His hands were shaking when he received the package. It was a large envelope with a piece of thick brown leather within the paper envelope. The leather was so thick that it could be used as a mat.
The force diagram is the image drawn on the piece of leather. The leather was made from the skin of a powerful beast.
He caressed the leather material carefully and said, "It should have been made from the skin of a second coil beast. So the leather itself is precious."
He had paid a lot and done even more to get this force diagram. So he was a little wary when he received it.
It would be unfortunate for someone to rob him of it. It won't count as him breaking his oath, but he would be losing what he worked so hard for since the beast hunting center won't give him another one.
So he looked around with vigilance. Then he stuffed the envelope into his robe and descended the building.
He is currently on the fourth floor. So it took a long time for him to leave the building.
As he walked down the stairs, he acted as if there was nothing valuable in his possession worth robbing. But he still maintained a distance from everyone around him.
When he left the building, he didn't take a carriage. It was just too slow for him. Instead, he ran home as soon as possible.
His home was on the second street now, so it didn't take him long to reach it. It was only until he got home that he was able to relax.
He sighed in relief and took out the envelope from his robes. Then he took time to read the description written on the envelope.
The description said, "The Dominating Fire Force Diagram contains a force intent that will help those who have cultivated all three fire mana breathing, movement, and fighting techniques to grand completion. If any one of these techniques is lacking, then the force diagram won't help to reach the tenth transformation and beyond. If what the person cultivated is not a fire-based technique, the force diagram will only cause a backlash."
"The Dominating Fire Intent is very powerful, but it will cause a heightened sense of pride. This effect is mild if it is just used to reach the tenth transformation. But the effect will be magnified if it is used to transcend the first mortal coil. The pride can become so much that the individual will believe that they are unrivaled and invincible to a certain extent."
The descriptions were mostly warnings for whoever will use it. The first part of the warnings was about the requirements for the usage of the force diagram.
He had to reach grand completion in the three foundational techniques, or he wouldn't be able to reach the tenth transformation. This grand completion is marked by a 90% control of one's body.
90% control in the body and the cultivation of fire-based techniques are the minimum requirements for him to use the dominating fire force intent to reach the tenth transformation. If he doesn't meet the first requirement, the worst thing that will happen is that he will be wasting his time. But if he doesn't meet the second requirement, he might actually die.
If his body hasn't been transformed by fire, this force diagram will cause a terrible backlash that will injure him. If the injury is too much, he can die. So it is a serious warning.
As for the second part of the warning, it was talking about the side effects of using the force diagram. If he meets the requirements to use the dominating fire force intent and succeeds in using it to reach the tenth transformation, the intent will change not only his physical body; it will also change his emotional and mental states.
This side effect is unavoidable. Every force diagram will contain a force intent, which will affect his emotions. It will be the same even if creates the force intent himself.
Emotions are an important part of how much strength we can display. For example, a woman might not be able to lift a car tire, but if her child is trapped beneath something heavier than a car tire, she will manage to lift it.
It is because her emotions are intense in that moment. Her intense emotions overwhelm the limits that the mind had placed on her body to protect the body from overexerting itself and damaging itself during the process.
The body is capable of so much more than what it appears to be able to do. But the mind limits its capability for safety.
This limit prevents the body from exerting more than 50% of what it is capable of. If the body overexerts itself, muscles, tendons, and ligaments will be damaged.
Even if the body doesn't go past this limit, injury is possible, as seen in athletes and professional players in various sports. So the safety limit is a good thing for the body.
Even though the three foundational techniques erode this limit to a certain extent, the last part cannot be overcome without intense emotional outbursts. The body still withholds some power despite the fact that the body has been strengthened up to three times more than the normal human body at the third transformation.
This emotional outburst will override the safety limits of the body and let an individual use 100% of what their body is capable of. It is just that this emotional outburst is constant, not temporary.
The distraught mother will calm down after rescuing her child. Her strength will also disappear after she calms down. But that won't happen with the force intent.
The emotional outburst caused by the force intent will be constant. It will be of a lower intensity than that of the distraught mother since those at the ninth transformation already have control of 90% of their body.
Their emotional outburst only needs to overcome the remaining 10%. But it needs to continue overcoming this limit forever and ever. This is where the side effect of a force intent comes from.