TF Chapter 73 North

"What did you find out? And how exactly did you cause that explosion?" Danny asked with glittering eyes.

"I galvanised my intent to heat up the mud and trapped the vapor within by controlling the particles. After withdrawing my spiritual powers, this happened."

"What? You managed to force the vapor to stay in one place?! How did you do that?!"

Bora practically jumped on me, her face showing so much excitement she had forgotten her previous bad mood.

"H-Hey!"

I called out to signal that her body rubbing upon mine was very inappropriate.

The swampy mud smell filled the place with an unbearable stench, yet through all this distracting smell, my nose managed to pick up her womanly scent, a scent so tantalisingly attractive to me that my hormones started to get out of work.

I felt an erection coming on, so I placed my hands upon her shoulders and pushed her away, forcing myself not to look directly at her.

"Bora, are you okay with your current...slutty behaviour?"

"Danny!!! Do you have a death wish?" Bora jumped away from me as if she had been electrocuted.

A sigh of relief escaped my lips at the same time that I felt despondence at her body leaving my range.

"You could distill water for us!" She ignored Danny after that, speaking directly to me. The hope for taking a bath was thick within her eyes.

"I still have to experiment more. One of the discoveries I have made is that my intent works as its supposed to...for example, I can heat up an atom, with its eventual direction being that it would become something akin to a sun. I can't cool it down, and can't stop the process unless I withdraw my spiritual powers."

This was a massive detriment as it seemed like I would need other people's intents if I wanted something my own intent couldn't achieve.

"So, basically, you mean that if you heat up water, you can't cool it back down unless you deactivate your spiritual powers?" Danny had his hand under his chin, pondering the implications.

"So, intent has some flaws...or you could say that its traits can't be changed or manipulated." Bora appeared to be deep in thought.

Once again, I released my intent, this time facing her. There was a flinch before her eyes showed a sort of resolve. Her gaze had been about to shift away, yet she forced herself to gaze at me.

Even though no one had told me anything, I had a hunch that my eyes, the pupils specifically, were glowing. That was the only thing I could think of that could dredge up that familiar terror within her.

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And she was fighting it right now. She wanted to get past that barrier that was holding her back from truly facing me...and I was going to help any way I could. After all, how could I even think about dating her if she was terrified of some part of me?

"I think I will be okay."

A few minutes passed before those words bloomed from her lips. For some reason I felt as if a massive weight had just been removed from me.

"I hate to interrupt, but the experiments need to hurry. I wouldn't like the idea of experimenting until sunset and having to set off tomorrow."

"You dissuaded me before. Why the hurry now?" Bora became more relaxed with every passing second.

"Now, there is practically nothing here that should hold us back. I was waiting for senior Nat before."

"With my next test, I want to see whether I can move solids."

I directed my spiritual powers towards a dry twig and tried to will all its particles to move. I became amazed when the thing was easily lifted up and started flying around me with ease.

"How great it would have been if we had awakened our intents on Musana continent!" Bora lamented.

"I believe no forger had discovered intent yet, but judging from what I felt from that scary looking guy before we left, it won't be long before this new power spreads."

"Yeah. Too bad those people chose to dump us on this planet without giving us such valuable information."

Her complaints were valid. Why did they hastily throw us on this planet? Could it be that those who had discovered intent had kept it to themselves?

"Oh, its smouldering. Now its burning? Intent really can be a double edged sword."

The twig burned into nothingness within a minute of me taking control.

"Your combat looks like it will need to rely on projectiles. That way you will have many expendable materials." Danny chimed in.

"I just have to watch out and make sure that I don't set my clothes alight, or burn myself."

I said while checking myself to make sure that the clothes weren't alight. Bora was the one who had taken the time to sew them. If I lit them on fire or destroyed them, we might have to delay our scouting trip.

"I want to try my intent out with a rock. Maybe the result would be even better."

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After testing out my intent, having figured out its limitations and advantages, we were now in a triangular formation wondering what direction our exploring needed to take.

"I suggest north." Spoke Bora with finality.

"Why?" Danny asked what I had been about to put into words myself.

"While you were stuck inside the shelter with Nathaniel, I scoured the surroundings and found out something interesting. Many creatures, even those that are weaker, periodically make their way north and then come back to their shelters. Its mostly prevalent during times when its very hot. So I believe that there is some kind of water source in the north. Also, most of the creatures in this forest are carnivores."

I had never seen her with such a smug expression before. To her it seemed that this was a deduction that had taken immense effort on her part.

"I wouldn't have been able to figure out what you just did." I spewed out the praise, though, it wasn't mere praise as I was sure as hell that unless I was truly alone, with no teammates, I would have never taken the trouble to do all that she had done.

"It was mostly rendered useless because senior Nat can make water now."

"Danny! Shut up!" Like a cat that had just had its tail stepped on, she bristled back at him.

"Anyway, since we have chosen a direction, let's go on to scout out our surroundings. I wonder though, is it okay to leave our shelter unattended?"

"Don't worry, there is nothing valuable in there. If it ends up destroyed, we can rebuild. How many times do you think I have had to change the leaves because the old ones have decayed?"

She changed the leaves?

"Danny, did you help her?" I intensified my gaze upon him. I had seen the size of those leaves. If she had had to harvest them by herself..."

"I helped out! Senior Nat, even though I don't particularly care for her, allowing nature to harass you while you were unconscious was unacceptable to me!"