me a while, hanggang sa mailabas ko silang lahat. Maintaining my focus, dahan-dahan kong iminulat ang mga mata ko.

Pansin ko ang pagliit ng apoy. Kung kanina ay kasinlaki niya ang dalawang kamao, ngayon ay kasinlaki nalang siya ng kuko ko sa hinlalaking daliri ko. ‘Di nagtagal ay nawala nga ito. Nothing was left, as if it never existed in the first place. No smoke. No heat. Just a blank and vacant space.

“Well done, Audrey.” Puri ni Akibara. Not bad self. Kahit unang beses pa lang, nakuha mo na agad.

Sunod na itinuro ni Akibara ang pressurized hot air. Sabi niya magiging useful ito sa laban. The technique was quite hard dahil pinaghalong aerokinesis and hydrokinesis ito. According to Akibara, I just needed to trap a water inside a sphere made of air. Then, I had to heat it until all of them turned into a steam. The steam increased the pressure inside the sphere, making it destructive. And to make it more destructive, I just had to condensed the sphere into a more smaller size. The lower the volume, the higher the pressure.

Akibara told me to throw it somewhere safe, na agad ko namang sinunod. The moment the sphere touched the ground, naglabas ito nang isang malakas na pagsabog. Creating a medium-size crater, from the point of impact. I was surprised. That I was able to create bombs with just water and air. It was never included in the list of my techniques, at mukhang alam ko na kung bakit hindi ito sinali. Masyado itong delikado.

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Nasa isang simulation cube ang bawat isa sa amin ngayon na gawa ni Akibara. Ten cubes for each and one of us, including the guardians na nalaman naming kaya palang mag-anyong tao. We were shocked, actually. We never knew na kaya pala nilang gawin iyon. Ewan ko na nga lang kung ilang sekreto ba ang nanatiling nakatago pa rin sa kanila.