[Saturday Night of 20XX] [Sometime in March]

  [The Skylark/The Harrier] [The Docks] [Holdport]

  [Somerset] [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]

  [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]

  The Human Maxima/Human Maximus Ritual, of The Peak Human Empowerment, of what is The Maxima or Maximus Ritual? It brings someone to being able to run a four minute mile, a strength of five hundred kilograms, with it allowing the empowered to be able to hit twenty five miles an hour in a hundred metre sprint. And with the natural Human Endurance and Heat Regulatory abilities to what would be their Natural equivalent peak.

  The ritual also grants other peak physical abilities in the senses someone had, while with the mentioned removal of allergies. It also brings reflexes to peak human speed, at the same time it fine tunes the body. It does not affect the mind, neither positively nor negatively.

  Well, it doesn’t affect intelligence, or particular types of intelligence. It will not make an aphantasic to be able to visualise, nor will it take someone of the autistic spectrum or anything similar. It does not fix any form of dysmorphia of physical effects. It will go fix up and correct what are mental health problems.

  Not what goes and counts as a different way of thinking to the magicks, like ADHD (as shown by the experiment involving a simulation of picking berries in a lab test). The Human Maximus/Maxima enhancement will heal someone who is delusional, has depression, or has some form of dementia will have it fixed. And other issues along those lines. To have the tune up to peak human and not have those issues.

  It is peak physical skill of all the high levels if not what are the absolute heights of each field, while it’s also regardless of height or muscular ability. While someone overweight or such will slim down to a thin fitness, to be granted flat stomach, they will not however develop the kind of muscular needed for said abilities or such.

  Those abilities they have will be granted via The Supernatural, thus a four foot ten witch, who to steal a term of phrase from the US? If they don’t weigh a hundred pounds wet, what is their ninety pounds weight or six stone six? (Or 40.8233133 kg) Like me as a McCabe, they’ll have said strength of five hundred kilograms.

  Note: It will be easier to achieve such levels if some effort is put into it. It is joined by what is a peak human healing factor, disregarding the age of a person. And to not consider a person’s age as a factor? It won’t make you immortal. If you want to be immortal you need The Elixir of Life mixed with permanence potion. With the Maxima or Maximus ritual empowerment you’ll be in peak levels of fitness till death of old age as a superager.

  It won’t make you taller, or cleverer, or wiser. It won’t change how your cognition would be if treated for one of the effects for what you have, if it will in fact cure those mentioned ailments. To take just as one random example, for various mental ailments it will have the effects of Olanzapine without the side effects.

  To keep going there is The Watch Ritual, The Watcher Ritual, The Watchman Ritual, or The Guard Ritual. For an ordinary human it will have you able to be functioning at peak alertness for thirty six hours, then to have a decline of twelve hours till you need sleep.

  After what would be a complete forty eight hours awake? You’ll only need a full six hours of sleep to be at peak ability again, while, if you catch say, four hours sleep for every twenty hours awake? You’ll be easily able to function on such an amount of sleep.

  Now for those who have less need for sleep, it’ll go on for longer, like for part-humans or non-humans. While if you are a Powered with some form of needing less sleep, or said Abilities as a Powered if it will allow you to biologically go without sleep? The Watch Ritual will allow you to operate through it at peak ability. Plus, it’ll do it magically to fight off any supernatural effect which might affect you and your ability to maintain your Watch.

  The Watch Ritual, it allows you to be at a higher level of attention and focus if you are on duty watching somewhere or some other form of watch. It also resists an effect to stop you from being on Guard. And, yes, The Watch Ritual does have an effect on the ability to concentrate in other matters. It’ll allow you to have a higher level of focus on something you want or don’t want to have, with it helping you stay focused when studying on a certain matter.

  So even if you don’t need sleep, The Watch Ritual is useful. When used it does have an effect against ADHD if the empowered wants it to. And if you don’t need sleep, but sleep helps you to mentally and/or it physically allows you to recover faster or concentrate more? You’ll need less sleep to do so, by at least a half if not up to two thirds of what you’d need without The Watch Ritual.

