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General Knowledge learned: Internal Energy Colle
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Emily closes her eyes and focuses on the information in her mind beiructured and eborated on. She’s surprised as information on maa and the Neuro flows in and ects to her uanding of mana and magic circuits. However, the point that gives her the most shock is the information on magical beasts' passive mana colle being woven in as well.
Opening her eyes after the informatioles, she opens the system and pulls up the description of her new knowledge.
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[Internal Energy Colle]
An uanding of active and passive colle of atmospheriergy, and its version into and tai of unique energy types.
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A wide grin appears on her face.
“It might work!”
Excitedly, she moves to stand up before notig Tom aer are missing from the table. Pausing and remainied, she looks to her side and sees Juliana looking at her quizzically.
“What? Where are the twins?” Emily asks while closing her notebook and dropping the opebooks out of the barrier.
“They left about an ho. They said goodbye, but you pletely ighem.”
“Ah, whoops.” Emily awkwardly scratches her cheek.
“Also, what might work?”
“I said that out loud?” Emily asks, flushing red with embarrassment.
“Yes, you did,” Juliana giggles.
“Urgh, I’m too used to being alone. I was looking at creating a new meditation teique because what I’m currently using barely even be called that.”
“Cool! Are you going now?” Juliana asks, tossing the book she was reading behind her and standing up.
“Yeah, I’m gono the training rooms a in a gathering array,” Emily answers, standing up too.
“I’ll e with you; I have some spare points to burn right now!” Juliana grabs her arm, and they leave the library together.
After a quick teleport and a short walk through a few hallways, they find themselves in front of two empty B-grade training rooms.
“Meet out here at 8 to head to dinner?” Juliana asks as she pces her hand on the panel beside her chosen door.
“Sure, see you in a bit.” Emily watches Juliana vanish through the door before turning to her own.
Raising her hand and iing a small flow of mana, text appears on the panel:
Wele Emily Coldstone
Please figure your sessioings:
[Enviro]
[Targets]
[Gathering Array]
Ign the first two options, Emily opens the gathering array settings. Seleg five times density for a cost of ten tribution points per hour, Emily steps into the training room. The door shuts behind her and she looks back to see a small silver panel beside it with a point total a button.
The room itself is a bnk twenty-metre by twenty-metre cube with white walls and a grey floor. In the tre of the room, Emily sees a rge magic circle with a plicated mass of ruhat she ’t even begin to uand. Walking over, she moves to the tre and sits down. The magic circle activates the moment she settles in the tre, and she feels a pressure building around her.
Reag out her hand, she moves it around, feeliance as if moving in deep water. Fog hard on the air around her hand, she sees a slight shimmering haze being disturbed by her movement.
Iing. I guess atmospheria bees visible if you focus enough of it in one pce.
Refog and trying not to waste the time she’s paying for, Emily sits up straight, with her shoulders bad her chest forward. Her legs are crossed, with each foot resting on top of the opposite thigh. Linking her fingers and pg her thumbs ft against each other, she rests her hands on her legs and shuts her eyes.
Taking a deep breath in through her nose over four seds, she holds it for three.
Releasing the breath from her mouth over five seds, she pauses for two.
Repeating this breathing pattern, she focuses internally on the movement of the mana and maa through her Magietwork. At first, the movement of her internal energies is a plete mess. Random bursts of maa fire from her cortex along her internal pathways, and mana releases from her magic circle in rhythmic waves, g with the travelling maa.
Slowly, she calms the subsovements of energy to a lull. Then she focuses on her cortex and releases a mass of maa down her spine. As the energy spreads to the base of her spine, she releases it, all at once, into every eg pathway that once made up her nervous system. She lets it flow to every inch of her body, filling every limb and an before joining what once made up her vascur system, before flowing back to her cortex, carryira atmospheria with it.
