As I wake up feeling, the sun on my skin and a cool breeze floating by, I slowly open my eyes to meet a new day.
Since I did not inspect the area where I am yesterday, because I was tired from playing with the floating lights, I start looking around myself.
I am currently in a clearing in a forest, but I notice something about the trees.
They are too tall.
I think. These trees are between 100 and maybe even 500 meters high. They are much higher than what I thought. The thing about the trees is not that they are high, but that just under the top of the tree blue lights have gathered creating a beautiful view to behold.
Slowly walked away from the opening in the forest where I slept, I slowly walk deeper and deeper into the dense forest taking in the mystical view of the trees of the beautiful trees.
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After walking for what seemed like a few hours, I got to another opening. I still haven’t found another living thing in this place.
The opening here has a lot more floating lights around and it looks like they gathered around the spring forming a dense cluster of floating lights or in other words a mana gathering spot.
Slowly walking closer to the spring I notice that the dense cluster of lights are moving towards me. When they reach me, they slowly enter into my body. The moment they enter my body I feel a warmth spreading through my body, before a transparent screen pops up in front of me.
[Lesser Mana Spring absorbed: permanently increase mana by 50]
So… this is a mana spring. Hmmm… it says it increases my mana ‘status’.
Calling out my status screen, I confirm that my mana has increased by 50. Happy at the sudden increase in mana, I was so exited I started jumping around the little spring in happiness. After a quick happy jump dance around the little spring, I calm myself down.
Now that I think about it, I still don’t know what I look like.
Slowly closing in on the spring, I bend over to look at my reflection in the water. What greets me is a little girl who looks around 10 maybe 11, long silver colored hair that goes down to the waist and a pair of deep blue eyes. The skin looked snow white, yet not too white. Touching my skin, it surprised me how soft it was.
Looking down I saw that I was wearing a pure white one-piece dress that I had not noticed before.
So that’s me? Huh…
Thinking there was nothing wrong with me, I start playing with the floating lights again…
I really need to stops this I think I am getting addicted to playing with these pretty lights.
[You have unlocked the skill Mana Vision lv.1 (allows user to see mana in the air more clearly)]
After a few hours of playing with floating lights I got a new skill, my mana manipulation also got to lv. 3. I also found out that I might be getting addicted to playing around with the floating lights…
Walking away from the spring, I continue deeper into the forest. Walking for a few minutes, I see a wall of some sort in front of me. The wall itself is not in good shape with plants growing all over it, most likely a ruin.
When I came closer to the wall, I found out that the mana around the wall is denser then it normally is in the forest.
Climbing over with help from cracks in the wall, I enter inside and a small city spreads out in front of my view. Ruined houses with plants growing on them, with small glowing mushrooms at the side making it look beautiful and in harmony with nature. In the middle of the small city, is a large spring with a massive cloud of floating lights and something floating in the middle of it?
Walking closer to the spring in the middle of the city, I see the object in the middle of the spring. It’s a flute, a beautiful flute carved out from wood, even though it looked simple it had a certain charm to it.
I slowly move closer to the flute, but the moment I entered within the range of the spring the floating lights start to rush at me with a speed I had never imagined possible for floating lights. I fall back to the ground with the floating lights following me. In just a moment, they entered my body and I could feel a warm current spread through my body.
[Spirit Spring absorbed: permanently increase mana by 100 and intelligence by 5]
Getting up on my feet again, I look towards the flute, which is still floating midair and I only have one question in mind.
H... how is it floating?
Slowly moving towards the floating flute, stretching out my hand, grabbing it… nothing happened… Just as I thought I was save, a transparent screen pops into existence scaring me so much I fall back down on the ground again.
Teary eyed I look up at the scary transparent screen.
Why do I get the feeling it’s laughing at me?
Thinking such stupid things, I wipe the tears from my eyes and stand up. After calming myself down and saying to myself that the evil transparent screen is not alive, I look at the evil transparent screen in front of me.
[Flute of the Spirt Spring]
[Requirement: N/A]
[Wisdom +10]
[Intelligence +10]
[Agility +10]
[Special Effect: When played nearby lifeforms recovers mana 500% normal speed and health 200%]
Bewildered by how good the flute is I pick it up feeling the extra mana flowing through me I get excited. Checking my stats, I see the increase. Happy with the flute I try playing it. At first, it comes out… Not so good, but after a few minutes it gets better like the flute is improving my playing skill and after a little longer a transparent screen pops up in front of me.