  Additionally, your mental and/or physical decline to needing sleep will have the time needed to need sleep halved for operating at a peak state. So, if you need six hours of sleep it would become three hours. The mental decline would be double the time of your original ability, so a mental decline of three hours would become six hours for example. Or four times for what would be your peak state due to The Watch Ritual, so a hypothetical three hours would become twelve hours.

  There is the You’re a Natural Ritual, for what are Natural and Non Magical Abilities? You’ll be naturally gifted at any Natural Topic you put your mind to. While not affecting the Magical or Supernatural version of it.

  IE ordinary mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, ratio, proportion, geometry, probability and statistics, approximation, decimals ... and so on and so forth? You’ll be naturally gifted at them, while for Numerology you’d have to do it normally, without magical enhancement.

  It’s the same for every Natural Subject and every Magical Analogue to it, like for what are purely magical and supernatural subjects i.e. spell casting. You’re gifted at the Natural Subjects, as covered by the ritual, for the Magical Subjects you have to do the ordinary and normal work for it. You would need some kind of analogue to the You’re a Natural Ritual, like a theoretical ritual of You’re a Supernatural to make Magical Subjects would need to exist

  What doesn’t exist as an enhancement. It is only a concept of Supernaturals on The Internet making their own CYOAs, the M-Web’s version of what are Internet CYOAs and not the classic books. Of what is a superpowery internet idea.

  If it did exist, the You’re a Supernatural empowerment reactants and ritual requirements to make such a ritual empowerment would be heavy duty magicks. Not the basic stuff of the Traditional Six of The Classical Six Western European Empowerments.

  It would be the Rare Mountain Flower to only grow on a small part of a peak of one mountain. Probably a tall mountain too. And, before you go to claim you could farm the Flower? Scarcity has a value in magic. For both potions, rituals, ritual based enchantments, potion based enchantments, and to continue along those lines. The rarer a reactant for a bit of magic is, the more magically potent it will be in a ritual magic sense.

  A Rare Mountain Flower when it becomes a farmed flower in a greenhouse? It’ll still retain the kind of properties of the original, just not at the same magical power level. The Winter Snow Rose when it’s only a few rose bushes on one mountain?

  Will allow you to make a potion to complete immunity to cold, ice, and snow. Or it will grant an empowerment ritual of great power over cold, ice, and snow. Or it’ll make an enchantment potion to make a legendary weapon of cold, ice, and snow.

  The Winter Snow Rose grown in industrial farming across whole stretches of an alternate world? It’ll be able to make a ritual to give you minor cold resistance, it could give you an empowerment ritual to make ice cubes in your drink. Or to enchant an icebox you just took out of your fridge to stay cool and cold.

  To use the flower of The Winter Snow Rose as an example, what is in fact in the middle of those two extremes. If the fact is, once upon a time, it was the one rose bush on one side of a mountain, but nor has it gone into full factory farming.

  It’s the scarcity in said case giving the mentioned plant its flower power. Not the magical power of a dragon granting a good chunk of its power, or some other magically powerful supernatural creature or being. Though Dragons are still affected by rarity.

  The Common Green Dragon might be a dragon? If you will note the Common in its name? It will just be the basics of what a Sky Hunter, who is a Dragon Farmer, will raise free range on an alternate world.

  If you go to the other end of the spectrum of dragons?

  The Mount Erebus Antarctic Volcano Dragon might be only a bit more magically powerful in how much magical power it has. But for what is its Ritual Magic Sense of what is the Magical Scarcity Value of said Volcano Dragon? It is far rarer and has more potential in such a ritual sense.

  It is why mass produced items (both Natural and Supernatural) are less magically potent than bespoke and homemade products. Why a potion brewed in an industrial vat, compared to one made by one potion brewer, will be weaker. And it is without getting into how there will be different magical properties due to different ritual properties about it.

