Uninstall X Control
At the thought,
Baishi stirred his will.
Wondering whether he could uninstall the [Needle-Person Control] Talisman set into the front, he gave it a mental nudge. The Talisman, which he had expected to be difficult to remove, fell straight out. The instant it left the socket, it vanished with a whoosh.
In its place, the vanished Talisman was now firmly set in the twenty-four-hour position on the back of the wheel.
But Baishi frowned slightly. Once the Advent Emulation Talisman was uninstalled, the black-purple Nen Aura around him had immediately returned to its original transparent color.
In other words, the spare sockets can only store Talismans and have no other use?
Baishi noticed no particular changes in himself. After thinking for a moment, his frown eased slightly.
There's no need to rush. I only have one Advent Emulation Talisman right now, so having twenty-four spare sockets is already pretty good. I'll worry about the future later...
With that thought, Baishi tried out of habit to control the Talisman in the spare socket and put it back into the socket on the front. But no matter how he urged it with his will, the Talisman on the back remained unmoved.
Huh?!
Don't tell me it won't come out?
The thought startled Baishi. This was the only high-grade Talisman he had copied so far. If he couldn't remove it, wouldn't the Talisman's Nen Ability go to waste?
Yet no matter how strongly he willed it to come out, the Talisman remained motionless in its socket.
Tsk~ A Nen Ability I didn't develop myself really is a special kind of hassle...
Seeing that mental control wasn't working, Baishi thought for a moment and tried to pry the Talisman out by hand. The instant he touched it, the transparent Nen Aura wrapped around his hand was sucked into the black-purple Talisman with a whoosh.
Click! The Talisman came loose at once and fell into Baishi's hand.
Seeing this, Baishi thoughtfully flipped the wheel over and set the Advent Emulation Talisman into it.
Click! This time, there was no resistance.
The stone panel that should have appeared in his mind even flashed above the Talisman like a projection.
Huh?
A flicker of surprise crossed Baishi's eyes.
With the Talisman set in place, the transparent Nen Aura around him turned black-purple once again.
I see... There's already Nen Aura on the front, so I can use my will to uninstall a Talisman directly. But to uninstall a spare Talisman from the back, I need to reactivate it with Nen Aura...
That means switching them will waste quite a bit of time. And with twenty-four spare sockets, once the spare Talismans hide away in the future...
If combat is involved, I may have to keep the best Talisman selected and set in the front at all times!
Keeping that drawback in mind, Baishi toyed with the wheel, then thoughtfully loosened his grip and let the Talisman Wheel leave his right hand.
The next instant!
Whoosh! The conjured wheel vanished in an instant!
It vanishes as soon as it leaves me. That really is a characteristic of Conjuration... Baishi's expression remained unchanged. He used his will to control his Nen Aura and conjure the Talisman Wheel again, then repeatedly dismissed and conjured it with ease to test it.
Since the Chains Kurapika conjured in the original story could keep extending and shortening, can the Talisman Wheel grow and shrink as a conjured object too?
The possibility suddenly occurred to Baishi during his tests, and he tried it without hesitation. The result was just as he had guessed.
The wheel's size wasn't fixed. In its regular form and size, it consumed Nen Aura when conjured, but none afterward as long as he didn't manipulate or affect it. Enlarging or shrinking the wheel, however, put it in an irregular state. The larger or smaller it became, the more Nen Aura it consumed.
His tests showed that he could currently enlarge the wheel to the size of a person. The result was that he couldn't hold it normally, though he could control it with his will. But once it left his body, it would immediately begin rapidly returning to its original state until it vanished completely.
The same was true when shrinking it. At present, the smallest he could make it was the size of two buttons. It consumed as much Nen Aura as enlarging it, and it would likewise return to its original state and vanish after leaving his body.
In other words... the wheel has the same strengths and weaknesses as Conjuration. To change those restrictions, I'd have to set a special restriction, or let the wheel evolve and unlock more sockets on the front, then set it with a Talisman ability similar to Kurapika's Chains...
Or I could set it with an [Emission] ability and use Nen's emission properties to wrap the wheel in Nen Aura, letting it stay away from my body for a long time without disappearing...
Lost in thought, Baishi tentatively controlled his Nen Aura to wrap around the wheel in his hand. Perhaps because [Needle-Person Control] belonged to Manipulation, even at beginner-level proficiency, his skill at controlling Nen Aura was still far greater than it had been with his transparent aura.
Thus, before long, the black-purple Nen Aura enveloped the wheel. Baishi tried to use the Nen Aura to make it fly, only to find he couldn't do it at all. Recalling the relevant information about [Needle-Person Control], he thought briefly, then simply placed the wheel on the grass.
Then he stepped back little by little, stretching out the Nen Aura covering the wheel. As the distance between his palm and the wheel increased inch by inch, the wheel did not immediately vanish as it had before.
Having confirmed his hypothesis, Baishi immediately withdrew the rapidly depleting Nen Aura. The instant the black-purple Nen Aura left it, the wheel vanished.
If I had Hisoka's [Bungee Gum], perhaps that could also make up for the drawback of it leaving my body to some extent. That way, I wouldn't have to set some special restriction...
Baishi conjured the wheel again. Now that he had a basic understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of conjured objects, his gaze returned to the Advent Emulation Talisman on the front of the wheel. He reached out and touched the black-purple Talisman with a finger, injecting a strand of Nen Aura into it.
The wheel gave a light hum and trembled. An almost transparent stone panel projected above the [Needle-Person Control] Talisman, recording the specific information about the Manipulation ability [Needle-Person Control] and its internalized restriction conditions, while also showing the relevant proficiency.
[Advent Emulation Talisman: Needle-Person Control (purple / beginner 1%)] [Needle-Person Control: Manipulation...]
I did see it right before... The information is the same as what appeared in my mind. Then can my own data appear outside too?
The instant Baishi envisioned it, a strand of Nen Aura was drawn away, and his own remaining panel was projected from the center of the wheel.
Surprised, Baishi quickly scanned all the information on the stone panel. His gaze finally came to a startled halt at [Essence, Aura, Spirit]. The drastic change in [Aura] in particular made his eyes widen.
[Restriction - Digitized Attributes: Essence: 5-6 / Aura: 5-100 / Spirit: 5-6]
Huh?!