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Walking towards an alley and making sure to enact a "Sense" to make sure no-one is watching and then enacts a "Lone" then cancels the "Sense".
This time he remembers to enact "Frictionless" (to avoid friction against surfaces), "Feather" (to lighten his weight), "Anchor" (to prevent floating) and "Phase" (to pass through solid objects) so that he can travel at full speed unimpeded and not affect any surroundings.
"Time to finally do some testing with this 'Honkai Energy'." With that he pushed off from the ground, he begun phasing through people, buildings and other manners of objects and then arrives at the same pond he dropped into earlier.
Cancelling all the added runes except "lone" and "Feather" he bends his knees and jumps easily landing at the top of the mountain without a single trace. Turning around he looks over the city and makes sure to keep in mind where the school is from up here.
Turning back to the Forest he excitedly says "Alright, now lets see what this Honkai Energy can do when combined with runes." With a large smile on his face. 'Maybe I can make something that can harness this energy into something more useful or even use it a substitute for my runes, that way I can make stronger runes and make them last longer rather than relying on my personal reserves.
I might also be able to find a way to reverse the effects of that Honkai Sickness as there seems to be no "known" cure at least. I don't know about the higher-ups in places but to the public it doesn't exist.'
'What to start with...hmm, maybe see if can create something similar to those 'Mana Circles' that mages used to concentrate mana in one spot and absorb it? or I could try and change the corruptive nature first. Ah, so many different choices.
"Ahem", 'Lets just start with the 'Mana Circle' or in this case 'Honkai Circle'.'
Thorald after minutes of deliberation decides to make a start, heads into a clearing in the forest and enacts a 5KM spherical "Hidden" to cover the area to hide his 'little' experiment.
"Now to do this I'll most likely need a "Gather" (To pull in the ambient Honkai energy), "Contain", (To create a zone where the energy will be contained) and something to stabilise it maybe a "Limit" (Is combined with the "Gather" and "Contain" to create a celling where the "Gather" stops pulling in energy when the "contain" hits that celling) or a "Gauge" (Controls input and output of both "Gather" and "Contain" making it more controllable)."
While Thorald was muttering about whether to use this or that he was also setting up "Sense", "Detect" and "Restrain" (Imposes the 'Casters' will upon the target to hold them in place, but can be overcome by non sentient or those with a stronger will or exponentially more power) In case he causes a possible outbreak or eruption.
With a wry smile on his face "I hope this doesn't lead to that."
Finally after finishing the defensive and offensive runes he 'casts' the, "Gather, Contain, Gauge"
*Woosh*
*Woosh*
Taking a few steps back he watches the Honkai energy begin to slowly be pulled into the "Gather" and "Contain" runes observing how as more energy enters the runes, that they start to become a corrupted and harder to control.
"Shit" Quickly using the "Gauge" rune to cut off supply from the other two runes.
*Crack*
*Shatter*
'Well, that didn't go great. At least I figured out what kind of energy I'm dealing with. This energy acts very similarly to the 'End' energy as both seem to corrupt my Runes when they become imbued with either.'
Looking around the edges of his 'Hidden' he notices the increase in Honkai Energy density just outside it.
"Fuck, I should of made it bigger." He contemplated how stupid he could be to neglect that he could be dealing with a corruptive energy like the 'End' that tries to attack and assimilate anything into itself.
(A/N: No this isn't bullshit on my part the Barrier as stated earlier is already a 5KM sphere any larger and that would become a massive drain on his reserves of energy)
"Lets try to disperse it quickly" He quickly enacts a "Dissipate" (Renders it less concentrated, reducing its ability to corrupt or trigger reactions)
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Sitting at the edge of the cliff Thorald mumbles to himself
"So whatever's trying to infuse to my soul is Honkai Energy, but it can't be that simple right? Unless then humans here gained a resistance to it this strong of energy trying to fuse with them would kill them or it would turn them into a zombie or... a... Herrscher."
Quickly taking his phone out and opening the internet he makes his way back to that same article he saw earlier. "Here it is, 'has been identified as a man in his 30s from the streets in-', so that's what it is, if I let that power fuse with my soul it would make me a Herrscher. Though I don't know if that would be a good or a bad thing as both the previous Herrschers wanted to destroy humanity specifically so maybe some form of ego manipulation or maybe a whole new personality is created?"
Sigh
"Guess I can't use this Honkai energy for now until find a way to prevent its corruptive nature from affect some runes and even my own possibility of becoming a Herrscher, but" He turns back to face a collection of trees raising his hand he mutters.
"Decay" Slowly the trees begin to first wither and then crumble until they are nothing but ash
Looking at his handywork "At least my authorities still work."
Seeing that the sun is beginning to set he looks down and then pushes off. 'Falling' just Infront of the pond this time and makes his way back into the city cancelling all his static runes on the mountain.
While walking down the streets he sees a billboard advertising vacant apartments. 'How convenient I was just looking for a place but this works to'
Making his way inside he sees a panel with half marked as PAID with the other half as VACANT, tapping on the VACANT a small panel at the bottom lights up asking for him to scan a card. After doing so a pair of keys dropped into a box to his left.
"Room 7 huh, lucky me"
making his way to the room he opens the door to see a bathroom to the left, kitchen to the right a living room? and a what he's guessing is a bedroom in the back.
First he engraves a "Hidden on the four outer walls and injects enough vitality for them to last a week and then goes to lie down in bed.
"Ahhh, finally a nice comfortable bed" As he lays down he also makes sure to enact a quick sense out of habit and-
Thorald frowning "Someone's watching this apartment".
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A/N:
I'm thinking of shortening some scenes as they feel pretty drawn out to me with trying to find a fully logical reason for a scene change or change of pace and I tried to a little for the latter half of the chapter but I don't know if it is better or worse.
Let me know which looks best.
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