Rowan watched him for a while, Andar was not at his limits yet, but he was fast approaching, he would give him a few moments before he decided to intervene.
The girl Mira had a great technique for handling pain, but with Rowan's experience, it was not enough. The pain Andar was going through was on a scale of magnitude higher than what the technique she was impacting could handle.
Rowan was also partly at fault for this because Andar's physique was made to be very sensitive to all sorts of energy, everything that passed through his body would be felt far more deeply than everyone else.
For Rowan this would not be a problem, he craved such a thing, it would make his goal of understanding all forms of energies straightforward, but for the fragile mind of Andar, it may be too much.
What Mira was teaching Andar was to detach himself from the pain, and leave it behind while preserving his mind and mental faculties, this would not work for someone like Andar whose body was tens of times more sensitive than normal.
Also, Rowan did not believe in this approach to handling pain, his character had always been one that was intensely adamant and with his Empyrean bloodlines, his stubbornness had slowly been transformed into an unshakable faith in himself, that at the least could be judged as arrogance and at the most as fanaticism.
Rowan believed nothing could break him. Not pain, not despair, not loneliness, not failure, not loss…
Everything would come and it would pass, he would not back down from the fight.
Let the waves come, let them crash and churn, he would always remain, as unshakable as a Divine Mountain. He wanted to impact this character to Andar yet he wanted to be subtle, drastic changes would not work.
Rowan knew that they were most likely being monitored and he could not make extreme changes to Andar's character without inviting suspicion. What he could do however was to direct Andar's awareness about how to cope with the pain.
This situation was the best opportunity for Andar to change his mindset and grow. Finally deciding it was time, Rowan released a single spark inside Andar's mind — Rage!
It was just a spark, but that spark should carry enough power to light up a forest.
Then something happened that made Rowan astonished and even his main body far away stirred a little.
Andar's total life experience was short, and although it could not compare to the suffering and the harshness of Rowan's own, there were still lessons to learn, and sometimes children were the best receivers of experience, for their minds were still malleable and prone to change when stimulated.
This boy had been rejected by his mother on her path to find power, and although the Alchemist his master tried to hide the truth from him, Andar was not deceived for long. For all he knew his mother left him, because he was a failure, and her future was better off without him in it.
He understood then that in this universe, the only bargaining chip you had to play with was your personal strength. His mother understood it, and she left him behind, his Main body understood it. It was the reason he was fleeing to another galaxy as he grew his powers.
It was the reason his master had concealed him and paid the costly price to bring him the opportunity to come to the Trial Zone, it was all to give him the opportunity to stand on his own two feet and grow his personal power.
His Limit Breakers pushed beyond their limits to bring him here.
Mira used all her Scripts and followed his directions, just to bring him here.
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