4.The Birth
During this time, I managed to take a little walk around the Library itself, after all, from monotonous actions, sometimes my head began to swell. Periodic impulsive actions, for example, making some kind of origami from parchment, also greatly interfered. It is extremely difficult to be a lower spirit with a healthy and developed mind…
I have already seriously started to sympathize those guys before me who also faced such problems. It's good that I managed to take control of my actions, I'm afraid if I had folded a figurine from precious parchments of a fanatical spirit, he would have made some kind of figurine out of me...
Walking through the Library, I have never yet come to a place where I have already passed once. In other words, after walking a long enough distance, all this time only new sections of the Library came across. I was itching to take more books, cover myself with them, brew a fragrant tea and immerse myself in millions of new worlds. After all, books have been acting as millions of unexplored universes for me since my last life. It used to happen that after some particularly good book, I just couldn't start another one, because some aftertaste from the book hadn't passed yet.
It was a great desire to take at least a few books from the stories section, because the cartoon practically does not show the life of a sufficiently long period of time. We know that there were many Avatars, but only a small number of them were shown to us.
I had to make a herculean effort not to fall off. I even had to run through this section just in case. But in my mind I promised myself that as soon as I had free time and opportunity, I would stay here and read excitedly.
To be honest, walking around the Library was almost as stressful as practicing techniques. It's like, as a child, going to the mall with his parents, going and looking at the windows with various toys – everything is so desirable, and even that trinket that you will forget after buying it in a few hours...
At the end of the first walk, I decided to go back to the room the same way. I thought nothing complicated, I was just walking in a straight line all the time. Passing through the corridors and seeing completely different names for the section, I began to slowly panic. It seems that Wang Shi Tong knows how to control space. There definitely shouldn't be such a distance, or it's a common feature of ancient spirits' habitation, when your place of residence has been saturated with your energy for thousands of years... here you will begin to control not only space, but also the flows of time.
Already panicking a lot, I switched to a light run and started randomly choosing directions, hoping to find my room. After spending half of the reserve on acceleration, I managed to catch a glimpse of a red fox tail around the corner. There was no limit to my joy.
- Chanterelle, please help me find the way to the room with the scrolls! – I said, trying to calm my voice, it's a shame to lose control of my emotions because I just got lost.
Was it my imagination, or did the fox really look at me with disdain? Okay, the main thing is that she waved her tail and led me back. After going through only a few sections, I immediately saw the right door from the room. Everything is too confusing here, it looks more like some kind of maze.
Before leaving, the fox spirit looked at me, sighed heavily and told me how to use the Library, supposedly I was distracting her from important things. How important we all are.
But the information turned out to be useful, it was worth just concentrating on thoughts about what you need, as the Library itself narrows the space for you, quickly bringing you to the desired place. Now it became clear why I came across sections of a bygone era more often, subconsciously I really wanted to read them. Thanking the spirit for his help, I started practicing again.
***
- Stop harassing yourself, do it or don't do it, - it suddenly sounded behind me that I already jumped several meters, using energy. I wanted to shout: "Hey, couldn't you have appeared less unexpectedly?!" but the instinct of self-preservation, even being a spirit, was very strong in me.
Okay, it's worth really calming down. For the last few hours, I've just been walking around the room and tormenting myself with sad thoughts. Still: "Who wants to bet their life on chance?". There were no such people in this room. Having already mastered, in my humble opinion, those techniques at a good level, I just really started to be afraid: "I'm not a coward, but I'm afraid, right?".
It's always hard to get out of your comfort zone. But it gets even harder when there are a whole bunch of problems, and you're sitting there and not changing anything, thinking: "come on, everything will resolve itself."
But it doesn't work that way. We know, we've been through it. Problems will accumulate, piling on top of each other, and in the end, when the brains fall into place, you will be unpleasantly surprised to realize that your head has cleared... due to the fact that there is simply nowhere to fall lower.
Okay, I think stop feeling sorry for myself, it's time to start my new life. Thanks to the experience I've had, I'll try to be even better in my new life. Of course, if I survive. Humor is good...
– Ok, I'm ready, – I said firmly.
- All right, send your consciousness to the source, - after a minute I did as the spirit ordered. - Start strengthening.
After completing all the actions that I practiced for two days, I began to wait for some beautiful effect of my sending. A naive lower spirit, I cried to myself, everyone offends every now and then. The fact is that he just opened some kind of rift in the air and unceremoniously kicked me out there.