  Now to go back to the You’re a Natural ritual empowerment? It’s a Natural to the technological and societal level of skills of your people. You’re not going to be a Natural in Quantum Computing if you’re from The Nineteenth Century, while in the Twenty First Century Britain you’re not going to be so much of a Natural at persistent hunting.

  As when you encounter new things? Your learning rate is enhanced and amplified, while when becoming a member of a new society you’ll have your skills and ability take on the parts of your new society. While you’ll still retain the ones of your original culture(s) and society(/Societies).

  It’s not just a cheat to make you win in any and all situations in The Natural World forever.

  I did explain all of this to my cousin Tara. Of the other have of The Classical Six. With some long and rambling explanations. About the Seventh Ritual, of the numerologically important number of empowerment rituals you can have.

  I now believe I need to share the actual explanation with you about the Seventh Ritual.

  ... Not including what is technically an eighth empowerment. Of what is The Elixir of Life mixed with Permanence Potion, the Elixir counts as its own separate alchemic and brewing combined magical empowerment setup. What doesn’t count as part of what are the seven empowerment rituals of modern magic.

  [The Skylark/The Harrier]

  [The Docks] [Holdport] [Somerset]

  [UK] [Universe Sierra-Hotel-1]

  [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]

  Tara looked at me, to the list and the seventh ritual on it, she looked back to me instead of the list of ritual empowerments. For her to note, “Then there is the Not Magical Powers granting magic-like powers, what you called Space Magic. And however, they work.”

  I had to explain the joke, “Space Magic because the Internet is going to Internet, even on The Supernatural Parts of it. And there’s enough Mass Effect players in the general Supernatural Community for said meme. Regardless of the fucking Dubec Media Company and it’s evils.”

  I shrugged, as for all the stuff about what are Intrinsic Fields, I began to say, “There's no Metagene, no Radiation based powers, no Crystal Space Whales giving abilities by brain cancer. There’s no Mutant Magical Genetics, there’s no Freak Lab Accidents, being struck by lightning most of the time doesn’t give Superspeed like it does for some—”

  Tara blinked and she had to raise the question of, “—Wait, What?—”

  I didn’t stop though, “—No Super Serums, or Hollywood Cybernetics breaking the skin, the only Alien we currently know about flying around is Heulwen as a magical alien—”

  A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.

  Tara had to more strongly repeat, “—Wait, What?!—”

  I ignored said second interrupt and I kept going, “—No nonsense Evolutionary Levels, or the made up bullshit of ninety percent of your brain and such, nor made up magical acting nanobots. And so on or so forth?” I had to add, “And There's no Magic Gene, Rowling. It's spiritual, which I think a Christian would and could understand. Having genetics grant someone magical powers is pure nonsense, genetics don’t work like that. Genes are only responsible for protein synthesis, not actual magic. They really, really, don’t. The people who try to engineer such magical genetics attempt to make such a kludge in the genome and fail ...”

  I exhaled, and didn’t go into the rant of writing genetic code modifications in Symbolic Magic of Letters, Runes, Hieroglyphs, various other Symbols, patterns, and designs?

  It’s stupid, and the amount of effort to make what would just be one simple fireball would theoretically take engineering an entire chromosome to make said fireball. And it just doesn’t flat out work for all the attempts people have tried to turn protein synthesis into magic, there’s no way you’re going to code magic into one single gene.

  It’s like how no being has biologically evolved to generate and create fire on Earth, either in my first life or my second life. It does not have a bit of protein synthesis to create a method to generate methane and ignite it, even if some life forms could have a niche in nature.

  There has not been a Dragon operating under Natural Biology, rather than actual dragons who run on purely magic. So, therefore, like how there is no Fire Gene to make biological fire. You do not get a biological flamethrower to evolve and be able to throw flame at people, instead of a biological process creating chemical burns or such. And like said phenomena there is not a Magic Gene, if beings can harness and control fire without having a biological mechanism for it.

