Nick stayed in his room for the rest of the day while jakob worked to grow stronger and the two girls finished their first tempering which they talked about with each other before leaving for their respective lodgings. nick was trying to create the next part of his cultivation technique but he was failing epically as each time he thought he had it right and asked the system for its input the system would tell him how the method would fail eventually killing him or causing some sort of horrible side affect like each of his bloodlines vanishing or his body becoming deformed. punching the floor to relieve some anger nick took several deep breaths in order to calm down. 'i don't get it , everything i try seems to end up going horribly wrong at some point!' nick thought vexed.

*ding*

*host seems to have made considerable progress and should not be discouraged.*

nick was stunned that the system seemed to be trying to cheer him up which once again made him think that it was sentient even though the system firmly stated that it was not. 'wait the system is so powerful yet works perfectly maybe that would work?' nick suddenly had an idea that sounded crazy but might just work for him. nick was going to try to make the method separate each of his different sources of power into different parts that all connected to the main hub of his power which was his core. in doing so he would be able to add more sources as he tended to do as he acquired them without having his power become chaotic and unstable. "system would this work?' nick asked hopeful.

*Affirmative*

nick was thrilled upon hearing the confirmation from the system of the viability of his idea. nick rubbed his chin while in deep thought "so how exactly do i accomplish this? what shape could i use to hold each part while still being part of a whole?' nick pondered but couldn't think of anything immediately so he gave up for the day and entered his meditative state that took the place of sleep for him. the next morning nick woke up and left his room only the see jakob fighting against about a dozen golems while blindfolded. nick recognized the goal of this to be to force jakob to become more instinct oriented in his fighting style basically copying nick. nick frowned when he noticed this as even though nick wanted jakob to grow to be his equal he didn't want his friend to become a carbon copy of himself on the battlefield. nick masked his presence before stealthily walking through the group of fast moving golems dodging each of them effortlessly before he stood in front of a clueless jakob. transforming only his arms so they had his full strength nick cupped both of his hands slightly before clapping them together in front of jakob as hard as he can.

the air between his hands was strained before shattering sending a massive shockwave straight into jakob who had no idea even though nick was standing just out of arms reach. the moment the shockwave hit jakob his eardrums burst violently while his whole body was pushed with equal force backwards plastering him to the sanctuaries wall with every blood vessel on his front bursting painfully from the sheer force that struck him. the last thought that went through jakobs mind before he passed out was 'why'.