Hiper turns back into their Tiefling form and sits in front of the slowly burning log. " First I need to digest and get at least a couple of bending energy back." They close their eyes and focus on digesting the last of their meal while feeling for their chakra's and bending energy inside them. Regulating their breathing and trying not to think about onion and banana juice. After 7 minutes 4 energy has returned and Hiper's belly is flat once again. "Okay that should do for now but that was fast and I think I got a notification let me check real quick. '
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Skill achieved:
Energy Accumulation lvl. 1
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"Nice! that should help out a lot in the future, maybe one day in the future I'll build entire cities without rest. That's a fun thought but for now I will focus on Firebending." The tiefling returns their focus on the now blazing log. "oh crap! wait don't loose focus, remember firebending is fueled by emotion so turn that panic into focus. Now breathe and focus on controlling the flame, try to reduce the area of the log where it is burning and channel your bending energy." Hiper starts the 4 squared breathing and feels their bending energy then imagines it flowing to the fire and shrinking it. Fire needs fuel to burn so wouldn't it make sense that instead of burning other things firebending burns through your own energy as a fuel source. after about 10 minutes of this thinking the flames on the now mostly consumed small log move and a notification that Hiper doesn't even need to check rings in their head.
"Haaaaahhhh" they sigh out. " that was much easier than earthbending and I don't think it was only because I have bending energy already. This honestly feels natural" Hiper says to themselves as they make the fire bigger and smaller with ease then makes part of the fire lift off of the log and float around their hand. After that they extinguish the floating flame and summon a new one from nothing just by channeling the bending energy and thinking about it. "I always was a bit of a pyro, I could stare at fire for hours captivated by the movements of energy and matter consumption given shape. Flickering with a life of its own." They talk to the flame itself as the watch it float above their hand before extinguishing it.
"That's two down, and a lot to go but we should start with the basics Air and water. We'll worry about the special ones like Plant, blood, magma, metal, lightning, and magnetism later. First I think I should start with air since earth was so hard. But first more food." Hiper then eats a few large logs and moves to stand in front of the entrance tarp flap. They stand in a loose position ready to move and flow with everything. A stance that keeps you on your toes and lets the hits roll of and around you. This stance is much more familiar to them, it's not a boxing stance and they were never perfect at dodging but fluid movements and bouncy running and walking has always come naturally even on earth.
Hiper starts the 4 squared breathing and moves their hands in slow movements with a straight open palm. Feeling the air and their energy flow then they open their eyes and move a hand slightly faster and try to create a breeze to move the tarp flap door. As expected nothing happens at first but that is ok, it doesn't discourage the clone at all. Hiper keeps up the movements over and over again, walking and hopping from position to position, moving, breathing, flowing. Air is everywhere, and is always moving even if you can't feel it, it flows around everything.
Around 20 minutes later the door tarp flutters outward against the foliage and bark unnaturally and a notification rings in the tiefling's mind. Hiper smiles and does it again and again until they are satisfied that they successfully achieved airbending. "3 basic bending's down 1 to go." They say with a satisfied goofy grin on their face. Then the tiefling goes and grabs the pan and one of the log water containers and fills the pan with water and sits down in front of it. They hold out their hands and feel the energy flowing through them and the water. They start slow rolling movements with their hands while breathing and focusing on using the energy to try and create waves. The clone ends up sitting there for almost 45 minutes before they achieve what they set out to do.
"And that's 4, I will leave the others to Tako to figure out I have other things to accomplish." Hiper closes their eyes and focuses on accumulating energy once again. While Accumulating energy they notice that their bending energy has almost doubled due to the training and unlocking of other types of bending. Another 20 minutes of boosted energy accumulation and both bending and mana are full again.
"Okay time to go finish making the moat deeper and starting making the moat and wall wider and thicker. Compressing the dirt to make it as strong as the rest of the wall will probably mean I will get around 1/3rd the thickness of the wall that I add width to the moat but I've already added about 6 inches on the half where I deepened the moat, the goal is a 10 foot wide and 15 foot deep moat with a 15 foot tall wall that is sturdy and at least 7 feet thick. That way the parapets that start at the 12 foot height can be 2 feet thick" And with that the clone sets about turning into a dragonkin and flying over the wall again. Then they start making the other half of the moat 10 feet deep, then expands half the moat out 2 feet and the wall another 6 inches towards the tree making half the wall 4 feet thick.