  If said magic does not solely have to be harnessed like a Black Kite taking existing fire and starting a fire elsewhere, or humans making fire with intelligence. There are the supernatural forces and energies, along with the spiritual parts of magic. Not getting into the various magicks able to be harnessed solely with intelligence.

  Also, when did Magic having a Magical explanation stop being reasonable? When did fiction decide to use bad science, explanations making no sense and are pure nonsense! Or having a spiritual explanation? Like how magic is The Light of The Soul for various bits of the universe. And ... Hells, I said I’m not going to get into my angry rants about such idiocy. This ends now.

  (And fuck The Magic Gene with a rusty fire poker.)

  “No,” I added, “It is instead an Intrinsic Field, of some kind of higher property of the universe causing the effects on the universe. It could be related to Zone-Space, Hyperspace, or both, regardless of the fact of how Einstein’s theories of them don’t explain how it could be possible. Because he wasn’t around for Intrinsic Fields.” because in an alternate history rather than the much saner universe I reincarnated from?

  Zone-Space, or Sci-Fi calls it Subspace is ... really ... No, just, no ... well, Zone-Space is not a property of the universe you just magically get discovered in the Nth Year of a setting. It’s always been there, like Hyperspace.

  In this universe of my second life, Einstein was the one to properly come up with the theories of Zone-Space and Hyperspace. There was a lot of evidence and ideas about them before he came up with The General Theory of Zone-Space and The General Theory of Hyperspace.

  Theories, hypotheses, and ideas from prior to his theories of what some are as entertainingly wrong as Luminous Aether or Phlogiston. Like say, modifying newtonian dynamics to explain the gravitational effects of Hyperspace and Zone-Space, and who would be enough of a MOND to do so?

  The Swirly Thing Alert doesn’t happen because you magically stumbled out of The Sol System and out into the great unknown. You don’t suddenly wander into spatial anomalies by, say, appearing around one of the three stars of Alpha Centauri. Galileo with his telescope observed anomalies across the solar system.

  For Zone-Space Events, to list a few of said Anomalies as Galileo identified them. There are: Halos, Auroras, Swirls, Bubbles, Spirals, Fluxes, Spots, Hoops, Rings, Vortex, Hybrid Anomalies/Events. And of Hyper Events, to list a few of their own anomalies as Galileo also identified them, there is again: Halos, Auroras, Swirls, Bubbles, Spirals, Fluxes, Spots, Hoops, Rings, Vortex, Hybrid Anomalies/Events.

  It’s not an add on, it’s not a part of the physical realm to go unnoticed in the laws of physics, they are a part of the universe. For what are The Fundamental Laws of Physics, the Gods have been hiding magic and The Supernatural. Regarding what are the non-magical properties of the universe, what can have magic act on them, or they have their own specific magicks?

  Fire isn’t hidden, throwing a fireball on the other hand? A fireball and such magicks used to be hidden prior to the existence of Powered and their Powers turning up. And like so ... Well? There’s Zone-Space and there is Zone-Space Magic, there is also Hyperspace and Hyperspace Magic.

  There is still Zone-Space Manipulation and Hyperspace Manipulation without magic. Of being able to perceive them as they interact with gravity with what are gravitational effects around the anomalies able to be observed via a telescope.

  I continued with the lesson I was making, “There is some perturbation of Zone-Space, some effects on Hyperspace, along with a Quantum Extra of some kind of Unknown Energy Field of The Intrinsic Field. There doesn’t seem to be an answering domain of part of the universe answering for The Intrinsic Field. But what is being called The Gift Force has its own effect as a possible manipulation of the universe. Of just The Gift as some people call Powers of a Powered. Of how some people are arguing it should be called The Aether.”

