Chapter 744

"Then, Miss Ais, I'll go find Miss Fels and ask her about Parallel Chanting."

Lefiya told Sword Princess where she was going, then left Hearth Manor and headed for the Dionysus Familia's base.

Broly walked into the bathroom that still smelled of shampoo, took a quick shower, and soon walked out.

"Miss Ais."

The cleaned-up Broly called out to Sword Princess; Ais, having changed into a different outfit, walked over, though she was still dressed in white tight-fitting clothing.

"Mr. Broly, is something the matter?"

The Sword Princess girl who had come before him looked at the Saiyan boy with a puzzled expression, not knowing what he had called her over for.

"I said I'd help you increase your strength so you can take revenge with your own hands, and just now in the bathroom I thought of another way to help you increase your strength."

"Eh, what way?"

Ais's eyes brightened, and she immediately asked.

"It's Qi."

Broly didn't beat around the bush, answering directly.

"Is it the special energy you condensed at your fingertips, which Mr. Broly used at the Death Colosseum and when dealing with the Man-Eating Flower?"

"Right."

Broly nodded.

Sword Princess's current swordsmanship bottleneck isn't something that can be broken through in a short time.

However, status values can be raised by simply killing monsters to gain experience, thereby increasing them.

However, Ais's level is Lv. 5; monsters that can let her gain experience normally would at least have to be high-level monsters from the deep floors.

This is the surface right now; there aren't that quantity of high-level monsters for the girl to grind on.

Thinking it over, the only thing Broly could think of to continue raising the girl's strength was his own Qi.

"I have a 【Ki Control S】 Development Ability, and under the circumstance that my Development Ability 【Luck】 can be shared to you via Wing Skill Sharing, I believe this Development Ability 【Ki Control S】 should also be in a state of being shared to you."

"But I don't feel anything."

Ais was somewhat at a loss.

"A Development Ability is not a Skill or Magic, and cannot be activated simply by chanting an incantation or fulfilling some conditions.

For a Development Ability like Luck, if the drop rate from killing monsters doesn't have a tangible increase, one can't even feel it.

And Ki Control, I think it's the same situation; you, who have never perceived Qi before, naturally find it hard to effectively utilize this unfamiliar power."

"Then what do I have to do to use this power you shared?"

"That's what I'm going to do: teach you how to use Qi."

"What's up, what's up, Broly, are you going to teach Ais a new Skill or Magic?"

Tiona poked her head out from the room; she had obviously heard the two's dialogue in the corridor, just not all of it.

"Not a Skill or Magic, but a Development Ability."

Broly explained, and at this moment the door next door also opened a crack, and Ryu peeked secretly from inside.

"Is Qi a type of energy similar to Magic Power?"

Broly brought Sword Princess downstairs, right in Hearth Manor's hall, and gave her Qi instruction.

It's just that Ais couldn't quite understand Qi's existence, and would subconsciously try to mobilize the Magic Power inside her body.

"Magic Power represents Mental Energy; Qi is a more general term for energy — Body, Spirit, Life Force, all count as part of Qi."

Broly explained.

"Simply put, it's the energy mixed from Physical Strength, Magic Power, and Body Vitality, right?"

Tiona then asked supplementally from the side.

"Mm, you can understand it that way."

Broly nodded.

"But using Magic consumes Magic Power, swinging a greatsword consumes Physical Strength, and when injured the body instinctively performs Self-Repair consuming Vitality — these are all easy to understand.

But how, without using Magic, without swinging a greatsword, without getting injured to trigger the body's instinctive Self-Repair, do you use that special energy called Qi which you say is a mixture of these three?"

Tiona raised a question.

"When you imitated the Qi Refining Fist with me, didn't your bodies have any special feeling?"

Broly likewise raised a question.

"No."

Tiona directly shook her head.

"I could feel Magic Power fluctuate slightly, just like the feeling of being about to activate Magic or a Skill."

Ais did have a feeling, but the direction of the feeling was a bit subtle.

"Let me try again."

Tiona said, and once more copied the pattern, performing the Qi Refining Fist the Saiyan boy taught.

Her talent was not bad; just following along once, she had already learned it.

She closed her eyes and threw punches, seemingly following Broly's description that all things have Qi.

Attempting to use imagination to mobilize the Qi existing inside her body.

"Pfft—"

And when the final punch was thrown, an extra sound rang out.

"Eh, is this Qi?"

Tiona opened her eyes with a delighted surprise, looking at her fist and asking.

"No, you just farted."

However, Broly gave a negative answer directly.

Although a fart is also a kind of Qi, it is obviously not the Qi of Ki Control.

"Ah, this is way too hard~"

Tiona complained, directly plopping her butt down on the floor, and looked toward the Sword Princess girl beside her.

