Lotus Year 86
The horned humans are organizing some kind of festival, the festival seems to be for the purpose of thanking "Earth" for the generous gifts, people are making a lot of food, creating what appear to be small decorations with flowers and thread, and some people are arranging some kind of field for a fight or dance.
As time passes, I can see the festival starting as night begins to fall, some people are happily eating the village's typical cuisine, which consists of fish, vegetables and a strange bread made with grains from their farm.
The groups here seem to be well divided, with "noble" people on one side and the commoners on the other, the nobles stand out for their prettier clothes, tidier appearance and more sophisticated manners, while the commoners are more lively and relaxed.
The party seems to be going well, some flowers from the lake are being used to light the place along with some torches, and some people are going in groups to the pier just to say a brief prayer to the statue of the lady of the lake.
Soon Selene heads to the center of the arena with her staff, and begins to speak something for everyone out there.
"My brothers! We are Амбервилл here today беренче after the fall of Амбервилл, we күз through manyбез күз алдына да китерә алмаслык күп кыенлыклар кичердек, but all да вәгъдә only сәламәт һәм гөрләп торган җир land, protected byкүлнең бөек рухы lake язгы Бейның беренче us with a healthy ләкин болар барысы land in the вәгъдә ителгән җиргә алып барды! And чишмәнең шәфкатьл we gather here at Спринг Бэй кыенлыклар кичер дек thanks to the blessing ханым to us биргән merciful lady of the fountain!"
She said a lot of things with no sense at at, I still couldn't fully understand exactly what she had sayed, but it seemed to be a brief passage about their past and their gratitude to the "Lady of the Fountain".
As soon as she finished her speach, 2 people started walking towards the arena, the first was the town's most popular blacksmith, the guy with black skin like coal that i like to call Smith, and one of the "nobles" who's have a olive hair who seemed to be something like a spearman or any thing like that.
Smith was equipped only with his apron and a semi-open metal helmet made of a bunch of scraped pieces made of metal, leaving his arms and chest exposed fully open, showing his six-pack tanned by the flames of the forge uncovered for anyone who's wanted to see it, on his arm he have some kind type of shoulder pad made of a strange material and a familiar blue jewel that pulses with energy.
The man with the spear wears a small piece of light armor, a simple cape that doesn't block his movements, he have a olive short hair with a braid, a threatening-looking spear with a black tip and some kind of type of cord wrapped around his spear neck that had the same blue jewel pulsing with energy that Smith uses.
It soon became clear to me that they weren't going to dance, because in no time they got into a fighting stance and looked tensely at each other while waiting for the start of the fight. So Selene slowly walked to the certer border of the areana, and give a signa by tapping her staff in the ground, soon as Selene gave the warrior the signal, the two started a fight in the name of the festival.
Smith began the charge towards the spearman whit no exitation, his muscular and large blacksmith body made him look like a bull running towards a small gasela, and soon he got close enough to activated some kind of skill that made his horns take on a metallic appearance, throughout the whole process Smith didn't slow down a single bit, and just started running with his head turned towards the spearman with no intention of stopping.
The spearman boy seemed surprised by the audacity, or by the unexpected movement using the precious horns, since for men the horns are precious parts of their body, so using them as weapons is unconventional since there's always "better weapons" out there.
In response, the spearman seemed to activate some ability that buffed his senses, because as soon as Smith's charge was about to hit him, his body glowed with a yellowish color that made him quickly slide to the side and dodge Smith's attack whit no problems.
Without losing speed, Smith continued his run, raising a big wave of dust wherever he passed, but this time he took out a large, worn-out hammer from his belt and began swinging it like some weapon. Soon as he gained enough speed Smith threw the hammer towards the spearman who in response used the same skill as before to dodge the attack while having a smirk on his face.
