Power Cultivator in Honkai c2

“Ray, did something happen? You have this…strange aura around you.” Arno asked me as he gazed towards me.

“Hmm? I guess? I've been practising meditation recently.” I replied calmly as I sat down in my seat.

“Meditation? Does that stuff even work?” He asked curiously. There was obvious disbelief in his look.

“It does begin to work after you sit down motionless for several hours.” I slightly smiled while saying that.

“Hah?” He was dumbfounded by what I said. He then leaned closer and whispered his question.

“You are not joking?” The blonde asked, with a bit more seriousness in his tone.

“Not at all.” I shook my head.

“It's like detaching from the world and its rhythm and then allowing one… to relax and look at things from a distance.” I tried to explain to him as simply as possible.

“Oh, so this aura is like those loners have.” The blonde sagely nodded at my explanation. My reaction to his ‘sageness’ is a deadpan look.

“I guess.” I shrugged before I prepared for the class.

Unlike yesterday, today’s classes were boring, but they allowed me to see the difference between the Enlightenment and no Enlightenment.

It was like the difference between Night and Day. 

Regardless of classes, I could… simply understand what the teacher was saying.

Math, Chemistry, Biology…

Turns out that I can make bombs if I want to. I never paid attention, but it turns out the theory is there on how to make bombs and other questionable stuff.

Who knew they taught that stuff in school? All you need to do is pay attention to things like that simply.

Well, apart from that, I realised that I could easily recall things I had seen before, which was something related to a flexible Eidetic Memory. At the same time, my coordination has improved significantly.

Same with self-awareness… I noticed a bunch of gazes on me from different sides of the room.

It turns out I am quite… popular? Or more like people noticed the change.

Regardless, I didn’t stick around as I went home right after school.

Back at home, I quickly changed my clothes to something good to move in before getting some food.

After dinner, I went outside. For a second, I pondered what I should do.

‘I guess I should ‘consolidate’ what I learned.’

That means to use Providence, my only offensive technique.

‘In that case, I should go to THAT place.’

It could be my training location. Without wasting time, I dashed towards them. 

Effortlessly jumping over the fence before dashing into the suburban streets and into the gravel road that leads to the start of the river valley.

Unlike deeper into the town centre, there are barely any houses here. Hell, they use areas here for cows. But deeper, there is a small forested area with remnants of an old river section that turned into a small lake.

Not that it’s recommended to swim there or anything.

The reason that I am going there is that there should be no people or a very small chance for anyone to pop up and see me train.

Regardless, now that trees were here, I decided to try out something. 

I jumped and effortlessly grabbed the trunk before rushing upwards and ending up on a branch.

‘This could work…’ 

I pondered for a bit. The spruce trees were full of branches, and my new ‘perspective’ on things made my fears muffled to a considerable extent.

Falling of a tree? Yeah, what of it? I can simply land. 

It was something like that… simple confidence that I can do it.

After pondering a bit, I began to travel through tree branches, coordinating, making spontaneous judgments, and all that stuff.

Before I realised, I heard a familiar sound in my mind. 

My cultivation just went up, and it became easier to travel, not that I stopped, as I swiftly changed it up and made it a bit harder for myself.

~~~

[Cultivation Progress:

[Body Cultivation: 7 / 15

Strength Boost 40% (Passive)

Durability Boost 20% (Passive)]

~

[Mind Cultivation: 6 / 15

Enlightenment II (Passive)

Providence I (Active/Passive)]

~

“Hmm… This is getting stale. I do need to think of something else.”

I  checked my progress after spending several hours in trees. Jumping around, I thought that I could develop something… like an extra.

But it was not so. 

I felt that something was lacking.

Though I swiftly realised that I need SUBSTANCE. Both mind and body cultivation originated with a specific desire.

So, after pondering for a while, I used my new mind cultivation.

I did some deep divining and recalled all the times I watched martial arts, and before long, I began to practise.

Like, seriously, practice. Since I got stamina, I went through the Katas of Taichi I remembered from a Korean MMO that used motion capture of real martial artists.

Again and again, my hands went through these stances.

Until I got considerably familiar with them.

If it were my older self, I would have given up a while ago. But not this time. I simply spend hours in practice until I hear a DING

[Ding]

[You began to cultivate your body as a weapon.]

[You unlocked: Martial Arts]

[Martial Arts: Ancient art of animal imitation, and utilisation as a weapon

Possible routes of improvement: Merger with Ki, or manifestation.]

“Oh…” I perked up after seeing what I just got.

I quickly pressed [OK] before checking the cultivation window.

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[Cultivation Progress:

[Body Cultivation: 8 / 15

Strength Boost 40% (Passive)

Durability Boost 20% (Passive)]

~

[Mind Cultivation: 7 / 15

Enlightenment II (Passive)

Providence I (Active/Passive)]

~

[Martial Arts: 1 / 5

Explosive Force I (Active)

~

Phew

I took a deep breath as I felt a force wash me over. It felt like I just had a special breakthrough.

‘This explosive force…’

With a simple hand motion, there was a loud gust of wind just by moving my hands. 

With this new development, I went straight back to my practice.

This time, I began to assault the closest tree! It was time for some more training!

Before I realised the sun was setting and it was time to go home.