"Ais, you are the owner of the Wing Skill, do you have any feeling right now?"

Tiona felt that she couldn't sense Qi, it should be because she wasn't a Wing Skill owner.

"I can only sense Magic Power."

Ais shook her head, indicating that she likewise couldn't sense Qi, that existence of mixed energy.

"Truly strange......"

Broly furrowed his brows, originally thinking that since this world had the existence of Magic Power, teaching Ais to perceive Qi should be a comparatively simple matter.

But looking at it now, it instead seems a bit difficult; Magic Power, this kind of energy, instead disturbed the girl's perception of her own Qi.

This point, conversely, formed a completely opposite contrast with Sakura and Rin and them in the Type-Moon World; Broly also didn't know where the problem lay.

Hmm, this is actually a Falna problem; it granted the Reverse World some races originally unable to use Magic the possibility to use Magic, but also influenced those possessing Falna, their perception of other heterogeneous energies.

"How about this, you two give me your hands."

Broly thought for a bit, then extended his palms toward the two.

"What are you doing?"

Tiona asked, reaching out to grasp the boy's hand before her; Ais did the same.

"Like this, can you sense my Qi?"

After their palms clasped, Broly transmitted his Qi over, asking the two.

"There's a feeling, warm and cozy."

Ais replied.

"This is Qi?"

Tiona was somewhat surprised.

"Next, I will use my Qi to circulate in your bodies; you see if you can follow my Qi to mobilize your own Qi."

Broly decided to adopt a hand-in-hand guidance method, to let Ais and Tiona, who was incidentally interested in Qi, perceive the existence of Qi.

However, the Qi had only spread a short distance up along the two's palms; correctly speaking, it hadn't even exceeded half the forearm's distance, when Broly suddenly discovered his Qi had dissipated.

【No, that's not right......】

Broly carefully sensed, and discovered this should not be dissipation, more like it was absorbed, just like the hands-off effect produced on someone else after healing magic is released.

Broly did a verification, and discovered that after Qi was released beyond a distance of two centimeters from the body, it would become a state of being out of his own control.

Aggressive Ki Blast tricks are still normal; those monsters killed by the Finger Sword can testify, but gentle, non-aggressive Qi, instead seems to be treated as a trick to instantly replenish someone else's bodily energy.

Alright, Qi indeed can be used this way, Broly knows this; it's just that his Qi starts going out of control after leaving the body by two centimeters, that was a bit unexpected for him.

【Is it because of the Overweight Training Skill's influence?】

Regarding the reason for his short Qi, Broly could only think of this.

"Mr. Broly, what's wrong?"

Ais felt the warmth stop at her forearm, not extending upward for a long time, and couldn't help but ask.

"My Qi is a bit short right now, unable to circulate through your bodies just via handshake; I may need to move my palms and change the parts of your bodies I touch, to achieve guiding Qi to circulate through your whole bodies; Miss Ais and Miss Tiona, can you accept me doing this?"

Broly came back to his senses and asked the two.

"Uh, just like what you did for us with massage last time?"

Tiona asked curiously.

"About the same, only, it might pass through some parts that weren't passed through during last time's massage."

Broly nodded.

"Then no problem."

The Amazon girl said carefreely.

"Then Miss Ais first."

Ais nodded, not refusing to go first.

Regarding this, Tiona didn't contest either; she knew she originally came just to mooch benefits.

Ryu listened at the side, at first not understanding what was to be done next.

But waiting until the Saiyan boy's hand, moved up along the Sword Princess's hand.

From forearm to upper arm to shoulder, then from shoulder toward the back and on toward the waist.

When it was about to touch the butt, this elf lady responsible for spying finally reacted, hurriedly stepping out to stop them: "Stop, stop, what are you two doing?"

"Uh, I'm helping Miss Ais sense Qi, what's the matter?"

Broly looked at her somewhat strangely.

"I know, but do you need to touch even the butt?"

Ryu felt that a part like the butt still needed to be avoided.

"Uh, my Qi can currently only project a distance of two centimeters; not touching like this makes it hard for Miss Ais to clearly sense the situation of Qi circulating through her whole body."

"Ah, if you put it that way, you don't just have to touch the back, you have to touch the front too?"

Ryu widened her eyes and asked.

"Mhm, it's like that."

Broly nodded.

"Miss Ais, aren't you going to say something?"

Seeing the boy admit it so frankly, Liu felt somewhat powerless; she wanted to say something, but didn't know what she should say. After all, Xier still hadn't decided what to say, which really left her with no standing to tell the boy some "shouldn't be like this" words. She could only look toward the seated Sword Princess girl being touched and ask.

"Uh..."

