The Mythical Path of a Princess from a Destroyed Kingdom

Soulbladers are typically lawful, using well-trained mental procedures to rationally shape and materialize their soulblades.

However, this is not necessarily the case. Psychic energy can be influenced by emotions and the mind, which means that Soulblade users can materialize their psychic blades by relying on extreme emotions rather than rigorous training.

The rational type is more stable, while the emotional type is more prone to fluctuations in intensity.

……

After listening to Will's explanation, Maginus looked in the direction Oren had left: "Do you know how Mr. Oren became a Soul Blade Master?"

Mr. Oren has told this story several times.

Upon hearing the girl's question, the children who were training on their own nearby excitedly chimed in, seemingly because they were finally able to tell the story instead of having Oren repeat it over and over again.

According to Oren himself, he was once a warrior who later fought a very rare mind flayer for some reason. Because he had a natural talent for psionic abilities, he naturally awakened his psionic abilities during the battle.

At that time, Oren was on a mission related to mind flayers, and because of this, there was a Serphin, a humanoid race with natural psionic abilities, in his party. Oren learned the Soulblade class skills from that Serphin.

The children finished telling Maginus the story of Oren, and just then, the somewhat disheveled Maginus returned home. Seeing everyone gathered together, he immediately urged the children to go and train on their own.

He casually sat down opposite Maginot, staring into the girl's eyes, and asked:

"Are you ready to learn psionic powers, Miss Walker?"

"of course."

Chapter 64 Self-Hypnosis

Having received Maginus's reply, Oren opened his palm in front of the girl, and some luminous particles formed from energy began to gather on his hand.

Is this the Nen Blade?

Before her stood a small and exquisite blue translucent short sword, its hilt and blade adorned with intricate wave patterns. These patterns were not merely decorative; they surged and rolled like real waves, seemingly capable of drawing one's heart into their depths.

"This is my Nen Blade, and it's the first one I can make. Once you learn the Nen Blade shaping technique, you can also shape it into two short swords, a long sword, or a heavy sword, or other longer and heavier weapons."

"At the same time, the Mind Blade has another use: you can attach it to the weapon you use to enhance it."

As Oren explained, he glanced at the protector behind the girl. Maginus, staring at the Nen Blade, slightly reached out and asked, "May I touch it?"

"Sure, by the way, the Mind Blade can cause two types of damage depending on your intentions: one physical and the other mental. You can give it a try."

It's said that mid-level Soul Blade users can forcibly reduce the maximum soul limit, and only Restoration Spells or other spells can heal them. Unfortunately, I can't.

Oren sighed, then revealed a malicious smile. Maginus placed her finger on the Nen Blade and lightly sliced ​​it, and a small wound appeared on her fingertip, similar to that of a normal weapon.

"Next comes the psychological harm."

The blade in the man's hand became increasingly transparent. Maginus placed another finger on it, and as she pressed more pressure on the blade, in addition to her fingertip being cut again, she also experienced a slight dizziness and a faint stinging sensation in her head.

The hand should have been injured, but the attack from the Nen Blade was applied to the soul instead.

The dizziness and stinging pain quickly disappeared. After showing the girl the weapon, the Mind Blade, Oren clenched his fist tightly, and the translucent short sword collapsed into particles that scattered in all directions.

"Alright, let's begin the class now. The first lesson will teach you the basic psychic technique of self-hypnosis."

Self-hypnosis is the most important skill in psionic professions. Through it, Maginus can train his mind to gain the ability to control the deepest potential of his body and mind, thereby enhancing his soul and body.

"...Why can self-hypnosis enhance physical health?"

Maginus asked, puzzled. Oren paused for a moment, recalling what his companion and teacher had told him:

"Because the body and soul are inseparable, psychics can use their will to manipulate soul energy and enhance their bodies through the conversion of soul energy."

Just like magic transforms magical power to achieve all sorts of effects...

Maginos, who had once been a mage and sorcerer, quickly understood and stopped asking questions, instead focusing on listening to the lecture.

Oren raised a finger and, with a serious expression, told her the most crucial thing:

"Miss Walker, you must remember one of the most crucial things for psionic professionals."

Your strength lies in your belief. No matter when or where, you must completely trust yourself and never waver in your belief in your own power.

After reminding Maginus, he didn't wait for the girl's response. He took out two cushions, spread them on the ground, and sat down on one of them.

"The meditation of elves, the meditative state of monks, the connection with nature of druids... the practice of the mind is very important. You need to first adopt a posture that you like best."

After a moment's thought, Maginus took the longsword from behind her back and held it in her hand. She sat down with her right foot flat on the ground and her leg bent, while her left leg was flat on the ground.

With both hands gripping the scabbard, the girl held the longsword, almost as tall as her upper body, upright like a cane. This posture suggested she could use the sword to stand up at any moment and draw it to attack.

Most importantly, it can give her a tiny bit of security.

