A crumbling wall behind me, and breathed heavily activating my Qi Breathing Technique, feeling the mana flow through my body. The rejuvenating energies flowed through my body blue energy flowing over the tendrils and twisting like a ball in the area between my ribs and hips. Watching the energy in my stomach area, questions rose in my mind, wondering what I could actually do with the mana in my body. Lifting my hand, I invoked my magic to weave itself around its own weaving structure making it loose at first before confining and condensing it. Expecting it to hold its shape, being more structured and hardened than the tendrils themselves, I tried to mold a face with it thinking about the applications later should I be able to make my mana visible to normal humans.
Analyzing the structure, as it condensed more, I felt something in the mana I didn’t before sensing something unique in each weave, something like impurities in metals. Using my control over mana, I separated the mana from each other, the structure of my creation started to condense again as an insubstantial wispy energy ran across my hand. Looking over it, I started to bring out the other impurities, now a red fierce energy, a blue constantly changing energy, a brown stable energy swirled around my arm. There were some other twisting impurities inside the now tannish colored energy that made a face, making it look sort of like an actual face.
Letting the energy supply dwindle, seeing if it would maintain itself, what resulted was not to my expectations. My non-existent stomach started to turn as I watched the face twist into a horrifying screaming face looking like the flesh has melting without a skull behind it, deforming as its ‘mouth’ opens up three times the size of a normal mouth.
“Terror seed?” Thinking back I remembered something earlier about a seed as well, opening up my menus to thoroughly go through them this time. He had ignored several blue boxes over the past couple of days.
Softly going over the menus, the skill menu came next, which explained a large amount of information that answered a series of questions, and gave me ideas for the future.
A two new tabs were in the corner of the menu, tapping the first one titled simply ‘Titles’.
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The next tab was labeled magic, which I didn’t think I had, at least I didn’t have any magic but considering my mana manipulation maybe that was considered magic?
Staring at the screens for a moment as the sun slowly set in the forest, my Qi Breathing Technique kept me from slowing down as I made plans to focus on the various skills, finally getting up from where I was sitting. ‘They didn’t come to the place where I thought they would’ I thought staring at the increased mana in the air, as I started to move out I tried using the seed inside of me copying the similar energy that made my body, soon after a black peal of energy swirled above my hand. Studying the energy for a few moments I looked up and noticed that there was a faint feeling of necromantic energy in the air that didn’t seem to be my own, which I followed.
Following the energy was an easy task, it was a black twisting radiance in a sea of blueish green energy that flowed throughout the world out of everything which seemed to separate itself from the rest of the mana. It seemed like necromantic energy went against the very nature of mana itself. Testing out the theory, I tried fusing my necromantic energy with my regular mana, which they both seemed to null each other out in my hands creating a rather large cracking sound. It wasn’t until after that sound, that I noticed my health had dropped down to half, and a tree was similarly in half as well in front of me, a large crater where I once was.
Groaning, I looked at my health remembering my old health of 5, and sat there shocked at the increase.
HP: 20/40
MP: 204/418
I basically had eight more lives than I did before! I was excited, then tried forming the explosive seed in my hand and a simular cracking sound was heard, this time much smaller than before. When my vision came back, I was staring at a blinking red health bar.
HP: 5/40
I guess I’m back to square one right now. I started my breathing technique in the middle of the second crater, the mana flowing around me as I recovered my energy and health. I needed to find out exactly how strong I am, now that I’ve leveled up some. Tutorial’s explanations were a bit.. vague to me at the moment without a reference, and I learned that I can’t rely on her. Looking over my own skills I could have found an answer to my necromantic aura easily, the stealth skill can cover my presence. Feeling like I could kick myself for being lazy, the cracks on my bones slowly healed.
“How can you be so stupid?” Tutorial spoke up, I hadn’t heard her voice in a while so it startled me.
“What do you mean?” Closing my eyes, and focusing on the mana building and flowing around me to speed up the process.
“First, you nearly blew yourself up, almost killing yourself, and me in the process. Secondly, you are pulling a large amount of mana into your body.”
“Okay, sorry I nearly killed us both, but why should it matter that I’m healing myself? Isn’t it better than running around without any health.”
“What… are mana beasts attracted to?” She seemed to sigh at the end.
“Large amounts of mana in the-” I was cut off by a growling sound from somewhere around me, opening my eyes I saw a cat about three feet in length, covered in a yellow fur, the strangest thing was the bright yellow mana that flowed around it. Reaching out my hand, I went to pet it almost out of reflex, “There there kitty…”
Lightning crashed down, creating a third crater in the ground, smoldering with a black glass like substance as the dirt had been liquefied and solidified in a single moment. I was lucky, my savior had tackled me away from the lightning before I could touch the little cat. Looking to my savior, he looked quite like me, and another skeleton appeared out of the forest. “Brothers!” I yelled out in the language of the dead.