[Flute lv. 1(how well you play on the flute)]
Happy that my skills had improved I smiled at myself.
Looking up, I see the sun is still up. Looking around the small city, I walk towards a house, which looks a lot like a weapon shop.
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Inside the shop, there is many rusty weapons lying around on the ground here and there. Like a child who found a toy, I start to explore the shop to my heart’s content. After exploring the weapon shop, I go on to a school. I explore every house I found in the small city until there was nothing left. Satisfied with my exploration I found a bakery explored by me a while back.
Walking into the bakery, I hurry upstairs. Finding the room I was looking for, I walk inside and discover a soft looking bed. Jumping into the bed, I let out a cute yawn before darkness overtakes me.
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Waking up I find myself looking up on rundown celling with plants here and there. Looking around myself, I find a table covered by glowing mushrooms next to the bed I slept in. Remembering to slowly poke the glowing mushrooms before going outside again, I leave the room with a satisfied smile on my face.
When I come outside there is nothing more to do, so I find the place where the wall is cracked and hurry over the wall. After getting over the wall, I start to wander the forest once again.
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A few minutes after leaving the small city behind, I hear a rustling in a nearby bush. Slowly walking closer to the bush, I look at what’s behind the bush.
A rabbit. A little white rabbit.
Exited at finally finding another living thing, I slowly walk closer to the rabbit. Entering a 5-meter distance from the rabbit, it finally notice my presence.
Too slow! Little one...!
Trying to escape the rabbit jumps away escaping from the clutches of the predator that appeared out of nowhere.
A scene of a little girl hunting a rabbit through the forest for over half an hour with no success plays out in the normally tranquil forest…
“Hah, hah, hah”
Breathing in and out heavily, I look at the rabbit laughing at me in the distance before slowly disappearing into the depths of the forest again.
“I will get you next time!”
I yell at the disappearing rabbit, before laying down in the comfortable grass.
Looking up I can see the trees, which before noticing have gotten a lot smaller than before. If they were 100 to 500 meters before, they are now only 15 to 50 meters high. The shining blue light that was in the top of the trees has also disappeared and they look a lot like normal trees now.
Saddened by the beautiful blue lights in the top of the trees disappearing, I look around myself to find out where I am.
Just as I look to the side, I see something, which looks like a road or something similar. It is a normal road. The thing is that plants are growing here and there almost making the road impossible to see normally.
Walking closer, I start to inspect the road that spreads out before me. No glowing mushroom… Only normal plants are present on the overgrown road. Looking towards the direction the road leads, I find out that one way is towards the small city. The other side leads towards a place where there are less floating lights in the air. The trees in that direction is also noticeably smaller then where I am standing right now.
Most importantly of all…
The rabbit went that way!
For such a simple reason, I start walking towards the direction the rabbit went.
Walking on the road, I start to see more animals around me. They wander here and there. The forest and the trees have become a normal sized forest. There is less floating lights in the air and they are a little harder to control, but instead of being sad at the floating lights “revolt”, I am happy that they started to put up a fight.
Spending the next two or so hours walking on the road and playing with the floating lights my mana manipulation and mana vision both went one level up.
Looking forwards, I see the forest opening up in front of me. A sharp Light, which I have not seen before shines into the forest from the opening.
Seeing the bright rays of light, I can feel my body slowly starting to run towards the opening. Exited just at the thought of something new to explore.
The moment I exit the forest the sun’s rays shine down on my body warming it. Feeling the warm rays on my skin, I let out a satisfied sound.
Slowly adjusting my eyes to the bright light, I start looking around myself taking in the new surroundings. Around me, the road that I followed to get out of the forest continues into the distance and around a mountain a few miles away. Looking left and right, I see towering mountain encircling me from both sides. To my left a waterfall from one of the mountains forms a river that snakes its way through the beautiful landscape slowly disappearing into the distance following the road around the mountain. Another waterfall creates a lake at the bottom of the mountains.
Covered with lush green grass and flowers, the mountain valley appears both beautiful and desolate at the same time. There is only a few animals here and there, so even though there is animals there are too few to cover the entire mountain valley making the valley itself look deserted. Most important of all is the lack of trees.
Looking back at the forest again, I find nothing. Only the mountain range that encircles the valley is in view and the road from before continues up to a mountain, before disappearing into what looks like a tunnel.
