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1Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] Empty Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] 03/04/15, 12:24 pm

Seti

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A golden pillar formed above the mage and his two remaining pets. That was good enough - Seti didn't bother to sit around, waiting to see if they were dead. Instead, he turned and ran, stumbling a few times as he shot through the garden, hoping to get to a doctor as soon as possible. The sweat was beginning to trickle into his eyes, blinding him slightly as he ran away from the scene. 

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There was one large issue with being in a foreign nation, and that was the fact that he had absolutely no idea where he was, nor where he was going. The mansion wasn't in Mantua, the one city that he had almost come to know decently since his time within Reim, and that meant that he had absolutely no idea where he should run to. 

Were his mind clearer, he might have been able to activate a spell like Gravity lift and just fly at a high speed until he knew where he was going. However, he was worried that he would pass out during the spell and fall to his gory demise. That was not something that he was that interested in, so he was just going to have to run on feet. 

Wiping the sweat away from his eyes as well as he could without stopping moving, he took his eyes off of the road for a good few seconds, before stumbling as he realized that he'd just moved onto a slope, the ground underneath him collapsing and beginning to send him slipping down the hill that the mansion was on the side of. At the bottom of said hill was a small field, so it wasn't like if he fell he would fall in a river and drown, but it would certainly hurt to roll down that far. He had to stop himself from falling. 

His hand instinctively reaching out and grabbing onto the nearest thing to hand (a small tree root, as it happened) he thought for a good few seconds that he was safe. The fall had stopped, at least for now, and now he could focus on pulling himself up. At least, that was what he thought before the ground underneath him collapsed, causing his legs to slip out underneath him again, crashing onto the ground. 

Weirdly enough, it didn't even hurt. He had just slipped and landed on his face, and yet his face didn't even sting. His nose should have broken, but it was like the fall was cushioned by something. He had no idea what, but that wasn't the important thing  - the important thing was that he was slowly beginning to descend the hill even with his hand gripping tightly around the root. 

His eyes still slightly blinded by the sweat, he attempted to focus on his hand to see what was going on, and when it finally did the pit fell out of his stomach - his arm was physically stretching, elongating far past what a human arm should be able to. This impossible sight sent his mind into a panic, letting go in his surprise. Of course, letting go meant that the only thing stopping him from falling down the hill properly had just disappeared. 

As you can imagine, it was at this point that he began his fall in proper, his speed picking up rather heavily the further he descended, sliding down on his knees, shredding his clothes to pieces by the rocks and thorns that he passed on his way down. 

Acquiring Secondary Specialization (Manipulation) - 586 / 2000


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2Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] Empty Re: Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] 03/04/15, 12:56 pm

Seti

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As you can imagine, the "fall" was an extremely painful experience. Or, rather, it should have been. There weren't any broken bones, but going down on his knees at such a high speed caused a rapid build up of friction that really, by all rights, should probably have caused him to have his skin and musculature ripped apart like he'd been rubbed up and down like a cheese grater, especially since his borg had disappeared after the fight with the chimeras back at the mansion house. 

Yet, the notable thing about the descent was just how painless it actually was. Seti's mind was momentarily filled with blind panic as he started speeding up down the hill, but then he noticed that he wasn't actually in that much pain. Oh, sure, he could tell that his clothes were getting ripped apart like tissue paper, but the skin underneath wasn't even pricked, or at least on his right leg. The warm sensation of blood spilling was there, but only on his left leg. It was like his body was mismatched with someone else's, and he wasn't quite sure how to fee about it.

The world whizzing around him as he slid further and further down the hill, his staff having slipped out of his hand in a moment of panic, was almost beautiful. It was certainly serene, until the moment when the fall came to a stop at the bottom and he rolled head over heels, smashing his head into the ground. By all rights, such a rapid stop and a heavy hit should have broken his skull open, but yet again he didn't feel any pain whatsoever. 

Lying on his back, confused and dazed as he looked up at the sky, he moved his hands down to his knees. Something was clearly wrong, though he wasn't going to complain. His hands stroked over his knee, finding it strangely cold and hard. The other one was slicked with blood as you might expect, but the other? As his eyes turned to gaze at it, the moment of serene confusion disappeared and was replaced with a sudden desire to throw up again. 

Back in Heliohapt, there was a level of worship of scarab beetles, and being in the court as often as he was he had come to see his fair share of them. Enough to recognize chitin when he saw it. It was like a second set of bones had formed around his leg, though that quickly receded, and his usual leg was revealed. So this was what had stopped him from being mutilated? 

His mind raced - There was no other explanation; Lydus had hit him with a blast of life magic designed for his chimeras. He didn't know the extent of his abilities, or just how different his biology was now that he had been altered, but it was strong enough to weather a fall like that. 

He supposed he should be grateful - he should be dead. That impact against his head would have killed a normal man, so his continued existence was attributable to this new... whatever you called it. But it was still a lot to take in all at once. It wasn't like he'd never heard of people who could do this kind of thing, but he'd never expected to become one of them. Normally you were born a freak, not changed into one. 

