Chapter 59: Three Tails

Three Tailed Mana Immune Runalymo Sage:
(Major) (Unique)
Requirements: Two Tailed Runalymo, Have bond at level 200 before age 10, Have bond at level 250 or more before the age of 15, Have Sense Mana at level 200 before age 10, Have Sense Mana at level 250 or more before the age of 15, Have 20 or more breakthroughs in Sense Mana before the age of 10, Have 25 or more breakthroughs in Sense Mana before the age of 15, Have Mana Toxicity Tolerance over 100, Have over 10 breakthroughs of Mana Toxicity Tolerance, Have Mana Toxicity Tolerance maxed, Have bathed in liquid fire mana, Have taught over a hundred people a high tier general skill, Have spread knowledge of Sense Mana to the Runalymo people, Have spread knowledge on how to improve enchanting, Have invented Spell Crystals for your society, have improved Spell Crystal design, Have invented Bond Crystals, Have invented Airships, Have improved Airship design, Have the knowledge of another realm, Have Been taught by Safyr The Guardian of the East Nexus, Have learned from an ancient ancestor, Have learned of lost history, Marked by Venaro the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, Age of 10 or higher.

A scholar, a scientist, inventor, Immune to mana toxicity, and a master to all things mana related; this Runalymo revels in discovery, her ability to learn and memorize is second to none. This Runalymo is able to sense almost everything about mana which makes them perfect for studying mana; their natural immunity to mana toxicity allows them total freedom to study everything about the energy that fuels magic. This Runalymo will not only revolutionize her race but her society too, and bring forth an age of discovery and technology.
Note: Skills may be merged or replaced.
Note: As the progenitor of an heirloom race the merged skill will continue to level and achieve breakthroughs normally. Take your race to ever greater heights, or burn to ashes trying.

Three tails now, and it's Unique, a step above Heirloom. It also has the note that another skill will be merged or replaced again, I can only think of [Mana Toxicity Tolerance]. As for what it will merge or replace I can only think of [Nexus adaptation] which serves as the same function but [Nexus Adaptation] also comes with some heat resistance, will I lose that or keep it, and if that's the case then would I still be able to level it up if it merges and becomes a new skill?

The risk is worth it if the skill is merged and I keep the heat resistance but do I want to risk it? What if I lose the heat resistance? Will I always be so uncomfortably hot here? But then I could just replace [Mana Toxicity Tolerance] with [Heat Resistance] and gain another defensive skill. Ultimately it's better but I'd still have to use a general skill slot. In either case, it's worth it, I really want this evolution, my other options aren't great.

After the day's Lojyo I accept the evolution, saving the surprise for my family for the morning.

Smells, strange smells, and sounds woke me from unconsciousness. It wasn't unpleasant, mostly. The smells are... strange... indescribable, as are the sounds, it's almost like seeing the colors of mana but with smell and hearing.

The sounds are almost like static but not like the gritty, grainy sound I am familiar with, it's... static... background noise. Among the static is a beautiful melody and a heavenly smell. I try to block the static out which helped dull it but it didn't go away completely, perhaps I'll have to learn how to block it out entirely. I check my system to see what changed.

Three Tailed Mana Immune Runalymo Sage:
(Major) (Unique)
Race Trait 1: Mana Generation
Having traded the now unneeded physical boosting trait of their parent species the Runalymo has instead gained heightened mana generation rate by 300% and a 25% boost to their mana capacity).

Almost doubled the bonus, I was really close to getting Grand tier, even if it would be on the lower end of that tier.

Race Trait 2: Sense mana (252/270)T
his skill has been evolved by Alysara, the progenitor of the Two Tailed Runalymo. This race is not limited by what it can sense in mana but by what it can't which is not much. Born from the best this race is gifted with the ability to see what mana really is, but unable to discern the true nature of it

I'm almost at the end of this skill, I've almost gotten all the breakthroughs there is to get. Will I get a legendary action for capping this skill? Will it evolve even further? Will it just be a testament to what I have achieved?

