I'm sorry to say but this chapter is kinda an info dump, I have to do it here now so when I'm referencing something about a power I don't have to stop the scene of the story mid way and provide the information while you can just have it here now and make it somewhat revelant to what the Mc is practicing. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED⚠️ .... Enjoyyyy 😇
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~Cid's Pov~
Waking up the next day Claire was still hanging on to me while she slept which prompted me to shake her awake.
"C'mon Claire wake up it's already morning"
Seeing that she wasn't waking up I just sighed before conjuring a small waterball using magic which I then proceeded to throw at the sleeping Claire
*splash*
"WHA, What the hell Cid!!!" Claire said waking up drenched.
Seeing her woken up I just got up from the bed and started running away from her. I quickly closed the door behind me to give me time to escape from her wrath. I only managed to get a few feet ahead before
*Boom*
I turn back and see the door flying and hitting the wall and Claire with one foot up and as she lowers it she starts walking out of the room slowly as her wet hair clings to her face
Seeing her I started running even faster, I then felt Claire's magic power spike and and felt her presence running after me which cause me to run even faster
As I ran away from her I exited the house and went into the training yard where I went and picked up a wodden sword and waited for her outside as well
As she came running outside she saw me waiting for her with a wodden sword in hand, so she continued running to where the swords were displayed and pick one up in one quick motion without stopping and now with a wodden sword in hand she came running straight at me.
Seeing her coming towards me with an angered expression I just gave her a teasing smirk as I got into a fighting position waiting for her to get closer
And as she got close enough she swung her sword while coming towards and as she got close I just stepped to the side and put out my foot tripping her causing her to face plant into the ground.
And as she got up you can see her face covered with dirt and her expression growing angrier as she tighten her grip on her sword
Seeing this I just sigh and said "Don't use anger when you're fighting always maintain a calm mindset, some opponents will try to taunt you and make you angrier making you lose focus, like what happened just now.
Since you were so angry you didn't notice my foot sticking out which caused you to fall, in a real fight you could have lost your life in such a situation.
Get up, let's continue"
Ever since I was allowed to wield a sword in this life, all I mostly done is try and teach Claire since I had nothing better to do in the mornings
Claire hearing my instructions just clicked her tongue in annoyance before replying "Tsk, stop trying to act like you know everything"
She then got into a fighting position as her face grew serious and more determined "I'll beat you, I'll show you why I'm the older sister" and with that she enhanced herself with magic and charged at me once again but this time much more focused.
I responded in kind and charged at her myself where we met at the middle and as we collided the sound of metal hitting each reverberated across the training field
We just kept pushing against each other trying to overpower the other
I moved my sword slightly redirecting her sword and thrusting forward leaving a scratch on her cheek
We both then moved back slightly and started attacking each other again, slash after slash I just kept overpowering Claire until she started getting used to the force of my attacks, which caused her to improve just slightly.
We continued this sparring sessions until the late afternoon where we had to stop due to Claire having to many scratches on her body and face, any more and it would have done more harm than good.
Which was then followed by a bath which was later followed by dinner which was later followed going to bed and followed by Claire coming into my room and falling asleep as soon as she got into my bed.
Looks like my plan to exhaust her completely until she just falls asleep worked. Now I don't have to worry about her when sneaking out.
And with that I snuck out again towards my destinated spot in the forest.
Once there I sat down cross legged and looked at my mana core which now was at the light red stage about to break through any moment now.
Ever since I formed the mana core I started to learn the mana rotation technique with a bit of modifications to it.
Basically mana rotation is the ability to be able to continuously absorb mana from the atmosphere while moving or in combat.
Now for the modification which I made was that instead of just absorbing magic from the atmosphere I would also absorb it from my body and black heart
It took a while to find the right amount of mana I can absorb from my own body without causing me to almost faint due to magic exhaustion
when I mean body I meant my mana circuits which were constructs of which serves as a bridge between the physical world and the soul. It is usually present within everything which has a soul associated to it, and is half-physical, half-ethereal. It is also integral for any magic to occur.
And so I spent the 2 years passively absorbing mana into my core making it light red about to break into dark orange.
To give myself a boost to make it to the dark orange stage i took a massive amount of mana from my black heart and mana pathways and I started to purify my mana in my core quicker.
*CRACK*
And with that I have officially broken through, though it did leave me a bit lightheaded though to the absence of mana from my circuits.
One benefit I gained though through constant absorption from my mana circuits was a very quick recovery speed and faster magic power flow inside of them making them activate quicker as well.
