"With your mental pace finished, even if it is rather crude for now, you ow start the most important part, building up your defenses and surveilnce." I listeo Valenith instruct Selene while I fiddled with a piece of Wraithbone I picked up somewhere along the temple, we'd reached it without anymore plication to my surprise and now all we had to do befoing through was to make sure Selene could handle demons poking at her soul aihe moment we went through. In the meantime I was also running my unused Mind-Cores non-stop to decipher all the Tyranid temptes I got, first was the hive Tyrant obviously which I was intimately familiar by now as I used it as the base of both Selene's and my Symbiotic armor as well as for my bio-sword. Both have been improving siheir first iteration, and I barely uood how and why the structure of cells and such were set up in the way they were. However, with my increased uanding of them, I was able to increase their effectiveness. I wasn't just copying the homework of the Hive-Mind anymore, but making it my own. I also improved on my bat Form, well not as much improved as entirely new as I ged the base from a Lictor to the Hive Tyrant and made it so I could ge its size to fit my needs. It also had all of my own additions, like the Ambull's radiation a eating. Excellent stuff all around. My Humanoid Form also got a nice upgrade as I mao ie the best Tyranid nerves into it, increasing my base rea time and twitch reflexes by a dozen times at least. The bones were still the same even if I had better ones in my stores. I had some special ideas for that one which tied into why I was fiddling with a fistful of Wraithbone. "You o build surveilo always s whether your mind has been tampered with, you need redundant memory stes to fix it if such a thing happened but most importantly you o set up defences around your mind to keep the ce of such a thing happening as loossible." Valenith tinued his lecture as both me and Sele on the floor in lotus position, though that's where our simirities ended. She had her eyes closed and her face pulled into a focused frown. I could tell she was engraving every word spoken by the Eldar into her memory and did her best to follow his instrus to the best of her abilities. Then there was me, holding up my cheek with my right fist as I zily twirled the k of psychoactive ro my left palm as I didn't even appear like I aying attention but that was the downside of being great at multitasking, people always thought I wasn't paying attention to them when I was also doing something else. "Now tell me," he spoke calmly, his hands csped behind his back, "How did you re-route the river of energy a up your mind?" "My mind is in a tower in the ter of the Pace, oop floor and the river runs in through a gate on the walls, running along the walls but not toug any of the buildings," Selene answered quickly, her face still the image of focus. "Now tell me this holy," he spoke with a serious tone, "did the effects the energy had on your emotions lessen?" "Yes," she nodded, "I still feel it, urgio rely on it more, to take more of it into me, but it's more like a whisper ing from afar than an insistent devil in my shoulder." "And you should ig," Valenith nodded, "That is good, if you ever increase the size of your pace — and you should as you grow in power — you should aim to keep the river of energy as removed from the core of your mind as possible but under no less surveilhan you'd give to your own mind, insidious beings could slip through the gate if you show signs of weakness for even a sed. Eternal vigince is the only way to keep yourself as you are." "Oooops," I said absently as the Wraithbourned into dust in my palm. P soul energy filled with Smite wasn't the py, it seemed. "Sorry, tinue, please." Val gred at me weakly, but he just sighed and tinued instrug Selene. He was rather grumpy at the start, saying that he only promised to give me a few pointers not to turn into a mentor for Selene, but he was easy to vince. His one demand was that I'd sit on in his 'csses' as well. Not weird at all, the secretive space elf giving away his treasured are knowledge. I'm not suspicious at all~, but it was still free knowledge of the Psyker powers, so I had no reason to reject it. "Now," Val spoke, "you reject me, but I'd like to peek into your mindscape for a moment to see if everything is in pce." "Uhm," Selene looked unsure, "Ea?" "You should do it," I said as I pulled another k of Wraithboo my hand with a bit of TK (Telekinesis), "I don't know why but Val holy wants to make sure that we don't get fucked by the ." "Thank You," his lips twitched at my open doubt of his reasons but he didn't divulge them even if this was the dozenth time I sent a jab like that at him. "Alright," Selene nodded, "how do I do this?" "You will feel my preseouind," he said as he too sat down onto the flht in-front of Selene and stared into her eyes which made me a tounoyed for whatever reason, "You will feel an instinctive urge to sh out at me, suppress that urge, it won't hurt me but as you focus on attag out of instinind bees vulnerable to intrusion, never let your mind be trolled by your emotions or instincts." "Okay." Selene nodded nervously as she fidgeted with her hands. "I will start now," Val said as I felt energy mount up inside him and rush to his mind, I narrowed my eyes as I saw he didn't use any tendrils of energy to ect his mind to Selene's but some sort of resonanbsp;that stemmed from their interlog gazes. They stayed still as statues for five seds, with beads of sweat running down Selene's neck before she blinked and slumped back a little. Valenith stood up as he o himself. "You have excellent self-trol," he stared absently into the distance as he rubbed his , "And your diligence will serve you well. Your mindscape is well-structed and secure as it could be with your current power." "Thanks," Selene breathed heavily as she