"If you want to gain better understanding of all of your powers, you have to focus more!" It's been around 5 days after I talked to Indra and Azel about understanding my powers, in that time they have taken turns teaching me about their powers and how to utilize them, my own I've grown to understand better.
The first thing they taught me was how to sense and control the 3 energies, The Demon energy was pretty straightforward, it resided in every shadow or dark space, so it would be my most abundant Energy type, I ended up calling it Chaos energy, or just Chaos.
The angels energy type was more difficult for me to pick up on, while it was highly accessible the way to use it was through absorbing it through a line called The Aether Skeleton, The A.S was simply a Network of energy veins running through the angels body, but for the nepheli they would typically grow once the angel inhabits the nephellian body, which would result in an extremely painful process.
However, since both Indra and Azel were bonded with me since birth, the skeleton grew slowly rather than all at once, resulting in a more durable, efficient Aether skeleton. Confused on why this was different for me but not others, Indra had told me that I was bonded with at birth due to my high potential but for other nepheli the Angel or demon with sights on that person would wait until they are at the final evolution level of the race, I was only at my first, while others like me were at their 4th or 5th. There was 6 in total.
The A.S had numerous points on the body to exert and absorb Energy through. I had trouble locating them but after a while I began to find them. I soon began to use the Aether like it was an extension of my body, I could mold the Energy around my points to form a blade of light or expand it outward to create a shield, I experimented with all of the energies at once and discovered that if they mixed they would become unstable and disappear. The reason why this was came to me quite easily, they were complete opposite's
And finally, the Nephellian Energy called Mana, I know, quite ironic considering that was the name of energy in nearly every manga or anime ever. However, I learned that the difference was that while the other energy types can be used internally and externally, mana was only internal, simply, I could only use it to enhance my body, mind or soul.
The three energies types that could utilize was Aether, Mana And Chaos. Each type had its own strengths, weaknesses and uses. They however, could not be stored within the body, this was because there was no place it could be stored, if I activated a Ability like Seduction, it would absorb the necessary energy required to activate it, but with abilities like Enhance, it would use a set amount to activate and then draw in constant energy in order to maintain. This explained why the day I found that revenant the mind enhancement I used lasted so long.
The only way for More energy to be used or at least acquired was to train mana to remain in your body for longer periods of time, after a while the energy would create a field around you that traps Energy of the types you possess, of course, the energy wouldn't remain forever.
Indra has been teaching me how to keep the mana in my system to expand my field but for some reason I can't seem to hold it for long, it's like the energy is forcing itself out, and I can't seem to figure out why.
"I'm telling you dude, the energy just forces itself out, every. Single. Time I have the energy in my body it just feels like a pressure all over!" While yes, I won't lie, I am getting quite frustrated, I feel like each time I practice this exercise I gain more understanding of it, kinda like each time it teaches me something, I just can't figure out what it is.
"Ok, imagine the energy just flowing through every point and circulating throughout the veins, once you reach a point pull it out and absorb through another point, this would appear as if you are recycling the energy infinitely." While this was easy to visualize putting it into action was another story.. now that I think about it, this reminds me of a book I read, A person from the story wanted to rid the world of famine, so he spent every day for the rest of his life sitting in one position, not moving. After 60 years of doing this, his body had grown to use his body's nutrients and organs and created a infinitely recycling system, his digestive tract reproduced waste into nutrition and combined with fresh oxygen to create a more nutritious substance, his urine would be filtered and combine with the hydrogen in the air to develop water.
This man had devolved a method of never going hungry again..
Now that I think about it, this is similar in a sense, they both recycled the energy or nutrition they had to develop a system that constantly reproduced nutrition. What if I tried to copy his methods, if I could create a system in my body that absorbed the energy I had, replicated it, and constantly recycled it, could I effectively create a system that would produce my own Mana?
Yes, now that I think about it, it is only a story but it does make me feel curious. The only way I could test if I could truly do this was to try it myself.
"Hey Indra, I'm going to try something different, this may or may not go well"
Completely ignoring what Indra was saying or going to say to me I decided to put my idea to work.
I took what Indra had taught me about the Aether points and instead focused all the energy into my stomach circling in a clockwise motion and condensing into a ball, visually imagining what this could look like, I saw a ball, barely the size of a grape and forced more energy into it, expanding further and becoming the size of a baseball, I could feel my stomach heating up, it was beginning to be painful, like an intense burning sensation but I kept going.
"Uhh, hey kiddo, whatever your doing keep doing it?" I could hear Azel speak, his tone mixed with surprise, shock and delight, he could clearly tell what I was attempting and he didn't try to stop me.
The ball that I was forcing energy into had not changed in size but had simply gotten brighter, the faint grey color had grown into a blinding pale white and soon, it pulsed. The heat that was enveloping my stomach had faded and the energy that I had been using, I could feel it everywhere.
My idea was a success, I had created a core that would absorb, replicate and store energy, of course, it was only in its first stages of creation so it wasn't the strongest.
"Kiddo, how in the hell did you do that?" Azel knew what I had done and his voice was filled with a pride-like tone. I could tell he was proud and it honestly made me feel good about myself.
"Leo, you have just done something that no one in Angel, Demon or Nephellian history has ever done, do you understand what this means?"
Indras voice was more filled with shock and surprise, he wasn't happy that I had tried something without telling him.
"Look I know your upset but I had an idea and I had to try it, I knew nothing bad would happen!" Well I was only 30% sure that nothing bad would happen, I imagined that if I messed up the skeleton would just lock me out or in worst case scenario, I would just simply die.
"Kiddo, you must realize now, there's no way you can go back to being a human, ever. This, this is what you are, You are a true Nepheli, through and through"