Without much to do inside the classroom, with Shohi’s warming, and without an apparent threat to their life, they felt the outside become significantly safer.
With Sorazu’s mana more than nine-tenths drained, Reshidou took the opportunity to see more of his own power in action. Unlike Shohi who specialized in controlling temperature, his construct was more simplistic.
While both would apply their force via a mass of mana, [Thermal Aptitude] was geared towards distinguishing and manipulating the individual bits of matter, while [Kinetic Aptitude] was more so a whole region that pushed or pulled in a general direction.
Taking ahold of chairs, he lifted them into the air, but seeing his mana drain so quickly, the chairs dropped down. He had the intention of keeping it silent, so it wasn’t so loud of a drop.
To continue, he just chose to drag it across the floor. It was easy enough to avoid hitting classmates.
The others watched it happen. It was certainly mystifying for it was their first time seeing something like it in actuality. There was the thought that they could prank someone with it, like as if in a ghost haunting.
As five chairs were put outside, the construct thus became inactive again.
For them to be able to make use of supernatural energy, the deity had to make the basics firstly.
The status board that they called upon via open status was the foremost convenience for them. A personal visual panel which would quantify, and provide information on their self.
Initially, their souls were with less features than what any being on Allivel would have. They were lacking certain basic functions. Though their soul did indeed have its properties as a soul, it had nary a way to convey its will onto the supernatural energies—stamina or mana. It did have the mana present within but had very much went unused in the physical plane.
Its desires, subconscious and conscious, had made it form vague shapes. The deity’s ability to create constructs was mainly to make it firm and proper. Compared with what the deity had usually worked with, these earthlings (on average) had a more malleable soul with having consequently kept it less solid.
As souls were being handled, the deity became busy with what its internal self had.
Its body mainly had to just lie quietly on the floor, conducting ambient mana to notify the deity if something crossed into the circular area, and the deity had its mana pool to have at least around a tenth of the capacity filled. If anything were to attack, there was some preparation.
In the sequence of who to create constructs for, after Rukaru was Shohi who put himself to the forefront of Rukaru’s mind by having provided a name for the sudden phenomenon.
Rukaru exercised himself with the sword, and thus had built himself up on the affinity or desire to cut or slice and specialize in physical combat. So, the deity saw it fit to help him in that regard, once again.
If the deity had to force a deviation from what souls shaped themselves to be, there would be the increased cost of energy that brought reason against doing so.
Shohi was most enamored when it came to the action of force or power. Explosions, time slowing to allow for the admiration of such, and fantastically powerful punches. His took more of an effort than with Rukaru, since he was limited to just the sight of such things.
The class president. Toukai acted mostly in line with the concept of intelligence. So, what fitted her was a construct labeled as [Eidetic], a reserved part of her soul with the function to permanently preserve what she would perceive.
The deity had its share of facing against the abstraction of the spiritual plane, so it more or less had the experience in having tried to resist against a force of destruction. But as the deity still failed with how much damage was attained, not much reason for being confident in that was gained. At least, a self-repair function was built into that construct to the most solid extent that the deity could make it.
So, Toukai’s soul became capable of remembering an entirety of what she’d want to keep of what she saw, heard, and felt, among other kinds of perception.
If she could learn of the specifics of magic and supernatural forces, she would be golden. So far, she had only gone on to use her [Evaluation] for evaluating the characteristics of just organisms. It was fair though, as she was yet to know how to target energy for evaluation.
Sorazu, one of the four with Shohi. He had the desire to just be a watcher, to be distant from things around him, but not to be excluded.
His [Subspace Inventory] could store physical matter in a reserved area of his soul, the only exception to this ability to store matter was those that had a soul having dominion over it.
It was not that it was impossible, just that the target, if they were still alive, measurable via HP, would resist against the supernatural spatial force.
They would be unable to resist it if they had not the energy—mana, or stamina—available, and if the matter they were residing in were spatially forced into an immaterial state, inside of another soul, the attached soul would find it difficult to stay connected, and thus be essentially killed.
