Sorin watched from way up in the sky as fourth group of hunters in as many days scoured the ground for evidence of him. He didn't get to keep the helmet he gained from the first group because he discovered they were using it to track him.
He had more than enough cores now for his trip off world, but every time he tried to make his way back, another team would show up and drive him further from the city and he was getting frustrated. Sorin needed to find a way around this as flying turned out to be a no go because as soon as he flew near these teams they spotted him through their path use. He couldn't use the earth travel method as they detected him as did they find him in water.
He also discovered that as soon as they are killed, the stopping of their heart triggered an aether beacon that alerted the nearest teams and the groups hunting him got bigger and bigger.
Sorin flew low and away through the trees and into the mountain range he had been following as he was being pushed back. After hours of flying as fast as he could comfortably he turned into the mountains and hid himself away. It was time he pushed for an idea he had pertaining to hiding and information gathering.
He moved into the side of the hill and hollowed out a cavity with multiple gaps to allow for air flow. If he didn't have to be uncomfortable more than necessary then why should he be?
Sorin thought back to his memories now with a pristine memory he could see the articles in front of him as if he was reading them right now.
The eye perceives light that reflects off of different objects. Now if he stopped the light from reaching someone's eye there would be a number of possibilities, all but one is unhelpful.
The first is a dark void. Light just missing would be a black hole like thing and that would stand out, so definitely not useful.
The other is if he didn't do it right, there would be a distortion. That would be hard to pervieve at a distance and especially at night, but easier in the day and up close.
If he really did it wrong he could create what is known as Einstein's halo. A void with a halo. Cool but, useless.
Sorin create a brilliant white ball of fire and began to focus on the pure white aether it pushed off which Sorin associated with light, but was actually a few things he didn't feel like exploring further at the moment. He watched as the pouring of light aether hit everything and scattered. These motes of aether would be absorbed and interpreted by his eyes, but they were chaos incarnate. With these white motes he could see a red motes combined in smaller amounts and even a silver mote that he couldn't identify quite yet. The heat or fire motes he was used to and he saw how the light and heat worked together. Heat, he knew to he everywhere to some degree otherwise everything would reach a state of stillness and be known as absolute zero.
Sorin looked closer and saw the darker red mote encircled the brilliant white mote and overpowered it making it the red harder to see at a glance.
He didn't want to pull the heat, but the light itself. He thought for a second. Then it hit him.
"Photons."
Photons are governed by electromagnetics like practically everything else in the universe including what his original path was.
Sorin reached to the electric affinity he had long since mastered. He began pushing electricity through his channels and the world around himself watching as it interacted. As soon as the energy was exchanged or interacted a pulse was launched out and he had used that in a very crude fashion he was now seeing. So much wasted aether to get this much interaction to offset his weight and allow him to fly through pushing on his environment greater than he was pulled down.
Sorin became confused at this point. How was he truly manipulating everything? Was he really manipulating water, earth, air, fire, electricity?
There were 7 layers of reality as far as Sorin knew. There was quantum, atomic, micro, macro, relative, speculative, and spiritual. What he was doing was operating at the atomic level and pushing into the quantum level where he was dealing with the pure energy of everything.
Sorin reached with his will and touched the waves of what he determined to be pure wave energy. It had no substance or shape, but just was. It was the substance he knew the electrons, protons, neutrons, and everything else was comprised of. To his suprise, unlike most of his other tests and experiments, the energy responded to him and sort of embraced him it seemed. It was a strange interaction that almost seemed alive.
*bleep!*
*bleep!*
After the second notification all Sorin knew was pain. Pain far beyond anything he had felt so far in his life for the last decade. It was deep inside.
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Then he felt it. A shattering which poured more agony through his body and he knew no more.
Sorin woke to his body screaming in agony deep within and even on the surface. He opened his eyes and was startled by everything he saw. It was as if the system was bugged and ruining his vision.
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
חדר אבן אין אור חום גוף שקט
As sorin turned his head everything flowed around him as the characters continued to form around him.
He coughed and he noticed a change in the characters. He then activated an orb of fire. As soon as he did, his head nearly split open. Characters were flowing down his vision insanely fast and it hurt even his high tiered mind.
אור לבן בהיר. חם. אנרגיה. כוח
Sorin extinguished the light and the previous characters returned.
At a loss Sorin pulled up his HUD.
שפה לא ידועה למשתמש....מתקן
01001100 01100001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01100001 01100111 01100101
00100000 01110101 01101110 01101011 01101110 01101111 01110111 01101110
00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110101 01110011 01100101 01110010
00101110 00101110 00101110 01100011 01101111 01110010 01110010 01100101
01100011 01110100 01101001 0110111
שפה לא ידועה למשתמש....מתמתקן
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Congratulations! Your path has evolved from Aether Sovereign to Primordial Sovereign. By glimpsing the plane of creation and understanding the barest surface of it's laws, you have achieved more power and understanding. Your skills have been changed accordingly.
Congratulations!
By achieving the Path Primordial Sovereign, you no longer have a core or channels. The universe is your core and you may pull on it for your needs. Skill - Limiter (a) added. Warning! Pulling too much aether will negatively affect non-human life and even may kill it leaving aether blight wherever you go depending on use.
Sorin was stunned and immediately checked his full status.
Name: Sorin Ekart
Path: Primordial Sovereign
Sovereign (Deactivated)
Overall Adjusted Tier: 20
AP: X/X
Body: 32000/35000(T16)
Mind: 28000/30000 (T15)
Spirit: X/X(Null)
Abilities:
1. Creation Gaze(p)/(a) - You see the fabric of creation. Through more understanding the universe reveals more and more secrets. All information is available to you provided you know how to read it.
2. Primordial Touch (a) - All matter is aether. All aether acknowledges your touch and responds to you.
3. Primordial Being (p) - The universe is your core. You are limited by the aether in your vicinity. Warning! Low ambient aether will weaken you or strengthen you.
4. Primordial Aether Master(a) - Aether moves according to your will. If you can imagine it, you can do it provided you can bridge the right gaps to conform to Heaven's law. Destroy, modify, or build aether channels in others.
5. Limiter(a) - you may limit your being to a certain amount of aether use based on average AP of that tier. Operating at constant full power will place a detectable and even dangerous aether drain around you. This will limit all your abilities to a specific tier. May remove at any time. (Percentage based)
6. Environmental Immunity (p) - as you have established a connection with your being and pure aether, you are no longer affected by ambient conditions. Path skills and abilities still affect you. (Light, thermal, toxic, vacuum, etc)
Sorin opened his eyes and what was once dark was no longer. He could see everything with detail. He was seeing the aether as it is and the shapes it takes as well as how the spectrums or lack there of would reach his eyes.
Everything gave off aether radiation and he could read it all from sound, to vibration, to radiation.
He just sat there in shock of his new tier, the new information, the new everything. He would need to examine everything and eventually make sure everything functions at the macro and microscopic level of his body. Was he even a human at this point?
That was something for a little later.
"Unexpected, unintended, but definitely not unwanted." Sorin said to himself getting to his feet.
After a while he flexed his will like he did before with his earth affinity and everything moved according to his will, even easier before. The aether jumped to his command and a way out was opened to him.
Sensing the light, he commanded it to move around him and not reflect off of him and to his suprise, it did exactly as he willed it.
Sorin smiled....he would now be able to get off this planet.