5 - Chapter 4 - Day 97
Adya had finally done it. She had spent the last 37 days in and out of deep meditation trying to get her mana to react the way she wanted. It had been hard. She had no experience of manipulating mana directly within her soul. Hence she was delighted that she'd actually managed to compress one unit of mana and crystallise it. Just as she had predicted it appeared in her soul storage directly.
Adya used [Analyse] on the newly created item.
[Analyse: Mana Stone, Mana Density Rank 1, Mana 1]
Adya stared at the popup. This was just a start for what she wanted to do. She smiled as she lay in her crib happy at having achieved something she hadn't even managed in her previous long life.
Now the hard work started, the proof of concept was a good start but she needed more. First she needed to get to at least 100 mana per crystal. Then she would try and use her parallel processing trait to try and automate the process. Lastly she wanted to see if she could use her regeneration to create the mana stones instead of her stored mana. If she could automate the process then she could potentially create unlimited wealth while doing other things. Who wouldn’t want unlimited wealth.
She was growing and getting stronger daily, but it would still be some time before she could get to the point where she could even start to learn about this new world in any meaningful way. Her new personalities were still processing vast amounts of knowledge and memories and were not available to her just yet.
Adya had been ignoring her notifications during her meditations to not get distracted. She was sure the adults around her found her weird as she never really called them or cried. She had heard more than a few comments from Sally and her mother about how unusually quiet she was. This had led to Healer Simon visiting and examining her every 3 days since she had woken back up from her impromptu, forced nap.
She decided to bring up her notifications before proceeding with the next step in her plans.
[Meditation skill has increased from Level 1 to Level 5]
[Scan Detection skill has increased from Level 1 to Level 5]
[Soul Mana Manipulation skill learned]
[Soul Mana Manipulation skill is now Level 1]
[Soul Mana Manipulation skill has increased from Level 1 to Level 9]
She had expected to learn mana manipulation but had not realised that the soul version was a different skill entirely. Of course with Healer Simon scanning her regularly her scan detection skill had also levelled. She was now aware of exactly what the Healer was looking at as he scanned.
She decided to view her full status as well just to remind herself of where she stood.
System query: display full status
Entity status
Name: Adya Gurg
Body: 1 [x3125] [x1.0] [x1.0]
Mind: 1 [x823,543] [x1.0] [x1.0]
Soul: 1 [x823,543] [x1.0] [x1.0]
Cultivation Stage: Rank 1 (Initiate)
Stamina: 3,125
Stamina regeneration: 31 per minute
Willpower: 823,543
Willpower regeneration: 8,235 per minute
Mana: 823,543
Mana regeneration: 82,354 per minute ( dependent on sufficient ambient mana)
Mana density: Rank 1 [x1]
Essence: 0
Entity 1:
Class Ranger (Rarity Rank 8 - Guru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 2:
Class Scholar (Rarity Rank 8 - Guru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 3:
Class Warlord (Rarity Rank 9 - MahaGuru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 4:
Class Font of Knowledge (Rarity Rank 9 - MahaGuru) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 5:
Class Merchant (Rarity Rank 7 - Grand Sage) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 6:
Class Diplomat (Rarity Rank 7 - Grand Sage) - {Hidden}: Level 1
Entity 7:
Class Child (Rarity Rank 1 - Trainee) - {Displayed}: Level 0
[Artificial limit engaged to avoid damage]
Body: Limited to 2
Mind: Limited to 2
Soul: Limited to 2
General Skills
Meditation: Level 5
Scan Detection: Level 5
Soul Mana Manipulation: Level 9
Personalities
Mai: Assimilating data (83 Sol cycles)
Sai: Assimilating data (263 Sol cycles)
Traits
Trait 1: Universal Language Guru (Rank 8)
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Trait 2: Soul Storage (Rank 11)(MAX)
Trait 3: Perfect Loot Perfect Essence (Rank 8)(MAX)
Trait 4: Parallel Processing (Rank 8) - Capacity 4 Cores
Trait 5: Perfect Memory Processing (Rank 8)
Adya had no idea what the actual impact of her classes was on her, nor did she understand the significance of hidden versus displayed class. She did notice that all her limited base stats had increased to 2. She put this down to her growing and physically getting stronger.
