TF Chapter 26 Pain Of The New
The air on this continent is composed of mostly toxic gas particles that would normally lead to the death of a normal human upon inhalation. I, coupled with the others on this rock would already be dead if it wasn't for the enhancements that had been performed on our bodies beforehand.
Once again, we were adopting our triangular formation, away from the molten stream, attempting to move and control said air particles. We had made a decision to first try out the shaping and creation of the air tube through which our molten metal atom would travel.
I regulated my breath as did the other two. We were about to experiment with something we had had no prior knowledge of, so we had to be in our best states. After that, we released our spirits and fused them once again into an amalgam, with each of us capable of influencing its shape and direction.
"How do we go about this?" Bora asked the question that was on each of our minds.
Through this amalgam, I could acutely feel the many tiny things within the fused spirits, the air particles. I even had a feeling that with a thought, I could bend them to my will, but first, we had to agree on how to go about it and how to shape them.
My heartrate increased in anticipation. I couldn't stop the generous dose of excitement within from affecting me, and coincidentally, I could feel it within our combined spirits, proving that I wasn't the only one affected.
"Let's start with a tube. We are going to first shape the spiritual amalgam into a tube before we do the same for the air particles." Danny spoke out his idea, with the both of us nodding in agreement.
The spiritual amalgam was floating in between us, invisible to the naked eye, but since we were the ones who had created it, we could feel it very acutely. It was like a ball of smoke, or fog, ever changing in state and shifting to the whims of our thought, as if it had a life of its own. Each of us was only connected to it by the means for a tether originating from the center of our forehead.
As we imbued our will into it, the faint circular ball started to morph, elongating at the sides before reaching the length of about a meter. It started out thick and dense, before we willed a hollow to start expanding out from the inside, pushing all the spirit into the walls and turning the previous rod into a tube with a diameter of 5cm.
What actually fascinated me about the spirit was the fact that you could sense its existence, yet couldn't determine whether it was a particle or even a wave! And to top it all off, if it was made up of particles, then they had to be even smaller than an atom, because I had tried to study it and failed.
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Now that the tube had been completed, we had to make it solid, by trapping and attracting air particles towards it. The attracting part was easy, as all we just had to do was compress those we could feel, causing the surrounding atoms and molecules to move in and fill the vacuum, causing a never ending phenomenon.
But, now, came the hardest part...trapping and compressing the air particles. You see, the spiritual powers could move atoms with ease, but the problem came with molecules. Our spirit could move them, but that also caused a strain on us, since they were heavier than an individual atom, and the problem was that we were surrounded by mostly molecules instead of atoms.
We had continuously experimented with the power of the spirit and found out that we could split a molecule into individual atoms, but at the cost of time and concentration. Here, we didn't have the luxury to do that as we had to compress as many molecules as possible into the tube shape, a feat that caused beads of sweat to slide down my cheeks.
I could feel the strain on our combined spirit as we forced the free air particles into a compact, almost solid state. The previously clear space between us started to materialise into a transparent outline of a tube as we forced ourselves to endure the exertion.
Tired...that was all I could feel just a few seconds into the formation of the tube. I felt as if all the strength had left my body, and drowsiness was taking over, causing me to feel my eyelids getting heavier by the second.
'Stay awake! You have to!' I bit the tip of my tongue to gain some clarity, but only for a moment as even the pain from such an endeavor failed to chase the sleep from me.
My eyelids closed, though, not before feeling a burst of wind assaulting my face, probably from the abrupt expansion of the previously compressed air molecules.
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"That was hard! And you said it was only a single alien being performing that task in the vision?!" Danny spoke while cradling his head, having developed a major headache.
Bora and I were in the same situation. I felt as if someone was pounding my brain with a hammer every single second. If it had been the previous me who hadn't undertaken Bora's tough training regimen, he would have been howling right now, but the current me simply gritted my teeth and held on.
It would probably train my willpower...right? Or should I just scream out my pain? I wondered as I crawled towards the nearest wall so that I could lean my back into it. The pain refused to let me stand up and walk on my own two feet. I could only pull myself towards the grey in my vision, one stroke at a time.
"Will this method ultimately work, or will we just burn ourselves out?" Even experiencing such pain, Bora's words came out smooth, tempting me to develop the curiosity to look back and see her current expression, though, that would have been me simply wasting the valuable time I would have spent getting to the wall, so I gave up.
"I don't know, maybe we will just have to change some parts, or tone down on the molecules needed...for now, I just want to lean against the wall and wish this pain away." Even as I spoke, my forward movement didn't slow down a single bit.
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