Chapter 870 Cap 868: Holy Power

Pov Athena:

"< Shadow Blade > ×2" (I)

"< Shadow Stalker >" (I)

I was in the middle of a fight against 2 Jungle Ambushers, they are beings with bodies similar to large 2 meters wolves apparently without a head where it should be, but having 3 beast heads at the end of 3 long tails capable of unleashing attacks of Poison-type breath.

I use my Blade of Sombra to cut one of his legs with 2 attacks making him lose his balance while a copy of me attacks from the front, meanwhile, I'm behind.

Once the monster's attacks destroy my shadow copy, I have an opening to get close enough to slash my sword through the base of the tails where I dig into the monster's brain.

During its death its true mouth opens letting out a death scream, the heads are decoys to hide the true mouth that extends from the back to the belly of the monster.

"I still can't use it efficiently, I always feel this delay in energy circulation." (I)

"You'll get better, using the shadow element is hard, it took me a long time to master it and my sister still has issues with it." (Irius)

We were inside one of the Dungeons of the attacked city, my new mother accepted the Guildmaster's request after Patriarch Zenos' approval.

"Should we really forget about our mission?" (I)

"It's not a quest, it was a request from the Guild Master to explore and investigate, we have no reason not to take this time to train." (Irius)

"Then why am I the only one training here?" (I)

"Because you're strong enough to train alone, your fighting style actually doesn't suit group coordination very well." (Irius)

"I was trained since I was a child to lead, so I have to adapt to different groups." (I)

"It just means that you adapt to a group with good coordination, you identify the weak points of a group and go there, your subordinates have already told me that." (Irius)

"That's why group training is still far away for you, let's look for the next monster, and this time fight only with Shadow magic." (Irius)

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Pov Zenos:

Middle of the night, on a different floor of my Dungeon.

"He is sure?" (I)

"Yes, first of all, you have to master your sacred energy." (Natasha)

I came to this floor because my Dungeon only has 1 Catastrophe Grade monster so far and that is Hela, so on this floor, there are no monsters that can interfere with my training and I don't need to be afraid of hurting anyone, just me and my sister we are on this floor.

"I can feel holy energy, but I don't know how to use it." (I)

"Of course not, you must have asked our mother's High Priestess to teach you, right?" (Natasha)

"Yes, Vanessa tried to teach me, thanks to her I can feel the sacred energy within me clearly." (I)

"She wouldn't be able to teach much, she believes that holy energy comes from faith in God, that's not wrong for most people." (Natasha)

"But you and I are not most people, we are Demigods, we are children of a Pillar Goddess." (Natasha)

"Our holy power does not come from our mother, it comes from ourselves, our holy power comes from our will, from our faith in ourselves, our maximum capacity for holy power comes from the faith that other people have for us." (Natasha)

"To use holy power, you must understand its origin, the holy power of each God is different in its characteristics, for us who are its sources, we have more freedom to use." (Natasha)

My sister stands in front of me and a red energy shines like a layer around her body, soon after she forms a red sphere of energy in her hand, then she draws a red Rune with her other hand, and to finish she releases her Aura that mixes with the same red energy.

"As our holy power represents us, we have the freedom to use it to strengthen our Ki, Magic, Spiritual Rune, and Aura in this way, that's why this holy power carries our characteristics." (Natasha)

She stops using the red energy that was her holy power, then returns to normal as she continues explaining things to me calmly.

"You should feel that your holy energy was very easy to manipulate, but you still couldn't use it effectively, that's because you were treating holy energy as something external, something that didn't belong to you." (Natasha)

"That energy is you, move it like you move your arms and legs, shape that energy as far as your imagination can go, there is no limit to how far you can go as this sacred energy represents you." (Natasha)

As I listened to my sister it felt like I was in a trance, I was feeling like something like a missing piece of a puzzle had finally clicked into place, suddenly everything made sense.

Without me noticing the sacred energy that was separated in a corner of my body began to flow throughout my body at the same time.

I could feel the holy energy interacting with my blood, muscles, Ki, mana, spiritual energy, and Aura flowing alongside them or mixing and separating.

It was completely normal, I could strengthen my body directly with holy energy, but if I did that by mixing Ki and holy energy, the effect would be 3 times better, the same goes for mixing my holy energy with any other type of energy, the ways I could use it holy energy were limitless.

Ding!

<[ Understanding and mastery of Holy Power achieved ]>

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<[ Your maximum Holy Power storage capacity has been increased ]>

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<[ Your Holy Power will be flowing to your Familiars from now on ]>

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<[ Your Holy Power will be flowing to your Dragon Priestess (Karina) now ]>

"..." (I)

I suddenly feel like a barrier has been destroyed within my body, I can feel the holy power within me flowing to my Familiars through my connection with them, the same goes for Karina who is my Dragon Priestess.

The energy is flowing to them, but it's not like it's being sucked out of me, it's more like I'm a source from which sacred power flows like a river to them without emptying the lake from which it originated that is me.

"Looks like it's finally over, I was wondering if I should start calling you." (Natasha)

"What...why is it dark?" (I)

I look around realizing that it was already night, more precisely dawn, I don't understand how this happened in just a few minutes.

"You've entered a state of understanding, I don't know how much time has passed, but you've been standing in the same place for hours." (Natasha)