In the inner parts of the woods there have been sightings of a big bear before the awakening. Tana wanted to try and fight that bear. He knew that there isn't anyone stronger than him in his country right now. Maybe there are some people outside his country but he isn't planning on going outside the country right now.
There were some news of a group of terrorists in the USA that's using mana balls with an explosion addon in it to destroy cities. They were caught though. Tana knew that these terrorists were better than him in using mana it seems.
Right now he is riding his dirty bike in the outer parts of the woods. He is planning on finding something smaller to start of. The dog he killed before was wounded so that can't be counted as a real fight.
He can use the mana radar now while moving but the range will be shorter. It will be around 75 meters. That was enough for him to sense some presences while moving. He sensed three presences with the same aura as the bird. It looked like the 2 weaker presences were fighting the stronger one.
Tana decided to kill all of them. He wanted to test out the mana arrow he learnt.
When he came to the scene he saw an mutated rat and cat fighting a bird. The rat and cat were losing because they couldn't attack from afar and in air.
The bird had an obvious advantage! That was the ability to fly!
Tana decided to get rid of the birb with an stealth attack first. He made a 1 meter large spinning mana ball and threw it at the bird mid air. The bird saw the ball coming but couldn't react fast enough and the ball ripped through the bird's wing. Tana was a bit disappointed in his aim. He wanted to one shot kill it.
Well...atleast it lost the ability to attack now. Tana shot a smaller spinning ball at the bird and killed it and now focused on the other two mutated animals. He saw that the rat was a bit stronger than the cat but it was more wounded too. It seems that mutated animals gain a bit of intelligence as well looking at how the bird prioritized the rat more than the cat.
The cat noticed Tana first and started running away.The cat knew that someone who can kill such a bird so fast is someone not to be fighting with.
The rat didn't run though,not that is didn't want but it couldn't. It was wounded. Tana saw the cat running and followed it and threw a two smaller spinning mana balls at it. The first one hit the cat's front left leg and the second ball hit the abdomen area. The cat fell down slowly dying from blood loss.
Tana returned to where the rat was and used mana arrows to pierce the skull and brain of the rat. The power of the arrows was clearly weaker but there were a lot more of them. The arrows finally pierced the skull and brain and the rat died.
Tana wanted to take some of the fur from the cat so he can make some protective armor with it after he learns how. He also took the teeth from the rat and cat too. The bird didn't have many useful things but he still took some blood samples. Tana was delighted when he saw his spoils. He wanted to try drinking the blood after he came home but now he is just going to store it.
He is planning on going deeper in the woods. He want to try and find more new and mutated plants. He also saw a few weird trees while he was going deeper in the forest. The inner parts of the forest had more and more animals and beasts which were strong as the dog. Tana didn't dare to fight them with his mana drained after the battle with the bird and others.
He did find some trees that grew some weird blue colored leaves once in a while it seems. He took some leaves and decided to blend them together with the Orange Rebirth Fruit after testing it.
There wasn't anything other than that. He decided not to go any further because his mana radar is being blocked by something deeper in the forest. He thought it was maybe some beast that learned to control mana. He knew it was possible to block the radar if someone had better control and power in mana than you.
He decided that it was enough for today and went back home. When he was going back home he stopped at a store and bought a mortar and pestle for crushing the leaves and herbs he found.
After he came home he decided to try making tea with the blue leaves he picked up. He used only one leaf and the others he stored for later use. He put the water to boil while he took a quick shower. After he came out of the shower he made the tea. The leaf made the water become blue and give of an chilling and refreshing fragrance. It was currently summer so it is good that is gives of a chilling fragrance but the water is hot isn't it?
Did the leaf make the tea cold? This is something interesting. Tana thought as he tried taking a sip from the tea...
His guess was right! The tea was freezing cold! His head hurt after drinking the tea but that was all. He could feel the mana in his body changing a bit but that was all. He didn't think it would be this cold! After a few moments he calmed down and thought of an idea.
