Sitting on this bed, still a little in shock from everything shes ntioned its easy to see that even my earlier commitnts and thoughts on what I should do, were too shallow.
I need to take the ti to co up with real strategies on how to hide my strength and survive different situations. To do that, I need to know where I stand right now.
I pull up my information:
Jas Delinion
5 Rose ManSpiritual Root
Mana: 159/160
Taming Maintenance 1 mana/ 1 human biomass no cultivation
Transferred Gifts:
Passive Scan: Max
Active Scan: Max (Increased Strain)
Healing Aura: Level 3 Exp: 159/160
Beneficial Taming: Level 1 Exp: 0/10 rounded down
1 xp per 1 human sized biomass no cultivation, tad 1 xp per 1 human sized biomass no cultivation, under direct control per day.
Current Direct Tas
No cultivation/no contract Cockroach - 1
Healing Constitution
Proficient Languages: Common Speech (English)
Literate Languages: Common Speech
Okay, its a little frustrating that Im so close to a level up it looks like I will need far more insects to make this work.
Wait.
It appears the bigger the creature, the more xp is given. Well, at least for non-cultivating creatures or spirit beasts. So, it might be pertinent to choose bigger creatures.
I mull over this a bit.
No, that might not be the best idea. If Im going to stay under the radar, I need to choose creatures that are small and can be spread out better.
Or to put in Ai terms, can easily get into small places.
This makes curious though How small CAN I go?
Picking my teeth, while thinking, I use my scanning ability to see what microorganisms I can find. I imdiately find that I cannot ta these microorganisms.
However, as I dive deeper into the reason, I find out sothing quite shocking.
These micro-organisms have absorbed the qi of the world and cannot easily absorb mana because of their limited capabilities.
It is still possible, if they havent fully absorbed the natural qi of this world!
Urgently, I scan for any signs on my body of microorganisms that havent completely absorbed qi.
While doing so, I subconsciously flick away the piece of food stuck in my teeth.
Which, of course was the only positive reading on my entire body!
Desperately, I drop to my knees to search for the piece of food. After a minute or two of this, I realize my stupidity.
Getting to my feet, I then do an area scan for the food and creatures, which instantly provides the location.
Sigh.
Picking up the tiny piece of burger at, I can see the outline of a small hair in the at.
Well, this is nasty.
I ta the creatures imdiately. After Im sure Ive tad the bunch, I look at the below information from my now detailed scan:
Deinococcus Radiodurans
Microorganisms Bacterium (1463 bacteria)
Barely Contracted Bacterium: Maintenance Cost is 50 Mana (Pre-Complexity, Pre-Intelligence) / 1 human biomass (2.4 cubic ters) worth.
Maintenance allows for control over individuals/groups and removes need for sustenance or respiration of any form. After initial contract, individuals are still allied to contractee.
Pre-Contract Complexity Correction:
To prepare for contracting, this bacterium is being changed to handle both qi and mana. When completed, automatically contracted and the terms will be greatly in favor of the contractee.
Pre-Contract Intelligence Correction:
To prepare for conscious contracting, this bacterium is being brought up to hive-mind sapience. When completed, automatically contracted and the terms will be greatly in favor of the contractee.
Complete Obedience:
Extremophile Regeneration:
Noticing the large 50 mana cost, I check into it and see that maintenance will change to 20 mana once fully contracted.
With such a large upkeep, Im sure it will turn into sothing great right?
Well, I can at least feel sothing is happening with them. In fact, its feels as if they are replicating constantly now. Id definitely be okay with a giant sentient sli creature, if it turned into that. Though, it would be nice if it was humanoid shaped.
Nonetheless, this looks like it is a long-term project.
From here, I think on previous situations Ive gone through since Ive been here, like with the old man. In a cultivator world, everyone worth anything will have spiritual sense.
The real question is: To what extent does spiritual sense penetrate the mind and body. If it does a full scan, revealing everything, then I might be just be screwed.
However, if I am to use the old man as a case scenario, it appears he just had a general idea on my abilities, based on my intention at that point in ti. It is possible that he could get a full read on my abilities. Considering Gongs reaction to my abilities, I would have gotten a much stronger response from him.
Most likely, spiritual sense users can easily read either my mind at that mont or my intentions. If sothing like that happens while I am looking at the scan sheet they could know everything.
I never was one that read or watched mind ga or telepathy-based novels, so Im not really sure of the best counterasure for this.
What I do know is that I only felt a prickling feeling when he did it and that his eyes appeared to be seeing right through . I also felt it a few tis since that eting, but luckily it had stopped before I had healed Lin and Ai.
Though it could have just been my imagination. There is always the possibility he was allowing to know he was listening in.
Since I dont know when or if Im being observed, limiting information might be the best thod to combat it.
If they dont know that I can go further, it will allow to catch them by surprise, in terms of information warfare.
Thus, I worked the scanning ability to provide only enough information to understand the situation, but not enough to show that it is anything more than strong intuition. Only for urgent or special situations will I pull out the full ability.
Now, a screen wont show up, but I can still get an idea of what Im viewing.
To practice, I look at one of the webs nearby. I feel it is an extrely strong web that could be made anywhere between extrely sticky or non-stick, potentially even water repelling. As I look at it closer, I can see a sheen on it, showing this kind is the water repelling version.
I can work with this. I also believe this might allow to co to conclusions in a more conducive way. Ive been getting lazy, relying on this all the ti and not worrying about the consequences.
As I continue to test this in different ways, Im able to find a fresh way to use it. Extrapolation.
Intuition.
This version of scanning has an almost negligible strain on . Im able to use the intuition to co to conclusions about other events, pushing the ability slightly to verify what I co up with.
While not exactly predicting the future, it allows to get an idea on what might happen or be happening, without blowing up my brain.
Its easy to imagine how I could use this in combat, if I train in combat. I feel like if I just relied on the original scanning aspect, I would have co up with this far too late.
Already Gongs advice is paying off.
Next, I want to consider my healing abilities. This one is harder to obscure. I first try to consider whether I can use my healing abilities to cause damage in myself, while healing others.
The idea behind it would be that Im using my lifeforce to heal others.
Unfortunately, Ive discovered that neither my constitution nor healing aura allows for that.
They distinctly only heal beneficially, optimize, or purify. Which also cuts out any healing-based attacks.
So, just wantonly overpowered healing.
Great.
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