"It's not a great posture, but if you feel comfortable with it, then it's fine. Next, imagine what I'm describing in your mind. Once you've learned it, you can try to modify it to suit your own style."

After commenting on Maginus's posture and drawing a silence from the surroundings, Orenrui spoke in a low voice:

"Focus your attention on the space between your eyebrows and gather your spiritual energy there..."

"Let the spiritual energy flow slowly down your nose, chin, and collarbone to your heart..."

"Feel that flowing spiritual energy, let it surge from your heart to every part of your body like blood..."

"You can clearly feel your muscles undergoing a strenuous workout, slowly contracting and relaxing."

"Look further ahead, and you'll find yourself in a forest..."

"The flowers, plants, and trees all around are swaying in sync with your heartbeat..."

As Maginus pondered what Oren had said, sweat poured down her face, and the muscles beneath her skin twitched uncontrollably. She was clearly experiencing mental and physical fatigue.

……

After an unknown amount of time, the girl opened her eyes due to exhaustion and dizziness. When she tried to get up, she felt a sudden darkness before her eyes and had to sit down for a short rest.

“A beginner couldn’t possibly reach this level in an hour. Did you… never mind, I won’t ask.”

Oren glanced at the time, feeling rather conflicted. It couldn't be that easy for a beginner to get started. He had originally wanted to ask Maginus if she had studied something similar before, but after remembering the story she had told, he took back his original question.

He coughed and said, "In short, this is a psionic technique called self-hypnosis. Generally, the physical body can't withstand the baptism of soul energy first. The training is extremely demanding. You'd better go back and study hard..."

Before he could finish speaking, something surprising happened to Oren.

"call!!"

Maginot took a deep breath, and her skin changed from the red of exercise to a sickly red from extreme congestion, with veins standing out on her skin.

A surge of vitality flows continuously beneath the body, washing away the muscles damaged by overtraining and relieving the stress they bear.

"laugh……"

Oren's eyes widened, thinking the girl's self-hypnosis had gone wrong. He was about to reach out and grab her to find the priest when she exhaled a breath of stale air, and her skin color returned to its normal paleness.

When Maginus opened her eyes, she saw a group of shocked people. Oren, the disheveled old man, asked in disbelief, "What's going on with you?"

“It’s related to my psychic powers,” the girl stood up and raised her finger. “My psychic powers are specialized, and they seem to be more suitable for controlling life force. Yes, not blood, but life force.”

Bright red mist emanated from the wound and coiled around the finger, coalescing into a worm-like motion that moved up and down.

Chapter 65 Constructing the Mind Blade Model

It really is a specialized type of psionic energy.

After her initial surprise, Oren had Maginus do a few other things, such as manipulating water, creating sparks out of thin air, and moving papers...

After a series of tests, he discovered that the girl's psychic abilities were just as she had said, and were more suited to manipulating life force and unclaimed blood, or blood without a protective force field.

If it's about controlling something unrelated to life force, then using psychic energy would be a waste of her time and effort.

I wonder if she'll be able to directly control people's bodies once her psychic abilities are enhanced?

Oren pulled back his wandering imagination and said with some regret, "It's a pity I don't have any professional skills for manipulating things here, otherwise Walker, you should have been able to become stronger much faster."

"It's alright, you've already helped me a lot."

Subconsciously clenching her fist, Maginus, feeling a great deal of progress, bowed to Oren in gratitude. Confirming that her spirit could still hold, she began practicing once more.

After about two more training sessions, Oren stopped the girl and began to explain the matter of condensing the mind blade.

"In short, self-hypnosis is the most stable way to enhance spiritual energy, soul, and body. You should practice it often. Next, we will talk about the mind blade."

"The Mind Blade doesn't take on a specific shape based on your preferred patterns or weapons; it's a reflection of your subconscious and a symbol of your soul."

"A serial killer may like flowers, but his Nen blade may be covered in blood and flesh patterns, with serrated edges; a volatile person may like water, but his Nen blade may be covered in flame patterns, with a blade radiating intense light."

"With weak psionic energy and without mastering the technique of shaping psionic blades, you can only create a short sword. If you are not good at using short swords, it is best to throw it as a projectile. After it is destroyed, you can directly reshape it."

Oren conjured a psychic blade and threw it directly at the target on the other side. The psychic blade disappeared after penetrating the target for a moment. He raised his hand and flipped it over, and a new psychic blade appeared in his hand.

At this point, Oren paused for a moment, carefully choosing his words before informing the girl:

"The appearance of the psychic blade can change. Psychic energy can be amplified or weakened under the influence of emotions, and this fluctuation is also reflected in the psychic blade."

In moments of extreme rage, my Nen Blade has undergone a dramatic transformation; the original water ripple pattern has turned into a tsunami, and my power has increased significantly. However, this behavior is not consistent.

"As mentioned before, there are two methods for initially creating a Nen Blade. The rationalization method involves imagining the shape of a short sword or similar weapon, guiding your spiritual energy to construct the prototype of the short sword in your hand, and then infusing energy into the prototype. Through rational training, you can create your own Nen Blade."