– And don't come back without new books, – I heard already in flight on the other side. – Otherwise, I'll gut your spirit for knowledge myself, – he promised me ominously.
I hope he was joking. So much for the peaceful spirit. Then I began to notice the increasing pain – after all, the forced burning of your energy is not the most pleasant process. It's good that the spirit itself is looking for the vessel I need – my main task is only to strengthen myself.
There was less than twenty percent of the energy left when I was just praying for people to make more love. Water benders make me my vessel!
Subjectively, there were less than ten percent of the energies left when the pain was so severe that I was already starting to lose consciousness, but I held on as best I could.
The energy remained at the bottom, and when I almost lost consciousness, the thought came to my mind that there seemed to be a Swamp Tribe of Water in the world of the Avatar... I was already ready to get to them, just to survive.
***
I'm already getting used to the constant loss of consciousness. So, I'm thinking, so I still exist. Starting to feel my body, I tried to jump up and down with my arms and legs. Yes, there is a body, I even feel it more vividly, which is nothing compared to the body of the spirit. And it seems like I'm floating in some kind of liquid.
This is a success! It looks very much like an embryo, after all, how great it is to feel like a human again. They say exactly: "We don't appreciate what we have." Of course, maybe I've already died, and now a new life has begun, in which I got into a Jedi that was shot on Geonosis, and I'm currently undergoing treatment in a bacta chamber. Hm-m, it all fits together...
My thoughts went somewhere wrong, but it's worth checking. Well, let's move the handles, but the response is too weak, the soft wall presses on the hands. I think I touched the umbilical cord with my hand.
Over time, my thoughts calmed down, and I began to think more calmly. I'm not an expert on embryos and childbirth, but most likely I don't have too long left, the body seems well formed.
Very soon I will be greeted by the harsh real world, but after the Spirit Realm, where there were chances to be breakfast for a randomly passing spirit, the human world looks like a real paradise.
I began to feel very sleepy. Without trying to resist it, I smoothly sank into oblivion.
During the next waking session, I decided to do something useful. In my understanding, scrolling through the remaining memories of a watched cartoon, anyway, it won't be superfluous to refresh my memory. So far, everything seen and heard indicates that the canon here, if not complete, then there should not be much difference. I've been working on this case for a week, and I got so carried away that I watched the series about Korra's Avatar.
Only now did I realize that I was thinking before I was even born. Here's the first bonus of being a spirit – the baby's brains can't think in exactly the same structured way. By the way, about them. There are books about the chakras that have not yet been read in my memory, it's worth starting to comprehend this important information, because the day is not far off when my own body will appear, and I will cherish and cherish it with all my might.
After another week, I successfully sorted out the information I had gleaned from the books on the chakras. It immediately became clear why there were as many as three books on chakras. These are three different ways to open them – then you choose which one is closer or more necessary for you.
The first way is the way of the spirit. This is the path that Guru Patik taught Avatar Aang. The path that opens up the strength of the spirit in you – no matter how banal it may sound. By this, it means that being an ordinary person, you will receive the powers that the spirits themselves have, located on their native plane.
Firstly, it is an unhindered connection with the Spirit Realm – you can safely send your spirit to roam and interact with another world, while being physically on the human plane. Secondly, this is an increased conductivity of energy, its qualitative improvement, and the understanding of one's element will move to a completely new level. Being a mediocre magician, you will achieve mastery in your element in a year. And the most exciting thing is, being a non-magician, you have a good chance to become one!
It is clearly written in the book that there are just the majority of conquerors among people. It's just that the vast majority of them have a dormant talent, and when opening the chakras, each new one will try to break through the invisible boundaries of your magic power.
Someone will discover the gift in themselves already at the opening of the first chakra, while another will do it only after activating the last, seventh chakra. It all depends on the thickness of the metaphorical wall that separates a person from awakening. For someone, this is a flimsy cardboard wall, that with the opening of the first chakra, will simply sweep it away without noticing it. By the way, such people are even recorded in the book as late awakened, such benders became themselves already at a respectable age. There are also other cases where, on the verge of life and death, some people were able to awaken the elements in themselves.