The clone flies back over to the tree and turns back into a tiefling. "I have been rather fast so I will work out again while I gain more energy and burn off this belly." and with that Hiper picks up the stone dumbbells and starts working out while doing 4 squared breathing and accumulating energy. Another hour later a sweaty tiefling exits the tree with a flat belly and another full set of energy. "Looks like I will get another good section of the moat done before I wake up Tako." And that they did, by the time the clone is done the moat is 8 feet wide and still 10 feet deep. The clone flies back to the tree and turns back into a tiefling once more before waking up the sleeping dragonkin clone and waiting to catch them up before snuggling with the human clone and falling asleep.
"Wow looks like I have been very busy tonight haven't I?" The dragonkin chuckles to themselves quietly while watching the tiefling fall asleep. "So first thing is first lets eat some logs since we have plenty of them." The dragonkin clone then proceeds to swallow a large amount of wood. Once it's belly is almost dragging on the ground they then start working out and accumulating energy. 30 minutes later when it is a little easier to move around the dragonkin goes over to a large cluster of tree roots and sits down.
"One of the special bending types that I can acquire with what I have on hand is plantbending so lets try this out I have time, and there is no time like the present. However I don't have thyme, I have Thymial. but that's a member of the allium family in this world and has onion like bulbous roots. It's part of what allowed me to make such a good stew on day one. Okay enough Jokes let's start."
The dragonkin holds out both their hands and focuses their energy thinking grow and imagining a tiny offshoot of root growing straight up. And to their surprise it worked immediately. However it didn't feel right so they checked the 2 notifications they just got. That is all it took to spot the problem.
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Skill Achieved:
Plant Manipulation Magic lvl. 1
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Spell Created:
Grow lvl.1
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"Oops looks like I used mana instead of bending. I also think I'm going about it all wrong. I don't make it grow I manipulate what is already there, specifically I manipulate the Water inside the plants to make the plant's move how I want. Otherwise Swamp Guru would have just grown out the seaweed in that one battle. So let's try this again."
Once again the clone holds out it's hands and this time makes sure they are focusing on bending energy while doing the 4 squared breathing. While they do so they focus on trying to feel the water inside the plants. A few minutes later they are sure they can detect minute traces of water inside the roots. Another ten minutes later and an achievement rings in the head of the dragonkin while the root that grew itself straight up turns itself around and burrows into the ground.
"Skill after skill after skill, at this rate I'll have 100 skills in half a month. Not that that will mean too much if they are all below level 5. Something tells me that while skills may be common it's the levels that count. And it seems that Leveling up will probably get harder as I the levels get higher. I also bet the stats play a factor in the skill gap, but most likely the big difference is skill level. And if we go off of how easy it seems to be to level up stats Skills should be easy in the lower levels."
Now onto the last bending other than bloodbending that I can do with what I have on hand, metalbending. Tako Gathers up the metal scraps and sword hilt that they found on day 1. "There isn't enough here to make something to punch in order to detect the earth based impurities like the blind bandit did so I will have to rely on squeezing the bigger scraps. That is unless I want to try messing with my cast iron pan but I don't want to"
The dragonkin sits down near the firepit and starts the breathing again. Then they start manipulating their bending energy inside of them. Finally they start squeezing the bigger metal scraps to detect the "earth" inside of them. And squeeze they do over and over and over again. 10 minutes pass, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes and finally Tako begins to sense something inside the metal. Tako tries to move what they sense and at first it doesn't work so they keep trying. While they try they also work on sensing better. After about 20 minutes the metal scraps crumple like paper in the claws of the dragonkin clone and a couple of notification ring out in their head.
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Skill Achieved:
Metalbending
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Stats Gained:
Chakra +2
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"Hahaha Yes! I knew I could do it! Now let's celebrate by expanding the moat and thickening the wall again." Another 15 minutes later a tired dragonkin returns inside the tree, the moat is an even 10 feet deep by 10 feet wide and the wall is a little over 5 feet thick now. The dragonkin then decides to celebrate a little bit more by eating a few more logs and starting to workout and accumulate energy again. After a little while the clone is brought back to reality by a notification that alerts them of a decent increase in wisdom which means more mana for the clones.
"Ah yes I got distracted and carried away I still Have work to do while the night goes on. And this gives me the perfect idea of what to do now that I have most of the bending that I can achieve by myself. Since I also have a higher mana capacity now why don't I work on creating spells. I have a feeling that that will be a very fruitful endeavor. Especially considering how easily magic seems to work in this world. who knows maybe I'll have a couple dozen low tier spells by sunrise.