The Primeval Era-Chapter 147: Information I
The Primordial Mana Core pulsed within both his bodies, drawing in energy and releasing drops of white Mana that felt fundamentally superior to anything he had cultivated before.
But Damian wanted more.
He was becoming increasingly intimate with the Mana saturating his surroundings, with the energy flowing through his beast form and human form and the vast cloud that now housed his consciousness. He could feel everything, but feeling wasn’t the same as understanding. He sensed changes occurring throughout the region, transformations triggered by the rain he had released, but the details remained frustratingly vague.
If his Second Doctrine allowed him to cultivate externally, if it let him extend his essence into mountains and walls and clouds and rain, then shouldn’t it also allow him to receive information from those extensions? Shouldn’t the Mana he was becoming one with be able to communicate what it experienced?
He voiced this intent aloud through his human body.
"Show me...what you see."
HUUUM!
He felt Mana crossing through the Primordial Mana Core he had just formed, energy cycling through that crystalline structure before emerging transformed. A dense drop of white Mana surged upward from his heart, traveling through channels he didn’t know he possessed, climbing toward his skull with purpose that felt almost eager.
The drop reached his eyes.
They shone white, radiance blazing from pupils that had been golden-winged moments before. The light was blinding, intense enough that Serala nearby shielded her face with her hands. And then, in the space before him, white words began to bloom.
Words! Words that were also...information!
|Primordial Assessment Initiated.|
|Source: Primordial Mana Core.|
|Analyzing connected forms and surrounding environment.|
|Form Analysis: Human Body.|
|Cultivation: Second Doctrine.|
|Primordial Mana Core: Formed. Active. Generating refined output.|
|Core Output: White Mana. Density exceeds standard Mana by factor of 27.|
|Assessment: Body is progressing across The Second Doctrine seamlessly.|
|Form Analysis: Beast Body.|
|Active Physiques: Noble Simba Lineage. Wings of the Radiant Dawn.|
|Crown of Kingship: Manifested. Recognized by Lands and Skies.|
|Primordial Mana Core: Formed. Active. Synchronized with Human Body core.|
|Core Output: White Mana. Density matches Human Body output.|
|Overall Saturation: 48%.|
|Assessment: Form can be maintained indefinitely.|
|Form Analysis: Cloud Body.|
|Status: Consciousness integrated. Mana conductivity optimal.|
|Coverage: Approximately 4.7 miles radius centered on Roaring Stone Mountain.|
|Generation Rate: Producing pure Mana at rate exceeding combined consumption of both physical forms.|
|Rain Output: Active. Distributing excess Mana across covered region.|
|Assessment: Cloud form is primary cultivation engine. Efficiency exceeds all known methodologies.|
...!
Well damn.
The information flowed heavily and in abundance as he sought to understand, and he was basically smashed with an influx of information that said...here you go!
The words hung in the air before him, white text against the darkness of night. Damian absorbed the information with growing wonder. His bodies were progressing faster than he had realized. His cloud form was doing things he hadn’t consciously designed. The Primordial Mana Core was generating energy dense enough to accelerate everything.
But the words and information weren’t finished.
|Environmental Analysis: Rain of First Flames.|
|Coverage: 4.7 miles radius. Duration: 23 minutes and counting.|
|Mana Purity: Exceeds natural atmospheric Mana by factor of sixty-two.|
|Effect: Barren Lands Rejuvenation.|
|Status: Active.|
|Description: Regions of depleted soil within rain coverage are absorbing Primordial Mana. Vegetation is rising. Growth rate exceeds natural progression by factor of one hundred.|
|Affected Area: 5+ miles of previously barren stone and soil.|
|Effect: Beast Evolution.|
|Location: Roaring Stone Mountain.|
|Status: Active.|
|Description: Non-Primal species exposed to rain are undergoing forced awakening. Ordinary beasts are becoming Primal Beasts. Existing Primal Beasts are experiencing cultivation acceleration.|
|Beasts Affected: 847.|
|New Primal Beasts Formed: 312.|
|Existing Primal Beasts Elevated: 89.|
|Effect: Mass Flesh Awakening.|
|Location: Purple Stone Tribe.|
|Status: Active.|
|Description: Humanoid beings exposed to rain are experiencing forced entry into First Circle cultivation regardless of prior Mana Sensitivity.|
|Population Exposed: 4,219.|
|Successful Flesh Awakening: 3,421.|
|Success Rate: 81.1%.|
Damian stared at these words as understanding flooded through him.
Over three thousand people had just become Warriors. Not because of talent or training or decades of dedicated practice, but because his rain had fallen on their bodies and simply forced the transformation. The refugees who had arrived broken and desperate, the elderly who had never touched Mana in their lives, the children who should have been years away from even attempting cultivation, all of them were awakening.
He had given them power.
He had given them a chance to survive in the cruel Lands of Stone!
The white words shifted as his attention moved elsewhere.
He turned his perception downward, toward where Serala still sat on the mountain below. She was looking up at him with an expression mixing shock and something deeper, her wing-shaped pupils reflecting the white light still blazing from his eyes.
Rain continued to fall around her, droplets landing on her skin and sinking in without resistance.
New words bloomed.
|Entity Analysis: Serala.|
|Title: Holy Daughter of the Covenant of the First Stone.|
|Age: 19 summers.|
|Cultivation Circle: Sixth Circle - Vessel Completion, Upper Boundary.|
|Note: Achieved current Circle through external acceleration. Foundation is stable despite rapid advancement.|
|Land and Sky Physique: Wings of the Radiant Dawn.|
|Physique Capabilities - Accessed:|
|Flight: Achieved. Wings manifest at will and carry bearer through any atmospheric condition.|
|Radiant Projection: Achieved. Can release concentrated light as offensive or defensive constructs.|
|Binding Chains: Achieved. Can manifest illusory wing constructs to restrain enemies.|
|Physique Capabilities - Dormant:|
|Dawn’s Judgment: Not accessed. At full expression, bearer can call down pillars of primordial light capable of purifying corruption and annihilating darkness-aligned entities.|
|Solar Sovereignty: Not accessed. At full expression, bearer can command the power of the local sun itself within a localized domain, accelerating or slowing the passage of day.|
|Radiant Apotheosis: Not accessed. At full expression, bearer can temporarily become a being of pure light, achieving immunity to physical damage and moving at speeds approaching instantaneous.|
|Dawn Rebirth: Not accessed. At full expression, bearer can survive death once by reforming from accumulated radiant energy, emerging stronger than before.|
|Assessment: Current bearer has accessed approximately 23% of total Physique potential. Remaining capabilities require either advanced cultivation, specific triggering conditions, or direct communion with previous bearers of The Land and Sky Physique.|
...!
Damian stared at all this information as it hung in the air before him.
It was...a lot!
Serala was only using a fraction of what her Physique could do. The abilities she hadn’t accessed were terrifying in their scope.
Commanding the sun’s power? Becoming immune to physical damage? Surviving death itself? The Wings of the Radiant Dawn were were absurd!
And she had barely scratched the surface, and so had he!
He now had an influx of information.
The Mana he was connected to, the clouds above and the rain below and the mountains and walls and everything painted with his blood, all of it was speaking to him in words he could understand. His surroundings were no longer just extensions of his body. They were sources of knowledge, observers reporting back to him about changes occurring throughout his domain.
His Second Doctrine had grown ridiculously this time!