But this prevented the spearman from seeing that soon as Smith's hammer had hit the ground, it created a big hole, creating a huge cloud of dust that quickily rose up, causing him to become disoriented. Taking advantage of the gap, Smith continued his advance, activating some type of skill that made his body heavier, even causing him to create small craters in the ground only because of his weight.
Soon the cloud of dust settled, and what the spearman saw was that Smith was close by, far to close, this truly surprised the spear mas, that in a quickily movement slided backwards, leaving small circles of magic that soon begins to create small energy balls of treatening aparence right next to the face of Smith, he was cleary surprised by the unexpected movement, and in response he put his arms in front of his face in a defensive position. In an instant, the strange bubbles swelled in a huge manner, and exploded violently, creating black smoke around Smith, while he was a little stunned by the sudden explosion, a sharp tip that cut through the cloud of smoke ran directly to Smith's chest, but to the spearman's astonishment the spear's tip had crushed soon as it hit Smith's skin. Without letting the spearman think straight, Smith, who was now in front of him, joined his two hands together in a fist, raised his arms above his head, and descended with all his might towards the man with the spear.
Seeing the situation, the man with the spear held tightly to the cord that was around his spear and activated some type of magic that caused a water shield to materialize out of nowhere around him, but this doen't matter, since soon as Smith's fists fell on the water shield made of water it burst like a bubble sending splashes of water all over the place while its bearer had sinked into the ground.
Soon Selene came and declared Smith's victory, while the golden princess rushed to start healing the loser with the help of some other healers from the village.
The nobles did not seem happy with Smith's victory, but his wife and son seemed extremely proud of their father, as did the villager's who were celebrating the victory of Smith. Soon the next pair climbs into the arena, being led by the crying woman with pink hair, and one of the warriors fighting in the company of Mr. Eggplant Head.
The crying woman wears a long, fluid dress that falls to the floor, decorated with blue jewels and ruffles, in addition to having a rare pink color that is difficult to obtain in the village, there's stiall a beautiful necklace around her neck, all kind of small jewels all of her fingers, ears and horns, her hair is elegantly tied in an extravagant updo, and looks like her special item is not the dress's jewels or the necklace, but rather a hair ornament with a pulsating blue jewel emanating a aura of pure elegance.
The man is a common soldier, full armor, sword and a brooch that contains the same pulsating blue jewel as the woman, the difference would be the height of the man compared to the woman, as he is almost 3 meters tall while the woman barely reaches 1.70.
As soon as the fight begins, the crying woman closes her fists in a kind of recitation position, and invokes several magical circles around her that begin to fire several rays of pure energy towards the soldier in no time.
Upon seeing this, the soldier is not intimidated and activates his magical brooch, which seems to create some type of energy interference field, causing the woman's projectiles to become chaotic and disorganized, making them dissipate into the air quickly when they get close to the man.
Upon seeing this, the crying woman smirks evilly and seems to activate her own hair ornament, which don't looks to make anything at all, but soon she start to create more magical circles of a slightly different appearance of the previous one's.
These new magical circles have a slightly blue color, and symbols that appear to be a huge variaty of star's in their composition, and soon the woman reveals that those magical circles aren't just pretty, creating a bunch of crackling energy projectiles of prismatic colors that begin to run towards the soldier at some crazy speed.
As soon as the prismatic projectiles enter the soldier's mana interference field, they begin to shake again but this time as soon as they lose their stability they dissipate creating a small explosion of light that destabilizes the soldier.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the crying woman reveals a kind of magical staff that was hidden inside her clothes, and makes a circular movement with the staff, drawing a large magical circle in the air that soon lights up and creates a ball of magical fire that flies quickly towards the soldier.
Seeing the attack on its way, the soldier tries to dodge it, but because he is a little blinded by the previous explosion of light, he ends up tripping and falling to the ground while dodging the fireball.
Without giving the soldier a window of space, the woman created another magical circle that created a type of magical lightning that crossed the arena and hit the soldier, the lightning hit his armor and shocked him, causing smoke to come out from the inside of his armor.
