94 Zikel City

His first step to imbue his body with Battle Intent as a type of weapon was extremely difficult but safety was number one priority.

He roughly dispersed the Battle Intent into equal parts within his body and tested it on the depths of the cave.

A light struck to the wall caused it to collapse but Dean could feel an intense pain in his shoulder.

Using this clue, Dean formulated the idea to practice on first perfecting the form of basic techniques.

Whether it was his form hurting him or not imbuing enough Battle Intent, he would now be confident in his decisions to execute it.

There was eventually a mining area where Dean would just knock down the cave's wall in the hopes of practicing the Battle Intent imbument while trying to look for any rare metals.

This training overall took 5 months and Dean was only able to find some common metals with no injuries sustained.

The first training made the training to saturate his body with Battle Intent much easier but Dean was now bored knowing that he only had a month left to do some sort of training.

It couldn't be the type of training that was meant for long term as he needed to do some sort of improvement within a month.

Skipping through the pages, Dean found that some of the ideas he had was also noted down but they had much more details.

An example was using Battle Intent to form a weapon.

A noticeable factor that deterred most users was the cost to create the weapon was not at all worth it when you could simply use a plain iron weapon to substitute it.

The explanation for that was that the iron weapon acted as a mediator between the Battle Intent to form rather than expending energy to create a mediator using Battle Intent.

Such an explanation was confusing to Dean but there was a simplified note from a different senior.

Using an iron weapon allows the user to coat it with Battle Intent instead of creating a form by scratch, saves much more Battle Intent.

Dean continued reading to find that another condition to do this technique was that they must have a strong visualization of the specific design they want to create.

This meant they couldn't be vague on the idea on how sharp the blade should be or how well curved it was, they must have a clear idea on the design.

It was very unlikely for Dean to completely master this technique within a month, especially since he already had a weapon of his own that he could use.

There were many other techniques that really did catch his attention with how powerful and interesting they were framed.

One was to completely change the energy and essence within the person so that only Battle Intent would act as Qi or Mana.

The process consisted of creating a seed of Battle Intent and slowly nurturing it until it could start devouring the energy and trading it into Battle Intent.

Eventually, the user will breathe and exhale Battle Intent fueled by the body itself and can increase cultivating speed by using external energy such as Mana.

You would eventually turn into an original energy factory meaning you would have no need to absorb Qi if you were stuck on a devastated place without any energy.

Dean heard that some of the places considered the most dangerous are the places that force the cultivator to have only a limited amount of Qi.

They wouldn't be able to create Qi and would have to desperately rely on pills to fuel themselves, but this technique overruled those dangerous places.

However Dean didn't feel particularly excited about visiting places that served no purpose to him with no good reason to go there.

This started to bore Dean when he realized that they weren't as useful as he thought but discovered one that did pique his interest.

It had no particular name but it seemed useful in intimidating people if he were to go to the Zikel Clan so Dean decided to learn it.

The technique aimed at the user to start refining their aura and Battle Intent so that it would become finer and if the user willed, turn into a delicate yet deadly threat.

Basically turning an aura into something much more terrifying that would strike fear into people's hearts.

One story Dean heard was that the simplest method was to slaughter every living being in sight so that your aura would be able to take the violent personality of a person and reflect it.

However, Dean didn't have the time to randomly kill people without reason and didn't want to suddenly start becoming a criminal just for an intimidating aura.

Now, his 1 year of training was up and looking at the bright sun once more, Dean was amazed at what he missed out.

Such fresh and ripe greens everywhere was a new scenery that he had never once appreciated before.

He wanted to ruin it but had no time and instead looked for a person to guide him to the Zikel Clan.

At first, he had just kind of wandered around and then suddenly had the thought to train and went inside a nearby cave.

Dean was lost and had no clue where he was which made finding a person much more difficult then he thought.

....

"Ho, i'm finally here."

It was a struggle finding this place but he had to go to numerous villages to finally get someone who knew which direction the Zikel Clan was.

He had even just recently learnt that the Zikel Clan owned a city where their clan liked to reside and created.

The difficulties just to get here was an annoyance to Dean but he worried about his resolve.

A resolve that only made him interested in what he should do now but since he was so close to it... what should he do after?