Chapter 201: Flickering

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the attractive bastard Ryuugi. This has been pulled from his Spacebattles publishment at threads/rwby-the-gamer-the-games-we-play-disk-five.341621/. Anyway on with the present…err learn.

Flickering

Between one blink and the subsequent, the world round me had slowed to a standstill.

That wasn’t as stunning to me because it in all probability ought to have been. Granted, I spent most of my time shifting considerably quicker than the world round me so this stood out extra as a matter of diploma than the rest; I may inform that point hadn’t stopped as such, merely had its passage altered. Nonetheless, I made some extent to go searching with out shifting, checking to be sure that Cinder and Ozpin hadn’t dropped by to pay me a go to.

They hadn’t, however I nonetheless had a visitor whose presence defined what had occurred.

“So,” Keter mentioned, standing instantly behind me. “You bear in mind.”

I turned to face him, realizing within the course of that I may. I may have requested him how he’d summoned himself. I may have requested him how he knew. I may have requested him plenty of issues.

However I did not. As a result of now, we each knew the solutions to all of these questions.

“I bear in mind,” I replied. “All the things that is left, at the very least.”

It was true. As if a gate had lastly been opened, I felt the items fall into place. It did not fairly come over me in a wave, did not fairly seem to me as a flash again, however I remembered the occasions as in the event that they’d occurred to me, all the way down to the very ideas that had slipped by way of my thoughts.Go to no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the perfect novel studying expertise

Not every thing had appeared, after all, however I may see that now, too. Loss of life’s work hadn’t been delicate or cleannothing like what I might imagined. As an alternative, I may really feel the place my recollections had frayed and it was clear after I thought again to it. In my thoughts, I may see every thing I remembered as if I had been there, however complete swaths of my environment had been lowered to empty, countless white, completely erased. Conversations I remembered having may don’t have any begin or finish, to say nothing of the phrases that had been spoken.

Loss of life hadn’t been a cautious hand, sifting by way of recollections to select what he felt had been extraneoussomehow, I doubted he even may get into my head that means. As an alternative, he’d executed had been the subsequent neatest thing to a lobotomy of the soul, eradicating all he may and abandoning solely clinging bits of thought and reminiscence. I might been irritated at how imprecise Keter had been after we talked concerning the previous, however know that I knew how little we really recalled, I may see why.

However, it was sufficient. Even when the recollections had been gone, some issues nonetheless remained. I used to be Keter, after allthe Crown that was worn above the pinnacle. Even when I could not bear in mind most of my former life, a few of the ideas nonetheless made it by way of. And amongst what I did bear in mind, there was one thing valuable.

That’s, after all, my identify.

Metatron, I believed, feeling the identify resound by way of my soul. That was one factor Loss of life hadn’t touched. Had he been conscious of its significance on the time? Or was it merely that this was one thing he could not take away? Each had been attainable, however both means, it did not matter.

“Do you know I might discover it will definitely?” I requested.

“I did and I did not,” Keter replied. “However you already know that.”

I bobbed my head to the facet, acknowledging his phrases. Prior to now, he and I had been completely different. Although we had been the identical soul, the identical individual, there’d been one thing that set us aside; how a lot we remembered. It wasn’t sufficient to really separate us, however for those who requested if a five-year previous was the identical as his future selfwhether that future was a decade, a yr, or a day down the linethen after all the reply was no.

However now, we knew the identical quantity. I knew what he knew, as a result of he was memy soul given type. One may in all probability argue that there was no level in us even having a dialog or that it was no completely different than speaking out loud to myself, however then, I at all times did put on plenty of masks. What was yet another?

For that purpose, nevertheless, I knew his phrases had been true. He’d anticipated me to get so far by myself, which was a reasonably cheap assumption. Logically talking, if I might progressed far sufficient down this specific path to manifest a Gentle Elemental, the chances of me taking the subsequent step had been pretty good. I knew for a undeniable fact that he did not know it could be fairly like this, however it did not take a genius to understand I might get right here finally.

