Chapter Six - Elemental Sea of Lightning… Again

It’s really hard to think as a soul, especially when you split your soul into multiple pieces. So, maybe that’s why my little fire-bird spirit-soul self forgot to point… Yea, lets go with that.

Here I am, who know’s how many years later and I am going in “That” direction… whatever that means. At least I can run along the surface of the sea now that my soul has a form. I was afraid I was going to have to resort to blowing myself up while pointing in a general direction; like I did when I was a slime. Unfortunately, I’m slow, and I have no idea where to go. To get a good idea of how fricking hard it is to find another Elemental Sea unless you can see it, go to a wide river without a current. Then close your eyes, keep them closed, and try to swim to the other side. Unless you’re some-kind of monster, you’ll wind up going in circles. For most people, one leg is stronger than the other, and without the external stimuli of seeing your destination the circling ensues. Now, imagine that, but you have no fucking clue what direction you should be going, no way of making sure you are going in that direction, and the only help that you have is the sense that the Sea of Fire is in “That” direction…. Good luck.

So, to keep you from blowing your brains out (trust me, I would’ve blown my own brains out too if I could’ve found a way after a few years of walking in circles) I’ll just skip over the annoying parts.

I gave up trying to figure out what direction my flaming birdself pointed me in, and instead I just played with the elemental essence for a while. Now that I had a different form, and my cognitive abilities seemed to have been boosted higher now that I was no longer a slime, I was able to do more then just make pretty explosions. I started what I like to call “Lightning Sculpting.” For some reason, the image of that mutant-wolf who turned out to be my dad kept intruding in on me whenever I felt down. I could feel a sort of connection to him, as if he knew how I was feeling. Every now and then, I’d get an image of him looking at me while smiling that horrific, terrifying smile and seeming to urge me on. I thought back then that I’d gone crazy, but hell, I had already split my soul just to fight boredom. Of course I was crazy.

For some reason though, whenever I got that image of him it cheered me up a bit. So, I started trying to sculpt him, that way whenever I was feeling down, I could just look at the sculpture and cheer up. Before that moment, I always thought that I had a great amount of control of lightning, and I did compared to most people, but I realized that I was sadly lacking.

To start out, I couldn’t control enough essence to create that monstrous father of mine. Fifteen feet tall, 7 feet wide, enormous teeth, probably weighing over six tons... At most I could create mini-me sized version, and then as soon as I lost my concentration even slightly the essence would go out of my control and fade away as it rejoined the sea. That was what pissed me off the most, I always figured that given time I would be able to control more essence, but how do I keep it from leaving my control after I stop paying attention?

That was when I discovered the Law of Attraction, purely by accident. During one of my experiments, I realized that a couple of essence particles were always trying to get closer to each other. No matter how hard I tried, no matter how many times I pulled them apart, they just kept forcing themselves back together. Suddenly, I was reminded of how the lightning on my father's body was constantly flowing into his tails. Was this why?

After much experimentation, I finally figured out why these two essences of lightning were attracted to each other. Actually, the principle is the same as when you cultivate and attract the element into your body or soul, and also the reason why affinities are so important to cultivating. The easiest way to explain this principle is that each essence has a numerical value of 1. This one essence had a value of 1.6 while the other one had a value of .4, so when the two of them were together they were each worth 1. Which is why the smaller essence was so attracted to the larger one. In fact, all essence is attracted to larger essences.

There are a lot of things that go into determining your affinity to an element, but the most important for beginners is how much of a specific element that your body passively attracts. In other words, how much your body has naturally supercharged the element. Likewise, the best cultivation techniques all focus on condensing and concentrating the elements in your body, basically supercharging the elements to an extreme. Allowing you to attract more essence. Every element has it’s own way of attracting essence, it is one the only law that is shared across every element. Just be careful, not all of them are the same, do not attempt to overcharge an element if you do not understand it.

Of course, I didn’t know all of this back then, but what I did learn was how to sculpt something out of lightning essence. I would put supercharged essences at both ends of the sculpture, and figured out a way to make it so that the regularly charged elements would flow endlessly, attracted to the tail, then turn back around on the inside of the sculpture and head to the nose. I now had my sculpture of my dad, I even managed to make it fifteen feet tall like he is because I didn’t need to build it all at once, instead starting from the feet up then letting the natural attractive force of the elements keep it in place.

A side effect of this discovery was that I now consciously condensed the lightning essence I had attracted to soul as much as possible, supercharging it. Within minutes of doing this, the essence in the elemental sea rushed into my body in an overwhelming wave, my body growing another foot in the span of a few minutes. Now I was three feet tall on all fours.

The more important effect of this was that I had gained insight into a second law of lightning, and with my new insight I began to notice things in the elemental sea that I had never noticed before. I had always thought that he sea ebbed and flowed, similar to how a sea on a mortal world would. What I never noticed before was that the sea of essence was all attracted to one particular place. Interested, I decided to follow the flow of the sea.

Years passed as I continuously played with the essence, I had realized that I had only just barely scratched the surface of the Laws of Lightning and I had much to learn. Over the years, the pull, the attraction the essence around me was feeling was increasing. The sea becoming violent, with massive tsunami sized waves hundreds of feet above the surface rushing forwards.

‘How powerfully would you have to overcharge an essence in order to attract the entire sea to one place?’ I thought to myself suddenly, for the first time since I died in the Spirit Plane I was scared.

I thought about turning back, but now the attractive force was working on me too. I couldn’t turn back, and as the massive wave crested at a height of 3,000 feet I realized that I could see other elemental seas.

Directly in front of me was a gigantic wave of green, while to the left and right of me was a wave of yellow and red. Looking around, I saw 7 different colors all converging together into the same spot. Each of the elements directly across from its opposite, Electric and Earth, Water and Fire, Light and Dark, with Wind being the odd one out, just jammed in there randomly.

The attraction reached it’s peak, my soul being sucked forcibly downwards as the massive tsunamis of essence were sucked into a massive whirlpool miles wide. My soul uncontrollably followed the lightning essence spinning around and around; faster and faster.