Training and Strengthening
In the basement of the Kaguya Clan Grounds, Sōji slowly opened his eyes.
The dim yellow glow of the Rock Salt Lamp came back into focus. Nearby, a droplet fell from the tip of a stalactite overhead and struck the stone floor with a soft chime, breaking apart.
"Drip, drip, drip..."
The air around him was dry and cool, carrying the mineral scent left by seawater seeping through the rock beneath the Kaguya Clan Grounds year after year.
There was no sulfur, no ozone, no smell of scorched earth burned by lingering Cursed Energy. The scents of Hajime Kashimo's wasteland had been cut off by the system in an instant.
His Six Eyes vision restarted at the same time.
All the Chakra around him flowed normally. The stele stood silent against the stone wall, not a single stroke added to or missing from its ancient text.
The Sealing Technique barrier around the chamber remained intact. Karin's Chakra moved steadily through the main building one floor above, not far from him.
How much time had passed?
Sōji instinctively glanced at the markings on the stone wall.
Only about the time it took an incense stick to burn had passed since he made the exchange. The battle in that separate Jujutsu domain had amounted to no more than fifteen minutes of sitting here with his eyes closed.
Then Sōji slowly raised his right hand. His fingers spread and curled shut again. An unfamiliar sensation surged through his Cursed Energy pathways.
His Cursed Energy flowed like water. After his breakthrough to Special Grade, it had grown denser and heavier than before. Now that density carried an entirely new sensation.
Electricity!
Sōji lowered his gaze to his right palm, deep in thought.
A thread of brilliant white lightning, fine as a