Now thanks to the dark orange stage of my mana core my mana control has gotten better, my mana pool is now larger, the casting speed of my spells as also improved, and the damage output of my spells have gotten bigger.
Another benefit of being able to have a self created mana core is the elements you can control having a higher version of itself for example, The Fire elements higher version of itself is Lightning, The one for Water is Ice, Earth's is Gravity, and Wind is Sound.
So due to being in a different world the laws of this world works differently than the world of 'TBATE'. Although the principal of the mana core is the same, the way it works and what elements you can manipulate is completely different. Instead of a specific species only able to have control of a few said elements, everyone has access to all the elements it all just depends on control
If you're control over mana is low you won't ever get a chance to use a higher property of mana just the basic elements or the one's you're more comfortable with.
Another thing I discovered is that instead of it just being 4 elements there is 2 other elements Light and Shadow/Darkness. The Light element has a healing factor and the Darkness element has a corrosive factor which can both be turned off by the users will. What I'm mostly trying to find out is if these two element have a higher property like the others.
After a while of testing different things I found out they do have different elements, it's probably due to my black hearts influence but the two advanced elements for Light and Darkness is Life and Death.
Now that I have broken through, I stood up from my sitting position and summoned icicles behind my back with mana and shoot it the trees infront of me
*woosh* *woosh* *woosh*
All the icicles then get skewered inside the trees and as they lodge inside, the trees start turning into ice as well but only around the part where it was shot at.
'I see so it can't freeze the whole tree just yet just from that' I then walk up to it and as I'm infront of it I sent out a straight jab right towards a frozen part of a tree
*Shatter*
Seeing this I just shrugged before speaking outloud "I can work with this"
as the tree I punched falls to the ground.
*Thud*
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At first I was wondering if I should just give the future girls some specific elements
but then I said fuck it so 👉🙂👈 I'm plugging my ears to any complaints
now for the future of the fic Ik I'm going to have trouble in the business aspect of it so for future reference bare with me, I'm not smart
~Omni pov~
One whole year has passed since Cid has broken through the orange stage of his Mana core. Now he's in the light orange stage and is facing against Tusk who is holding the orb of Avarice
The reason for this is since Tusk is the most magical orientated shadow soldier in Cid's possession, he's the perfect opponent to test out his magic skills.
And with that Cid has gotten Tusk to agree to fight him and now they both stand face to face .
Cid then surrounded himself with lightning both inside and outside further enhancing his speed and reaction time.
A streak of lighting and the ground caving in was all that was left as soon as Cid rushed towards Tusk.
Tusk seeing his little master coming just held the orb that further enhanced his magic and said "Hymn of protection" as soon as those words left his mouth he was soon surrounded by a protective barrier.
And as soon as the barrier was conjured the sound of thunder was soon followed which was produced by Cid's fist making contact with the barrier.
And as they collided a gust of wind soon spread due to the force of the collision.
To some of Cid's weaker shadows it just looked like Cid surrounded himself in electricity which was quickly followed by thunder. Seeing their master being the main cause for such an event they just cheered with their hands in the air.
Tusk seeing his master make contact with the barrier said "Hymn of slumber" which then started draining Cid of his stamina.
Cid feeling his stamina draining just backed away. He then stuck out his hand slightly and conjured a 3 large drills from the ground and started to make them spin. Due to the speed of the spinning the black drills started turning bright red showing just how fast it was turning.
He then launched them towards Tusk and as they made contact with the barrier it just shattered.
*Tink*
*shatter*
And as the drills made it through the barrier two landed on the shoulders of Tusk while the last one made its way through his stomach leaving a hole which you can see through.
Using Mana from black heart Tusk's body soon regenerated to peak condition like nothing ever happened.
Tusk using the orb of Avarice just started using his gravity magic making it hard for his opponent to move, it was to the point where Cid was on his hands and knees
Cid then tried to use a bit of his own gravity making it lighter for himself. Thanks to his own gravity magic he was able to get back up but just slightly as Cid was still slouched over from the pressure of Tusk's gravity magic
Tusk while still holding the orb just said "Hymn of the Blazing Fire" and as those words came out of his mouth the space around him started to get surrounded by fire balls which were quickly thrown towards Cid in a quick motion
Cid was just standing there while looking at the fire ball approaching, Tusk who saw his Monarch just standing there got a worry expression seeing him doing nothing.
His worry soon increased as he saw the fireball making contact with Cid.
