Chapter 14: Chapter 14: First Actual Battle and Meditation
Walking down the cave, Saffiyah and Shiny noticed an unbelievabally weak monster that shouldnt be able to survive in this cave. It was a worm with E rank endurance and everything else was that of a toddler. "Dear, you see that strange worm over there, I want you to attack it using your magic" Ash responded with a nod. Forming a spear coated in white flames, Ash sent it crashing down on the worm. Smashing the portion of its body that was hit. "Dear, even if youre power is not as powerful or stronger than something, with enough mastery you can make your abilities surpass your raw power and overpower things that are stronger than you" Said Saffiyah as Ash was amazed about the power behind that attack.
"Let's stop here, there is an abundance of different element mana here" said Safiyah as Ash sat down being tired from the walk. "Now Ash, calm your mind and sense the different energies around you, try identifying each of them as the easiset way to sense different elements is how they act and their color. For example, mana that is blue can be associated with the water element, however there are different elements that have the same color with slight differences but react differently. One example is azure, a rare fire element that appears blue and slmost the same color as the water element. However one is flame while the other is water." Ash nodded and went into deep meditation.
"Such concentration is hard to achieve, even Max can't do such deep meditation." Said Saffiyah with Shint nodding in agreement. "I was shocked watching Aaron when he was three but Ash is doing things that normally would take kids reaching the age of ten, and even grown ups not being able to achieve it '' Said Shiny who was focused on their surroundings. "Shiny, I will continue my practice, just give me a signal if there's a problem" said Saffiyah who got a nod in return.
Both Ash and Saffiyah would meditate and wake up again from time to time when they got hungry, due to the zone and danger though they just slept on a futon when they felt tired. Due to Saffiyahs power and experience, she would be able to train for extended periods of time without food or sleep. Ash needed a lot of both however due to her young age. Shiny kept looking out but had no problems averting away the bats and taking out the ones that were valuable or useful. This would repeat for two weeks.
While Ash was practicing, she was inching closer and closer to the bottleneck. After a week of not actually practicing something that was more focused on increasing her strength, she hit the bottleneck. Following this, Saffiyah stopped her practice and guided Ash to break through, Making her core at the E-rank realm. After this breakthrouh, both Ash and Grim found it much easier to sense their surroundings and be able to identify mana elements. Saffiyah told them that she would give them a book about the different elements for them to study later.
Three days into the second week Ash managed to master aura concealment and concealing her aura was natural, causing less problems by attracting the bats to them. Taking a huge load off of Shiny who was just glad that her partner's daughter was making such progress. After the second week was done, Ash and Grim were able to convert neutral mana and slowly refine elemental mana to become an element that they could consume.
"Dear, are you ready to pack up and leave?" Said Saffiyah as Ash got out of meditation. "Yes mother" said Ash who was ready to leave. As Saffiyah packed everything they started their journey to the entrance of the cave. While walking back, Saffiyah would shoot an elemental bat by the wing, sending it crashing down while Ash would practice her aim. At first Ash missed every shot and only hit the bat while it lay on the ground. Once they were almost out of the cave Ash hit her first descending bat, hitting it straight in the head, causing it to die on the spot.
"That's how you do it dear" Said Saffiyah proudly watching her daughter have better aim than a lot of people, even though Ash hit the bat by pure luck. They walked out of the cave embracing the sight of a rising sun, enjoying the breeze as their experience in the cave was extremely warm and somewhat uncomfortable. "Come on dear, let's go. We're gonna go to the nearest kingdom to get you those cultivation methods" said Saffiyah, who brought out her broom. Picking up Ash and setting out to the kingdom of Salavaria.
MC: Ashfall Revera
Age: 1
Stats: Vitality: 1 Mana: 18,000
Strength: F 18 Endurance: F 37 Agility: F 19 Core: E 13
Charisma: 12 Wisdom: 7 Luck: 12 Will: 7 Fate: 0
Abilities: White Flames(Very destructive and consumes a lot of mana, cool ash affect)
Affinity: Ashen Flames
Skills: Intermediate Mana Control, Basic Affinity Imbuement, ?Familiar Resonance?, Basic Mana Manifestation, Basic Mana Density, Basic weapon manifestation, Basic mana coating,
???Familiar???: Grimoire(Gained from birth)
Mana: 22,304
Familiar Abilities: Corruption(Shadow alignment; Changes the nature of mana to be more chaotic, with higher mastery can even give mana a will)
Second Mana Pool(Has its own separate mana pool, normally Familiars must rely on an outside mana source or a bonded being)
Affinity: Empowerment
Skills: Intermediate Mana Control, Intermediate Mana Manifestation ?Familiar Resonance?, Intermediate Mana Density, Intermediate mana buff magic, Intermediate weapon manifestation, Intermediate mana coating, Intermediate Affinity Imbuement
Chapter 15: Chapter 15: Kingdom of Salavaria
Shiny went back into Saffiyahs mindscape, as they started traveling by broom to the closest kingdom, as well as one who valued the study of magic and its practice. It was a kingdom of mages as most of their military power was from the mages that they nurtured. Feeling all dirty from their adventure, Ash noticed that her mother was all clean without a speck of dust on her. "Mother, why aren't you covered in dirt?" asked Ash. "That's because of a basic spell called Necessity magic, it's an actual skill that lets you take off all dirt, liquids, or anything else. It cleans your body and belongings. In fact, it's a good idea for you to start practicing that right now. So all you have to do is circulate your mana along your skin and clothes, and don't forget your hair" Ash nodded. "Then you take out everything, be careful as you don't want to ruin your clothes or items, due to the will of mana if you mess up, only your clothes will be damaged.
