After waking up from my sleep I find the situation on the inside of the egg hasn't changed much. Quickly looking around I find a slight green hue left behind I guess that is the afterglow of my light? It's still green? I always just assumed that was my tree form but maybe it's related to my soul? I mean it is emerald in color right? Will I always be green or is that related to the damaged state of my soul? Hmm well no point thinking about it now I guess. I'll ask Alex when she wakes up. Alex stats, please.
"Unnamed Race- MBlumest
Level:0 Status: Unborn
Exp:1/10
Evolution:0
HP: 5/5
MP: 1.001/1.001
Skills: [Mist Art-0/10] [Soul Art-0/10] [Light-0/10] [Healthy-0/10] [Sight-0/10] [Detect-0/10][Regeneration-0/10] [Weakest-0/10]"
Well, then no clear change to anything there I guess. Alex wasn't lying this is way slower than before and what's this decimal bullshit? Can that count? Eh well, this will take a while till I can go anywhere near casting light 24/7 like before. More importantly no progress on my skills? Alex, can you show me my skills progress?
"Specify the skill."
Oh sorry, Uhmmm I guess start with light, please.
"[Light] Level 0/10 Exp 1/100
Details: The magical ability to create light that has been tied with the soul. Mana consumption 1mana a second."
Wow gonna take awhile it seems? Well then show me mist art, please.
"[Mist Art]: General abilities associated with the manipulation of mist.
[Mist Creation] level 0/10 Exp 0/100
Details: The ability to sacrifice part of yourself to create mist. Consumption 1 health. Amount of mist associated with skill level and level of the body.
[Mist Control] level 0/10 Exp 3/100
Details: Self-explanatory. Consumes only effort. May exhaust the user if used too often.
[Mist Condensing] level 0/10 Exp 0/100
The condensation of mist that further progress will allow for changing of form.
[Mist Tempering] level 0/10 Exp 0/100
Temporary allowing the mist to ascend in quality. Consumption 100 Mana a second."
Well, clearly I can't use the tempering ability any time soon. Mist Control I've already been working on clearly it's advancing faster than light mostly cause it doesn't have an issue of Mana. Can I make mist yet when I don't have a physical form? I already have hp. So I guess I'll give it a try. Focusing on the mist creation ability my little fog-like body farts and my hp goes down by 1. Manipulating the mist that came out of me I find it's barely the size of my little finger weirdly I didn't lose any mass to making it but it's quite thin in comparison to my body. Unwilling to pass out I pass on the mist condensing just yet and decide to use the mist creation 3 more times. I'm an egg anyways I'll probably die if I'm struck regardless of what I do so the health is really just sitting there meaninglessly right now might as raise my regeneration skill as I'm working. It'll probably help in the future.
As I manipulate the new faint farts that I tooted out I take all four little clouds and make them one... slightly less small cloud. I begin to form shapes in the mist to pass the time for a while. When I get tired I'll swap to mist condensation. I manipulate the fog to form little shapes and do a little play of crude mist warriors fight a big blob of mist shaped roughly like a look large monster. I intended to make a dragon but clearly, I'm not capable of it. It's far too crude doesn't even look like a dragon shape. More like a chubby dog with huge floppy ears... As the little figures fight, I occasionally check my hp, and every time my hp hits 2 I lower it again to 1. I'm not very scared of dying either way and more mist means I get tired quicker and can expand my mana a little more even sooner.
As the little figures grow larger on the stage I soon find myself watching a little cloud about the size of my torso as the now fingernail-sized figures fight the hand-sized monster as its size grows I find the shapes get cruder and slower eventually I find myself growing tired. So I start gathering up the fog and swallowing it. I got a limited space after all don't know where it came from or where it will go but as long as the egg has proper space. As it's not exactly spacious without the extra mist. After most of the faintest mist had been cleaned up I take the very small cloud that remains and divide it further into small portions hoping to be able to condense the mist without passing out immediately.
As I focus in on one of the smaller clouds of mist I will it to condense it gradually grows smaller till it's just a thick little patch of fog looking like a little cloud. ...Ok I was expecting... A blade or something...I don't know I guess it is mist lol... what would condensed mist be but thicker mist? Maybe later I can make it into fluid or solids? Looking over towards Alex I check my mana.
"Mana 0.993/1.001"
Ignoring the rest of my stats I notice I succeeded... but Mana isn't growing. As I hold onto the little cloud I watch my mana as it goes down more. It appears to drop by about 0.008 a second with this tiny cloud so I condense the other 9 clouds I split up just to speed up the process. effectively putting the drain at 0.08 a second. Checking my mana occasionally as I go I stop after it hits 0.033 and direct my attention at the rest of my stats again.
