Waking up the next day I couldn’t help but feel a little giddy with excitement that I have finally gotten away from that awful kingdom. I can’t help but wonder why they would do me such a generous favour as to speed up my plans to such a extent. I could also conclude that the location that spell had sent me to is most definitely no where near the kingdom as there is no record written of a forest where mana is completely absent from. If a human mage were to be transported here it would most likely be a death sentence as no human could naturally generate their own mana but as a manakin that was of little concern to me. Since they had decided to betray what little trust I had in them I could most likely conclude they didn’t want me there, well neither did I want to stay there so it’s a pretty good situation to be in if I was to be completely honest with myself as I no longer felt any obligation to stay as they themselves have deign it necesseary to get rid of me.

I wonder what species would be native to an area devoid of mana. Without any mana in the area it is most likely a safe assumption there is no monster around either as monster are in essence simply creatures who had absorbed to much mana to the point they mutated to a different creature altogether. Humans aren’t exactly exemptions to such a phenomena as they are actually strengthened by the mana released by the world tree giving them increased strength. It is also a possibility that humans were native to these part as well but as they were living in such a land it would come to no surprise to me if they were unaware of magic as humans are unable to cast spells with the complete absense of mana. Perhaps I’m in a different continent. While I was born with no knowledge of the world just as any human are. I’m actually able to converse with the world tree therefore I’m aware of certain things human wouldn’t know, I also didn’t see the need of informing them about certain things such as the fact that a manakin lifespan is indefinite and we only die once we choose to. Without the death of the previous manakin and the return of the manacore that acts as my heart to the world tree needed to form a new manakin to be born there will most likely never be another manakin born to the world tree that the humans have built their settlement around. As I’m no where close to the world tree there will most likely never be another manakin born in that continent. Well not that I regret leaving the world tree behind as it didn’t exactly made the best partner to converse with. It didn’t really seem to have much of a will of its own and acted more akin to something that would answer my questions without much of its own thoughts on the matter.

I decided to first find a settlement to find out how the native species looks. Since I’m having a brand new start I would rather play it safe and hide my magic and race for now. It doesn’t help that my looks are also relatively eyecatching. As all manakin do my hair is a as white as snow and my irises were golden but when I channel mana the colour shifts depending on the attribute I’m currently channeling as my entire being is created from mana any change to the attribute will affect my haircolour and eyecolour. My ears were longer than a normal humans as well not unlike the elfs that live deeper in the forest I had move to and stayed for the week before the unexpected betrayal from the humans of the kingdom. My skin was also much paler than a human and due to my race I grow much slower than a human. I would probably look to be about 8 years old outwardly comparatively to a human. Despite being creatures made of mana the reason manakin grow like humans is due to the bones in my body being closer to actual mana crystals that are mana so dense it solidifies into a crystaline form. It takes a longer time for the mana crystals in me to grow into a adult human size than a human skeletal structure would take to grow to the adult size.

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This is a bit troubling I had to first find the species native to this area and use illusion to hide my appearance and make myself look slightly closer to watever is native to the area. For now I turned myself invisible using a spell and scanned the area around me by sending mana to the area around me. Not far from me there seemed to be a cliff off some sort with something similar to the roads made for carriage travel. For now with no better leads to go off on I used mana to allow myself to fly to the road I had found. It wasn’t hard to miss it as the entire surface of the road seems to have been painted black with some yellow strips running down the middle. Landing on the road for now I decided to proceed by walking to see if I’m lucky enough to come across any carriage to follow back to any settlements.

After what felt like ages I suddenly heard the sound of something approaching from behind me. I turned around and after some time a huge beast made of pure metals seem to be charging right at me. I almost instinctively attacked before I noticed that rather than legs the beast was moving forward via wheels. Not to mention that the front of the beast was transparent and a creature that closely resembled a human was visible throught it. Quickly deciding on what to do I jumped up and landed straight to the top of the giant beast and used mana to prevent falling off. Seeing as there was no reaction perhaps its safe to assume this metallic creature is actually a carriage used in this area.

As I was sitting comfortably on top of the thing I have now dubbed the iron carriage I was thinking of the fact that most likely even in this continent humans seem to be the dominant species. At the very least they are definitely a different variety tho as unlike the humans I know with blonde hair and blue eyes the human I saw steering this carriage had black hair and black eyes. Using that as a basis I used my mana to create an illusion changing my appearance slightly. My long hair will now look black the same goes for my eyes and I had made my ears appear to resemble a humans. Unfortunately I’m unable to use illusion to make myself appear older as it would be very obvious if someone were to touch me that there is a discrepency in size. So the best I could do is make the stand out features look more in line with what is expected of a human.

I also finally have the chance to use my name of Cynthia which I had created for myself as the humans only called me Mana referring to my race rather than giving me a name. Despite my slight hesitation of making contact with humans again I decided to try to be more open minded that these ones aren’t the same as the ones I have known all my life. After all there isn’t even any mana in the environment here they are most likely strangers to magic so they wouldn’t even know that I was different from them. I had also used my sense to scan the human piloting this carriage and there is no mana nor a core within him so magic is definitely something foreign to him and the ability to sense it will be lost to him as well. Without constant exposure to mana creatures with no mana generating organ would be unable to sense it. This give me more hope in being able to blend in easily with whatever society I would find at the end of this journey on the carriage. One of the reasons I had stayed so long at the kingdom was also due to the fact it is extremely hard to hide the fact I was generating mana constantly from any creature that was able to sense it. The reason I moved to the forest first was to perfect my ability to hide my mana but it seems its no longer a necessary concern.