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Chapter 11 - Assimilation

-{Hmmm, You Understood Accumulation Without Me Teaching You, Great, Makes This Much Easier}

"You agreed to teach me this, but you never did." I ranted while I was on the floor, enduring the painstaking weight crushing me.

It was a good new feeling, being annoyed to the point where I then decided that ranting would be the best way to release my tension.

-{I Am Teaching You, Right? You've Got To Stop Whining. You Should Be Aware That The Near-Endless Energy Floating All Around You Can Be Used Once It Enters Your System. Energy Can Actually Be Used For Quite A Few Things: Conjuring, Manifestation, Sealing, Enforcing, ETC. That's Where Sorcery Originates, The Ability To Use The Energy Bestowed Upon Us From The Deity}

"Get to the 'less heavy' part. I don't want to even wonder what could happen if the beasts find me."

-{Basic Levitation Is A Sorcery Technique Which Involves One Using The Energy Within And Around Them To Constantly Suspend One's Self Away From The Ground By Making Their Body Able To Negate Some Part Of The Fundamental Interaction That Keeps One Grounded. Energy Can Be Used For As Many Things As One Can Possibly Think Of. But Its Use Is Restricted By The Fact That Most Beings Can't Perform Acts That Their Bodies Can Not Take. But Don't Worry Basic Levitation Doesn't Actually-}

"Levitation?! I can't even move, and now you expect me to fly! "

-{It Won't Exactly Make You Fly If You Get Used To The 'Hypothetical' But Still Actual Weight Of All Knowledge, You Should Be Able To Levitate After Training Yourself To Use Other Variants of Sorcery That Enable flight.}

"I think I've reached my limits; energy won't flow in anymore."

The stream of energy that had been flowing into my body began to slow and eventually came to a halt, but I was making no progress.

-{Now, It's Very Simple. Release That Energy In As Little Quantities As Possible All Over Your Body. I'll Do The Rest}

Without asking questions, I began releasing the barest minimum of my accumulated energy.

The feminine librarian within my head then began chanting some unknown gibberish.

-{#@%%&*@#$%*&}

[A/N: This could be her saying regular words, but since Bibliotheca is basically his brain now, the Librarian can choose what he can understand with that brain. And she may possibly be making him not understand what she is saying.]

It began to fluctuate for a while, but eventually I slowly began to feel some of the weight vanishing.

I was able to move myself from the original flat position to a point where I was resting on a wall, I was actually happy, very happy indeed.

"What incantations were you spouting? I thought Sorcery was "only as limited as the body and the imagination"." I quoted.

-{Well, Yes, But Everything Always Has Some Kind Of Catch. To Perform Most Arts And Techniques In Sorcery, One Must Understand How Energy Must Be Moved, Released, Transformed, And Manipulated In Order To Create The Most Favorable Conditions For The Sorcery Techniques To Be Used. To Bypass Most Of The Conditions, Chants Or Other Conditions, Like Sorcerer's Circles Or The Like, Are Prepared. Sorcery Is A Pretty Broad Concept. This Is The Best We Can Do Now. If You Get Moving, I'm Pretty Sure You'd Feel Less Weight}

[A/N: What she says about Sorcery and Incantations is true, but she just said it to cover up what she really did. She's a liar!]

"This Sorcery thing is indeed complicated. The guy that left me in this condition could cover his fist in lightning. Like there were crackles of static electricity. If I could feel all my pain, I'm sure that would have really hurt." I ranted, recounting my experience with a Sorcerer.

"Oh, and there was this short female that could release really dense blasts of sounds, they didn't chant or anything." I added

-{Those Sorcerers May Have Those As Trained Abilities. Meaning They Need To Spare Very Little Energy To Utilize Them. I Know What You're Going To Ask For And The Answer Is Yes, You Can Acquire One, Despite Not Having Much Talent} She made sure to whisper the last part, but I was too excited to care.

"I see."

I pulled myself up from the floor and began walking in the only other direction I knew; forward.

I simply had no new tricks or abilities.

I had no new trump card, but I had no intent to stay in my position and rot.

It was quite weird because, if I remember correctly, I didn't set any goals for myself.

I had no idea what the world on the outside would be like. There was nothing that I felt overly eager to see, but yet I moved forward.

If there was anything I wanted to know, it would be why I was like this.

I encountered a few beasts similar to the ones I fought a while ago. I simply channeled energy into both my palms and used them to clear a simple path for myself.

In my last battle, I realized that even though the head wasn't a vulnerable spot, it was a great place to land fatal blows.

As long as I hit there hard enough to cancel most processes, the average being mostly wouldn't survive.

I utilized the unprecedented increase in weight as a wonderful weapon and, assisted with gravity, I was able to crush heads quite easily, even though gravity's influence upon me was reduced.

Eventually, I began encountering stronger beasts, and as such, I got stronger too.

Some days flew by, and I was beginning to get used to the abnormally heavy body of mine, I was wary because I knew that the being might have already sensed that I was still pushing through. I didn't sleep and I tried to battle, always.

The feminine librarian was mostly quiet, sometimes mumbling to herself. I could tell she was immersed in her thoughts. Like me.

POV -----> Athena {Feminine Librarian}

-{So That's How It Is?} I asked myself while sitting within my allocated space within the psyche of Azur.

Maybe it actually is much better in this way, a nice do-over. He claimed he wanted to redeem himself, but I knew that was all a sick joke.

He is doing this so he can commit more sins. If anybody knew what his goals were, it would be me.

Azur wants to spread his influence and terror again. He wants to go around committing those praised sins again. He wants to prove to his abnormal ego that no matter what happens, he can still achieve extreme success.

He wants to be praised for his morally wrong actions.

[A/N: I don't think it matters what he wants now since he is gone. But this Azur sounds edgy, I wonder how bad the things he did were for her to be like this. He seemed like a nice guy.]

Anyway, I have my own goals to accomplish.

Making this Azur into what the original one desired, just like in the old days.

That Fallen angel may be a bit troublesome. I didn't think Stein would be in possession of a Fallen angel. I didn't even think they would be lowly enough to do what he did to Azur.

I needed to find a way to give him a chance against that beast. I emerged from my thoughts and began my address.

-{Azur, I Think I Discovered Your Affinity} I said, interrupting his battle.

I spoke after a really long period of silence, so I was almost very sure that I had startled him.

Turns out I was right. After what I said, he shuddered and was then bit in the leg by an Iron Canine. After it sank in its teeth, it began to twist and turn its head, making a large, jagged wound on his leg.

"What the hell!! don't just talk from nowhere like that!" He exclaimed.

He then proceeded to smack the poor Wolf with the backside of his hand, which made a cracking skull sound, and the Iron Canine released its jaw grip and left bloody and jagged wounds on his leg.

"What's an affinity? like the sound or lightning and stuff?"

-{Indeed}