As Adrian opened his eyes, he found himself at the field of glory lying on the flowers. Confused of how he got here he proceeded to get up, looking around to see nothing but himself there. He was getting quite worried until he heard a familiar voice "Adrian good you're here," said Leon.
"Where am I," replied Adrian
"This is your Soul space. It is where I reside now and this is also where your training will begin," replied Leon.
Many questions where going through Adrian's mind at this point things where moving quite fast for him and with his limited knowledge this was all getting a bit out of hand and this was all too apparent for Leon. He knew that Adrian was going to need answers and so he began to talk.
"The Soul space is where all your power is kept. This is where your Soul energy is kept and where your Soul creatures resides as well. I have brought your consciousness here to train and make you more powerful,"
Adrian was beginning to understand where he was at least he just wondered why his Soul space looks like the Field of Glory. He thought that because his consciousness was here maybe it was made by his mind to make him the most comfortable, he was beginning to think of a new theory when he heard Leon's voice again.
"Normally people wouldn't be able to bring their consciousness here as it would take tremendous power and an understanding of the soul. But you have me and because we now share the same soul. Bringing you here was a piece of cake no-
"What do you mean we have the same soul," interjected Adrian he felt like a child asking more and more questions.
"Well it's a long story but think of it as you were chosen to be more exact my chosen. And being a chosen means that we share the same soul, that's why I was able to give you my soul so easily. Look Adrian even I don't a lot about this shared chosen one stuff the information has just always been in my head," replied Leon
Adrian wanted to pressure Leon into answering more questions, but it did seem like the lion didn't know too much about this whole chosen business but that didn't mean it still didn't rub Adrian in the wrong way. He felt like there was something at play here, something big.
Putting all these thoughts from his mind Adrian decided he needed to check what type of equipment he had gotten from Leon and the moment Adrian thought of it a golden light shone and in front of him was some armour covered in what seemed to be an orange yellowish cloak with a lion's head.(go here to see what the armour looks like. I would describe it, but I suck at describing armour. Just imagine the fur to covering more of the armour kind of like a cloak and for the fur to be brighter and a more orange yellowish colour https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/comments/7s770q/please_give_centurion_a_lion_head_ornament/ all credit for the art goes to the original artist)
While the armour did look great and Adrian could feel the power coming off it somehow it didn't feel right like it was incomplete.
"look at what it has become, nothing compared to its full power," said Leon with a hint of sadness in his voice.
"What do you mean,"
"This is not it's true power it has been reduced down to this until you gain enough power to use it," replied Leon "If you wore the full armour now your Soul no matter how connected it is to mine, it would shatter from the sheer power and you would die. I mean it is really rare that someone at your level could even get a legendary creature So, it has become this until you are ready,"
Adrian cursed himself for being so weak, if he had been stronger, he could have used the full power of the armour. While he was still annoyed with himself, he decided that it was about time he did something about it.
"Leon teach me, you said this could be the perfect training ground, so teach me,"
In an instant an armoured golden lion appeared in front of Adrian and with a smile on his face no matter how creepy it looked Leon said, "Let's begin your training,"
First Leon began by explaining what Soul energy was, he said that it was the essence of the world and could be found everywhere. He also said that absorbing Soul energy throughout the world would help increase his power and through this Adrian would be able learn higher levels martial arts as the stronger his soul energy the more power he could hold, and the closer his true armour would be revealed. It would also help in the understanding of Soul creatures if he got any new ones, but Leon said that he would elaborate on this later. But before Adrian could start learning techniques, he would have gone over the basics of Soul energy manipulation. Leon had told him that he had to have a clear goal of what he was doing with his energy, and this was the easiest way to use it and access it's power. So, his first task was to get his energy to flow through his body. Leon told him to imagine it like a flowing river going through his body as this would allow his Soul energy to wash over him making it easier to use. Adrian sat down on the ground, flattening some of the flowers. He was still surprised of how real everything felt but decided not to dwell on it. As instructed, he imagined water flowing through him going, through many different paths as it went over his body and that's when he felt it. There was this power coursing through him it wasn't anything remarkable, but Adrian could feel his body being enveloped a faint golden aura. Leon told him that he seemed to have a knack for Soul manipulation, as it could take months for a beginner like Adrian to pick his soul energy and because of Adrian's speed Leon had his creepy lion smile on his face again. Leon also told him while the Aura could be seen here it could not be seen in the physical world until Adrian got quite a lot stronger. Adrian repeated this process repeatedly and hours started to fly by. Leon wanted Adrian to activate his Soul energy in an instant not even having to imagine the flowing water and after hours of training Adrian finally was able to do in a blink of an eye. But sadly, his Soul was still quite weak, while Adrian seemed to be quite could at manipulating his energy now, he had to make it stronger far stronger than what it was now if he truly wanted some amazing results.
Leon told Adrian that he would have to increase his Soul power in the real world through and that he would also have to become physically strong in the real world as if it wasn't Soul related his physical appearance would not change while training in the Soul space. And so, to compete this one weakness of the Soul space Leon decided to give Adrian his first technique and it was called Lion's strength a skill developed and named by Leon of course. Leon told Adrian that he wasn't really that good at making up names for things when he saw Adrian laughing at the name of the technique as he had expected something grand, but Leon did think it sounded cool enough. The technique turned out to be a body conditioning skill that at the full power could have the original strength of Leon. Adrian found this very exciting as this would help change his physic quite fast without having to do months of exercise in the real world.
More and more hours went past as Leon helped Adrian break into the first level of this technique. It required Adrian to condense his energy in major parts of his body making them stronger and stronger. This had been quite hard for Adrian in the initial couple of hours as he was quite used to flowing the energy through him but just as Leon predicted he picked condensing faster than most would have. Leon told Adrian that the effects of this training would show when Adrian had woken up as his body would be different. He also said that without increasing his Soul energy power this technique would not have help Adrian condition his body as the rate would slow down to a stand still in the later stages.
By Leon's understanding Adrian had been in the Soul space for a day. He had been quite happy to see Adrian have a knack for Soul manipulation as that would make his training a lot easier and compared to other people like Adrian coming from a poor back ground with no experience in Soul energy, he was a genius maybe even better at it than many nobles that Leon had met through his travels.
Leon looked at Adrian realising time was up and said, "It time to wake up,"
And with that Adrian found himself in his normal room again excited for what the day would bring.
I was planning to release a couple of days ago but I reworked the chapter to make it what I really thought was the best way to continue the story sorry for the wait
I wonder how many times I said soul in this chapter