ALL NOVEL Storm(2)
Alex felt the intense itch that accompanied the healing of his body as he flew and he contemplated his situation. 'I will be able to bring my aura under control with enough time but my new power is an entirely different problem. I didn't realize it until now since it hadn't been a problem but my body was not designed to contain so much power at once. Right now I am much like a balloon that is on the verge of bursting from being overfilled. I have two ways to fix this , first is to get rid of some of my power which is unacceptable since I don't know if I'll be able to get it back.'-
'The second method is to make the balloon bigger and stronger so that it no longer struggles to contain the power within it. The problem with this is that most of the traits related to my body are already pretty high level and so improving them will be a pain. Not like I have much choice though.' he thought with a sigh. Once he was far enough from astera Alex carefully flew along the coast of the new world until he could make landfall without worrying about causing anyone problems.-
His presence caused problems for the local monsters but he didn't really care all that much about those. He carved a cave into the rocky face of the coastal cliffs near the coral highlands to rest for the night and practice with his aura to try and bring it fully under control. He made little progress before he gave up for the day and went to sleep. He woke up the next day and sighed at the destruction that awaited him outside where the hurricane raged all night and still raged.-
Scorched waterfilled holes dotted as far as he could see and the wind was stripping the rock away slowly. This didn't even begin to talk about the devastation that the constantly crashing seawater caused to the cliff face. Alex left his cave and dove into the water nearby to go hunting for anything that was still nearby. He found some tuna that were basically unaffected by the intense ocean movements and ate those almost whole. This raised his[swimming muscles] trait to level 9 which was also the max for it. He was relieved to notice that as his muscles changed slowly over time to match the trait level that the energy he was venting got smaller , if only barely.-
'Since this works I'll focus on the other five muscle based traits that I have.' He thought seriously and left the water to go find some wingdrakes. It wasn't particularly hard as the things had bunkered down in an attempt to wait out the storm. A few of those downed and Alex raised his [dense muscles] trait to level 9 which was once again it's max level. The energy he was releasing once again lessened slightly.-
Alex rampaged through the new world for the next week slaughtering and devouring anything and everything that could improve his body. Three of his five muscle related traits had been maxed out and the energy he released had been halved weakening the hurricane around him to a much more reasonable level. He still needed to level up [lunging muscles] and [enhanced heart] before he ran out of things to improve muscle wise. The second of those was fairly easy as he just needed to dwindle the local octopi population while the first needed him to swim up the everstream.-
Left with little choice Alex targeted the already maxed out trait giving creatures to collect trait tickets for more muscle traits. Specifically [Sturdy muscles] , [Chewing muscles] and [flexible muscles] each of which lowered his energy expenditure by a decent chunk just for acquiring. They were also easy to raise as [sturdy muscles] basically just needed weight lifting [Chewing muscles] needed him to crunch boulders with his mouth and [flexible muscle] needed him to perform yoga basically. He only needed to three days to max them out and was so very close to being able to contain his new energy safely.
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