Once Korven stopped being a flat-earth believer(yeah I went there, fight me), he and I both began to really think about the possibilities and ramifications of what we learned.
Most importantly, how did this affect how I could potentially use my own magic?
I don't have Darkness magic, but I do have light, and I have gained some new insights to the nature of the light element seeing as how it balances with the dark element and is also subject to this mysterious field or attraction.
What is stopping me from having darkness magic? Is it literally just that I have to freaking EAT someone with that magic already in them?!
Can't I just do what a normal awakened like Korven does and absorb it directly from the world-
"..."
No. No it can't be that easy. Please don't tell me I'm just dumb and it really is that easy.
If it's that easy I'm going to feel so fucking stupid-
'FUCK! It IS that easy!'
Well.
I now have a tiny sprinkle of writhing black liquid in my Astral Space.
It's literally so tiny it's the size of a pinky finger right now.
But uh.
Well.
My body already automatically balances to keep the elements even...
So either darkness will grow to match somehow, or maybe the other elements will shrink?
I looked around the clouds of the elements seeing as my consciousness was already here.
Then... of course... I ate my fucking words.
We have already proven the law of attraction or some sort of field exists that keeps the amount of darkness and light elements consistent in any set amount of space.
So now that I have an imbalance between light and dark elements inside me, what happens?
Golly gee mister dragon, do you think maybe your body might use this new magic you've already put into your Astral Space just by knowing it to balance out?
Maybe, just maybe... I might've seen a tidal wave of so many darkness particles coming at me in reality that the entire world went black.
And then I felt the pain of having my body sucked dry of all energy, fatigue couldn't even BEGIN to describe it.
My body was being eaten away, my vitality was sucked up, my blood was thin and my thoughts went sluggish as the darkness element poured into me light a fucking fountain!
'Can't... think... need... light...'
The light element began to move, trying to heal and provide energy as fuel to life once again.
And I passed right out.
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'Geeeeeughh... fuck. I feel like multiple trains hit me.'
I tried to move, only to freeze at the feeling of darkness energy still inside me, barely kept from continuing to wreak havoc in me by my light magic instinctively protecting me.
Interestingly... the parts of my body with it still lying in wait felt heavier.
That might just be because it is weakening me though.
I looked inside myself.
'What the fuck?'
Okay, cloud of... Well clouds. A massive galactic storm of gases and lightning. Air magic.
That's normal.
Clouds of moisture and water and ice swirling at a galactic size: also normal water magic.
Massive galactic sized fog of blinding white light with fractals of scenes and moments and memories that are seen by the senses. Yeah, okay, all good.
Asteroid clouds and sand and planets of metal and crystal all roiling together.
And finally the usual sea of flames, red and orange and yellow with some flickering blue and indigo, with hints of white at the very center.
Now here's my question: what the fuck is around all of them?!
My entire Astral Space looks like space. It's black, empty, not even a color cause nothing is there to have color.
But now a sorta fog is coming from every elemental cloud, and it's all different colors.
So directly behind the fire, the background became a bright red.
Behind earth, a dusky orange.
Behind light, a bright sunshine yellow-gold.
Behind air, it was a mint green.
Water, a deep ocean blue.
And the new cloud of roiling darkness. With bits of oil-like liquid formed from darkness reaching out as if tentacles or tendrils, random surges exploding from the surface just to sink back into the darkness.
Around it was a dark, dark purple fog, which honestly was the only reason the darkness could be clearly seen apart from the empty space seeing as both are completely black.
And right now, as water magic was pulled into my core slowly, my body became more flexible and able to handle more stress due to higher resiliency, so light was also slowly absorbing more.
And the new darkness was already slowly being absorbed too?
Did my experiments and understanding of darkness through light and my own theories already allow me to understand enough to absorb and fuse with it?
I guess darkness and light are two sides of the same coin, both are even affected by the same forces as far as I can figure.
But as they were being absorbed, the colored streaks of blue, yellow and purple respectively were also being attracted, but instead of being absorbed into the my star, they hit the barrier around it and began to flow around it light water, creating a thin layer around my star of blue, yellow, and purple streaks swirling around each other.
The entire barrier was covered in yellow, while some purple was in as thin lines around the side where the darkness element was, and the streaks of blue were spread to at least the half facing towards the water element due to it having more time to fuse over time.
'...I give up trying to understand what the hell happens here.'
I returned to reality, and slowly began to move as the darkness within my body began to settle and fuse, with most of it being stored away in the Astral Space seeing as my current baby-body could NEVER handle that much fucking magic right now.
To be honest I really hope the effects are multiplied by fusing multiple elements.
Let's say that the amount of light I could absorb on its own before I hit the max is the most of any magic I could have absorbed alone.
So let's say that's 1 mana or something to measure it.
If having fused 2 elements means I can now absorb 2 light mana instead, then would my max be 2 light, 2 water? Or would it be that I'd have 1 water, 2 light, then 3 water, 2 light, and then 3 water, 4 light, constantly growing?
I hope it is the constantly multiplying and growing situation...
Cause if having 2 just means I can have 2 mana of each, then my max would be 6 mana of each element... which isn't anywhere close to even half the amount of magic in those clouds.
I know as I grow up my body will absorb more, in fact absorbing so much as a baby is probably FUCKING TERRIFYING, so damn, dragon's be OP, but uh.
I'd rather not die.
So I need to fuse as much as possible before the barrier goes down... and most worryingly, I can sorta sense it's gotten thinner.
It's as if the more magic I fuse... the faster it decays.
But if I DON'T fuse, then I'm a ticking time bomb.
So better to fuse as fast and much as I can?
I looked around as I cracked my... body? I'm not sure I so much have a neck anymore with my serpent-like body.
Oh. Well.
Every awakened beast around me who serves Avaya and lives in the nest around the tree is looking at me.
...is there a reason why they look so damn terrified? I just fused with a tsunami of darkness from every direction after all.