I opened up all my skills and one by one began reading through them and trying to understand what each one did. With each one I opened, I also tried activating the effect to feel and understand its work. While I would have started from the new skills and passives I hadn't tried out the old skills since I wasn't ready at the time.

[Levitation - Energy flows through you like lifeblood. Expell it in a controlled tight radius around you to produce a slight off-lift from the ground. Cost - 10Source per minute. (Can be deactivated thy halting Energy expulsion or destabilizing radius control)]

The first passive I had gotten worked in tandem with the other general skills of Energy. It wasn't hard to sense and locate energy within and around me anymore. I was glad that I didn't need to keep entering my Nexus to drag out the source. It would have been very dangerous, especially in a battle. I controlled the energy in my Nexal pathways along my metaphysical body and like the description said I expelled them from the exit points in my body. At first, the energy simply escaped into the atmosphere making me grumble. Then I decided to change things a bit.

Pushing out the energy I simultaneously pulled on the escaping energy around me and pushed it downwards keeping it from escaping freely but in a pocket formation that created propulsion. As I poured more and more energy and packed it closer and closer I felt like I was wasting my source but still kept it up.

[Levitation -> Levitation I]

It was like a sudden click happened in my mind. Scary and amazing. I suddenly had the instinctual knowledge to pull my energy into a condensed and straight form. Not erratic but in a linear fashion. At the same time, I created a coat of energy that grabbed me from outside. Both worked in tandem one to push off the surroundings and the other to lift me.

I opened my eyes to myself hovering three inches off the ground. A look at my Levitation showed a few changes.

[Levitation I - Energy flows through you like lifeblood. Expelled in a controlled formation around you to produce a slight off-lift from the ground. Cost - 9.9Source per minute. (Can be deactivated thy halting Energy expulsion or destabilizing radius control)

"Negligible but an improvement " I rolled my eyes at the drop in energy cost by a single decimal. I kept up my levitation though while I moved on to the next passive.

[Mind Veil - Cast a thin veil around the minds of targets within sight making them unable to think and reason. Causes disarray and confusion. Madness and dissociation. Cost - 6 source. Cooldown - 5 minutes.]

Mind veil was more of a passive-active skill. I felt like it had more knowledge than shown. Like how did d this trigger? Was it when near someone or would I have to utilize it myself? I frowned. If it worked on its own how would it distinguish who to act on? Or was I the one to distinguish? I looked to the Machine standing creepily and silent.

'You' I mentally willed the Mind veil to affect it. There was a slight movement in my Nexal pathways and I felt the psychae leave my mind and thread to the machine.

"So it does need me to distinguish. I just won't actively cast the skill. Like an automatic gun. Point and it shoots'.

[Mind Veil failed]

I felt my Psychae brush up on an emptiness that unnerved me. A silence that made me shiver.

"What the hell! Adam!. What...why" I breathed out to calm myself from the unease borough by the silence. It felt like I had expected something. Just not silence.

[Medes?]

"I felt... No. Heard nothing. Just silence. Why?"

[This Unit does not understand. But going by the slight spike of mental energy in my readings detected brushing off the Training dummy otherwise Designated - Machine, this Unit believes Medes used Psychae on the Machine and found a weakness to his Psychae]

"Weakness"

[Psychae is in its best against mortals, thinking or sapient creatures]

"Machines don't think".

[Affirmative.. Machines are mindless. Driven by one purpose. Orders. The perfect soldiers]

"But unable to be manipulated. Right?. That's the last hidden basic of a psychae. Mind manipulation".

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[Affirmative]

"I'm just bumping into weaknesses in everything ".

[Better here than out there where the danger lies. Now you know what is and isn't]

"True. Thank you, Adam".

[This Unit is glad to have assisted]

I turned back to my skills. At least I knew how the mind veil worked and what it failed against. To the next skill. Or passive. First I reactivated my levitation and then continued.

[That Which kills you makes you stronger - Thanks to Sol's Grace you are unstoppable. Injuries deemed fatal are nothing but inconveniences. Illnesses, infections, diseases, and bacteria do you no harm. And when harm does indeed come it had better kill you or your enemy will learn the hard way that Sol despises those who challenge the power of its grace. Cost - 5 Solar Rads per minute]

I could already figure out this one since my bruises and aches from before and even during the training were long gone. But it was something I actively had to watch.

