I wake up to my body buzzing with unspent energy. I take a drink trying to chase away my dreams with some cool water. It doesn't work.
With a sigh I decided that I should start learning to standing with no support. First I get myself of the floor useing a wall rail then, I let go.
I don't immediately fall. My steps are shaky though. One step two's steps, fall. I try again and again eventually after a few hours walking starts feeling more normal again.
I sit down when my Vigor is low and change to experiencing with [Pulse] I've used it 2 times now but both instances were different from each other.
I place one hand on the floor and recall the vage description that the System gave me.
[Pulse-From the Soul to the Core. From the Core to the Body. From the Body grant your Pulse force.(The Will and Force Stats were detected during this Abilities initial creation. Requires Mana.)]
It all starts with Mana. Going with what I did the second time I just generally push my Mana out of my body though my hand and into the floor.
My bones protest silently as I rob them, but I'm rewarded with an odd sensation of feeling the world around me in a 3 foot radius. I even feel my own body and almost gag at the image I put together. I I already knew but … I don't have to like how thin I am.
To destract myself i instead focus on a feeling of disconnect I felt from that use of [Pulse]. "From the soul to the core, from the core to the body…" I can't interact with anything inside my core, I try anyway but still fail. It's like trying to swim up stream. Instead I grab control over the wispy Mana it processes and sends to my heart. Before the energy leaves I bottle it up not let it leave to enter my bones.
With each heart beat, the mana builds, condenses and subtly changes as I force it to obey my will. My bones ache at having not received there tithe. It's distracting but manageable. Eventually after 2 hours I feel a more defined shift as the Mana in my heart reaches the standard System density for a point. Curiously I check my status to see if Mana stored manually in my heart counts against my total.
[•Health (8>8) •regen(0.15) per hour
•Vigor (8>3) •regen(0.10) per hour
•Mana (2>1(1)) •regen(0.50) per hour ]
Odd and definitely something I should explore later. I'm very curious if there's a limit?
This time as I use [Pulse] I take the Mana that I've stored in my heart. Which basically directly came from my core and send it into my right arm with the intention of Seeing what will happen.
Immediate I know I've both seceded and messed up. The Pulse travels not through my arm but through my bones. Useing them as some sort of amplifier or conductor while absorbing the Mana found within! It Aches as as my bones try absorbing the Pulse but get robbed instead leaving them feeling hollow… then it's outside my body. I'm suddenly flooded with the sensation of touching the world around me. The flows of various energies, the density of the walls, a dozen different voided spots down below, two more that are level with me, and a big irregular void on the roof. It's to much.
[•Health (8>8) •regen(0.15) per hour
•Vigor (8>3) •regen(0.10) per hour
•Mana (2>0) •regen(0.50) per hour ]
Letting out a sigh of relief once all the information slips from my brain, Then settled down to try again. Once more I bottle all the Mana my core produces inside my heart until after 2 hours later I have one point.
I recive less feed back this time as a wave of perception ripples out form my hand into the building and only partially into the air as it covers half of the 13th floor. I once more noticed a few fuzzy voids below me and they've moved slightly i think. The one void on my floor I can see seems to have gotten closer to me. While the big void on the roof feels odd. Largerly become unlikely the smaller ones that have moved and feel like fuzzy spheres. What ever is on the roof is shaped like a big solid cone.
It hasn't moved at least. Unlike the fuzzy Spheres which are probably more [Crystal abominations]. I start gathering Mana within my heart again this time with a grimace." I get the feeling this next one will be a live test."
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It seems I can currently manually store 3 points worth of Mana within my heart. Trying to go any higher makes breathing difficult, luckily my bones happily except what i can't hold myself. "Just in time" I sigh as something has already begun scratching at the door. I particularly ignore the creature for know. Instead focusing on holding the overflow Mana in place while I stand.
It isn't easy splitting my forces so I stumbled and sway on weak legs but stand ready nonetheless. Shortly after I watch as both light and bone pierce through my barricade.
This one is different from the first, instead of a skull it has a shield like plate on top its enlongated neck. While it's limbs seem reinforced but far more strong and dexterous then the first [Crystal abomination] the oddest part I noticed as the creature halfway enters the room is how it's fleshy core is fully exposed with not even a rib cage protecting it, it's just grafted to the spine between both bulky arms.
It doesn't matter, I step forward. Only one shot, even if I could divide the Mana I'm manually holding onto into multiple Pullses I wouldn't. The creature is detracted trying to pull itself together the hole it dug in the door.
One strike. I focus on a different idea than seeing this time. A more familiar idea."Break, Wither, Fracture." I intemetly know how it feels to have your skeleton fail you. The idea takes root inside my Mana as if it were furtle soil. My core practically vibrates, as i lunge towards the unsuspecting predator. It almost looks startled that I would attack but it still manages to place its shield like head in front of my fist. I feel my knuckles crack as we collide, it my recives my gift. I feel as my pulse pirces the void of its existence, it's Aura? I watch fascinated as the veins holding it together like strings wither, as the bones crack and shout away. I grab a spire shaped bone that was part of its arm before stabbing down at the creature's core.
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Pain?
The hunt ends as the treasure lashes out?
Shell ruptures, crumbles, Fractures, as a wave of forcefull Mana undermines its cleverly adapted defenses?
It desperately try's to reastablish control over its shell but can't as forin Mana floods, shatters and blows away its vessel.
Death comes quickly as a thin skeletal hand coils around its core and dirives through a jagged shard of its own stolen shell .
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I gasp, collapseing in relief as Ethice Force floods into and leaks out of my core. My reserves of,Mana and Vigor rapidly refill, and then over spill. Curious I try using a Pulse while my core over spills
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"Bad idea" I whisper out as I pull myself off the floor ware I blacked out and into a sitting position.
It didn't not work. But the sensory overload was way to much. I don't think I'm supposed to know how my organs are assembled on an atom level. Which explains why I'm finding it hard to remember the sensation.
"Maybe I should've put a point into wisdom?"
[•Health (8>8) •regen(0.15) per hour
•Vigor (8>8) •regen(0.10) per hour
•Mana (2>2) •regen(0.50) per hour ]
At least I'm filled back up again.