So it’s been a bit, i honestly don’t know how long, maybe a few hours, the system scan and reset are still loading but i have been thinking about a couple things, like what happens if I make another spirit sense, like can I use it to see the physical environment around me, its not like I have been disturbed, but it’s also not like I have much to do but try, I try and expel mana and it works, just not how i wanted. The mana was expelled but no spirit sense was created and the worst part is that I lost control over it completely. Okay a minor setback, not to bad, maybe I’m looking at this form the wrong angle, my spirit sense grew when I funneled mana into it, but just pumping mana out into the air doesn’t work, which makes sense now that i think about it, so you need spirit sense to make more spirit sense? That can’t be right, how would you get it in the first place? If I make a tendril of mana would that work? I form the tendril inside of me crossing my metaphorical fingers aaandd , when i push it out it doesn’t do what I want, it did my my form deformed which means I shaped my flesh but it didn’t make my mana into the sense, which is so incredibly disappointing, I wanted to see not be lumpy, I flatten my body out to the form I was before and think of a new idea…

  Okay so it’s been a bit less time then the last bit but still a while, I came up with a solution i think may work, so I can see my own mana veins as long as mana goes through them, maybe if I tear one like my spirit sense it will expand.. so It didn’t work, but it also didn’t not work instead it just made it flow and kind of strengthened me slightly, i try shaping the vein and get an instinctive feeling of wrongness, it’s like my body feels so inefficient, like i could be so much better, and so for the next hour i fix my mana veins, i even learn how to make new ones! You just split the flow and a new vein is made though much smaller, like a capillary and if you split it again you get a venule, I moved my veins around and made sure that there was some in close proximity to every part of me, most of it is the smallest type of vein, after i finished I feel a wave of happiness knowing it’s finally done, plus I start absorbing a lot more mana, its easily five times as much though as time passes the amount decreases, am i absorbing all of the mana in the room? That would not be good, the amount that is being absorbed is slowly decreasing and is very slow, barely a trickle but it’s adding up slowly, I’m kind of disappointed but it makes sense now that i think about it, so to recap i have tried like five things and none of them worked as intended i feel like im missing something something but i don’t know what.

  FINALLY it worked! I can see! I can see so uh actually where I am is kind of boring, it’s a round cave with me in the middle, I’m a boring metal sword, I’m even kinda rusty, it’s disappointing? I’m have to wave the tendril around so it’s not great sight, so to explain i managed to do it and apparently i was so absurdly close, apparently if you split a vein and pour mana into one part that part grows, if you extend it out of yourself, or at least try the vein becomes a tendril of spirit sense, it feels incredibly inefficient but it works so I’m happy, oh and I found a body it’s rotting it’s not to far through the process, but i think i found a way to learn how to get a stomach, or at least I hope it’s not too rotten to copy properly.

  [Ding] [Decoding Finished]

  Ooh I was wondering when that would finish, I think status and the blue panel pops up in my sight, instead of it being in my mind it feels like it’s in my spirit sense, which is a weird feeling

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  [Status]

  Name:

  Title:

  Tier:1

  Level:1

  Species: mimic

  Creature type: monster

  Core type: flesh (core not found

  Form:sword

  [stats]

  Hp: 10/100%

  Mana: waning

  Flesh: 0/100%

  Biomass grade: I

  Strength:100(W)

  Dexterity:100(W)

  Constitution:100(W)

  Intelligence:100

  Wisdom:57

  Charisma:27

  Biomass:1

  SP:1

  [Cultivation]

  Realm: Qi gathering

  Stage: 1

  [Skills]

  {Grandmaster Fleshcraft} [lv:1]

  [mutations]

  Metal skin [+0]

  Free shape flesh [+0]

  Mana circulation veins [+0]

  I’m a bit sad it doesn’t show me a name or title, I was holding onto hope it would give me an idea of who I was but it seems no dice, whatever I want to see what functions I have in that weird void space, when I concentrate I can feel that I can add functions to the panel, though none of them are really useful, and the weird bubble thing I ate can.. I don’t actually know, I dive deeper into the void and look at the bubble it is more of a net or flask like thing. I wonder, I move my tendril to get closer to the big radiant ball, as I get closer thoughts and feelings of hundreds of different things flow through me but before I can understand what any of them mean new ones drown them out, I try and use the bubble as a filter and container, I pulled way back and it works, sort of, not all of what I caught is useful, and the one thing that is isn’t the full thing, it’s the makeup of an eye, like how its made, there is clearly chunks missing on how it works which is sad, but just is, the other things a feeling of inadequacy, a garbled prayer a small amount of an argument about a person being caught cheating, honestly for some odd reason a feeling of excitement coursed through me when I watched it, then annoyance when it was not complete. I tried to remove the prayer and the feeling and they disappeared, along with me knowing what they where, so apparently the bubble is limited and if I remove something I won’t remember what it is, though I do remember a bit of the prayer i tried to make sense of. Suddenly without warning a feeling of being compressed and limited comes over me, making me tired, and making it hard to think, I I I o don’t want this, I don’t want another seal on me!! I do my best pushing back at the wall, but it gets stronger as I push, and so I eat, I night and claw at it punching holes and eating it more than it can reinforce until none of it is left, and I feel drained, and when I check my status

  [Status]

  Name:

  Title:

  Tier:1

  Level:1

  Species: mimic

  Creature type: monster

  Core type: flesh (core not found

  Form:sword

  [stats]

  Hp: 30/100%

  Mana: depleted

  Flesh: 0/100%

  Biomass grade: I

  Strength:100(W)

  Dexterity:100(W)

  Constitution:100(W)

  Intelligence:100

  Wisdom:57

  Charisma:27

  Biomass:1

  SP:1

  [Cultivation]

  Realm: Qi gathering

  Stage: 1

  [Skills]

  {Grandmaster Fleshcraft} [lv:1]

  [mutations]

  Metal skin [+0]

  Free shape flesh [+0]

  Mana circulation veins [+0]

  So apparently eating through the barrier takes mana and apparently a lot, but what was that seal, and why did it only appear now? I was just reading , is that all It takes to get one? No it would have done it earlier if it was due to me, I’ll put it in the back burner for now, I inspect my bag like bubble and it’s bigger, like a lot, did all of the energy i absorbed level up this thing? That’s not overly concerning but definitely strange. I feel a wave of fatigue wash over me, and i remember I’m out of mana and apparently my body doesn’t like that.