*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
As the multiple fireballs made contact a large amount of dust soon covered the area
And as the dust cleared Cid's form can be seen flickering on and off until it disappeared completely.
The original Cid soon appeared right infront of Tusk with a wind made sword.
And with a victorious expression Cid swung his sword cleaving Tusks head off.
Cid seeing his Victory just turned to the other shadows and smile with a index finger swiping his nose and with a cheeky expression said "Light projections for the win"
Seeing their Monarch come out victorious from the sparring sessions the place was then filled with boisterous cheers from everyone even from Tusk who was back together once again.
"WOOOOOOOAHHHHHH" ×1,000+
Some were even shouting "THAT'S OUR LIEGE"
And just like that the night soon passed and it was morning.
The first thing Claire did as soon as she saw Cid was drag him outside. She then gave him a sword and started marching infront of him.
"As your older sister it's my duty to teach some stuff as well so today we're going bandit hunting in the forest" she said while holding her sword upward
She then continued "swordsmanship is best learned through combat experience, the baldie was blabbering about about it while indulging in dandyism. He was talking about the scarface bandits that have been lurking in the forest recently.
And we're going to defeat them, but worry not little brother big sis is here for you".
She then soon started bragging as we got inside the forest. "Everybody was talking about how easily I could beat your everyday bandit since I won the young knights competition"
"You only won cause I didn't want to participate" Cid said with a deadpan expression
Which cause Claire to pout.
While she was pouting towards Cid's direction she did not noticing the bandit that snuck right behind her.
And as the scarface bandit was behind her it spoke "Huh!? Why are there brats here?"
Cid and Claire were both the surrounded the rest of the bandits that came out "What? are they lost or something"
Another bandit soon responded "And there's 2 of them, I bet we can make a killing with them"
Hearing them Claire gains a cold look on her face, ever since she started sparring with Cid she has learned to always keep a calm mindset in such situations.
She didn't even let scarface continue talking and attacked him right away pushing him back slightly.
Scarface seeing this just gained a slightly surprise expression "Well aren't you well taught, capturing you just might be a bit of fun."
He then turned to the rest of the bandits "While I take care of this little brat capture the other one"
Claire hearing this just got angrier but with gritted teeth ask "Can you handle yourself Cid"
Cid while watching the entire enteraction just had a bored expression on his face and just nodded but then he realized Claire couldn't see him as she was still watching her opponent so he just said "Although you couldn't see it I nodded"
Claire hearing him just nodded back and rushed towards scarface and started to attack him which caused scarface to retaliate and attack Claire back with the same intensity.
Slash after slash both of them kept getting injured until Claire pushed scarface sword out of the way and sent a final slash right across his chest causing him to fall face forward and into the ground.
Seeing her opponent defeated Claire gained a proud expression and turned back to help Cid out but what she saw left her speechless.
All the bandits where just in a pile ontop of each other with their neck slit wide open and Cid sitting in the middle of it with his hands on his knees and his head slightly down waiting for Claire to finish.
She then waved to Cid and with a face full of a large bright smile said "Look Cid, I did it, I'm strong enough to actually take a bandit all on my own" she just continued waving and smiling looking at her brother hoping to see a proud expression on his face
But what she saw was just his face with a disappointed look while shaking his head and sighing
She then gained a confused expression and as she was about to express her confusion she felt a great pain shot through her from her back causing her to scream in pain
"ARRGGGGHHH"
and as the pain appeared she soon started losing consciousness and as she was falling she managed to get a look at the figure who cause her such pain.
It was scarface...
He faked his death to get Claire to lower her guard and attack at the right moment. Seeing her down and out he slowly turned to Cid who was looking at him with an emotionless expression while sitting on the piles of bodies.
Scarface opened his mouth to speak but was quickly shut down as Cid slowly lifted his pointer finger at him
As the words were about to leave his mouth Cid's finger turned into a light purple color and shot right through the middle of his head killing him in one shot.
Cid then slowly got up from his supposed throne of dead bodies and made his way to Claire and as he arrived he knelt down slightly and started to heal all of her wounds.
He then got up slowly and looked around the place, which was quickly followed by him slowly lifting his palm up a little and. His eyes then glowed a deep purple color devoid of emotions and with an emotionless voice he said
"Come forth and serve"
And as those words left his mouth the shadows of the dead bodies soon started to shake as beings made entirely out of shadows came forth and knelt down in one knee as soon as they saw their now Monarch.
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