The Retest

Cimeries tries to view the tablet memory but all he can see is a bright light.

"There's no Memory, whats the issue?"

He passes it back to brad who confirms this.

"This can happen every now and again, it's usually down to me having recorded a lot in that day, sorry about this."

"Where is the one who was measured?"

Leo had been training most of the day and decided to go back to the Inn for a nap.

Brad and Cimeries walk down to the lobby and ask a guard where Leo might be.

"He left just before you arrived, i think he has returned back to his lodging legion."

"Can you go fetch him please as i need to make him take a retest."

The guard nod's and walks to the Inn.

On the guard entering the Inn Lizzie immediately ask's why he has come.

Lizzie goes to fetch Leo Knocking on the door and chiming a bell in her hand.

"Leo can you come to the front desk please this is urgent as you need to take a retest."

Leo wakes up to the noise and Yuna alerting him with a message that someone was trying to reach him.

{Leo, Lizzie is trying to get your attention.}

"Huh."

{What is it that she wants?}

{She mentioned the retest.}

Leo is puzzled for a moment he doesn't know why the sudden urgency behind a retest he was only told it in the morning why so soon.

He leaves the room and goes down to the front desk.

"Hey, Lizzie a retest why now?"

"There is a royal inspector here."

"Do they always come round so soon?"

"Not normally something is off be on your guard, but don't do anything stupid, the guard is waiting outside."

"Ok thanks for the warning."

Walking outside and greeting the guard they walk towards the hunters association the are greeted in the lobby by Brad and Cimeries.

"Hi, Leo this here is Cimeries he is a royal inspector he has come about your measurement but the recording is blank and we are going to do a retest."

"Ok sure, hi Cimeries pleased to meet you."

Just before entering the building he had message from Yuna.

{Warning creature present inside building he is very dangerous and has a magic power of 125,000 please be on guard, i'm going to take precautions in case anything dangerous happens i will try to save you.}

Feeling reassured he entered.

They made there way towards the measurement area.

"Can you please do as you did before thank you."

Leo walks up to the pillar and crystal.

{Can you help me make this reading fire based and my magic power 30,000?}

{During your sleep my analysis of the crystal and its connection was complete i have full understanding now of how it works, so i can control it now to show what you want.}

{Perfect can you show what i asked then.}

Leo put his hand on the pillar and light appears this time deep red and the crystal show flames swirling and flowing inside it, a number appears on the crystal 30,000

"Thanks Leo you can take your hand off now."

"So Cimeries is there anything else i can help you with?"

"Thank you that is all, i only came because i had a strange report of someone not local getting measured and that he was middle aged, i found this strange, so i decide to come investigate my self but i can see it's nothing out the ordinary, i'll be on my way."

"Thanks for your visit and your diligence on keeping us safe."

Cimeries leaves the hunters association and the settlement as fast as he come this was nothing out the ordinary as this is how he always acted.

Back in the Association Leo and Brad had walked up to Brad office.

"So that man is very dangerous, the last time he was here he killed three mercenaries for getting in his way they were engulfed in a blue flame and burnt to nothing."

"Yeah i could see that he was someone not to get on the bad side of."

"You wise to comply and take the test, but how did you manage to fake it, that i've never seen done."

"That's complicated in time i'll try explain but i can't for now."

"It's ok i understand for now you are not in the spotlight, you have some freedom for now."

"Thanks i'll try and make the most of it."

Meanwhile Cimeries had returned to his lord to give a report.

"I viewed him take another test in front of me his magic level is 30,000, and his attunement is fire nothing special, but i sensed something different when i first met him like his aura was condensed and his magic power in perfect control."

"Indeed this the reading is nothing special but the fact that he can already control in to perfection is very strange, keep a eye on him if you get chance to test him do so."

"As you command, my Lord."

*****

Leo goes and gets some more food asking for the same meal as before, he then went back to training getting into the training room, he asked Yuna to explain the connection between the crystal and the tablet s and other objects.

{The connection shares the energy stored by connecting on a quantum level this allows the object to have a unison of energy allowing them to interact with one another and then with the left over magic memory they conform to what ever had set them this way.}

{Interesting so the attunement of one magic would mean a strong memory being formed, also the output of magic is relative to the stored magic being used with sufficient memory.}

{This is indeed the case.}

{So if i absorb all the memories of magic as my own the n i will have attunement to all different forms of magic.}

{Yes, you should be able to in theory attain control over various magic when the memories have been absorbed.}

{What is the current absorption rate when i'm sleeping?}

{The current rate is at 500 memories a hour.}

{Can we improve upon this rate to speed it up at all?}

{Not at the moment as this would put excess strain on the mind.}

{Ok we will keep it as it is for now.}

Leo decides to try something new, he decides to use fire and water magic as the recent memories that he has absorbed are of these.

