Sitting cross legged on an empty patch of land, in my personal training room, I ditated.
For what I needed for my next task was absolute calm.
But-
-She likes you.
The sentence continued to resound in my head like a broken record, disrupting my concentration and mood.
In the end, there was nothing I could do here.
Whether she liked or not, it didn't matter.
For I didn't.
Yes, I didn't.
I was attracted to her, yes, but that was only to her body.
Simply put, I was horny.
The teen hormones firing up in my body were going haywire at the sight of her body, that along with our close proximity for the past month, hmmmm, it was understandable that there was a spark there.
'After all, who can resist this heavenly face of mine? Seriously, though... ain't I too handso? Too handso for soone to keep all to themselves? Wouldn't it be a sha to share my handsoness with a single person? Maybe I should...', For a mont my narcist side took hold of myself, but I suppressed it urgently before that 'h' word ca into my mind and sighed.
In the end, I didn't have a leeway. I literally had a world to save, so for now, I couldn't accept her feelings. And most importantly, I didn't like her. Yes, she was cute and sexy but a lot of girls in the world were, that didn't an I liked each and every one of them.
-Haaahhhhh
I slumped backwards after that thought.
I wasn't like I planned to stay alone all my life, I wasn't an extremist who when from one polar to another, but simply put, this was not the ti.
Really! There was still a week before I turn 14 dammit!!
Just what the hell is wrong with her!?
Is that girl a shota-con or sothing!?
Anyways, whatever it was, it didn't matter.
Plus, I shouldn't judge her based on what soone else thinks.
So, yes, let's leave that for later.
I thought as I sat back again, and reigned in my thoughts, going into a ditative state.
It wasn't that easy to do so, but I used a trick here, using Parallel Mind I split those various thoughts of mine into multiple thought processes, and then extinguished these processes, reducing the difficulty of the task.
After all, when I extinguished them, all I had to was stay focused on the on-going processes to keep new thoughts from springing up.
And when, I only had the thoughts about my task, I deactivated my skill.
For the next few monts, I just channeled the Mana and ntal Power through my body, while maintaining my state of mind. Then after a minute when I thought that this was enough, I started my task.
My task being... setting up my ntal Avatar.
With closed eyes and steady mind, I activated my Mana sense, once again, diving into the blurry foggy world.
The ntal world, was just the sa as I rembered, but it appeared a lot different to .
It was notably less foggy and blurry, also my range of control of my ntal sense had increased by quite a lot too.
The reason for that was quite obvious, the more I used Mana sense the more my familiarity with it increased, giving the much-needed experience with my mysterious new sense.
And just like how your level increases quickly when you are low leveled the sa happened with , just instead of my level my ntal abilities increased quite a bit.
Now that I think about it, my super strong soul should also have an hand in my fast growth, after all, all things in the domain of control are more or less connected with the soul.
Anyways, I continued sensing and continued feeling the mysterious world around , before I started cutting of my senses.
Sll, touch, taste, hearing, and vision, one by one, I blocked all of them and with each sense I blocked, the better I was able to perceive the ntal world.
Feeling the mysterious world around , I wanted to understand it, to unravel its mysteries, but I held the impulse in and concentrated on my 'self'.
On my reflection of 'self', in this world.
Using a whole lot of ntal Power that I normally wouldn't use for any of my spell, I pumped it in my 'self'.
My reflection fed on my ntal Power, absorbing it like a sponge, using it as fuel to grow as it continued gulping it down like a thirsty traveler.
But like all good things, this one ended too, only because I had to, though.
Stopping when I had around 150 of my ntal Power left, I moved on to the next part of the process.
Un-shaping of my 'self'.
My 'self' looked the sa as . I an, he had the sa silhouette as , albeit without any facial features or skin color, rather, it was like an outline of filled with smoke. Right now, though, it was surrounded by a strange but sa colored fla of darker color that arose with him as the center, but surprisingly he didn't get burned.
