Experiments begin are turning some of the crystals underground into some kind of scout to investigate things that you yourself cannot see. The progress itself goes very poorly as you spend sometime adapting the methods you know to manipulate rock for the more fragile crystals which in the end turns out to be fairly easy as the main method for shaping the crystals is covering them in a field of your mana then slowly fusing other crystals into an appropriate vessel. Of course the real problem lies in giving the vessel its actual purpose as you have no basis to create something that can move and perceive separately from you leading to several crystal vessels turning to dust as your vague guesses overtax what the material can withstand.
After that you spend the time to double check the what your planetary body is actually composed off aside from the view deposits of materials you discovered, and after a quick check you are sure most of your body is made of plain stone though there are a few places that seem to contain some metal known as lead. When your perception touches these deposits that you previously missed all the mana you had imbued into your manasight seems to scatter completely.
In an attempt to test your perception you reach out from your planetary body to see how far away you can sense mana from yourself, and come out with the result that the mana becomes far to sparse for your perception to continue about a mile above your surface. From this test you discover that your perception relies on the presence of mana to sense what is around it, and that the void surrounding you does not contain enough mana in it to support your perception. Chances are that sending mana out into the cosmos for your perception to move across would allow you to sense things farther from your planetary body, but the sheer amount of mana required to support it over any meaningful distance is something you can't support in your fledgling state.
One final test you perform is to form a line of mana before sending it towards your planetary surface in the hopes of revealing whether mana can bounce, or not though the outcome is something you did not suspect. While some of the mana does in fact bounce back away from your surface the more important result of your action is a several feet long gash on your surface caused by the seemingly mundane mana line that shattered most of the rock in its way. As you watch bits of rock flying out into the void from the mana lash you sense a sudden drain from your mana pool causing you to realize that your unfamiliarity with this method lost you a lot of mana as attempting to retain control of the mana used for the lash cost far more than simply releasing your hold on it.
Crystal Melding learned.
Your first attack 'spell' was learned, Mana Lash.Mana: 610/1000 (+50 Mana a year)
Planetary Body Info
Surface: (40 out of 360 Space used)
Mana Gathering Array Network [An interconnected system of smaller arrays consisting of ten in total that gather mana from the cosmos, and draw it into you.]
Underground:
Small Tunnel System [It seems there is a series of tunnels, and chambers spread out underneath that strange array that for the most part seem bear though some of them seem to still contain items inside of them. Several of these chambers have some form of barrier around them that prevents you from seeing inside. Sealed off from the surface.]
Isolated Chamber [A chamber that is on the opposite side of your body from the tunnel system under your mana gathering array. You are unable to see inside, but you can clearly sense an entity within it that holds a power greater than your current capabilities. The entire chamber is enveloped in a array far beyond the mana gathering array's complexity that seems to be sealing whatever is inside.]
Mana-infused Crystals [Several small pockets underground are filled with these strange crystals that are filled to the brim with a level of Mana that could fill your somewhat limited pool in its entirety though what uses the crystals themselves could have you're entirely unsure. One of the pockets has been slightly destroyed from numerous experiments.]
Iron Ore Deposit [There is one massive deposit of iron ore buried deep within your planetary body, even though its a fairly mundane material perhaps it could be of some use to you in the future.]
Mana Iron Deposits [There are dozens of tiny deposits of iron scattered throughout your body that have seemingly attracted mana during the time it took you to form though how it differs from normal iron you're completely unsure aside from it being far more durable]
Lead Deposits [There are roughly seven small deposits of lead which seem to disperse mana on contact.]
Spells/Inherent Powers
Earth Movement - You can manipulate the rock that makes up your body though the more you move the more mana you will exhaust.
Crystal Melding - You can somewhat capably meld the mana-infused crystals into semi-detailed shapes.
Mana Lash - Compressing mana into a line you launch it at your target causing physical damage from the high speed condensed mana. The more mana poured into the attack the stronger it will be.
Manasight - Using Mana to improve your perception you can now clearly observe things that might have otherwise be hidden away underground, or such. Currently the range of this sight seems to be restricted to your surface, and within your body.
Store/Retrieve Mana - Through intense study you have determined a method through which you can store mana inside of special materials, or formations that can hold mana. You have also devised a means by which to extract mana.
Known Magical Arrays
Lesser Mana Gathering Array [Costs 15 Mana to create one, takes up 4 Space, can be connected together in a network that causes the array to be more effective. Base Mana Income is 1. Five connected Arrays increases it to 10, and potentially at ten connected arrays it increases to 50. The current limit of connected arrays is ten for your level of knowledge]
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