"..." I quickly scratch magic formulas onto the bedroom floor, using my own blood to conduct the magic.
"Pandora, what are you doing? I could teach you."
"No!!! I want us to create sothing new! I won’t be satisfied with anything less than five hundred tis the efficiency!!!" I tell her, determined to make sothing good. Thirty to a hundred tis more efficiency isn’t enough when I know I can do better.
"Look, if we formulate the Doom elent using a basis similar to Chaos magic, we can see a pattern. See?" I show her the drawings I made with blood, scattered all over the room, channeling magic.
The Doom elent is so intense that the blood is "pulsing" as if it were alive. My sister looks at the drawings around us—various symbols that help the magic follow a stable pattern.
"It looks well-made, but this doesn’t even co close to what I achieved in terms of efficiency."
"...I can improve it. I just need so ti. But as a base model, does it look good to you?" I ask, getting up from the floor while sucking the blood off my finger to clean it.
"Yes, for a base, it’s great. But it’ll need several modifications. Also, with this type of formula, if you make a change, you can’t erase it."
"As you know, elents are sothing that get ’etched’ into existence. The mont you create an efficiency formula for the elent and it’s wrong at any point, you have to start over from scratch. You can’t just erase the wrong part or follow a similar path at the beginning."
’She’s right.’ This formula I put together on the floor is the "base" that was born when the elent was born. But from the mont I create branches off the base, I’ll never be able to modify them again. So if it goes wrong, I’ll have to restart from the base.
The base increased the elent’s efficiency by five tis. And now cos the important part—the branches. I can’t branch it carelessly, or I’ll just end up wasting ti.
"Sister, what’s the best way to create branches?"
"How much do you want to improve and refine the elent?"
"At least five hundred tis. And for a comfortable margin, anywhere from seven hundred fifty to a thousand tis improvent and refinent."
"Hmmm... that’s quite an exaggerated amount... Normally, elents are refined up to two hundred tis, and then later people make small refinents that add another one or two."
"But doing five hundred all at once—or more—is going to take a lot of effort. The more refined an elent is, the harder it becos to make any improvent or adaptation."
"I don’t care, sister! You were right, and I want to give this my absolute all!!! So I set a heavy goal to prove I’m capable!!"
"I know I can do this, but I also know it’ll be hard! And that’s exactly what I need. I really have to struggle to make this happen, to show that the power I have right now isn’t enough!!"
"If I can’t even refine my elent five hundred tis, then how can I expect to kill the goddesses? Using what I’ve learned from the fundantals of creation, if I analyze the sacred elent, it has a refinent of eight thousand tis compared to its base."
"Pandora, the goddess Elysia, who owns that elent, has lived a very long ti, you know? Obviously, eight thousand is an exaggerated number that only older elents have. Besides, so elents go past eight thousand, but that’s because they’re old." She speaks patiently.
"I know, sister! But that’s exactly why I need to surpass the goal I set!!! It’s not impossible, right? And even if it is impossible, I’ll still do it!"
"...Hahaha. You seem really focused on this. Alright then, do what you want. But I won’t be able to help much. The formula I developed is neutral, and it only reaches two hundred for certain elents."
"If used on the Doom elent, it would probably bring it to a hundred and fifty tis the refinent and efficiency. But my formula is a branch that can’t grow any further without collapsing."
"Then I’ll create sothing from scratch, sister! Just help by telling what’s wrong..." What shapes the use and progress of every existing elent is a "formula," and that formula can be "expanded." When you expand the formula, you simplify the equation, increasing efficiency.
In other words, raw elent is like sothing incomprehensible. We start by creating a "base," which is what I did—the direct "mathematical" formula of the elent that we can alter.
But the base is a giant, complex formula that never really shrinks. The branches are like lines that partially cut through the main equation, reducing its size without changing the final result of the elent.
If I had to put it into words, the base formula is like a calculation the size of an entire planet. And each branch and ramification I create within the base formula slightly reduces how spread out that calculation is.
