Episode 18 – Distance Test (Part 1) (2/2)

No He couldn’t rely on her sense of justice He could clearly recall her view on the law: “It’s not illegal if I don’t get caught doing it”

It was critical for him to find out if it was possible He needed to confirm it, and if it was possible, he needed to find a way to prevent it fro to him

His heartbeat quickened What if she was reading his ht now?

Kiel looked at Elaru, only to see her giving hi about?” ritten all over her face

Kiel forced himself to calm down Either she was the best actor he had ever seen, or she wasn’t reading his thoughts Just becauseoccurred to him, it doesn’t mean that the same idea crossed her ht be impossible after all

It would be best if it were impossible

“If I didn’t have you in hts bethe conversation onto a topic which had nothing to do with the relationshi+p between their Minds The last thing he needed was for her thoughts to travel down the same path as his

He took a notebook and a pencil out of his backpack and sat down on the bed He started noting down all his questions He even noted down his previous fear but he worded it so only he would be able to understand what he was referring to

Elaru took that as her cue to leave, and she quickly dashed out of the door, closing it behind her “What is your favorite season?” Kiel heard inside his head She clearly had no issue with sending her thoughts without being able to see him

He closed his eyes and concentrated on her once again “I don’t know Every season has its good sides and bad sides”

“I don’t have a favorite either” He could feel her sh he couldn’t see it She could send expressions telepathically as well? Or was it that feelings traveled along with thoughts by themselves?

Kiel suddenly felt enlightened about the nature of thoughts Thoughts weren’tcould be a ht even be possible to transfer knowledge or pure intent Anything that exists in the Mind had a possibility of being transferred to another Mind

Elaru continued: “I see you have no trouble sending your thoughts to et to note the changes in your body while the distance between us increases”

Elaru dashed down the stairs and exited the tavern She didn’t even notice Mira, who greeted her She ran down the street and flew up onto the roof She scanned the horizon briefly to decide which direction to take, and then, she Accelerated towards the outskirts of Ashar, periodically shi+fting between ju

Kiel closed his eyes, shutting out the infor from outside He concentrated on the state of his body and the mana inside and outside it It would have been helpful if he could perceive their soul, but not even the Aethernea of Sight could see it

Ancient records described it as a flower of light, or a flame hemisphere with many fiery tendrils, positioned in the center of one’s body Those petals or tendrils, touched nuh them into the body

The mana would nourish every cell, and the excessan aura – a cloud ofthe aura was exactly the ic

Elaru had told hiether, and instead of staying inside their bodies, their ed souls would drift about and shi+ft position to stay in between them As the distance between theht would stretch, and the mana would need to travel further to reach them

Would the tendrils be stretched thin by the distance? Would that stretching h them? Was there a limit of how much they could stretch? Could they be stretched to the point of breaking? Or would the tendrils only detach? What would happen if they snapped or detached? Would the dae be reparable? Would he even be able to tell that they were close to snapping or detaching?

He had too many questions and too little answers He craved access to the Muni library like a starving man craved food If there was one place where he could find the answer he was seeking, it would be the Muni library

He decided to share his concerns with Elaru Her response was ht it would be: “I have been observing the behavior of the soul for years While I can’t see the soul itself, I can see the eneral idea of the shape

Through my observations of the people under the Aetherneal bond, I’ve noticed that those tendrils are of no significance If soul moves too far away, they snap However, as soon as the soul rows and takes its place

The snapping of the tendrils can’t even be considered as dae It’s like someone pulled out a strand of your hair, another one will soon grow out and take its place

The soul is one of theperers of one hand”

Kiel’s lie sense wasn’t tingling, showing that everything she had said was true He let out a sigh of relief He could trust her on thishow careful she was about her equipment, one could deduce that she would be even er to herself She wouldn’t have agreed to this experiatively impact them in the future

He continued observing his state until he noticed a subtle change in his aura As expected, it was shrinking and thinning out, slowly approaching the pitiful state it was in when he was a non-e

He tried weavingwas as it was supposed to be His perforrade, he only had less mana available

The first unexpected anomaly appeared when Elaru passed the 5 km mark