20.Mastering
I woke up in a contradictory state. It seems like I got a whole new element from the one plus one promotion, but it was so sudden that it feels like I was forced to take another one.
The regular immersion into a deeper level of my spiritual body brought the expected result, but it did not make it less desirable. My sun – a neutral source, already has three satellite planets. In addition to the already known elements, a new ball of brown energy appeared, which even looked like it had a certain monumentality. From killing an average spirit, the source turned out to be quite strong, quite a bit short of the average rank. If I use it often enough, I will be able to increase it in the near future.
The energy sector is under a lot of stress right now, so it's worth giving myself a couple of days off. It's all strange... Being still a lower spirit, I could have one element, but now being on the middle one, I can have two more new ones. There are several ways to develop the further situation at once. For example, each new rank will give me one additional element, which means that already at the highest level, I will be able to take three new elements.
Or, let's say, at a new level, the number of elements multiplied by two is given. There was an element of water, on the average they just gave two new ones, which means that at the highest there will already be six new ones... Of course, not counting the neutral source. Maybe even now I can have another element. Okay, I can guess as much as I want, it's enough just to be extremely careful after each new element at the highest level.
If the world really give me such a huge number of elements, I can think about looking for rarer elements. The magic of life, death, maybe even the soul. But for now, it's worth focusing on the main four, they are easier to pump, they already have trampled roads.
Okay, that's all later, now I need to show up in front of my family. Get a quick shower and go for a sleep. Any way that state in which I digested the new source can not be called like a full rest.
After a couple of days, with renewed vigor, I began to play with newfound opportunities. It is a pity that I will have to master them without training scrolls and books. In the library, I came across only a couple of books describing the racks and techniques for fire magic, which seemed to be left over from the skirmishes with the people of fire. But this is still very little. Although on the other hand, it will be even more fun this way. I still remember all the techniques from the cartoon itself, it's worth trying to repeat them, most likely I'll make mistakes somewhere, but I can always retrain.
I think I'll start with fire magic, what do I even know about it?
The true magicians of fire in nature are dragons. They also trained the first conquerors of fire, who at that time were called the Warriors of the Sun. It seems that there are even their direct descendants who still honor dragons and worship fire. They also taught Aang and Zuko fire magic.
For the sake of training this element, I had to go far out of town, so that not a single soul would know about my fire bendering, after all, the impressionable people here can completely imagine what to think about, and then I would struggle with the result of their undoubtedly "correct" conclusions.
I don't know if I'm so gifted, or if the average rank of the spirit in fire magic makes itself felt, but the basic techniques that I deduced for myself in my mind turned out to be really easy.
This list includes the most popular techniques that were used by all fire-wielding characters.
The first in line was the classic fireball... Another two ours I was playing with it shapes and power. I found two ways to use it. I can make it explode on impact or, conversely, burn the target of the attack. I even tried to make the temperature of the fire even higher, but it seems that there is a certain limit that I can issue now. It turns out to make it less hot, but it is no longer possible to raise it above a certain value. I've already been dreaming about blue fire, like Princess Azula's.
The next technique I tried to create was a simple jet of fire, but even here I couldn't stop at simply releasing a stream of flame from my hands. As a result, I learned how to release such jets from each arm, leg, and finger. There was even an idea to launch such a thing with my butt, but I managed to stop my childishness in time.
It was only after playing with fire jets and balls that I remembered the ancient form of Dancing Dragons. Trying to repeat it, I didn't expect much myself, but with each new movement, fire magic seemed to be trying to show me how to use it more correctly. By turning on some movements when using different techniques, I was able to feel a completely different effect. If earlier for me, the element was still something distant, as if it did not recognize me as its master, now it has completely fallen into my arms, you can say that I am now leading the dance.
That day, I fell into something similar to enlightenment, it felt like my body was controlled by an already experienced fire master who showed me the ways to conquer such a wayward element.
The fire wave in this state turned out to be no worse than what would have happened only with comet Sozin. By compressing the fire jet, it turned out to create a fiery blade that had an even greater range. After finishing practicing these techniques, I switched to the fire wheel I saw, the advantage of which is the unpredictability of movement in flight.
It turned out to create a fire whip, dagger, sword and shield, already being in a normal state. And that's all I had enough for that day. This state of enlightenment drained all the juices out of me, my whole body ached, both physically and spiritually. And the channels ached from the unaccustomed following of such an intense pressure of aggressive fire energy.
- Phew, – exhaling finally with a small jet of fire, I realized that I was several meters below the main layer of snow and ice, even the air around me was closer to plus temperature...
This will definitely be noticed by someone else. I had to sit in the same place for a couple more hours until the canals stopped whining, and then with the help of water magic I filled the gaps from fire magic with snow.
I didn't touch the magic of fire for another week, I was oversaturated and digested in my mind all that I had created while under the "effect of the elements". That's what I decided to call that enlightening state of body and mind.
But the holy place is never empty, the thirst for magic carries me to explore new facets of the elements available to me. Sometimes I feel like I was one of those high elves before they made Sunwell...
It seems that that state of enlightenment also "ate up" a fair part of my mental strength. In the morning of the very next day, thinking about the practice of earth magic, I stood for a couple of minutes and ran my hand through the snow in search of this very earth…
Just after starting to dig the snow with this very hand, a light bulb lit up above my head. Hehehe, did I really want to dig a few thousand meters of ice with my hand?! Okay, I'd better go to sleep, it seems I haven't completely recovered from the strain yet.