And each reduction makes the answer reach the final result faster, thus increasing the efficiency and refinent of the Elent.
"I think if I do it like this—"
BOOM
For a mont, the air distorts, and space itself cracks as I flinch back by reflex.
"Pandora?" Azraelith looks at the drawing that exploded when I tried to change sothing. I wipe the dust off my face and see so kind of saline stone on the floor, ford from the failure.
"..." I stare at it in frustration, realizing sothing I had overlooked.
"Pandora, the more effects an elent has, the more chaotic the failures beco when branching off the base formula... That’s why the Chaos elent doesn’t have much refinent—it generates too many dangerous effects."
"Your elent also focuses on generating infinite effects randomly, based on what you need... So every wrong change will create sothing unpredictable. You should be more careful. One wrong line could take your life. Do you still want to try for five hundred?"
"I will. I don’t care if it’s risky. I know I can survive. I just need to take counterasures against anything dangerous while I work on the formula." I use darkness to devour the "dirt" staining the base formula.
"Pandora, be more patient. Don’t start with the formula’s effects. Start with its practical application instead."
"Which would be?" I stare at her, unsure where to begin.
"The way you use it. In this case, saying what you want to sacrifice to the elent and what you want in return."
"Oh... okay. That part does seem easier... Well... Doom balances things through the weight the universe assigns to both sides."
"For example, if I want to destroy a planet and I ask Doom for that, the Doom elent will simplify it, saying the planet has a value of ten, and I need to give sothing worth ten for the Doom elent to generate the effect I want."
"Doom also makes it clear to the user’s mind whether that sothing has the sa value or not, so you don’t have to test things by luck or sacrifice sothing of greater value. You just think of sothing, and the elent sends a signal confirming that thing has the right value."
"But there’s another variable too. The Doom elent generates an effect that I tell it to generate, and the effect adds another value. For example, I could say I want the planet erased from existence. Existential erasure might have a value of five, so the exchange value becos fifteen, and I’d need sothing worth fifteen."
"So either I let Doom choose the thod of destruction and pay a cheaper price, or I choose the destruction thod myself and pay a little more." I explain to my sister exactly how Doom really works.
"That’s a good way to define things, Pandora, but I believe we can improve it. Maybe a branch to reduce costs. If destroying a planet is worth ten, we could reduce the cost in exchange for more mana, lowering the value from ten to five, or maybe even one. And if we can improve it a lot, maybe we could even reach 0.01."
"And the more we increase the efficiency of this part, the lower the cost will beco. That would be really good. Actually, we should focus on this part—your elent costs way too much."
"It’s incredible, but its cost is enormous. Besides that, we could also make the value of what we sacrifice much higher. For example, suppose you sacrificed one of your eyes, and that’s worth twenty because it holds a lot of magic."
"If we increase the efficiency and refinent enough, we could raise that to a hundred, two hundred, two thousand, or even ten thousand. That would make small sacrifices have much higher value while the cost of power becos much lower." She explains it very clearly.
’She’s absolutely right. Increasing the value the Doom elent sees in the sacrifice and reducing the cost—those are two things that would make this elent far more powerful. And they’re easier branches to make because failures won’t blow everything up in my face.’ I begin analyzing the base formula to do what she said.
"Easy... your hand is shaking." She sits down behind , grabbing my arms as I take a deep breath and sigh, calming my sowhat jittery movents. I’m really tense about this.
"I’m just nervous. I don’t want to fail, but I also shouldn’t rush. I just want to ride the peak of determination your words gave ..."
"That’s fine, Pandora. We’ll just take it slow. Creating this formula will take so ti, and we can always refine it little by little. After all, we’ll need many branches to get the efficiency and refinent to five hundred tis the base value."
"...Thanks for the help, big sis." I say it sweetly, turning around and giving her a soft little kiss on the lips, then turning my full attention and focus back to the Doom elent—my weapon against the goddesses.
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