I questioned what would have occurred had I chosen to give attention to my bodily stats as a substitute of my psychological ones, however dismissed the thought. Odds had been, I merely would by no means have gotten so far, or else would have gotten to it far later, however in truth, this was the probably end result, at the very least for somebody like me. Given the ability and flexibility inherent to MP-related skillsor no matter they’d presumably have been referred to as had I been somebody elseit solely made sense I might have gone this route finally. Whether or not that was a holdover throughout lives or just thewell, logical response, I did not know, however this wasn’t a very unlikely final result.

Which was good, as a result of it appeared I might pinned my hopes to this opportunity.

I took a deep breath and checked out myself.

“I bear in mind,” I mentioned once more. “What now? Jericho Falls? Is that the place I am going to get my solutions?”

He did not reply. Neither of us actually knew, we simply had a sense that went past reminiscence.

Which may have simply as simply have been a lure as the rest.

“Sure,” Keter agreed with out me saying a phrase. “Humorous, is not it? For all of the protections on our thoughts, it isn’t unattainable he may have gotten into our headbecause he would not have wanted to make use of his powers to take action.”

“One thing like that,” I answered with a shrug. I touched the ideas of my fingers collectively and watched fastidiously as the sunshine unfold from one to the opposite, inflicting the pores and skin to peel and fade away. Because it did, my HP bar started to lower, the empties elements turning white as a substitute of black. On the identical time, my MP rose on the identical fee, increasing previous the boundaries of its bar within the course of and filling me with new energy.

Sahasrara (Lively & Passive) LV1 EXP: 4.03%

A talent obtained by those that have efficiently opened the seventh chakra, Sahasrara. Also referred to as the crown chakra, it’s the final of the seven and probably the most troublesome to open, however doing so bestows its personal with nice energy. Seen by some as a type of greater consciousness and others as a rebirth, the consumer of this talent could trigger mortal flesh to provide method to the divine.

The consumer of this talent could select to voluntarily decrease his HP, growing his MP by a corresponding quantity and reworking his physique to reflect his soul.

Whereas the customers HP is so lowered, no type of therapeutic could elevate his HP above the lowered quantity.

If HP is lowered to 1, the consumer is absolutely reworked. On this state, MP could also be sacrificed rather than HP for the aim of activating expertise and in response to wreck.

At greater ranges, siddhis could manifest, similar to the character of the customers non secular self.

As with the opposite chakras, Sahasrara assists within the biking, cleaning, and refining of vitality inside the physique and improves the effectiveness of meditation.

As I experimented with shedding my mortal type, I marveled on the modifications. In my thoughts, I may see myself from the skin once more, as if I used to be watching from a distance that was without delay close to and much. The feeling that had crammed me for the reason that day my Chakras opened, a sense of lightness as if my physique had no weight to it in any respect, appeared to develop even additional as I modified. I felt profoundly mild, as if I weighed not more than the sunshine, and I knew I may transfer myself as simply as wishing to take action.

And because it mentioned, I may decrease my HP at will. Elevating it wasn’t fairly as easy, however all I needed to do was will it and my MP would drop by the specified quantity, permitting my HP to regenerate as per regular. Once I dropped it, my HP bar itself appeared to shrink, leaving me uncertain if it could work with Etz Hayim if I lowered my HP simply to 1 p.c. However, if I lowered my HP till solely a single hit level remained and reworked myself, I ought to be capable of make full use of Etz Hayim’s energy.

