@Zeroth@floodtalon@Gardevoiran@King Cosmos@Kazemitsu@SilverPaw@SearatLooking over his newly changed body, Jason huffed a sigh of displeasure. Now he was gonna stick out like a sore thumb, what's more; he looked fucking ridiculous. Quickly using the source crystal on himself, Jason turned toward Rain and Asteria, as they had been the only ones so far to address him. Reaching out a pseudopod, and activating
[Telepathy II],
'Indeed I have,' he responded to the both of them before Rain scurried off.
Listening to Asteria's report, Jason nodded,
'Thank you for the Intel Asteria, I think using the pit as a trap is an excellent idea. I leave that to you while I try to finish defensive preparation' he telepathically replied whilst using
[Magic Analysis I] on his newly upgraded ability.
Turning to the butchered lizard corpses, an idea formed in Jason's head; if mana crystals could take on new properties, such as the flame touched crystals, perhaps adding fanged lizard venom to a normal mana crystal, could create a poison tainted mana crystal! Thus, by Binding Together a flame-touched crystal, and a poison-tainted crystal, something equivalent to a poison grenade could be created!
Creating a small divot in the ground, Jason dragged the remains of the lizards to his imitation of the Alchemy bowl used by the other humans earlier. Wriggling a pseudopod inside of each lizard, the slime mage fished out each lizard's poison sacs. Pointing their fangs into the created bowl, Jason lightly squeezed each sac, milking as much venom as he could into the divot he created. After squeezing the venom out of each lizard into the divot, he used
[Material Analysis I] to ensure that it was working, then he added a mana crystal. If successful in creating a poison-tainted Mana crystal, Jason would pull a lung from one of the corpses. Sucking in a puff of air, he lightly inflated the lung and proceeded to stuff both the poison tainted mana crystal he just created, as well as a flame-touched mana crystal into the tight, fleshy bag. Examining his new creation, Jason felt a sense of pride, hopefully this poison grenade would do it's job.
Now onto other things, Jason began to ponder how to take down Rattleskull. With all the evolved goblin's experiences taken into consideration, it was unlikely that rock spire would be an effective or efficient way of dealing with him. The warlord needed a new weapon, something that fucking monkey had never encountered before....
Then it hit him.
PSIONICS!!! Considering the mental faculties of the goblins, mental warfare could yeild potentially lethel results. However, at the moment, Jason's only psychic power was communication, even more concerning, he'd needed to experiment on his allies in order to develop it. However... since this would be a skill meant to attack, rather than communicate, could he not test it on himself? Besides, since psychic power was will made manifest through mana, perhaps Jason could crystallize his understanding of the spell's, and minimize the need for actual testing.
Clearing his his crowded mind, Jason pictured a glass sphere that had a valve at it's from. This sphere was how Jason chose to picture the mind; enclosed, protected, but able to be peered into, and if the valve (representing the 'invisible connection') was opened; accessed.
With a target lain before him, Jason envisioned his assault. Small incopreal tendrils of psionic energy began to wrap around the sphere, slowly constricting and causing the sphere to begin to warp, and crack... and then, it shattered.
Jason pictured this mental scenario several times, yet something seemed... off. The end came too quickly, as if minds were fragile, brittle things. No, that was far from the truth, minds could bend, warp, split, and even fight back. For now, it appeared that crushing the minds of his foes may be beyond Jason's abilities, as well as understanding. This is why mental repetition was important for a warrior of any kind to practice, it allowed them a better understanding of how each motion, strike, and decision, on more than just a physical level.
The slime continued to ponder, he needed a foundation on which he could build his psychic abilities... Though his telepathy was certainly a promising candidate, in it's current state, it just wasn't enough. Jason's mind began to wander, eventually settling on the memory of him first developing Tremor Sense. Of course! Tremor Sense was seemingly the foundation of all earth-based magic, as it allowed it's user to familiarize themself to the magic energies of the earth. Thus, assuming all magic schools had a 'base ability' akin to Tremor Sense, Jason could easily use his current magical knowledge to apply new elemental affinities to skills he already knew.
Jason was ecstatic, he'd possibly just made a breakthrough. Hopefully, by combining traits of Tremor Sense and Telepathy; both skills of level II, he could easily create an entirely new one. Clearing his mind, he began his final pre-battle experiment.
Clearing his mind, Jason activated
[Tremor Sense II], focusing it not into the ground, but into the space surrounding him. Carefully, he felt the flow of his mana, the way it reverberated, and interacted with the space around him. Once comfortable with his understanding of how
[Tremor Sense II] behaved, Jason carefully gathered psychic mana from
[Telepathy II] in his core. Slowly, he began to use the gathered psychic mana to sustain
[Tremor Sense II]. Jason poured all of his willpower into this attempt to create a 'psychic field'; which, if his theory was correct, would provide a building block for new psychic skills to be formed upon. As his mana and mental strength began to wane, Jason used
[Magic Analyisis I] to see the fruits of his labor, and ceased channeling the experimental magic.
Consuming the last crystal in his inventory, Jason flopped over to the stash and snatched up three more before heading back over to his 'grenade', readying himself for the fight ahead.
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