CHAPTER 8
Unlike external energy, which is taken from a phenomenon already embodied in reality, whatever it may be, internal energy has no embodiment at the moment of projection into the world. Because of this, it is easily manipulated by will and is suitable for witchcraft on bare will and fantasy. True, the type of such witchcraft is quite strictly tied to the type of energy - fire - fire, water - water. But using them in seals, runes and other constructs, you can achieve universality. Well, there is no need to explain what advantage a bottomless source of energy in the form of another dimension gives, the ability to scoop from which is limited only by will and fantasy. However, there are also disadvantages.
Due to the susceptibility of internal energy to volitional impulses and the fairly easy embodiment of aspects of reality based on desire and reason, the use of internal energy is associated with certain difficulties. Lost mental stability - get a burst of energy. Went into an emotional rage - get a burst of energy. Used substances that affect the nervous system and lead to overexcitation - a burst. What is dangerous?
Internal energy absolutely requires embodiment. Like any other energy, it follows the path of least resistance, and in the case of a magical emission, such a path is the conscious or subconscious desire of a magical creature. It has happened countless times that small children-wizards with access to internal energy burned or drowned houses or entire streets out of resentment - fire, water, wind and earth are the most common energies, and their visual manifestations are the most easily accessible to the conscious and subconscious. But there were cases with the energy of life, light, darkness, death - this is scary. Life is far from only healing. Such an emission is capable of turning organic matter around into terrible chimeras, a mixture of the living and the inanimate, covering everything around with some incredible crap that grew right on the go from people and other improvised materials, simultaneously devouring the wizard himself, mutating and changing him. Such places can only be burned out, and the young talent often cannot be saved. Light can literally reduce everything around to quarks and photons, leaving behind bubbles of empty space, order leaves lifeless deserts of quartz sand. Darkness is unpredictable and universal, but most accurately follows the thoughts of the carrier, and death sometimes leaves around the wizard crowds of half-dead vegetable people, mad from unbearable pain and suffering.
A terrible picture, but such a magical emission can only happen to small children with a fragile psyche, rich imagination and huge potential, and it is extremely problematic to bring an adult to such a state, but not impossible. True, something similar happens when ignoring the presence of affinity with energy or the ability to project it into the world.
And what do we have as a result? We need to conduct a self-diagnosis using universal constructs and find out the features of the physical body. Based on the available information, we can plan what to do next. We just need to restore these constructs along the associative chains. I know for sure that the elf used them repeatedly, which means they are there, in the depths of memory.
- Hector, - the father entered the room. - Mom and I are going to the city. Will you come with us?
Yes, exactly. We live in the suburbs.
- To be honest, I wanted to finish some notes, - I pointed to the notebook in which I was writing down some remembered theses on magic. - And in a few days, I think, I can go. There is still so much to get used to here...
"Okay, as you wish," smiled the father. "Then we'll buy something tasty. Really… What do you like?"
- Anything that isn't oatmeal.
- Ha-ha-ha, - the father laughed sincerely. - Got it, got it. In this matter, you are just like me. I hate oatmeal. Then, I'll buy something with more meat.
Only fools think that because elves live in the forest, respect nature and are like crazy vegetarians in these matters, they don't eat meat. They do, and how! It's just that the process of hunting, harvesting and processing is not the same... Not so merciless. And the dwarf's fragments make themselves known at the word "Meat". If you add "Ale" to it - that's it, the end, there will be a glorious feast, a noble fight, and in the morning - a bill for the destruction in the tavern and the taste of a nasty anti-hangover made from special underground mushrooms.
I shuddered at these memories, and my father left the room. Well, let's continue to connect the crumbs of fragmentary knowledge into something more coherent. Although, the diagnostic method has become ingrained in the subcortex, as they say.
In silence and solitude, I concentrated on the feeling of energy in myself and around me, with a familiar effort of will from my memories I pulled it out - it pulled. As I thought, my body is connected to some dimension from birth and has a predisposition to it. I don't think that my parents, being ordinary people, somehow contributed to this, which means that this is a feature of this world. Okay, let's move on.
I projected a circular elven seal onto my chest and directed energy into it. The seal filled up quite easily and simply, glowing dimly green. I had to wait about a minute, after which quite detailed information about my body appeared in my head out of nowhere. My physical condition was already known, so nothing new. Magic is what's interesting. I turned out to be a wizard with internal energy, as I expected. So all roads are open.
I failed to identify the type of energy, but I am also familiar with only a dozen and a half of their infinite number, and due to the fragmentary nature of my memories, this acquaintance is not particularly multifaceted, so there is nothing surprising - in this matter, the main thing is to calculate the properties so as not to establish a connection with the dimensions of incompatible energy. My energy was very, very flexible, mobile, I would even say, neutral-universal. I am familiar with something similar and the elves called it "Creation". Neither fish, nor meat, nor bird, nor mushroom - this is approximately what you can say about it. With its help, everything is possible, but worse than with specialized energy. Universal. Although, the imbalance can be created due to the mind and the specificity of thinking, but this has nothing to do with the energy itself.
Neutrality of energy is good news. It means that there is no bias in any direction in the predispositions. However, this also means that I will not become an archmage of the directions I am accustomed to, because the predisposition affects the efficiency of "scooping up" the energy of dimensions. I will be able to pull as much neutral energy as I can, no matter how strange it may sound. But it is possible that in local realities, initiation will turn out to be a rather useless thing - you can do good magic on neutral energy anyway. But there is at least one direction, the very essence of which will help me undeniably.
Life. Elven knowledge and memories are strong, useful, and the energy itself will allow you to influence the body without any abstruse contours and constructs, improve, heal yourself and others. Or cripple with terrifying efficiency. A plus will be improved interaction with plants and animals not of the opposite energy direction, but it is almost impossible to meet crystalline or other inorganic life forms with a bias towards the energy of order. Yes, yes, it is not the energy of death that is the antagonist of life. Order is a rigid structuring and ordering of chaos, of which life is a part. Even if everything around was teeming with such life forms, this does not mean that they will kill me only because of the energy spectrum, that's one. And two - the energy of life is in any case useful for carbon and nitrogen-phosphorus organic creatures.