Yes…Yes…YES… That's it… Stay there… STAY… GOD’s…

Regulating his thoughts, for a moment, Adamu calmed down, but not for long.

No, after many attempts, he had finally succeeded, partially, and managed to interact with the 100th strand of Pure Essence in his body for a very small frame of time.

Still, as disappointing as it was that he had not succeeded completely, a partial success was better than none.

Going over the fresh memories, Adamu tried to get as much out of them as possible when an idea spawned inside his mind.

An idea that he may have been going at this the wrong way.

Excited to test it out, Adamu descended further into the rat/cat den, released his grip on Sun Bearer, and waited. If nothing happened for a while, he went deeper and repeated the process till one of the hip-height creatures came and became his sacrifice for success.

Once more, the new 100th strand of Pure Essence came, merged with him, and brought him close to Essence Awakening, only to reverse the process and revert back to a strand of Pure Essence on which Adamu’s Spirit pounced like a starved predator seeking to fill its belly.

Honestly, the comparison wasn't even that wrong since Adamu clearly was starved for some profound powers to begin his rise as the First of Men again.

That being the case, following up on his idea, Adamu’s Spirit clamped upon the recently released strand of Pure Essence, but unlike the previous attempts, he did not try to interact with it.

No… This time, Adamu determined to be the ultimate bully in the room and simply embed his very presence into the strand of Pure Essence.

If it wanted to go left? He firmly set his Spirit before it to block the road.

If it wanted to go right? The same occurred, just like the same occurred, no matter what direction the strand of Pure Essence took as it got pushed away from Adamu’s already fully infused body, well, almost, since it had yet to Awaken.

Either way, having finally figured out the solution, Adamu bullied the strand of Pure Essence until it capitulated by cowering in his Spirit’s presence and simply ceasing to move.

That was when Adamu’s Spirit, for the first time, truly began interacting with Essence.

That was also the first time he interacted with an energy so wilful as if it had a mind of its own.

Thus, it was no wonder why Adamu had failed so many times before.

Unlike Mana, which was a structured kind of energy because its very nature came from Order, Pure Essence was willful, emotional, and unstable at its core since it had no structure as its very nature came from Chaos.

That being the case, through the pure act of will to bully the Pure Essence into submission, Adamu finally managed to give it some structure by which to hold on.

Sigh… To think that it was my own calm state of mind that was the problem.

Damn… so much wasted time.

Having figured out the problem and the solution, the following steps of what he desired to accomplish became as easy as taking a stroll on a nice sunny day with a gentle breeze to further brighten the experience.

Of course, taming a small little strand was nothing compared to what he needed and would accomplish soon enough, but as a start, it was a promising endeavor on which to tread. As such, every time he managed to subdue a single strand of Pure Essence he released it before seeking new sacrifices and slowly refined the process of bullying.

Soon enough, Adamu finally figured out that the key to anything Essence-related was emotions, that and the will that drove said emotions.

Since that was the case, Adamu chose to mimic the method of Mana control, where you needed to be inside a placid state of Mind to allow one’s Spirit to resonate and sense, tap, and guide the overflowing energy that was Mana before tempering and branding your own mark on the Mana.

As such, since Adamu was the most familiar with said placid state of Mind when controlling profound energies, that was what he chose to share with the strand of Pure Essence before taking control of said strand.

That way, it became just a matter of time before the strand of Pure Essence calmed down and allowed Adamu to control it the same way he did Mana.

All in all, once the first step occurred, progress was inevitable, and not just on one front, but also on his leather making, with multiple underwear, innerwear, and outerwear not only made but also enchanted by using the blood of the bear/cat of the Monster he killed as the core of the Runic Pattern of the Enchantments on the clothes.

Finding the necessary ingredients for the oiling of the outerwear was burdensome, but it too, was accomplished. The same occurred during the making of footwear. With time, however, anything was possible, and now, Adamu’s tender feet were protected from the environment even without Sun Bearer’s Enchantment.

Though, as it turned out, the more he wore said footwear, the more irritable he became as if the rough-looking leather shoes were blocking him from something great and mighty. Only as he found out, they naturally did because training to sense and improve the control over his own Kyrilian Field had displayed him the importance of being grounded to nature, even without a Realm Grid Affinity.

Regardless, without the proper material, Adamu sidelined the slightly disconnected sentiment.

He would revisit it when the proper material was in his hands to make shoes that conducted electromagnetic potential instead of blocking it due to the resin painstakingly collected and used to make the soles of the leather shoes.

Either way, having long since refined the Methodology and ingrained it inside his subconscious and unconscious Mind, all that was needed for everything to start were the experiments with Essence.

That accomplished, nothing should hold Adamu back from achieving Essence Awakening. Nothing but his own nerves as, from this point on, he would be completely stepping on a new road that none of his predecessors have undertaken.

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Taking a long and deep breath before exhaling it, Adamu sat on a cushioned seat inside his Sanctuary and took the usual cross-legged meditation position before centering his mind for a bit and finally speaking the words he needed to speak.

However, before the words got uttered, Adamu guided the one strand of Pure Essence he controlled and had it merge with him. Only after the peak of the merging process arrived, and the physical boundaries of his existence stretched the most, had the words echoed from his mouth.

“On this Day and in this Age, I, Adam, take the first step in my Vigil as The First of Man by choosing the Minor Destiny of Warrior.”

The instant it got announced, Adamu felt something within him unravel.

That something was his Bloodline, and the moment it unraveled, it desired to connect with the Realm Grid to acquire the energy needed for the first initial changes it would undergo. However, when said connection got denied by the very Pure Essence that was on the brink of transformation itself, it instead connected to that very Pure Essence.

