I was largely silent as we traveled back and was still thinking about what had occurred. They were not a coincidence, I was certain of it. My eyes and mana had both turned black, which I had noticed previously.
My current mana core is to blame for everything that was happening to me. Everything in my body has changed as a result of these mutations. I have sharper senses, my body's mana is now black, and I can grow my nails whenever I want. When I gave this some thought, I remembered the moment when my eyes went dark. I wondered if this was one of my mutations.
We arrived at the building's parking lot as I was considering various issues. We headed back after AJ had parked his car. We had a brief conversation on the way home, and AJ told me about his brothers. He obviously cared deeply about them and would go to great lengths to protect them.
We soon arrived in front of AJ's room, where we parted ways, but as I was making my way to my room, AJ called out to me. "Tomorrow, we'll get started at 9 a.m. Don't be late, "he shut his door, he said. I was soon in front of my door, scanning my fingerprints on the panel, and I moved in when my apartment was unlocked and I moved to my living room. It was about 11 a.m. when I looked at the time. I sat on the sofa and began meditating because I had nothing better to do.
I had a lot of things on my mind. I made a conscious effort not to think about that while I was meditating. I quickly fell into a trance. I tried to concentrate on the area of the body that was experiencing the most heat as I sat there as it began to slightly warm up. I discovered something was happening in my chest as I was doing this. My mana core was exactly where it was. I felt as though my body was transparent as soon as I concentrated there.
I could see through my body for some reason. As soon as I realized this, I opened my eyes and moved, and what I saw shocked me. I could see through everything as it was not there. I could see the outline of everything, but everything in between the lines was transparent.
It was quite shocking as I was there surveying my surroundings when I looked around and saw everything as it was right then. Everything was transparent. It would be more accurate to say that all I could see of the people downstairs in their apartments were their organs and muscles. It was pretty bizarre to witness this. I looked down at my hands as I considered everything. They resembled my hands in every way. All of them were transparent. It appeared as though someone had completely removed the skin from my hand, leaving only my muscles. It struck me as odd to see my own blood-filled nerves flowing normally in the presence of all of this.
I was looking at my hand when I noticed that each of my fingers had a thin mana strand running through them. The nails had changed color and were now bright like a starry night. I looked at my chest and discovered my mana core when I followed the mana strands. I found it odd that my mana core was connected to my flesh and that the area around it had grown a little darker when I caught a glimpse of it. It appeared as though it was effecting the skin around it. I could see that as they got closer to the center, the thin threads of black mana connecting them became thicker.
I kept looking at them and saw more mana strands emerging from the mana core, but they had not yet reached any destination and were still growing. The core was at the centre of it, like a web.
As I understood, my eyes and brain must have been affected by the mana strands if the mana had made it to my nails and they had changed. As I was having this thought, I made a move toward a mirror. I was standing directly in front of my mirror, but it was transparent as well. When I saw this, I couldn't help but want to face-palm. Since the mirror was transparent and I couldn't see my reflection in it, I focused and tried to change it back when I thought about it. Soon, the mirror returned to normal, and I was able to see my reflection.
As soon as I looked at myself, I realized that my eyes had become completely black. When I saw this, I tried to change my view back to normal, and after some time, my eyes became normal as everything became the same as it was supposed to be. When I saw this, I smiled and then thought about the new ability that I had just gotten. As I did so, I also thought about a name for this ability. Soon, two words left my mouth: "Abyssal Gaze." I said as I thought about it.
The mana strands that my mana core was releasing were the sole cause of the mutations that had begun in my body. Now that it was happening, it was obvious why, but I wasn't sure how.
I thought about it and then wondered how I could make my body mutate faster. I quickly reached a decision. The mana strands in my body were spreading out as I meditated, changing them. In theory, if I continued to meditate, the process should accelerate, increasing the number of abnormalities I experienced. I acknowledged that it was a nice idea and a risky one as well because I knew that my body might experience mutations that weren't always beneficial, but I couldn't help but feel enthusiastic about it.