It's been another week since the end of those twenty days training and it's late in the afternoon, only an hour or two till dinner and something is starting to click. I’ve been able to manage one round of the easy mana manipulation and a bit of the next trickiest stuff like with objects larger than me.
I haven’t used the System as much aside from that Map and the language translation, Aikoki and Dr Rath have been helping with the physical training and it has been going very well for both myself and Coan.
Dr Rath tells me that it won’t be long before the Power becomes a completed Creation Power and so need to get a clear idea on the road ahead. I’ve been thinking back to Jedi and other Psychokinetic powers and while I may not be able to do all of them at once, as I level up I can increase my overall proficiency and abilities. But it will need a lot of training.
After all that training and visualisation it clicks, I can better feel the mana within me and the mana in the air. The best description I can come up with may not make sense but the Well feels like a whirlpool of mana, hot and spinning at great speed while the mana in the network and the rest of my body feels like drinking a hot glass of water and feeling that heat move through you.
The mana in the air and in the water is different, the air feels like a light fog on a cold day while the water feels heavier, like sediment has been disturbed and is a fog on its own. I’ve been told that the higher or deeper you go the more it gets either thinner or more thick.
Dr Rath once described the depths of the ocean to feel like swimming through a pool of honey while moving through the high air feels like there is barely anything supporting you. Those were second or third hand accounts of old travellers from history but when I get to a city I’ll do some research myself, I have a lot I want to look at.
In typical mad scientist fashion I have been trying to muck around with mana in my break, it's a very weird substance to study. Particularly because Abcier was right, it is kinda out of phase with reality. I did manage at one point to make it opaque but only for a moment. Like a generic isekai it first appeared as blue and then disappeared.
I have made some discoveries though that might give a hint as to how it all works:
1. Mana has a physical feeling to it, if you move your hand through a cloud you can feel the water vapour in the air. This is similar but on a tinier scale, like tiny grains of sand. That's what that tingling sensation was, I was feeling the individual granules of mana. Just millions of them in an area less than a centimetre. Maybe even more.
2. Mana in air and water moves, maybe it's with the wind or tide but it definitely moves. I want to figure out if it has a wavelength.
3. It appears to be psycho-active, moving when thinking about it. Now the thing is, I don’t know if that’s Power (the god) doing the moving or if it’s me.
4. That appendix-like protrusion from the Well is like a mini storage area where excess mana can be stored. How this increases capacity with training without getting larger I have no idea.
Ok maybe more questions than answers but we're getting there!
I keep focusing on Psychokinesis for a bit longer till I feel it click. System windows open and I feel the Power cut off.
Full Activation of Main System Interface (Rank F ~> E) unlocked
New Features available:
MP and HP Meter:
MP: 100 points. HP: 200 points
Map mode: Tactical, City, National, Globe, Domain, Star Charts
Voice Chat: Local, City, National, Hemisphere, Global, Domain, Stelar
Party Creation: 2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000+
Auto translation: 1 Language, 2, 5, 10, 50, 50+
Secret Features activated
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Creation Power: Psychokinesis (Rank E)
Increased control
Lesser Mana Cost
Integration into other Powers: Possible
Psychokinesis can be a great training tool and can be utilised and expanded into many Abilities, as you continue to use this Power you will encounter breakthrough points, breaching these points with a clear goal in mind will unlock further abilities.
Current Abilities:
Move Object (Organic/Inorganic)
Mana Manipulation (Basic)
Mana Organisation (Basic)
End of System Start
Progress further to increase System Rank
“Now that's what I’m talking about! Hell yea! Let's have a look at this” Michael exclaimed, jumping up from his seated position and looking through the blue boxes. Wonder why Map and Voice have Globe ahead of Domain? Could it be due to the differences in Mana Density?
Wonder what these breakthrough points are like, will it be like levelling up in a MMO where it takes longer to do at higher levels? Or would it be like an MMO if I think about it too much? Guess that's the problem with a System that might be reading my mind and a god who definitely is.
I’m about to head back inside but then remember that Aikoki and Coan are right next to me training and I had just suddenly jumped and shouted in English.
“Uh, sorry guys” I says sheepishly in a world without sheep “but I did it, a new Creation Power in 30 days! That’s gotta be a record!?” grinning like a cheerful mad man.
Aikoki looks impressed while Coan’s jaw has dropped like a stone. “You have a Creation Power now? That's so cool, show us, show us!”
“I agree with Coan, what have you got?” “Well, let's first have a look at the Gifted Power…”
Reaching out I bring up the System Menu and click Add to Voice Chat. Selecting both of them.
System Interface
Map Mode.
Voice Chat.
Add to Voice Chat (temp 1)
-Coan Coan (added)
- Aikoki Van Coan (added)
Party Creation.
Auto Translation (Active: English to Attalrininw)
Powers.
A window appears for the both of them, prompting them to accept.
You have been invited into “temp 1” Voice Chat by Michael Hayes
Accept / Decline
You are able to leave voice chat by pressing on the below:
Leave Voice Chat
“Wow Michael, what does this do?” asked Coan “If it’s anything like the fiction back home it will allow us to communicate without speaking. Give it a try?”
“Hello?” said Coan and Aikoki at the same time in the chat and without speaking. “Haha! Looks like we can communicate ok. I’ll need to test this” Aikoki quickly asks ”You said like back home, do you have stuff like this back on… Ea-rth?”
“Earth, and kinda. We didn’t have magic but that doesn't stop us from imagining it, there are Powers like this in fiction. But I will say it's a more modern thing.”
Yea I should probably mention I haven’t not told anyone about Earth, small things of course kept between myself, the Coans, Aikoki, Dr Rath and Abcier keeping my own mini Prime Directive ala Star Trek but till I hear otherwise from Knowledge i'll keep most things quiet.
“Now then, let's all leave the call now. I want to try out Psychokinesis”. “Is that what you're calling your Power?” Aikoki added as he left the call, voice cut off in the voice chat as he left and spoke aloud. “Well Psychokinesis is the English word, not sure on the translation right now.”
“Oh stop talking and give it a try, can you lift me!?” Begged Coan, practically jumping out of his skin in excitement, is a Creation Power in 30 days that big a deal? Must be.
I can feel the Power already active, just ready for me to reach out and give it direction. With a slight push I feel the Mana move down my skin, out my hand and wrap around a stone on the groud. I lift it up above head height and slowly rotate it.
It's a lot easier than before with the increased control from the E rank Power but I get the feeling this is only the beginning, if I can reach the next breakthrough point I can kick start some of my ideas.
After a quick dinner and letting the Coans know of the rank up and Created Power I head off to bed early. Mainly to write some of this stuff down and ideas. Really do wish the next System Rank up gives me an Inventory. Would be handy to have.