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Luna opened her eyes, beholding a location as far from the material World she was used to as possible.
There was nothing around and she similarly possessed no physical matter to speak of.
She was merely a Soul floating amidst a torrent of Souls.
Her action, using a twin-Layered Domain, restricted to surround only her physical form to simulate the conditions within the Core of the Moon worked even better that she ever thought.
Through her action, she was able to temporarily overwrite a minuscule part of the Surface of Gaea.
And as a result, she was now melting among what felt like an ocean of Orichalcum, surrounded and filled by both the Ethereal and Material variants.
Information soon flooded her Soul.
Information about everything and nothing, disjointed and without rhyme or reason.
In the first breath since her Domain's activation, she felt millennia's worth of information flooding her mind, memories belonging to not only all kind of living Beings, their physical sensations and emotions without any limit or connection between them, but also the conditions of the various Layers of the Moon, from the surface to the dreamscape to its own Sea of Souls.
A chaotic flood that left her still, overwhelming her capacity to Process them entirely.
If the Records had at least a connection between them, she could have begun to follow the flow to reach its Source but as she was now, her consciousness completely flooded.
Struggling, Luna immediately activated concentrated her tenfold consciousness, caused by Soul Exaltation's Effect to deal with the flooding Records, aiming on maximizing her resistance and starting to think up a way out.
This proved inconsequential as not even an instant later, the flood intensified.
More specifically, it became ten times more intense and chaotic, bringing her back to square one.
Barely able to think under this deluge, she firmly rejected dealing with it right here and now, instead deciding to delay it for a while longer.
She started pushing her Will against the Records, being able to stim only a single second for every century worth of memories.
Nevertheless, using her Will as a medium, she was able to feel out the separation between her own Records and those surrounding her.
The next step was to use her Familiars and the two Souls stored inside of her, Aurora's and the Grudge Elemental's, to consciously delimitate her own Soul's location, before using the lattice of her Skills to build a complete framework around her Soul.
Now certain of what was and was not herself, she then concentrated on feeling her Mates, their Marks shining brightly in her awareness even among the infinity pressing down on her mind.
Using her knowledge of their existence in the Surface of Gaea, she aimed her Senses, almost entirely blinded because of the Orichalcum surrounding her, in their directions.
After a wait that felt at the same time centuries and only milliseconds long, she was able to perceive the material World beyond her Domain's Borders.
Immediately after, she pushed her awareness towards them, navigating against the current and forcing her Astral Ichor to manifest amidst this simulated ocean of Orichalcum, creating a facsimile of her own body.
Aware of reality, she strained herself, fully releasing her Will, empowering it by burning Mote after Mote of Astral Ichor and creating a minuscule film around herself.
Before it could fall apart, she forced herself to emerge, pushing the downpour of information towards her subconscious.
Upon her successful return to full awareness, the information easing in its weight on their own and her body started to reform itself from her Astral Ichor, starting from her crimson eyes.
Soon the rest of her body followed suit, Luna fully reconstituting herself, her physical form leaving behind her previous fragility as an illusionary Entity to become a true Being, immune to the Rejection of any World.
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*Luna's Racial Skill "Lunarian" Increases from D-Rank to C-Rank.
*Through "Lunarian", Luna Gains the Innate Skill "True Sight" E-Rank.
*Through "Lunarian", Luna Gains the Growth Skill "Orichalcum Essence Conversion".
*Luna Gains the Title "Child of the Moon".
Luna deactivated her Domain completely, breathing in deeply once the air of Gaea before releasing it, growing used to the absence of the previously constant Rejection coming from this World.
Every single part of her body tensed and then relaxed, the Lunarian forcing herself to explore and master her physical characteristics in an instant, more specifically the immense difference from her current and previous Floor.
Her slightly pointed ears twitched once and then twice, her tongue tasting the air for a brief second, her nostrils inhaling and then exhaling, her bare skin brushing against the loose dirt beneath her.
Yes, every single one of her physical senses was brought to their maximum possible level and so was her processing ability, both in calculating ability and ability to understand the World around her.
Crimson eyes opened once more and for the first time, two pure and flawless rubies, emitting a strangely hypnotic glow.
Normal sight for most People was caused by specific frequencies of light being reflected out of various surfaces and then the information would be sent as electricity through their nerves to reach the brain where it would be processed.
However Luna's case was much different, in two central aspects.
In the first place, as a fully realized Lunarian, Luna no longer possessed any of the organ found in most people, each of her cell possessing a nucleus connected directly with her Soul, negating entirely the wait between the image being seen and the brain receiving the resulting information before starting to process them.
Second, and most importantly, was the Skill itself, True Sight, the highest rated sight-based ability, even if the real reason behind this consideration was not available at E-Rank.
Skills like Dark Vision and the like, at least those functioning through proper sight instead of other senses added on top of their vision range, functioned by either increasing the sensitivity of the eyes, subtly manipulating light to increase their awareness range in various ways as needed or affect their nerve and speed them up slightly.
True Sight, instead, was simply the ability to reveal the Truth.
Everything in Luna's field of view was fully seen through in an instant, no need to wait for the light to reach her eyes, independent of the light level involved.
The only problem was that her eyes could not peer through physical obstructions, even the clearest of glass, necessitating her to figure out a work around.
Luna looked towards her hands, noting with curiosity the cells forming her body, studying their reactions to every single one of her movements.
Satisfied, red pools moved towards the horizon, her eyes immediately peering right into the rising Sun in the distance, ignoring completely its light and observing its surface, even if being able to perceive little because of the immense distance to the celestial body.
Looking once all around herself, her eyes immediately categorizing every single property of what they passed over, she grew satisfied of her newest Innate Skill.
Leaving the more in-depth analysis of her own body for later, the Lunarian observed the other changes.
First of all, and easiest to explain, her Title, Child of the Moon, had an effect that would be considered worthless in almost all other cases, giving a percentual amplification to the Magicules stored in her, a percentual equal to her Grade.
Fortunately for her, both her maximum Astral Ichor and three Sources of Magicules acquisition did depend on her Magicules.
The Lunarian Skill at C-Rank officially rendered her a Lunarian, completely negating the Rejection process from this World and granting her at the same time her two newest Skills, Title, a baseline increase in all of her capacities, halving the time required for her Astral Ichor to Restore itself naturally and an additional multiplier of 1,5 times to her maximum Astral Ichor.
Finally, was her newest Growth Skill, Orichalcum Essence Conversion, a Skill possessing no Rank at all that was exclusive to Lunarians, a Skill that gradually turned the body into Attuned Orichalcum itself.
In her case, it was currently limited to just her blood, requiring burning 100 Motes to convert just 0.1% of it into their Orichalcum-equivalent.
Taking note of the way that her Motes of Astral Ichor were completely Restored during her Rank-Up, she immediately burned 90 of them to the Skill, finishing at once the surplus Energy required for the first minuscule bit of progress.
And considering how what flowed within her was not blood but Astral Ichor, so small a change in the Purity of the liquid-like Orichalcum in her veins would have an unnoticeable effect upon her abilities.
Satisfied of her current physical understanding, she turned her gaze towards the sky, peering through the upper bounds of this World's atmosphere to gaze at the universe, being quite disappointed but unsurprised that she couldn't see other Worlds through the distance between them.
After a sigh, Luna concentrated back on her current fight, eagerly waiting to test out and then fully master her new body.
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