7 Gains
I was dropped off at the entrance of the grand magic zone and found myself among trees as far I could see with sounds of birds ad insects.
Fortunately, the natural mana is less chaotic here.
I have decided not to cross the middle of the region, the danger is too high there. I have to be cautious all the time not to encounter any high level beast which migrated from the middle zone . I don't have to worry about innermost region beasts as they don't usually leave their place .
I even head here were natural teleportation portals formed due to clash of mana within this region .
Today I will only focus on upgrading my core to orange stage and finding shelter, the hunt and technique improvement can come tomorrow.
After lot of practice and trying to copy sister Lily's ability to heal . I could cast minor healing spell .
I walked for a few distance and found a relative safe place for meditation, a tree with dense branches to hide my figure. This was just the entrance so no predators should be found here .
I climbed the tree by propelling myself upwards by creating an explosion from my feet. I sat on the largest branch and started meditating. My mana core stores mana from surrounding and my cells and lets me use it with my body mana while using spells.
What I am doing currently is forcefully inserting my body mana to my core to enlarge it, bit by bit cracks intensified and dark orange core of mana was uncovered ,the broken pieces of mana were absorbed by the core. The upgrade increased my mana capacity and filled by body with energy absorbed from the surrounding pushing my mana limit to 60 .
Now that I have enough mana I can gasp the technique of mana rotation .
Usually when I fight my core stops absorbing mana ,the technique I want to grasp is my mana core absorbs natural mana during fight providing me with almost endless mana . But although I would be provided with endless mana I would be only able to control the amount equal to maximum capacity of my body and core combined.
It will be more useful when I get my grimoire and the power of the spells will almost be doubled with this. When I opened my eyes it was already evening ,as I was thinking what to do next ,the screen popped in front of me.
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::ALL CONDITIONS MET ::
Have:
CREATE MORE THAN 3 ATTACK SPELLS
MORE THAN 30 body points
60 mana points
-reward:+10 body points +10 mana points+flame magic:phoenix robe
::flame magic :phoenix robe ::
Heals the user and reduces fatigue
CORE:DEEP ORANGE
BODY POINTS : 42
MANA POINTS :70
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Knowledge and use of phoenix robe filled my mind .
Although I was happy that my spell evolved now I don't have to worry about getting hurt while hunting ,but I wondered how did I unlock a proper spell without my grimoire . The conclusion that I came up with was in a bottleneck in the development and the upgrade in my mana core made developed it into a proper spell . I know that the system does not give me anything randomly , all the notifications I receive are the result from my hard work . I decided to forget about it and think about what to do now .
The matter of shelter and food till remains . I wandered around few hours hunting for wild rabbits with flame bullets. I returned to the same spot I meditated and ate the rabbits roasting them . it was almost tasteless without salt but beggars can't be choosers. I have to get some spices from the forest .
I learned proper way of skinning and roasting from the village hunters who came to the church to pray. I prepared a makeshift bed with my cloths I brought. I made It around a big tree and cover it with more branches and trigs to hide myself properly and went off to sleep .
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Next morning, I continued my journey to the search of my prey . Shadow wolves were larger than normal wolves . These wolves had dark grey fur . Sometimes some of them are born with a horn and while mane , these wolves are groomed as new leader by the old leader . This horn can use used as a weapon or call for reinforcements . Although these wolves are groomed as leaders , they have to meet some requirements before becoming one . First is form a group of your loyal subordinates , second is go hunting with your own pack to gather enough contribution and lastly defeat the current leader . One think that amazed me was that these wolves don't fight each other to death and the defeated leader becomes the commander for its species .
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While moving I forcefully stopped input of mana from my body to mana core and only let it absorb natural mana , absorption of direct mana from nature was painful as my body was not adjusted to use natural mana .
Continuous purification by my mana core, and constant use of phoenix robe somewhat lowered the pain.
I wandered for hours and finally found a small flowing stream in the chaotic zone .
The mana near the river was so chaotic that I almost crouched with pain as my core absorbed the and circulated in my body, phoenix robe didn't manage to help me in this condition. After a while I managed to stand up ,but didn't stop my progress ,the gains were worth the pain .
It will be worth the pain I consoled myself ,hope I don't turn into a masochist .
I approached the river and drank some water and stored some from the container I brought from home. I sat near the shore and meditated for some time only to open my eyes to see growling sound of an animal.
What is saw made a devious smile on my face as I found my prey , I saw a shadow wolf coming towards the river holding a twin horned dead deer in its mouth. It had two holes on its chest which were bleeding. It seems like the deer didn't go without a fight .
It must have come to gather food for its pack I thought as I jumped towards it across the stream preparing a flame whip to stop its movement ,it sensed danger and threw away his prey preparing to dodge but I was faster as managed wrap my whip against him .I concentrated mana in my hand and shot a compressed flame bullet towards its head killing it successfully.
I sighed of relief as I caught it off guard before attacking if not I would have a harder time. I didn't feel any pity as it was not my first time seeing dead animals and I had to survive.
As I went near the wolf a small flame bird came near me and said in the voice of sister
"That's one ,9 left" and the bird disappeared in the environment .
Her keeping an eye on me was natural as the danger of this zone is pretty high .
I had a lot of interest in magical beasts and their power of elementalization of highest ranking beasts ,I had an urge to dissect the corpse and find its secrets but I didn't have proper methods .
Maybe in the future I will be able to do it .I was interrupted as something flew out of the beast and enter my eyes and mana core . Filling it with immense pain . Fell on my knees with my mind getting filled with information I didn't knew was possible.
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::ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCLED :First Kill:
-devouring flames unlocked-
Steal mana from the mana beasts before it returns to the environment
Requirement : body of dead mana beast dead not more than 1h (limit 1 use per day)
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After a while the pain subsided and I realized what had happened . I had absorbed pure form of life force and it started to mix with my innate flame ability . I understand it getting absorbed to my mana core but why my eyes . Apart from the slight pain I didn't feel any difference in my eyes . I confirmed it by seeing my reflection in the stream .
I went towards the beasts and pointed towards the beast and used devouring flames , my flames caused a little corrosion and energy from beast entered my body .
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+0.5 mana points
+0.5 body points
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0.5 per beast is a good amount. Now that food was acquired shelter was not a problem . When I tried using the ability again ,it just burned the beast and the corrosive effect didn't take place .
I didn't ponder much on it and continued my mana rotation and started my flying without broom practice .
In this technique I have to propel my self upwards by creating an explosion by shooting mana from my hands and lets .and control my movement in air for fast and instantaneous movements .This is perfect for my current condition as I haven't perfected my mana control to a degree to forms wings or learn to walk on air with mana zone .
