Quote:This Chapa! may also need a bit of proofing. Any crits are welcome. Be gentle (O.O)

The Grand eGress – Chapter 8 – Ranger Plane p2 (unedited)

Seeing that he had only been in game for less than a minute. He thought he might as well push on for awhile longer. He would feel silly waking up after 5 minutes of playing a game only to beat somebody to a bloody pulp. No though he was calm on the surface he was still hot inside. No he figured he would wait until his anger grew cold. A logical, well reasoned beating is what he would deal out.

After absorbing the shock for a good long minute. He was still in a daze. No matter how he thought about it he couldn’t figure out how that was possible. 6 hours and 23 minutes were somehow compressed unto 52 seconds.

IIf this was true then eGress would no doubt be the numbder one game in the world. There was no precedent for this kind of time compression. Gamers would flock to this and live within on a level not seen since Macrocosm Of Massacre. Only this is on a whole other scale. Lunch break at work would have a completely different meaning. After all you can play just by reclining a bit.

In front of Ambro some words shaking him from his thoughts.

Continue you session?

You have chosen to continue return to a Zong Ley point to exit.

You now own this Zong Ley point. Activate?

Not hesitating a moment Ambro activated the Zong Ley point. The green orb surrounding Ambro glowed and pulsed forcing him to shut his eyes or get a headache. He felt humid air flow around him and moisture started to collect on his skin. For the first time he actually felt some sensation besides sight in this place. (an:need to back read to make sure)

With a sharp tug to his stomach he began to absorb the energy from the ranger plane.

Ambro’s eyes flashed and palma appeared next to him. He rubbed his eyes and blinked rapidly. Palma was no longer transparent.

The soul carrier sighed.

“Finally with this, you can see and hear me all the time.”

Soul carriers grow more substantial with each elevation on the mysterious way. All those on the mysterious way must absorb energy from the different planes in the universe to improve and grow. These planes are seperate and the pones with more intense energy exist “on top” of the others.

The process of absorbing energy to reach the next plane is called escalation.There is no way to skip planes.To aquire the energy from one you must have access to all planes below.

Seated in a meditative form he learned from a fellow E Plan he began to absorb the energy of the ranger plane. The E Plan student from back then specialized in ancient European societies. His favorite subject was Druids. He would go on and on about their Ogham alphabet and their divination and their meditative techniques.That student talked a lot.

Naturally he picked up a few things. Even if he didn’t want to.

He usually went for asian centric studies but wouldn’t ever fail to pick up some free knowledge when offer

Though it probably wasn’t necessary seeing as this was just a game. Ambro couldn’t help but feel doing this here and now was appropriate. He was in a green orb sucking up energy from a Zong “LEY” point while his pet tree watched on after all.

Feeling the ranger plane energy slowly soak into his skin he tried to focus on it. Reaching his senses out and overlaying his image with that of a small tree he started to build an image. Starting from the top most little leaf and slowly building the image down to the roots where his feet rested he created his tree.

Just picturing that calmed him down and slowly he could feel all the mist around him gathering around his feet.

Now he pictured the trees roots reaching as deep as they could into the ground after a long rain.

The absorption rate of ranger plane energy sped up but Ambro wasn’t done yet.

Imagining his tree growing he forced the energy to enter him and slowly flow up and down his body with each pass he would slow it further. Ambro let the excess energy continue to build at his feet. Then when he felt a pressure near his diaphragm he chanted a rite to further focus the energy.

Deep peace of the quite earth to you

Encircle the eternal loom

Up it flows and down again

Jera Berkano Leguz

He really didn’t expect much to happen but after chanting just three times he got results. Passing the image of those three runes at the end in his mind a third time made his whole body shiver. All the built up energy was immediately absorbed.

He felt a new power coursing through him and standing near him he could not only see but some how feel Palma. Ambro couldn’t wait to find out what he could do now. Maybe he could get Palma to upgrade his staff.

As the last of the mist was absorbed into his body more messages appeared in front of him.

Zong Ley Point Depleted.

Zong Ley Point Plane Insufficient For Escalation

Gale Plane Access required for Escalation

Ambro opened his eyes

He immediately jumped back in surprise.

Cassidy was crouched right in front of him both his eyes glowing a fierce red. To ambro it was like waking up to a nightmare.

” HAHA! Got yah!” Cassidy jumped up and down in joy and shot off a couple of fire orbs randomly.

“Hey watch where you’re shooting those!” Ambro was instantly ignored.

” AH it feels so great to be a ranger! Why is it, ranger anyway? Oh? OH!?”

“Hey hey who are you talking to and what’s it saying I want to know to!” Ambro shot up off the ground and stretched to get the stiffness out of his legs. pondering on how realistic this game felt.

“AH Jan Jabi says that scout and ranger are the first 2 very weak mortal planes! He says we are puny now and need to atleast surpass the 5 mortal planes. Apparently the names get cooler”

“Wait wait wait what?”

“I said the names get cooler.”

“That’s all Jan Jabi had to say? ‘You two puny get stronger cus names get cooler’ ? ”

“Basically”

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