The Dimensional Touch
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I am sitting on the ground as Lord Enzo discussing my training, and walking around.
"So Leonide," he said to me while folding his arms. "do you want to learn from me?"
"Yes!" I said.
"But to what extent?"
"To the extent where my bones will be broken, but my spirit remains intact!"
"Very well, let's get to it." He gestured to me to come with him somewhere.
We walked a couple of kilometers deep into the forest that's far from the school grounds and from the training grounds. I thought that the training ground is where we will train. I just kept quiet and kept walking. Then we arrived at a rocky area. The ground was all rock, and there were many huge boulders, and there is a huge hill of rock just ahead of us. Beside it, to the left, there is a clear stream that came from the cracks of the hill. All of it were surrounded by trees.
"Sit there for a while," he said as he pointed to a small rock behind me on the ground. It is far from the hill and just near the trees. "I am gonna show you a technique."
Woah, I don't know why, but I am getting excited about this.
"It is a technique that's been lost for a million years, and only me and the King knows how to use it."
"Woah," I exclaimed.
"Listen," he said in a serious tone, and I kept quiet.
"In the old legend, from scripture that the King discovered in his early days in a dungeon when he had a mission on Jupiter, there is a lost technique that not even the Original Olympians know. The scripture that the King discovered belonged to the ancient civilization that existed million years ago, that for some reason, they have been forgotten and annihilated by some invaders. The ancient civilization's name is Aruzhan."
He sure knows a lot of things...
"In the scriptures, there's a vast amount of writing that no one is able to understand. Even the God of Wisdom had a difficulty in deciphering it. But when he did, the King read all of it. The contents were merely recordings of their culture, so it wasn't that interesting for other gods. That's when he discovered the thing that is called, 'The Dimensional Touch.' So, let me show it to you. If you master it, even with no Olympian Strength, you will be as strong as demigods. Few are selected to be able to wield this technique, and we are yet to find out if you're one of us. So as far as I know, it is me and the King are the only ones who can use it."
"Humans can use it?" I asked.
"Yes, originally, most of the humans in that civilization can use this technique. And some ancient god created it. We are not sure, but it is someone like a 'God of Time,' but was never specified."
Woah... That could be a very powerful god. The ability to control time...
"So that's that for its history," he said. "Now, for the actual thing. Stand up, and watch me closely."
"Yes, sir!" I said as I sprang up in excitement.
He went to the closest boulder. "This is my restrained strength." He punched the boulder, and the impact was powerful, but a lot weaker than what he did to the kraken the other day. Debris came flying to my direction, and I protected my head from incoming rocks. That punch isn't restrained, it's powerful!
He went to another boulder and said, "Now, this is my restrained strength with the Dimensional Touch." He took a stance, and breath then said, "Fists of three." Then he delivered a punch to the boulder, and it's almost as if the boulder were reduced to dust as the impact destroyed the forest behind it. Trees and soil were flying away, because of the impact. His punch made a small valley.
"So much for restraint," he said. "I never thought it would be that strong. I miscalculated."
Damn, how strong actually is this guy?
"Come here, kid," he said and I hurriedly went to him, then he poked my forehead. And it was weird! It felt like he poked me twice! "What did you feel?" he asked.
"It felt... It felt like you poked me twice," I said as I massaged my forehead.
"Exactly, that's the Dimensional Touch," he said.
"What?"
"The second time that I poked you was another me from another dimension."
Whaaaat? "That's awesome!"
"It is," he nodded. "Now, for you to understand it further, I'll explain. The reality of this universe is that time is relative. You may be listening to me now, but I might be in the time I finished talking with you. Or even the opposite."
It is a complicated thing he is saying, but I think I can catch up.
"We exist in our past, present, and future. But for evolutionary purposes, we are only limited to see what is in the present. There's an infinite possibility of you being here a second ago, two seconds ago, three seconds ago, and so on. As well as you being here before a second, two seconds, three seconds, and so on. In short, there's an infinite 'you' in the whole time plane."
Wow.... That's awesome....
He continued: "Think of it as, what you did, and what you will do is predetermined and fixed, like fate and destiny. But we are able to shape our own destiny, are we not?" I nodded. "That's why we have the thing we call, 'Will.' The Will to shape our own destiny. In using the Dimensional Touch, you need an unbending Will to pull your past selves into one time - or dimension where your present self is existing. Pulling one will be very hard, and what I mean by hard, is that I was able to pull my first in my three years of trying to master this technique. The King took five years for his first. Up until now, we trained ourselves for this, until we are able to pull fifteen."
I asked, "So, if your Will is great, then your chances in pulling one is also great?" He nodded.
Wow, so he has a greater Will than the King? He really is awesome! I will definitely master this technique if I want to become the King of Olympus.
"You're quite clever for a child," he said. "You understood everything I said. That's good. That cleverness will be your greatest weapon. Don't ever stop improving it."
"Yes, sir!"
"Now," he said and pushed me down to the ground to sit. "live in the present."
"What?" I asked confusingly.
"Meditate there, on the ground, and don't think about the past or the future. Just think about what is in the present."
"How could I do that?"
"It's up to you to figure it out. And everything is up to you to take everything I am teaching you in three months."
He walked to the stream, while I sat on a boulder with a flat surface, and started to meditate. So he doesn't want to spoon-feed me, okay I get it. I can do this!
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Enzo washed his face with water on the stream. The spring water was fresh and he even drank a little bit. He removed his boots and sat on one of the rocks. Then put them on the water. He felt relaxed with the freshness of the water. All the while, he will constantly turn around to see how the boy is doing.
The boy's face is showing that he is trying his best to live in the present. Enzo thought, "To live in the present, one must let go of the past, and not worry about the future. Living in the present isn't something that is forced. His Will is greater than mine, and that is gonna be a challenge for him to even let go of the past and the future. The thing I want him to learn now is to anchor his feet in the present in order to win the tug of war against his past and future selves. It is the basics of fighting, which a warrior must first make himself avoid defeat, before pursuing the defeat of his enemies."
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