Even so, he didn't seem willing to give up, giving a loud war scream and running towards the woman with his sword raised up head.
Upon the new threat, the woman raised her eyebrows in disbelief and began to invoke dozens of small magical circles that gave rise to several arrows made of pure energy that were quickly thrown towards the soldier.
In response, the man just cut the energy arrows with his sword while receiving with open arms those that he could not dodge. Once pressed by the soldier, the woman feels obligated to use her trump card hidden up on her sleeve, putting her staff aside, she make some starge quickly movements using her hand thath's end up creating some type of energy field that leave's her body until reach the man.
As soon as the man was hit by the energy field, he stopped abruptly and fell to his knees on the ground as he tried to hold back his tears. But without success, he was hit by a wave of sadness that left him unable to stop his eyes from tearing. The woman, who was now huffing and puffing tiredly, slowly walked up to the soldier, raised her staff and hit him on the head, making him faint in floor.
Soon she is declared the winner of the round, returning to her group with her children and husband who has an approving look on his face, as soon as she gets close he offers her a handkerchief which she happily uses to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
The next fight soon began, this time the opponents were Selene herself against the man with green hair who married the crying woman with pink hair. The man has tired yellow eyes and green hair combed back, he wears a kind of simple suit with a small cape and a kind of medal with a sparkling blue jewel that pulses with energy.
Selene is the same as always, with her long gray hair down to her ankles, dark blue eyes, and gray skin. She wears a white robe with embroidered flowers and mosaics and has a large bracelet made of a brass-like material encrusted with a sparkling blue jewel.
As soon as the 2 entered the field the man seemed a little suspicious and his nervousness proved correct, as the moment the battle began Selene pointed her huge staff at him and made dozens of small magical circles appear.
Soon a rain of super-fast water projectiles began to rush towards the man, but surprisingly he jumped up to an impossible height and began to fall to the ground very slowly, dodging Selene attack.
Selene, in turn, just let out a mocking laugh and with a movement of her staff, the water projectiles that had missed their target began to run towards the man again.
When he saw this he became very angry, and took out some kind of paperback book from his coat, tearing the pages out of the small book and causing a large wind to begin running all throughout the place. The air current soon began to lift up dust and become a small hurricane, completely destroying Selene's projectiles while the man somehow remained safe inside the hurricane.
Then, angrily, Selene raises her staff with one hand and begins to recite some sort of long incantation, causing the mark on her head to glow for a moment before she slams the tip of her staff on the ground. As soon as her staff touched the ground, a large circle of blue magic began to spread throughout the ground. Upon seeing this, the air hurricane became more violent and quickly advanced towards Selene.
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Before the small hurricane could reach Selene, its spell had completed, giving rise to a large wave of water that spread out with Selene's magic circle as its epicenter.
As soon as the water was about to hit the audience, the waves hit what seemed to be an invisible wall and began to fill the entire battlefield area as if filling a glass with water. Soon the entire arena was flooded with water, while Selene walked calmly on the surface of the water, the man needed to stay in the sky while he thought of a way to react.
Without giving time, Selene points her staff at him, creating a large amount of water spears that emerge from the flooded arena below her. With a snap of her fingers, all the spears began to run quickly towards the man who all he could do was create an yeloow energy wall made with some skill.
In his counterattack, the man pulled out his small pocket book again and began pouring his magical energy into the book, causing a semi-transparent image of what appeared to be a fairy to appear over his shoulder as the time passed.
As soon as the new wave of water spears arrived, the wind fairy who's now seems complete, gentl blew lightly in the direction of Selene's attack, causing the water spears to return from where they came at full speed. In response, Selene just looked angry with a serious face as the water spears hit her body and dissipated into just water, as if the sharp water spears hiting her body were just water balloons.