If the matter, which contained a spiritual port, a place for the soul to anchor itself on, was released back out into the physical plane, it was possible for another soul to take residence in it, which got vacated.
In terms of having souls associating, or connecting with another soul on a spiritual level, it was possible, but just not the nesting of multiple souls within one another, or at least, it was difficult to get a soul to comply with being nested, it was natural to resist, or fade away.
As for the cost of manipulating reality, supernatural energy, mana, or stamina, would only be used, and lost if it affects something, or causes a change in reality.
As such, the cost of perception or sensory forces was negligible as, with the normal rate of mana production, it would be very quickly recovered, since the only action it would do would be the transmission of information, which affects only so little of reality.
As for the cost pertaining to distance, souls were an abstract existence that transcended dimensions and space by default, the only issue there was was to identify which part of reality was the right point for a force or effect to be cast.
The mechanism for identifying the point in reality had it so that the rate the cost increased lessened the more distant it became, as for with the concept of mathematical variation, the length would increase exponentially for each slot.
Although Sorazu had teleported an organism from quite a distance, the distance didn’t factor in so much.
The bird had lost its mental ability to receive sensory information, so it wasn’t able to resist, and add to the cost of teleporting it.
It was massive for a bird, so it was costly in terms of mass teleported, but organisms that could fly were engineered by nature to be as least heavy as possible for their wings to be effective, so it was bearable.
The students of Earth were now on Allivel. They had no prior experience with the presence of supernatural forces such as magic in their life.
The constructs with aptitude in their name were the ones with the most versatility, and thus it had most of the spiritual matter that consists their soul.
Although the five had no need to pay attention to it at the moment, there was a gauge that identified and distinguished the total occupancies of their soul, how much more it could have, and how much it had in terms of constructs, and the ability to produce and store mana.
What they had that the deity hadn’t really used was stamina. The deity had formerly used a more metallic incarnation, so it was a type of energy that the deity saw as exclusive to everything else, and had refrained from using it. It was a type of energy that was differently present from mana.
If mana were in its active state, when entering physical space, it would interact with stamina, mainly by pushing against each other. What made it different was that it stayed in the physical plane, and had its exclusivity.
Only organic matter could effectively produce, and store it.
Accordingly, the iron brain, being inorganic, that the deity had was able to store and process mostly just mana, while mostly being devoid of stamina.
The dirt body, made of a material that hosted nutrition for plants, which were of organic matter, could store stamina, though at a lower efficacy than a more biological nature, and could hardly produce stamina by itself.
However, that didn’t stop organic brains from being a great channel for mana to go through, as with being composed of mainly insulator material, which would resist against mana’s residence of the physical area of reality, mana could be channeled, directed more efficiently.
“I’ll go inside, and try to sleep”, Toukai decided to just rest.
“Hm? The sun will be up soon, though?” Shohi mentioned.
“It’ll just be a nap.” She replied, quietly yawning.
“Uhm… would you be okay with me staring at you?” He asked tentatively.
“… It’s fine to not warm me. It should be easier to sleep the colder it is”, she went ahead, going back into the classroom by herself.
With more knowledge of the surroundings, it didn’t seem as necessary to keep up one’s guard as before.
Still outside, Rukaru had not much to do other than looking into the distance.
If there was free time for him at home, he’d indulge himself in exercising his strength in swinging down a (wooden) sword, but there was no such sword.
He could try jogging around the area, though that was questionable considering there were corpses littered around. At least, he couldn’t do that at night.
He was also now feeling tired, as it looked as though nothing immediately concerning would come up anytime soon.
Reshidou was playing around with a pen on his hand, making it float, and spin by itself.
Shohi, whose [Thermal Aptitude] was being used to the point that his subsconsious would keep up the intent to warm them up if he was ever to lose consciousness of it, conversed with Sorazu about powers, subsequently pulling in Rukaru and Reshidou into the conversation as well.
The two weren’t as initially eager as Shohi, and Sorazu, but they also felt a sort of thrill with how magic and superpowers had become reality for them.