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3Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] Empty Re: Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] 03/04/15, 01:29 pm

Seti

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By this point, the nausea and stomach pain that he had been suffering whilst inside the mansion were beginning to subside. Whether that was because of the adrenaline that was surging through his veins right now or whether it was something else entirely, he had no idea. However, he did know that things were a lot more pleasant now that he was no longer in surging pain from stomach cramps. 

Getting to his feet, looking for the staff, he found it a little way up the hill, apparently stopped by a large rock that he had been lucky to miss. He doubted it would be damaged - it was made out of solid steel, there was no way that a fall like that would damage it. That being said, it would be a pain to climb up the hill to fetch it. The hill was at a 45' angle, he couldn't help but imagine himsefl falling down over and over again just trying to get to it. 

It was at that point that a thought occurred to him - His arm had stretched earlier with the tree root, right? His body also seemed to be able to react to what he needed subconsciously, so perhaps there was a way to activate it consciously? If he was able to do this, this ability might prove uniquely invaluable in his work as a court mage. 

Moving to the base of the hill, focusing on his staff and trying to will his arm to reach out and grab it, he was surprised to see how easy it was to order his body now. The chitin must have reacted to his desire to be protected from the fall, so his body appeared to register his brains whims and manipulate his body to appease those whims. This... this was incredible!

The horror that was first attributed to the realization that there was something wrong with him quickly shifted to fascination and amazement. He muttered a quick thanks to the man who had carelessly given him this ability, the man who's corpse was by now... shit, what if someone found that? 

Looking up at the sky, he couldn't help but notice a plume of smoke peaking above the horizon. There was no way that that would have come from Lydus' corpse alone - he was almost certain that that smoke was coming from his house burning down. It was a shame, really, he thought with his excitement suddenly curbed slightly. To see a house that beautiful destroyed... well, he was glad he didn't have to actually see it, cos it would be painful to watch someone's lifetime of work going up in flames. 

No, what he needed to do now was to find his location and get back to town to research this a little more. There had to be more books on this topic somewhere... Lydus' mansion! He was the one who had done this, he had to have some form of research into it somewhere in his home. That meant that he was going to have to... go into that inferno. 

Damn it, today could just not possibly get any worse could it?

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4Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] Empty Re: Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] 03/04/15, 01:53 pm

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Five minutes after this realization, Seti had stormed back into the mansion, and was rummaging around the room that he reckoned had been the man's lab. At least, that was what he gathered from the fact that there was a lot of blood around the room, tonnes of note books piled in the corner and a series of cages that he could only assume were there so that he could bring in animals for the chimera process. 

However, among the other things that he found in this room, he couldn't help but admire a small rug in the corner of the room. Specifically, he could not help but admire it because it was currently in the middle of a raging fire and was somehow not aflame. There was a magical aura around it, with the occasional rukh fluttering around it, suggesting that whatever this thing was it was magical. 

He didn't have long, but this thing had perked his curiosity. He had to know what it was. You don't just randomly enchant a carpet, there had to be something more to it than just flame-retardedness, especially since the man was a life mage. This sort of magic was not within his repertoire. An item this fascinating, he had to have recorded something about it. 

Quickly shooting through the man's journal, he noticed a little note about that carpet that he had admired so much. Apparently, it was a magic carpet that was enchanted to fly. Well, if he was going to be stealing from the dead anyway, he might as well go the whole hog and take that as well. 

Yanking it out of the flame, his right hand coating itself in chitin instinctively, he pulled it over to the center of the room, before piling the ten or so books of research notes that he could salvage around the burning laboratory. It was getting hard to breathe, so any further information about his work was going to be unsalvagable. 

Blasting a hole in the wall with a ruby beam of light, Seti directed the carpet through the now gaping hole and as far away from the house as physically possible. Considering how the journal said Lydus had been hiding the carpet jealously, the journal indicated that nobody would know that he had it. That meant that he could keep it without repercussions.

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5Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] Empty Re: Human 2.0 [Spec. Training] 03/04/15, 03:03 pm

Seti

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The issue with having your body shift like this is that you have no idea when it's going to end. You have no reference with which to tell how your body was supposed to work. It was almost like going through a second puberty, especially since his puberty had coincided with the awakening of his magic potential. 

For a week after the incident, he locked himself up in his room, trying to do research on what exactly was happening to him. The books were useful, but they had their limits - Lydus had specifically mentioned not wanting to do this to a human because he had no idea how much it would shift them. It could either kill them, the book said, or they would gain a worrisome amount of power. Nobody should create an evolved human without the power to constrain them first. 

Those words haunted him, but instead of dwelling on them he instead tried to master it. He had been able to master it enough to get the staff, but now there were more things that he wanted to do. He wanted to learn how to spawn the chitin, he wanted to see what other freakish powers he had. 

The first week was a time of change - very, very confusing change, but as the week came to a close he felt a lot more powerful for it. He remembered a piece of advice that an old master had given him - Thoughts attract like thoughts; negative thoughts will attract more negative thoughts, and positive will attract positive. He wasn't a freak, he wouldn't allow him to call himself a freak, he was more powerful. He was a living embodiment of magic; a true magus.


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