The following day Sorin was awake at the time everyone normally gets up due to his internal clock trained by years of service on earth.
He sat on his cot and pulled his HUD up for the first time that day.
Name: Sorin Ekart
Path: Pyromancer
AP: 760/760
Body: 10/10 (T1)
Mind: 10/10 (T1)
Spirit: 38/50 (T2)
Abilities:
1. Fire sense (p)/(a) - sense heat aether more clearly around you with the ability to look closer or further at a target depending on aether expenditure. Adjusting the view of your Fire sense shifts skill from passive (p) to active (a).
2. Fire manipulation (a) - You can manipulate fire aether in your immediate vicinity. May cause minor interference with another's NAF. (Natural Aether Field)
3. Ignition(a) - You can create fire from the aether around you. Intensity of the flames depends on environmental factors, will power, and aether control.
4. Absorption(a) - using your connection to the world you have discovered a way to draw in ambient aether. Normally you have to rely on eating in order to replenish your internal aether reserves but no longer.
Conditions met for foundational tier up of mind and body.
Body 10/10
Mind 10/10
Spirit >10
Begin?
Leaving his HUD up Sorin got up and went down to the edge of the pool and sat down. He had no idea what would happen or if it would be like when he had been infusion.
He chose to begin.
At first nothing happened then Sorin knew no more.
The next thing Sorin knew he was being nudged in the shoulder and someone speaking extremely loud to him almost in slower motion than usual. He slowly opened his eyes, and everything was brighter than usual. There was a vibrancy of color that he had noticed the first time he was infused with aether. His mind felt.... emptier? There was a feeling that there is so much ability to his mind. His memory seemed much sharper, and his thoughts came quicker. He looked up and saw the fox beast man.
"Human, you ok?"
Sorin went to sit up and found that his movements were faster, he slammed his hand into the ground rather than just place it. "One second. My name is Sorin by the way."
He pulled up his HUD again and smiled when he saw.
Name: Sorin Ekart
Path: Pyromancer
AP: 760/760
Body: 11/50 (T2)
Mind: 20/50 (T2)
Spirit: 38/50 (T2)
Abilities:
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1. Fire sense (p)/(a) - sense heat aether more clearly around you with the ability to look closer or further at a target depending on aether expenditure. Adjusting the view of your Fire sense shifts skill from passive (p) to active (a).
2. Fire manipulation (a) - You can manipulate fire aether in your immediate vicinity. May cause minor interference with another's NAF. (Natural Aether Field)
3. Ignition(a) - You can create fire from the aether around you. Intensity of the flames depends on environmental factors, will power, and aether control.
4. Absorption(a) - using your connection to the world you have discovered a way to draw in ambient aether. Normally you have to rely on eating in order to replenish your internal aether reserves but no longer.
Sorin was surprised by the jump in his mind stat. It seems that it was being blocked from moving up by his requirement to do the fundamental tier up and then now it shot up.
"I'm Linx." The fox beastman said in a lighter voice. "I saw you getting up and then watched as you kind of just slumped backwards. You just tiered up so congratulations." Sorin looked at Linx warily. Linx recognized the look. "I'm on your team. Your fate is bound to mine, so it does me no good to give out your secrets. Luckily nobody is really up, and I don't think anyone saw.
Sorin let out a breath and relaxed a little. "I appreciate the honesty, and it makes sense. I am hoping our whole team gets to the second tier quickly."
Linx just nodded and got up. "I have some work to do of my own. I've leave you to it in case you do some of the weird shit you usually do on recovery day."
Sorin smirked and returned to his thoughts. He needed to see if his idea to catch his body up was actually viable. Logically it made sense, but there was no way to actually test it except on himself and he didn't know the limits. He closed his eyes and used his fire sense looking at his own body. It was more vibrant than before by twice it would seem as there was more aether infused into him. He began looking himself over and saw many colors of aether all over him at various temperatures. He expanded his senses and began to look around at the others and saw varying levels of aether in them. Then he returned to himself and began to zoom in to himself and he received the confirmation he suspected when he made the connection between energy and aether. All matter is energy, but not all energy is matter. His flesh and blood are nothing but aether in different forms.
So, looking at his pinky finger on his right hand he began moving more amounts of aether into that area trying to make the skin as tightly packed as his barrier and his swords and noticed slowly but surely his body began to respond to his will. The aether in his control moved much faster and seemed to follow the confines of his flesh. Each time the aether came into contact with a bone, ligament, joint, and skin it adapted to that specific part and began to soak into it. He kept pushing aether into it more and more until it refused and caused his pinky to ache then sharply hurt. Sorin opened his actual vision and looked down at his pinky. He didn't notice anything different until he closed his hand. His pinky slammed down to his palm first before all of his fingers and much quicker.
"Theory proven." Sorin mumbled to himself. He quickly checked his AP to see how much that cost him and he was shocked.
AP: 111/760
Sorin couldn't believe his eyes. His pinky had nearly drained all of his aether in a couple minutes. He began using absorption to fill his aether back up and began to see his core fill up quicker than he was used to. He had an idea. "Why do I need to ever stop pulling aether in? Maybe I can do this and pull aether in at the same time and make it more efficient."
He pushed aether into his hand and watched his aether drop much faster than before. "Larger area. Duh Sorin." So, he drew it back and began working little bits at a time and found he could in fact draw aether in and push it to his body little bits at a time and it broke even. The rest of his day was going to be a very long day.
- at nearly wake up -
"Done..." Sorin whispered to himself. He had gotten his usual healing and done his wash then laid down in his cot and pretended to sleep while he continuously infused slowly, but surely all of his body. His bones including the marrow, his joints, ligaments, tendons, muscles, veins, capillaries, nerves, everything was now packed full of aether. He didn't touch his brain as he was tired already and the brain is not something you mess with on a whim. The image of a talking teddy bear came to mind talking about stuffing being put back wrong came to his mind causing him to smirk just a little.
He looked at his stats quickly one last time.
Name: Sorin Ekart
Path: Pyromancer
AP: 173/800
Body: 50/50 (T2)
Mind: 20/50 (T2)
Spirit: 40/50 (T2)
Abilities:
1. Fire sense (p)/(a) - sense heat aether more clearly around you with the ability to look closer or further at a target depending on aether expenditure. Adjusting the view of your Fire sense shifts skill from passive (p) to active (a).
2. Fire manipulation (a) - You can manipulate fire aether in your immediate vicinity. May cause minor interference with another's NAF. (Natural Aether Field)
3. Ignition(a) - You can create fire from the aether around you. Intensity of the flames depends on environmental factors, will power, and aether control.
4. Absorption(a) - using your connection to the world you have discovered a way to draw in ambient aether. Normally you have to rely on eating in order to replenish your internal aether reserves but no longer.
Sorin felt like he was cheating, but he didn't care. "I guess all those books on royal road paid off." Sorin said as he fell asleep for what little time he had left.