"The Rebirth Fruit makes your body hot while the Blue Leaf makes you body cold and replenishes a bit of mana,right? Can't you combine those two to get rid of most of the effects? I want to try it!" Tana said while taking out the Blue leaves and the Rebirth Fruit. He started crushing and combining those two. As he was doing that he took small sips from the Blue Tea,he gave it the name, his head hurt but the mana he used before was replenishing slowly.
It took atleast 5 minutes to completely blend the fruit and leaves together. He drank the whole Blue Tea and his body was freezing cold from the outside. His mana was completely replenished though. He sat in a meditating position and took the blend he made.
He decided to call the blend Blue Rebirth Blend. He really has a bad naming sense...(A/N : By 'he' I mean,I have a bad naming sense!)
He ate the whole blend at once. As it was with the Violet Rebirth Fruit the sense of relaxation and refreshing came first then the hot and cold from the fruit and leaves. The hot and cold battled in his body and he called out his mother.
"Mommy...!!" If it was only the Orange Rebirth Fruit he might've called for his ancestors...
He tried using mana to regenerate the wounds that were appearing and it worked but the mana was going away faster than ever! Good thing the Blue Leaves were regenerating mana aswell. He endured the pain and the blood sweat started to come out at last!
The blood he was sweating was a dark red color or so it seemed. He endured for 1 hour. That was a lot longer than what he had to endure last time. This was only the first phase too! There's still the fusion phase.
The hot and cold feelings were finally becoming calmer but the gas is coming out at last! The second phase is beginning!
As Tana saw the orange gas coming out he prepared his mana and started regenerating as fast as possible. The effect of the blue leaves is going to fade away in 5 minutes if he doesn't finish the fusion process during those 5 minutes he will have to rely on luck.
1 minute passed...2 minutes...3...4......5 minutes!!
5 minutes have passed and the blue leaves effect stopped. He is currently only at 70% fusion he still has 30% and the remaining mana he has is barely enough. He was relieved that he had barely enough mana.
He finished the fusion process and looked at his body once again. His skin was cleaner than ever and his facial features were more handsome. He was still the same height but you can't say this is the same person! His mana capacity was tripled! This is a magnificent breakthrough. His muscles and bones became stronger during the fusion process.
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He took a quick shower once again and cleaned himself completely. He now saw himself in the mirror. He was really more handsome. His hair became a bit darker though. It's now a blackish brown color. His eye color is the same.
He wanted to try using the sword light spell he has been working on. He first made the sword light 10 cm long and added the vibrating effect. He could add the same speed of the vibrating as he could when the sword light was 2 cm long. This is clearly an improvement. He tried making the sword light longer but he needed to make the vibrating slower. He could now make a 30 cm long sword light with a vibrating effect three times slower.
His sword light spell is now around 30% complete he thought. If he can only make it 100 cm long with a vibrating and spinning effect. He will consider that complete then.
He also managed to make the spinning mana ball rotate even faster and made the arrows rotate at all. You could see a grin on his face as he was looking at the spinning arrows in front of him. He was considering himself the strongest in the town now.
"I managed to get some other herbs so I need to try them too." He said while taking out more different shaped and colored plants and herbs.
They were only mana replenishing herbs it seems. There were some that gave your mana a boost in the cost of mentality.When Tana tried that one he almost destroyed the wall of the apartment. He decided not to use that one. He named it the Berserker Herb.
The common mana replenishing herbs were : Minor Herb and a Medium replenishing herb. He didn't want to name them because they were only used for that right now. If he finds some other uses he will name them then.
He also decided to try adding more properties to his mana. He wanted to try elemental properties so he decided the next few days would only be research about the different elements.
He did as he said. He was researching a lot of different elements and stuff on the internet and reading a lot of novels and books with these kinds of settings. He tried adding the heat property to the spinning mana ball. He imagined the mana to be like the feeling he felt while eating the Rebirth Fruit. It didn't work though. He tried putting his hand on fire to feel the flames...That was a stupid idea. He needed 2 hours to regenerate his hand from the burns.