answered with a tired smile. "Now for the st part before we start on how to actually use your powers," Val csped his hands behind him and raised his imperiously, "close that gate and stifle the river, let only the slightest trickle drip through it." "Eh?" Selene blinked as she straightened her bad put on a serious face again. "That will be your test for now," he said, "you could sider yourself more than a victim of the if you mao hold that gate closed indefinitely, but be careful to never close it entirely, a Psyker with no energy c through their body is like a starvi reduced to their base instincts." "Fasting is good but starving is not," Selene murmured and Val nodded. "Alright." I silently patted my hands so the remains of the Wraithbone didn't dirty them anymore as I focused on Selene. More accurately, how her presence made me feel. Over the en minutes, it went from utterly disgusted, to revolt, to unfortable, to mild disfort, to finally to a slight twist in my stomach when I put all of my focus into her. I blinked and a genuine smile spread ay face as I looked at her. "Did you do something to her?" Valenith whispered to me as he came to stao my seated form as we both observed the meditating Selene. "Why do you ask?" I raised an eyebrow, not remembering anything I could have doo her aside from some teasing. "It is unnatural to have such drive without mental ditioning. Being able to put one's entire focus into aplishing a task is a rare ability, rarely found among naturally evolved beings." "A here she is," I shrugged, "and no, I have done no biologiental modifications on her." "I see," he tilted his head, deep in thought, "it might be a geic talent, maybe something her aained long ago." "I wouldn't dismiss the possibility of humanity from twenty thousand years ago geically altering a part of their popution to beore effit worker drones." "Indeed," he frowned, "I know little of humanity during those times. The tales and songs hold little of the truth from that timeframe." "It might be better that way," I shrugged, "some things are better left fotten." "Did I do it right?" Selene's strained voice reached us, auro her in unison. "I think so," I smiled. "I barely feel the touch of the on you." "Indeed," Val nodded like a someroud teacher, "but the hard part will keep that gate closed as is indefinitely, if you feel you 't hold on anymore, only open it by a tiny fra of a sed and close it back as soon as you did while searg for either me or Ea." "Alright," she nodded, blinking as she bit her cheeks. "I think you will go far if you overe this challenge," a slight smile graced the Eldar's stoic face, "few even among my kind have the focus and dedication you showed, if you keep it up you might make a great Psyker one day." She nodded, her face sd her eyebrows furrowed from the focus but she had a slight smile on her lips. "Alright, e here," I waved her over, "I'll monitor her for new. You do whatever you want Val. Thanks for the lecture." "I wao study the temple and the Gateway anyway," he huffed as he strode off. "Now e here." I pulled Selene dowo me by her hand. I made a handful of fy rugs out of some soft fur I found among my temptes. Selene fell down with a yelp and pnted herself face first into the rugs. "Oh," she mumbled, "this is nice." "Don't sleep just yet," I poked her side, making her jump, "focus on that gate thingy. e on, sit." I patted the rug o me and she settled dowo me with a weak gre. "So," she drew out the word as she g the side of my face, I still pyed with a k of Wraithbone just like before and held my head up by the cheek, "what are you doing?" "Curious?" at her nod I held out my hand and showed her the murky greyish white k of solidified energy, "don't touch it just yet, try to feel it." She pulled back her hand and stared at the piece of decayed boensely. "It feels... a bit like the energy of the river but rigid." "An acute assessment," I smiled, "this is Wraithbone, solidified energy. The Eldar use it as the main material for anything from ons and armor to void-ships and buildings." "What's it good for?" she asked with a bit of curiosity glimmering in her eyes. "It's the most psychoactive material I know," I said as I held it at the end of my finger aated it with an inteare, I let out a grin, I didn't touch it with a tendril of soul energy, "it is the greatest material to make staffs, psychic swords and psychic armor out of." "I see," she tilted her head, "and what are you doing with it?" "I'm trying to purify it," I shrugged. "I want a pure Wraithbohout tainting it, made up of pure soul energy." "And that's ... possible?" "I don't know," I shrugged, "no reason it shouldn't be. I already purify energy, so this isn't much of a leap." "Wait what?" she stared at me incredulously. "Wana feel it?" I raised an eyebrow as I made the tip of my index finger glow with utterwhite light. " I?" she stared at the light. "Sure," I said, "focus on how it feels. This is what the is supposed to be and what it would be if the gaxy wasn't such a fucked up pce." I poked her in the forehead a a bit of the energy drip into her. Her rea was much less intehan Valenith's, probably a bination of less acute senses and not uanding what me having this energy means. She blinked owlishly a few times before she shook her head, hitting me in the face with her hair. "That felt..." she frowned in thought as she g me extrag her hair from my mouth, "sorry- I mean, it felt... normal, like... nothing." "Because it's pure," I shrugged, "energy shouldn't feel like anything, but it still has some tastes to it and peculiarities, but far from what the energy has." "How do you even purify it?" she raised an eyebrow, probably not expeg a straight answer. "I'm such a pure soul that the 't help but be sed of evil in its presence," I raised my proudly and she snorted. "Sure," she rolled her eyes with a smile. P3t1

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