'Not ready for the cutting self with a blade part of this training'. I moved on quickly to the next.

[Sol's Grace - You carved a form that exalts the Sol and it in turn exalts you. Each second you absorb a unit of Solar Radiation energizing, healing, and improving your bodily capabilities. (You gain 0.012 solar rads per minute)]

It only dawned on me now that my attributes had indeed seemed different and the calculation now I checked it matched with this. I was sure it was a result of my Born of Sol Title.

[Sun Heart - The core of an Erizian. Holds their saving grace. The power of the sun for troubled times. 30% of the absorbed solar rads in an hour goes to the Sun Heart. When out of range of solar rads your Sun Heart reserves are all you will have till you reach the safe embrace of a star]

I smiled at the idea of having backup. I could explore farther into the stars when possible without fear of running out of stars.

[Calm as the Breeze Rough as the Storm - Your mind is a temple, harness it. Many shall be enemies who lose a fight against your physical prowess. Those of the mental sort shall seek to break your mind. Shroud your mental faculties with the will you have shown in dealing with an Administrator. Cost - 9 Source per minute]

Activating Calm as the Breeze Rough as the Storm was the most enjoyable thing I ever did. All of my doubts and uncertainties just vanished. Erased by a wall of mental energy that cleared the noise. It was nice and soothing. I felt like leaving the passive active when it clicked. It felt like the passive had consciously acted. How I didnt know. With everything ongoing, I didn't bother asking many questions and just went on to the next skill. I was sure it was the passive affecting me and keeping excitement for ruining my calm.

The next skills were the newly created ones. Formed from the synergies of my titles with passives or skills.

[Psiergon Manifestation - A hybrid of source energy(Sol) and psychae. The user is now about to wield energy physically by giving it form with psychae. Cost - 50 - 100 per construct. More cost is determined by the construct created]

[Accelerated Intuition - With the influx of sol into your mind you can think rapidly, quickly and calculate variables within a situation while realizing dangers and hidden threats around]

[Nine Lives - You formed a third heart for no other purpose than misdirection. You now misdirect death. Every day you have Nine lives. Nine times your third heart will take damage. With each death, the heart deteriorates. If healed completely before the next death it resets the lost lives to nine]

[Causal Immunity - While you survive death, causal immunity eradicates the probability of falling to the same damage severely reducing danger from the same attack again.

Resistances - Null

Immunity - Null]

[Flash Time - An active and also passive skill. Can be activated to buy time in a situation when out of time or activated on its own when danger is detected to you. When the active speed of thought increases, sol is sacrificed and the body reactions are maximized. This skill in no way affects time and has no ties to any Chrono affinity. Time will move as it always has and you will simply be observing all with an uncanny perception. Cost - 1000 Source, 1000 Sol/minute]

I jumped with shock at the last skill, it was more of a god sent. If paired with accelerated intuition would put me in god mode, able to move and react while others remained slow. I winced at the cost but considering the effects it was a mad skill. I wasn't invincible but all these skills if I could use them properly would be the basis for my growth in these bloody times. But first, I had to train and practice. Learn and study. I pushed the energy around me to levitate me higher. To normal eyes there was a distortion around my body edges where the source propelled me higher slowly. To my eyes I could actively see the source pushing against the ground and space, lifting me higher. I could already see the first skill I might gain from Aestro.

I unfolded my legs while still keeping meditation active leaving me floating with my foot right above the platform. My eyes locked on the Machine and I felt a shiver of anticipation rush through me.

"Adam. Activate the simulation spar".

[Training active]

[Machine active]

[Safety protocols disabled]

[Order disseminated]

[Be careful Medes. The Machine will hurt you now]

The full-blown smile on my face was hard to control.

"That might be good". The Machine's head tilted up, eyes went from green to red. Clicks sounded and I watched as steel plating clasped into place over the Machines form. It was suddenly bulkier. Its fists clenched and then pounded together. A sturdy feet stamped the Dae Iron it stood on. The silver armoring it had on glinted eerily with the devilish red light from its eyes.

The Dae Iron creaked from the pressure left behind as Machine lunged at me. The wind whistled as he tore through the space between us like a hot knife.

'Accelerated Intuition'. I felt Calm as a Breeze clicked into place. Whatever feeling of nervousness I had fled from my mind as a mental sweep cleared them away.

'This might be doable'.