He forms water first making it form armor around him, as this is the memory he has, the armor is able to slow down projectiles coming toward it, so he takes a few balls and throws them at a wall near by letting them bounce back and hit him they are repelled by the water.

Next he forms fire in the shape of a flail, he walks towards the dummy holding it in his hand, he was hesitant to hold first off as he thought he might get burnt but his memory showed him holding it, he swings the flail at the dummy taking it head clean off the flames are left burning it for a while before disappearing.

He was happy by his improvement, it was late at evening now, he remembered about Leon saying that he would tell him about the seasoning, he makes is way to the pub.

On entering the pub he sees Leon who gestures to him to follow him in to the back room.

Getting into the back room Leon makes sure the door is closed and that there is no one about, he walks over to a table and takes a seat he makes a gesture to Leo to sit down.

"So now were alone and not going to get interrupted, let me explain the seasoning, but first i'm sorry for investigating you behind your back, but it was necessary to no you wasn't a enemy."

"That's fine i totally understand, but you will need to explain what the scene was that you have been described of me coming here."

Leo was thinking that if he could better understand that moment he might be able to get home.

"Sure no problem, let me start with a explanation about the seasoning."

Leon takes a Jar full of what looks like glitter in a jar from a cupboard behinf him and puts it on the table.

"This is the seasoning, it's made from creature crystals these are extracted from the creature when they die, we normally use them as lights and sources of energy for objects to pair with."

"You mean you fed me creatures insides!!!"

"Ha ha yeah but you are a rare case normal people can't absorb the energy they are normally sick after eating it, it's the same with the ginger brisket."

"So why am i not?"

"That i don't know, but your in a very good position because of it you can absorb huge amounts of energy, i used a spoon full on your meals today."

Leo had been carefully monitoring his usage of energy whilst training, he always used huge amount when he first started to use new magic but after awhile the number would drop to a very nominal value almost equal to daily living at about 5Kjh.

The thought that he could train as much as he wants without worrying about draining his magic was very exciting.

"So how much do you have?"

"This jar full."

Shocked by this he figured questions started forming in his head.

"Why do so little and is it easy to acquire?"

"Aaahhh so you figured it out to get this amount took me a year to acquire, so the crystal that drop from the small creature's is very low density, the density we require comes from Himlocks which is very rare, the extraction is very difficult because you have to kill it in a particular way as well."

"Wait, wouldn't this make it super expensive to get."

"No, because no one can currently use this crystal density yet, it ends up over powering anything its connected to making it explode."

"What about the crystal in the Hunters association?"

"That crystal is a different type and is mined from deep underground and that one is the biggest ever found."

Leo puts his hand on his chin, taking a moment to think about how crystals are formed normally, he thinks about how they are more condensed in creature's but comes up with no logical cause.

Putting his thoughts aside Leon noticed that he was thinking and had taken this moment to get up and get some drinks.

"Leon so how long did you know that i was not from around here?"

Leon sitting back down with two glasses of water.

"Honestly, the moment that the incident happened in the forest, i had heard about it a short while after, i feed a small cluster of creature's on a regular basis, this helps me keep a spy network on the surrounding area."

"So what did you get told?"

"Well my magic lets me share recent memories of the creature's under my control."

"Oh!!! so what did you see."

"Well not much, i bright light then your body formed from nothing which is something i've never seen before, i thought you were a new type of creature."

Leon thinking about this came to the conclusion that Yuna had come here first some how, immediately forming a body for my mind to occupy.

"What i witnessed next was the Criton attacking you, and you making it explode some how, which made me question if you were a creature, but after meeting you i believe you are not as there as never been a creature with any vast intelligence."

Hearing this he confirmed with Yuna.

{Are you sure the Cimeries was a Creature?}

{100% confirmation my measurement is on the quantum scale that nothing can hide from.}

Hearing the answer Leo put his suspicion forward.

"Cimeries what do you know about him?"

"Huh, well he is a royal inspector from the capital he got measured here and is feared in the capital for being a ruthless inspector, Why?"