When Victor arrived at the field, it was quite clear that his mind was not on archery. However, he was not a man who had problems with self-discipline. So, he gritted his teeth and devoted himself to archery practice. He trained for two hours. Although he had trouble focusing at first, he later devoted himself to his practice and completed his two-hour session without fail.
After two hours, he collapsed onto the field to rest for five minutes. He took a few breaths and gathered his breath. When his breathing improved a little, he stood up and started walking towards the house. He was walking towards the house with much larger strides than usual. Since the house was not very far, he quickly reached home. He was not fully rested, and when he walked fast on the way, he was out of breath when he reached home. When he looked at the clock, he saw that it was a little past noon.
He thought for a moment and came to the small gap where he took a bath. He did not want to waste time showering, so he took the wooden shower head and poured some cold water on his head. For a few minutes, cold water flowed over his head. During this time, his heart rate had also slowed down. He turned off the water and quickly wrapped his linen towel around his neck, preventing water from spilling on it. He wiped his head from his neck towards his hair and continued his life refreshed.
After quenching his thirst twice from the wooden cup on the table, he was now fully ready and would move to feel the dark energy again.
He took two deep breaths and confirmed that his mind was calm enough. He went to his bed and sat cross-legged. After yesterday's failures, he had become increasingly impatient, which made it easier for him to fail. Emotional fluctuations bothered him even more in this state. Now, when he sat down, it was as if yesterday's failures had not affected him at all. He felt completely relaxed and calm now.
He closed his eyes and prepared himself completely. Since his mindset was calm and empty enough, he quickly began to adjust his breathing rhythm. He stayed in this state for a few minutes and began to enter a state of forgetfulness. The only sound he heard from outside was the sound of his breathing, which he slowly adjusted to a certain rhythm. This focused state helped him easily enter yesterday's state and he began to feel the dark energy fragments he felt yesterday. When he felt these fragments yesterday, his focus was broken within a few seconds and he could not enter that state again. With the lesson learned from yesterday, he was now much more concentrated and could control his emotions much better. Therefore, his attention was no longer distracted and he could maintain this state.
Unlike yesterday, he maintained this focused state and chose one of the dark energy fragments. He focused his attention entirely on that dark energy fragment. He adjusted his breathing towards that energy fragment and slowly began to pull that fragment towards himself. His mind was completely focused on this goal. He stayed in this state for about thirty seconds and finally managed to pull that energy fragment into himself. Sweat had accumulated on his forehead and he was finally able to take a sigh of relief. However, just as he was about to break his breathing rhythm again, he refocused and saved himself at the last moment.
He had overcome the first difficulty, but now a more important moment had come. The energy fragment did not stay where it was in his body and followed his breathing rhythm, moving towards his heart. However, when that energy fragment was taken into his body, the body's reaction was also quite interesting. He was not sure how to describe this reaction. It was as if all the cells in every place it passed through were feeling a deep hunger for this energy and were eager to absorb it. This reaction was very strange. It was as if the will of millions of cells in his body was asleep and this energy had awakened those sleeping wills. He had never felt anything like this in either his previous or current life.
Before long, the energy fragment reached his heart, and the breathing rhythm announced its end at this moment, and now it would move to a new fluctuation, so this was the last stop for the energy fragment. Here, without maintaining its free state for too long, it began to interact with a heart cell on his heart. In the first moments of this interaction, Victor felt so comfortable that his focus almost broke again. It was like sending a glass of iced cola from the air when you were thirsty in a hot desert. Or it was like going into the sea after staying under the sun for a few hours. This feeling was indescribably good.
This feeling did not last long. As the energy fragment was absorbed more into the cell, the fuse of change was lit. He felt that tremendous changes were taking place in the cell and that the catalyst for the change was that single energy fragment. With the first spark, the cell grew several times and began to divide. The growth and division seemed unstoppable. This process began to repeat continuously. During this time, continuous division and growth began to form a prototype of a small organ there. Slowly, a small shape was emerging.
While this process continued, Victor also realized that he could completely see the heart region of his body and feel every change there instantly. It was quite a magical feeling. He had no idea how much he would have to strengthen to achieve such a thing normally, and this subject was not in the information either. Perhaps even the city lord was not that strong. However, at this first moment, everyone could achieve this inner vision. This inner vision was vital to respond to the change in the body.