Soon the man seemed extremely tired, perhaps summoning a fairy is not the easiest thing in the world, because in the next moment he placed his hand on his blue medal draining its energy to himself, and gave an order to his fairy. As soon as it received a command, the wind fairy quickly flew a safe distance away from Selene and in a tornado of flowing wind the fairy transformed into what appeared to be a half-naked human with large ears, light green skin, completely white eyes and white hair flowing like the wind.
Upon seeing this, Selene seemed serious treatened for the first time in battle, holding her staff defensively as she waited for the wind fairy's actions.
Without leaving her waiting too long, the fairy gave a slight smile and began to create a large hurricane of air that made the hurricane from before seem obsolete, the hurricane sucked all the water from the arena and was now trying to swallow Selene who stuck herself in on the ground with his wooden staff.
Even in the middle of a village, the hurricane didn't seem to cause harm to anyone other than Selene, only creating a large wind in the surroundings that knocked over some dishes and extinguished the torches.
Soon Selene could no longer hold back and was swallowed by the hurricane, once inside the hurricane the man thought Selene had lost, but to his and the fairy's surprise the hurricane began to emit a faint blue light that grew and grew until it exploded in a huge bubble of water that completely dissipated the hurricane, leaving behind a very angry and serious Selene. Upon seeing this, the wind fairy seemed indignant and offended, creating several blades of air that were quickly thrown in different sequences and rhythms towards Selene nonstop.
In response Selene just lifted her staff off the ground as she pointed it at the man and fairy duo and created a magic circle that created a shell of water around her. As soon the attack was contained Selene began reciting some type of spell that made a dense fog appear on the battlefield blocking the vision of the duo.
In response, the now exhausted man had to use another page of his pocket book to create a current of air that soon revealed Selene. But what they saw was Selene with a huge magic circle carrying a mysterious and threatening-looking spell.
Soon as the fairy saw this new upcoming attack, she quickly ran towards Selene in a hurry, but it didn't do anything because Selene just fired her magic, which passed through the fairy, causing her to dematerialize in the air, and then hit the man who had no way to escape or defend from the magical projectile.
The projectile precisely hit's the man in the chest, tearing his clothes and leaving him with a large open wound in his chest, everyone looked on in horror and amazement as the man slowly fell to the ground while vomiting blood.
The first to arrive was the crying woman, who seemed furious with Selene, summoning an energy arrow spell that openly aimed for Selene's head. In response, Selene just hit the arrow with her staff, making it disappear and creating a small wave of water that knocked the woman into a puddle of mud, which caused the woman to start screaming at Selene.
Soon the golden princess arrived, and began to focus on the man and his wounds, the festival seemed to be over, possibly because of Selene, but she didn't seem sorry at all.
"Are you акылсызмы?!!? It was дусларча to be тиеш иде fight!! Why did аны шулай рәнҗеттең that?!" Shouted the pink haired woman to Selene.
"Hmff. Are you алтын принцесса килеп? Your husband һәм аның яраларына игътибар итә башлады "кызганмады." аны and put everyone in the village ләкин ул бөтенләй кызганмады.! You're lucky Iһәм аның яраларына игътибар итә башлады!" Yelled Selene back as she was held by Mr. Eggplant Head and Smith.
Apparently the man did something he shouldn't have done, possibly something dangerous, I can't tell what that wind fairy really is, for me she fells just like a elemental, but she seems far more dangerous and powerfull that a elemental, all i can tell for sure is that the fairy was dangerous, really dangerous.
The man is also dangerous, if he can summon such a powerful creature, it means he has some truly impressive abilities. I was personally most impressed with the mystery of books.
These little things are found in various parts of the village, some books are family treasures, while others serve as memories of a lost past. Books may contain magic or just words, but it doesn't change the fact that they are valuable.
The few books that exist in the village are kept within the center of the village, locked in an ancient chest that the horned men brought with them, and almost no one can access them, only a few noble families and the strongest people in the village.
'Impressive, I would love to put my roots into these books....'
Taking advantage of everyone being busy, I make a small water elemental rise from one of the village's water channels, then direct it directly to the main house where the chest with the books is hidden.
