CH18, Tier 1 Human

As soon as Mikail woke up he started trying to unlock his mindscape.

From his experience with the aurascape, he assumed that his mindscape was located either in the center area of his brain or head.

He now had to circle his psionic energy in those places and hope that he unlocked his mindscape.

As far as the trigger he needed to unlock it was concerned, Mikail hoped that he had already fulfilled it.

After 5 minutes of circulation, it became apparent that he did not.

He had covered every spot in the center of his head and brain, as well as every other spot in his head area just in case his assumption on his mindscapes location was wrong, but nothing.

After another 30 minutes, he was getting a bit frustrated by his failing attempts.

After another hour he was more than a bit frustrated and decide to stop for now and officially began his day.

During the rest of the day, he would occasionally try to unlock his mindscape and fail.

It all accumulated until he finally snapped near the end of his evening session.

'Mew damn it.

Just unlock already, for fk's sake.

I don't want to waste another day trying to unlock my mindscape.

I still have to absorb energy into my scapes to advance to Tier 1 and train the abilities I will gain after advancing.

I need to get stronger so that I can keep myself safe while going out once my body matures to its 4-5 years old look and that is going to take a while.

The more time I waste, the more I delay my first adventure, I mean excursion.

I have to be able to at least run away and hide if I need to, even if I only plan to visit the outskirts of Viridian Forest bordering Hope Town and other less dangerous areas.

Which I can't do, if I don't reach Tier 1 and I can't do that if I don't absorb energy into my scape.

Which I can't do, if I don't unlock my fk'ing mindscape.

Because even now I can't bring myself to just use my aurascape and aura to advance to Tier 1.

I still want to maintain my plan of advancing after unlocking both.

This increases my frustration even more because I am doing this to myself.

I don't even really have to hurry because I have more than enough time, but my eagerness to go out as soon as possible, to start my adventure, to take my first step to the top is pushing me.'

Mikail, who was ranting noticed a disturbance in the force.

Ahem, he meant in his psionic energy.

It felt like the time he unlocked his aurascape.

He immediately focused on his head and sensed that it came from the center area of his brain.

He guided his psionic energy to that place and subsequently unlocked his mindscape.

"Pheeeewww."

'Who would have thought that ranting would help me unlock my mindscape.

Who knows why it worked, I don't.

For my aurascape it was happiness, but during my rant, I went through a multitude of emotions from frustration, anger, eagerness to ambition.

I'd like to think that it was my ambition but I can't be sure.

It could have been a blend that was needed for all I know.

But now that I have unlocked my mindscape, I will have to split my training time between aura and psionic energy again to see which one advances first.

Once the first path advances, I can advance the other as well, before I start to train in the first one.

It's time I slept.

I need to be well-rested for my training tomorrow.'

Mikail went to sleep feeling happy that he became a top-grade apprentice psychic, and eager to reach Tier 1 and gain superpowers, I mean the abilities of his training paths.

Once he woke up the next morning, on Arcday, he started trying to absorb aura into his aurascape.

He had decided to use the time before his nap to train with his aura and the time after his nap to train with his psionic energy.

He had the idea to make use of the subconscious act of absorbing energy from the environment, which all living beings, including him, seemed to perform.

So, that's what he did.

He sensed the movement of the aura around him.

He also sensed how his aura moved inside his body and when/how it would be released into the environment.

Mikail observed how aura would be absorbed into his body and moved to his aurascape, where it would be assimilated before joining his natural aura circulation.

He kept trying to emulate that process whenever he could until his nap time, after which he did the same with psionic energy and his mindscape.

He did this for the next 2 days without success.

He was not frustrated by this, because he could see himself improve.

During his evening training session on Giratiday, which was the 3rd day since he started, he finally succeeded.

He managed to absorb psionic energy into his mindscape and became a Tier 1 psychic.

He, first, moved the psionic aura in the environment to his body.

Because it was harder to absorb the psionic energy into his body on its own, he used the release method he observed from his body to release some of his psionic energy outside and help the outside energy into his body.

Once that was accomplished he forced, I mean escorted the outside energy to his mindscape with the help of his own.

Achieving all this took him 3 days and he still had to fine-tune and perfect this process.

But he nevertheless succeeded and became a qualified psychic.

He could feel the difference immediately.

His mind was clearer and his thoughts flowed faster, due to the minor computing boost he gained right upon entering Tier 1.

He also directly gained the ability to feel minds as well as mind intrusions, but he could not test them yet.

For now his sensing range was too short to feel the minds of others not directly beside him and there was no one trying to enter his mind, at least he hoped so because he could not feel anyone trying to enter.

He would gain access to minor telepathy, minor telekinesis, and minor psionic energy manipulation once he accumulated enough psionic energy in his mindscape.

Mikail could not control himself and began his patented duckling dance out of happiness.

His parents, who noticed the commotion coming from his room through the baby phone came to his room.

His mother immediately started recording him dancing in his growlithe themed pajamas to preserve the moment, definitely not for blackmail, and before long they could not control their laughter anymore.

Mikail, who heard his parents laughing instantly stopped, coming out of his world.

He was a little mortified that his mother had another piece of blackmail, I mean, an embarrassing memory for the future when he saw the camera, but he was used to that by now.

His parents left after he told them he felt like dancing and Mikail went to sleep.