Hearing this, Ais blinked, looking at the elf's somewhat serious expression, pondered for a moment, then said: "It's fine, Miss Liu. If being touched can make me stronger, I'm very willing to be touched by Mr. Broly."

Liu: "..."

Seeing Miss Elf fall silent, Broly continued circulating Qi through Ais's body.

"Mm..."

As his palm gradually approached the area of her heart, the Sword Princess girl's face grew redder and redder.

But this wasn't shyness, rather...

"Ah, I seem to feel it, the existence of Qi inside my body."

Ais said, her breathing slightly hurried.

"Mm, the heart is the source of the body's vitality; this place is likewise where the body's Qi is most abundant."

Broly's hand stopped on Ais's heart; he could clearly feel, beneath his palm, the Sword Princess girl's heartbeat growing strong and powerful as his Qi guided into it.

"Miss Ais, quickly control your Qi, make it spread to those places I just touched."

Broly hurriedly said.

"Mm."

The Sword Princess girl agreed, and the Qi in her body activated by Broly began to consciously circulate under her control.

"Ais, what do you feel right now?"

Tiona asked curiously from the side.

"A feeling like activating Wind Spirit Sprint, my body temporarily strengthened."

After perceiving Qi, manipulating it seemed no problem; Ais even had spare capacity to answer the Amazon girl's question.

"Remember this feeling, I'm withdrawing my hand."

Broly reminded her; Ais nodded.

However, when the Saiyan boy withdrew his hand, the Sword Princess girl still couldn't help letting out a muffled grunt.

"What's wrong?"

At the side, Tiona hurriedly asked.

"Nothing, just the strengthened feeling suddenly weakened a lot."

Ais replied.

"That's natural. After my Qi withdraws, what continues maintaining the body strengthening amplification effect on you is only your own Qi."

Broly explained.

"Mm."

Ais could understand, but this feeling of her body suddenly filled with powerful Qi, then suddenly having that powerful Qi withdrawn, still gave her a subtle sense of emptiness.

A bit like doing the act of love halfway through, not yet satisfied, then suddenly pulled away by the partner.

"Broly, since Ais is fine, let me try too."

Seeing Ais was fine and starting to practice Qi Refining Fist on the side to familiarize herself with the Qi in her body, Tiona also began urging Broly.

With the experience of activating Ais's Qi, Broly was familiar with the process and also activated the Qi inside Tiona.

However, perhaps because Tiona wasn't a Wing Skill holder and hadn't shared his Development Ability 【Ki Control S】, the Qi activated in her was nevertheless over ten times weaker than Ais's Qi.

But upon learning this, Tiona wasn't disappointed at all; instead she smiled and said: "Being able to have an extra means to amplify combat ability, I'm already very satisfied."

The optimist that she was, she looked completely free of internal friction.

Suddenly, Tiona thought of something, looked toward the Tavern Elf watching the whole process at the side, then said to the Saiyan boy: "Right, Broly, such a good thing as Qi, you help Liu develop it too."

Hearing this, Broly looked at the Tavern Elf: "Liu, do you also want to learn to use Qi?"

"Ah, this..."

Questioned by the Saiyan boy, Liu subconsciously took a step back.

"I don't need to..."

Before the refusal was finished, Tiona flashed behind her.

"Don't be so polite. Didn't you say in the bathroom you came to find Broly to break through your strength bottleneck? Hurry up and sit down and accept the Qi baptism."

Liu: "..."

The clumsy residence excuse wasn't told to Broly, but was spoken when questioned about her purpose by the Loki Familia girls in the bathroom.

She originally thought it was just a passable perfunctory explanation, but now Liu had a feeling of lifting a stone only to smash her own foot.

But could she say now she came to spy, not to improve that so-called strength?

Mm, that naturally wouldn't work anymore.

So this Miss Elf could only close her eyes, bite her lip, and silently accept the entire process of the Saiyan boy developing her Qi.

Compared to Ais and Tiona, Liu's reaction seemed overly sensitive; by the time she could feel Qi, her face and ear tips were already the color of red apples, and her body was even trembling slightly.

"Uh, Liu, done."

When Broly said this, Liu practically breathed a sigh of relief.

【Just treat him as a child who hasn't grown up yet...】

Liu's face was somewhat peach-red; she glanced at the Saiyan boy, silently telling herself this in her heart, and quickly returned to normal.

"You can feel Qi, your strength increased, but you look like you're not very happy?"

Tiona looked at her, asking with some puzzlement.

"Thank you, I'm very happy, just not good at expressing inner happiness."

Liu's face, which had recovered into a block of ice, Directly Broke Character because of the Amazon girl's words; she Barely tugged out a Stiff smile on her face to express her joy at the increase in Strength/Power.

(Chapter End)