21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 243 - 240 The First Meditation

After leaving the hospital, Misumi Mikoto didn’t return to UDI, since UDI’s headquarters were in Musashi City, and the Eastern University Affiliated Hospital was inside Tokyo Metropolis. By the time she would have made it back, UDI would have already closed for the day.

So, after leaving the hospital, Misumi Mikoto chose to go straight home instead.

Misumi Mikoto, of course, had her own family, but she didn’t live with them, opting to rent an apartment by herself.

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It wasn’t that Misumi Mikoto wasn’t close to her family, but rather that her mother wasn’t her birth mother—she was her aunt, and her biological mother had taken the entire family with her in a charcoal-burning suicide when she was little. Misumi Mikoto was the only one who survived, and she was adopted by her aunt’s family.

It was precisely because of this experience that, even though her aunt’s family was good to her, Misumi Mikoto moved out after becoming an adult. Partly because of her job, and partly because she was still troubled by the events of that time.

However, this trouble was merely awkwardness she felt in the presence of her aunt; otherwise, it didn’t affect the affection between the members of the family. Misumi Mikoto had long since come to regard her aunt’s family as her own parents, and the only hurdle was the one in her heart.

Being very young at the time, Misumi Mikoto couldn’t understand why her mother would choose suicide for the whole family, especially since she had a younger brother two years her junior.

Over the years, she had always wanted to ask her mother why she had been so resolute in committing suicide with the entire family and why she deceived herself, who was only nine at the time, into swallowing sleeping pills.

But with everyone dead for so many years, Misumi Mikoto knew that her desire to confront her mother was just her heart’s own unwillingness to let go. How could there possibly be a way to get clear answers from the deceased? It was merely an obsession in her heart.

But now, it seemed there might be a way to address her obsession.

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Following a brochure on Meditation Technique from Kyuuzai Ryousen, Misumi Mikoto spread out her yoga mat used for her yoga practice and rummaged through her cupboards to find a little pig-shaped incense burner for summer mosquito repelling. She carefully inserted an incense stick given to her by Kyuuzai Ryousen, lit it, and placed it aside.

"Let me see, first, I should adjust my breathing, clear my mind, discard all stray thoughts," Misumi Mikoto adjusted her state according to the content recorded in the brochure, crossing her legs in an effort to focus her attention.

"Smooth and gentle breathing, keeping oneself in a relaxed state...

all right, let’s begin!" After reading the contents of the brochure, Misumi Mikoto understood the Meditation Technique, and with her past experience in meditation during yoga practice, she quickly found her state, and her gradually calming spirit, along with the breath control dictated by the Meditation Technique, kept her heartbeat and breathing at a very special frequency, forming a resonance.

The slowly burning incense emitted a particular scent, a specialty incense with a concentrating and calming effect that also amplified the senses of the soul, enabling a person to enter a state of meditation more easily.

But this type of incense was not easy to make, and it required quite a few precious materials. Even among the Transcendents, it was considered a rather expensive Cultivation Resource, not affordable for everyone.

If Misumi Mikoto hadn’t been taken as a disciple by Chen Yu, she too wouldn’t have enjoyed this privilege and would have, like most Transcendents, relied on her own abilities to adjust her state and enter meditation.

Under the influence of the incense, along with Misumi Mikoto’s innate talent, she quickly entered a meditative state.

In many fantasy novels, meditation is described as magical and exaggerated: the protagonist can see Elemental Energy during meditation, enter into a state of sudden enlightenment and so on, with one session of meditation surpassing an ordinary person’s year of effort, actively attracting Elemental Energy to form Magic Power Whirlpools, and causing various phenomena...

But in reality, meditation isn’t as exaggerated or mystical; although Elemental Energy does exist in this world and Meditation Techniques indeed attract the dispersed natural Elemental Energy towards oneself, seeing and attracting Elemental Energy into one’s body to form Magic Power Whirlpools and causing various phenomena...

unless you are the Child of the World with an entire world revolving around your will, all of that is impossible.

For Misumi Mikoto, what she felt after entering the meditative state was only that her senses seemed to be amplified, a feeling that was indescribable but real. She could actually sense the Elemental Energy in the surrounding space, albeit very sparse, with the only dense energy being from the electric wires in the walls of her apartment.

However, all of this was still a very novel sensation for Misumi Mikoto, something she had neither felt nor seen before, which inevitably brought her a bit of excitement. She even tried to touch the Elemental Energy that was roaming around her body.

Fortunately, Misumi Mikoto wasn’t reckless; she clearly remembered the precautions listed in the booklet. She refrained from trying to touch the Elemental Energy during her first meditation. According to the booklet, the first session was only about entering the state as much as possible, feeling the sensation of meditation, and expanding the range of her perception as far as she could.

With the aid of the burning incense, Misumi Mikoto’s first meditation was greatly enhanced. Her perception gradually covered the apartment she rented and even showed a tendency to penetrate the walls and expand outside. Still, Misumi Mikoto resisted the temptation to peer into her neighboring apartments with her new senses.

Instead, she let her perception spread out from the balcony and the windows, reaching into the open air to enjoy the feeling of a more expansive space.

The feeling of seeing with perception was entirely different from that with the eyes. Although Misumi Mikoto’s perception only extended to less than two meters from her balcony, a distance of around seven or eight meters from her person, what she saw was far more wondrous and distinct than anything she had seen with her eyes before, immersing her deeply in the experience.

As the incense stick burned out, Misumi Mikoto felt a wave of fatigue wash over her, and her perception, which had expanded outwards, retracted like a tide going out, leaving her wistful. She had to end her first meditation, for the booklet on the Meditation Technique clearly stated that one should meditate within their limits and stop upon feeling fatigued to avoid unnecessary damage to the soul.

After ending her first meditation, Misumi Mikoto excitedly flipped through the booklet on the Meditation Technique, wondering if she really mastered a Spell, could she communicate with her mother who had passed away, and finally ask the questions she had longed to ask all those years ago?