Race Trait 3: Nutritional Milk
Having suffered through near extinction by starvation this race has turned to whatever it could in dark times and not succumb to the cursed act of cannibalism. This race's milk is very nutritional, providing a creature with all their nutritional needs for 1 meal.

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Race Trait 4: Mana Senses
An evolved trait that has been honed and kept through the eons, this race still has very acute hearing, smell, and sight. Through a decade of exposure, the moment a member of this race has their third tail manifest they have the ability to smell and hear mana. They are able to smell and hear what none else can, and as such can hunt and track anything that leaves a trail of mana.

Is that what the smells and sounds are? It's mana? I never expected this skill to get so influenced by [Sense Mana] I wonder if my tracking breakthrough is responsible, it did mention hunting and tracking. Also, it seems this new ability only comes with my third tail.

Race Trait 5: Mana Glutton
Having adapted to a low food environment and constant starvation this race now passively consumes mana to sustain bodily needs and draw in mana from their environment to sustain themselves.

This skill was influenced by another, [Mana Toxicity Tolerance] this time. It doesn't say my mana generation is used, does that mean that I am consuming the ambient mana? If I am I can't notice it's too small of an effect, for now, perhaps if my body is more demanding for its needs it will be more noticeable.

Race Trait 6: Runalymo's Beauty
This race is among the most beautiful and its connection to the essence has increased the amount they have by 350%. In addition, they can naturally channel it to use beauty magic. Their strength to this magic is boosted by 180% once their tail manifests at the age of 5, this is further boosted to 300% once their third tail manifests at the age of 10.

Another direct upgrade, interesting to see that the tails are additive and manifest are evolution intervals.

Race Trait 7: Inquisitive Perfection
This race can easily spot flaws and never overlook them, and can only forget memories if willed so. They are a master of finding and solving mysteries, puzzles, and other courtesy. Additionally, the more creativity essence a member of this race has, the faster they'll learn and master their arts, and crafts. And the more wisdom essence they have the better they'll solve problems and come up with better and more efficient solutions.

This one has expanded a lot not only expanding past the arts but now including intellectual things and even giving me perfect memories, bonus since I can forget if I want to, do I have to do it manually or is it automatic? Testing is required.

Race Trait 8: Nexus Immunity 140/140
Adapting to the hostile environment of a nexus, even if the vast majority of the ambient mana is being siphoned, has made this race resistant to extreme temperature and immune to mana toxicity. They can further resist mana given off by great beings, recover faster from mana toxicity, resist mana storms, push against highly dense mana, convert mana toxicity into vitality, slightly resist spells, prevent toxicity from specific elements, store vastly more mana in their body, and resists extreme mana densities and liquid mana. Due to their adaptation to extreme environments, this race receives a 25% bonus to their endurance.

[Mana Toxicity Tolerance] has merged and become an entirely new skill and improved the heat tolerance to temperature resistance. Again it seems to list off breakthroughs that I had gotten which means if I don't get more breakthroughs it won’t include them in the race for my descendants.

Race Trait 9: Inspirational Greatness
The dedication to the arts, crafts, study, and invention have made this Runalymo more creative and intelligent granting them a +350% to creativity essence and wisdom essence. +10% wisdom, +15% intelligence

A massive upgrade with the stat boosts and it has expanded to cover wisdom essence as well.

Race Trait 10: Alysara's Children
This Runalymo is tied to Beauty increasing their magic potential and control of it by 350%

It's no longer [Myrous Children] It lost the bonus to creativity magic but the beauty magic boost is stronger and includes control, I don't really use creativity magic anyway so it's not too much of a loss.

