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51 - Fire bending
🕑 Added 2024-05-19 15:26:35 +0000 UTC“Unbelievable” exclaimed Vaatu and Tobirama at the same time.
They had just watched Levi’s lower body slowly regenerate during the past hours, and now he was back to normal and standing on his two feet like nothing had happened, the part that separated from him previously had completely disappeared at one moment, as if it had never existed.
Levi knew about that before when he had lost a limp, and he was also glad, he didn't want his body parts falling into the wrong hands, you never know what people could do with that.
Of course Levi had to cover his lower body in clothes he conjured using divine armament, he may be able to regenerate body parts but clothes were another matter entirely.
Stretching his legs Levi didn't feel any different from before, this was the wonder of Gamer’s body, Acnologia was by the side eating the corpses of the dead spirit animals Levi had slain previously.
He had seen Levi regenerate multiple body parts more than once so he wasn't that surprised, in fact he himself could do it, which shocked Levi the first time he did.
“May I ask how?” asked Tobirama, Levi could even feel Vaatu pay it more attention from within the tree, obviously he also wanted to know the answer.
Hearing his question Levi couldn't help but smile, “I am just built different.” He had wanted to say that for a while now, and it wasn't as if he was lying, he was literally built differently from everyone else.
Tobirama only nodded seriously after hearing it, not questioning Levi’s answer at all, Vaatu on the other hand was obviously not satisfied.
“Why don't you modify the rune circle like I told you to, I need to rest and meditate for a little while longer.” said Levi to which Tobirama nodded and went to work, Levi had already told him what went wrong previously so he knew what to do.
Of course that was only an excuse on Levi's part, the real reason was that he wanted to check his quest rewards, he hadn't checked them previously because he was way too tired and decided to leave them for later and now was the time.
Sitting cross-legged Levi closed his eyes, he appeared to be in meditation but he was checking his quest and notifications instead, of course he was still totally aware of his surroundings and could react at any moment.
[Quest: seal the dark spirit Vaatu - completed
The dark spirit Vatuu escaped due to your mistake and is going on to wreak havoc and chaos on both the spirit and physical world, seal him back, save the world and fix your mistake.
Objective 1: seal Vaatu back in his previous prison and save the world.
Objective 2: seal vaatu using at least 1 bending element.
Reward 1: Spirit body sub-abilities, purification and sealing - Unlocked.
Reward 2: Fire bending - Unlocked]
Seeing the second reward Levi’s eyes almost popped out of his head before he regained his composure.
Far away it seemed Tobirama had noticed Levi's reaction as he frowned, but he thought that it was only his remaining Internet injuries and nothing else before he went back to his work.
Levi on the other hand, although looked calm on the outside, but on the inside a storm was still raging, even his Gamer’s mind didn't seem to be able to contain his excitement.
Finally! He had finally gotten his second bending element. Good and bad luck do indeed come hand in hand, although he had freed Vaatu and almost doomed the world but it had all worked out in the end.
Previously although he could use fire bending but it wasn't really his own power, he was relying on external factors like his bonded spirits, but now it was different, it was completely a part of him.
Checking his fire bending ability he was surprised to find out that it was already level 11, but he soon realized why, even though he had just gotten fire bending he had been using it a lot before and gaining experience so it was only natural that he already had some levels in it.
Calming down Levi looked at his first reward that he had ignored until now.
Purification (Active) level 1: Purify anything, the higher the level the faster the purification and the higher the success rate.
Sealing (Active) level 1: Seal anything, the higher the level the higher the sealing success rate.
Seeing the two skills descriptions Levi couldn't help but get depressed as his eye twitched, ‘If only I had these two previously, things would have gone way much smoother, it was like they were made specifically to counter Vaatu.’ Unfortunately things don't always go as one wants in life.
However Levi noticed one specific thing about the sealing ability, it said it could seal anything!, ‘Does that mean I could seal another person's bending powers if I wanted to?, or maybe I can seal space to prevent those with spatial abilities from moving?.’ thought Levi, sadly he couldn't try it now.
‘As for purification it might be just as overpowered, I just have to be more creative in using it.’