Repeating this a few times, she slowly forms her maa into a natural rhythmic pulse before fog on her magic circle. Timing it precisely with the rhythm of her maa, she releases a mass of mana at the same time as a pulse of maa, guiding it through her old vascur system and colleg atmospheria on the way out. The two energies meet and briefly mix, before separating as her mana joins with the old nervous system aurns to her circle.
Emily repeats this process for a few more cycles but frowns as she feels like she’s missing something. Breakirand opening her eyes, she opeatus window and stares at it.
It didn’t t as a new meditation teique yet. What else I try?
Looking at the h window in her visiotention is drawn to her ualent.
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[Magical Engineer]
User {Emily Coldstone} has the unique ability to perfectly merge magic with maes.
-Grants the ability to vert between maa and mana
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Wait, vert between maa and mana?
Arikes her, so she closes her eyes and falls bato her trance. After a few more minutes of carefully trolling her energy flows, she reaches the same point as before. This time, as the maa and mana both saturate her body and start to mix, instead of drawing them ba, she pulls upon the idea of version. The two iwined energies suddenly seem to ed merge before a ge takes pce. What was once mana bees maa, and what was once maa bees mana.
The two energies then separate and flow back to their respective tainers. Emily feels something cli her mind, and, as if reag to her enlighte, the gathered atmospheria around her begins to quiver. The mana is drawn towards her and seeps through her electrically charged skin, supplementing the two delicately merged energies at the point of version, and pressing them little by little. With each subsequent cycle of release, merge, exge, and recall, Emily’s mana and maa both increase in purity ay by a marginal amount.
Emily remains in her meditation till she feels an hour and forty minutes have passed. Opening her eyes, she releases one final breath from her mouth and watches the expelled air shimmer and distort like the heat haze in her home city. She sees the electrical currents flickering across her skin fade and slowly stands up.
Stretg with a feeling of invigoration, she feels a slight ge in her body and opeatus, hopefully, to check it, along with the notifications she ignored while irance.
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[Status]
[Name:] Emily Coldstone
[Race:] Human
[Age:] 15
[Magic Circle:] First Circle
[Maa Cortex:] First Stage
[Attributes:] Strength 7, Dexterity 15 > 16, Agility 12, Vitality 8, Intelligence 23 > 24
[Health:] 115/115
[Stamina:] 175/175
[Mana:] 360/360
[Maa:] 360/360
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Skill superseded: Basic Meditation (active)
Intrinsic skill created: Teancer's Breath (active)
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[Teancer’s Breath (active)]
[Cost:] N/A
A unique energy colle teique created by User {Emily Coldstoo maximise the bes of a teahrough trolled breathing, internal energy movement, and the effect of exgiweeeriergy types, user gather atmospheriergy and use it to refiheir body and increase their uanding of mana and maa.
-Upon activation, user enters a trance-like state to gather energy.
-Refihe user’s body and internal energies, and increases health, stamina, mana, and maa regeion while in use.
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Emily grins happily at the messages before her.
Nice! My intelligencreased again, and this time my dexterity increased too. I don’t know if my old meditation teique helped at all, but this one definitely improves my other stats! Unfortunately, trying to copy the passive gatherihod of beasts only helps draw mana towards me, I still ’t use this while moving.
Stepping out of the tre of the gathering array so it deactivates, Emily moves her body about to feel the ges brought by one point ierity.
Hmm, I don’t feel too different, maybe slightly more in trol of my fior movements?
To test, she quickly weaves together a spell and finds her hand movement to be slightly faster and more precise than before.
Thought so, dexterity affects my trol of my hands and my hand-eye coordination. A very useful stat festure casting and making things!
Ecstatically walking up to the door, she looks at the panel beside it and sees a charge of eighteen points. Too happy to care about the cost of her session, she presses the exit button and steps through the door after it opens. Seeing Juliana standing in the corridor waiting for her, she steps forward and pulls her into a hug, lifting her and spinning her around while g gleefully:
“It worked!”
