After Micca, I finally drew one for the kitsune.
[ Shujang/Isanoria]
Strength : 1.2
Agility : 2.3
Fortitude : 1.0
Magic : 10.5
[ Innate Factor : Nature Shaman | Possession | Aether Mark | Follower of the Deity of Immaculate Nature ]
[ Skill : Herbal Blooming | Healing Magic {Specialization: Rejuvenation of Organic Matter} | Enhancement Magic {Specialization: Object Strengthening} | Vegetation Magic | Thunder Magic | Spatial Magic {Minor Expertise} ]
[ {Nature Shaman}: A hermit who outcasted themselves from society to gather insight of magic and wisdom from nature. ]
[ {Possession}: A state of possessing a foreign physical vessel, and vice versa. ]
[ {Aether Mark}: The mark of the sky, enhancing the comprehension level and capability of 'floating' away. ]
[ {Follower of the Deity of Immaculate Nature}: By possessing a great faith, a reward for the belief shall be given in return. Enabling the possibility of performing {Herbal Blooming} and many other variant of the normal spellcasting method. ]
[ {Tags: Energy Gathering, Spellcasting Medium, Enhanced/Branching Variant} {Herbal Blooming}: The act of turning yourself into a temporal nuclear fusion reactor through various phases of soul bending shenanigans, with the addition of heightened healing and calming effect to the target. ]
[ {Tags: Magic Type, Utility, Support Magic, Provisional Magic, School of Magic} {Healing Magic}: The magic that allows the user to heal both organic and inorganic compounds of an organism. There seemed to be thousands type of specialization depending on the method and expected result of the healing procedure. ]
"I can write the remaining four skills, not enough soil within this confined space of time dilation." My body flattened incessantly due to the inherent mind fatigue to comprehend and simplify whatever Shujang was saying.
I didn't expect Shujang to be the enthusiastic type. The questionnaire would last an hour if I didn't cut short the myriad of stories she eagering to tell.
"Well, unlike you, father, we know what those are." Micca snarked.
Shujang leaned forward, putting a wry smile. "You don't want to ask any more about me?"
"Probably after we survive this. Or else, the questionnaire could go on until the Ordeal of Hunger arrived."
"That is, if we even got the Ordeal of Hunger."
I also asked about how Shujang felt about the new body she had. Like how the ears and the tail felt compared to her early body—which was very close to what I knew about elf except that she had horns in the past before it shed off from her head at adulthood, and her skin was pale blue––
There wasn't any magical or miraculous trait to the physical vessel I made, probably because I was focused on how to make it as close to a human anatomy.
I wonder if I could reshape my body or add more material to it using this kind of magic––
And so, I sent out my magic proposal to the two magic experts in my current location.
I got two thumbs up.
"The two of you just want to see what kind of other absurd thing I'll do with this proposal."
"Well, you can still certainly try." Shujang replayed her thumbs up animation.
"Father's existence is an anomaly, everything might as well be possible, so no comment from me." Micca added another thumbs up from her other hand.
We still have around 4 hours before the possible Ordeal of Hunger, might as well use it effectively.
So for the next hour, I experimented with the potential of the Creation Magic relative to the interaction with the physicality of Knowing Hardness.
It didn't go that well for the first few experiments.
Firstly, it wasn't possible to add more mass by creating a material and then attaching, integrating, or emulsifying it with the body. This was due to the nature of Knowing Hardness that prevented the assimilation of new mass onto the body before consuming it.
It was also the moment I knew that Knowing Hardness can technically consume anything except from the materials I created using magic.
It might be a little bit of a tangent from this, but the Knowing Hardness was completely run by the collective presence of spirit essence that was available in every object. This was based on the fact that every sentient being shed an excess part of their soul onto the surrounding matters.
This is what is referred to as the 'spirit essence' and with greater emotion towards any object related to the living being that was shedding their essence, the amount of essence was focused and multiplied.
The concept of Faith is the same.
Hence why, only the material that already existed in this world could possess spirit essence within them, and the more spirit essence they gathered, the object might reach sentience.
Any kind of object and material I created with magic are inherently new to the world, and they weren't exposed to any spirit essences. Thus, I won't gain anything from consuming the material such as the energy needed to run this body as a fuel, except for the acquisition of foreign matter living inside my body because my body won't interact with it if it doesn't possess any spirit essence.
And not like I can transfer the spirit essence from other objects to the things I created before consuming them, as the spirit essence possesses a much more complex metaphysical property for me to manipulate them.
Apparently, only upper beings like that of gods and deities are capable of such a feat.
Secondly! It is possible to mold my body into any shape! Although it won't last long and my body would revert to its blobby jello state, it was surely useful information for any dangerous encounter in the future.
If there are laser beams being shot at me in the future, I'll just reshape myself into a donut, heh.
Thirdly––
We got out of topic and ended up making a walking armament of war––
"Ahahaha, how did we manage to come to this?"
"I'm not surprised," Micca commented with a deadpan.
"I wonder if the battery is charged enough…" Shujang wryly laughed, as she was gasping for air after 20 minutes of nonstop Blooming to recharge the core that we came up with for the monstrosity we created.
It was a 5 meters tall bipedal knight made out of the weirdly fantastical alloy that followed the same principle of diamond's nano-cousin called graphene. Actually, I didn't even know what kind of material we're using at this point due to the fact that there were some minerals suggested by Shujang and Micca that didn't exist back on earth.
And because I barely possessed the information for the composition of those Hisoutenshizen's local minerals, I began doing some heretical things like kitbashing the mineral composition and their isotopes that I knew and fusing them into whichever works.
Thanks to it, the knight-like robot appeared to let out a fluorescent prism of white outline glows surrounding its silhouette.
Yes, this mystically beautiful existence was supported by four extendable pseudo-prehensile wings that could expand and used them as shields.
This autonomous mech possessed a graceful slender body with a slightly bigger set of arms than its supposed humanoid anatomy.
I wanted to add guns and those cool laser cannons but I'm not a high-tech savvy nerd who could turn those feats into reality. As for the guns part, I just think that I could just create them into existence along with its ammunition whenever I wanted to, knowing that it would just overload the knight with an auto reloading system if I were to integrate a dedicated gun onto them.
So instead of guns, we gave it electrifying punches, with enough current to roast a duck into well done in a matter of a second.
I began to think that giving me the access to do magic was a mistake.
"So, shall we turn this thing on?" I suggested to the two only partners-in-crime for this blursed creation.
Shujang gulped her saliva. "It won't attack us, right? This machine learning, program, artificial intelligence, whatever that you put as the brain for this walking hulk of metal…"
"We added a termination sequence to this robot," said Micca, opening her arms to exemplify the 'kaboom' that the mech might commence.
"We need to be at least twenty meters away from it though, lest we want to turn into fried duck," I laughed.
And so, we activated the first ever mech that we created for absolutely no reason at all.
As the power core, or battery, or whatever the hell the thing we brainstormed for a compact means of electricity storing—was connected to the 'brain' of the program.
Its pair of eyes lights up in domineering blue.
"OMS-1 is available for service."
Named after the initial of our names, the robotic voice permeated the air with grace.
The three of us simultaneously agreed that mech is cool as hell.
So we made another ten of them, each with different weapons and utility, while also unifying their information gathering into a single data-processing server that we just leave on the ground. Many of them were stationed outside of our isolated time dilation in docile unpowered state.
And eventually, we reached the threshold of the Ordeal of Hunger.
The crack didn't appear.
Which left us with only two possibilities for the Calamities of the Void.
The Banishing Banner, or the Screamers of the Void.