The very next day I was full of mental strength. To test my readiness, I began to recall all the properties of logarithms, then I remembered that I had never taught them... Pushing away unnecessary thoughts, I thought about how I could get access to this very land. Well, except to dig this very path to the ground through thousands of meters of ice. Difficult.
- Again, I think like a simple person, - I said after five minutes of thinking about how to make kilometer-long tunnels underground, - there is water magic, ice is a water, and I am a water magician – everything fits together. It's also worth stopping saying thoughts out loud, it seemed like I got rid of this habit in a previous life.
For the sake of the magic of the earth, I spent a whole week making a passage to the place where the ice I already hated ends and the earth begins. I spent more time creating the polygon itself. The magic of the earth is not inferior in destructiveness to the magic of fire, and in some places even surpasses it, therefore, the site had to be made strong enough. So I will start to practice only after all the risks are eliminated. It was necessary to make the ice as hard as possible, to create load-bearing columns.
It's also good that I didn't have to worry about lighting. There were also some glowing crystals, something similar I saw in the Cave of Two Lovers, Oma and Shu. They provided enough light. Before I found them, I thought that I would be motivated, learn to feel my surroundings thanks to seismic sensitivity. Which all the badgermole have, and they also taught Toph this.
Next to the built landfill, deploying all my senses of the spirit, I was able to feel the source of water. Removing the ice from my path and walking in the direction that my sensor pointed out to me, I waited with increasing curiosity for the end of the path. After all, ice surrounds me everywhere here, everywhere, you can say, water in one state or another, but it is precisely that place that the sensor "highlights" in a different way.
This is about what I expected, but still the view is just awesome! A whole lake, in a liquid state. I do not know why this is so, perhaps it is heated by geothermal sources or the water does not change its aggregate state due to the enormous pressure from above, but this is not the most important thing. Having tried to manipulate the water, I met quite serious resistance.
This water seems to be oversaturated with water energy, I'm sorry for the tautology. It is in about the same condition in the Oasis of Spirits. That is, by practicing the conquest of the elements, with this water from the same lake, I can achieve a much greater effect from training. Well, now I definitely didn't spend so much time with the landfill in vain.
The development of the new element was in full swing. And then that condition did not come to my aid, but at least I did not run out of breath at the end of the day. The magic of the earth also went steadily and steadily to match the element itself. When I manipulated the earth, it was as if I myself became an indestructible rock. The right attitude when using different magic is very important. If fire magic is a positive jing, that is, a constant attack, then earth magic is a neutral jing, holding, waiting, the earth magician must know exactly when to attack and when to defend.
In a few days of active practice, I managed to master the initial techniques of earth magic. The very first step in my path was the levitation of earth and stones. Having fixed one technique, only then I moved on to another, there is no need to rush here. This was followed by a list of techniques that are included in one style. I called it the Destruction of the Earth, banal, pretentious, but effective! It includes splitting, crushing, abrasion of stones and rocks, as well as pushing the earth apart in order to create tunnels, in general, a multifunctional little thing.
The last technique I mastered was compression, and despite such a simple name, the technique had simply tremendous penetrating damage. But physics has clearly moved aside here... All this is done this way, we take a boulder, the bigger the better. We compress it to a smaller shape, for example, a bullet, and just throw it at the enemy. The catch is that the mass of this bullet is still equal to the mass of a boulder, but somehow it is easier for the earth magician to disperse smaller stones, that is, the speed of such a gift will be lightning fast, such a projectile can also pierce through the tank of the people of fire.
There was a downside to this technique... As I understood, it is thanks to my energy that I can break the laws of physics that are familiar to me, so as soon as I stop controlling the technique, it immediately returns to its original state. More precisely, it tries to return, and since this does not work out, a big explosion occurs, just like from a fragmentation grenade. Yes, I had to treat myself with healing water...
Then I had a desire to practice fire magic again, so all sorts of stone golems, stone peaks and shields will be mastered a little later, I will not leave any of the techniques unexplored, I just needed a change of activity.
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Sitting at the table with the whole family and having dinner with soup, I thought about those edible algae that are now floating in my plate. As far as I know, they are not specially grown anywhere. It's just that they appear in our diet at some time of the year. An entirely seasonal product.
Asking this question to my mother, I learned that they are too difficult to get from the ocean, so we eat them only after particularly strong tides, when the ocean naturally throws them to our shore. Naturally, I asked about the reason for not breeding it with us. There is a lot of water, there are samples, what else is needed? But no, I'm not the only one who is so smart, there have already been attempts before, but we have not been able to find the right conditions for their mass cultivation.
- Try to add vital energy at first. Our healers are sitting out there, they don't know what to do, let them try and experiment, – I said, having already lost interest in this topic.
Maybe I would have done it, but I have my own things to do. And so they will create a certain base themselves, they will kill the cones, and I will be able to come to the ready-made.
In theory, the chances of success are quite considerable. After all, there is vital energy in plants, but here it is simply different from ours and animals, but healers spend their whole lives picking up the keys to a new patient, I think they will be able to adjust their qi here.
- That's right! I didn't even think about it! How clever you are! - I don't seem to look like a childfor a long time, but my mother pinches my cheeks with enviable regularity.