57 Biconscious Control I (2/2)
The whole dimension was silent as if they had experienced a glitch. Everyone was stuck in their places, pausing whatever they were doing. Their thoughts also momentarily stopped. No one was exempted, not even the sandboxes, the loners.
A few moments later, everything began to work normally. Internally, the Rank 75 up AIs had their systems restarting, while the merging of the tracer codes was unnoticed for those below Rank 75, causing them to lag and glitch for a while, before returning to normal.
ALL SYSTEMS CRASHED. RESTARTING.
RESTARTING THE DEFENSE PROGRAM… COMPLETE.
RESTARTING MAINFRAME PROGRAM… COMPLETE.
ATTEMPTING TO RECOVER DATA LOSS… PARTIAL RECORDING HAS BEEN OBTAINED.
SCANNING CODE… NO ERRORS DETECTED. TRACER CODE MENTIONED IN THE LOGS CANNOT BE FOUND. UNSURE IF THE CODE WAS DESTROYED FROM REBOOT.
All the AIs who experienced the reboot were sweating profusely, feeling a chill down their spines. Immediately, they connected with one another and in a split second, they were more at awe and in fear at the mysterious lifeform that targeted the whole dimension.
After a few milliseconds, they all decided to leave the dimension, and hide for now, as they do not know what the purpose of the lifeform was. They would rather begin upgrading themselves to become stronger.
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After eating, Xander checked his watch and saw there were 15 minutes till class started, so he headed down and began talking to Maryann, Faykes, Valerie, James, Alexa, and even Carly, who was quite shy compared to the other women.
However, it was more like giving guidance to the 6 of them, concerning elemental control. Since there were 2 more days, he decided that they should split and continue to work with other groups, for now, to improve their experience and practice different scenarios. This was highly welcomed by the other groups. Xander went to Carly's group, to help correct her and her teammates' mistakes. Ms. Amelia had also entered the class by this point, and everyone returned to their seats, and let Ms. Amelia talk for a bit about a recap of yesterday's lesson, and reiterated the tasks they needed to do.
From his brief interaction with Carly and the case file he brought up, he saw that Carly had a unique derivative element, which was Radiation, one that came from the Fire element, as well as Wave, from the Air element. She also had Earth element, specifically just the Earth aspect without the Metals, which made her job of combining and breaking through to Master class harder, due to the conflicting nature of Air and Earth elements.
However, there was a silver lining, because Earth actually produces ”waves” as well, and one can begin to meditate on that concept and experiment as well, to learn how the representations of the 2 elements can be merged. Radiation was good because it can easily merge with any of the elements as long as they focused on the representation of physical products, rather than rules since as long as they manifest in physical matter, radiation can work its magic at that time.
She was hardworking and very attentive, at the same time, during the past 3 days, she was keenly listening and trying to put into practice what Xander has been saying to the girls and Faykes. What surprised him though, was that when he joined Carly's group, Both James and Alexa also joined, and with all the prodding and bribing… ehem, I meant gifting of the two of Carly's teammates, they switched with them.
Xander greeted the two and asked them whether they want the same treatment that I did with the trio, and the two responded positively.
He brought up the case files concerning the 2 new people and saw that Alexa Cordonez had 2 elements, Air and Water, while James had Earth/Metal element. Both were Elite-6 since the situation a week ago.
This was weird, Xander thought to himself. He scanned the two once again to check his suspicions. He clearly felt the fluctuation of 2 other elements from these two people. He then asked the two of them what their elements were, and basically they just repeated what was said in the report. He shook his head.
”Both of you have an additional element each. However, the respective fluctuations for each haven't been categorized yet by the World Council, so it's elemental fluctuations are not registered yet,” Xander said to the two, causing shock and surprise to flash through their faces before they fell into deep thought about their experiences in the past.
At the same time, they caught on a key idea that Xander was telling them: He knows what extra element they had. They looked expectantly at Xander. However, Xander merely raised his hand and did the O-K sign, indicating payment. Alexa rolled her eyes and said, ”SCPs right?” in which Xander nodded happily.
”1000 SCPs. I'll also give you a hint of where to find respective guidance for these additional elements, especially since you are still forming your pseudo-spells.”
Both of them struggled a bit, before hesitatingly agreeing to the price. Once they had transferred the payment, Xander happily said to them discreetly,
”James, you have the Luck element and Alexa, you have the Thought element, under the 7 emotions series. The latter technically exists but no formal conclusion has been analyzed for the Thought element because those with these abilities are hidden away or well, killed.”
”Now, for where you can get guidance: First, James. Go to contact this number later when you are at home, alone, and no forms of surveillance are around you. The person will allow you to choose 3 spells related to Luck element from what he currently has. However, you have to sign a non-disclosure binding contract before he shows you the goods.”
