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From now one telepathic speech and any kind of communication which isn't through normal voice, will be like this: '~This is an example~' (from), and regular talks: "Another Example" (from) 

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                After hearing about the bandits attack and their fight with villagers, I was excited. Actually, after leaving the reincarnation I can't understand my own feelings, it's the wrong word, not feelings, but rather instincts. My instincts give a strange sense of hunger towards that battle, the same feeling I felt when I sensed the spirit flower. I changed after the void, was it because of the time I spent there, or is it because of the fact that I'm undead now, I'm not sure, maybe both, but my feelings are weird and I don't really feel like *me* as I remember myself before dying.

                A moment ago I was really sad when Kaster severed our conversation, and the other moment when I was standing and seeing his body lying there lifeless, I didn't feel anything. I didn't even bury him because it could attract unwanted attention. So it's safe to say, the state of being an undead is responsible for my change. Well, it's not like I don't feel anything, just the feelings are really dull. So far I had a strong desire to absorb the spirit flower and now excitement towards the place, where people are being slaughtered, but my other emotions are surpassed. I'm not even scared of that fact. When I was in the void I was scared and unwilling, when I came to a conclusion, that sooner or later my memories will be lost and the personality that is me will disappear.

                I fought, I struggled to keep my personality and my memories safe. I can't just ignore it, even if right now my emotions are calm and I'm not scare of this change, but I can't just accept it as is, after struggling so much. I have to know more about undead and my situation, and I know the best person I can ask it from.

                While I keep running in the direction Spirit pointed me in, I try to communicate with him, thinking inside my head just like I was doing in the cave. After all if he could sense everything all the way out of forest, keeping our communication shouldn't be different right?

                '~Can we still communicate if I'm out of the cave~' (Anubis)

                '~Yes, you'd better hurry, with your current speed it will take around 20 minute until you reach them~' (Spirit)

                If he could talk to me from any distance, why did he lure me inside of his cave using the flower. Was it because he had the permission to kill me there? Now I'm reluctant to enter that cave again. Back to what I wanted to ask him.

                '~Can you tell me a bit about undead, what am I? From your reaction earlier it seems like even you haven't seen someone like me, am I right? ~' (Anubis)

                '~Indeed, you are the first undead with a soul and a core of your own that I heard of.

                Let me continue my explanation than, I already gave you a brief understanding of mana. There are a lot of ways to control and use mana. The easiest and most common way is to guide the surrounding mana using your spiritual energy, through your core and channeling it through muscles and bones, giving a bust in physical characteristics. But of course there is a limit in strengthening.

                More complicated way is to guiding through the core the same way, make use of your understanding of elements and conjure a spell. For low level spells the everyday life experience of elements, which is common knowledge for anyone is enough, but for higher level spells, you will need to research and understand all the properties and interactions of the element in various cases and even with other elements. That's why most of the Master level mages in one or another element are proficient with other elements as well, although not as much as with their main element. It's still difficult to gain insights and understanding into elements and reach a high level, and Master is a level, that can be considered as having gained some basic understanding.

                Elements are Air, Water, Earth.

                Actually there are evidences of the forth element, but it's so rare that even I don't have much understanding of it. Probably it's because that mysterious element isn't as common as the other three, and it's harder to even witness it, much less comprehend it's properties.~' (Spirit)

                '~Wait, wait, before you continue isn't this mysterious element the fire? In my world we had many theories of magic, I guess even if we didn't have any way to sense or utilize it, it's still natural and innate thing for us, and the fourth element always was considered the fire~' (Anubis)

                '~Of course it's not, how is fire not common in everyday life? Even if people can't touch and the only thing they can feel is the heat coming from it and not the fire itself, they are still able to have good understanding of it. But the element I'm talking about isn't encountered at all, so much that in thousands and thousands of years, I haven't met a mage, that can use it, although I've heard of weird dragons that were using an unknown magic, but they are extremely rare, and I'm sure you won't find any evidence in human libraries.~' (Spirit)

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                '~Oh dragons? Like real giant flying lizards who breath fire? And they can even use magic?~'  (Anubis)

                '~Yes, they really are big, but I haven't heard of any that could manipulate the fire, not to talk ab out actually breathing it.

