Rise Ethereal Essence - Chapter 11
Shortly after those events, the Dark Essence left.
The Dark Essence went far away from The Crystal Tree traveling for days.
It’s body passing through the wind without really touching it. It finally stopped at the bottom of a cliff. A cascading stream spilled into the clear waters of a lake where it was.
The stream splashed like pouring rain releasing a mist that covered the surface of the clear lake.
In the sounds of the falling stream, the Dark Essence pondered about the many things it had understood.
“Let’s see, elves breathe, supplying their strength and life. As do The Crystal Tree and other trees. The Crystal Tree absorbs that air discharging energy created with it. The crystal leaves of The Crystal Tree merge with the sky and vice-versa.”
“I can’t do those things though, at least I probably can’t. Everything seems to go through or far from my body” Thought the Dark Essence.
It had tried interacting with the world through shaking, but the result was inconclusive. Its intense shaking had produced space within the material world resulting in the creation of a vacuum. The matter would instantly try to fill the space. It seemed like the separation of matter, space in simple terms, was not allowed within material worlds.
As the Dark Essence pondered the other meanings, a strange gust breezed past it. The thirty-meter sphere of Dark Essence was almost blown away. It had to quickly stabilize itself.
An advising voice was heard with the wind directed straight towards the Dark Essence’s mind, “Do not compare yourself to the creatures of these worlds. The confines of the material and the immaterial universe cannot measure you or your capabilities. Do not cloud your mind by what can be, but expose it to what is. You are the Dark Essence.”
Dark Essence “…”
The Dark Essence recognized the voice in the gust as its creator.
The Dark Essence hearing the contents of the message thought for a while. It realized it was trying to mimic those species when it didn’t need to. It had been limiting itself to the world around it.
The Dark Essence as if being awoken started to straighten its mind. “What I must take from these creatures is the general principles within their bodies. Maybe if I add those certain principles to my celestial body, I might be able to change my circumstances.”
It had already observed the elves bodies, their interactions, and purpose within the vast world.
Years of observation had almost led it in the direction of imitation.
General principles were caused by the natural behaviors of one’s body. They weren’t just found in bodies but in matter, nature, and worlds.
The Dark Essence wanted to use those principles in a way that would produce certain natural behaviors in its own body. In that way, it could bring benefits to itself while not being limited by the constraints of mortal bodies.
For other creatures, changing the natural behavior of their bodies could be nearly impossible unless they had full control over it. But even then, the natural behavior of one’s body was nearly unchangeable and having full control of one’s body was difficult for most mortals.
The natural behaviors could be described as things a body did naturally and not consciously. Those behaviors could range in many different ways. A controllable behavior like breathing to an uncontrollable behavior like the pumping of a heart.
The Dark Essence had no need for things like breathing or having a pumping heart. It only needed the understanding of general principles. The general principles were a result of the natural behaviors in bodies.
They included a variety of concepts. The few it had understood so far were compression, absorption, thrusting, currents, form, and force. The Dark Essence concluded that if it managed to utilize these principles, it might be able to interact with the material world.
The Dark Essence could not be put on the same level as a corporeal body. It could do everything an elf could but more superior in comparison. With its ethereal body, most limits were almost non-existent.
One factor that limited it was not being able to interact with matter. Although it had its benefits, it was not clear as of now.
A major limit of a corporeal body was form. A form had its advantages and disadvantages. Movement, power, strength, stamina, ability. All these things could be great on some and terrible on others.
The Dark Essence lacked many things compared to a corporeal body. Arms, hands, legs, feet, head, mouth, nose, eyes, and ears. The difference between those corporeal features was that the Dark Essence could listen, feel, move, see, and think without limit. It was not constrained by those features.
That was unique to itself.
The Dark Essence seriously contemplated those many issues finally coming to a single understanding.
If it wanted to change, the only option would be to give it a shot.
It’s the stuff you read.