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Chapter 23 - The psyche scale

"If you have come this far, it means that your mind is strong enough; if you have managed to open the mind's eye, you have advanced further than many; if you have experienced how the mind governs matter, you are further away than many; if you have suffered the manipulation of Your mind knows what the psyche is capable of, and if you have overcome your fears and the worst version of yourself, you are at the peak of mental power. Put your hands on the scale and let what is reflected in your mind be rewarded."

I focused on everything that had happened on the walk to the room earlier as I placed my hands on the scale, a sphere of energy the size of a coconut shot towards the center of my forehead.

"Affinity with the mana of the created psyche. 1/6100"

"Congratulations on completing the Psyche Main Mana Core during the tutorial."

"Congratulations on being the first to partially complete the hidden quest in the Psyche Room 2/4 completed"

"Congratulations for being the first player with six cores of level 3 or higher in the tutorial"

Psyche Mana Core Level 3. 1/12000

I felt mentally balanced as if two complementary forces had been leveled, doing some "telekinesis" was an easy process, levitating myself took a little more, but the most impressive thing was being able to start floating or flying, it helped me a little air magic to gain speed more easily and in this way I arrived at the statue room in no time. By my calculations with my current mana I couldn't fly for more than 5 minutes.

I think the time had come to head to the Water tunnel, the walls were a deep blue. The first torch was in sight, just after the ground transformed into a small pool, using my spear as a measure I put my arm into the water, the depth was no more than one meter eighty, swimming with swords, axes, daggers, backpack , armor, shield, and spear was not very viable, I stripped off the backpack, the shield, the armor, the axe, and dressed only in my clothes, the spear in one hand, the sword at my belt and a dagger tied in the leg I went into the water.

It was neither cold nor hot, you could say that it was pleasant to a certain extent, when I passed the fourth torch the ceiling of the corridor had lowered just to half of the previous height, by the time I reached the next torch only about twenty centimeters separated the water from the ceiling just enough to breathe, as I feared later it was the darkness under the water... I don't know if there would be spaces to breathe later.

With my air mana and my will I created a bubble around my head, sure of not drowning, I began to dive, the darkness was not a problem, running out of air neither, the next space to breathe was about 50 meters away... No I say impossible, but for someone who was not very used to it, it would be difficult to cover that distance, and without seeing in the darkness, distinguishing that gap to breathe would not be a laughing matter.

I imagined that passing the test would be a matter of continuing diving until the end... however, what about the secondary missions... to clear up my doubts, the next gap to breathe coincided with a crossroads, the path continued straight, but options to go to my left and my right had opened.

On a whim I chose the tunnel on the right, this time the diving section was 100 meters, at this point what was a marble tunnel began to transform into a natural grotto... stones, some coral, even some strange fish were fleeing of me as I moved forward.

A light ahead filtered into the water... In what must have been the roof of the grotto, an ascending tunnel went up, and when I came out of the ascent, a huge natural cavern appeared before my view. There was air, and vegetation of different types could be seen. Everywhere and surprisingly above, there was a huge gem that illuminated the entire area, and that was saying a lot since the cavern was more than 100 meters wide and about 200 meters long by about 40 meters high. In the background, a large waterfall sounded, that fell on the lagoon that occupied two-thirds of the cave.

In the distance I could see what was a small town, and where there was a town there would be residents, thinking that they could have some kind of advantage in the aquatic environment, I levitated above the surface. On a rocky outcropping I could now see how a creature somewhere between a fish man or a merman was looking at me from the distance. Without giving him time to react, I opened a dimensional crack and appeared behind him, stabbing him with my spear. He didn't die from a simple blow, but I prevented him from shouting the alarm.

The being would be about 2 meters tall, with a bipedal body with membranous webbed feet, fins covering its sides, joining its arms up to elbow height. On his face were two bulging fish-like eyes, and on his neck what he could recognize as gills. Since it was useless to question him, I saved him the agony of bleeding to death and finished him off.