And why would he be burned? After all, this fla was the fla it fed on.
Yes, it was the ntal Power he fed on.
Concentrating on my-'self', I controlled my Mana sense, and simply made it lose shape.
My 'self' in the ntal World burst into smoke and combined with the flas of ntal Power around it.
But naturally, not everything burst into smoke, rather, a small spherical body was was still there, floating just where my chest used to be.
This was my actual 'self', my default 'self', a part of myself, that existed in the ntal World from the mont I was born.
Second process completed.
Next was obviously, shaping my 'self'.
Through the small floating sphere, I controlled the raging flas of ntal Power, subdued them, tad them.
The process was difficult, the flas resisted a lot, trying to escape, lashing out on , disrupting my ntal state...
But in the end, they were tied to . So, after a long struggle, after a long ntal tug of war, I succeeded.
I tad the flas.
Releasing the breath I was holding in, took a few deep breaths.
'That was close, very close, much closer than I would have liked.'
As expected directly trying the second transformation was quite difficult.
But, I didn't dwell on it too much.
For the process wasn't completed, the shaping wasn't done.
So, taking another deep breath, I concentrated again, and started shaping my 'self'.
Unraveling the structure that had been theorized for more than a month now, I shaped my ntal Avatar after it.
With the flas, no, they looked more like cloud of smoke now. So, with the cloud of smoke under my control now, I gathered them around the sphere, and from there I started shaping my ntal Avatar, carefully.
Thankfully, the structure I chose wasn't sothing complex or hard to make, so after just a while, I finished shaping it.
-Huuuuu
'Just the final step.'
I thought, as I started the last process there was, Finalizing.
Just as it sounded, the process was nothing but finalizing the ntal Avatar.
Once again, I pumped ntal Power into the Avatar, but this ti it wasn't pure ntal Power, rather, it was mixture of Mana and ntal Power.
An extrely small amount of Mana.
The Mana I injected, didn't do much, it was just injected there to brand my ntal Avatar as mine.
Which happened quite easily, since there was no rejection.
And as soon as I did, I felt small tremble coming from my Mana sense confirming the establishnt of my ntal Avatar.
-Huuuuuuu
-Thump
I slumped on the ground the next mont, before connecting back to all my senses.
That was surprisingly difficult.
But the hurdle had sohow passed.
Anyways, with this, I have done everything I needed to do.
Except for my sword, which I planned to enchant after my 'Coming of Age' ceremony, all was done.
I picked the powers I needed to acquire.
I decided who my comrades will be.
I stocked on different artifacts and items.
And most importantly I decided the things with which I will interfere.
So, I did all I could, so all I needed to do was wait, train and get stronger.
Jerking myself, I jumped off the ground and stood up.
'But first, I need a shower.'
I thought, as I felt myself being drenched with sweat.
As for any counterasures against the Empress?
I didn't bother.
That was an useless venture.
Any last-minute asure, any last-minute plans, or any last-minute struggle I could muster.
All of it was useless.
For she was an Eternal magus.
The strongest human alive.
It would be a sha on her rank if any of my last minute, no, even if any of my well-planned struggles actually worked.
After all, I was just a small boy in the end, if just my planning was enough to impede even a single of her objectives, she still won't be the woman who unified the world and ruled it.
But still, I was sure about one thing.
Whatever her objective was I didn't know, but I was damn sure she had one.
She was simply such a person, if she didn't have any motives, interests or objectives, she wouldn't even look into the matter.
So, my plan, and the best way to handle the ceremony, was to simply go with the flow, to simply do whatever she wants, and to simply not antagonize her.
After all, it was foolish to fight the inevitable, right?
With that I prepared myself, and dove into training.
Trying to get as strong as I could without wasting a single minute, and before I knew it.
The big day arrived.
The day when I beca an adult.
The day when I make an statent.
The day of my 'Coming of Age' ceremony.
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