It was one thing I used to be truthfully contemplating. Merely dropping my HP to a single level was profoundly dangerousbut maybe greater than that, it was troublesome to keep up. In truth, there wasn’t an enormous distinction between one HP and one p.c of my HP, at the very least not towards opponents I used to be really frightened about; both means, getting hit would in all probability drop me to zero. The larger challenge was that there was merely quite a bit to juggle; my pure HP regeneration wanted to be offset, expertise that demanded HP must be accounted for, and there was at all times the opportunity of receiving harm. I may do the maths simply sufficient, due to the Mathematician’s Answerbut even then, there have been plenty of variables which meant I might must maintain doing the maths and in addition change it continually. My numerous Resistances tended to enhance, talent prices tended to lower as they leveled, and attainable sources of harm wanted to be accounted for, even when I did my utmost to mitigate it as a lot as attainable. When it got here to simply maintaining my HP round one p.c, there was no downside, but when it must be precisely one, the slightest error or change may put my HP both at two, stripping away the advantage of Etz Hayim and demanding I modify all the equation, or, worse, at zero. Second Likelihood could be there to take the hit for me, fortunately, however I may solely use it as soon as a day and having it to fall again on was what made this whole plan ‘protected.’

However lowering my HP whereas concurrently growing my MPwell, that was a bit completely different, particularly contemplating the specifics of Sahasrara. From the start, I might meant to make use of my MP as a buffer if I bought hit, setting apart a portion of my complete for that function, however there have been nonetheless risks. Some types of harm may damage somebody even by way of their AuraVenenum was a particular instance because it created poisons inside my physique, however there have been others. I might by no means actually tried to make use of an assault with Protection Penetration on a human earlier than, just because a lot of the assaults that had it had been designed with survivability in thoughts, however I had a sense that at the very least a few of the harm from them would undergo an individual’s Aura and there have been quite a lot of assaults that had such a factor to as soon as extent or one other.

Whereas my physique was reworked, nevertheless, issues had been a bit completely different. I might already examined with Venenum to ensure and I may take in even that kind of harm with my MPpresumably as a result of my complete physique had becomewell, extra of a non secular amalgam. If it was like that, there was no actual loss for reducing my HP. Particularly contemplating what enhancing my MP a lot meant. Due to how my MP regen labored, the quantity that returned to me per second was doubled, giving me that rather more energy to work with. If I may try this, on high of utilizing Etz Hayim to the fullest and accounting for the ability of the ArcanaI’d must control the stamina depletion, however this opened up prospects.

“Jian?” Raven requested, frowning and tilting her head in concern. “Is one thing flawed?”

“No?” I replied, tearing myself from my ideas. I tilted my head at her in confusion. “Do I appear to be one thing’s flawed?”

“It is arduous to inform,” She mused. “Your face is gone once more.”

“Ah,” I mentioned, realizing the difficulty as I checked out her by way of 1,000,000 eyes once more. After a second of thought, I created an phantasm round my head, giving it my regular appearanceor Jian Bing’s regular look, at the very least. It wasn’t straightforward to make it mix, however I toggled with the obvious depth and such to make it appear as if the remainder of my physique was like a really, very odd swimsuit of armor. “My apologies; I simply remembered one thing necessary and bought distracted. The excellent news is that my energy has grown once more. It appears we’ll be capable of choose up the tempo a bit extra.”

“You and your fucking tempo, Jaune,” Adam sighed, cracking his neck. “A few of us get uninterested in this shit, you recognize.”

I healed him, restoring his stamina again to full.

“Thanks,” He mentioned with a grunt.

“Do not point out it,” I replied earlier than doing the identical to Raven. It was one thing I might gotten within the behavior of doing whereas Adam and I educated collectively, however I really hadn’t wanted to heal him earlier than nowthe benefits of functioning as a group, I suppose. “Raven, can you discover Cinder or would you want me to run over to Atlas and test?”

She was silent for a second, eyes turning to look above me as she searched.

“She’s nonetheless onboard her ship,” She reported after a second earlier than pausing. “Though it appears they are going to be touchdown shortly. Ought to I control them?”

I nodded, figuring it was protected. Given what I might instructed Cinder, even when she may sense Raven’s portals in her default state, it was unlikely she’d do something overt. Even so, I doubted I wanted to warn Raven to watch out.

“I am going to depart it to you, then,” I mentioned. “Do we’ve sufficient time to choose up the place we left off? I might prefer to stretch my wings, if attainable.”

Raven appeared to think about that for a second.

“It needs to be about twenty minutes till they land,” She mused earlier than smiling at me. “I take it you will have one thing in thoughts?”