Deciding to test both skills later Levi continued reading his notifications to see what other things he had missed, and there was a lot.
[Weapons mastery leveled up +6]
[Close-quarter combat leveled up +2]
[Dash level up +3]
[Water bending leveled up +4]
[Limit breaker leveled up +2]
[Danger sense levels up +6]
[Rapid recovery leveled up +2]
[Spirit body leveled up +1]
[Ethereal force leveled up +3]
[Physical damage resistance leveled up +6]
[Vitality +6, Stamina +5, strength+2, Agility +4, endurance +8]
Looking at his notifications Levi couldn't help but sigh, battles were still the best way to level up his skills and abilities and get stronger, and the more intense the battle was and the more he had to exert himself the better it was.
Looking at his rewards he couldn't help but lament that at normal times it might have taken him at least months to get such good results.
Sighing in his heart Levi saw that Tobirama was almost done, getting up to walk towards him Levi stumbled and almost fell, thankfully he had managed to stabilize himself in time, ‘I really overdid it with Limit breaker this time.’ he thought as he commanded Acnologia to merge back with him for the time being.
After that he could finally walk normally again as he headed towards Tobirama asking, “How is it going?.” He had complete confidence in Tobirama at this point so he didn't have any doubt about him being able to modify it in this short time.
“I am almost done, this new rune circle will only target Vaatu as an energy source and ignore everything else.” said Tobirama with a solemn tone, he seemed to blame himself a little for what had happened previously.
Levi was too tired to address that right now so he could only shake his head helplessly, “Are you sure I will appear close to the clan when I pass through the porta?!” asked Levi in worry, he didn't want to end up in the middle of a volcano or someplace like that, it would be embarrassing if he died like that after all that he went through, he was also engraving this new rune circle in his mind while talking to Tobirama.
“You don't have to worry, this is only one end of the rune circle, the other end is at an underground cave below the tribe that I dug.” answered Tobirama as he finished carving the last modification on the rune circle.
‘So it's like that.’ thought Levi as he also finished memorizing the last bits.
“Alright, we can start anytime now.” said Tobirama as he looked at Levi waiting for his input.
“Alright, I just want to try one final thing.” said Levi nodding as he walked towards Vaatu.
“What are you trying to do, you filthy mortal?” spoke Vaatu in a neutral tone, but whether it was because Levi was good at discerning people's emotions or because of how much he knew Vaatu’s personality from their previous fight, he could tell that the dark spirit was scared, and he should be because of what Levi was going to do.
Tobirama was just watching from afar in curiosity.
Just when Levi was in front of the tree trunk he stretched out his arm to face Vaatu and activated spiritual bond!
Vaatu could feel some foreign energy invading his body but he couldn't stop it at all, “YOU DAMN MORTAL WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO TO ME” He could feel that energy trying to take over his body and consciousness and it scared him to no end.
Doing his best he easily resisted that intrusion but he was nonetheless still frightened, he couldn't die so he was never afraid of death, but what just happened, if that energy had successfully invaded his mind and body and taken control, wouldn't that be the same as death?
Vaatu was already frightened of Levi after their fight and seeing how he had recovered his lower body like it was nothing, and now he was even more so.
“Ha-ah, at least I tried.” sighed Levi, he had failed, but he had expected that the difference between him and Vaatu was still too great even if he was weakened and sealed Levi still couldn't take control of him.
Thinking of something Levi moved his hand again and directed it at Vaatu, formless energy again exited his body and headed towards Vaatu but this time it didn't invade his body, instead it circled around the tree and Vaatu multiple times before stopping and stabilising.
“You…” Vaatu started to speak but for some strange reason he stopped, he couldn't even speak anymore!
He wanted to rip the human in front of him into shreds, he could feel the prison holding him getting stronger by at least ten times, and he couldn't even figure out how the human did it, but soon he stopped wanting anything.
Levi had just used his newly acquired sealing ability to fortify the seal on Vaatu, why take chances when he could strengthen the seal now? And not only that.