  I sighed, and I had to admit, “Though the Scientific Community is not able to isolate the actual Powered from The Supernaturals. Not with The Deception still up, even with its current modifications and plans to just hide secret identities via its magicks eventually. They don’t have The Magical Theory of The Third Creation as the Supernatural Community has, to be able to identify the actual new stuff. Instead of formulating theories and ideas about all The Magic and Supernatural going on, of trying to explain it without magic. To have them get it very, very, wrong.”

  Tara looked at me, for her to point out, “It doesn’t explain why you went for secondary powers instead of adding those plant powers you mentioned.”

  I answered, “Intrinsic Fields can be stacked,” Tara stopped, “There are power copiers and power drainers of The Powered who can add Intrinsic Fields of other Powered to their Powers. Like the Power Copier calling herself Gift,” and the internet hasn’t stopped memeing about her being GIFT due to what she’s called herself.

  The words kept coming from me, “Most of the time with limits, unlike Gift. If the fact is there are a few other Powered who can do it without limits when copying or draining someone’s Intrinsic Field ... Like Gift. Said limits like when I was designing the ritual empowerment of what are the Abilities of a Powered. Of what is The Gift Field, if you take a full power set then you can’t slot in other powers.”

  I clapped my hands, to announce, “However, if you take the power template and leave a place to slot a power into it? You can also slot more powers into it when replicating it with magic. You can add as many as you want, and as this is proper magic? The stuff where there’s no ability to manipulate The Ambient, Hyperspace, or Zone-Space to stop someone tapping into those properties of the universe by generating a field of those lacking properties?”

  I didn’t stop, “Instead of say: The All-Heart, The Arcane, one of The Ten Elemental Realms, The Wild, or one of the other Great Mystical Forces? This is Magic, like one of The Great Mystical Forces it does not and is not blocked by someone jamming it with another Intrinsic Field. Nor my crude magicks of tapping into local sources of Heat, Luck, Light, Kinetic Energy, Elan Vital, or other forces and energies I’m working on.”

  I rubbed my hands together and met my cousins’ blue eyes with my dark ones, for me to tell her, “This is Ritual Empowerment Magic, Magic of The Soul. It invokes the properties of The Soul, it feeds on what is The Infinite Sea of what is The Wylde. As part of The Light of The Soul as magic is described. The field of what is infinite power and infinite energy the Infinite Multiverse of Near Infinite Combinations is inside. From what finite amounts of power can be transferred into The Multiverse from said Infinite Sea. Of The Absolute, of The Primal, of The Soul Song.”

  I learned forward and I said, “So, it was possibly slotting in a Plant Power, and being a Witch of a Magical Plant Powered. Or waiting to slot in a different power into the Secondary Power system, followed by slotting in the Plant Gift and to keep being able to keep slotting in powers. And there’s a whole magical numerology thing if I was to slot in the first Gift I found and studied, there’s a chance it would be the only Intrinsic Field Power I could have. So, I’ve been careful about it.”

  Jaggedy Annie exhaled, as she had to breathe out, “You want all the powers, you want to be able to duplicate them and put them into said power.”

  I laughed as I noted, “Well, in an ideal world? Yes ... Well ... not for all the powers, because I have personal limits and abilities I don’t want as a power,” For example? I don’t want to grant myself or others what would be easy reality warping or such and such, the long process of learning magic to have reality warping like abilities ... just giving someone reality warping instead of working hard and earning the wisdom on how to warp reality in a limited way feels safer.

  Wiser too, it’s earned and practised by learning. Not just granted via an empowerment ritual.

  I didn’t stop, “If the fact is, I need scans of a person to do so. I needed my ritual tools and such when working with the Plant Powered, to study their Abilities and Their Gift. I can’t just yet break out a Pulse Pen, wave it around as a magical techno wand, get myself some basic scans and derive how to duplicate and copy someone's powers. It’s not as easy as making Shapeshifting ID.”

  I looked at my cousin, to add, “And, Tara? Your Gift, your Abilities as a Powered, they’re not anchored to your soul. The Intrinsic Field is anchored to your body, if someone was to switch bodies with you, put their soul in your body, they’d have your powers,” she went very still. “Your powers can be anchored to your soul with this ritual. Though, I’d have to add the secondary powers first. Joined by the Plant Gift, before The Regenerator Gift and Bone Gift.”