In exchange, the opposite occurred with the Pure Essence.

Before, whenever it had attempted to switch states from passive to active, and every time it had reached the point of transformation, it had been stopped by an immovable wall.

Now, though?

Now, a conduit existed, and the very first step occurred, announcing the very first transformation of Pure Essence into Essence, from a passive state to an active one.

When it did, something special occurred.

The moment a tiny part of the Pure Essence switched from its passive state into its active state, a spark emerged, an energizing spark of pure potential that fed on the passive Pure Essence that birthed it, hence causing said spark to travel inward to feed on the passive energy to fuel and sustain its existence, instead of taking the path of least resistance that was the conduit that had suddenly appeared.

As such, the Bloodline of the First of Men was left starving for attention for the moment.

Regardless, the same could not be said for Adamu because the initial energetic spark had a profound influence on his awareness of the Self.

Like a ripple, it caused his awareness to stretch alongside the pure potential growing inside him.

After every tiny strand of Pure Essence got devoured and turned into pure potential, thus reaching its maximum potential as well, it exploded like a tiny nove to flare in all the directions existing within the three dimensions of Space and the three dimensions of Time.

The initial boundaries for the three dimensions of Space became the biological vessel while the boundary for the three dimensions of Tme became Creation itself as Adamu’s awareness stretched and split to face the Past, the Present, and the Future as if they existed at the same time.

As such, when the pure potential exploded, it reached every corner of Adamu’s Body and attuned the Body to itself as that was what Space did, it occupied and defined.

However, unlike the Body, Adamu’s Mind had no boundaries by which to define itself, or in other words, the boundary was so great that it simply appeared as if it did not exist. Instead, as Adamu’s awareness split into three, a defragmented view of the Past, the Present, and the Future confused and stupefied Adamu in what was what, when was what.

When his defragmented awareness stretched to its limits, Adamu, for the first time, unconsciously realized why Essence Awakening was random.

It was because, in this tiny moment of limited omniscience and omnipresence, Adamu could see where each and every step of his had taken and could be and would be taken.

All it would take is one tiny nudge, and his Future would change, causing a ripple to travel backward in Time to his Present before bypassing the Present to travel to the Past to make it such that said chosen future occurred with 100% certainty.

However, that would not happen because being stuck with all the possible options within that timeless, yet not able to choose instantaneously, as none who experience this timeless moment got prepared for said timeless moment and the possibilities it entailed, meant one always chose that which one is familiar with in this moment of indecision.

That familiarity was that which they had worked really hard to form within their subconscious and unconscious Mind.

The same occurred to Adamu as his Mind grabbed onto that lifeline of staticity present within the Present moment of timelessness itself.

With it as the guiding point, one’s awareness of all the possibilities shrunk to only those that followed said guiding point, thus, turning what became something entirely unmanageable for the simple Mortal Minds into something barely manageable.

Adamu, being who he was, what he was, and who he would become, transcended that barely manageable state and achieved true awareness of what was happening and what would happen.

At least for the immediate Past, Present, and Future.

Meaning the moment of his Essence Awakening occurring and nothing more as his current Mind simply could not process anything further than that. However, just that was enough as it provided him the necessary broader view of what he had imagined so far and what was the best possible answer for said imagination.

Because of said broader view, Adamu knew that the Methodology he imagined and worked on so hard needed some tweaking.

Hence, in this moment of pure potential and timelessness, Adamu chose to cheat by staring at the answers of a version of Adamu that had spent much, much more time pondering the Methodology and simply synchronized, ie; copied and pasted the answer back into his true timeline, all without actually having to spend said time working it out.

The instant it was done, Adamu felt his awareness shy away from this timeless moment.

Giving it one last glance, he frowned because, for some strange reason, a visage of an old yet gracefully aged female popped into his Mind, only to actually blur away as his stretched-out awareness finally lost sight of the Future and the Past to settle back into the Present.

At the same time, what was gained during the said moment of timelessness also became lost, while the experienced state would be buried for the future, if said future arrived.

Thus, when the Present lodged itself into Adamu’s Mind, all he knew was that his time was of the essence as he felt his everything split away from him in an uncontrolled radiated manner.

Namely, with pure potential rapidly leaving his body.

As such, to not waste any more time, Adamu urgently called on his Spirit to settle into the Methodology embedded inside his subconscious and unconscious mind before it resonated at a certain frequency appealing to his Body, Mind, Spirit, Essence, and Aura.

Once all five ingredients were inside the soup, so to speak, each one represented one Basic Principle of Magic.

With, Enchantment represented by the Body, as the generator, the source of the profound energy fueling and influencing everything.

With Evocation represented by Essence, the program, the vibration influencing everything and being influenced in return by everything.

With, Alteration represented by the Aura, as the conduit, the medium through which everything would be influenced or got influenced in return.

With Domination represented by the Mind, as the controller, the frequency upon which everything would operate.

With Conjuration represented by the Spirit, the effect, the field in which everything would manifest or denied to be manifested.

Wait… a second… That is n…

Whatever Adamu had realized in that one tiny moment, it was too late.

The ingredients were already in the soup. While the soup itself dissolved all the ingredients as if it were the strongest of acids in existence. As such, whatever came out in the end, Adamu could blame none but himself for stealing the answers without understanding the full equation.

Not that Adamu was even able to realize the depth of the change his current self underwent.

As such, only after everything ceased and settled down had he become aware of himself and everything else that said Essence Awakening entailed.