"Unnamed Race- MBlumest
Level:0 Status: Unborn
Exp:1/10
Evolution:0
HP: 4/5.075
Mp: 0.033/1.001
Skills: [Mist Art-0/10] [Soul Art-0/10] [Light-0/10] [Healthy-0/10] [Sight-0/10] [Detect-0/10][Regeneration-0/10] [Weakest-0/10]"
Hmm, it seems my health is also growing like my mana and expanding through stressing it? Hmm ok... Clearly not that valuable though hopefully leveling will increase it faster. Growing my healthy like my mana seems like it'll take a while as 0.005 every loss of 1 health is better but it's still not great. I don't wanna be born weak. What if there are predators about? I need to be as strong as possible for when I finally grow to completion I wonder how I'll know when that is? Guess I'll leave when the thick mist has merged with me completely. I can't seem to make it merge faster I can move it but it's heavy as hell and won't merge even if I will it too. I've tried moving it about again since my first attempt but other than actually physically moving it's a bit like dragging a mountain. Hey, Alex show me my regeneration skills info, please.
"[Regeneration] level 0/10 Exp 13/1000
Details: Passive ability that allows for the speedy reproduction of hp and mp as well as mental and physical endurance. It will become possible to heal wounds and even replace limbs outright in the later tiers."
Oh, it affects Mana and health? I didn't expect that... I thought it'd just be health. Hmm ok, Healthy next please Alex.
"[Healthy] level 0/10 Exp 0/1000
Details: Passive reinforcement of the body in all things. Allowing for a resistance to all forms of ailments. Also multiplies hp by 5."
Oh... so my health should have been 1 and I should be getting a 0.001 health increase at the loss of every 1 health... well that'd be hard as hell to grow if it wasn't for healthy. How does this species live? Wonder if that multiplier will grow as I level that? Hmm. Next, sight please Alex.
"[Sight] level 0/10 Exp 0/1000
Details: Passive ability associated with sight. If the entity is born with eyes it will strengthen those eyes. If born without it will make spectral eyes with mana that must remain attached to the body."
Hmm not getting any exp for that yet? Guess it is dark and my eyes are still developing I've not really seen much yet just felt it through the mist I'm controlling. Guess I'll have to wait on growing that one. Ok, detect and then weakest please Alex.
"[Detect] level 0/10 Exp 0/100
Details: Sensory ability not associated with any of the senses that allows the owner to detect any and all threats to themselves."
Well, I haven't detected any threats yet so makes sense that hasn't gained any exp...
"[Weakest] level 0/10 Exp 16/1000
Details: Passive ability that allows user to grow faster in all aspects."
That's kind of overpowered but still hate the name. Ok then show me soul arts as well.
"[Soul Art] General abilities associated with the soul.
[Soul Tempering] Locked level 0/10 Exp 0/10000000
Details: The ability to strengthen the soul can be used to develop mana and mental abilities of a controlled body or repair the true soul. Currently locked due to damage to True soul injury and stress of controlling the sudo-soul.
[Sudo-soul Creation] level 0/10 Exp 1/1000000
Details: The passive ability to create a fake soul for a body you control, connected spiritually to the true soul, and transfer energy to the true soul to empower it. Only used whenever a new body is formed. An offshoot and recreation of the soul ability that fused with [Soul Tempering] Bonus attribute include creating mana in the body regardless of if the body is meant to have any."
Oh wow... that's a lot of required exp and soul Tempering is locked? Guess I can only use it when I die. Or repair the main soul enough to use the mana. Also, wait... is the blumest not meant to have any mana? As I only had 1 originally yet sudo-soul creation gives me mana... Hmm weird as my race's mist control requires mana for tempering and condensing. So does that mean no one else in my race will ever be able to use those or does growing give me the ability to use Mana? I mean I'm clearly still in my egg so maybe I need to be a certain age to get Mana naturally?
Tired, I stop thinking about it and lay back, can't lay down as I'm mist in an egg filled with mist I just float. Checking my stats one last time I notice my health and mana are full so I fart 5 times then swallow the mist gross now that I think about it... Now my health is 0.1/5.1 then I move my attention to the light skill and as I will it to activate my vision drifts off into blackness slightly slower than yesterday.
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As Ellie was getting dressed for the day after waking up a bright emerald light lit up her bedroom and she walked over struggling to see through the bright light as she gently felt the egg's surface as it glowed like an emerald beacon. Gently covering it up with the blankets to block out the light she moves on with her day.