"Another way is to use your extreme emotions to make them condense into an emotional entity on their own. Once you calm down, they will turn back into a rational blade."

"You don't seem like an emotional person. The next method is something you might not be able to find, so try the rational approach first."

"it is good."

Maginus resumed her previous posture and began to construct a model of the short sword in her mind, spreading her palms to allow psychic energy to follow the model's shaping.

This is indeed very difficult, much more difficult than self-hypnosis. The lack of sound around you can cause the psychic energy pathways to deviate from the original path, resulting in failure, just like learning a new spell, and requiring you to start all over again.

The girl calmly reshaped it, without anxiety or impatience, and its progress increased at a speed imperceptible to the naked eye.

A month later.

Maginus once again emerged from the Psychic Support Association. As she walked down the street, she glanced at her wanted poster on the bulletin board, subconsciously touching her slightly altered face, confirming in the crowd that she now looked different from the one on the wanted poster.

Her strength has been growing rapidly over the past month. The only problem is that she hasn't been able to create her Nen Blade yet. When Oren told her that it would take him a full six months to create a Nen Blade, the girl realized that this was something that couldn't be rushed.

However, time will not stop for her, so Maginus set her sights on improving her basic qualities through self-hypnosis. The effect was remarkable, but because it consumed too much life force, she needed to eat a lot.

As night fell, people returned to their homes along the streets, while Maginus withdrew her life force and entered the alleyways.

She arrived at the edge of a street in the slums without attracting any attention, but when she looked up, she saw not Marta's house, but another, more luxurious one!

Every night, the girl would carefully gather information. When she did not see Marta set up her stall again for the second, third, fourth, and even several days after meeting her, Marginus realized that she might have been discovered.

After a few more days of vigilance, Maginus, having encountered no attackers, confirmed that the enemy did not know his appearance or whereabouts. He then resumed gathering information about his blood relatives and witnessed several people who inquired about the location of their blood relatives on the black market being knocked unconscious and taken away.

The girl didn't come away empty-handed; at least she learned from those people that her name was Marta.

Maginus then gathered information from other places such as bars and thieves' guilds, and learned that Marta was a high-ranking manager of a local gang, and that her stall in the black market was simply to get close to the person in charge of the black market.

Having found Mata's residence, Maginos did not act rashly. She kept observing the seemingly peaceful house and discovered that spies were watching the house around the clock, and Mata showed no intention of showing herself.

Is she really in here? Maginos was highly doubtful.

After several days of investigation, five days ago, the girl finally confirmed that Marta was not in the house; she had only created the illusion that she was there.

After that, Maginus changed the direction of her thoughts and went to investigate the house of the black market boss. It turned out that her direction was indeed correct. After five days of observation, the girl discovered that Marta was in this heavily guarded house.

But a new problem arises: how can she create a one-on-one opportunity to kill Marta?

This involves issues between the gangs of Riverman City, and Maginus learned some important information from a casual conversation between Oren and some of his adult disciples.

After the capital of the Kingdom of Nesery was attacked, the atmosphere in River City became somewhat restless, even after the capital had been breached.

Especially the gangs, which seem to be undergoing a new round of reshuffling in this situation, much like a capital city, and Maginus felt that he should be able to find opportunities in it.

Chapter 66 Stirs Up Chaos

In the quiet street, a group of people were patrolling separately. One of them, a thug-like guy, was full of complaints, muttering to himself about why he had to do this kind of thing.

He walked into a small alley along the planned route. Seeing that there was no one around as usual, he was about to turn around and leave. However, as soon as he turned around, he caught a glimpse of someone huddled in the shadows in a corner, someone he had not seen before.

"Who are you!?"

The thug's eyes widened, and he instinctively shouted. Maginus, who was hiding in the corner, stood up almost instantly, drew his longsword from his waist, and slashed at the thug in front of him. The thug, in a panic, did not have time to draw his dagger and could only raise the torch in his hand.

This was of no use. The sword blade, reflecting the firelight, slashed through the air, and the torch, broken in two, fell to the ground. Shouts came from not far away, clearly indicating that the gang members had heard the thug's last words.

This was exactly what Maginus wanted. With a violent smile, she looked at the corpse in front of her, resisting the urge to drain his life force. She drew her dagger and recalled the way a high-ranking member of a gang that was at odds with the Marta gang committed murder.

Leaving distinctive marks on the corpse, Maginus left before they could surround him. When the patrolmen arrived, they found only a dead thug.

Now let's go to another place...

Under the night sky shrouded in dark clouds, a glint of red light flashed in Maginot's excited eyes. He was only a wall away from the patrolmen protecting Mata, listening to the footsteps running towards him and watching the gangsters running past him one by one.

As the last man approached, the girl leaped out of the garbage heap, her longsword piercing his neck in an instant. With her left hand, she pulled him into the alley, leaving him with the habitual wounds of a high-ranking member of an opposing gang before he was completely dead.

"who!"