บท 51: Within My Core

The answer was within my Core, whatever that meant, the obvious answer was the Dodecahedron, but my attempts to empower the Magnet Style by augmenting the amount of Chakra used wasn't working, the strategy I used with the Storm Style of carefully mixing the Natures to the finest detail was a failure as well, I tried creating a Real Illusion of Titanium, but it reacted to my Mist Flame not to my Magnet Style, I tried using Earth Style bringing the Ilmenite closer to the surface, which allowed me to pass the Bonus Mission, but I can't have the rewards from it unless I manage to pass the Priority Mission from which it derives, in other words is useless for me at the moment.

I tried using the Storm Flame to leave nothing but Titanium in the extra ores, but it was another failure, my last option was the Earth Flame, which now that I think about it, I feel like a stupid, the answer is within my Core, what else has a Core? Earth, since the Magnet Style already uses Earth Nature it leaves me with the Earth Flame as my only real option, I tried making the Titanium, lighter, heavier, fly around but still nothing, another failure, maybe I should just give up, I came all this way, tried every single idea, and still nothing, no results, probably I just need to rest for a bit, I've been going at it for two hours, I'm hungry, and my head hurts from too much thinking, sometimes you just need to take your mind away from the problem and try later, a fresh mind can do wonders when faced with a problem.

I sat down in a lotus position, turned the flashlight off, letting the darkness engulf me, I relaxed my mind and respiration, focusing on the natural sound of the mine, the heat and cold interacting making the rock to expand and contract, the dripping of water filtrating through the mountain top, to the underground, the mine was abandoned, but the life never left, it was all connected, the magma from the Earth's Core, raising forming the volcano that cooled during thousands of years forming the sediment of the mountain, the heavier and more resistant elements, sinking to the bottom, forming new ores, the Earth was alive in a way, and that's what I couldn't comprehend until now.

The Earth Style, allows me to manipulate the mantle to a certain degree, the Magnet Style allows me to manipulate the magnetic field, but the Earth Flame, was not only the power to control Gravity, it was the power to connect with the Earth itself not only manipulate it, but become one with it, that's why I was failing, I used the Magnet Style and the Earth Flame as two separate entities, when I should have done what I do with the development of Kekkei Genkai, make them one and the same, two elements combining and making something new, but not only the Magnet Style and the Earth Flame, I have to combine myself with the Earth.

I let my mind wander every single thought it wanted, instead of repressing my thoughts and feelings like many meditation techniques, this one was the opposite, I was the leaf in the wind, instead of the rock in the river, wandering aimlessly letting the wind be my guide, exploring my feeling, doubts and fear, I let the Earth Flame to go wild, provoking changes around me as it pleased, lifting me and some stones in the air.

I was connecting with the Nature in more than one way, I felt a new energy traveling through my Chakra System, being guided by the Earth Flame towards the Dodecahedron, the new energy gone wild attempting to consume it, but the Dodecahedron fought back, taming the new energy until it fuse with it, not creating a new face, but creating a coat that made the Dodecahedron look closer to a diamond than to the glass it once was, and then I felt it, there was something different in me, something different in my Chakra and the Magnet Style, I opened my eyes, seeing some lights in the darkness, it wasn't actual lights, it was more like a radar, the location of the minerals I wanted to react with my Chakra being reveled only for me, I pull them towards me, taking only what I needed, leaving the Iron, and the oxygen behind, only the Titanium splitting from the ores, creating silverish dust.

The Titanium Dust followed my commands, giving it intent with my Chakra it moved in every direction, changing shapes as fast as I thought about it, but that wasn't the only change, the other change was within me, my senses were sharper, I could feel the Chakra of bats and insects inside the mine, the vibrations caused by the travelers in the surface, and even their small Chakra signatures.

{Titanium Miner, First condition (Increase the Magnet Style power) successfully met}

{Titanium, Second condition (Manipulate the Titanium to create Titanium Dust) successfully met}

{Congratulations Host, all success conditions met, Priority Mission: Titanium Miner Complete}

{Ilmenite Ore, condition (Acquire ten kilograms of Ilmenite) successfully met}

{Congratulations Host, all success conditions met, Bonus Mission: Ilmenite Ore Complete}

{System will now give rewards to the Host}

The Ilmenite that was reserved for the Bonus Mission lift from the ground on its own, the rocks of different weights and sizes, flew around me, forming rings around me, like if I was an atom and they the electrons, the rocks begin to shine, brighter and brighter, raising the heat on the chamber until they melt, and formed a single orange red of melted rocks and metals, the Flames within me reacted to whatever was going on, manifesting themselves against my will, the ring of melted rock then formed one singular ball, floating in front of me, cooling to the point I was able to hold it in my hands.

{Congratulations Host, Gear Mineral has been granted}