Chapter 149: Active tempering
Lissandra is built differently, oh, I don't an her current state she is in right now. Nope, the woman shares with
multiple ways to manipulate my mana to be able to go through what she called active tempering.
I don't understand at all.
She continues to dumb it down more and more to the point where she complains that even animals could do it.
I won't refute that. I know multiple deer, bears, and one corgi that would totally be able to do that. I've long known that the most dangerous mages will be from the zoo.
Lissandra then tries to explain and I can hear her getting more and more annoyed. I would expect her to be a lot more patient, being as old as she is and as powerful, but she has absolutely no patience with her students.
She is impossibly powerful and talented beyond belief so for her sothing like moving mana on a subatomic level sounds like basics.
“Okay, I'll dumb it down even more, little pup. You will activate the thing you call Kinetic Mana Heart, then you need to use the thing you call Mana Regulator to feed it as much mana as you can handle. After that I want you to weaken your passive skill otherwise it will weaken the effect of tempering. First, we will temper your body with kinetic energy. You will have to change output a bit, frequency should be like,” she says so mumbo jumbo difficult terms I do not understand, “Then you will use different frequency on your bones, but at the sa ti you have to temper your muscles too, also with different frequency.”
It all sounds reasonable and the results she promises are all amazing. Nothing too excessive for first active tempering, but I can continue to improve on it.
“You will have to keep infusing your body with your mana, but not as you usually do. That's what amateurs do, you need to be more precise and not just throw it around uselessly. You are wasting so much of it.”
It's all good, but damn, sohow she pisses
off. Is it because we are so similar?
“Your tone pisses
off,” I say out loud.
Short silence.
“Would you say that to
when I had my body?” she asks, annoyance clear in her voice.
“No, you would beat
up.”
“... I would.”
It takes half a night and enough testing to make my head spin, but I've sowhat taken a grasp of that and we will try it on my arm first before going at it with my entire body.
So now, I'm taking a short break to relax and calm down before we get to it. All while the air still rages outside and the room continues to be lit with a mana orb filled with thermal energy that I made a bit bigger.
From past experience, I know that there are barely any monsters so close to the wall, even during the night we didn't et any so the entire process shouldn't be interrupted.
“Why are you so slow? Move your mana faster.”
Yeah, the mighty used-to-be-absolute-but-is-now-creepy-brooch-made-from-flesh-and-bones continues to complain.
“Again, you are controlling it like a kid doing its first mana exercises. Be more delicate and do not waste so much of it.”
Are all the geniuses like this? Is it because she is a grumpy old grandma? Actually, is she even a grandma? Ruby was close to one hundred and she did look barely over twenty. Could even Lissandra look to be twenty years old if she wanted to?
“Actually, I might even have seen kids better at handling mana than you,” the brooch made of flesh and bones continues.
Is she not going to stop? I'm staying quiet in hopes that she will stop, but unsuccessfully.
“This is better, now make it a bit more dense and even. You can start sending kinetic energy through your body, do not forget about the frequency."
How could I when you keep reminding
every five seconds?!
“You are thinking sothing rude, aren't you?”
“Your personality seems to be different from yourself I t on the second floor,” I say and I an it. This version of Lissandra, the imprint as she calls it seems to be a bit more talkative and less dignified.
“That much is to be expected, it was the first ti for
to create an imprint of my mind,” Lissandra answers.
"What?“
"I knew only a bit of theory and logic behind it, it's not like I had any want or need to duplicate my mind before.”
That monster. The imprint she did leave on peacemaker and that got transferred to the palm of my hand is so delicate, infinite amount of thin mana circuits. Working with a tiny amount of mana, yet was able to copy her thinking and keep so much of her skill. A skill so close to creation.
And no matter how hard I try I can't get to observe it properly. Even when I perceive the tiniest edge of the imprint my head starts hurting in between my eyes.