Juliana giggles at Emily’s enthusiastic greeting. After a few moments, Emily lets her down and blushes slightly in embarrassment.
“Hehe, I assume it wehen?” Juliana asks, smiling while she grabs Emily’s arm and starts pulliowards the exit.
“Yes, I’ve now created my very owation teique that also works to refine my body!”
“Wait really? My family’s teique only refines my mana, you teach me yours?” Juliana asks, fshing her usual puppy dog eyes.
“Sorry, I don’t think it would work for you,” Emily says, trying to think of an excuse and remembering the visible electrical currents when she used it. “You have to have a strong lightning affinity.”
“Aww.” Juliana visibly deftes at Emily’s words, making her feel guilty fetting the girl’s hopes up.
“Sorry, I’ll show you why ter. You’re still up for mesture casting lessons, right?” Emily asks, feeling the desire to cheer Juliana up.
It works: Juliana looks at her, eyes shining with expectation.
“Of course!”
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After a quick dinner with the twins, where Emily apologises fn them earlier, Emily and Juliaurn to her room to tiheir private tut.
“Show me your new meditation teique!” Juliana requests eagerly while taking a seat on Emily’s bed.
“Okay.” Emily sits down on the floor in front of her, with her legs crossed and her hands in position.
Closing her eyes, she activates her skill and feels her energy flow quickly fall into rhythm with her breathing. The reas within and outside her body feel more muted than they did ihering array, but she tinues for ten seds before opening her eyes and looking at Juliana’s astonished rea.
“That’s so cool! You were all sparkly!”
Emily ughs at Juliana’s description as she stands up.
“What does it actually look like? I only see the aftereffects when I break my trance, and it was far less dramatiow than when I had higher density mana around me.”
“Well, your skin lit up with small sparks of lightning, and I could see your veins glowing underh. Also, your hair went crazy! I see why you said I wouldn’t be able to use it, I assume that lightning everywhere is what’s refining your body?”
“Pretty much,” Emily agrees, not wanting to tell her the full truth about maa.
They move on quickly and tinue Juliana’s practice with gesture casting. After a few hours, Juliana leaves, hugging Emily and promising to collect her for breakfast in the m. Emily then spends the rest of her day meditating before heading to bed.
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The m, Emily wakes up at 8 am and checks for the day's csses, finding she has geopoliti the m and hand-to-hand bat iernoon.
Sweet, I get to beat up some nobles!
She cheerfully gets out of bed and showers, befetting ged and brushieeth. After she finishes her m preparations, she sits down at her desk and checks The Clock to see how long she has till Juliana should arrive. Finding that she still has five minutes, she pulls up her status to review her ret ges in full and pauses, staring at the open s in disbelief.
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[Status]
[Name:] Emily Coldstone
[Race:] Human
[Age:] 15 > 16
[Magic Circle:] First Circle
[Maa Cortex:] First Stage
[Attributes:] Strength 7, Dexterity 16, Agility 12, Vitality 8, Intelligence 24
[Health:] 115/115
[Stamina:] 175/175
[Mana:] 360/360
[Maa:] 360/360
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Talents:
[Intrinsic] Magical Engineer
-Meical Genius
-Magical Genius
Skills:
[Intrinsic] Magietwork (passive)
[Intrinsic] Teancer's Breath (active)
-Parkour (passive)
-Basic Mae stru (passive)
-Basic Melee bat (passive)
-Basic Spellweave (active)
-Mental Fortitude (passive)
-Overdrive (active)
-Basic Metalw (passive)
Knowledge:
-Basic Clockwork
-Basic Steampower
-Basic Electrical Theory
-Basia Formation
-Basic Particle Physics
-Basic Material Sce
-Basiematics
-Basic Waves
-Basic Thermodynamics
-Basic Elemental Theory
-Internal Energy Colle
Equipment:
[Intrinsic] Clockwork of Time (Ex)
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“Today’s my birthday?!”
