Chapter 1054: Beyond the Box

Chapter 1054: Beyond the Box



Taking a few steps back to get a better look at what form his Mystic Energy took on, Valyr could not help but rub his eyes a couple of times to figure out whether he was dreaming or

not.

Unsure whether rubbing his eyes would prove that the current situation before him was real, the young man went ahead and pinched himself on the upper thigh with as much as strength he could muster.

"Mmph!" Suppressing a loud yowl from the amount of strength he put in to the pinch, Valyr soon took in a deep breath to calm himself down before looking back at the figure standing in front of him.

"It really isn't a dream, then," muttered the young man to himself. "The Mystic Energy really took on the form of a stick man."

Of course, the Mystic Energy didn't take on the form of an actual stick man.

If anything, the humanoid figure the Mystic Energy took on resembled one, though its body and limbs took on a bit of heft to become more tangible to the senses.

Feeling the immense strain on his Mystic Energy, Valyr looked at the stick man before him with a bitter smile. "Well, in terms of complexity, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it would take this much to have it manifest."

Noting that he only had a limited amount of time before the stick man in front of him would disappear due to a lack of Mystic Energy, the young man went ahead and made the most of the remaining time he had.

With that, he sent a few commands to the stick man through his thoughts, using the method he used to control the translucent arms he created during forging as an example.

Seeing the stick man remain in place even after bombarding it with a series of commands, Valyr soon let out a sigh in disappointment, only for another thought to surface in his mind. Whoosh!

Deciding to sacrifice the remaining Mystic Energy he had in his body, the young man went ahead and infused it into the stick man while attempting to send a command to it once more. The result?

"...!" With all of his senses entirely focused on the stickman, Valyr's eyes immediately glistened with glee the moment he noticed the stick man's hands twitch at its very last second of manifestation.

With his gaze still affixed towards the spot where the stick man previously stood, the young man went over what he witnessed just now in his mind, letting out a few drawn-out exhales as he more or less summed up his findings.

"So, it's possible to have Mystic Energy take on a human form," said Valyr to himself as he thought out loud, only to realize that he was probably disturbing both Mystia and Marcus' focus.

Slightly distancing himself from the two, it was only then did the young man return to his thoughts, smiling as he realized that Mystic Energy would be able to offer him far more than he initially thought.

"However, if I want it to take on a human form and move according to my thoughts, I would need a lot more Mystic Energy than I currently have."

"Possibly even push the purification of my Mystic Energy to 1st Metamorphosis if it's really that taxing," said the young man to himself, thinking of the situation as a win-win.

After all, if he were to increase his Mystic Energy capacity to an absurd degree, or purify his Mystic Energy to a higher stage, he could use either it to create a humanoid that would listen to him or a forging hammer that was better than the Hammer of Beginnings.

"Though, with how those two concepts, though separate from one another, could be fully realized through Mystic Energy, it does make me wonder."

Seeing as the Mystic Energy could accept almost every practice he could think of, Valyr

eventually returned his thoughts towards the stick man he conjured some time ago, hoping he could redeem himself now that he'd improved his Mystic Energy.

Of course, it went without saying that the stick man had become more pronounced than before thanks to his Mystic Energy now being at the stage of 1st Cleansing, allowing it to remain conjured longer while also becoming more tangible.

With its existence in reality prolonged due to this improvement, Valyr went ahead and attempted to relay a few orders to it once more, somewhat satisfied that it could do a few basic movements without much strain on his Mystic Energy.

Naturally, it was a different story when he asked it to complete more complex tasks, taking up

far more Mystic Energy per second than even five Epic-grade forging hammers created

through Mystic Energy could consume.

Nevertheless, he was still glad that the slight twitch he noticed back then wasn't a fluke,

reminding himself that it would only be a matter of time before he'd be able to use his Mystic Energy in human form to the fullest.

'Who knows, perhaps there might come a day where I'm not only limited to just one humanoid?' With that thought in mind, it did not take long for Valyr's mind to wander once more, eventually deciding to use Mystic Energy in a similar way to the translucent arms he

formed while forging.

Of course, with how open Mystic Energy was to all of the concepts he'd thrown at it thus far, it went without saying that it took on the form of translucent arms as well, taking only a fraction of the mental power to make them move according to his will.

However, the ease of control over the bright white arms came at the cost of the precision and

finesse of the action itself, which Valyr felt was an easy fix, especially after figuring out how to fix it by infusing it with more Mystic Energy not long after.

In the end, he figured out that he could conjure around four pairs of translucent arms with

Mystic Energy, which would bring the total number of pairs of arms he could use while

forging to nine.

"10 if I include my own," muttered Valyr to himself, only to grin to himself not long after as he realized he'd become even more of a one-man production line. Slightly chuckling as the thought lingered in his mind, the young man went over all of the experiments he'd done one last time, eventually confirming that his earlier hypothesis was

correct.

Though, rather than become excited at this confirmation, he instead became curious once more as he allowed his mind to go beyond the confines he'd initially set.

"Since I could use Mystic Energy to bring my thoughts to reality..." "Does that mean it's possible to bring modern technology into reality with it?"