TRAILING SHADOWS

Ibiyemi turned a circle, her blades neatly slicing through the air. As she turned back, she realises she didn't need to have done that because lying on his face and holding his twisted ankle was the spiky haired Irunmole, his lightning technique dissipating into the air.

"Alright then. Ibiyemi, You've got them all rounded up!" Elisa's voice sounded and Ibiyemi bit her lower lip at it.

She turned back, seeing Tobias standing in the middle of the gold sprinkled booted twins, clapping his hands slowly.

"You surpassed my expectations, really, heir to the house." Elisa said.

"Congrats on your eye. You should learn how to hide it so that you don't become a target for eye thieves." Elisa added, putting a hand on the waist.

"Enough talk, Elisa. Let's send these bastards home, shall we?" Elias said, slamming his hands together.

"Law of Fate: Perfect Cube" Tobias chanted, purple lines lining up into a cuboid around the two rogue mercenaries just as Ibiyemi jumped out of there.

"Law of Chance: Shifting Presence." Elisa and Elias chanted and the cuboid vanished, fading into the atmosphere like it was never there.

"What do you mean now? Are you insane? Didn't we just get together now?" Agbawo eyes bulged, looking at Sunday who stood in front of them, his right hand fisted to his c.h.e.s.t.

"This Power within me. The deal was go teach me how to control it, remember? Or would you want us to reconsider the terms once again." Sunday smiled. "And by that, I mean, going berserk again?"

"Uh??" It was Obedi's time to bulge his eyes alongside with a gaping mouth.

"No. No. No." Agbawo paled, frantically waving his hands before him. "To go berserk, that wolf would not have second thoughts to kill us. We should get to it."

He reached to his side, pulling Obedi by the arm and pushing him forward.

"For the next part, Obedi would teach you how to draw power from your soul bound in an actual combat. I don't have a soulbond, you see. But he has one. So, Obedi, you're up!"

"W-what?" Obedi stammered, turning around to stare daggers at him.

"Do you want to live or not?" Agbawo fired back, his eyes flashing in anger. 

Obedi nodded desperately.

"Then, you better not screw this up!" Agbawo smirked, snapping his fingers in the air.

At that, Obedi turned back, facing Sunday's gaze. He put a hand to his mouth and straightened an imaginary tie with closed eyes and a mock-dignified air.

"A-ahem. Now, to the proper business of the day. Sage Master Obedi would teach you to be adept with your soul bond. If you want to turn tail and run, you..."

"Don't expect me to go easy on you, Obedi." Sunday's eyes flashed dangerously as he pointed a finger at him.

"W-what?" Obedi looked to the side, his eyes narrowed and his lips twisted. "C.o.c.ky bastard."

Obedi turned around just in time as Agbawo threw him a purplish diamond like crystal. Grabbing it with both hands, he turned around.

"Right. I'll open a battle arena so that I don't destroy my complex with your charred body, boy."

"What's an arena?" Sunday asked with quizzical look on.

"An Arena is a compressed spatial dimension created by those law of war practitioners with the space guys too. It creates a battleground for duels and trainings where one cannot obtain such facility, naturally." Agbawo explained, gesticulating.

Obedi held his hands to the side of the now hovering crystal as it began to lighten up, exuding a dull haze of Aura.

"Activate!" Obedi ordered.

THOOOOM!

Bright purplish light exploded immediately, stunning all of them as they try to turn from it.

The next second, the environment changed; From the dark, damp storage room that had been further disorganized by Sunday's rampage to a floating circular pad with larger versions of the crystal floating outside the pads like rocks.

The ground is grey, resembling earth and up above, in the center was the same crystal that had opened the arena, floating in a purple miasma.

Or rather, slowly dissolving into the miasma.

"Right!" Agbawo looked up, still in the same position as before. "This Arena is not meant to last very long so whatever you do, make it fast. Or else, you'd be lost into spatial rifts. You owe me one, by the way, Obedi." He warned.Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click <a href="#&apos;s-training_50250795341377218">#&apos;s-training_50250795341377218</a> for visiting.

"Now, Sunday. First key step to having a soul bond... " Obedi started, flexing his hands as if they were claws in the air as he struck out some martial pose. "The primary assignment, function of a soul bond is to appear when it's owner needs it.

A soul bond can fight in place of it's owner or fight alongside it's owner. But judging on how weak you are, it's imperative you let the Wolf do your battles."

"Hm" Sunday sighed, crossing his arms over his c.h.e.s.t.

"Yes." Obedi continues his martial stances. "There is a third way. And that is, if you have a rampaging soulbond type. Like the Rare Type Wolf there, the best way to draw it's power is to go Sage Mode."

"What is sage mode?" Sunday asked.

"Ugh. Dummy. Sage mode is the period of time where you have the full powers of your soulbond combined with yours yet, the soulbond is still not summoned into battle. When you're in sage mode, a cloud of energy will cover you, giving you impervious protection from any regular attack or even piercing or slashing attack.

Then the energy skin may sometimes take the form of the soulbond, giving you an astral projection of the full soulbond over you. That is called Full Sage Mode. Like this."

Obedi inhaled, closing his eyes, his hands to his side now. 

He opened his eyes and as he did, the gray massive hulking form of a bird enveloped him entirely, so much that it slammed Sunday away by its mere appearance to take up space.

"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.