He found the thing he was looking for as he sat down and touched the ground.
It was simple he only needed to create things he can imagine while using his energy, but he needed to control the energy for that.
So he did just that he imagined a part of the energy being controlled by him as it circulated towards his hand suddenly leaving it as it became a part of the ground, he imagined the ground rising and creating a square like shape, soon the ground slowly got raised as it formed into a square like shape, he found that it worked but some of the energy was wasted, he have no Idea how but he tried turning the square like shape into a ball this time, he found it harder to do as it slowly turned into a ball like shape, but suddenly the almost formed ball cracked, until it completely broke into multiple pieces, the energy he inserted was lost too as the ground used slowly turned into dirt again losing its toughness. He was not surprised as he knew this was caused by his lack of control, so he just started it once more, until it turned into his eight, as this time he can see the completely formed ball shaped, with no energy being wasted anywhere
But he also felt how his energy was almost drained due to his earlier lack of control, and continued trial, but he know it was just the start of controlling his energy as this ball was only small.
Suddenly he felt the earth energy warning him, he don’t know how the energy did it but he heeded the warning as he could also sense something around the ground like there’s something coming in his place soon, so he stood up and ran towards a direction he don’t know, since the forest looked the same anywhere anyways so he just ran and ran till he felt that he was safe enough and sat down, and at that time he felt how his stomach was growling.
Suddenly a certain knowledge came from deep beneath, it was a way to hold his hunger for 1 year using energy, so he sat down cross legged, as his finger was inserted on the ground, as he did what was said on this knowledge, energy slowly came with it but this energy felt different than the normal Brown energy he absorbed at first, as he slowly felt it circulating over his systems as he slowly felt his hungry stomach slowly turning back to normal.
This method of absorbing this kind of energy was only to make him not hungry and is not useful for absorbing energy to become his mana.
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He stayed sitting on the ground as he felt that he need to absorb some energy for his control training again, so he inserted his fingers on the ground as he imagined a root going down farther and farther as energy slowly got inserted in the tip as it rushed towards his body, circulating all over his body, before settling on the brown lightning like symbol, it continued for some time as he decided to do it until he can feel the heaviness again, so he slowly continued until he felt the heaviness going on his body again, he stopped once he felt that he could not handle it anymore, since he did not want to pass out again.
Once he was finished he took his finger out from the ground again as he, touched the ground with his hand again as he formed the ball directly this time, without forming the square shape first. As soon as the ball was formed he controlled his energy to slowly make it grow small spikes around it, which need him to control his energy in multiple time at once, which needed him to divide his attention, and makes it harder to control, sadly the first one failed as his second and third one failed too.
At the fourth time he saw a spiky ball floating in front of him he was satisfied as he tried it against the tree, he pointed using his fingers while sitting as the spiky ball charged towards the tree, the speed it flew was toward the tree was fast, as it slammed towards the tree, *THUD* was the only thing he heard as the place where the ball hit started spreading a crack around it, while the ball was in deep the tree, sadly the tree did not completely break but, he think it was powerful enough.
But he did not stop as he felt that he still had much mana so he created more of the spiky balls he wanted to see if he can control multiple of it at once.
So he formed the first one fast, then came the second one, then the third one, as he felt that three is enough so he controlled the three spiky ball with his energy as he lifted them at once, he felt his energy slowly fading as he make them fly into another tree this time at once, Multiple *Thud* sounded as three ball hit the tree, as the tree fell down with a large thud and a short shockwave on the ground.
He was satisfied with this current power, but he felt how his energy was down to half after doing it, so he formed four spiky ball this time, and he felt that his energy was currently so low, but he still continued, as he thought about an idea of making it turn around while charging, so he decided to try that, so he controlled it to charge forward and tried making it do a turn this time, sadly it only slowed down first before turning into a different way, but it still turned so he knew he can do it better. So he decided to do this first before completely doing the other form.