While using the sealing Levi felt this strange feeling, like he could seal anything in this world, it's just that he wasn't strong enough, and so following that feeling he sealed every aspect of Vaatu that he could, his talking ability, his cognitive ability, his emotions, his movements ability, his flying ability, his abilities to control other spirits, he sealed anything that he could, leaving the renowned dark spirit nothing more than an empty husk.
He knew that due to the low level of his sealing ability his seal wouldn't last forever, but he was satisfied with that, this would keep the dark spirit at bay for the foreseeable future.
[Ding]
[Sealing leveled up +1]
‘What a wondrous ability.’ thought Levi in amazement as he finished his sealing, his spirit body sub-abilities never ceased to amaze him, each one was more broken than the one before it.
Just for his spirit body alone it was worth it to get stranded in the spirit realm for two years, not to mention Acnologia, Koh, and others, he had really struck gold this time.
“Alright I am done but I still need to recuperate for a while before we proceed.” said Levi to which Tobirama nodded, he still wanted to be in his top condition when he was back to the physical world.
Thinking about it Levi couldn't hold back his excitement, he was finally going to meet his family again, his mom and dad must have been worried sick about him, and his little brother and sister too, he couldn't wait to squeeze them in a tight hug.
There was also his master, Levi knew that he had been blaming himself for him during these past two years.
‘I am finally going to go back.’ thought Levi in happiness.
“Speaking about that.”
Levi opened his shop and bought something from there, it only cost him 50 system points but in his opinion it was worth way more than that.
Looking at his inventory he could see what he had bought. A hundred pieces of different kinds of candy and a huge variety of food from his previous world.
When he had been leaving the southern water tribe with his master two years ago he had promised his sister that he would bring her a lot of sweets, and promised his brother he would bring him food also.
He had failed to fulfil that promise but had never forgotten it always keeping it in mind, and now that he was going back he made sure he'll be able to keep his promise.
***
Two days later
No accidents had happened during these past two days and Levi was mostly recovered thanks to his Gamer’s body.
Standing in front of the rune circle he injected his energy into it as it lit up and started to draw energy way much faster as Levi took his hand back.
Like previously it still took hours before it was almost done, and Levi couldn't help but once again be amazed at how much energy Vaatu had, even after their previous battle and all the seals placed on him.
After waiting for a while a bright speck of light appeared in the middle of the circle right in front of the tree trunk before it started to get bigger and bigger, before long it was three times the size of an adult person and it was slowly morphing from a sphere shape into a portal, similar to the one that had brought him here.
The inside of the portal mostly consisted of rainbow-colored light swirling in a circle.
“Are you sure this will work.” asked Levi with an uncertain look on his face.
“Mhm, according to my calculations there shouldn't be any mishaps.” said Tobirama, nodding with his hands crossed.
‘Shouldn't!.’ thought Levi with his eye twitching, it seemed even Tobirama wasn't 100% sure of their chances.
But Levi wasn't going to back away now, this was his only way out, he had searched everywhere and tried everything before he had grasped his current opportunity and he wasn't going to let it go.
“Ha-ah, see you on the other side I guess.” said Levi to Tobirama sighing as he walked towards the light circle.
Tobirama only nodded as he watched him, even though he appeared calm he was actually just as much if not more nervous than Levi, but his Ninja training made sure that he wouldn't show any of it on his face.
‘I am scared.’ said Acnologia to Levi telepathically, and Levi couldn't blame him. He was only a kid, even he with his previous life experiences if he didn't have Gamer’s mind he didn't know how he would have been able to survive until now.
‘I know buddy, so am I, I am scared too, but everything is going to be alright.’ said Levi as he took his first step into the gate, he wasn't lying to Acnologia, he was scared but he could still stay calm under any circumstance thanks to his Gamer’s mind, he could only comfort his scaly friend.
Taking his second step Levi disappeared from the spirit realm as the rune circle collapsed and disappeared leaving only Vaatu and Tobirama in there.
Tobirama soon after faded leaving only Vaatu, alone like he had been for the past thousands of years, although this time thanks to Levi’s seals he didn't have to feel the passage of time, one could even say it was a blessing.
