Testing
Zach rolled his shoulders as he tried to get accustod to the armor. The spiritual tool was incredible in many ways, though, he understood that he would need to learn how to use it properly. Wearing it felt strange, he could feel it touching his soul, though not quite in a bad way. The armor itself felt like a second skin, the way it was built made it snug and it allowed him a full breadth of motion.
He jumped around lightly, swinging his arms in different directions trying to gauge just where the limits were. He could also feel that his balance was a lot better than without it. He pulled on the wind and flew around, flipping himself over the head. Sohow, he always had a sense of where exactly the ground was, and his body was more responsive to his input. He didnt know exactly how to explain it in words, but he still voiced his findings.
Naha, sitting on the ground next to him diligently wrote everything down. There were tests to be done, and limits to be discovered. Zach found himself smiling without aning to. It had been a long ti since he had sothing like this to explore. There was much to learn here.
Anything else? Naha asked as he spun around in the air.
Zach let himself fall to the ground. Nothing else that I can tell.
Good, Naha said. Lets move on then.
Zach nodded. With an effort of will, he made it disappear. As before, he felt it in his Soul. It is back, he said and Naha wrote. Only now the strange draining sensation is no longer present. It feels like an awakened item in that manner. I know that I can call on it at any ti.
Pull it out again, Naha said and Zach did as she asked.
Armor manifested around him again and she tilted her head. Any delay?
None, it is instant, the mont I thought about equipping it, it appeared, Zach answered.
Naha noted that down and then looked up at him. I think that is all the basic stuff, you want to move to the Linked portion?
Zach nodded, then focused on the armor. Imdiately, a window appeared in his vision, filling his eyes with text and numbers. He grimaced, it had grown since last ti, the lines of text had multiplied. What it was showing him now was all the Essences currently in the core, which were a lot. All the Essences around them were present, and Zach had been unaware just how many of them were always present.
There were hundreds of them. He focused on the window, trying to change the way in which it showed him the information. With so tinkering, he managed to make it so that it showed only the top 5 Essences by amount in the core.
Core capacity: 21%/100%
Essences Present:
Air Essence2.1% 0.21 to resistance and effectiveness
Light Essence1.8% 0.18 to resistance and effectiveness
Wind Essence1.7% 0.17 to resistance and effectiveness
Earth Essence1.2% 0.12 to resistance and effectiveness
Nature Essence0.8% 0.08 to resistance and effectiveness
Most of the Essences werent a surprise.
Wind hadnt been in the top before I started using it for tests, Zach said and Naha wrote down. That makes sense, there was no Wind here before I started using my powers. Which ant that the armor could actually use the Essences from my abilities.
That might need so more testing, Naha said. Ill make a note for later.
Zach agreed, they would need to do a lot more in-depth test to see how his ability use affected the armor absorption rate.
It appears like it is drawing in all the Essence around , the rate seems to be linked with the amount and strength of the Essence itself, Zach said. He changed the screen again to see the full list, then he looked through it searching for a few Essences. He found them quickly, Gravity, Ti, Space, all were represented, though they werent as highly placed as most others. He wondered why that was. All that Essence was always present around. Well, thats what the testing was for.
What are the percentages? Naha asked, making him turn and focus on her.
He dictated the numbers, and she glanced at the tipiece next to her as she did so quick math.
So, she started once she was finished. It took the armor 21 minutes to hit 21%. It seems like its rate of absorption is 1% per minute. That ans that a full charge will take an hour at the passive rate.
I guess that well see, Zach said. They had already decided to get that out of the way first. They waited the hour, with him updating her every ten percent, giving her the new numbers. By the ti the one hour hit, they had so more interesting data.
Hm, Naha frowned. It looks like the dominant three Essences all topped out at 9%, with the next three all being at 6%, then 3%, then 1%, and the rest all decrease by 0.3%.
Zach wasnt sure if there was a significance to it, probably not. Just a quirk of the make or even the Frawork itself. Still, there were a lot of Essences represented. Even so that were present as part of others, like Earth and Stone.
I guess that we should do this test again in different territories, see if that changes, Zach added.
Agreed, Naha said. You ready for the next part?
Zach turned his attention on the armor and triggered its purge ability. A familiar Essence washed out and over the armor, Oblivion. It purged the core, eating the Essence inside, then it spread through the armor itself and removed the Essences infusing it. The Oblivion then surged back into the two gemstones holding it. Zach halted the passive storage of Essence.
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He focused his mind on the Aspect of Ti, opening up a link between himself and the plane. And then he triggered the storage of Ti in the armor. He felt it surge into the core like a like a river, and then infuse the rest of it.
Oh, he heard Naha said. It changed color.
Zach looked down and saw that she was right. The bone-colored armor now had a faint green tint to it. A few seconds later he felt the armor beco fully infused and then everything changed.
His perception flipped, it was as if he was standing in the plane of Ti. As if he was riding the River of Ti itself. The effect he usually felt, granted to him by Sage of Ti, felt a lot stronger. As if ti itself was at the tip of his fingertips.
He pulled up the window and looked at it.
Core capacity: 100%/100%
Essences Present:
Ti Essence100% 20x to resistance and effectiveness
Essence SourceTiActive
Idea of TiFlowing RiverActive
He twisted his wrist and had his gauntlet twist around into a hollow tube as he transford his hand into the Blade of Ti. It felt stronger, better sohow.
I feel strange, Naha said from next to him. I can tell that sothing is happening, like a As if everything is changing from mont to mont. Is this what Ti feels like?
Zach glanced in her direction. Ti was always present in the world, but most people never truly gave it any attention. Zach did, he felt it every mont of the day. He felt how the world changed from mont to mont, as Ti flowed forward. Every mont was different than the last, it was often overwhelming, madness inducing.
Naha? Zach whispered.
Her eyes were blank, looking but not seeing.
It moves so fast, she whispered, her hand coming up as if trying to touch sothing. Zach stepped in her direction andhe was in front of her before he even took the step.
He blinked, unsure as to what had happened.
Naha raised her hand, grasping at the air. It moves so fast.
Zach tilted his head, he skipped back, he hadnt intended to. He knelt and touched Naha, and she snapped out of it, she looked at him and then he saw clarity return to her eyes.
She shook her head and he felt her activate her powers. That was strange, she said.
Yes, Zach agreed, that was what Ti really was. An overwhelming force that kept moving forward. Not evenly, as proofed by his accidental skip, Ti didnt flow at the sa rate everywhere. He understood Ti enough to know how he had skipped through it. His armor had beco the Source of Ti, it flowed at a rate that was different than the rate of Ti around him. Though he could sense that the Ti around them was catching up, his armor was enriching the baseline Ti around him, bringing it up to the sa rate. He wouldnt be able to skip like that for long.
How does it feel, Naha asked, her hand moving back to her lap, ready to take notes.
Like I am on the Plane of Ti, Zach said, then explained it in more details.
One thing was for certain, he was going to need to do a lot more tests. This was a boon beyond anything that he couldve imagined. How easy it would be for him to study Essence now? He could literally feel the connection with the Plane, feel the aning of Ti.
He wished that he could just seclude himself for a thousand years. Spend all of that ti just learning about Essence. But he knew that he had no ti. They were preparing for their trip to the Ethereal, hoping to find the power and ans of finding Raazel.
The yeti was more important than anything else, even Zachs desire for knowledge.
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