After following the road for a couple hours without anything interesting happening I decided to sleep before I'd die of boredom.
When I was awoken, this time by rain, the first thing i did was recap the to-do list fo clarification. I had to build a chroniton flow stabilizer, create a psi amplifier and gather materials for the other tasks. Those were the objectives for now.
I already had compiled a list of resources I needed to aquire but I didn't know where to look for them and the range reduction on my psi wasn't helping in any way. Digging around in the planet wouldn't do me much good and trying to find those resources in the rings around the planet would be nothing a gamble with low chances of aquiring the materials I actually needed.
I still needed a way to communicate besides telepathy. Usually one communicates by using sound patterns to convey information. That is basicly it but I don't have vocal cords capable of producing the necessary kinds of sound.
But thinking about it I realizend that I could use telekinesis to make air vibrate, couldn't I? All I had to figure out was what patterns would work for a voice like sound. I had to test around with that for a while. A way could be to... I could try modulating the sounds I make, no that wont even come close to talking. I made an acceleration field type barrier and changed the target direction but that was insufficient for a proper conversation, since not even I could think fast enough to make precise sound with air alone, at least not while also doing anything else as well.
I will have to postpone those plans unfortunately as I just remembered that dragons could fly and I was close enough to one. I should try doing that instead of just flinging myself around using telekinesis becasue it would look better and I would find out if theese wings are of any use, other than looking pretty I mean.
I spread my wings and they are aproximately 3 meters per wing and a width of about a meter. Are they any good for flying? I try flapping them and to my surprise it actually lifted me a bit. It felt stunningly normal to do so, as if this body was meant to do things like this. I try to move them a while longer but doing that while standing still doesn't seem to actually do much for me.
I start running while flapping with my wings and after only a short moment I actually start floating above the ground. I continued with the task and gained height. It felt better than flying with telekinesis and it didn't require as much concentration. Not only my body was free but my mind was as well.
I flew around for probably half an hour before I wanted to try out how much I faster I could get by using my psi for additional speed. I accelerated, at first without any real objective or direction to go in.
While flying faster and faster I saw some sea pass below me for a short moment before I was once again above solid ground. I wanted to travel even faster and even broke the sound barrier during my test flight but at some point it started getting warmer, the heat generated by the friction on even my smoth scales outweighed the cooling from the air exchange at this point, so I decided to preemptively cool my scales down using telekinesis and to stop accelerating before it would get dangerous.
Heat is afterall, just movement on a smaller scale. As I reduced the heat of my body I noticed a bigger dragon than my humble self, diving toward the ground near a cave, from what I could observe. If it weren't for the darkened sky I wouldn't have noticed that red dragon in the distance breathing fire.
As I still need decent metals and believe that dragons might hoard them, I decide to dive towards the cave entrance while the red dragon rushed inside.