Inside a pitch black world, a male figure shrouded in darkness running in a straight line was visible.
"Shit, how long do I have to continue running?" The male figure stopped in his tracks, and started breathing heavily.
After a few moments, he picked up the pace once again and started running, this time at a much faster speed.
"I see something. Is it her?" The figure spoke as he approached another figure made entirely out of light.
Once he was near the figure, he examined it first before coming to the conclusion that the figure was a male.
He looked above in confusion, then shouted, "Selena! Why is his figure here? Is he not supposed to be with Vorthas?"
At that moment, the dimension broke apart, and the male figure returned to his original spot.
The spot was not a normal one. It was a tub filled with blood.
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"You took such a long time. What could you possibly be doing to take so long?" Carlo asked, pointing towards a bald man.
The bald man, Kevin replied, "Blame me for not being able to find a figure in a dimension filled with darkness."
Carlo waved his hands in annoyance, and then looked towards Shizuku. "Now that everyone has finished the ritual, tell us everything in detail."
Shizuku nodded, and said, "After finishing the ritual, all of us have gained Caribela's blessing, which we can call Primal energy. Try concentrating on every organ of your body, until you notice something which you feel like it doesn't belong to you."
Everyone nodded, and they closed their eyes and started concentrating.
Fucking concentration! Its the worst thing to do. Komaru criticized. He too had closed his eyes and tried to concentrate.
Something that doesn't belong to me... He located every organ in his body. From his brain to his heart, his liver, his stomach, his intestine, but he couldn't find something that did not belong to him.
After a few moments, his brain clicked, and he found what did not belong to him. It was a clump of energy which had fused with him when he was performing the ritual.
Fuck kind of energy is this? This clump of energy was hidden inside my rectum....
Shizuku spoke, "This is the Primal energy we gained from the ritual. It is the baseline for every ability that can be created. You can do a lot of things with this energy. For example, by isolating parts of energy, you can create a bank in your body, in which you can store this energy. If you want offense, you can use the bank for offensive energy.
"Another usage is by using some part of the energy to create a lump called 'Node'. You can attach some memories to this Node via creating threads made of primal energy , connecting the Node to your brain. Each time you interact with the thread, you can unleash a power related to the memories attached.
"Suppose you attach a pleasant memory, say, you playing Crasho with your friends. The power you would gain from this memory can be something like 'Being able to use Crasho rules in real life'. But there has to be a restriction, or else the thread itself will break, resulting in a memory loss."
Crasho was a popular board game in Grazinas where you took turns picking a number and using mathematical formulas to get a desired number to perform a specific task. There are very complex rules behind this game.
"Another usage is by vibrating part of the energy to create a zone inside your body, which is called 'Slot'. You can create unlimited slots as long as you have the energy required.
"Suppose you create a slot A, and use 20% of your primal energy. You can add an ability in this slot called 'Frequency'. Creating an ability would require balancing it based on its powers and the amount of energy required to create it. You can add two abilities in one slot. By adding the second ability, the 'Frequency' becomes a 'Chord', where your initial ability would gain extra pros depending on what you add.
"But the problem with this system is that everytime you use your slot, you would accumulate negative energy, which results in the creation of 'Echo'. You can say it is similar to building up fatigue after repeatedly doing something. The 'Echo' effects can vary, depending on the severity of the negative energy amount accumulated.
"Apart from all these, there's this thing called 'Axioms', which you can create to make your abilties better. They are basically conditions. You can choose not to attach any axiom, but if you do decide to attach an axiom, you have to attach two of them. One serves as a pro, other as con. For example, you can attach an axiom like 'This ability becomes stronger the angrier I get', but the other axiom has to be a counter balance of this, something like 'This only works during night'.
"Another usage is to extract simple actions and modify them using the energy. I won't go too deep into this one, as even I don't have much information about this method.
"You can also use this Primal energy to conduct rituals, also called Ritualistic magic. In short, you can do whatever you want with Primal energy. But remember, everything must be balanced. Nothing can be too weak or too strong. The weak points and strong points should be equally balanced. If an inbalance does exist, the SBU would take effect and you would die on the spot."
