The next day after few hours they manage to catch a fox alive. Later they went back to the camp and Sid started experimenting. They didn’t hunt for the rest of the day. Most of them started sparring and Tobi decided to make more compressed stone spikes. After few hours he was very bored so he decided to experiment with his skills. He first tried to compress the stone further but to a little success. He knew he could do it but it would take a massive amount of mana.
Then he moved to other materials. First, he used wood it was easy but took more effort then stone. Then he moved to the bones of the fox they ate this morning. It was even more difficult to shape the bone but it was easier to compress it. He took note of this and moved on. He used microscopic manipulation on it. He focused hard on the structure and tried to separate aluminium from it. The whole structure started crumbling and he fainted.
Tobi opened his eyes back in the boulder room. With Felix sitting beside him. “What happened?” asked Felix. “was trying something new and fainted due mana deprivation” he replied. Felix nodded and left Tobi alone. He then checked his status and there was a new notification.
New skill discovered – Atomic Disintegration
Atomic Disintegration – By making the structure of an object unstable, this skill destroys an object from within.
Then Tobi checked his skill status to know more about it.
Skills
Type
Cost
Grade
Basic Cultivation Technique
Active/Semi-passive
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Lowest-Common
Inspect
Active
1 M.P.
Common
Microscopic Manipulation
Active
100 M.P./cm3sec
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1st class Rare
Shaping
Active
100 M.P./m3sec
Uncommon
Atomic Disintegration
Active
300 M.P.
1st class Rare
Tobi was surprised by this. He then decided to bring this up during the dinner and also practice further with his spells. He then walks outside and see Sid sitting on the floor with the fox, if it could even be called that. It looked something from a horror film with bones coming out of its under belly and blood slowly tripping from them. He went and sat near Sid whose eyes were still closed.
He opened his eyes after some time and looked at Tobi. Tobi asked, “any success?”. “nothing yet” replied Sid.
“any particular problem you are facing?”
“I can change most of its body if I know how it functions but cannot seem to do anything else. Also, I noticed that I collected some essence passively while experimenting.”
“I also discovered something new but I will save it for dinner?”
“maybe I can get something out of it. It feels like I am so close, like I know how to use my skills but I do not understand the basics of it. It’s like I am missing my foundation.”
“now that I think about it, I also feel that some thing is missing. Like I know how to move something but I don’t know how it is moving.”
“yep, we can drop this thought bomb on them during the dinner, ha-ha”
“well, happy helplessness until then, hahaha” said Tobi and went off.
Later they all met during dinner. After they finished their dinner Tobi told them how he got his new skill and also what he and Sid thought about missing something important from their skills. Everyone sat in silence and pondered for a while and then they decided that they will hunt during the first half of the day and practice during the second half. According to Tobi this should have been obvious when they learned basic cultivation. Everyone went to sleep after that.
The next day they woke up and went to hunt. Their goal for that day was to level up Deepraj, Freya, Anmol and Emma. After hunting a pack of five everyone was very close to levelling up and Anmol has already levelled up. Then they spotted a fox that was very different from others along with two regulars. It was twice the size of others and there were chunks of rocks moving along its skin. They decided to take care of the bigger fox first and employed the same strategy. But when Freya’s fire bolt reached the fox it did not sat it on fire but extinguished after doing some minor damage. Then Deepraj hit it with compressed stone spike it went few inches deep in its Stoney skin drawing blood. But it did not do any damage. Freya seeing that her attacks were useless started attacking other foxes.
Emma also started attacking the bigger fox. Deepraj casted speed spell on Anmol while Felix too casted an illusion spell on him. Anmol started attacking the fox relentlessly. After a while fox became desperate as it was being bombarded from all sides and let out a loud howl and small rocks went flying in all directions dispelling illusion on Anmol and inflicting minor cuts but after that the rocks near its skin were very low. Seeing this as an opportunity everyone attacked it and it started pressing on Anmol who backed off, seeing his target escaping it started going toward Felix. Felix staggered backward and fell down but during that time Freya had already finished her fight and attacked the fox with a beam of light directly in its eyes. Getting this opportunity Felix casted another illusion on himself and slipped away. The fox was dead after a while and everyone let out a sigh of relief.
Two Stage – 0 common spotted fox killed
Collected 32 essence (200 party)
Stage – 1 common spotted fox killed
Collected 80 essence (500 party)
That had been a close fight. Sid went to Anmol and started healing him. “that was something new.” Said Freya breathing heavily. Everyone ignored that. After resting for a while Deepraj and Anmol went to the larger fox and started bringing it back to their camp.