MEMORY: UNDINE
Oct. 20th, 2023 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rizomataHere atop the ice floes, everything is in place. The aer krene, the cyano ciel crystal, and Estelle. All that's left is for you to apply the formula you've worked out in your head...
It'll be fine. The theory is sound.
"I'm ready. Estelle, come over here. I'm going to release the control formula. Once I do that, the aer krene will react to you and produce more aer. I want you to recompose the aer formula into a stable formula closer to mana."
"U-umm... I don't understand..."
"Yeah... okay..." You think of another way to put it. "The water element is strong here, so imagine flowing water and let your body flow with the aer. The theory behind materializing aer is the same as performing magic." You look to the others, and add, "If Estelle can recompose the aer into a state close to mana... then I should be able to guide the aer into the cyano ciel."
"Can we do anything?" Karol asks.
"No. Go take a nap or something."
"We'd freeze to death if we took a nap here!"
"We can use the conversion formula we found in Zaude," Judith suggests, far too casually.
You stare at her. "That was for substituting life for aer! Your life! You can't do that!"
"But if this fails, then we'll all be swallowed up by a flood of aer. We'll be dead anyway, right?"
"We're all risking our lives. Let us help," Yuri adds.
You look to the faces of your idiot friends, filled with determination...
"... All right. I'll use your life energy to guide the aer into the cyano ciel. If we do that, I think Estelle will understand the flow of the aer without interference from me."
You begin the procedure and activate the formula. It's like casting any spell, but with a lot more variables, and a lot more risk. And even as your friends cry out in pain, your focus doesn't waver.
But then something unexpected happens. The crystal you're channeling energy into begins to reshape itself. And when it takes form again, you see...
A woman. Or... something like that. This isn't a human, and it isn't like anything you've seen before.
"I feel the waters of the world at my command. I am the ruler of the waters." She opens her mouth and speaks words of joy. "Humans, what creature am I? You have granted life to me. I ask that you give me a name."
This is a spirit. You've created a spirit.
It's Estelle who steps forward. "An ancient word for the ruler of the waters... How about Undine?"
"Undine... Henceforth I shall be known as the spirit Undine."
...
Your formula didn't just create mana. It created life.
And it's going to change the world forever.
It'll be fine. The theory is sound.
"I'm ready. Estelle, come over here. I'm going to release the control formula. Once I do that, the aer krene will react to you and produce more aer. I want you to recompose the aer formula into a stable formula closer to mana."
"U-umm... I don't understand..."
"Yeah... okay..." You think of another way to put it. "The water element is strong here, so imagine flowing water and let your body flow with the aer. The theory behind materializing aer is the same as performing magic." You look to the others, and add, "If Estelle can recompose the aer into a state close to mana... then I should be able to guide the aer into the cyano ciel."
"Can we do anything?" Karol asks.
"No. Go take a nap or something."
"We'd freeze to death if we took a nap here!"
"We can use the conversion formula we found in Zaude," Judith suggests, far too casually.
You stare at her. "That was for substituting life for aer! Your life! You can't do that!"
"But if this fails, then we'll all be swallowed up by a flood of aer. We'll be dead anyway, right?"
"We're all risking our lives. Let us help," Yuri adds.
You look to the faces of your idiot friends, filled with determination...
"... All right. I'll use your life energy to guide the aer into the cyano ciel. If we do that, I think Estelle will understand the flow of the aer without interference from me."
You begin the procedure and activate the formula. It's like casting any spell, but with a lot more variables, and a lot more risk. And even as your friends cry out in pain, your focus doesn't waver.
But then something unexpected happens. The crystal you're channeling energy into begins to reshape itself. And when it takes form again, you see...
A woman. Or... something like that. This isn't a human, and it isn't like anything you've seen before.
"I feel the waters of the world at my command. I am the ruler of the waters." She opens her mouth and speaks words of joy. "Humans, what creature am I? You have granted life to me. I ask that you give me a name."
This is a spirit. You've created a spirit.
It's Estelle who steps forward. "An ancient word for the ruler of the waters... How about Undine?"
"Undine... Henceforth I shall be known as the spirit Undine."
...
Your formula didn't just create mana. It created life.
And it's going to change the world forever.