He did get some insight though. He tried spinning the ball faster while adding a heat element property only on one side of the ball. He managed to do that! Even though it is on one side the ball is spinning fast enough to activate the heat property more than enough times in a second.
Even though the heat property isn't like fire and won't burn the target. The target will still feel the heat from it.
Tana decided to call this new revised spell : Heat Ball
Tana's current spells are : Mana ball,Spinning Mana ball,Heat ball,Spinning mana arrow, Mana arrows and Sword light (30% complete)
He is satisfied with that and went to sleep after watching the news...
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In a different part of the country there was something going on. A group of teenagers around the age 15 and 16 decided to make a 'guild'! It is obvious that they read too much manga and were just trying to fool around but people didn't think that they would manage to pull it off.
The name of the Guild was Moonlight. They called themselves Moonlight because they only hunted during the night.
"Hahahaha!! We rule!" A boy who looked to be 16 years old said.
"Yeah! We must be the strongest people in the world now! We need to find strong monsters and become even more stronger!" A girl also who looked to be 16 said while holding an sword. She got that sword from her father.Well...stole it from her father.
These teenagers were running away from home because they were scared of the government.
The boy was called Fred and the girl was called Laura. They were the strongest in the group. Fred used mana to strenghten his body like it was written in the tutorial book and Laura used mana to strengthen the sword in her hands.
The other teenagers from Moonlight were all a bit weaker than them. Fred was the one who made Moonlight and Laura was one of the rare girls in the group. She represented all girls in the guild.
"Hey,I found some interesting stuff that I want to explore. Do you remember the incident in which a whole army squad dissapeared?" Fred asked.
"The one in which the whole mana squad disappeared?" A 17 year old boy asked. His name is Matt,he is currently the third strongest and the oldest of them all.
"Yeah,that one." Fred replied. "I think there might be a beast there that is worth for us to take down. There might be some treasure too I think!" He was really enthusiastic.
"Stop right there! Do you really think we are stronger than an army squad?" Laura retorted. She didn't seem to like the idea.
"Of course we are!" Fred said. "Look at those! Don't you think that these were pretty dangerous? We killed them easily!" Fred pointed at two giant dog corpses. Their group had to fight them for 30 minutes to kill them and they barely survived with only one person who got lethal injuries.
"I don't care. A girl had to be hurt because of you! What did we get from that? Nothing! Just piles of fur,meat and bones! Noone here knows how to refine those into weapons!" Laura was enraged. She was telling the truth though. The girl who was wounded was one of the girls she was close to. She uses almost all of her mana just to heal her daily. She is barely alive though. It will need atleast 2 years with Laura's strength to heal her.
"So what? We can heal her. I want the treasure the beast is keeping! We found some herbs earlier today that can be used to replenish mana just give that to the girl and she will live." Fred said like he didn't care. But in truth he was a bit frightened by Laura.
Laura knew swordsmanship and was stronger than him in a one on one battle. But there are more people on his side so he felt relieved.
"YOU!!" Laura was enraged and went into her tent. She was currently sharing the tent with the wounded girl so she can protect her.
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"So,how do you plan on getting there? You can't use public transport to go to the other side of the country. The government will catch us." Matt said to Fred after Laura went away.
"I plan on using the mountain paths. It will take us atleast 2 weeks but it will be worth it." Fred answered. He is really looking forward to this.
"Alright then. What are you going to do with Laura? We need her to battle. I recommend putting someone on healing duty." Matt said. He is right though,they need a healer in their guild.
"I will put some of the lesser mana users to practice as healers until then okay?" Fred decided and looked at the map while preparing to move...
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Fifth chapter...Three chapters in one day...this is my new record. No,really...
I hope you are enjoying my little story. Just so you know the first arc is about to start. Yaaaay!!
I am going to play some games now...