Inner forest area.
Tana and Chris were celebrating while starting to dismantle the fur,skin,meat and bones.
"This is no good..." Tana let out a sigh while looking at the bear skull he damaged.The lower half is cracked at many places and there is almost no way to fix it. The fur and skin at the abdomen area is also damaged due to the explosions.
"What? Who cares! Look at all the skin and fur we got! We can make protective artifacts with this and use the bones to make bone swords and make them into artifacts!" Chris said while tapping on Tana's shoulder.
He's right though. With the amount of skin and fur they got they would be able to make themselves atleast 4 sets of protective clothing and still have some leftover. The bones can be used to make simple bone weapons until they get some kind of metal. Tana was thinking the same as Chris but he was still a bit disappointed in his lack of care!
"Let's finish this up and get it to my apartment without anyone noticing anything strange. Also do you plan on staying the night?" Tana asked. He wanted to know if he needs to clean the other bedroom for Chris.
"Stay the night? I was planning on living with you!" Chris answered.
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A moment of silence befell... "What?" Tana asked like he didn't hear what Chris said.
"I said I am living with you from today on!" Chris didn't change his mind. He was serious about this.
"...really? I didn't expect that from you." Tana said while calming himself down. He wasn't angry but suprised. He didn't expect the Chris he knew so well to say that. "What about your family? Did you tell them?"
"I'll tell them when we come to the apartment. We still have some skin to get from the body and we are done. How are we going to carry the meat without the neighboors noticing the smell though?" Chris asked a good question. Bear meat smells really bad if not prepared well.
"That's easy. We'll use the Blue Leaves to hide the smell. We will try cooking it for dinner. I want to see if there's a difference with normal bear meat and a mutated bear's meat." Tana replied calmly while getting the rest of the skin. "There done!" He said and let out a long sigh.
"Let's go then. It already afternoon we better hurry."
"No need to hurry. First put the Blue Leaves on the meat. I will carry the meat because I have a stronger body now."
"No need to brag." Said Chris as he was taking out the gathered Blue Leaves from today.
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In the apartment.
"Hurry,hurry!" Chris was quietly telling Tana to hurry with the transport of the bear meat. After he put the Blue Leaves on the meat Tana got rid of the blood in the meat so it wouldn't stink up even more. He kept a small vial of blood for the mana refining process though like he did with the bird and cat blood.
"Almost there,unlock the door." Tana replied as he threw the key to Chris.
"Alright!" Chris caught the key and unlocked the door. The turned around to help Tana with the carrying.
"Thank you." Tana said as he felt a bit lighter after Chris came to help him. Even though he has a stronger body,his body is still the same size as other humans.
"No problem partner!" Chris replied and they walked into the apartment.
After a few minutes Tana and Chris put away most of the meat into the fridge and the rest was to be used for dinner. Tana prepared the meat for dinner while Chris was watching the news. Chris knew that noone in the town knows about who the ruler of the inner forest was and he knew even more so that even if they knew they couldn't detect him with the mana radar even if they wanted. Even Chris had trouble with detecting the bear from 30 meters afar. The only person who could detect it right now is Tana.
There was news of a man spotting a few children going through mountain paths and forests towards this area. The man didn't see their faces but most people think it was the runaway children that made a 'guild' called Moonlight.
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Chris wanted to see who those children were and if they were stronger than Tana and him.
"It's done!" Tana told Chris that the dinner he was preparing is done. For dinner they are having mutated bear meat and mana replenishing herbs.
"What's this?" Chris said while looking at the herbs.
"I wanted to test something..." Tana replied calmly.
"Right..." Chris said and sat down and started eating the bear meat. When he took the first bite he noticed there was a small refreshing and chilling feeling coming into his body. It was from the Blue Leaves! It was a bit weaker than the Blue Leaves but it replenished a bit more mana. The bear meat was juicy while not smelling at all.
If one tried to sell this in a restaurant it would be their most delicious meal. Chris didn't dare to believe that Tana made this!
"This si too delicious! How did you make this?" Chris was curious about how he made the bear meat so delicious.
"You know how you can heal small cuts and wounds with mana?" Tana answered with a question.
"Yeah what about that?" Chris was confused.
"I actually burned the meat a few times and had to use mana to heal it back to it's original state. If there wasn't this method you would be eating burned meat now." Tana said while grabbing a few herbs and eating them.
The bear meat would usually smell really badly if an amateur prepared it but Tana used the mana from healing the meat to get rid of the smell completely and the meat gained a particular fragrance that only delicacies get!
"So that's the case! Then I won't ask anything anymore and eat." Chris said and got back to filling his mouth to the limit.
"Right...Could you eat a bit more slowly? You're going to choke..." Tana said while looking at Chris who looked like a squirrel with stuffed cheeks .
"Awlight!" He said and started eating a bit more slowly.
When they finished eating Tana noticed that his and Chris's mana became more pure and refined than before. Tana immediately said to Chris that he is going to his room to train and left.
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Tana's room.
While Tana is in his room trying to make his Sword Light spell even more powerful,Chris is calling his family to tell them he will stay at Tana's place for a few weeks.
"Let's see...Last time I could make the sword light 30 centimeters long with a slow vibrating effect...Now I can do that with the faster vibration aswell! Let me try making the sword light longer to see what is my limit now..." Tana said as he looked at the 30 centimeter long sword light become longer and longer.
His limit is 50 centimeters with fast vibration and 80 with slow vibration and a spinning effect now. This is a great accomplishment for only a few days of training. He has now finished more than half of the spell! If he could get the sword light to be longer just 50 more centimeters and add the spinning effect to it then he will be finished.
"It's been only 3 minutes and my mana is already at the limit though...This spell takes too much of my mana to hold on for long. I have to try the spell to see if it is strong enough too. Tomorrow we are going to make weapon and clothing artifacts from today's spoils."
Tana has put on the bird mask artifact he got and made his absorbtion speed a bit faster. He wanted to recover his mana now while he can. Tomorrow they are going to have to use a hell lot of mana for just the refining process. The imprinting process can be done later though.
" Time to sleep..." Tana said as he laid on his bed and went to sleep...
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Haha! I am back today aswell with a new chapter of my newly written web fiction!
I got back from school thinking : I think I should write a new chapter today aswell...
I don't know if this will be the only chapter for today but atleast I wrote one! That is something right? Hope you like it and goodbye! Have a nice day!