For a few moments nothing at all happened; I didn't feel anything around me or inside of me, and that caused a little worry to bubble up almost immediately, but another deep breath brought me back to reality.
It would take some time to get my magic, and if I was trying to rush it there was a chance I might make things harder; besides, even if it didn't work right away I definitely could use this quiet, peaceful time to just... relax.
Trying to keep my mind free after everything that had happened was difficult - I wanted to think about how I had died, about Reincantra and her tongue, about what Kha'Miero might do to me - but at the same time the call of this 'void' was impossible to ignore.
When my mind was free from worry and I was just relishing the silence of the library and the warmth of this new place I finally felt... something; at first it was a brush of heat against my arm, then it was a trickle of a breeze against the back of my neck.
There was a tingle that sent my hair on end followed immediately by a chill that traveled down my spine, causing an immense amount of confusion to invade my mind as I wondered what the hell was happening to me.
According to what I had read this would mean I was attuned to fire, wind, lightning and ice, which... I mean, it could happen but like... it wasn't supposed to just happen like that, y'know?
Especially not to someone like me-
Oh.
I... I mean, maybe, potentially, this was something tweaked by the super sexy Goddess that had sent me here to make things more interesting, or maybe this was something that was just meant to happen since the 'Newcomer' in the game had access to all element attunements depending on a few factors in the gameplay..?
And since I was the 'Newcomer' that meant I should have had access to them as well, so now that I had felt four separate elements it was clear to me that that was the case... which meant I needed to move onto the next part of this so that I could 'secure' them.
Focusing on each and every single sensation that I had just felt, I reached for them again and honed in on the feeling that they provided me, acknowledging the duality of the warmth and chill while also taking note of how the tingling and breeze felt.
It was odd how they all seemed to flow together despite being different from one another, and although they were all so unique and rather 'external' for the moment it wasn't that hard to draw those feelings inside of myself and contemplate them.
There wasn't much to contemplate though, only how they made me feel and the things associated with them, but then again learning to use the mana in the air to create something related to these meant feelings... or something like that.
The book said it wasn't complicated nor was it grounded in some deep philosophical reason; it was just magic and that was it, so I trusted in the gigantic tome that was telling me that and just continued to feel the energy around me.
Those four different elements were growing stronger with each passing second until eventually I felt something inside of my chest tighten; right beside my heart something clenched, before expanding ever so slowly to fill up some of the space that was 'empty'.
It was extremely painful at first as the muscles and other organs nearby were forced into new positions to accommodate this new organ, but the moment it grew large enough it filled itself with mana and began to heal me, filling me with something akin to adrenaline.
The pain was gone and I felt giddy as this 'drug' flooded my veins, turning me from just a normal human into one that could wield magic; it was an evolution that should have taken place oh so long ago but sadly those born in the backwaters were just... in the backwaters for a reason.
What had once been a few lines of flavor text that were promptly forgotten about for practically the entire game were now experienced by me, and their final point was the ability to wield magic, albeit somewhat crudely and not for a long time.
That was something that would need to be trained - that new organ in my chest was just like a muscle in how I needed to use it extensively to make it stronger - and taken care of going forwards, either through 'natural' means or by consuming drugs...
Something I was definitely going to stay away from if I could help it since 'drugs were bad' were taken to an even higher level since most of the drugs in the game usually spiked your lust, or were heavily addictive if used with sex.
And considering the world I was in sex was something that was supposed to be happening every single day... which had a bit of heat finding its way down into my new cock that stiffened in my pants, the mere thought of sex making me incredibly horny.
In my original play through I didn't mind the idea of using drugs, which sent my character spiraling into an addicted spiral where she did some... egregious things to get her fix; once a week she demeaned herself by working at some gloryholes where she earned the money to get the drugs, and sometimes she even went directly to the dealer and provided some services for them instead...
It was a horrible thing but when you wanted to goon to pixels on a screen it didn't really matter, especially since that same character was loving every single moment of it thanks to all the alterations she underwent... not that she was real.
At least... I hope not...
If I learned she was I would feel beyond guilty for what I had done, but at the same time the idea of meeting that character of mine was making me rock hard since she was such an easy slut; a musclebound futanari who had no issues having some 'pipe' laid down on her as long as it felt good and was willing to use her sculpted body to get whatever it was that she wanted.
By no means the kind of person you'd want to start a life with but definitely the kind of person that got invited to parties and made the day to day of life all the better... primarily because she drained your balls or wrecked your pussy and nothing else...
My achievement of awakening this 'Core' inside of my chest was immediately drowned out as I realized I was beyond horny, and the heat that was consuming me felt somewhat dangerous with how it made my heart thump wildly or how my body was humming with vitality that yearned to be released.