Chapter 4: Ki/Touki

Chapter 4: Ki/Touki

~Albus POV~

Sigh…

Hot.

Burning.

Done.

Whew.

Just finished channeling my mana as I let myself get used to the sensation of being burned to increase my pain tolerance but it bears little fruit on how to release it.

But I'm cultivating my Mana portions though as I can feel that my Gate has gotten a bit stronger than it was before.

Even if it is a little bit.

Either way, I feel that my body is entirely on fire just doing the channeling of my Gate using Mana to course through it.

Painful as it is hard enough but surely worth it.

With my body completely burnt out in a metaphorical sense I began to try and open up a newer portion of my body or an attempt at least.

Touki from High School DxD universe.

Touki is, in essence, the external manifestation of one's life force, in other words, their Ki, which would be wrapped around them like an aura. Using this, a person achieves heightened offense, defense, and speed.

It also had the added effect of damaging others from the slightest touch and defending themselves from a wide arrange of attacks, while knocking them back too.

The reason why I want to learn this is mostly for me to use other energy other than relying on my Mana reserves.

Knowing that training my Mana reserves would consume a large amount of time I would need to focus on using other forms of energy to help me out.

The next step was trying to use Ki next or Touki as it's called in the DxDverse.

But Touki is much suited for those trained in Senjutsu who are able to use Touki through controlling their base of life, in other words, their own life force.

However, some can use Touki without formal training or practicing Senjutsu, all of which includes intensive physical training prime example is Sairaorg Bael to accomplish this feat so why can't I do it?

Granted I never trained in the art before nor any fair reason to I have now since I proved my theory of anime-related techniques working here so long as it can be taught.

Just needs the efforts to be put into work.

Senjutsu.

That would be a very interesting technique to have in my arsenal for plenty of reasons.

Senjutsu is the power to control the flow of life energy or ki in living beings.

Using it, one can strengthen both their internal and external bodies or even cause vegetation around them to bloom or wither.

Senjutsu users are able to sense the ki and auras of others thus letting them track targets from far away distances. It can be used to see through illusions by detecting the flow of the spirit or ki of others.

Would be best to have this skill against mind users or illusionists.

Senjutsu is also capable of dealing interior damage to others by targeting their blood vessels and internal organs, and by disrupting the ki of their opponent's ki or severing it, it is possible to cause direct damage to their spirit and life-force and using this as an attack could result in killing their opponent.

As such, there are very few ways to defend against Senjutsu.

Senjutsu can be used to disrupt the aura of others, thereby preventing them from using their abilities. Senjutsu is also capable of forcefully putting others to sleep.

By controlling the ki of others, Senjutsu can be used to extract curses and poisons from their bodies.

Senjutsu also has healing capabilities that are effective for either one's physical or mental condition, relieving any fatigue and restoring one's lifespan, however, this method requires physical contact.

Senjutsu users also have the power to use Touki, and use it to enhance their strength, speed, and toughness.

Although this sounds busted this isn't without its downsides of it.

According to the anime, Senjutsu has a fatal flaw, as while it lets the user read and handle spirit power, it could also take in the malice and ill will that flows in the world, potentially corrupting the user.

Something I'll try in the future but nowhere right now.

And how do I train to master it is simple.

The basics of learning and developing this is to understand yourself, others, and nature's ki, through focusing one's mind in a zazen posture, quietly releasing their ki, and sensing the natural ki.

So that's what I'm doing right now at the moment.

Already going into zazen posture I began to focus on releasing my Ki if any at all and try to sense the natural Ki of this world.

It makes things easier if I have my Gate empty out of Mana when I'm dead tired and empty of the fuel.

Makes it much easier for me to try and unlock it or at least the Black Clover version of it.

With proper training, Ki sensing can be used to predict attacks and others' movements, including natural objects and events found in nature. It can also be used to detect whether someone is lying.

How Yami said it to Asta was something along the lines of using your five senses then followed by visualizing something halfway between instinct and a prediction.

Breath in…

…

Whew….

Breath out…

Now I merely have to focus on the Ki of everywhere else.

Mainly try searching the Ki overflowing of people for a prime example.

With me emptying my Mana I can steadily remain focused on my Ki switching between the two till I can feel satisfied with the results.

Even then I know this ain't enough because eventually, I will need to learn other forms of fighting then after if I even want to increase my Ki output training is needed.

Maybe visiting to other places in Remnant should help broaden my experience or going with some missions of collecting some items will help me out.

Although I'm going to need to increase my experience.

For the time being though I should be concerned about the fact I'm going to need Lien soon enough since I'm broke.

The next place I should concern myself, for the time being, is where to go next as staying in the village and then moving on to find a place to call my own.

I could join the Ozpin group but that is not without some issues especially since I can use Mana as that was proven true of my theory.

No doubt he will try to add me to his group if he knew.

Still haven't decided on him just yet.

Salem is also a good option as well for plenty of reasons.

One of them being I won't have Grimm actively coming after me but also be against the good guys here.

But the good guys though... they have all the waifus more than Salem does… oh and death and all that but lack of waifus though.

Hehe enough talking with my lower head.

Regardless though I would like to have my options open depending on which one would I choose or be forced to join.

Sigh…

I just wonder how my existence will change things really?

Shaking my head, a bit I can choose to ignore the possibility for the time being as it's too soon to tell anything at this time.

For now, I have to focus on solidifying my own power for the time being.

I'm weak and learn to deal with it them overcome them.

Only strength matters so for now focus on accumulating power for the time being.

Still though the White Fang group…

I have mixed feelings about them as a whole.

Sigh….

Why do the Faunus always think that terrorism to have equal standing to humans is a good idea?

It is dumb.

Humans only ever bother with equality if it benefits them, so the most obvious solution is to build up an economy centered around Faunus and let the humans come to them instead.

I mean why not go steal some prospector's equipment from the Schnee's and go hunt for a dust mine yourself.

Then through years of planning build up a Faunus community like Menagerie and if you have the money you have options. Nobody cares for broke terror animals but if you are rich and successful you could be someone.

And history has proven time and time again important people write the laws.

For now, I have asking around to get some things that are happening around here.

Maybe some information about how this world functions would do.

Guess it's time to ask some questions.

How this world functions but with my lack of knowing people here that's hardly going to work.

I'm going to need to actively search for those answers myself to find the nearest information for me to have.

Sigh…

One step at a time Albus.

One step at a time.

For now, what will do nicely for me is to try attempting to use Ki/Touki.

Or try to unlock it.

If not work on the ones you can work with.