Panicking at the forest that just disappeared, I start to look around myself trying to find out where the forest went.
Nothing…
H… How can a forest just disappear…?
With nothing to do and the place I considered my home disappearing into thin air, I start looking for the nearest trees to calm down.
Wh… Where are the trees?
Noticing that there are not any trees nearby the already panicking me slowly starts to grow scared of the desolate valley.
Looking into the distance, I see a tree at the side of the road that disappears into a tunnel.
Finding new hope in finding the forest, I take the tree as a sign to be the right way and follow the path that leads towards the tunnel in the distance.
The closer I got to the “tree” in the distance the more I start to notice that the tree is a little weird and there is something written on it. I try to read the letters on the tree.
[“Warning slime dungeon”]
Not knowing the meaning of slime or dungeon, I see no reason to not walk into the tunnel.
Entering the tunnel, I know that my choice was right. An old friend lights up the path before me and before I knew it, I let out a scream of happiness running towards one of my old friends from the forest.
“GLOWING MUSHROOM!”
The moment I reach the glowing mushroom, I gave it a friendly poke before continuing further into the tunnel. Just when I thought, I would miss my old friend more glowing mushrooms light up the path before me.
Walking along the path, I hear a weird sound in front of me.
Slowly moving towards the weird sound, I find a green cube around 50 cm on each side jumping up and down.
Amused at the weird jumping cube, I move closer to it.
The moment I got within one meter of the weird cube, it starts to jump towards me. Looking at the weird cube moving towards me, I stretch out my hand to poke it.
As my finger touches the weird cube, I can feel pain spreading through my finger. Panicking at the sudden pain, I look down to see the weird cube slowly absorbing my hand before letting out a small cry of pain.
“Owww!”
Taking my now sore hand back, I run away from the evil cube with tears in my eyes.
Looking back, I can see the evil cube still moving towards me. Not giving me a chance to escape it jumps after me.
Realizing that the evil cube is after me, I resolve myself to take on the evil cube and defeat it.
Gathering my mana, I try to form a ball. Manipulating the ball of mana, I try to move it towards the evil cube. The moment the ball of mana moved towards the evil cube, it speeds up and I lose control of it.
With a small pop sound a transparent screen pops into existence in front of me.
[You have unlocked the skill Mana Bolt lv. 1(fires a bolt of condensed mana that deals magic damage to the target) Cost: 20 mana]
[Slime lv. 1 slain]
[Exp + 10%]
Mana bolt? I got a new skill and attack skill! Moreover, Exp… that is needed to level up, so I need to kill to level up?
Happy that I got a new skill and an attack skill at that, also finding out how to get Exp, I happily jumped around the tunnel.
Looking towards where the slime was before there is now a weird orb of some sort on the ground. Thinking that the slime dropped it I hurry away from it and follow the path deeper into the tunnel.
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Finally coming outside the tunnel, I see a new landscape spread out before me. In front of me, a new forest spreads out as long as the eye can see to both the left and right. Behind me, the mountain I walked through is towering into the sky.
Exhausted from fighting slimes for hours and looking at the already darkening sky, I find a nearby tree to lean on.
‘Status’
[Lv. 2] [Exp: 35%] [Name: N/A][Title: N/A]
[Age: 0] [Gender: Female]
[Race: Lesser spirt]
[Class: N/A]
[Health: 93/110]
[Mana: 65/310]
[Stamina: 4/11]
[Vitality: 2]
[Endurance: 1]
[Strength: 2]
[Agility: 4 (+10)]
[Intelligence: 15 (+10)]
[Wisdom: 5 (+10)]
[Attribute Point: 10]
Equipment:
[Flute of the Spirt Spring]
[Requirement: N/A]
[Wisdom +10]
[Intelligence +10]
[Agility +10]
[Special Effect: When played nearby lifeforms recovers mana 500% normal speed and health 200%]
Skills:
[Mana Manipulation lv. 4(allows manipulation of mana]
[Mana Absorption lv. 1(allows absorption of mana)]
[Mana Vision lv. 2 (allows user to see mana in the air more clearly)]
[Flute lv. 1(how well you play on the flute)]
[Mana Bolt lv. 2(fires a bolt of condensed mana that deals magic damage to the target) Cost: 20 mana]
Looking at my now improved status and the forest, I let out a satisfied yawn before slowly falling asleep.