  She looked at me, and she pointed out, “You’re going to explain Shapeshifting ID at some point. And it would give you scans of myself to replicate my powers too.”

  I nodded as I easily told her, “I will explain Shapeshifting ID later. And on your Power Gift? The Regenerator Powers would not be for sale. Unlike the Bone Power, if you’re okay with it? With the profit? Ten percent would go to McCabe's Magicks, ten percent goes to a charity of your choice, and ten percent goes into the production. For what will be the selling and such of the mentioned power for the process of the thirty percent not given to you. You’ll get the other seventy percent of the profit.”

  She couldn’t help the rushed out words of, “Deal!”

  I agreed, “Done,” and I went. “I want to give them to Dad, Kara,” my older sister, “And Kaylee,” my younger sister. “While you can consider immediate family members of yours to give powers to, other than your mother who my mother tried to talk to about magic and ... Auntie Jo forgot due to The Deception. Of how it wasn’t safe for her to know,” I waved a hand to the spiral staircase on the right side of the room, “So, do you want to come down into my Atelier, and we can get started?”

  She paused, I explained what an Atelier was in the Supernatural Community, she shrugged at me, to accept my offer with, “Lead on, Madgirl of a Heterodyne.”

  I let out a little laugh, to fully admit, “I’m not a Mad Scientist, Mad Science usually isn’t actual Science. It is Mad Inventing or possibly Mad Engineering. At most I’m a Mad Witch, due to generally being angry at a few issues. Yes, what I do is Sufficiently Analysed Magic, to reference a certain Heterodyne. I’m not waffling around or messing about, there is a process. It’s not a proper science of proper Hypotheses and Theories of Workings, what is the scanning and analysis of what I’m doing. If the fact is, I’m a Magical Engineer of a Witch, I’m getting shit done.”

  I stood up and with a flicker, my clothes rippled back into my Red Hen suit. As well as me putting my mask and then helmet back on from my Pocket Space, from Star Trek Into Darkness I quoted, “Now, shall we begin?” she groaned as she followed me to the spiral staircase.

  [Lore]

  [Shapeshifting ID] [The Deception]

  [Rings of Gyges] [How these are regulated]

  [Katie McCabe, 1st Person]

  Shapeshifting ID basically being a construct I’m legally allowed as I have a license for it as a supernatural. And as a supernatural I’m trained to recognise Shapeshifting ID like every Supernatural is if it crops up and is needed. To be able to use it in a situation where The Deception has come up and I need to cover up something Supernatural in The Natural World.

  It has an actual copy of my actual ID, along with my Shapeshifting ID licence in it. Parts of the Shapeshifting ID Supernaturals are trained to realise what are real and what are not. It’s part of looking at the basic Awareness Shroud to cover the shapeshifting, and part of the innate psychic resonance to scan a person to pick the ID needed for The Deception.

  To pick the exact thing to cover up why, say, a Flying Saucer has crashed in someone’s back garden. And, yes. There are magical, non-magical, and a mix of reasons why said example is relevant and needed to maintain The Deception regarding said example. Sometimes The Deception needs a little push to maintain, even if most of the time The Pantheons and such maintain its magicks.

  Also, it does need a licence to use so as not to be misused. Rather than say how Rings of Gyges are far less regulated for invisibility and awareness shrouds, there are Spells of Warding on various buildings. Including lesser but very much working Spells of Warding to be sold to the general public. Like ones laid and worked onto various shops by the local magical authorities as part of the general government.

  The Shapeshifting ID is needed if a cover up is required by the rank-and-file Supernaturals. And, like the magicks made to stop counterfeiting by cursing the money? There is a pre-emptive curse on The Shapeshifting ID to stop it from working if someone misuses it. And to register the misuse to the government at the same time.