Finally Adya looked over the various regeneration rates for her base stats. Her mana regeneration was at an insane level. In her cultivation life, even approaching the level of a true immortal she could not regenerate so much mana in a day let alone one minute. Her regeneration for willpower, whilst lower than mana, was still insane. Lastly it looked to her that she could heal from most injuries by herself in around 10 hours. At her regeneration rates she wouldn't even have time to notice getting injured before she was back to full health.
At present her regeneration was being wasted, as she didn’t have any pools to use due to the artificial limit. She decided to see if the system would provide her with any further information on how to increase her pools.
System query: how do I remove the artificial limiters on my resource pools.
[Resource pools have been capped as part of the protection protocols and further limited due to physical limitations.]
[To fully utilise resource pools, base attributes must reach 10.]
[Warning: removing resource pool caps will remove partial protection.]
[Warning: removing resource pool caps will enforce Scion protocols.]
System query: what protection and what are Scion protocols
[Insufficient authorisation for system query]
Adya looked on in shock, this was the first time the system had refused to answer one of her questions. She didn’t have any idea what protection was in place nor what the Scion protocols alluded to. She would have to add it to the list of things she would have to research when she could.
Adya went back to her original plan. She needed to get strong enough to walk and reach a physical development to be able to speak to start to really research anything. Realistically she would have to wait another 3 months to start walking and another 9 months to start speaking. That would put her at a precocious level and get her recognised as a genius. Any earlier and she could find herself being accused of possession or bring a reincarnated demon. Whilst she wasn't sure that she would definitely be accused, or if those superstitions existed in this world, it was always better to be careful.
Having investigated what she could, Adya turned her focus back to creating mana stones. She started to defuse her pool mana into the air, emptying her body whilst meditating on her body and soul connection. Adya wanted to identify where the mana in her body was filling from and how the regeneration actually worked.
She slowly examined every part of her physical body, moving on to the soul body whilst continuing to push out all mana from her body. As her focus persisted Adya noticed a minute trickle of a blue energy defusing from the soul connection points into her body.
The blue energy felt heavier than it had on the cultivation world, but it was still in a gaseous state and prevaded her body like a fine mist. She focused out to view her whole metaphysical being, trying to seek her body and soul in its entirety whilst also tracking the mana diffusing into the air from her body and and the mana diffusing into her body from the soul.
She watched the same amount of mana being pulled from somewhere into her soul, moving into her body and then being expelled out into the air. As she continued this practice, the scientist in her was fascinated by the process being visible without any instrumentation. She kept the focus and actively started to try and manipulate the mana not in her body or soul, but at the transition point between the 2.
As she focused her mind on the task, Adya started to see a light green energy that she didn't recognise appearing in her body, being consumed, and then being refilled from the same soul body connection points. Mana was entering her soul faster, but it was turning into a fine green mist at a much slower rate before diffusing into the body. The energy didnt feel like mana and didn't react to mana manipulation.
Adya, fascinated by something she had never experienced before, carried on watching, probing and trying to manipulate the green energy. She racked her memories and past experiences trying to understand what green energy could be. The scientist in her tried to measure the difference in diffusion speed from the mana. It was significantly slower, as she estimated the difference in the volume of the energy , it felt to her like the green energy was between 50 to 100 times slower than her mana.
As she thought about the numbers, it clicked. The green energy regeneration rate compared to mana regeneration rate fit her willpower regeneration figures from her status. Adya was astounded. This phenomena created so many questions. If she could see both mana and will power energies entering the body, surely stamina followed a similar process?
Adya started scanning her body and soul again, going even slower. Stamina regeneration was miniscule compared to mana and even will power, almost 300 times less than willpower and almost 3000 times less than mana. Adya would have to pay attention to the smallest of details.