The growth and division cycle of the cells had begun to slow down. In this process, an organ the size of a hazelnut walnut had begun to emerge very close to the heart. The formation process continued to slow down and finally stopped when it reached the size of a walnut. In terms of shape, it resembled a walnut, it was not exactly a sphere. It had protruding and depressed parts from its edges. It was very close to the heart, but it did not fully touch it, it touched only a small part of it. However, that energy fragment had not been fully absorbed yet and had one last task left.
The unabsorbed part of the energy fragment entered the walnut-sized organ and this heralded a new transformation. With this transformation, a brand new singularity was formed there and a reaction like water poured into hot oil occurred. As a result of this reaction, the small organ began to act like a dark energy magnet and began to attract dark energy fragments from its surroundings.
This attraction no longer worked with the breathing rhythm and did not follow that breathing rhythm. It independently absorbed dark energy fragments from the surroundings. This meant that Victor absorbed far more dark energy fragments than he could feel. The breathing rhythm was now completely shelved and was of little use. However, he did not stop following the breathing rhythm.
As energy fragments continued to enter that organ, he could feel that a small virtual space was beginning to form within that organ. The formation of this virtual space was fully consistent with the information in his mind. The virtual space was fully formed with a few energy fragments. However, it would be more accurate to call this formed space a virtual space seed, not a full virtual space. The boundaries of the virtual space were not yet determined. What would determine the boundary of the virtual space from now on was how much energy it could continue to absorb and how much it could withstand.
Victor gritted his teeth and focused himself as never before. He encouraged himself from his heart. He became determined to fight for his virtual space to be bigger and stronger. He would do everything in his power for this. Just as he was encouraging himself, a feeling arose from his heart telling him that he could stop the dark energy input and fully form the virtual space at any moment he wanted. However, he immediately ignored this feeling. He would not give up so easily, he would not joke about his future.
The organ formed next to his heart was called the blood seed and Victor decided to call it seed for short. The larger the space in this seed, the larger his energy reserves would be. Also, the larger the size of this space, the more energy he could use when blending his blood with energy. This blending would also be reflected in the time and the difference would be even greater for the cultivation time. This would directly affect his cultivation speed and one step slower would cause him to be slower throughout his life. Perhaps the difference would not be too great in the short term, but as time went on, the difference would become more pronounced.
Also, it would make a significant difference not only in cultivation but also during combat. Whether it is a talent, a skill, or a martial art, it is necessary to consume dark energy to use it and dark energy is stored in this area in the body. So, the difference between these areas is what determines how much talent you can use and how much you can rely on plain hacking. There is no need to explain the obvious gap between the two. This gap can become the gap between life and death.
Victor does not want to fall behind his opponent in any way because he can never know which small difference in which area will save his life. Perhaps he could have had a better idea about this if he had done a job like a killer mercenary or a real soldier instead of a law-abiding citizen in his past life, but there was no point in regretting it now and he could try not to leave an obvious weakness in himself.
For these reasons, the space in the seed was quite important. It was one of the most important things that determined and formed the foundation of warriors.
Although there was no information about this in the information in his mind, he guessed that the warrior families in the city might be using some medicines or extraordinary items similar to it to further expand the space of this seed. After all, those families had to distinguish themselves from ordinary people not only in terms of martial arts but also in terms of their foundations.
Trying to expand this seed space by relying only on himself without taking any extra things was a complete test of will. The formation of another organ in the human body, even right next to one of the two most important organs, the heart, had already created a sufficiently large pressure on the body. He had not felt it when that organ was forming, but as time passed, he felt that the body was developing some reactions to that new organ. It was like the rejection reaction in people who received other people's organs, but since this organ was entirely formed from his cells, it was 100% compatible. Normally, this reaction should not have occurred, but since it was formed in a very short time, the body itself would also produce abnormal reactions.
When these reactions started, Victor also felt a slight tingling on himself. His heart was also starting to beat faster than normal. Slight sweating and cramps in various parts of his body seemed to be trying to tell him that something was wrong in his body. In this way, slight pains and aches began to form in his body. A bitter smile appeared on Victor's face. These reactions had started before he even started to expand the inner space of the seed, he would be expecting much more than this in the coming minutes.