Chapter 108 - I’m Still Here
With my newly upgraded Law, there wasn't a lot I had to do before the wave arrived. I could have scrambled around putting last-minute preparations up but I didn't feel the need.
I was stronger now than ever and the wave wouldn't be that hard compared to yesterday's fight. The only one I really had to be wary of was the last wave. This wave, the 27th, would have the first E-Ranked boss but even that wouldn't be a first for me.
It would be different in that it was an E-Ranked beast this time instead of a human, but I didn't think it would be that different of an outcome.
This wave would have lesser monsters at level 44 and 45, with the four mini-bosses at level 47, all topped off with a boss at level 50. Only one E-rank didn't seem that bad.
It was when every monster was in the E-rank that there would be a problem, but I had just over a week to figure out how to deal with that. I hoped to have my Spirit Anchor by then.
Speaking of Spirit Anchors, that was how I spent my time before the wave arrived.
Meditation had never come easily to me and doing it in the cold only made it marginally better. The cold made it easier to relax and get into the right state of mind for the process but upgrading my meditation skill also helped.
It had a more pronounced effect now that it was upgraded which I hadn't noticed before. I had always used the skill as a self-heal to speed up my recovery but it was so much more than that. It helped keep me in the right state of mind without letting outside things distract me. It did nothing for my chaotic thoughts but I would take every bit of help I could get.
After trading for, and buying, all the information about Spirit Anchors that I could get, it revealed that they were most commonly formed during meditative bursts of insight.
It was one such meditative burst of insight I was trying, and failing, to induce. They typically formed from deep dives of introspection and were caused by insights gained during meditation.
A concept that was completely foreign to me and wasn't going so well. My bouts of meditation before didn't go well either but this was something that I would have to get better at.
Meditation was how people broke through into higher-tiered Laws and gained insights into their Spirits and a bunch of other things. It was the basis on which most people built their power base.