That is quite the improvement, every skill has improved except one, the one I refuse to accept. I guess this is what it means by a unique race, hearing and smelling mana is certainly unique and the skills are beginning to resemble class skills

I got up out of bed, examining the mana around me. A clump of fire mana passes my left ear, the static sound changing into a chorus for a moment, it was hard to describe, not pleasant but not unpleasant, like a song I don't care about, easily forgettable. A stream of light wafts by my nose, its scent equally difficult to put into words. There is simply no concept the Runalymo language had to compare these new experiences to, and that’s a feat for a language built around ideas and concepts to form words, even new words previously never spoken before.

I quickly discover the source of the melody I am hearing and the heavenly scent I am smelling, it is obviously Beauty essence, of which one of my tails are producing at an incredible rate, my new tail is producing wisdom essence, a lightning based essence, It's melody is soothing and unintrusive, it's easy to have it in the background. the mana coming from my tails have doubled what it was previously, I had become like an endless fountain of the essence, a fact that pleased me as it made the ambient static dull.

My tails now have a very high concentration of beauty mana, the soft silky fur is almost like it's mana infused, the skin, blood, muscles, and bone are all fully saturated with the mana too, more than fully saturated, it's as if the mana is squeezing together, filling my cells completely like mana toxicity but not quite the same.

My core is producing much more beauty essence passively and much less random mana as waste from the inefficient process.

The skills in my mana signature, specifically my race skills have changed but one, in particular, is looking strange, almost complete, like a mosaic with just a few pieces missing. It glows and pulsates, eager, almost excited. It needs not to be said what skill this is, [Sense Mana] seems ready for something, a frame to complete it, or, perhaps a foundation for something more, a structure to continue growing, to continue expanding.

I test my new balance, finding it easy to adapt to. My mind felt clearer and sharper and ideas flitted into my mind, ways to improve the airships, ways to make a mana filter work. It gnawed at the back of my mind much like how [Perfectionist's Eye] had acted when I failed to measure up. Solutions to problems I had been trying to solve became clearer, not perfect solutions but it's a starting point for my newfound [Inquisitive Perfection] to work off of.

Of course [Inquisitive Perfection] isn't a skill that will always show the best and most perfect solution, it still works off of what I know, it just points me in a direction that I should focus my efforts to, the less I know the less accurate and sure it is.

I walk out of my room, my parents finally noticing me through their [Sense Mana].

"You evolved again, why didn't you tell us?" Mom says as I walk in the kitchen, following the delicious smell of grilled Domr.

"I wanted it to be a surprise!" I say with a grin.

"How many tails do you plan on getting?" Dad jokes, cracking a smile.

"Nine's a good number," I say, deadpanned. Although the myth of the nine tailed fox has resurfaced to me I can only think of our parallels as just a coincidence, I mean, fitting nine tails on someone is a biological feat and impractical; they would just get in the way. Having three tails is already reaching the peak of what can be done without major problems, nine is just too much.

"You're joking right?" Dad asks.

"Yes," I say with a plain face.

"I'm not convinced"

Yafel and Yafe came in at that moment. Noticing my new tail they tilted their head in confusion at in synchronized movements.

"You got a new tail?" "Is this a trick?"

The twins are confused, not having much experience with race evolutions.

"No trick!" I say and bring my tails around to tickle their face.

After a few minutes of family bonding time, we ate breakfast and went to the baths. I caught wind of Mom's Unique mana scent, it was... strange, too many things to smell. There is a familiarity to it that I think comes from the race, there is a strangeness that probably comes from the class. There is a sense of lesser that I attribute to her tiers and a sense of power that I can only think of is her level. There is a lot more to it a more that I do not understand.

Hearing her mana is a sweet humming like a lullaby, I sense kindness and warmth in the sound of her mana. These new senses are a little overwhelming, something I'll have to spend a great deal of time to learn, it's like learning how to walk and talk all over again.

The lingering of people’s unique mana in and around the baths prove too much for my minds to sort through, there's just too much information, too many different scents and sounds it makes my head dizzy.

"What's wrong Aly?" Dad asks, Mom is playing with the twins.

"My new evolution made my senses better and it's a little overwhelming here," I say, trying to not smell the mana.

"I see, take the day to learn your new abilities"