Pilgrimage of Dreams 18

Due to depletion of ether, I fainted.

That teleportation has used more ether than I thought it would.

Actually, the teleportation used sizable amount, it was me whose ether is lacking. Because I want to become more powerful and was in a hurry when I think of the war, the ether I stipulated to refine my body has been increased leaving only a passable amount of ether to myself to activate sigil and runes.

The not so difficult types..

If my actual amount of ether was present that little bit of ether usage for teleportation will be nothing more than mosquito sucking my blood.

Do you know how much ether is required to refine a body into a pure ether elemental body?

A lot, like really, really lot.

At first, I expand seventy percent of my ether in refining my body, but last time, I suddenly increased the stipulation to ninety-five percent leaving only five percent ethers to myself. 

I want to open my seventh chakra you know.

Main character are so quick to grow, I have to grow quickly too.

Since I understand space a bit now, I will start working on the space sigil.

Sigils and runes, I have never specified what these are haven't I?

Sigil and Runes are like periodic table for sorcerer.

At least to me.

I break down the sigil like how a chemical compound is break down, I added another parts of sigil to another sigil like mixing a right amount of chemicals to have that desired effect or result.

At least that is how I tackle sigil.

I don't know how others do it but that's my method.

I would like to talk more about sigil and runes and the hypothesis I come up with of how it was formed but I have other important things to concern about first.

I am going to make teleportation scroll.

At least that is my foremost plan right now.

The next agenda I set for myself about homunculus can only be put to hold for now.

I study the space sigils, there are of many types thats's been written down but only a few of them have explanation. There a lot that is put as blank. It means the type of space it was is classified as unknown.

This is going to be tough.

But hey, at least I get the hang of what space is.

I have to modify and mix them to create a somewhat stable teleportation scroll.

My long study and experiment started yet again.

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I wrecked my brain.

I fall into depression.

I exhaust myself mentally.

I feel like I work on that universally known unsolvable math question…

…. Long story short, the first prototype is done.

The person who will test the scroll is…. Me….not.

It's the jointed ball dolls.

Did I nearly get you? Aha!

The distance of the particles is made to be short distance.

The first prototype experimentation, there is no more left of the first experimental comrade jointed ball dolls, the connection I have is still there but it was no better than me completely losing it.

The ether channel is unstable, the connection of the two particles that are link is not strong enough. Comrade jointed ball dolls is now floating in whatever space time I cannot see.

It stuck between the two particles, more like the gap between the two doors if you don't understand.

By the way, let me also concisely explain how the space door works. How the particles are link.

Imagine a straight line.

A dot on each end, teleportation is like the two dot on each far end suddenly curve and bend, the dot meeting each other.

You may ask 'But won't that affect the size and shape of matters exist between the two dots?'

The answer is; here's the thought.

Throw away whatever reality cognition you held.

Space is not still.

It is continuously moving, wiggling, but the matters inside it are too small to feel it. Our perception is too weak to even sense it.

Space can be twist about in anyway.

What even is space?

Let your imagination run wild.

If space is a person, bend down and touch your toe.

The tip of your hand is the point and the tip toe the other point. When you bend, all your body functions as it is, it did not explode. 

You can just straighten yourself again.

Now, imagine space as slime.

Stretch however you want let whatever end meets whatever end. It did not damage slime in any way.

Get the gist of it?

If not, let your imagination run wilder. I did my best.

In any case, the jointed ball doll was stuck.

Space is so vast I don't know how to pinpoint in which space comrade jointed ball doll stuck.

I work on the second scroll.

This time, the link is stable but whatever part of sigil is sucking other particles as well. It cause space disturbance.

Second comrade jointed ball doll was sacrificed on the space disturbance.

Third prototype, the passageway is unstable, comrade number three explode in debris.

Working with space sigil is much harder than I thought.

Sometimes, the particles are mis-joined creating a rift in space.

The particles too reactive…

The space vacuum too heavy it squeezed the jointed ball doll, it came out twisted in weird angles.

….Space is so complicated!

But at least I know the basic.

I don't lose hope.

Directly using it by our ether is easy as we know exactly what happened.

But sigils have no consciousness?

It cannot precisely correct it. Outer forces have to arrange them neatly and accordingly.

I work on this project alone for four month.

But it was not without gain in retrospect to its time consuming. My understanding of space have increased, I also discovered what some of what the unknown space sigil is.

Damn!

I am so amazing.

Amazing is me.

Forefathers, I have not failed you.

Thank you for the many theories you guys come up with, it help me a lot.

Thank you smart me, be more amazing than this.

*shedding tears of happiness*

Smiling happily, I turn around.

My face drops immediately.

"One, two, three, four"

Exactly four jointed ball dolls remained except the two Aranya wood jointed ball dolls.

All the others have gloriously dies on the battlefield.

With only five percent of my ether available to use, producing concentrated ether to make heart of the doll, I will only be able to make one at most in a day. Two will exhaust me too much.

I feel like I still have a lot to do and I cannot run out of jointed ball dolls. My instinct tells me so.

But right now, I will only be able to condensed one concentrated heart of the doll, that method is slow, time and energy consuming.

As for absorbing source stone to replenish depleted ether, uhh…

Source stone is expensive.

I don't want to spend expenses on things so casually. I only did when I have only that choice.

My cheapskate mindset from my past life remains.

Although I will not say I am frugal, but on things I can search for a more effective alternative, I don't want to do the non-effective one.

I am going to make a device that constantly absorb pure ether.