Adya focused on her blood circulation and oxygen transfusion and finally saw the smallest amounts of a very fine red energy diffusing into her body. The red was almost lost in the redness of the blood and internal organs. Adya once again followed the process backwards and noticed that mana was being converted from the soul/body gates into the red energy.
Adya finally understood how she survived being unconscious for such a long time with no nutrition. The soul was converting from mana to stamina! This was not something achieved by mortals who needed to consume food to replenish stamina. It seemed she had already achieved a high level of body cultivation and could use mana as a substitute for stamina. Of course as a growing baby, it wouldn't be good for her to ignore the nutrition and it would adversely impact the growth of her cells, but she wouldn't feel tired and would be able to push herself much harder in training.
The scientist in her posed an interesting question. If she could form mana stones, and she could re absorb mana from those stones, did that mean in theory she could create stamina and willpower stones? What would be the use of those resources to her. What other uses could she put those to?
Adya marshalled her thoughts before she lost herself in ideal speculation. Now that she had identified where the energies were regenerating, she moved to the next step. Adya actively started the process of creating a mana stone, but instead of pulling mana from her soul or body, Adya tried to pull from the points where the mana was regenerating directly. Pulling from the pipe and not the pool as it were.
As she pushed her control and kept a tight mental grip on the process she felt something inside her shift. A new mana stone was rapidly created in her soul storage. As the process completed, Adya relaxed. She [Analysed] the new stone.
[Analyse: Mana Stone, Mana Density Rank 1, Mana 100]
Adya had succeeded in creating a mana stone directly from her regeneration. Adya reviewed her actions and mentally logged the precious steps she had taken to achieve this wonder. In this instance she was directly channelling her mana from her regeneration instead of using her mana pool. The scientist part came to the fore and she wondered if she could create a willpower stone and a stamina stone.
Adya focused on the same process she had used for creating the mana stone, but instead focused on the green energy and connection points. The amount of focus required was higher than with mana, with the green energy resisting her control then the crystallisation process. Finally after several hours of focus, Adya felt another shift within her. An emerald green crystal formed in her soul storage. After taking a few moments to calm herself from her intense focus, Adya [Analysed] the new stone.
[Analyse: Willpower Stone, Willpower Density Rank 1, Willpower 100]
Adya had succeeded with her second experiment, but she still had one more test to conduct. After meditating for some time to refresh herself, Adya started the process again, this time focusing on the elusive red energy. While the mana had come easily, the willpower more slowly, stamina turned out to be the most stubborn to corral. There was already so little of the energy regenerating and multiple times as she tried to force the energy to compress, it escaped her grasp.
Each time, the energy became a little easier to control, corral and compress. After countless attempts, Adya felt the biggest shift inside her yet. A ruby red stone began to coalesce ever so slowly in her soul storage. Adya kept her mind and focus locked onto the process and finally the stone was fully completed. Adya wasted no time in using [Analyse]
[Analyse: Stamina Stone, Stamina Density Rank 1, Stamina 100]
Adya finally let herself relax. She had created 2 types of stones she had no knowledge of. It would take experimentation to ascertain what she could use the stones for. As she wondered if willpower and stamina stones were the norm in this world she noticed a set of notifications flashing in her HUD.
Adya opened the notifications, her thoughts still on the potential uses for the new stones. As she focused on her notifications, she was left flabbergasted by the implications.
[Regeneration Control skill learned]
[Regeneration Control skill is now Level 1]
[Regeneration Control skill has increased from Level 1 to Level 10]
[New trait unlocked]
[Trait 6: Gestalt Entity (Rank 8): Integration of mind, body and soul initiated. Started on the path to transcending mortality. Any physical damage is not permanent. Physical death is not final. ]
[New achievements gained]
[Achievement: Gestalt Mortal Prodigy - for unlocking the ability to directly manipulate the regeneration of all 3 core energies whilst still being mortal all stats effectiveness is increased by 100%]