As soon as the elemental arrives in front of the chest, it dissolves into a stream of water that enters the lock and takes the form of a key. After unlocking the chest, the elemental begins to take each of the books and quickly flip through them inside a water bubble.
As the books are flipped through, an illusion of them appears in front of my main body, copying each page down to the smallest detail until I have an illusory copy of each book in the trunk, then the elemental gently places the books back into the trunk, and locks it. again before leaving the house and dissipating into a bubble of water.
'Perfect! Easy as a piece of cake!'
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Lotus Year 87
For the last year I have been studying the books that I "Stole", some books seem to be about magic, containing magic circles, formulas and mathematical calculations, while others seem to be about history, science, witchcraft and herbology.
I can't say for sure the content of the books, since heard and written words can have the same pronunciations but different meanings, but I can still "read over" it all and understand some things.
Magic books are clearly the most useful, as they contain formulas and functional magical inscriptions that I don't really need to know how to read to use!
There seems to be a kind of magical system in the world where there are dozens of spells and magic that everyone can use. While some are unique spells created by people and passed down through generations of families with talents for specific elements.
I learned that if I drew a circle on the ground, and filled it with perfectly crafted rune designs and inscriptions, I could use a spell that created a small ball of light. And I also discovered that to "cast" spells into the air I basically needed to draw these symbols with mana.
I spent a lot of time doing this, a process that seemed impossible because it was so complicated, until one day I discovered why it was so difficult to cast magic in a "raw" way.
Skill
[Mana Control] - Lv 7
Helps you control mana in a more stable and refined way
I needed a skill, a skill just to be able to cast spells correctly. It seems like a pain, but after gaining this skill it became much easier to draw magic circles in the air.
I ended up discovering several spells that I can use without problems, things like creating a small flame burning magical energy, a small arrow of pure energy, a mana projectile and a small translucent energy shield.
All of this is determined by the symbols and runes that exist in the magical formation, so I soon started writing my own spells. By changing the magical symbols I could achieve different results, changing just one magical symbol or another does not "change the spell" it just makes it more inefficient and expensive, but by drastically changing the formation and arrangement of the magical symbols it is possible to create a totally new phenomenon by changing the symbols contained in a magic circle, I can create new types of spells, such as a strange spell that makes the earth soften and become like clay, a spell that "pushes" air forward, and a spell to create a flame. stinky.
It's not exactly the most incredible thing in the world, but I'm still not very knowledgeable about this subject, but I still have eternity to learn. Now that I have books and magic to study, I can keep busy and forget about the loneliness of the cave.
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I was researching some new spells, I discovered a series of combinations of symbols and inscriptions that can manipulate water, to do this I just needed to review Selene's fight with the grass head again and copy the symbols into her magic circle.
For me, as long as I could imitate Selene's similes, I would be able to reproduce the same spell, but to my displeasure, it's not as easy as it seems. Spells need to be perfect, with geometrically perfect and calculated formulas, in addition to drawing symbols and inscriptions perfectly and quickly.
When inscribing a spell, I need to "write" it in the air as I pump mana into the spell, creating various small images and symbols made of mana in the air. But if I don't do it quickly, the mana starts to dissipate and "blur" creating imperfect patterns that don't give rise to a proper spell.
Because of this, I can't create the same incredible phenomena as Selene, actually, i'm sure that i can do everything she did, and even better, but instead of using "magic" would use my control over water, Selene can do basicaly the same things as me with spells, but when the things is "who's better managing water" it was clearyo me.
For me this don't seems to be like, a real a problem, but even Selene isn't dependent on water like me, she can still create her super usefull energy shields, mana projectiles and even those magic arrows that everyone seems to be able to create, while I can only create water-based things, anything, like a water shield, water arrows, and water projectiles. But projectiles made with pure energy seem to be much more lethal than projectiles made from my elemental magic.
