Chapter 3

Delirious, I'm going crazy. Apparently my access

magic is going into my head restricting the oxygen going to my brain…

After my fight I was chained up and brought to a different cell. This cell had a bed! Not a good bed but a bed nonetheless. So I sat on the bed back against the wall and closed my eyes to rest. After lying my head back I saw something, or more accurately felt something. Which I assume to be magic, it feels like different air currents are moving towards me. But many of them are attracted to my head, I'm so handsome that even magic loves me!

The currents flow into my head and get stored. So I try to feel internally and it's nearly instant. I see a tornado of magic spinning in my head. Now I have a few choices, reverse the current flow, try to move the magic through my body or try to shape the tornado into something else. Naturally like the genius I am, I go ahead and try to guide the tornado throughout my body and I quickly feel the effects.

The magic starts to flow into a mold near my hands and my hands start to heat up. After fully filling the mold I'm unable to do anything except let the magic run through my body. Which hurts like a toothpick. Lightly stabbing everywhere in my body is not a fun feeling. The feeling only ends when I am unable to focus the magic through my body anymore and stop.

After I cut the magic flow, I can see the magic spreading equally through my body, with the tornado in my head slowing down. I stop looking inwardly and wake up. I feel over my body and feel my hands are warmer than usual. So I focus on my hands and a fire starts to burn. I stare at the fire for a short time before I try to move it. The fireball flies at my face and I black out.

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I wake up and feel my face. Covered in charred blood and flesh that rubs right off. After checking out my body again to make sure there was no lasting damage I focused internally to see my magic. The tornado has increased its speed again, going faster than it was originally. Physically it's also getting increasingly easy to get vertigo.

I once again move the magic through my body attempting to fill the mold again but by the time the magic reaches it, the mold is already filled. Which proves the mold stays filled after using magic. I again start to focus on my hand to create fire. It's slightly easier than last time and the fire is created. This time instead of targeting my hand at my face, I point the palm of my hand at the back wall of my cell.

The blob of fire quickly accelerates and hits the back wall creating a brief explosion that's barely audible. After the ball was released I felt a tug from my mind. I checked internally and the tornado In my mind shrunk very slightly. So I continued launching the blobs of fire at the wall until the tornado in my head was minuscule.

After hundreds of fire blobs were thrown, everything cleared up. My head became calm. There were no more unimportant thoughts like how stupid the bed looks with its ugly stone legs, or how the mattress looks like it would somehow infect me with bedbugs. Okay, maybe there were a few stray thoughts but nothing like before.

So I started to think about what happened first. I was beaten in a cell, ate raw meat, killed many people, threw heads in the air for fun, and learned I have magic. I have a sword on my waist that won't come off, that looks very similar to the tachi I use in B&S. Which I think is what I was playing before all of this? So I'm in my avatar? Or am I a person like my avatar? Am I dead?

Wait, did I gloss over killing people? Killing living people? 14 people were killed by decapitation at my hand. Why did I enjoy it? Did I enjoy the killing, the hunting or the fight? Maybe all of it? I assume I'll know next time. I believe I'm a gladiator now so how do I become free? What did I do wrong? Can't gladiators earn their freedom?

I should put on a show, the audience seemed to love decapitation! So I'll do that again! Or maybe they like me going crazy? Being in a better room than before makes me think I'm moving up in the world. So I should consider this one step closer to freedom! WAIT! Am I fine with this? I just planned to kill people like a game. Is that okay? Gladiators, I believe are criminals or slaves. I'm fine with killing prisoners but slaves? Am I fine with killing innocent people? Yes. I will live and I'll make a memorial for them or something that will be fine. Right?

This room seems to be a bit cramped so I should focus on my magic rather than my physical body. So once again I focus deeply on my body. I notice near my hand where the mold is that there are three other molds forming a triangle with three of the circles and it has a slightly larger circle in it. I try to move the magic to the bottom left of the triangle. I fill the mold but the first mold I filed earlier empties as I fill the new one. I continue to fill the new circle and once the mold is full I check externally.

Nothing seems different with my hand so I try many different things like waving it or clapping my hands but it does nothing. Right before I was going to try and cast a spell I saw my hair blocking my view. I reach up to stop the hair but it sticks to my hand. Like static electricity so shouldn't this be lightning magic like in game. Does that mean I can stun the enemy? Would the audience like that?