48 Chapter 8 : Training (1)

It had been three weeks that James had been alone in the underground room, during his two weeks his activities were almost mechanical, in the morning he did 2000 push-ups, followed by 2000 sit-ups, 1000 crunches and meditated for several times, chaining Ten, Ren, Gyô and Zetsu.

After being completely exhausted he read the books at his disposal until he fell asleep and repeated the same process the lende again.

Every day James was trying to experience new things with his Nen, because of the limitations imposed by Survival World, he knew that his strength was too weak for him to survive in this world, so two ideas came to his mind.

The first one was to improve his control over the Nen, instead of trying to increase his amount of aura and if he was trying to increase his control, his accuracy and make the most of his Emitter capabilities.

He wanted to make the most of the capabilities so after two weeks he added another element to his training.

First of all he projected his aura out of his body with his left hand by creating a weak Nen ball which he tried to control as far as possible, the first day, the Nen ball managed to reach the distance of 10 cm out of his body before dissipating but after five days of intensive training the Nen ball could be controlled up to 20 cm before dissipating.

"Hahaha that really works." He laughs happily, before falling asleep and not waking up until the next day.

The next day, he woke up with great joy and continued his daily training.

Then a month passed quickly, James' hair grew longer and apart from stealing a few provisions outside and answering nature's call, he almost never went out.

In the meantime he doubled his training, he could now control Nen's ball up to two meters out of his body.

His Ten, Ren, Zetsu and Gyô became even better than before, reaching even the level of a real hunter, we could really say that he was getting better almost every day.

And a week later, when Nen's ball could be held three meters out of his body, James noted that his aura volume could no longer keep up with his consumption after that distance.

So he changed his process, he started to move the Nen ball in different trajectories, horizontally, vertically, sideways or even rotate the ball but his advances were incredibly slow which made James realize that what he was trying to do was not Emission but Manipulation.

An Emitter had an affinity of 80% with Manipulation, 80% with Enchancement, 60% with Transmutation and 40% with Conjuration.

So James was not worried about the slow pace of his progress but rather redoubled his efforts and meanwhile, his studies in alchemy were beginning to show their results, during his first month of learning, he didn't really understand the fundamentals of alchemy, he felt like a 6 year old child trying to learn quantum mechanics, but after the next two months he had perfectly learned the basics and was voraciously reading the books at his disposal.

A month later, James stopped his physical training because he had already reached the limit of his body, so he started to train his fighting techniques such as boxing and fish man karate.

He could now rotate Nen's ball and move it up and down in different simple trajectories.

He then wanted to start strengthening Nen's ball but the Enchancement was too energy consuming and because of his low aura volume, he was running out of energy too quickly, which affected his other trainings so he decided to try something else, the shape change.

In the beginning he had tried several methods like imagining a shape with his Nen or trying to compress the ball and knead it but nothing worked.

Then he gave up for a while and used his time on alchemy but while reading a book on the circles of transmutation, he understood the problem that was preventing him from moving forward.

The book said "Il is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to modify an alchemical movement once it has been started."

Once the Nen is out of his body, it is more difficult for him to receive commands

Only those of the manipulation or specialization type could perfectly manipulate their Nen once out of their bodies, so why not pre-program their Nen before throwing it out of their body, as if it were a computer program or an alchemical circle.