Chapter 221: Day 2 of a Three Day Rest
The next day.
Today, I will once again be researching slis from morning till dusk! Well, okay. Actually, today’s the isn’t all slis. I want to run so experints about spells and mana attributes.
The sand slis and the mud slis were the ones who got to build my hypothesis for my experint today, so I got one of each to help .
“Well, I only have one sand sli right now, though…”
I needed to prepare sand and mud in order to get these slis to use their Assimilate skill. Both could change the ground with their magic, though, so preparing the sand and mud wasn’t hard. After everything was ready, I had them use their Assimilate skill.
After they did…
“…So that really was the case.”
The mud sli and the sand sli seed to lt when they approached the mud and the sand. After a while, they couldn’t be seen anymore, but they were still there. They had completely assimilated with the mud and the sand, becoming completely one with them.
If I were to completely eliminate the target they’ve assimilated themselves with, they wouldn’t be able endure it of course, but physical attacks like poking, cutting, and hitting are completely ineffective. Even more surprising is that the weakness of the slis, the nucleus, is gone. They’ve beco just like the mud and sand they’ve assimilated themselves with.
But despite that they appear to retain their consciousness, and if I were to order them to go back to being a sli, they can. They can also crawl and move around while in that nucleus-less state.
It’s a bit unbelieveable, but they’re doing it right in front of , so I have no choice but to acknowledge it.
Besides, I’ve already concluded that this was possible yesterday.
What I really want to know is how and why they can do this. To that end, what got my attention was ‘mana’.
As for why, well, for one… Normal-looking slis (normal variants) leave behind only their nucleus when they die, while the rest of their body vanishes.
The second reason is because based on my previous observations and experints with the magic slis, the slis absorb mana and have individual preferences regarding the type of mana they absorb.
The third reason is because in a previous experint a poison sli was able to successfully use a magic tool spear, but at the cost of debility due to the loss of mana and a reduction in volu.
Given the three reasons above, I am led to believe that the body of the slis is made out of mana.
Mana, uncontrolled, will disperse – that is the fundantal concept of magic. It is commonsense. And it also gives a perfectly understandable reason as to why the body of the slis vanish upon death.
If their body is in fact made out of mana, then perhaps the reason why they are able to assimilate themselves with an object is because of magic. I don’t know how to feel about magic solving everything, but this world does have that ‘magic’ that can make the impossible possible.
Besides, 100 slis can combine to form a Big Sli, and 500 slis can combine to form a Huge Sli. Perhaps it’s not that the slis themselves are magic, but that the mana they possess has a characteristic and power that makes it possible for them to fuse with each other and assimilate with other things.
At least, that’s what I think.
I want to try out an experint to confirm sothing about the second reason I gave, ‘slis absorb mana and have individual preferences for the attribute’.
“But first I need to double check so things.”
Let’s find out what type of mana the slis with Assimilate like to absorb.
Upon checking, I found out that the mud sli likes earth and water, while the sand sli likes earth and wind.
I checked this yesterday too, actually, as part of my observation process, and the results were the sa.
“The mud sli that assimilates with mud likes earth and water.”
And mud magic is a fusion of the earth and water attribute. I don’t think that’s just a coincidence.
I also have an inkling as to why the sand sli likes earth and wind.
“‘Polish Wheel’” [Ryouma]
Earth magically transford into sand is swept by a whirlwind and then together they spin quickly like a tire.
Polish Wheel is an original spell I ca up with that grinds objects through the montum of the sand grains.
I made it when I needed it, so I just took the word polish from the English word for 磨く (migaku). Moreover, I visualize it using the image of a tire, so wheel. When put together you get ‘Polish Wheel’. A simple na, nothing too deep, but now that I think about it, maybe Grinder or Sand Blaster would have been easier to understand.
But perhaps this sloppily nad and sloppily made spell is combining two different types of mana to create a new elent – in this case, sand elent – just like mud magic. And perhaps there’s a relationship and a rule behind why slis like the types of mana that they like.
“It’s too early to make any conclusions, though, what with only two samples. Alright.”
Let’s test it with the other slis too. The other slis with two elents I have are… Ah, there’s the ash sli. The attributes that the ash sli likes are fire and wood. If you think about how charcoal can be made by burning trees, it’s easy to visualize too.
“What kind of magic should I test, hmm… ‘Ash’ ”
Keeping things simple, I invoked a spell while imagining ash appearing just like i would with the water-type spell, ‘Water’.
When I tried it out, fire and wood attribute mana combined and turned into ash by my feet.
“This is a success too… It’s starting to get fun.”
Next is… If I recall correctly, the acid sli likes poison and water—
And then it hit .
Acid sli is acid. Acid is symtrical to alkali, and the word, alkali, cos from ash.
If you mix water with ash, the aqueous solution will show alkalinity… If so, then wouldn’t ash (fire wood) and water be able to create alkali?
…I’ll have to be careful when handling an alkali solution. Of course, acids require caution too. I made so preparations and tested my hypothesis with another experint.
20 minutes later.
The experint was a success.
It was difficult to mix three different elents, but fire wood water successfully produced an aqueous solution.
But in order to neutralize the alkali, I had to produce acid by combining poison and water… Unfortunately, producing the acid ended in failure.
Just what went wrong?
“I have the poison slis and dicine slis for when I need poison, so I’ve never really used poison magic much… And now that I think about, I never used it for any of my chores either.”
It might be a good idea to study poison magic right from the basics.
I’ll think about the reason for the failure afterwards.
After that I reviewed the attributes of the other slis too, and anything that could be turned into magic, I tested, resulting into a series of failures and success, and every ti I tried sothing out, I would make a record of it.
And because I kept using magic I wasn’t used to, by the ti it was past noon, I’d expended most of my mana. With that I had to put an end to today’s research.
“…Because of that I don’t have anything to do anymore…”
After thinking about it for awhile, I decided to make lunch and eat.
Afterwards I spent the rest of the day in leisure, playing with the slis and preparing for tomorrow.
When I went to prepare supper for the slis, I applied what I learned about the ash slis liking fire and wood by trying to feed the weed slis ash. When I did, 53 weed slis showed a strong reaction.
As I thought, the relationship between mana and slis is intriguing.
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