Chương 8: First Summons And Village

Achuta wanted to find out more about the undead but when the spirit wants to hide, she knew it would be impossible for the current her to find it. Instead, she focused on her training. In the morning, she would train her body.

In her mana manual, it mentioned that by training, the body, the astral form would more easily adapt to the shape of the body. At the same time, the astral body would also be less likely to be effected by external forces do the reinforcement of it's existence.

Afterwards, she would go out to hunt. Thanks to successfully defeating the wolf before, she had the confidence to fight off most creatures near by as long as she was not surrounded.

When she was done, she would drain the blood from her prey, wash it's meat and prepare a meal before dumping the waste into the crystal for mana conversion. This idea came to her when it was mentioned creatures could be absorbed to provide mana for the core.

During her hunts, she would map out the areas around the dungeon and secure any new objects. Apparently, more mana was provided for any new thing put into the mana crystal. When she was done, she would wash up before sitting at her desk and adding an entry into her diary. Before bed she would meditate for an hour on what makes her who she is. Apparently this is another way to reinforce her Astral Body.

Eventually, she had over 50,000 MP stored into the crystal and she decided it was about time she got an assistant. She called out to the spirit a few times as a test before her lips twitched upward ever so slightly. It was so minute, unless you knew her well, you wouldn't notice.

Skipping over to the crystal, she began navigating to find an appropriate summons. She wanted something to guard the tower while she planned to visit the town she discovered nearby. It would be her first purchase and it was a reasonable one so she scrolled down to the Summons section. She didn't want to summon a humanoid as they were generally expensive so she excluded them before moving on to the beast section until she found one she liked. It was a white wolf, large and built for speed and power. It was known to cast illusions and reinforce its body with ice before shooting its fur at its enemies, a moon wolf.

She named it Rogue due to its intimidating yet beautiful appearance, than gave it instructions before going towards the village just outside the forest.

When she entered the village, a merchant caravan had just arrived, livening up the atmosphere. She could hear what sounded like enthusiastic haggling and housewives chatting as they purchased seasonings they might not have access to normally. Over time she was able to quickly understand the language despite not consciously attempting to. When she understood it clearly, she suddenly felt a change in the flow of energy around her before it returned to normal.

Putting aside the strange occurrence just now, she brought her skins to sell to the market in hopes of gathering information.