With the next jump through a dimensional rift I appeared right behind the next merman that was in sight, despite the surprise he was skilled enough to deflect my spear with his trident and managed to throw himself into the water while calling for help. Time.

"He will be the son of ****!!"

More than a dozen beings in the village looked towards me, and from the water another dozen merman heads emerged... It was clear that their most comfortable element was water, since all the beings in the village ran to submerge themselves after catching weapons. I rose towards the ceiling to gain distance, and have time to think of a strategy. The twelve heads almost synchronously spat water bullets at high pressure, I was forced to open a crack and reappear meters further away, but the aquatic shooting did not end, as spitting machine guns began to fire repeatedly in my direction, I intervened. An air barrier to stop bullets. I didn't know if it would work, but it was effective, I launched myself towards the water in a low flight just above the water, moving a little away from the newts and preventing them from continuing to shoot since otherwise they would have hit each other, while I was moving away I threw several air blades just above the water, managing to sever the heads of two unsuspecting newts.

A wave surprised me in mid-flight, throwing my body into the water, I completed a small air bubble just in time to be dragged by a current to the bottom of the lagoon. Have you tried to aim or attack while a force drags you by your feet? When I was about 5 meters under the water the force stopped pulling me, I was surrounded by about twenty merman beings, some with tridents, others with harpoons, and some with long knives.

Concentrating, I opened the largest dimensional crack around at least 12 of them, this was a considerable diameter. They did not understand or appreciate the danger since when I slammed the crack shut, I managed to cut more than 8 of them in half, whose lower halves appeared. A few meters behind them.

When they overcame the unilateral massacre, more than 13 bullets were fired at point-blank range, fortunately under the water they lost a little speed, I jumped into a dimensional crack and appeared in the town.

 Not all the mermen had left the village, a group made up of merman children and some elderly people were taking shelter behind the imposing body of a merman almost three meters tall, armed with a large trident and a round metal shield. The one who seemed to be the chief wore a conch as a pendant around his neck... Something told me that this was the object to put on the scale, for once I tried something new instead of fighting, I used telekinesis to tear off the pendant , which flew quickly towards me.

The merman screamed enraged, but I was not going to give him time to recover it with the little space mana that I had left, I opened a crack and transported myself to the other side of the grotto, where I had arrived, I dove into the water with my bubble and began to go down. The tunnel.

As I intuited, the newts did not follow me beyond the confines of their lagoon. I continued diving until I reached the crossroads. The worst thing about being underwater for so long was not the obsession with the air bubble with the controlled air spaces; I just had to pay attention; it was the sensation of moving slower. I was not a bad swimmer. , but doing it for minutes at a time generated a great psychological burden.

The opposite tunnel went down, and I dived for a long time, so much so that my air reserve reached 50%... I turned around to ascend to the safety of the hole, where I could breathe. Should I have made a bigger bubble? Or should I think about how to go faster? The only viable option was to use psychic force to induce repulsion. The problem was that in order not to go backwards, I had to channel said magic through my feet...

At first, controlling that the pressure flow was the same with both feet was complicated; changing the direction so as not to end up rubbing against all the walls was better... I learned that to modify the direction, it was convenient to launch pulses of mana with my hands while continuing to press with my feet... My parallel mind allowed me to use psyche magic and preserve my air bubble.

I had tripled my speed; it is true that I could go faster, but it seemed dangerous to me... I continued advancing and descending deeper and deeper, and when I thought I would soon reach some point, the tunnel began to descend vertically. I had consumed a third of the air in my reserve, but I was not willing to give up... I increased my speed even more on the descent...

100, 200, 300 meters of vertical descent... only when I reached 500 meters was the bottom visible... A simple conch shell was waiting to be picked up... My air reserve was at 40% so I was in a small hurry...

I cast psyche magic at full power to gain speed, and so I was propelled upwards..., 30% air... I reached the top, and propelled myself against the wall to help me with the direction of the ascending tunnel. At 20%, I knew that I had almost half the way left.

"Congratulations to the player for achieving the expert rank with the parallel thinking skill. Expert rank skill "Multiple Thinking": 1/5000*Common