Nature Of Psionic Energy

His whole body was used for the energy to travel out and make the barrier, but for efficiency he needed to focus it outflow.

Psion Energy traveling through the body gets lost, thus less efficient.

He moved the flow of the energy from the body slowly upward, making sure the barrier, even as it rippled, didn't break until the source was his head.

A switch happened. Seth's mind blanked away for 20 seconds before it returned.

'Hmm. Psion Barrier has been embedded in me!' Seth muttered. 'That is quite hard!'

He wanted to move but walked slowly. It might have been embedded, but he was still not a master.

So he walked around, even grabbed things from outside the barrier before he deemed it fine.

It only repelled things he wanted but allowed to take things.

He sat, which made the barrier break. The burden left his head, and then he proceeded with the next skill.

Mental Shield skill is exceedingly important.

Telepathy exists — both that will just send information to you and those that can plant an idea in you or even take information from you without consent.

Mind Shield will protect the user and make it possible to know if someone was reaching for their head.

'It's less complex. But it is more confusing due to repeating patterns and it has to be accurate!'

Seth thought, but he grasped it in under 20 minutes.

Mind Shield is not external but internal, within the skull and around the hair.

Seth pulse out Psion Energy from his head, visualizing the pattern across his hair and head like a crown and then pulled it into his head.

A ripple happened across his hair, which brought another mental switch.

Seth opened his eyes after 2 hours.

There was an instant difference of less noise and more mental focus.

"That was expected."

Psions are extremely sensitive to sound and other things.

The Mind Shield filtered that out too.

"To think the Mind Shield will consume too much energy… I only have half now"

Seth picked up the crystal for the Psionic Blast Skill and then stood and walked to a fortified location in the room.

Psion Blast Skill came easier to him because he had used it at the ruin by himself but this one was refined and better.

Refined in a way that he could send blast out force as small as a grain or as big as a fist size.

Grasping it took only 9 minutes, and this too he wanted to be thorough before he tried and the switch came.

He went blank for 10 minutes while standing.

Seth sat down. He was almost exhausted and observed the crystal again and continued.

This time the moment his Psion Hand entered, it was dragged to cover the whole crystal channels.

[If you get this message, it means that you got the skills in under a day. Congratulations. I would like to tell you, I am incapable of siding with any of the Imperial Siblings. The Emperor makes sure of that. But I can provide my insightful guidance.

[Here is my insightful guidance. The empire stood the test of time, but nothing is meant to last forever. There are forces at play greater than you think who believe and also strive they can take on the empire.

[They are everywhere, powerful and secretive. You — May the throne blaze through you — are the weakest link. The easiest target. I do not fear their influence on you. Imperial Scions are terrifying as I watch each one of you grow. Bending your will would never be easy, but the empire thrives on ego and pride. If they get their hands on you, they may proceed to do things that will force the hand of the Empire to act.

[Be careful. Be vigilant and know this, the Empire watches too. Through you, they seek to pull them out. Yes — you are a Glorious Bait — my Prince.

[By the throne, I hope you won't be upset at me. Master the crystal and you will find my gift in it.]

('By the throne' is a form of apology or exclamation while seeking the safety of the throne.)

"Hmm. Tell me something I can't predict!" The Ninth Prince snorted with slight annoyance.

It was no surprise that he was the weakest link and some might come after him with both good and bad intentions.

But he didn't care, he was the Ninth Prince and he was not as naive as some would think.

Seth focused on the efficiency skill.

The pattern was in circular form, making his Psion Energy flow in a loop.

After every loop the energy vanished. Most likely the crystal was consuming the energy.

He continued. There was a subtle feedback in every disappearance of energy, which tried to inform him about something.

An hour in, Seth's Psion Hand was used up completely.

A switch didn't come even though he grasped the skill patterns.

"Hmm. It's not about the pattern, it's about the behavior of the energy in the pattern!" Seth concluded.

The circle loop pattern made the Psion Hand react and behave in different manners. That was what was needed for him to grasp.

"May the throne blaze through you!" First Guardian came into his room. "We are ten minutes out from our destination!"

"Proceed!" Seth muttered without looking up. He then closed his eyes and analyzed the energy behavior.

Instantly he felt it. And the meaning of the behavior was already in him from reading the first three skills.

But he already knew about them. However, only now that he felt them and could command them at will.

More than that, he could also mix them to create various effects and skills.

Lastly, great mastery may lead him unlocking unique signatures of his Psion Energy.

The behavior was three in nature:

The Tangible Energy

The Intangible Energy

The Force

Psion Power's basic nature is Intangible—it is soft Energy that can be used for various things.

One of the most common is to speed up brain processing power, perception, and body strength.

Psion Power's second nature is Tangible—it's hard Energy that does not dissipate on contact with air or any hard objects.

The majority of the empire's vehicles worked on Psion Energy.

The glass ship he was on worked on the same principle. The engine fuel is a refined Psion Energy that reacts to nothing but the machine itself.

Seth smiled. He could see the mechanics behind this and how he could develop something unique to himself.

Psion Power's third nature is Force—and this force has rigidity and concussive impact.

Seth's attention came to the Psion Barrier. It was a mix of tangible and force Psion.

The Tangible Psion supplied the force in a pattern to maintain it. That's why it was hard and firm to touch and didn't dissipate.

Pure Tangible Psion will dissipate in the air gradually, but because it was in force form, it would hold on with lasting effect.

Mind Shield also was force fueled by Intangible Psion and with enough efficiency one could maintain the skill indefinitely because Psion Energy constantly replenishes itself.

Then came the efficiency skill—it's more of a control of Psion at different forms and usage.

The key to basic control was having a dot of Tangible psion, a dot of Intangible psion, and a dot of Force Psion in all usage.

But a single dot of Psion could create ten dots of force.

Psion Hand is a Tangible energy when it is coated with force to reduce dissipation.

Seth frowned. He was having a hard time conceptualizing the Psions as dots because they behave more like air or water vapour.

Then a thought came to him, he would just will it to be.

A ripple passed through his mind. He altered his perception of his Psion to that of particles.

At first he didn't like it, but he felt he could change it back.

He leaned back. Only 2 minutes remained to arrive at his destination.

Seth proceeded to imagine the particles' size. He needed them to be as small as they could be perceived.

Powdered Dust.

Seth smiled. Having this thought made him feel he had millions of dust if he regained his Psion Energy to full.

"This is all in my imagination to best control the efficiency usage of the Psion!" Seth reminded himself.

After some thought, he smiled. "Three particles at a time bonded. One always Intangible, the other ready to become Tangible, and the last ready to become a Gorce."

Another ripple escaped his head again.

"Interesting!"

Before Seth's eyes were imaginary dust floating around, and each dust was made of three particles of different hue.

But each dust trio had a pull and push connection at the others, making them react to each other and also to Seth's eye blink and posture movement.

"An expert Psion will have seen me leaking Psion Energy like a broken tap,"

Seth commented as he stood.

They had arrived.

He closed his eyes and felt himself.

He still couldn't see the source of his Psion Energy but that was to be understood.

He was newly Awakened after all.