Ookalf wrote:Hai! *Disgui closes her eyes and stretches her arms out as she tries to feel for the mana, as Terra instructed. After a few minutes...* ...Uh, how long is this s'pposed to take? 'Cause, my arms are getting tired...
This confused Terra, as Shiki should have felt something immediately, just as one would immediately feel someone tapping you on the shoulder.
Scaling the shrine, her muscles aching at the strain in her weakened state, she joined Shiki on the roof.
"Hold still." she commanded as she lifted the back of Shiki's outfit to place her hand on her spine before carefully activating her own circuits in the minimal possible way, gritting her teeth at the stinging pain in her chest.
What she found was unexpected; rather than Shiki's circuits being damaged or in some way altered by the presence of the amulet she used, they were instead utterly undeveloped. There were exactly like the old samples of humans from the 'pre-arcane' era of her world, where magic was not yet in practice. What this meant, as far as Terra could tell, was that Shiki has no innate magical talent of her own; she had enough sensitivity to subconsciously detect truly powerful surges of energy, but in essence there were no circuits for her to sense with.
"Ok, you can relax. It seems your artefact is even more of a marvel than I thought. I had assumed it worked on you having even a small amount of latent power, but it seems you are utterly talentless in this regard. No matter how much as you try, it seems you will never be able to sense anything, at least, not in the same way I do. The arcane researchers of my world would call you an impossibility and were I not here, I would say the same. I am going to have to assume the same could be said of the other guardians; different worlds, vastly different magic."
She sighed.
"My only other idea is for us to simply wander around giving off as much magic as we can spare and hope to draw the attention of the others, but that plan is flawed in more ways than I would like to count."