⚡️-REWRITTEN ELECEED ALTERNATE UNIVERSE-⚡️

CHAPTER 24: THE WHITE LION: JISUK YOO

So that's what this is really about? It's to test me so that they can put me into some sort of category?

What should I do? Fighting this guy off was already hard enough before, how am I gonna—

"You don't have to look so scared," he chuckled. Then, after a moment of seemingly self amusing silence, to my dread, a burst of wind-like numen surrounded him with a wispy aura, licking the air with sharp blades of wind and rustling his hair and clothes.

He grinned. "I'll go easy on you."

Wind? It's the same as Ihyuk. Kayden said that the Jiyoung lady has wind too...

"Are you just gonna stand there?" Unexpectedly he raised his hand, a shot of blade-sharp wind cutting through the air and writhing toward me.

Without any time to think, I boosted myself with numen again and lunged out of the way and back behind him at a distance.

He looked over his shoulder at me, "Nice speed you got there... is your ability related to speed?"

Another wisp of wind accumulated at his palm and personified a whip that lashed at the air and heavily scraped the concrete.

Narrowly missing a slash that clipped my ear, I jumped out of the way and bolted over another. Twisting from another dangerously close whip, I nearly ran into one more that swung right toward me. Had I not ducked in time, I imagined something rather extreme, that being my body sliced in half.

I'm getting nowhere by just dodging— this is way too risky...!

Fear churning my stomach, I darted around to coverage behind the rundown shed at the other end of the rooftop.

"What, you've got nothing else up your sleeve?" He laughed.

My best chance at incapacitating him would be by getting close to him. I've got to catch him off guard or else I'm dead meat if that whip gets me.

Thinking quickly, I dashed around the corner and advanced behind him.

If I use that technique Kayden showed me and gather my numen to my fist, I might just be able to do something to him!

Such words I thought as I raised my fist, mentally reaching within myself to grasp the numen from my core in that split second and guiding it into my fist.

Grasping and controlling numen was tricky. It was something akin to mental picturing, except you can see it clearly and how it circulates.

The awakened core dwells within the chest like an orb of condensed, swelling power that contains the essence of the numen we withdraw from and develop.

Since its neither physical nor mental, its a little harder to find, as it dwells in a separate 'dimension' if you will, that's also separate from the spiritual level.

And judging by the near solid image in my head of these twisting and writhing, vein-like lines that branched from my core and spread about the rest of my body, that was probably what Kayden called the potentia fluxus.

A separate pair of veins made specifically for numen.

It was that vision that helped me to understand and guide that withdrawn numen to my fist and condense it into a power-packed attack.

I swung my fist with such confidence; absolute resolution and belief that I was actually going to do something.

And oh, if the heavens didn't forbid, I certainly would have, in another timeline.

But Jisuk Yoo, the wind wielder with power and control that I shouldn't have ever hoped to win against, saw this attack coming and, with telepatory speed, disappeared from out of sight and away from my fist.