After using Psychological Cues in the Restaruant to have them forget about me I went back to my Apartment.
I rested my head on my bed's pillow. The Norn Stone spinning slowly above my hand, tethered to nothing but my will. The soft light of the bedside lamp painted shadows across the room in soft amber strokes.
I was using Observation Haki on the stone again. I tried measuring the mana that was contained within Aether to spectacularly non-existent results.
It was like attempting to measure a ruler using marshmallows No Marshmallow is the same, its shape is inconsistent and can be condensed into a smaller shape.
I focused further on to the Norn stone, and felt the mana around me once more, its metaphysical form so easily easily sensed but so impossibly difficult to measure.
I gave a small smirk "Hahaha, if magic wasn't so safeguarded you could make a philosophy about this.... Although I do agree for not making this available for the masses, just imagine everyone being able to do small scale reality warping, much of this world would turn upside down."
Magic was more about senses than it was about logic. I could sense it and use my will to shape it and to a unimaginable scale using my Conquerors Haki, however what I desire isn't magic, it was greater insight into Aether and the Godrunes.
I raised my right hand further than it did, the floating Cosmic Stone raising equally as my hand did, I used Observation Haki to watch flow of mana as pushed against the barriers that was Aether.
"I'm trying to measure the bottle using the water inside it." It was frustrating to attempt to visualize but I was getting closer, so very close....I enhanced my Observation Haki 6 times over, Leaving the rest to maintain my Psychological Invisibility.
As I honed closer into the stone.... I saw it just for instant I could see it the barrier which contained mana Aether. I smiled it was just for instant I could see it but that was more than enough.
Using my enhanced memories and senses of the Visionary pathway I began focusing on recreating that feeling... And I did. I saw Aether once more, I saw it as the wires (Aether) in which electricity (Mana) moves along moves along.
It was both awe inspiring and scary, this was the first step into creating God runes as well as the first step to altering reality....
If I could fuse the Mind realm with this I could potentially create not only a imaginary reality but a semi real reality, no longer would I be constrained by reality now I could, now I could just control it with my mind.
The idea was dangerous but it was also very interesting. But baby steps first, and those first steps were being able to sense Aether not just using my spiritual sense but on a physical sense.
Seeing as I was able to see Aether I quickly grabbed an Apple from my desk and began trying to move it using my will; I wanted to try and move it through space.
I began tapping into my Observation Haki and I saw the infinitely complex forms aether took.... but I focused on one, to try and send this apple through the Aether and back, I wanted to create Spatium.
Using my Conquerors Haki I pressed down on the Aether commanding it using my will, and it moved it began contorting twisting, space began to move for me... as the apple disappeared from hand and it re-appeared on the table it once was on.
"IT WORKED!!!"
A visible smirked appeared on my face. I commanded Space to follow my commands.
I wanted to try and mix the Mind realm with Aether next... but that was dangerous very dangerous all things considered, I mean the Mind Realm is quite literally a place where my will can affect reality... I could quite literally just command things to be like they've always been there.
Who know what would happen if I tried that, if I tried mixing the true manifestation of the laws of Physics with the realm of quite literal imagination.
"I should do that" I sighed thinking about the possibilities and the dangers that could follow that form of thinking.
But now I should continue training my Aether Core until I unlock a God Rune, that way I can attempt to create a cover up for the results of my battle with Fafnir.