another flight method

After giving myself a moment to acclimate to the new sensation, I crossed my arms in front of my chest and began to move. Since it was my Aura carrying me, it was a mental exercise rather than a physical one and that took getting used to in its own right. It wasn’t hard to hover left or right, as my Aura reacted to my thoughts—but for that same reason, it was hard to move just left or right, as my mind raced. I had to go through the motions carefully to make sure I didn’t slam into something. It’d get easier over time, I knew, but for the moment…

Flight of the Vimana (Active) LV1 EXP: 0.00% MP: 2000
The chariot of the soul—an ancient technique once used by the lords of the West to take flight on nothing but their own wills. By hardening one’s own Aura into a skintight force field and controlling it carefully, it is possible to move one’s own body using nothing but thought and free it from the constraints that bind it to the earth.
Use INT in place of DEX to determine flight speed.
Flight speed increases with INT and skill level.
Additional 2000 MP used per minute of flight.

I pondered myself for a moment as I began to fly towards a nearby building. The Flight of the Vimana was my third mode of flight, counting the Grimm wings I could create with metamorphosis and flying using Levant’s aid—and while it was certainly more subtle then the former and faster than the latter, it had its own issues. I was all for using INT in place of DEX, given that my Intelligence was significantly higher than my Dexterity, but it came with sacrifices. While my higher INT made my base speed far faster, since I was using my mind to move instead of my body, techniques that multiplied my body’s speed didn’t necessarily apply—and unfortunately, stacking multipliers was how I achieved my greatest speeds. Acceleration would still apply, as that changed how I moved through time rather than simply making my body faster, but something like the White Tiger’s Tread or Haste would not. The Grimm wings I grew with Metamorphosis didn’t have that problem—my flight speed could be increased by any of my movement techniques, which meant it was still the best choice even if my Intelligence was over twice as high as my Dexterity.

Still, most of the time, growing Grimm armor and black wings would make things more complicated than it was worth, so the skill was still useful—and it was still at level one, after all, and it had said that it’s flight speed would increase. It was worth exploring, even if in an emergency I’d likely fall back to other options, such as my tried and true air platforms; if nothing else, it might be worth having just to separate Jaune Arc and Jian Bing. Regardless, I had hopes for it and it would be easy enough to train once I got the hang of it. After I had enough control, I’d just hover a millimeter off the ground during the day or something; the cost wouldn’t be an issue thanks to the Psychomachia skills, which cut it down to a fairly reasonable five hundred a minute, which would go down quickly after some training.