This is something that I had realized some time ago, there's more forms of manipulating energy just than using it to control the elements, so i classified the magic in elemental magic, and non-elemental magic, elemental magic is magic that uses the powers of nature itself, such as water, fire, earth and air. While non-elemental magic seems to come from more "Pure" things, like magic books and the strage powers of some villagers.
The red demon seems to be able to use some thing like blood magic, at least I would say it is blood magic, since her powers basically consist of strengthening herself and ignoring all types of damage to her body, in addition to the fact that she has a Pretty scary natural healing factor and the ability to "track" her own blood.
The magic in the books seems to be something that prefers to stays in the gray area, it's clearly not elemental magic, but still try to copy it or at least use it as the base. For me "real" elemental magic is when someone use his power to control the powers of a certain element present in nature that they have more familiarity with, as an example I am strong because my specialty is water, and I live in a lake full of water, the same thing happens with Selene, who can benefit tremendously from living in the lake region.
Now, other people like Mrs. Smith have their powers weakened because of the lack of "proper" energy, they get tired very quickly, and they seem to be unable to regenerate their MP reserves at the same rate as Selene or other member of the village.
But the magic in the books is not affected by the region it is on, it doesn't get stronger or weaker for being near the lake, it's as if the spell was pre-cast to be used later, but I have no idea how to do that, because Whenever I try to inscribe a magic circle on one of my leaves, or on a block of dirt, this symbol ends up activating and dissipating quickly, or not activating at all.
I also discovered that I can make my water reflexes cast magic, this was already written in the skill description, but it's still pretty cool, the reflexes are very autonomous in this matter, being able to cast any spell that I have knowledge of, on their own, the only downside for me is that they take a lot of time to cast any spell i want they so use, also they can't move while casting, and still use more MP if I only had just cast the spell myself, but it's still useful as I could use them to keep intruders away.
What I most want to do is create one of the strange items that Selene keeps making, I've tried this a few times, but the result was always a poorly made piece of junk, or a pile of metal and jewelry mixed together.
Because of this, I made several preparations, I created a magic circle carved on the floor of the cave that is an identical copy of the magic circle that Selene uses to create her items, and I have been testing the creation methods for some time, so if I do everything Alright, I'm finally going to put my roots into one of these mysterious items.
'Alright, let's get to the point'
Dragging some scraps and jewelry that I kept around the cave to the center of a small magical circle carved into the floor, I begin to wrap my roots around these pieces of metal and jewelry and force them to stay together, soon a water reflection that imitates Selene begins to appear from inside the lake house and slowly walk to the edge of the magic circle.
Then Selene's reflection begins to mutter several strange and meaningless little words, but soon the magic circle begins to glow as more and more energy is sucked from the roots surrounding it. Before long the tangle of items in the center of the magic circle begin to float in the air as they orbit themselves, and in a sort of light show a large amount of purely blue energy begins to leak from the magic circle and trickle into it. from the tangle of floating items.
Soon the strange items begin to melt, creating a perfect ball made of a greenish metal with several small shiny blue jewels. Then a root begins to approach the metal ball and pour what appears to be glowing water onto the item, an action that causes the item to begin shaking violently before beginning to take the form of some sort of medallion or ornament.
Then several white letters made of energy began to appear inside the magic circle, and circle the strange item while more and more blue energy flowed nonstop into the item.
In response, a great fog began to form throughout the cave, circling the magical circle with dozens of mystical whispers coming from the depths of the fog. Upon hearing the whispers, mysterious letters began to run into the greenish medallion, and in a small light show the medallion began to spin rapidly before the magic circle lost its glow and the medallion began to slowly fall back to the ground.
In the end, the result was a large medallion with several small engravings on its sides, followed by a large sparkling blue jewel roughly carved and engraved inside, the jewel glowed with a kind of tornado of water and white clouds that ran in a spiral inside. of the jewel without stopping in a slow but steady rhythm.