Chapter 66 - Soulbond lectures

"Wow." Sunday mumbled, leaning on the side on the ground. "Your Soulbond is a bird?"

"Not bird. It is a Metalplated Dip Eagle. And this is Full Sage Mode." Obedi chanted and with the fraction of a second, the astral eagle vanished. 

"My breed was an herculean variant."

"The thing about Full Sage Mode is that , unless you have a high class, say your class begins from Lord Class upwards, the. going Full Sage Mode puts you up as a huge signpost that says, I am here, attack me. However, even at that, Full Sage Mode is extremely powerful and it is the dream of every Host. "

Obedi flexed his shoulders. "In Full Sage Mode, you have massive power in the astral form of your soulbond, you can use astral limbs anyhow you like, use the innate powers of the beast like your beast. It's innate power would be a beast bomb.

In full sage mode, you can easily use that ability. But, if you are not from Lord Class up, only go full sage mode unless you're defending a location or something. If you go attack and your soul ranking is low, believe you me, your mobility and speed will be drastically decreased because your soul cannot bear the full powers of it. Also, you might be able to use Agbara Imbued techniques in this move but with difficulty and only if you're from Lord upwards."

Obedi c.o.c.ked his head and locked his two fore fingers to each other.

"Next up is Half Sage. Or Half Sage Mode." Just then, Agbara appeared, clothing him entirely in a smaller version of the full sage mode. Except that where the head of his Eagle was before was a gaping wide beak revealing his face, sparkling with vibrant energy.

He lowered his head and as he did, Sunday could see the Eagle's head, understanding that it opened it's beak wide enough for Obedi while it's own head was geared backwards.

And underneath the arms of Obedi, two astral limbs or in more precise terms, feather-like arms began to expand to the ground, one from each shoulder. While from the back of the astral head, a smaller astral limbs stretched out but not to half of the others.

"Here, I am fast. I don't need my soul class to be Lord at minimum to be fast. I can use astral limbs but only half of them. That's why you see two and the half astral limbs."

"Law of Light: Light spears." He chanted and in the next second, six spears of bristling white heat zoomed down for Sunday.

"I can use Agbara techniques, although it is difficult to maintain the techniques."

Sunday jumped back. As he landed, he felt he arena ground creaking. Taking a peak downwards, he skipped a beat, noting that he stood just at the very edge of the arena.

Any mistake now, he would slip down but then, the spears vanished, dissipating on the return strike.

FWOOM!

Obedi appeared in front of Sunday in a whirl of speed. Before Sunday could react, the two astral limbs picked him by the shoulders and threw him back to the center of the arena.

"You didn't tell me it has started." Cursing, Sunday yelled out, trying to rise on his fours.

But, apparently, Obedi was not done yet. The Lord Classed Irunmole zoomed again, leaping into the air and in a swift second, crashed his foot down, using Sunday's head as a landing pad.

CRACKATA!

Sunday's head drilled into the ground as result of the force just as Obedi dusted his hands, looking smog.

He winked at Agbawo who stood opposite him.

"Don't lose focus." Agbawo scoffed.

"Ugh!" Sunday g.r.o.a.n.e.d as he dug his head out and knelt, his eyes brimming with rage.

"What now?"

"Oh, I was showing you the power of Half Sage. I can cast techniques but hard to maintain as you saw. If I was say Alpha Classed, then it would have held. Anyways, Half Sage is the perfect Sage Mode to be in when you are taking aggro with low soul ranking."

With a smirk, Obedi snapped his fingers and the miniature astral form around him vanished.

"This is Partial Sage." He said as his body began to glimmer in a thin outline of Agbara.

"It's not much but the speed advantage and flexibility I get here is a plus because I am just as my self. I can easily sneak past defences unlike the previous forms where I will be spotted before even coming close. Partial Sage is perfect for recon missions and trackings. Plus, my Agbara imbued techniques are so much easy to maintain here." 

Obedi inhaled. 

"Law of Light: light lance." Obedi chanted and the next moment, a huge version of the light spear appeared overhead.

"To go full sage mode, you need to have the consensual agreement of your soulbond and you. And for that to mean, a great deal of trust must be built between you two.

Even to go Half Sage as well. Only Partial Sage does not follow that line of thought. You can simply just extract the energy you need all by yourself but understand that if you try this to go half or full sage, you would fail because you cannot extract that huge amount energy by yourself. 

Your Soulbond has to agree to share the backlash by giving you it's energy, thus negating any negatives on you by holding massive power like that.

Alright, enough lectures. Let's see how you can fare against my light lance.

I need you to go Sage Mode. Now." 

"Alright!" Sunday agreed, closing his eyes as he focused on his soul space, the visage of an extremely bored wolf, resting on its head on its frontal paws, behind bars coming to view.

"Hey, Bane. I need to go Full Sage Mode." Sunday said heartily, leaning cross-legged against the bars.

"Are you that dumb? You can only go Full Sage Mode when your class starts from Lord upwards. Tsk!" Bane looked to the side, heavily irritated.

"Okay!" Sunday smirked, stretching happily.

"Let's go Half then. Me and you!" He stretched a fist bump into the cage.

"No!"

"What?" Sunday's face blanched.

"Don't be dumb, Sunday. I know the card they are playing. They want to wear you out, beat you to a pulp and break your resolve to live. In that state, even I cannot do anything to help you. I can't heal you because if you have lost your confidence in yourself, then, the d.e.s.i.r.e to live would be gone as well. And if you don't want to live anymore, I am totally helpless. An easy soulbond that they can pick out from a battered soul. Especially as you did what they want by locking me in here.

And that's what they want. 

Are you really that eager to lose me, dimwit?" Bane bared his fangs.

"Gnnnrrrgh!"