This is just teaching me to, 'Eat' rock now, isn't it.
Getting back to reality, I notice something, the tip of some stone rising from the ground, or more like I am expanding to it. I notice another rock, then another, and another, until I have what looks like gravel before my sight hits the solid ground. There was a layer of rocks, and stones over the stone ground.
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Before long, I can see a celling, then a wall, one of those walls have an opening, either leading deeper in a cave, or is the entrance. After getting a full view of the cave I notice it is completely circular, not perfectly due to the rocky surface, but a circle is still a circle, no matter how imperfect.
It is then that I notice a blue glowing rock, which is exactly the same as from my memories, If a little smaller, giving off that same bluish glow. Admiring myself for a moment, I realised I know know how many stones, and rocks, are in here. There is 1,068 of them. I can figure out how I know this later, it is not important to learn the how's and why's right now. I need to learn how to eat rocks, solid stone, and whatever else. Never thought I would say that before.
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Now that I have enough things in my vision, I can start to decipher how to eat rocks, or well, I already know how, after I you know what to look out for, it is easy, first check if mana, or particles, are being used, and if not, I have to use my control. Though this one seems to be a mix of both.
So first I have to gather mana, then push it to the rock, at which point the rock will glow, and then I have to use my control to remove the rock, dismantling it into particles so small, that they practically don't exist, then convert the particles into oxygen, I assume I have to do this so that stuff can breathe. I assume, I have to use mana as a way to increase my influence the rock, as when I tried to do this without mana, I did nothing but create a gust of wind.
'So mana is some type of enhancer, of the power I already have, and my natural power, without mana. Can only influence things the size of particles, so why can I still control the mana, when it's already much bigger. That aside, I could make my own type of disease with this, if I knew how...'
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So first, form the mana...
Then guide it to a wall, I will go for the wall opposite the entrance.
Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.
I begin to slowly guide the mana, being very carful not to let it fall, if that is possible. Or break, it would be annoying to redo all that gathering. Moving the mana slowly it finally makes contact with the wall, and I feel a jolt, but I continue until it is all in the wall.
After it is all finally in the wall, I feel a sensation, a feeling like I grew a new limb. I guess this is what the connection part feels like. Shaking my thoughts aside, I continue onto the next part, and use my control to dissipate the part I control, which looks like a toddlers attempt at drawing a circle. I had lost control of the mana, when it was in the wall, as it became sluggish, and stubborn, resisting my attempts at moving it.
Continuing with the disintegration, the rock quickly began to turn to dust, as particles of mana, which were in those rocks, split off, flowing back into the cave, not dissolving back to their purple form, again something to study later.
When the rock finished dissolving, there was a new head sized hole, near the bottom of the wall. Soon after I gathered the mana again and repeated the process, over and over again.
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Skipping ahead a few hours. I now have what looks like either, something someone who doesn't know how to dig made, or something that was naturally made, or in this case separated... To reveal more rock.
I managed to get a couple steps in, before reaching the edge of my vision, which stopped me from continuing. I also noticed that my vision stopped moving a couple steps past the entrance, the one that's been here the entire time. but it is continuing to expand in every other direction, just not any farther past the entrance, as if there is something stopping it.
All things considered, I have noticed that my vision expands quicker, now that the mana is not being spread out as much, and those blue particles, that came as a side effect of dissolving the rock. Are also being pulled in, increasing the speed even more, though it is still verrrry slow.
maybe I can speed up the process by gathering mana and just putting it in, I know, I could just increase the power of the pull instead, but I don't want to experience "that" again. And with nothing else to do I may as well try it, and it should work.
So I "grab" the particles, one at a time, and toss them to the vortex, which, after a couple minutes, did increase my view, by a little, but hey, at least this increases the view expand speed, if I do it manually. now it's not verrry slow anymore, so that's a plus. Anyway, Soon after, I get back to tossing particles, which, made me feel like I was throwing crunched up paper in the bin.
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Ok I got bored of grabbing particles 1 at a time, at some point, I began grabbing multiple at at time, from 2 to 4, 10, 20 and so on. and throwing them all at the same time from different angles, but even that is getting boring now. May as well check how much my vision grew.
looking at my tunnel, I can see, I can now dig roughly... 10 STEPS!.
Wow, looks like manually doing it is really effective, maybe I should set it up so.. no no, then I will have no particles to dig with. After contemplating, if I should setup a grabby thing, I finally get to digging.
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After my tunnel was roughly 15 steps long, I can finally get to setting up a second cave, though, I guess I should start calling them rooms now, that is what stories call them after all, and rooms sound better than caves.