Spiritual Training 1: Siphoning Feast!

Both Lex and Nina could hear Minerva's question, Nina giving a bit of a nod before answering her in the same manner of telepathy. 'Correct, this place is in tune with spiritual energy, far more so than the city we just left. If we want to train and test things out, it'll be best if we do it here. We won' be disturbed for one, and second... well, we won't be disturbed, that's all that matters.' she said abruptly, seeing the man beside her give her a sort of look as if to keep her from revealing too much. She got the hint quite quickly, so her attention went to Liacaru as she saw him dash forward in a bit of excitement into the cave.

Lex brought his hand up as he was about to mention something about him having to wait, but Liacaru seemed to have had already ran out of steam, allowing the man to lead the pack again before he presented the flower once again to what seemed like a random wall mountain wall in front of him. "Well Liacaru, we're here so we can all get on the same page. If we're to travel together, we're going to all need to trust each other right away, or this isn't going to work." he mentioned, the image of the wall fading as he was talking to reveal another forest, one that seemed even brighter than the one they had left to get into the mountain. However, this one was far more quiet, no sounds of insects, other wildlife, or even air seemed to be flowing through their ears as Lex stepped forward. "This, is the forest of my past counterpart's clan, called Konuma Forest; Nina's birthplace." he continued.

Just as the wall seemed to finally fade away in entirety, multiple feral creatures could be seen standing in a symmetrical line from each other, giving intense stares at the incoming of visitors in front of them. They ranged from just as small, if not smaller, than Nina's size; small enough to hold in two hands to over five feet on all fours, all of them being foxes. Each of them had different shades of gray fur as well, separately shining their own beauty from the questionable sun shine that peeked through the tree tops and onto the forest floor. But it was their deep blue eyes that seemed identical to one another, all of them seeming to scream out an expression of wary and caution as they kept their gaze fixated on the band of mavericks. Nina hopped down from Lex's shoulder and gazed at each one of them for a brief moment, not locking her eyes to anyone of them in particular for long before each one of them scooted a few steps back slowly in unison, giving them more room to step in before eventually walking away.

Lex made his way inside a moment later after Nina, seeing that it was safe and taking a few steps inside. Eventually he turned to look at the other two, now pressing a button on his scouter device and listening to it chime lowly from powering on. "From this point on while we're in this forest, let's refrain from using telepathy. If we can't trust anyone that's currently here, we can't trust anyone." he mentioned, now turning to walk even further into the forest. At this point he started glancing around, scanning a few things such as the trees and even the ground floor, hearing the necessary beeps and chiming noises confirming that he was scanning and saving the materials being scanned. "Hm... you know Nina, there were more of your kind here than I first thought, I may have to come back here and make sure you reconnect with these guys from time to time." he mentioned, trying to start them all off on some side banter to try and ease the air between them all. "Heh, don't count on it, knowing you, you'll be too busy with all kinds of tasks and not have the time to get back here. Don't worry, I've made peace with this place when I left the first time." she mentioned coolly, trodding along the man to follow him deeper and deeper into the forest.

Eventually he would turn to face the group again after reaching a good enough distance from the mountain entrance into the forest, feeling this was deep enough to not carry off any sound into the other forest or even into the mountain. "Alright, so let me cut to the chase; we're here to train. Minerva says she already has a means to try and see, detect and possibly even interact with spirits on her own without Nina siphoning her energy towards her, so that's good. I have a few ideas myself to go along with that just in case that method doesn't work. For Liacaru, it is imperative I think that we keep you nice and full off of spiritual energy and to see what techniques even work with making you stronger by our own hand. If your absorption ability works the way I think it does, it would be wise to figure out the best route to take in that regard. Nina can help the two of you in both of those avenues, I'll be training myself in figuring out how to siphon my spiritual energy into all of my other abilities so they can affect spirits. If you need me for anything specific, try to wait until I'm finished figuring this out. Just remember one thing while you're here; there's no need to rush. You're safe here." he informed, his arms crossed now as more and more spiritual energy began to build around his body, waving and swaying as if some type of light gray fiery aura around him.

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Minerva listened to what Nina had to say and noticed she had refrained from revealing more information. It was understandable. This time when they entered this somewhat eerie forest, they were greeted by the welcoming committee it seems. Multiple types of furry creatures watched with their beady eyes as the group basically made themselves at home here, practically uninvited guest from the foxes point of view, wondering how long we will be intruding upon them. Nina had dispersed them with a few words as far as Minerva could tell.

She nodded as Lex explain their reason for being here. Good, she didn’t want to waste any more time. Just as she thought, this place would be an ideal conduit for manipulating energy. She stepped near a tree and place a hand on it. She closed her eyes, breathed slowly, focused. cleared her mind and began to feel the forest within her. At first it was the living creatures, the foxes, the trees and grass she felt, then the magic in the air. Every minute that passed, subtle details became clear to her as if a fog was gradually being lifted. The unique signature of the foxes, trees and other organic beings were intense. She can practically feel them breath and vibrate, a pulse that represented their energy of all kinds flowing through them.

After some more time she slowly looked toward Lex. It just showed an organic and magic signature, nothing different from before. She then slowly turned toward Liacaru. Nothing...yet. Ok, she is going to have to spend more time on this. It’s been a few centuries since she wad to do some real work, but she remembered how this worked. She sat down in a cross-legged position still looking at Liacaru where ever he went with her eyes closed, trying to sense him. For a moment...she felt a tingle.