6 - Chapter 5 - Day 102
Adya had spent the last few days refining the process for creating the 3 types of stone. Her speed had increased as she had minimised the steps and fine tuned her control. She had decided to stick with the base unit of 100 for the time being, though she had experimented with smaller and larger sizes. The larger the stone, the more focus that was required to hold the energy in place whilst the stones formed.
Adya had also compared her stones to the stones Sally paid Healer Simon on his visits. The stones used by Sally, although all returning a reading of 100 rank 1 mana, looked slightly different. Some were slightly shorter or longer, thinner to fatter. It seemed likely that the stones were mined then cut down to the 100 mana size as opposed to being created how Adya was creating hers.
In contrast, all the stones Adya created were perfectly uniform. Regardless of whether they were mana, stamina or will power, all were exactly the same size and shape. The colour of each stone was also perfectly uniform. The natural mana stones Adya had seen had a lot of variation in colour, and were also generally larger than her stones. If Adya had to make an educated guess, the natural stones carried impurities, whilst hers were perfectly pure.
This would probably lead to some questions being raised when she came to exchange those stones in the future. The notification of the achievement was still something that she was mulling over. It seemed like while mana stones were common, stamina and willpower stones would not be common at all.
Adya decided the next step would be for her to automate the creation of stones using her parallel processing trait and then attempt to figure out what the impact of her mana stones would have on those around her.
First, she decided to start with the creation of mana stones. She had thought maybe she could automate all 3 stones, but the subtle differences in the processes were significant enough that for now it would be much easier to keep the processes separate. She could always refine and improve on the processes in the future.
Adya started by creating a mental workflow for the mana stone creation process. The scientist in her reverted to using a pseudo programming language to attempt this process. Without direct guidance it was time to see how to leverage her trait.
Adya created the steps to form the mana stone, then added limitations. She limited the process to only run when her pool was already full. She limited the process to use her regeneration directly and to stop if her pool required filling. This was if she was ever in a situation where she needed her full mana regeneration for something, she didn’t want to find it hobbled. Effectively she wanted these processes to run in the background. Finally she specified the process should run non stop unless the process failed in which case the process should send her a notification.
Once she was happy with the steps in the process, Adya pushed the instructions at the parallel processing trait. Adya couldn't think of any other way to get the instructions to run.
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She felt the instructions convert to another language, but to her it still looked like the pseudo programming language to her. As the process started, she saw mana stones being created in her soul storage. Just then a series of notifications popped up in her HUD.
[Custom passive skill created]
[New achievements gained]
[Warning: Achievement modified by Scion protocols]
[{Custom} Mana Stone Creation (Automated) Skill learned]
[{Custom} Mana Stone Creation (Automated) Skill is now Level MAX]
[Achievement: Passive skill creator - for creating your own passive skill all class passive skills are converted to Parallel Processing Capacity.]
[Trait 4: Parallel Processing (Rank 8) - Capacity 4 Cores increased to Capacity 39 Cores]
Adya looked at the notifications in shock. It seemed to her the scion protocols punished her for her achievement. Effectively by showcasing the ability to create passive skills the system would make her create all her own. Adya didn't understand what significance this would have in the future, but decided to move on for now as there wasn't much she could do about it.
Adya replicated the process she had used to create her custom skill for both willpower and stamina. She received a few more notifications replicating what she had seen for mana stones.
[Custom passive skill created]
[{Custom} Will Power Stone Creation (Automated) Skill learned]
[{Custom} Will Power Stone Creation (Automated) Skill is now Level MAX]
[{Custom} Stamina Stone Creation (Automated) Skill learned]
[{Custom} Stamina Stone Creation (Automated) Skill is now Level MAX]
Finally Adya relaxed and watched as the automated stone creations progressed. Adya estimated that she would be able to create approximately 400 Stamina Stones, 100,000 Will Power stones and almost 1,000,000 Mana stones every day. The conversion wasn't perfect and some of each energy was used in the creation process.
Adya slipped a few of the newly created mana stones into her crib. She wanted to see her mothers and Sally's reaction to her stones. She needed to understand if she would be able to use her stones normally or not.
Adya relaxed after days of focusing on her creation whilst she waited for her mother to visit. There were just too many things Adya just didn’t know. Now that she was at least starting to accumulate resources she decided to stop her experimentation until she could at least learn the basics of this new world.
In the meantime, Adya decided to start cultivating. Given that there wasn't much else she could do until she could actually start to walk and talk without shocking everyone, it was almost time for enforced meditation. She knew starting cultivating in this world wouldn't be easy, it never was. She would have to form a mana core in her physical body, a core in the soul and link the two together perfectly. Only after the core was formed could she even begin to start cultivation for real. The biggest problem for her was the sheer volume of mana in her soul.
Adya would need to form a core that was at least ten times the capacity of her soul and condense down the mana. She hadn't even had this much mana in her old life after thousands of years. Yet Adya was not daunted by the task, she would simply have to persevere until she succeeded.