Ooooh boy! This is going to piss me off and annoy me forever.
Don't get me wrong, this new magic is neat.
It's just that the fact it and air magic are both different shades of green is a bit annoying to my OCD.
Okay I know I don't actually have OCD, but you know what I mean. If there is actually 7 elements, please make it the 7 colors of the rainbow! I could barely accept it being the primary and secondary colors cause fine, that is also a system, an order.
But to have this one come in and break the rules? No! Fuck you! Gah!
This is going to annoy me so much.
So I've decided to call this the wood element. If I had to guess, the elves are probably calling it the life element or some arrogant shit like that, all "we have discovered the magic of life!" or some shit.
Let me be clear; I know I'm not perfect. My understanding of magic is constantly being challenged as I learn more and more.
I once even thought light magic was the magic of life.
But my current theory is this: life force, the power of life, is something beyond the elements.
Light is fuel for plants, it is the fuel for life. That's why light fusion not only enhances the senses, but reduces fatigue, and enhances the stamina of my body.
It's easy to say my vitality is increased, but what I really mean is that I am capable of much more physical effort over a long period of time than before, though my peak strength is unchanged.
This magic is... growth?
Yeah. If light is the fuel lifeforms uses to move and grow, wood magic is that growth as a force itself.
But the spark of life isn't in either of those things... if that makes ANY bullshit sense beyond my vague feelings.
I mean, I can look at water and say "hey don't you need THIS to live as well?"
I could make an argument for basically any element being the source of life, the earths nutrients, the water allowing flow and change, the heat of movement and the spark of light?
I'm not sure how I'd fit darkness in, but I could bullshit it! Believe me!
But that's not life.
Not really.
None of these magic's could bring back the dead... except if used for CPR or some shit.
Just don't get technical with me.
I haven't fused with this "wood element", mostly because it feels... incomplete?
In flux?
It feels like the bits that make it up, the rules I had laid out for each element when fusing with them, how light is fuel for life and how we see, how darkness is the balance to light, the opposing yet attracting particle, etc, is just... not right?
It's like the wood particle is unfinished okay.
I get that sense the most from those bits of gold dust-like patterns in the emerald green actually.
It makes me really curious though: how the actual BLOOD-SOAKED FUCK did the elves make or discover an entirely different element?!
If higher beings known as "god's" are real, does that mean they actually have the capabilities to change the laws of the universe I now live in?
Fucking hell, if they can do that, there isn't much difference from being an actual "capital G" God then, is there?
Except maybe they aren't completely omniscient or omnipotent?
[Well you've changed a bit.]
[Huh? Who?] I swung my head around, trying to find the source of vaguely familiar feminine voice I'd just heard.
Or well... felt? Fuck the language of will/mental speech is too fucking complicated.
Grammar-Nazi's be damned, heard! Just heard!
I swear I know who that is...
What females do I know that have mental speech?
Wasn't Bast or Avaya... is sounded too steady and mature to be one of the messenger birds or other beasts around here.
Who else do I know?
I have spoken to very few people since that "goddess" dropped me here-
[WAIT IS THAT YOU?!] I suddenly screamed out into the void, trying to reach the goddess who'd just spoken to me for the first time in months.
Did that goddess seriously drop in just to comment on my aesthetic changes?!
'Oi bitch! Get back here! WHAT THE FUCK?'
Nothing. Radio silence is all I get.
Oh fucking...
GAH!
I swear I'm gonna find that goddess and set her on fire-
Can I do that? It's a world of magic, so maybe I actually can set a "lower-case g" god on fire here.
...can I say I now am uncertain of faith and don't really care if a "capital G" God exists anymore? I was an atheist, but I literally have been living as a dragon and have magic now okay!
I'm allowed to honestly say, "I don't think I'm qualified to answer the question of God."
...
Moving away from my clear religious and mental issues with colors I've ranted about and might've gone overboard...
I now am breathing out wood particles myself?
It's like now that I understand it, I'm a carrier? Like it's a disease or plague infecting the world?
Or maybe a computer update that works as a viral infection.
Uh-huh.
Well, whatever it is, I can use it to some extent now, by controlling it, but it's an "outside magic" not an inside magic.
I can't fuse with it, dunno what that would do to be completely honest.
And the longer I spend in an area, the more it becomes equal to the amount of other elements until it will, I assume, become equal... and then stop.
I really hope it stops there.
Otherwise I'm witnessing the death of all other magic.
Suddenly my virus and infection jokes are a lot less funny. I really, REALLY like magic.
It's fun! And honestly learning about and using it gives me a thrill of being alive like nothing else!
So yeah. Please just go equal and stop there.
I wonder what the heck is going to happen next... Well the elves will probably return if I had to guess.
But hey, I know their secret about having a 7th element, so hah!
...anyone else think I was a bit impulsive with kicking that representative of a powerful race out for being rude? You know what? I'll just roll with it. I'll probably be fine... or maybe Korven had a point and I'm fucked.
~ ~ ~
"Can I help you, Sire Rizen?"
Kire chuckled. "Sorry, getting used to the name still I guess."
"Hasn't it been a few weeks now?" The middle aged dark-skinned man laughed.
Lean, hard muscle under a body past it's prime betrayed the strength he still held as he looked at Kire, his mirth pushed away in an instant as he took on a business face.
"General... am I being kept in the base and prevented from being sent on any missions?"
The man shook a hand. "No no no, it's just we are currently doing recon, it's not the battle phase yet. Our forces and the Sattix barbarians are measuring the amount of force each side will use."
Kire sat in the chair opposite rather than stand at this point, and the General raised an eyebrow.
'He plans a long conversation...'
Kire smiled. "My apologies for speeding up the intensity of war, General Paris. I know usually us cannon fodder are fed first for a few battles before Riven and the Sattix Clans would bring out their magical might."
General Paris showed no reaction, poker face to how Kire laid bare the veiled accusation of himself being used in the meat grinder of war as cannon fodder.
'Who are you, Kire Rizen? A farmhand should not have the kind of mindset it takes to make these moves so early in conversation...'
The General cut to the point. "You wish to be sent out? You wish to kill the Sattix?"
Kire smiled. "Despite the rumors, I do not have the hidden savagery of a beast like my eyes suggest."
"Many noble ladies may be disappointed to hear that."