Tana's apartment.
Tana and Chris picked up the masks and tried absorbing mana. They noticed that the mana in their surroundings was getting thinner and thinner the more they absorbed. If they absorbed a lot of mana the neighbors might suspect something is going on.
"Let's stop for now." Tana recommended.
"Yeah,let's do that." Chris said that seriously but his face had a grin the whole time. He was really happy to have such a good friend.
"Did you talk with Catherine? Do you know how she is doing?" Tana asked. His group of friends was him,Chris and a girl named Catherine at first. But Catherine moved to another country so Chris and her had to break up. Those two were almost always together. They even became friends with Tana at the same time.
"I did. She called me 1 week after our bodies got reformed. She told me that she almost died because she tried absorbing mana while it hasn't fully awakened." As Chris heard her name his eyes were sad but his face happy. It seems that he is worried about her.
"I knew that you shouldn't absorb mana before it awakened atleast 90%. Didn't the voice tell her that?" Tana asked. Chris also knew about that but it seems that Catherine's voice didn't warn her about that. Even though Tana's voice was rude he still warned him.
"It seems that it didn't warn her. She is currently fine. Her little brother is good at absorbing mana and using it to heal other people. She has only small wounds now. She will be fine in a month or so." Chris seemed to be relieved as he was saying this.
"Good...Let's go prepare." Tana didn't want to talk about that anymore and he said that they should go prepare.
"Prepare for what?" Chris was startled at Tana's words. We're going somewhere?
"Hunting of course. I plan on making ourselves weapons but the cat bones and others are no good. The masks could endure a few bullets but that's all. We need to become stronger and stronger every day until the world completely adapts to this new mana and environment." Tana said as he threw a backpack with Blue Tea and some other mana replenishing herbs at Chris.
"Use those to replenish your mana so you don't absorb the whole mana in my apartment. Oh!Here's a tip. Drink the tea first,hehe!" Tana said with a grin on his face.
"Drink the tea last? Okay!" Chris knew that Tana is planning on something and he saw how the Blue Tea emitted a chilling aura while still being hot. He won't fall for that.
"It didn't work!" Tana said. "Didn't expect much though. Alright enough fooling around just drink and replenish your mana.I will also do that. My mana is almost all used up after I made the mana imprint on the bird mask and a bit on the cat mask,if it weren't for you the cat mask would've fallen apart."
"Haha,that's what I am here for!" Chris said while eating some of the herbs.
Tana sat in a meditating position and drank some Blue Tea. Chris saw that he is drinking Blue Tea without problem so he tried to drink it. He was still a bit hesitant but he drank it. He instantly regretted it! He spit the tea back into the container.
"Fuck you!" Chris said as he looked at the now grinning Tana.
"Told you that you should've drank it first. It becomes stronger with each herb in your body." Tana said and went back to replenishing his mana.
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Inner forest area
Tana and Chris finished replenishing their mana and went onto their little adventure. Tana picked up every herb that seemed unknown and known to him. He managed to get some more Blue Leaves but no Rebirth Fruit or anything similar. There was a herb with elemental properites. Tana thought that it maybe enchances the mana with that element. It was some kind of greenish purple glow so Tana thought it was maybe poison element.
He picked the herb and went on deeper in the forest with Chris. They were both wearing their masks so they scared of the weaker monsters and beasts. They spotted a mutated deer after coming to the inner area. Tana's mana radar can now sense 200 meteres around him. There was one aura that was double the strength than Tana and one that is the same as Tana.
Tana and Chris decided to fight the second one. That was the deer. The deer gained some green color in his brown hair. His antlers were a bit bigger than that of the other deer.
"I will distract it while you fight it. Okay?" Tana said. He didn't want to fight the deer but wanted to see Chris's spells.
"Okay partner!" Chris said that and waited for Tana to distract the deer.
Tana started controling his mana to summon a few spinning mana arrows and threw them around the deer. The arrows hit the ground below the deer and raised a smoke screen. As Chris saw this he rushed out of the bush they were hiding in and activated his exploding mana ball spell he created himself.
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He came up close to the deer and threw the ball at the deer from 1 meter distance. The ball didn't spin like Tana's but it still ripped through the deer's front right leg a bit due to the explosion. The deer had twice as much mana as Chris but it didn't know how to control mana. It only used its instincts to fight with their mana enhanced bodies. Tana also noticed that even passive animals that didn't attack humans before are starting to attack them. It seems that the beasts want more territory for some reason. Is there a leader commanding them?
"FucK!" Chris said while he backed away trying to stabilize his mana and making another explosive ball. At that moment a spinning 10 centimeter ball with a heat effect hit the deer's abdomen and killed it instantly. That was Tana's spell. He accelarated the spinning in exchange for the size. The ball ripped through the abdomen while leaving a heat effect on it.
"Wow...Partner...no,boss! You are a genius." Chris said that with a grin. He wasn't at all suprised with the result but still said wow.
"No need to act. I think I told you that I could do something like that. Let's take the skull and some bones and go to the other presence. Now that we know that most beasts still don't know how to control and utilize mana we can fight the ones with more mana aswell." Tana said while using the knife to dismantle the skull and bones from the corpse.
"Right,right,but you could've let me finish it off!" Chris said while helping.
"You can fight the other one. I noticed that you didn't even try with your first spell. You just wanted to test something like me right?" Tana said while finishing up
"Yes,you guessed right partner!" Chris said with another grin.
"You finished?" Tana asked while putting the skull inside the backpack. He also got the antlers. He thought about making daggers from them. The mutated deer had bigger and sturdier antlers than steel. If they were fighting from close range and not from far away they would've been lethaly wounded.
"Finished! Let's go kill the stronger one now." Chris said while putting the bones in the backpack.
"Good. Let's go!" Tana said while starting to run towards the place where the other presence is.
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In a clearing inside the inner parts of the forest in the place where the other presence that Tana and Chris are hunting is a big brown bear. The bear looked like a normal bear just bigger. Alot bigger. The bear must be atleast 10 meters tall if standing on 2 feet.
The bear was currently eating a corpse of a evolved snake. The snake is completely ripped apart. The bear moved with slow movement but his strength was out of this world.
The bear felt danger and stopped eating. He looked up and saw a silhouette of a teenage boy looking around 19 years old jumping at him with two spinning mana balls in his hands. The bear wanted to defend but there was someone else attacking his abdomen area with a 3 meter big explosive ball. The ball made the bear opened its mouth and roared in pain.
Tana was aiming for this! Tana wanted to shoot the Heat ball into the mouth without destroying the upper skull. He managed to do that. But the bear was enraged now. It's bottom skull was cracked and it's bottom teeth are missing. The bear looked at the teenager that used a spinning ball to escape from the place.
The bear couldn't chase after the teenager so it decided to get rid of the one that hurt its abdomen but that teenager also started running away. This one was slower so the bear chased after it. Little did it know that Tana was waiting on a tree hidden once again to use a bigger single spinning mana arrow to pierce the bear's heart.
Chris was running to the position the agreed and when he came to the position he just stood there! He awaited the arrow to hit.
Chris was getting nervous as the arrow wasn't hitting yet. That was because Tana waited for the perfect moment using his enhanced vision and thinking abilities. He learnt where the heart is and shot the giant spinning arrow at the bear at maximum speed. Gravity helped aswell and the arrow went faster than he thought it will go!
The bear died just seconds after!
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Nothing to say about this chapter. It is just a normal chapter written by me...