FVN Chapter 46 Crimson Core Formation
Chapter 46 Crimson Core Formation
"No. I can make it so he never died. There's a difference." I said.
"What's the difference?" He said scratching his head.
"If I brought him back to life now, he would likely appear here, alive, after being dead and missing for many years. You would still remember him being dead and missing," I said. "If I made it so he never died, all of the experiences you have had without him could either be erased, or worse, overlapped by new memories of him being alive."
"That does sound problematic," he said, holding his chin. "Would you be able to bring him back to life? In the first way you described?"
"Not that I know of. Not yet. If I do gain that ability, I'll let you know," I said.
"I assume you can't take it back if something goes wrong?" He said.
"The system gives me no indication that it's something I can take back," I said.
[That is correct. There are no take backs]
"The system just informed me that there are indeed no take backs," I said.
"Hmm. I want you to do it, but I also feel like it was supposed to happen that way for me to learn how to be independent," he said. "Can you ask the system if I will retain my original memories?"
'Will he?'
[You have the choice of allowing him to or not. However, you will always retain memories of what happened the first time]
'Why?'Nôv(el)B\\jnn
[You can't learn if it was the right decision, if you don't remember making it and what things were like before]
'That makes sense.'
"Yes. I can make it so you retain your original memories," I said.
That and I was covered in black gunk. Ravenkin informed me that the impurities turn into something like petroleum due to the high pressure that they are put under when removed from the crimson core. So I was basically covered in a combination of petroleum and tar.
After my shower, we got back to work. We added rotation and shape manipulation as my final steps in messing with my crimson core itself. After that we harmonized the resonance frequency of my core with my nexus network.
The final step was using all of these preparations to practice advanced hemomancy techniques. Hemomancy being blood manipulation. I was able to create larger constructs with blood and even get blood bullets to work.
Ravenkin took out a wooden dummy for me to fire at. I was able to create holes in the target but they were small. The bullet would've been considered small caliber. More of a .22LR than a .357 Magnum. Still, it was a lot of improvement from a paintball, regardless of how deadly that paintball proved to be.
The larger constructs I created started rudimentary like a bat or a club or a mace. After more practice I was able to create large sharp edges with a sword, a chakram, which was a sharp spinning disc, and a scythe.
Further practice gave me the ability to make multi part constructs like a chain, a rope, even a Rubik's cube. It was really easy to solve. All I had to do was turn it in any direction and it was solved. All the sides were the same color, red.
I had basically completed my blood manipulation training. Greater levels of control would come with time and experience on and off the field of battle.
My final trick though was creating a serpent made out of blood. It was incredibly taxing to create and maintain. There were far too many details on the body that I had to focus on. That didn't even mention how difficult it was to get the slithering movements right.
Snakes make it look easy, but it is anything but easy. For the first ten minutes my snake was just rolling on the ground. Even once I perfected it, it was an incredibly impractical weapon.
Not only did I have to maintain its body and perform its movements, it would be a lot easier to just telekinetically throw the snake at my enemies instead of making it slither on the ground towards people.
That was what I did with the bullets. I just threw them telekinetically at high speeds. So while it was a great exercise in control, the snake was practically useless aside from the possible intimidation factor.
With that, I had harmonized my crimson core with my entire body and perfected my crimson core, which marked the end of the Crimson Core Formation stage.
Having completed another twelve hours of work, I was exhausted and ready to go to bed, but Master Ravenkin had one last task for me to complete.
To correct the injustice of his master's death, reversing it and altering the timeline in order for his master to teach me the next steps of my cultivation training.
The thought occurred to me that this could create such a big ripple effect that I never became a vampire. It could even prevent the circumstances which led to my birth. I could be erased from existence.
The only thing that gave me enough confidence to press the button was the fact that the system was not warning me of this possibility. It heard my every thought. It would tell me if I was about to potentially end myself, right? I pressed the button.