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6/29/2025, 5:20:37 AM
Before finding out where you are, before washing up in the bathroom, before talking to the occupants of this place, there's something more important for a magus. A daily practice you've been neglecting since returning from the Akeldama, that you neglected to an extent even while you were there. No more. Regular training is the most important thing, especially for someone as new to magic as you.
You close your eyes, focus on emptiness, and turn your perception inward. You search within for the sensation of a body part not composed of physical matter, for that mystic parallel to the nervous system which separates magi from the ordinary run of mankind. 126 lines, channels, converging to form a single united system, the great Magic Circuit of your body, now dormant from lack of use. Lack of awareness?
You find this second nervous system with surprising ease, a sensation as faint as the touch of mist, but undeniably part of you. You maintain your inward perception with great care, conscious that at any moment the slightest slip in concentration could return you to perceiving only the mundane, and remember the teaching you received. You only need to activate the circuits now, wake them by means of your own will acting on the second energy of life. A hypnotic trigger, to flex the body part which has no muscle, no sense, no substance, no innate consciousness and control. Within your mind, on the edge of empty space, you visualize a door, closed, dividing the ordinary darkness of reality from the vastly empty void where infinite irrationality and infinite possibility lies. You open it.
Energy flows in 126 channels within you, circulating through the greater circuit. A closed circuit, you realize now that you feel the circulation of magical energy. Your elation at having completed first step in practicing magecraft again is cut off at the knees. There's no energy flowing out of you to a Servant, as you felt in the Akeldama. Could seeing Caster before you passed out have been a hallucination after all? Surely, if she and Berserker were manifesting in the world as Cid promised, they would be receiving magical energy from you.
There's no energy flowing into you from a Master either, as you know is required to sustain a Servant's existence. How then, you wonder, are you still alive at all? Remaining in the world without a supply of magical energy should be a death sentence. Then again perhaps it is. It could be that you're maintaining yourself only through the Class Ability of Archer, putting off the noose rather than freeing yourself. In any case, doomed or living it's clear that you are a closed and isolated system, like a vessel holding its own contents in reserve, neither filling nor emptying.
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You close your eyes, focus on emptiness, and turn your perception inward. You search within for the sensation of a body part not composed of physical matter, for that mystic parallel to the nervous system which separates magi from the ordinary run of mankind. 126 lines, channels, converging to form a single united system, the great Magic Circuit of your body, now dormant from lack of use. Lack of awareness?
You find this second nervous system with surprising ease, a sensation as faint as the touch of mist, but undeniably part of you. You maintain your inward perception with great care, conscious that at any moment the slightest slip in concentration could return you to perceiving only the mundane, and remember the teaching you received. You only need to activate the circuits now, wake them by means of your own will acting on the second energy of life. A hypnotic trigger, to flex the body part which has no muscle, no sense, no substance, no innate consciousness and control. Within your mind, on the edge of empty space, you visualize a door, closed, dividing the ordinary darkness of reality from the vastly empty void where infinite irrationality and infinite possibility lies. You open it.
Energy flows in 126 channels within you, circulating through the greater circuit. A closed circuit, you realize now that you feel the circulation of magical energy. Your elation at having completed first step in practicing magecraft again is cut off at the knees. There's no energy flowing out of you to a Servant, as you felt in the Akeldama. Could seeing Caster before you passed out have been a hallucination after all? Surely, if she and Berserker were manifesting in the world as Cid promised, they would be receiving magical energy from you.
There's no energy flowing into you from a Master either, as you know is required to sustain a Servant's existence. How then, you wonder, are you still alive at all? Remaining in the world without a supply of magical energy should be a death sentence. Then again perhaps it is. It could be that you're maintaining yourself only through the Class Ability of Archer, putting off the noose rather than freeing yourself. In any case, doomed or living it's clear that you are a closed and isolated system, like a vessel holding its own contents in reserve, neither filling nor emptying.
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