Immediately my brain is flooded with information. So much so, that it's very hard to process. Well, I suppose a child doesn't learn to walk in one go either. From the spell, I could tell ohing, a few feet back from the wall here there is a somewhat small hollow bubble in the rock. I imagi's much like the ounneled into when I was making my ey.
I scale the size down for my spellcast down to 5ft radius, and the cost goes down to 3 mana. Quite cheap holy. I activate it on the same se of wall and I am again flooded with information, but way less than before. I pinpoint the bubble to starting just over 4 ft back from the wall.
At some point I might tunnel back there, but right now, I have no i in it. The hing I want to do is go get my separated stones. I go get a bucket of the darkstone from the ste room aurn to my room. While there, I make a 1 foot cube of the darkstone, and a smaller 6 inch cube of lightstone.
While holding the darkstone in one hand I activate teise on it. As I scaled the spell size down, I noticed that the cost never dropped to zero, no matter how small the area, it stayed at a minimum of one mana.
The response I get from teise is a little different than before. This time it's a much less noisy response in my head from the stone. I have a few guesses as to why.
First, the majority of the rock here is igneous rod has small pockets of gas distributed, so a ground radar pulse would always return a noisy signal. When I refihe rock, I leave it in a solid form. Sed, the material is much more uniform and pure in position. Which again should reduce signal noise.
I repeat the process with the lightstone cube, a a simir response. , I use stone shaping to fuse the two different stone cubes to each other, and from one side cast teise.
This time I get a crisp feeling of when the rock ges density, right where I merged the two. Giveential in front of me, I have an idea. I want to try to train myself to be able to detect small impurities in the rock, and use stone shaping to manipute them. The bad news is that in order to make training material, I'm going to likely be sacrifig my prior hard work in separating stone, since I'll be using it to introduce impurities that I want to detect.
As it stands currently, in already purified material I only have a rough sense of the impurities with teise, and only when they are rge, but if I standardize what I'm w with acc to size and shape, then I probably get quite det at log different minerals.
This whole process will probably take weeks of practice to get good at, not to mention all the other work I'll have to do to practice as well. One of the first things I'll need is to determine what to use as a standard size. Then I'll o make practice pieces with known impurities put in of set sizes ahem. Finally, I'll want to make live test pieces from raw pressed stoo see how well I work with it. Then, maybe expand to unpressed stoo see if I still work with it despite the structure of it.
Before I start on this long project though, I do want to try o thing. Teise on crystals. I'm holy not sure what to expect. On one hand, a crystal is really pure, so I'd almost expect a pure image, but these aren't just normal crystals. I dig around to find a good sized crystal, and use teise while holding it.
I get a crisp, but partially empty response. Almost like less of the mauro me than I would expect. So I decide to try something a little different this time. I way overcharge the size of the teise to send through the crystal. I'd normally expect this to give me a lot of echo sensations from the object. Instead I get a few echoes, and I notice that the crystal is noticeably brighter than it was before.
Well, I guess I shouldn't be too surprised, these crystals do hold mana after all, I could have guessed that they might absorb some of the mana from the teise pulse. Holy, maybe I should train with crystals instead of lightstone as the impurities. As much as I'd like to use lightstone, I just don't have enough to make any reasoraining materials. Although the cave itself is plentiful with crystals, so I don't really o know where crystals are in the walls, if there even are any, but if it's just for the sake of increasing my skill with teise, then it should do the job. As tempting as speeding up stone refi is, the whole task is currently just impractical to speed up using my current skills and tools.
With my mind made up, I go a some buckets of darkstone from ste, and bring them to my room. I get the two smaller crystal bucket tainers, and begin designing the test blocks. I decide on a two foot by two foot cube for the test blocks. While they're big, so big in fact that I have to carry eadividually, I also know that my teise has a much rger range, so I fear starting too small would hinder me too much when it es to practical uses for teise. It's also a great use for darkstone, which I currently don't have much of a use for.
After two days of work I've run out of darkstone, which came as a shoe. Holy, with how long I spent refining lightstone and darkstone, I thought I'd have much more. That said, I do have 25 test cubes stacked against a wall. Each has different embedded patterns of crystals and open spaces inside of them. I also etched a number into one er of eae, and made an answer sheet on a tablet, so I check how well I did oermining the insides of eabsp; The only real issue is that I 't truly randomize the cubes, since I'm the only one here, but I think if I move them around enough, I'll fet whie is whibsp; The other issue that I have right now though is that all these cubes are really filling a lot of spa the room. In the past, they wouldn't have even fit in here, but that whole time I was refining stone I was cutting away at one wall to get the stoo refine, so I really ended up with a lot more space than when I started here.
I don't really want to make a whole third room though her, nor do I want them filling up my ee spabsp; Especially not just for these training cubes that I'll likely only be using for a little while each day. As much as I sit and refione for long hours every day, I have a feeling overusionise would give me a splitting headache until I'm much more used to it. For now I'll limit myself to an hour of practice a day, and then an hour of randomizing the cube order. Then I'll tinue expanding my room and refining stoil I'm bored of it.
Holy, I'm starting to get a little bit of a schedule made for myself. Between taking time every so often to refill crystal grids, trainionise, refining stone, getting new imp meat, aing wood outside, I've got plenty to do to just pass the time and do different things when I'm bored of one. Speaking of getting new imp meat, it's already only 15 days or so until the goblin es baake imps. I'm starting to get pretty fident that he es back every 45 days or so, give few iions.
I think for the wo weeks or so, I'll just keep to that schedule. Making sure I'm stocked up and ready for when the goblin es, and just training up teise. I already stocked up quite a bit on wood ie room, but actually, I should sider st more in there, so that I'm ready to burn the iable corpse pile.
Fht now, I'll mark my stats down again though.