LRAB Chapter 55 – Creating an Identity
Chapter 55 – Creating an Identity
Chapter 55 – Creating an Identity
[Okay, is everything ready?] (Syrus)
[Yes.] (Eva)
[Good, I’ll be taking the lead then.] (Syrus)
It had been two days since Anna took refuge in the cave. They would’ve liked to have gone to Ihere already, but it took longer for Eva to control her Morph attribute than she predicted.
However, looking at the reflection in the water, Eva was happy with their appearance.
It was still the same as before, but the horn was finally gone.
Over the training, Eva was able to learn that she could: Increase and decrease her size by about 2%, grow out her hair, change the colour of her eyes and hair, and elongate parts of her body–easiest being fingers and nails, and remove her horn.
Luna preferred if there was no indication of her Moonlight attribute on the body. Cutting that segment of hair didn’t work, as the colour just faded to white as mana flowed through their body.
[I do think Morph has something to do with the permanent shift from our initial transformation and the one that happened after we awoke.] (Luna)
[Agreed, but I’m unsure of what that difference is.] (Eva)
Even though Eva now had control over her attribute, it was far from perfect and she still didn’t understand everything about it.
On the control side, Eva couldn’t maintain multiple changes at once for long, with more changes increasing the difficulty of it. However, she found she could maintain one small change without a drain, so she chose the horn, which solved the issue of causing a ruckus if she entered towns.
But there was still way too much she didn’t know.
Then there was the sudden change into Syrus that occurred.
They were able to learn at least why that happened, but not why this change occurred within them, besides just saying it appeared because of all the other changes.
When one person was in control of the body, the body would change into that person’s form.
This didn’t mean that only one person was in the body, but more if they were the only one in the front seat.
Luna and Eva decided on the terms front seat, back seat, and soul seat, to describe the positions. If there were more than two people in the front seat, then the body would change back to normal, and from their testing, they found it harder to stay in the back seat, as they would often accidentally enter the front seat position. The soul seat just referred to being in their Soul Space.
When the body changed, their physical appearance looked similar to their soul forms, but not exactly. Hair didn’t change length unless Eva changed it beforehand, and they didn’t grow to the height of Syrus’s soul form.
[Morph… Is definitely being activated when the changes occur.] (Syrus)
[But it doesn’t feel like I’m doing anything?] (Eva)
[Hmm… I think it’s an automatic function of the body at this point, as I felt the attribute come out of the muscles of the body.] (Syrus)
[I understand the concept of that… people have found ways to store their raw attributes within the body for use; I guess this must be a variant of that?] Luna hypothesised, but she was still unsure.
[It does use mana to change between forms, but I’m curious what will happen if we run out. If we will either stay in the current form or revert back to ‘Anna’.] (Eva)
[That could be dangerous to test.] (Luna)
[Agreed, the result shouldn’t matter anyway. But we should test what happens if we suddenly pass out.] (Eva)
[How are we supposed to do that—smack our head against a rock?] (Syrus)
[We’ll figure something not that dangerous out.] (Eva)
They found they could still use their attributes when in the backseat, but moving any part of the body was a no-go. Which was something they took note of for later.
After all the changes and practising were complete, they were finally ready to leave the forest and
She leaned forward and said, “I know she’s alive; don’t worry, I just want to make sure she is safe with the kids.”
“Who… are you…” The women began to sweat.
[Looks like we caught our golden goose.] (Syrus)
[Don’t call her that, you have frightened her.] (Luna)
“Someone she tried to save, but still somehow made it out after staying behind.” Said Syrus, “Now can I come in, I don’t want to cause a commotion.”
“Yes…” The woman quickly weighed her options and decided this was the only course that increased her safety.