The next day, he used the same method with his aura and by the end of the day after that he succeeded, after numerous tries, in absorbing external aura into his aurascape, thus becoming a Tier 1 aura user.

Like with his psychic advancement on the previous day, he instantly noticed the difference between before and after his breakthrough.

He felt overall better as if he was stronger and faster.

This was because of the minor passive body boost.

He also felt less tired compared to before, which was thanks to the minor passive regeneration he gained.

Besides those two he also gained a minor emotion sense, that he could not use because his sensing range was too small, like with his ability to feel minds.

Just as with his other psychic abilities he would gain access to a minor passive aura sense, a minor aura speech, and minor internal aura manipulation once he accumulated enough aura in his aurascape.

Since he had become a Tier 1 psychic first, he would focus on becoming a first-class qualified psychic first before training in his aura.

Tomorrow was Kyoday, which meant it was the weekend once more and since he had achieved his goal of reaching Tier 1 in both his paths nearly 2 weeks ahead of his estimations, he decided to reward himself by doing nothing that was not fun for the whole weekend.

The next morning during breakfast his parents were discussing if they should go out or stay at home.

They saw Mikail's hopeful look when going outside was mentioned and decided to do so.

Next, they discussed where to go.

"We went to the mall last week and the week before that we went to Lake Hope.

We could go to Hope Park again, it's been a month since we went there the last time."

Came from Mikail's mother.

"That's an option, another one would be the Hope petting zoo."

His father replied to her.

'Another one.

The member's list of the Hope club is increasing.

When is it going to end?'

Mikail thought as soon as he heard his father's words.

"Are you sure we can go to the Hope petting zoo?

From what I remember, the minimum entry age is 2 years."

Arya asked her husband.

"You're not wrong.

The entry age condition is 2 years, but that's for the Pokemon section.

They also have an animal section with small-sized animals like chickens, ducks, sheep, deer, and goats.

So we could still go there."

Edward answered Arya's question.

"Let's let Mikail decide where he wants to go.

Do you want to go to Hope park or do you want to go to the petting zoo?"

Arya looked at Mikail and asked.

"Hope park."

Came from Mikail who simply thought.

'No way am I going to a petting zoo without Pokemon.

Let's just go to Hope park, at least I can see Pokemon there and get to touch them.

Moreover, checking the potential of Pokemon has become more of a hobby than a task and I can do that there, which I can't with normal animals.

Well, I could but it wouldn't be worth it.'

"Well ok, that's that.

The little man wants to go to Hope park so we will go there.

Let's get ready and go right now.

We can have lunch there and return before dinner."

His father accepted Mikail's choice.

His parents got ready once the choice was made and Mikail's clothes were changed to a more fitting set.

After they had packed everything they needed, they called Agni, Cyan, Emerald, and Rivers over.

Once they came and were recalled, the family went on their way to the park.

They came to the same place they stayed the last time, a bit further into the park, and set up their blanket and parasol.

They set up Rivers inflatable pool and told him to look after their things.

After receiving Rivers confirmation, the family of 3 started strolling around without going deeper into the park.

Mikail was really happy because his parents told him that he could, in addition to the Caterpie, stroke, and touch any Sentret, Hoppip, and Sunkern they saw as long as he got the Pokemons permission.

5 minutes into their stroll Mikail had already stroked and checked 2 Caterpie, which had red potential.

'Species: Caterpie

Gender: Male

Type: Bug

Potential: Deep Red

Stage: Stageless

Genetic variation: None

Abilities: Shield Dust

Talents: None

Affinities: Bug'

He instantly noticed that he could see the full status screen of the 2 Stageless Caterpie.

That's when he noticed his first Sentret which he promptly tried to touch.

At first, it seemed like he would be unable to stroke it because the Sentret seemed hesitant in allowing him to come near it, but he somehow managed to do so.

Probably because it deemed him as non-threatening.

'Species: Sentret

Gender: Female

Type: Normal/Neutral

Potential: Orange

Stage: (low) Iron-stage

Genetic variation: ?

Abilities: ?

Talents: ?

Affinities: ?'

This told Mikail one important thing, just because he broke through to Tier 1 did not mean that he was instantly super strong.

The fact that he could not see the last four lines of the (low) iron-stage Sentret proved that.

Which was kind of understandable.

He just broke through and had not trained any further.

And let's not forget his (bodies) age combined with the fact that he had not trained his strength in any way.

Simply put, just because he reached Tier 1 did not mean he became strong immediately.

He certainly had that potential, since his knowledge told him that a Tier 1 human at his/her peak could rival a silver-stage Pokemon, but that had nothing to do with him for now.

He kept stroking and scanning any Sentret and Caterpie he could for about 45 minutes before he found the first Hoppip that would allow him to pet it, which were 5 Sentret and 8 Caterpie.

'Species: Hoppip

Gender: Male

Type: Grass/Flora, Flying/Air

Potential: Deep Red

Stage: (low) Iron-stage

Genetic variation: ?

Abilities: ?

Talents: ?

Affinities: ?'

What he learned from all the status screens he saw during this time was, that he could, with his current strength, see 90% of the time the full status screen of Stageless Pokemon, which was not bad.

He was excited to scan more Pokemon and hoped to at least check one Sunkern during this trip, since he had the permission of his parents to pet one he felt like he had to make use of it.

Mikail kept looking out for any Pokemon he could touch and scan while continuing their stroll with his parents.