12 Military Tension – 1 (1/2)
(Vladmir's POV)
Energy swirls around me as I concentrate psionic power on the vat in front of me, the special room filled to the brim with psionic energy gathered by me on the course of the last three hours, creating a blue, electric haze on the whole room.
Aside from me, it's unsafe to walk in right now, since the psionic energy will unmake anything biological instantly when in contact. I look up to the doctors through the window of the room near the roof. With that, I hear the voice of doctor Lyssa sounding on the loudspeakers:
(Lyssa): ”Commander, we're ready. Whenever you want, we can start.”
I simply nod back, concentrating. Inside this vat that could easily have a human inside, is a solution made with mana crystals. What we discovered in this last month that the hostages… recruits, from Wolf's city joined us, is that the mana crystals have some reaction with my psionic energy.
My psionics aren't magic, we made enough analysis to know that. However, they are both energy, and therefore, able to interact to some manner. And what I'm more interested are the crystal formations.
You see, to advance technologically, we need a mean to store psionic energy, and we had no good candidates among the known materials that we have at hand. However, I had the idea of studying the mana crystals. It ends up that even if you use the mana inside the crystals, the crystal remains.
Unfortunately, I cannot just charge the crystal, it's fundamentally able to store psionic energy, only mana. Because of that, we're doing this experiment. We crushed the crystals and dissolved them in water with some chemicals and created essentially a magical solution.
What I am going to do now is overcharge the solution with psionic solution, and essentially mutate the crystal. According to our predictions, this crystal is also close to a living being, akin to a plant, but more basic and at the same time, more complex.
We expect that when overcharged with psionic energy, the crystal will mutate to store the new type of energy, and since mana and psionic energy don't mix, the mana will be expelled, collected by our devices underneath the vat. With the crystals mutated, they will naturally reform in crystal form.
I feel my mind amplified right now, being in the middle of so much psionic energy… it's feels both empowering and refreshing. I should make a meditation room like this later. I extend my hands to the vat, feeling the mana inside clashing with my psionic energy constantly, refusing it.
Alright, time to start. With this new sensation of amplified mind, I connect with the minds of the doctors monitoring this experiment, and through this connection, I send a telepathic message:
- It's time. Get ready.
My arms crackle with energy, and suddenly, blue streaks of psionic lightning explode from my whole arms, hitting the vat. Instead of bursting, it penetrates the glass, making the solution inside cackle with energy.
I bet the dials in the control room are going wild, after all, I can feel the conflict of energies. My psionic power forcing the way in, and the mana trying desperately to resist. But it's going well on my side, I'll just keep this up and hopefully, it'll be done.
(Lyssa's POV)
- The energy levels are crazy… - one of the doctors said as she manages and monitors the equipment that is measuring the… well, energy levels of our experiment.
I look down though the reinforced glass, to where our glorious lord is overcharging the vat with the solution. I smile. As expected, our lord is incredibly powerful… and so handsome as well… I got the shivers when his voice sounded inside my head.
- Wow… our Lord is truly powerful… - Said one of the ghosts, sanding behind us in guard to protect us in any case of psionic energy overflow. I turn to her, curious.
- What do you mean? – She looks at me as I ask, her rifle in hands, resting on her shoulder.
- Psychic power aren't simple or abundant. Even if we, the Ghosts, have psychic powers, we can't communicate telepathically. It takes someone truly powerful for mental communication like our Lord. – She says, staring lovingly at our leader. – This event is certainly being felt by all ghosts in the base. He is truly a gift.
I smile, feeling proud for being his lover.
- Of course he is. After all, he is our Commander.
(Vladmir's POV)
After who knows how much time, I can finally feel the mana being completely drained, and the solution being warped by my psionic energy. And I can tell, it's successful. I concentrate all the psionic energy of the room one last time inside the vat.
The blue energy around me swirls, gathering inside the solution. The solution glows in a gentle blue, and at the base of the vat, still inside the liquid, as the light fades, a blue, luminescent crystal formation grows rapidly, growing as if in fast forward until it reaches a considerable size, enough for two basketballs, I think, even though they are formed like quartz crystals.
The docs applaud our success, and I smile. I'm looking forward to whatever we can produce with this. This will be a great advancement for the ghosts and the specters.