Chapter 178 Mind at work (1/2)

Nearly there!

This construct has defeated me over and over again. To the point that this glittering shape of mana is literally burned into the insides of my eyelids. Except that I don't have eyelids. Not the point!

With every pa.s.sing second the shape begins to come together, weaved out of threads of light, it s.h.i.+nes brilliantly inside my mind.

Finally!

*crunch*

AW HECK!

In my eagerness I slip in my control and one of the threads get shunted out of place. Which, of course, causes the entire thing to collapse in on itself and dissipate into nothing….

…..

GAAAAAAAAH!

Undone by my own eagerness and joy at success! This is the cruel irony of the world at play and not entirely my fault!

Ok it is.

I can almost feel the smouldering resentment from my own sub brains, irritated that I ruined their work. What the heck!? You don't' get to be mad at me dammit! I'll make you guys transform mana on your own until you melt into sludge!

That's right! That's who's in charge!

Putting aside this failure I'm still feeling extremely positive. I'd never been that close to succeeded in that notorious transformation before and now I almost nailed it on my first attempt! With diligent practice I'm sure I'll be able to succeed. If I can manage the mind mana transformation then I can surely succeed with the simple ones. It seems this evolution was a wild success!

The next thing I'm keen to try is working on the cores. If I can practice the core engineering skill at a faster rate then I'll be ma.s.sively pleased!

Rus.h.i.+ng over to the cores I roll one out with my mandibles and crack right in.

Core Engineering!

My mind sink down into the little core in front of me and the nebulous energies that contain the information, the mana DNA, of the monster rise in my mind.

Now for the tricky bit.

Bringing the force of my mind to bare and calling upon the reserves that are my sub brains for a.s.sistance I begin to force and hold the changes to the information in the core. What I find almost immediately is… it's so much easier! First of all, forcing the change is a breeze with all the power I have humming inside my head, then locking into place is so much easier that I'm able to task my sub brains with that and then move onto the next change immediately!

This is going to increase the speed of my skill training immensely!

Happily I continue to shove around the values in the core, making large stat changes sometimes and then going in and making finer adjustments to the body shape, muscle density, even the brain matter! As usual the process becomes more and more difficult the further away from the original state of the core we get, but with my newfound mental strength I can push it so much further than before, reaping more xp from every core that I start to work on.

I could almost cry, this is everything I wished for! Now my core engineering skills will be able to go to the next level!