“But, now focus or you will lose your arm again. From what I heard it's sothing you are used to at this point, but it's kind of pathetic.”
She also really knows where to hit to make it hurt.
I breathe in and filter out the noises from outside after checking my stats one more ti.
Lvl 111
Strength: 33
Dexterity: 31
Constitution:92
Mana: 327
[Focus] activates and I consolidate it through the newest upgrade and the world becos black and white, even feeling as if the ti sohow slows down. Lissandra says sothing but I don't listen to her anymore.
From this point, it's up to .
I calm my beating heart and then set Mana Regulator to 20 percent and start sending kinetic energy through my body.
While my heart beats audibly and the energy flows through , I move my mana in the way Lissandra showed
and start sending it everywhere. I infuse my bones and muscles, I infuse my ligants and nervous system, and my veins. As always when I focus a lot, my head starts hurting and I hear ringing in my ears that also quickly gets ignored by my [Focus].
Taking another deep breath, I release that energy tentatively into our surroundings. I change the frequency beforehand and unlike when I'm normally using it, the waves are smaller and the noise it makes is more pitched.
That seems good so far.
In the next step, I weaken my newest passive that helps
to endure strain on my body. Then I also turn off the Reinforcent construct and make sure I'm not using Symbiotic Transference. Lissandra, after observing
for a bit, said that setting my Mana Regulator to 20 percent of the output of Kinetic Mana Heart should be fine and that I should try to temper only my left hand to get used to it.
But, how about 30 percent?
My regulator setting changes and thirty percent of my mana starts flowing into the Kinetic Mana Heart, sending waves of kinetic energy through a nearly as weak as possible body.
Left arm? How about if I try it on my entire body? I delve deeper and the voice of Lissandra gets filtered out as well as the wind outside and the creaking of the house.
Right now, only
and my body exist.
Deep breath in. Hold. Deep breath out.
Let's go with 40 percent.
I change the regulator once again and focus on infusing my body with mana in ways I just learned, while also grabbing hold of kinetic energy and collecting it in my body, which starts to react to the pressure much stronger now that I'm not strengthened by reinforcent and the passive is weakened.
As soon as I feel my body is infused properly, I grab hold of the kinetic energy and start sending it, this ti not out of my body, but through my body. I adjust the kinetic energy slightly and also alter its frequency.
Imdiately, I feel as if soone started pumling my body with a massive hamr while shaking it impossibly quickly. It's getting hard to focus, and the pain feels omnipresent and constant, and I get bruised even in the parts where I feel I'm doing it perfectly. The energy just continues to puml, to temper my body, putting a lot of strain on it. Only thanks to my body being properly infused with mana and thanks to the special frequency of kinetic energy, my body absorbs so strain so I do not get torn apart. Yet, it hurts, it hurts so much.
I keep getting more and more wounds every ti I lose my focus even for a split second, but I force myself and continue.
A minute passes.
Two minutes.
Three minutes.
One of my eyes explodes because of
losing my focus and the frequency of the thread of kinetic energy changes for a second.
Four minutes.
Five minutes.
Lissandra said five minutes is a good start and the maximum I should do on my first try.
Six minutes.
Seven minutes.
Another wound that feels sowhat serious, but I continue.
Eight minutes.
I change the setting on my Mana Regulator again, but this ti I'm not even sure to what percentage. The world for
becos just my body and two energies I have to handle - the kinetic energy that can kill
at any second and the mana that I use to infuse my body with.
At so point, I notice so imperfections and change the frequency a bit, and use a bit less mana to infuse my body.
The pain strengthens but the efficiency improves.
Good.
Then, who knows how much later, I stop. Right after, I set up my regulator again and at the sa ti turn back on Reinforcent and the passive, as well as start to strengthen my body with Symbiotic Transference.
I open my eyes... my single eye, and turn it to the fleshy brooch still lying there, on the ground in front of .
This ti Lissandra doesn't say anything.
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