GxG 2
Its been a week since I woke up in this new body, and I have been getting into the swing of things.
Meeting my new father was interesting. He always comes home after dark in a fancy suit looking tired. I guess that explains the nice house we have, but I have seen my mom looking out the window looking sad sometimes so it might not be all good. I think he might be a banker or a manager or something like that, but I haven't heard much from them about it beyond my mom asking "how was work" and him responding with a generic "work was good".
Apparently my name is Nathan now, but I still have not got a clue on my last name. My mother's name is Amy and my father's is Stanley, as they don't really use pet names for each other it was easy to figure out.
Since sitting up on my own is the extent of my mobility, I've been able to just kind of sit there for the last week while exploring more of the boundaries of my training ability.
There are surprisingly few things a baby can do when they can't move, so I focused on skills I can train while lying in my crib.
First came my senses. Sight, Taste, Smell, Hearing, Touch, and Balance.
There are probably more senses, especially if there is magic in this world, but I can't think of any, and I require a certain level of intent and awareness to create a mote. I set all my sense motes to first train away any damage, so no glasses or tinnitus for me. I then set them so that once they were damage free to equally focus on sensitivity and control.
The sensitivity was obvious, as having more acute senses is the obvious way to improve them, but then I thought that I never want to be caught off guard by a strong smell or bright light. Hopefully training control of my senses will help prevent that. I have not noticed much change beyond my vision clearing up slightly and I think I'm getting better at telling the difference between my baby mashes by smell. I sure can taste that damnable pea mash though.
Next came Breathing.
At first you might think of something like the breathing styles from Demon Slayer, but it is nothing of the sort. From what I could feel out from the Breathing mote, it would simply improve my breathing to be the most efficient. I set the mote to first repair any damage to my lungs from things like dust or ambient smoke.
Once my lungs were in top shape I set the mote to bring my breathing pattern to peak human while also giving me the effects of altitude training. The breathing pattern will allow me to have control over my breathing and always take in as much air as I can so I'll rarely be winded, at least once it has been trained. This also means that my normal breathing will be smoother and more in tune with the rest of my body, something that will be important if and when I start doing sports or martial arts.
The altitude training will help me grow more alveoli in my lungs like people do when they live in high altitudes, thus letting their lungs better support their body in the thinner air by drawing more oxygen per breath. These Breathing trainings won't instantly turn me into an endurance god or anything, but with the way my motes passively train me, that quote about planting trees comes to mind.
"The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago, the second best time is now"
The next two motes I managed to create were Consumption, and slightly more embarrassing, Excretion.
Consumption was all about eating and drinking. I considered making it train away my need to eat and drink at all, but as a baby with a stay at home mother that would stand out too much. Instead I set it to train myself to absorb as much as I can from anything I eat or drink as well as expanding the things I can consume.
No lactose intolerance for me!
Excretion was the opposite. It was training the body to remove things. I set it to train to be able to remove as much harmful substances as it could and then tried to forget about how I used a conceptual ability to poop better. On the bright side in a couple of years I will be immune to microplastics.
The evilest kind of plastic.
The final mote I made during the week was simply called Body.
It clicked while I was rolling around my living room floor, something that seemed to amuse my mother to no end. It also seemed to be an important mote as it felt larger and more solid than the other motes. It also had the most amount of options for things to improve on. It was overwhelming at first, but eventually I centered myself enough to look away from the beautiful mote in my minds eye.
"Nathan, are you ok baby?"
Confusedly I looked at my mother who seemed to be ready to fuss over me. Ah, I had stopped rolling. A quick "ah" and another roll seemed to set her at ease and she went back to watching the TV, which had some reality show on. Not my cup of tea, but being a housewife must get boring and its not like my mother is lazy or anything. Our house is very clean for its size.
With my mother pacified I focused back on the mote, and I knew what I wanted to do with it. As my goal is to have an extremely solid foundation the first thing I set it to train away was any macro-damages I may have.
Bumps, bruises, bones not growing into perfect shape, any possible developmental issues I may have, no matter how small. Based on what I knew about my mother I don't think she would drink while pregnant, but I can't discount her getting a lungful of second-hand smoke. Once my mote finished making my body a well oiled machine in a few months, I set it so it would then begin to work on micro imperfections.
My genetics.
I set it so over the next few years I would become the perfect non-supernatural human specimen. No genetic diseases, perfect bone structure, perfect musculature, no body odor. Anything and everything that would make me a better human. Anything a human could have, I will have. Anything a mundane human can cast off? I will lose.
I can feel the Body mote soaking up the instruction, and I can feel its limit as a mundane human. This will bring me to the absolute apex of the human body, but not cross a certain threshold into something like a high human. I could force the evolution, but the efficiency will plummet without some sort of supernatural effect to support such a transformation. The Body mote would be split between training me into a high human while simultaneously trying to create the foundation of such a supernatural transformation, which would cause it to take decades.
I also set the Body mote to keep me in the top 10% of physicality. It will keep me strong, fast and have a good endurance for my age, but won't be enough to truly turn any heads. Any adult will just think I'm a naturally athletic kid and leave it at that.
Meditation turned out to be a massive boon to my adult mind as well. Being a baby is mind numbingly boring and being able to zen out has helped my mental health over the last few days. That mote has been set to get deeper into meditation while still being aware of my surroundings in case my mom wants to interact, but I set some training time aside to train meditation to replace my need to sleep. That will take a while, but I think its a worthwhile investment for my future.
After getting the Body mote I tried for a Mind mote, but I think as a slightly scatterbrained baby I'm not able to meet the minimum require for a mote to click into place.
All in all, it has been a good week, and I'm excited for the future.