For others, this wall is made of the strongest steel, which will have to be hammered down to the seventh chakra. The rejection of many feelings when opening the chakras is due to the fact that the very process of this action is somewhat like the birth of a new spirit, and they, in turn, begin the path from scratch, in other words, you do not lose your emotions, but simply begin to know them anew in the course of life. This path is exactly suitable for the bearers of the light spirit of Rava, whose main strength is entering the avatar state.
The next book is the path of mental. As I thought about this book, I kept thinking what kind of treasure I had come across, but looking ahead, I will say the following: the book is very dangerous, or rather, the abilities that it grants. Each new chakra gives you power over the mind of both your own and someone else's.
At first, everything is quite usual: it is a qualitative increase in the speed of thinking, protection of your mind from various external influences, intuition goes to a new level, you literally feel which actions are for your benefit and which are not.
Identify people's emotions? Easily! Further more: telepathy, the free transmission of thought at a distance of thousands of kilometers. The last chakra is: "Power over the mind of a stranger" – a literal quote from the book. In the truest sense of the word, you can read the thoughts, all the hidden fears, ambitions and desires of another reasonable person. It still looks delicious, right? You can even rewrite a person's mind – create for yourself the perfect wife, friends, and in general anything you want.
Honestly, the author of the book did not look like a Guru after the opening of the seventh chakra in any way. A brief history of his life is also written here. The name is not specified. Being a disciple of a Guru who comprehended the path of the spirit, he also wanted to discover the chakras in himself, but being not too pleased with the abilities bestowed, he decided to experiment: what if he influenced the chakra a little differently?
The experiment was a success. The first chakra of the earth opened, which gave him completely different abilities. Inspired by his success, he continued to activate further chakras without thinking about the consequences.
Opening each chakra is a huge risk in itself, because you lose a certain feeling. And each guru is not just a person, but a person with a steely will - these are the wisest of people who have not lost themselves on the path of knowledge.
The path of the mind has features that neutralize the loss of feelings. Being without emotions himself, the author purposefully evoked them from people in order to feed off them, that is why he did not learn any lesson from the opening of the chakras.
Being the smartest and knowing all the thoughts of his surroundings, he began to harden his heart. And not finding real feelings from people close to him, he just made them what he would like them to be. As a result, the author committed suicide, before destroying all his records. Only this book has survived, which only describes the author's abilities and history... exactly how to tear off the chakras in this way is not a word here.
The last, third book tells about the path of the body. I called this path to myself "superman on minimals". Each new chakra makes you look like a cultivator who was baptized by heavenly lightning, purified himself in a volcano, and so on and so forth.
The first chakra of the earth grants incredible body strength, phenomenal flexibility, increases endurance and reaction speed. In short, comprehensively improves all physical conditions.
The second chakra of water helps to increase immunity – diseases and poisons are no longer terrible. The third chakra of fire gives a qualitative leap to all the senses: perfect vision, sensitive hearing, acute sense of smell.
The fourth chakra of the air opens superintelligence – it can even be called a small gift of foresight. The fifth chakra of sound gives you full control over your body, down to the smallest particle: hormone production, blood circulation, bones, muscles and more. The sixth chakra cleanses the body and the genotype of all the toxins that are undoubtedly present in every person. The open chakra has been searching for and activating only the best that is hidden in your body for some time.
The last seventh chakra grants super-regeneration and physical immortality. Regeneration allows you to repair any damage... if the brain is still functioning. I guess I'm not afraid of having my head blown off either. After all, in ordinary people, the brain is responsible for all actions, but I can think like a spirit – the brain has rather a secondary role, so if I manage to restore the body, then it's not scary. Of course, we will not check this in practice. Physical immortality is stopping the aging of the body as a whole. Yes, someone can help me pass away, but I will definitely not die of old age.
It was this way that I liked the most. Here, when opening the chakras, emotions are lost only briefly and do not completely disappear. A lot of emphasis is placed on preparing your body, or rather, not training, but self-torture. Maybe the author of this work was a follower of the Power of Youth of Might Guy?
I didn't even have to think which way I would choose. The path of the spirit is the power that I already have, so it immediately disappears from my list. The mental path doesn't even have instructions, and I wouldn't choose it, it's too risky, besides, I want to live my life more colorfully and unpredictably. There remains the Path of the Body, the book that I read, literally choking on my saliva. That's what I wanted to say, wrap two at once, please!
For the next week, I continued to fantasize about how I would put my enemies in awe, how girls would hang on me and... how suddenly my mother's waters broke?!
Well, hello new world, be gentle, you're just my second.