Chapter 86

Astonished, Kyon took the cobweb between his fingers and checked how firm it was. It appeared to be much stronger, which was to be expected.

In the course of short experiments, he found out that the attribute of light added life to the matter. The spider had produced the web so quickly because the corresponding glands started working faster.

Kyon picked up two stones. The stone without the attribute crumbled into tiny pieces when he threw it to the ground. When he did the same with the second stone that contained the attribute of light, a barely noticeable crack appeared on its surface. The stone had become stronger.

Kyon caught the spider that was trying to run away in fear and mercilessly tore its leg off. Then he infused the arachnid with the attribute. Its leg grew back into something horrible. The faint of heart would wake up in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat after seeing that.

{I see. The spiders are not supposed to have limb regeneration. The attribute of light can heal only something provided by the genes, like a cut, a wound, or a bruise. Suppose I lost an arm... I don't even want to think about what would grow there... The light attribute can frighten worse than the attribute of darkness!}

Kyon sighed. The element of light had hardly any combat potential. He might need it in rare cases: to strengthen the defense and weapons, dispel the darkness. He could also use it for protection, recovery, or treatment.

However, Kyon knew that the attribute of light was not effective as medicine. It was more or less acceptable if applied together with the proper technique. Anyway, its efficiency was far from high-quality medicine.

Against all logic, it was better to use darkness against poison. The element of light could help to dull the pain, stop the bleeding and speed up recovery.

Kyon pinned all his hopes of improving his energy on the space element. It wasn't really an element, but the combination of darkness and light that was challenging to use. He would have to control both channels of light and darkness to make them work together in sync, ignoring the fact that both elements were the most complex ones. More than that, they were complete opposites.

Anyway, it wasn't an issue for a bright mind like his.

Kyon created a wisp of dark fog in one hand and of light fog in the other and gradually joined his hands.

When the fogs met, he could feel the spatial fluctuations even with his undeveloped soul. At the meeting point, the fog turned green and slightly sparkled.

In theory, darkness and light mutually destroyed each other, but instead, they created powerful spatial energy.

Kyon's pupils dilated. The bright green sparkles and emerald fog that looked like the northern lights fascinated and attracted his eyes...

Kyon came to his senses, shook his hands and opened them. This time the fog was green at once. It was easy to create. Kyon had synergized darkness and light. First, the elements came in contact, then they moved as a single entity.

It was unbelievable... It took Kyon a couple of seconds to master things that ordinary people learned for years. It wasn't easy to direct complex elements in the same way. However, Synergy had easily memorized the forms of the channel combining two different complicated formulas into one.

Kyon gasped in surprise when he found out that the element did not dissipate over time as it was connected with the channels. The darkness, light, pure energy or anything else worked only a short moment and then dissipated in the wind. The attribute of space was different. It could concentrate as long as the energy allowed.

Kyon started experimenting and discovered a few details:

1) The green spatial attribute was completely useless in the attack as the matter wouldn't absorb it. The green fog would do no harm even if it shrouded someone from head to foot.

2) The spatial attribute worked without violating the laws of physics and logic. To teleport a stone, he would have to infuse it with the element, create a proportionate amount of the element in the place of its destination, and activate it with the channel. The clouds would disappear after the teleportation.

The expense of the element required for teleporting depended on the size of the object.

Kyon deftly caught a fly and infused it with the spatial attribute. Then he created proportional clouds around himself and teleported the fly many times, not letting it fly away.

{This powerful attribute can do so much more... I am not going to use it for catching insects.}

Kyon created a dense green cloud in front of himself and directed it ten meters forward. The cloud slowly floated through the air like a weightless fluff.

Then he created another cloud and put a stick inside. After a greenish flash, the stick appeared safe and sound in the distant cloud.

It was an energy-consuming process to move the stick inside the cloud, but the energy expenses were reduced to a minimum as soon as the stick stopped.

Kyon grinned. He canceled the teleportation, and the stick broke perfectly in half. One half was in his hands, the other stayed ten meters away.

{Theoretically, infusing someone with the element, I can teleport their body parts and organs. Holy Moly! It's too bad the attribute hardly penetrates even a fly... It's a shame. On the other hand, it's even better this way. I would be scared to live here otherwise. What if someone teleported my hair... Ouch...} - Kyon ran his hand over his head with a heavy heart. His hair had grown only a couple of inches...

Suddenly an extremely dangerous idea came to his mind that he decided to implement by all means. Kyon created two dense clouds, one at arm's length from him. He directed the other one to the nearest dummy ten meters away. The attribute could easily penetrate his flesh, that's why he decided to teleport his arm and control it as if it were a robot.

Kyon nervously reached out to the thick cloud. This time the flash was much brighter. He could feel with his soul and channels huge energy consumption every moment his arm was entering the cloud. However, it wouldn't reach a critical level if he didn't rush. He should take it slow, or he risked losing his arm. Kyon felt nothing.

Meanwhile, his hand slowly crawled out of the second cloud, grabbed the dummy's neck and squeezed it tightly.

«Ha ha ha ha!» - Kyon laughed heartily. It was a strange, indescribable feeling. It looked like his hand was cut off, but in fact, it was ten meters away, strangling the dummy! It was like a simple hole in space between him and the dummy.

The energy consumption reduced to the minimum as soon as Kyon stopped moving his hand.

He could hold his hand like this for hours! Hardly anyone else was reckless enough to risk their limbs without many years of practice beforehand.

Kyon got another idea. He set flight parameters to the distant cloud… and it flew away with his hand, like in a lousy horror movie.

{Flying fist technique!} - Kyon thought, laughing. The soaring hand flew into his face in slow motion. It was so hilarious that it seemed like a dream.

Kyon's eyes sparkled devilishly at the next thought... He created a bigger cloud and tried to stick his head in there. It was too risky. One mistake and goodbye to his life.

It was a failed idea, anyway. As soon as the key of the mind element touched the cloud, Kyon's head did not move any further. {Oh yeah... I completely forgot... The spatial attribute cannot teleport souls tied to the keys. I need spiritual trigrams to do this...}

Kyon remembered reading about it and left his illusions behind. He couldn't teleport his body that easily. Unfortunately, the space attribute wasn't omnipotent.

Kyon experimented for a couple more hours until he learned everything he could. There weren't too many options. Ether had much more to offer.

Kyon had experimentally confirmed that the spatial attribute was useless in combat. It was impossible to attack with it. However, he could use it to create remote formations that would send various signals and information, such as wiretapping and video. Unfortunately, it was beyond his level at the moment.

He could launch a sudden attack, using a technique with the spatial attribute that appeared behind his opponent, or he could infuse a dagger, then move the cloud to the enemy's back and attack out of the blue.

{I wish I had a gun to teleport bullets and lightning-fast attacks... Uh...} - It wasn't the first time Kyon had thought of creating firearms. He would have realized this idea a long time ago, but in this undeveloped world, where even gunpowder hadn't been invented, he needed power and resources. He had neither.

The practitioners could feel the vibrations of any energy with their souls. Any traps, tricks, and sudden attacks were still a major challenge for Kyon. Take, for example, this cloud. It emitted perceptible noisy vibrations that everyone could feel. The level of perception depended on the cultivation level.

{I wish the attribute moved faster… What if I combined it with the wind... And even better with lightning! It would instantly appear behind the enemy.} - Kyon had to leave this exciting task for the future.

Kyon was a bit disappointed in the two most challenging elements. Their full potential could be revealed only in techniques and combinations with other elements. He had a lot to confirm yet. Everything was ahead of him.