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As expected, things weren''t going to be that simple. Though he couldn''t be entirely sure, he could feel that the ground had an energy of its own, repelling his and preventing it from spreading into the ground.
From the direction his sr energy was being deflected, he could tell that the ground''s energy moved in streams, like a massive river. And unfortunately, the wave-like nature of the energying from his crux did nothing but create ripples in the infinitelyrge stream - Ripples that were corrected before any noticeable change could even be seen.
~Perhaps if I change its form?~ he thought to himself, though his n was based purely on theory.
If light acted in the same way here as it did back on Earth, then it would have the duality property. If he could convert the sr energy into its particle form, and inject it into the ground, there was a chance it would work.
"What are you doing?" Avankor asked curiously.
From the longing expression he had on his face, Lucius could tell that he had a deep interest in magic, no doubt in its healing capabilities.
"I-I don''t know yet," Lucius replied, still thinking of a n.
~Back on Earth, higher-frequency light disyed a more particle-like nature. Though my knowledge of light ends at introductory quantum mechanics, I''m pretty sure that was the caase,~ he thought to himself, whilst trying to increase the frequency of the sr energy in his crux.
In reality, he was only increasing its intensity. The crux got so dense, that the light emanating from it was beginning to burn even though Lucius wasn''t casting any spells.
He pressed on past this point, until the tennis-ball-sized crux became as small as a coin. The heating from it caused the smallest of the nearby mushroom vegetation to catch fire, though oddly enough he couldn''t feel a thing.
By this point, Avankor and the chief had already created distance between them and the crux.
Usually, Lucius would''ve stopped by now -the mental strain of dealing with so much sr energypletely draining him- however, things were different this time. It was as if the mental strain did not exist, no rather it did but he couldn''t feel it.
Perhaps his mind had be more immune to this sort of pain. And so, he pressed on, squeezing even further.
The crux became even smaller, reducing from the size of a coin to that of a pinhead. At that moment, the world around him disappeared and was reced by a white void.
~I''m back here, huh? Does that mean I did it?~ he thought to himself, staring at the familiar massive sun at the center of his white space.
[New Version of Sr Crux discovered...]
[New version is being processed... Syncing to current database...]
[System Updated.]
[『Kumulipo』 crux has been fully integrated.] his system notified him.
As he felt his consciousness being pulled back to the real world, he noticed a dark spot on the Sun in his white space. It was a minuscule spot, but still, one that concerned him.
~I wonder what it means.~
With that he was pulled out, the white void around him now reced by the mushroom vegetation of the nnds.
~Kumulipo, huh? Strange name,~ he thought to himself, before willing his crux to float in front of him. He was curious about what made this version so different from the others, so much so that it had even been given its own name.
And he soon got his answer. As the pinhead-sized crux came towards his face, he noticed distortions all around it, which was what allowed him to spot it so fast. In fact, it was almost as if it were bending light.
"A ck hole?" he eximed in shock.<novelsnext></novelsnext>
His instincts told him to run, but his education reminded him that it would be useless even if this was a ck hole. Which he quickly realized it wasn''t.
~If this was a ck hole, this entire would''ve been gone by now,~ he thought to himself. ~And besides, the gravity it''s emitting isn''t that much.~ At best it tugged at his skin a little annoyingly, but that was only when he brought it close.
"What is that thing?" Avankor asked interrupting Lucius''s train of thought. His body twitched as he stood in abat-ready stance, and even the chief seemed to be on edge. Though Lucius couldn''t me them. Where the sr crux was like a weing light, the Kumulipo seemed malevolent.
So without wasting time, he tried to cast his usual spells to see if there were any differences.
~Nothing,~ he realized, after havingpletely exhausted the list.
In the first ce, the nature of Kumulipo was different from the sr crux. It was like the second half of it, the particle nature to its duality.
To test this, Lucius tried to see if injecting sr energy into the ground would work. And after cing the crux right above it, he felt no resistance.
His sr energy was being fed into the ground at a very stable rate. And soon a section of the ground beneath him seemed to glow ever so brightly. Even the mushroom vegetation that was present around the area grew ever so slightly.
[Processing...]
[New spell acquired... 『Imbue』.]
[Adding 『Imbue』 to 『Sr Sorcery Index』...]
[Complete. 『Imbue』 has been added.]
~Imbue huh?~ he thought to himself, whilst studying the effects of his new spell. In addition to being able to inject sr energy into the ground, he was also capable of controlling the way it flowed, moving it to different ces on the ground.
~This is... interesting,~ he thought to himself in sparking excitement. He noticed something odd about the interaction the sr energy had with the energy of the ground.
Whenever his sr energy came into contact with it for too long, the ground energy would start changing... converting.
He quickly decided to pull back his sr energy, sapping it from the ground back into his crux.
~I was right,~ he thought to himself, staring with an almost crazed smile at his crux.
[Processing...]
[New spell acquired... 『Drain』.]
[Adding 『Drain』 to 『Sr Sorcery Index』...]
[Complete. 『Drain』 has been added.]
~I can drain energy straight from the ground,~ he thought to himself, before another idea hit him.
He quickly injected all his sr energy into the ground before bombarding the ground''s energy with it.