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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 vapor 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 centimeter. 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!
- The notebook of Michael Hayes
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There's something there, at the edge of perception a pattern of mana emerging, I’ve gotten the hang of moving things around but. There’s something missing.
A final clue, the final clue necessary to complete it. A roadblock in thinking stopping the Power from becoming.
I’m so close, what's holding me back? I’ve got the pattern down pat, got the mana moving, how it should work, what it should unlock in the future, what am I missing?
Michael continues to picture the image of great Jedi or physics moving objects all while orbiting several stones around him, slowly with some wobble. Not great big stones but several small ones, some falling out of orbit and crashing softly in the sand.
I keep picturing Jedi or some guy doing the moving, maybe I need to imagine myself?
His mind's eye changes from some robed Jedi to himself, as he is right now sitting on the beach, sun on his eyelids, stones in orbit slowly around him. Picturing the works he could do, what he could do in battle, in rescue, in the air or water, in.
Ping!
A notification sound appears as the Power locks into place, the slight wobble of the orbiting stones becomes more solid, the small tendrils, like tentacles with grippy hands on their ends become more solid in focus, needing far fewer concentration to hold the image of.
Opening his eyes a blue window has appeared.
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
Creation Power: Psychokinesis (Rank E)
Increased control
Lesser Mana Cost
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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?
And the Breakthrough points it mentioned, I guess changing my perspective was the final piece.
And will it be like leveling 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.
The thoughts racing though his mind stops as he notes a change in the weather, the air feels more dense. The mana can now be felt far more clearly moving through his body, absorbing it from the air. That’s why it feels denser, while before the mana was just there it could not be felt, now it can.
It feels like a slight heat, like standing in the sun but not as powerful, almost like standing under a light and feeling the sunlight on your skin or like feeling a light fog float past. Looking out over the water, his senses feel outwards toward the water, now feeling denser like sediment that has been disturbed.
His well now feels like a whirlpool, a constant feeling of warmth moving around the body
Aikoki and Coan who were training with some weights nearby turn and jog towards Michael who suddenly yelled out in English before staring into space.
Hearing them approach from behind from the crunch of sand, Michael turns to them with a beaming smile.
“I did it, a new Creation Power in just over a month! 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.
Voice Chat.
Add to Voice Chat (temp 1)
-Coan Coan (added)
- Aikoki Van Coan (added)
Party Creation.
Auto Translation (Active: English to Attalrininw)
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 novels 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 Earth?”
“Well 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. 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
The pattern Michael had devised was fairly simple, it starts off with a circle bisected by a line that reaches out like tree branches and roots after leaving the circle. Those branches then leave the body, becoming firm yet invisible. They then reach out with little mental command to a large stone nearby before wrapping around it and pushing-pulling the stone out of the ground.
This stone is about 50 kilos, lifting it consumes 1 mana per second with 1 mana natural refuel from mana absorption. In theory I could lift it forever, but I don’t think I can concentrate for that long.
As Michael slowly rotates the stone the cost of mana increases.
Ok so now its 1.2 mana per second at this speed. So I have about uhh.
The stone drops into the sand forgotten as a horrible reality falls around him, he’ll have to use Math!
“Dammit! I hate math!”