Ash started carefully circulating her mana around her body, clothes, and hair, willing her mana to pass through smoothly and treat her clothes as if they were her. This was successful, taking out most of the dirt and other stuff, and throwing it off to the side. "Dear, you must stay focused, your aura leaked out when you did that '' Ash was surprised at this because she didn't notice. "I'll continue practicing Mother" Saffiyah nodded at this. Continuing her practice, Ash successfully took out all the dirt on her while managing to keep her aura hidden. 'Hey Ash, you just got a skill orb, it's most likely that necessity magic you were practicing' Grim told Ash through their link while she was in their mana pool. On their trip, Ash continued practicing her mastery while Grim focused on cultivating their mana.
Tries to make all kinds of shapes and imbueing her constructs with white flames, also while making the mana more dense. Eventually, Ash was able to use magic almost on the same level as Grim. 'Hey Grim, wanna practice against each other again' 'Sure'. Ash entered their mana pools, and the both of them got ready. They manipulated their mana to both take the form of spears, one gigantic spear of miasma while on the other side, a huge spear of white flames. They launched the attacks at each other, causing a massive collision that shook their mana pools. This action knocked them both out.
Saffiyah noticed that Ash went into meditation, continuing their ride as low-ranking monsters tried to reach them from the ground. Not being able to touch them was amusing to Saffiyah as some tried jumping from trees while others chased after, getting into a fight later against another monster. All of a sudden, Ash's body went limp and fell off, Saffiyah was shocked and immediately reacted. Flying her broom into a loop and chased after the falling Ash. Catching her daughter before her body could touch the ground.
"Dear, DEAR, WHAT HAPPENED, ARE YOU OK" noticing that she wasn't getting a reaction. Saffiyah panicked and put up a wind barrier around them, then zoomed in using the wind mana that was around them. Reaching speeds that even her body couldn't handle, seeing the kingdom of Salavaria near, Saffiyah did not hold back in her mana use of keeping the barrier up in a crazed rush. With a mana pool almost fully depleted and arriving at the gates where there was no one who was getting across. Saffiyah drank a mana restoration potion and hurried over to the check point showing her adventurers ID and paying the entrance fee.
She entered a full-on sprint using her movement technique and rushed to her sister who lived in this kingdom. Her sister was a renowned herb specialist who could make high-tier potions and trinkets. She as well as experienced in non-mana-related healing, too focused on getting Ash into a professional's hands, she had failed to realize that Ash was just out of mana. Saffiyah arrived at her sister's place and knocked on her door multiple times. Due to them being futile, Safiyah checked her daughter at last and was relieved that it was just mana exhaustion. Giving Ash a mana potion and waiting outside for her sister to come home.
After waiting a couple of hours and not getting a response from Ash, Saffiyah decided to just let her rest. At long last her sister Sera came home from shopping. Shocked to see her sister, Sera rushed over with a smile, noticing Ash, Sear started beaming with joy. "So who is this little bundle of joy you brought to my home sister?" This is my daughter, Ash, she is under the effects of mana exhaustion, can we talk more inside?" "Of course". The sisters walked inside and Saffiyah placed Ash onto the unusually soft sofa. Watching Ash slowly sink onto the couch a bit, Saffiyah turned to her sister and was excited to tell her the news.
"Another one of my kids has an A-grade Ability, well two actually because she was born with a familiar. I came here to Salavaria to sell some valuable materials I hunted and to buy two cultivation manuals for Ash so that she wouldn't struggle later on." Said a beaming Saffiyah as Sera nodded to this. "Sure, just give me the materials and I'll buy them from you" Said Sera who was surprised at the luck of her sister. Saffiya gave all of the materials she got from the elemental bats, then gave her sister the space element core, this Shocked Sera. "Wow, a space element monster core. You really struck big in your recent hunt. How does 10 white gold sound?" Saffiyah was shocked because of the profit she would be getting, knowing that all the materials she got would at most equal over five hundred gold at best. "Are you sure?" asked Saffiyah, "of course, this is just half of my savings from my business, the little genius needs to be spoiled, oh and keep the change. Get the best books and even a couple of spell books for her and Aaron. I was working on a gift for that little boy, but I was working on something pretty good which I'll be giving young Ash '' Saffiyah was shocked by her sister's words. "You always got my back don't you?" said Saffiyah. "Of course, no go and get some of the best things you can find, I'll watch Ash while you go do your shopping" Said Sera who was smiling.
MC: Ashfall Revera
Age: 1
Stats: Vitality: 1 Mana: 18,000
Strength: F 18 Endurance: F 37 Agility: F 19 Core: E 19
Charisma: 12 Wisdom: 7 Luck: 12 Will: 7 Fate: 0
Abilities: White Flames(Very destructive and consumes a lot of mana, cool ash affect)
Affinity: Ashen Flames
Skills: Intermediate Mana Control, Intermediate Affinity Imbuement, ?Familiar Resonance?, Intermediate Mana Manifestation, Intermediate Mana Density, Intermediate weapon manifestation, Intermediate mana coating, Initial Necessity Magic
???Familiar???: Grimoire(Gained from birth)
Mana: 22,304
Familiar Abilities: Corruption(Shadow alignment; Changes the nature of mana to be more chaotic, with higher mastery can even give mana a will)
Second Mana Pool(Has its own separate mana pool, normally Familiars must rely on an outside mana source or a bonded being)
Affinity: Empowerment
Skills: Intermediate Mana Control, Intermediate Mana Manifestation?Familiar Resonance?, Intermediate Mana Density, Intermediate mana buff magic, Intermediate weapon manifestation, Intermediate mana coating, Intermediate Affinity Imbuement
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