~~~

“Hmm?”

As I was walking back through the small forest, I noticed purple fog…

At that moment, I felt a cold chill wash over me. 

There was something there!

Without hesitation, golden particles surrounded me.

My power, Providence, has two modes.

One is Dharma manifestation, a golden avatar that can fight for me, and the other mode is the passive mode that boosts my physical power.

And at the moment, the passive boost is strong enough to break trees. If I combine my Martial Arts cultivation, I can blast through tree trunks.

Already did that! So yeah! Come here to your piece of shit, Honkai Monster!

Sure enough.

A three metre tall white creature with purple glowing energy appeared in front of me. It had a lance and a shield.

“A fucking Templar, are you serious?” 

I frowned when I saw my enemy. 

“Well, whatever! I am punching you anyway!” With that said, I lunged forward, and my golden particle-enfused palm ripped into the shield of the Templar.

The strike caused the tall creature to stumble back several steps, but I didn’t stop as the next was an elbow strike, followed by a backhand and then a chop.

Each of the strikes was borderline mechanical as the beast’s shield crumbled into nothingness. The Templar tried to hit me with a lance, but this was where my Dharma body fought for me as it left my body and rushed into the Honkai Beast and caused it to blow up into dust and purple particles.

The palm strike from the copy of me was devastating.

‘I wonder if Honkai are weak against this golden radiance?’

I did wonder as my Dharma body returned to me, fusing with my body.

At that moment, I heard a sound in my head.

‘Huh… an improvement. Of course, fighting is the best way.’

I snorted before looking at my cultivation.

~~

[Cultivation Progress:

[Body Cultivation: 9 / 15

Strength Boost 40% (Passive)

Durability Boost 20% (Passive)]

~

[Mind Cultivation: 7 / 15

Enlightenment II (Passive)

Providence I (Active/Passive)]

~

[Martial Arts: 3 / 5

Explosive Force I (Active)

~

“Not bad. So I guess I need to find more Honkai creatures.”

With that said, I dismissed the window and walked back to my house. I got back around an hour before my mother returns, so I went to shower and get a change of clothes before starting to make my food.

Not long after that, my mother was back, and she immediately commented.

“You know if this continues, you will find yourself a girlfriend~.” She teased all of a sudden.

I immediately recalled where I was living.

I recalled a certain white haired girl, then a certain blue-haired girl. A maid, a lance and a scythe using girls.

“Yeah…” I sarcastically replied.

“You will see. Girls don’t need much.” She winked at me.

“Don’t jinx it.” I rolled my eyes at her. 

None of that shit will happen if I stay here.

‘Well, Templars usually don’t spawn so randomly.’

I frowned internally. It would seem I need to get back to my training. 

“That’s not Jinxing. Your mother needs a daughter-in-law.” She frowned before walking to the bedroom to change.

I frowned at that idea. 

‘Sadly, this is a yuri world. With magical girls gaining power-ups through yuri friendships and changing clothes.’

I frowned even more just thinking about the elephant in the room called Herrschers.

‘Regardless, it was not my business.’

Once food was ready, my mother and I went to eat before I went to my room and began to prepare to get into bed.

Of course, I won’t sleep; instead, I began to meditate. It was time for Mind cultivation.

~~~

Space-like darkness stretched before me as I began to walk on the golden walkway; it was easier to walk than I can recall.

Is it because the level was higher now? Well, it doesn’t matter.

The most important thing was that I continued to walk. 

Walking…

And walking…

AND Walking…

It felt like endless infinity. That was until I began to see a golden star in the distance.

It was getting closer, yet it felt that it was still far away.

Still, I smiled at such a sight. I made progress!

Not that I had a chance to enjoy this, as I heard the alarm clock blaring that brought me back to the real world.

“This sound… I am starting to hate it.”

My eyes opened as I noticed that it was morning. Once again, ten hours went past like a flash. Never before have I spent this much time…

I used to go to bed at midnight, but now I don't. I went before ten! Crazy! Like a good student.

Regardless, I checked my cultivation window.

~~

[Cultivation Progress:

[Body Cultivation: 10 / 15

Strength Boost 40% (Passive)

Durability Boost 20% (Passive)]

~

[Mind Cultivation: 11 / 15

Enlightenment II (Passive)

Providence I (Active/Passive)]

~

[Martial Arts: 3 / 5

Explosive Force I (Active)

~

“So I am closer to that level up, I guess, seeing the ‘star’ is like an indication.” I pondered what I saw. 

Well, it was good. It means I am getting stronger.

With a mere thought, golden particles were dancing around my hand. The amount doubled in size! Not only that, but I can see that my Dharma Body manifestation is becoming bigger and less normal human-looking and more like a warrior or soldier. There are bits and pieces of armour on him now.

“Cool.”

I smiled, happy to see that efforts are not in vain.

After checking my progress, I got up and went to have a shower and then change into my school uniform.

As I was making breakfast, I decided to check the TV.

This was when my eyebrows went up. On the news, they showed that there was a ‘gas explosion’ on the other side of the town.

‘Yeah… right! Honkai beasts! Damn it!’ 

With a frown, I realised that I need to get rid of them! It would seem that my training or presence could be some sort of attraction to them.

Well, whatever! More training dummies for me!