“Actual life”

Enopy didn't lack energy so he had no need for sleep, he stayed up the whole night and day which is now proceeding in to night, purely practicing the absolute pressure technique

He tried a bunch of things after his initial test he started practicing on objects like cans, fruits, etc. he initially started with cans at first he just applied basic pressure on it from above but then as he gained more control he tried to crush it from the side but he quickly realize that since it wasn't being pushed against some thing as soon as he use the pressure against it it would just fly away

After this test he tried to split his control and make The pressure focus on both sides of the can but he quickly noticed that this was almost impossible it was doable, but right now even with his great mental power it could barely control this technique and he required a lot more practice to use it nimbly

He was also able to make the pressure come from the ground up so he obviously tried to make himself float but he didn't have a good enough control to the point where he could balance himself and control the pressure so he tried it on a fruit

The test initially worked but after a few seconds the orange was crushed, the pressure wasn't actually making it float it was more like it was covering it and keeping it suspended in the air as if it was an invisible box filled with solid air

But he didn't freight he knew that as his control grew he would soon be able to at least make a platform out of the pressure and use it as steppingstones

His mind was drawn elsewhere as he thought about the topic, he quickly remembered that the more he focused on the absolute pressure the more he was able to condense so he formulated some hypothesis that linked with his other experiments but he couldn't fit it into practice just yet

He was slightly dejected he knew that for his current physical rank his mental power transcended all but compared to the techniques that he would be using once he got within the Society of Magis his mental power would definitely not be enough so he made it one of his top priorities to train with the absolute pressure technique and the use of his mental power

He knew that the inner strength fragrance technique was a very special technique after all it had multiple other techniques inside of it after it gave him access to the inner strength pressure techniques he knew that it was an inheritance left by someone a long time ago

"That small rock that i got the techniques from must've been some grand building or structure, probably after some incident it was reduced to that small" rock an idea quickly formulated in his mind due to this

"It was probably the war he remembered that Ervis had told him about some type of war, he didn't know what happened or how it happened but he knew that it had some grave affects, he could quickly look outside and see it for himself, The lands were completely barren, dead bushes could be seen but rarely at that, within the northern wind, grass and trees would be cut short due to the wind blades, but there was not even a single strand of grass for miles it was a completely barren, quiet, and dead

He turned his attention back to the inner strength fragrance technique the person must have been rushing when he planted the inheritance so far the technique had techniques that led up to the magic apprentice ranks so he thought that there would obviously be a cultivation technique for the magic apprentice rank, but there wasn't. another hypothesis soon formed in his mind

"Maybe the man was just extremely high ranked and didn't find any need for those techniques and thought that it would be no good to baby his successor, no, that doesn't make sense maybe that ball held the technique or something like that"

No matter how much hypothesis he formed he wouldn't have a truly accurate answer but he decided to drop the whole situation for now, but he kept the idea in his head "what if after i rank up in the magic apprentice ranks I'll get another technique or maybe I can just continue to increase my mental strength through blood"

But he quickly pushed the idea to the back of his head after all he wanted to use the blood and a bunch of other resources to push himself to the peak of rank one he would obviously be cultivating normaly but he might even break through to the next rank naturally but there was no harm in having extra resources

He calmed himself down, he decided to go and freshen up and then he would continue his training he didn't want to sleep because he knew that his sense of time was completely ruined and he might sleep for weeks Which would just be an excruciatingly painful waste

...….

Back in the demolished pretentious city

The team had Long since been there but they had no way to get in until now, they have been forcefully using methods to get in and they had finally succeeded, but they were instantly shook by the sight of toppled buildings covered by dense smoke, the explosion must've been extremely bad due to the fact that there were still multiple fires

They couldn't go in due to the smoke they it wasn't that they would suffocate it was a possibility after all they were still humans but it was manageable but they could still barely see anyways so they let a wind user push all the smoke out and within a couple of hours they were able to see clearly and breathe smoothly

...

Deep underground

"Apollo, w-we have to leave here let's just break out maybe will be lucky" Zeno said

He resembled nothing to how he was before, his bulky muscles had greatly diminished leaving a lot of extra skin but people could easily see his remaining defined muscles under the skin,!around him was a bunch of men that cultivated silently but they were all in the same state but even worse malnourished and skinny

People of their rank needed to have a stedy supply of basic nutrient after all their power relied on their body and their physical core so the nutrients that they needed were great and they needed them almost every day especially Zeno, their muscles and fat have been eating away to keep them alive

"No, as soon as I deactivate this barrier blocks and rubble will crash down on us even our best defensive techniques can't completely block that and even you will end up crippled, Apollo said he sat exactly where he sat before right in front of the door he was skinnier than anybody else in the room but he refused to look at anybody and continue to look straight into the dark basement where Enopy's clone body laid

Enopy thought long ago that his body had dissipated but now it was rotting, he didn't notice but the more information And freedom a clone gains the more alive it gets so after getting a bunch of information the clone had gained an "actual life" but Enopy are still in control of it

He couldn't have a great amount of these type of clones only a limited number of them could exist but he was completely oblivious to this

The clone could've definitely went down the path of a formation master and garnered a bunch of information which Enopy could've took back for himself and risen his proficiency but it would take a long time for him to realize this