Chapter 21: New realms, new sensations
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The cool breeze and the relaxing feeling soothed Noctis’ heart much better.
He shelved the thought of the hounds and his mother for later and just focused on the peculiar movement of the energy after being hit by the owl.
Focusing on it, it was certainly different from the normal movement that happened when he didn’t focus on fastening it to get a boost in his strength and agility.
Even different from when he did so; it wasn’t the deliberate siphoning of it to trigger a blast at one a point either and different still from when he tried manipulating the forest around him.
It was similar to it (the manipulation) as in; it came from the ethereal forest, although much subtler, like a passerby moving through place to place without standing out.
It concentrated in a way along and around his senses, that is the ears, eyes, nose as well as his skin. Less concentration and more of a deposition of a film, or a net in a way.
Noctis opened his eyes as he kept observing this strange phenomenon and cataloguing what he had learned so far of this energy along the way.
And as he expected through his eyes as well as his other senses, Noctis sensed a wholly different kind of atmosphere than he was used to.