Man. That was a long ass explanation. I am still confused by some parts though.
Komaru raised his hands and asked a question, "I do have many questions, but the most important one is that what did you mean by different kinds of primal energy? How will getting a purer energy affect these systems?"
"The type of primal energy will indeed affect these systems. If the primal energy you get is very negative, then you will be more powerful, but due to the law of balance, there will be mich severe after effects. Most people never resort to using negative energy."
I see. So its basically more power but more burden....
"Then, assuming that we create a system different from the ones you mentioned, would the abilities created through it also be different?"
"Only partially. It will be different, but there will be some similarities on the surface level."
"We can create any ability, no matter how ridiculous it is?"
"Hmm...I am not sure about that. Infact, nobody knows where the line is drawn. But the safest assumption is that since balancing is such a necessity, there must be extreme restrictions on abilities which are heavily overpowered. The more complex the ability is, the more complex it is to balance it. You have to figure that out."
Indeed, that would be reasonable. If balancing is so important that we can die if we don't do it properly, then no ability can truly be overpowered. And if this is the case, then creating simple abilities is much more effective than creating complex ones. I guess that would depend a lot on the system in use.
"Okay, does anyone have any more questions?" Shizuku looked around.
She saw all of them lost in deep thoughts, probably thinking about the explanation.
Shizuku knew all this information because her father is a renowned personality all over the world.
He works as a doctor in the Seiyuu continent, who also has vast knowledge about primal energy, which he taught her aswell.
Being a doctor was extremely profitable in the world, because there were multiple diseases.
The abilities should be somehow related to primal energy. Using that as the base, the ability has to be created. This much information can be easily deduced. The question is what system is the most effective...
"Does the system we use also depends on how our personality is? I am assuming the case since our intentions decided the type of energy we got." Kevin raised a question.
Everybody looked at him, not because it was a stupid question, but because it was a brilliant question.
"Yes. Your personality does have a large impact on the effectiveness of the system you use. For example, someone who is evil will use the Node system, since losing a few of his memories will not affect them. Thats presupposing that they have any memory in the first place."
Thats true. For someone like me, whos a liar aswell as someone who hates losing, which system would be the best? For some time, everyone including Komaru sat down and pondered.
Komaru got up. "I am going back to my room." He went up the stairs and loccked his room shut.
Then, sitting on the bed, he started pondering.
I can use the Bank system, that seems to be the simplest and easiest to use. But I don't understand how we can create abilities. Is it by using a placebo to manipulate our mind into thinking that the bank we created is for offense only? I guess thats a reasonable explanation for how it works...
I can use a system for weapons, or more specifically, for Artifacts. I am assuming that just like how we can vibrate some part of energy to create Slots, we can do the same with an external object. But the question is how....
Komaru hopped from the bed and went towards his shelf. From it, he took a few books and pens and went to his bed.
If I vibrate some part of the energy, and direct it to my hands, then a slot would be formed in my hands. But if I add an axiom that enlargens one of my pores, and another axiom that it only works one time, then I can get the slot out. Yes, that will work.
But if I enlargen my pore, I could bleed a lot. I need to do something about it aswell. What if I create a node with half of my remaining energy, and create a thread connecting a memory in which I lost a lot of blood, I could perhaps create an ability to manage the blood flow.
But the problem is that I would be wasting a lot of energy. Wait, since the axiom states that my slot ability only works for one time, then wouldn't that mean that it would disappear after one use, and I would get the energy back? Or will the energy disappear? I don't think it will disappear, because it would affect the balance.
Yes, this could work. Lets give it a try. Komaru then focused on his rectum. Lets move the energy out of there first.
He concentrated on the blob of energy and slowly moved it towards his stomach.
Now isolate some part of energy for a slot... He then divided the energy into two blobs, one smaller in size.
He moved the larger blob towards his heart, and moved the smaller blob towards his right hand.
Then, he vibrated the smaller blob, which created a small area with primal energy acting as its boundaries.
Yes! A slot has been created. Now how do I add a Frequency?