                And yes, of course dragons can use magic, they are actually most proficient in it. As we spirits are innately gifted with abilities like telepathy that I'm using right now, dragons are gifted with an innate understanding of their elements, once they reach adulthood most of them will already be at Master or higher level, but they have problems comprehending other elements that aren't innately given to them. That's the reason why it's pretty much impossible to find a dragon at Expert level of its innate element, because of their innate advantage, but to get stronger and deeper understanding they need knowledge of other elements too, and they spend a lot more time comprehending them.~' (Spirit)

                '~But doesn't make it impossible for anyone to completely understand one element because of that mysterious element, that no one know anything about?~' (Anubis)

                '~As I said, the most important part is how the elements interact with each other, so considering how rare that element is in nature itself, it's not as important for farther understanding of one element. Even if you knew all the interactions with that element, you wouldn't necessarily have a way to apply them in a spell.~' (Spirit)

                '~Ah so it all comes to how you apply your knowledge, and the ranks of the spells you can use determine what rank of a mage you are~' And after getting the confirmation I asked '~So what level of mage are you~' I was curious, after all he has lived countless years and is strong enough to kill people from a kilometer distance.

                '~What were you listening with? I said it haven't I, to conjure an elemental spell, you have to channel it through your core, and spirits don't have cores. That's why we are unable to use elemental magic.~' (Spirit)

                '~Than what about the spiritual magic? Kaster and Zenon were death and life mages right?~' (Anubis)

                '~Yes, besides elemental magic there is spiritual magic, which is a lot more complicated than any of elements, because you can't feel or interact with life or death in any way. And although this magic's name is spiritual, its called that because it's corporeal and not-material, and we spirits are called as such because of the same reason, and not the other way.

                But even so, spiritual magic still works on mana and even if in a different way, it has to be channeled through the core before conjuring, even if it's not material.

                We, spirits, use other kind of power. As you could already guess, to determine how strong a mage is, it's important to know his level of comprehension and how powerful spirit power he has. Even if you have the understanding of an element in a sage level, you still won't be able to use spells of that level, because your spirit and soul won't be strong enough to draw the amount of mana.

                And there is another way to use spiritual energy. For example~' As he said that, I could feel my head spinning, my vision darkening, and before I would lose my conciseness, the feeling disappeared, letting me run once more in the pointed direction after a slight pause of confusion. '~Spiritual energy can control the mana, but in the same way it can interact with other spiritual energies. Right now I used it to affect your mind and soul. There are a lot of ways of utilizing it. You can make an enemy fall unconscious or kill them overwhelming their spirit, and severing their soul's connection with core. Or you can spread your spiritual sense, projecting images from the places it can reach  directly into your mind.~'

                Awesome, so it's like haki from my favorite pirate story. I already know my first priority in learning magic.

                '~Oh, now that I think about it, Kaster used it to share his memories with me, why aren't we doing the same thing, instead of talking about all of this?~' (Anubis)

                '~Good question, it's because souls of spirits and humans are different, your souls are accustomed to vision, hearing and it all shaped your soul in a way that it's incompatible with my kind, it's impossible to forcefully share memories. Actually that's one of the most interesting insights I had after your story about your world and soul abyss. I was doubting at start, how can two different worlds with such a different developments have such a similar natures. It's not a coincidence that Kaster found someone with the same human body and same nature even if you lived in different worlds, contrary to that, Kaster was searching only for creatures that had the same type of souls as him, to be able to share the memories. It's because of that, that everything in this world is so familiar to you, because if you change some basic thing in the elements, everything will change, and probably you wouldn't be able to survive in such a world.

                How marvelous is it, that even in completely different worlds, because of the similar natures, humanity kept changing and evolving until they've become the same way they are in both worlds.

                I didn't answer your original question did I? So to summon undead...~' (Spirit)