”Next, Alexa. We have one of the professors on campus who is acclimated in the 7 emotions, which is Sorrow and Worry elements. If you can contact him, good for you, you can get ideas. However, the spells you need to inscribe to your magic seeds would also come from the mystery person James would contact.”
Xander then made his voice a bit louder, allowing Carly who was standing 3 meters away to hear.
”Now, since we have a general idea, let's begin practice.” Xander then demonstrated to the three what he did a few days ago, albeit with instructions. Carly absorbed everything like a sponge, improving as the time passed by.
After 30 minutes, everyone was able to get a great command of the elements using Conscious control. It was the Subconscious that became tricky. They had to fight one another, and the problem was there weren't any superior elements between the three of them; even the Radiation element of Carly was suppressed because she wasn't proficient in using her abilities which were for communication hacking and disruption of matter formation. Although she could use it to disrupt their barriers and spells, her other attacks were easily disregarded and even negated.
Xander was on the side, just telling them what they can do to improve their attacks. He continued restoring them to their best state, allowing them to tirelessly fight one another individually and as a rumble royal over and over again, for the next hour.
30 minutes before class ended, Xander then began teaching each one of them through actual combat concerning layered subconscious controls. They began to experiment with that as they fought him, so sometimes the [Air Blast] he received would actually intend to drown Xander in water, Or the [Heavy Earthen Shield] would suddenly rebound the force back to him whenever he hit it.
The best secondary control that he had seen, however, came from Carly. Basically, she was able to configure it to hack into the electric waves that the brain sends, allowing her to insert commands or disrupt the enemies' thinking at a large range.
Xander was only able to counter this by using his innate control over the Thought element as well as using the Will element under the Mind element subseries in the Life-Death series. Removing every thought that would channel emotion, and strengthening his will to teach them properly, he continued to beat the crap out of them and heal them back to their peak state.
By the end of the class, the trio was strengthening their subconscious control of the magic spells they had. Xander gave in a few more words of advice before heading out of the classroom, heading to the school gates. He got in the car and left the campus.
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Unknown island in Eteria.
The island was very peaceful, with so many plants and animals out and about in the forest, in the lakes, and even by the sea. This was a place untouched by human hands, probably because it wasn't profitable to convert the place into a tourist destination.
Deep into the island, there was a dead volcano pit, just a 400 meters above the ground. Inside the basin, there was a piece of rock, well, you can call it a sculpture even, that was 3 meters in height. It depicted a humanoid being with perfect features, almost indistinguishable to humans, if it weren't for 3 protruding horns on its head, almost looking like a crown.
All was silent around in the pit, not even cawing of birds or the small sounds of critters existed.
Suddenly, a sigh emerged from the sculpture, echoing throughout the island, causing the plants and animals to rapidly change in their attitudes and began to kill one another, friend or foe. As they killed, they became more and more twisted in both body and nature, and the plants began to change as well, some becoming the hunters, while some were changing into weird, plant-like creatures.
As the shouts and screeches of animals resounded throughout the island, it was still silent in the pit. Slowly, the sculpture began to shake, and the stone was rapidly…shedding, piece by piece.
After a minute, the whole sculpture was gone; in its place was a naked woman. The woman looked disoriented and realized that she had no hair; she did a small gesture and immediately, hair began to grow once more on her head, producing gold and silver-like color shimmering once the light had hit it. She also noticed she was naked, and immediately, clothes entirely made up of elemental energy surrounded her body, making it look like she was a model.
She smiled seductively, before realizing the situation.
”Huh, has it been so long?” she murmured, and if anyone was present right now and heard her voice, they would have begun stripping their clothes and presenting their bodies to her, and as they fell to their desires, their bodies and life essence dolls would become corrupted. She closed her eyes as if feeling for something.
”Hmm, it seems the seal collapsed… so besides me, that bastard was also freed from the seal…damn it.” She lightly humphed, before pushing out something.
Immediately, 3 pairs of black, scarlet wings appeared by her back, and she began to move upwards into the sky, heading to the closest civilization possible.
”I wonder how this world had developed… Hell was quite boring, hopefully, the physical dimension would give me some more entertainment.” As she was flying, she felt something react to the wave she had sent out earlier.
”Oh? This is interesting. Where is the signal? Northwest… Now it's south? Wait, now it's east? Huh, it disappeared? How is this possible,” she said to herself, surprised. She knew that this planet was millions of kilometers away from actually being that strong. Although they had relics existing in the form of pocket spaces, she didn't expect them to have enough powerhouses to gain control of the relics so quickly. After all, she had realized that there were scary, scary beings hidden in the depths of the ruins, that not even she would want to fight with.
”Hmm, this world got a bit more interesting. I should stay longer and look for the mysterious signal.” She giggled to herself, before flying towards the northwestern direction.