Mid Afternoon - Mid Spring : Ho
-Well that's a problem..- I just stood there and looked down at myself, watching the beautiful array of colors flow around my body.
I quickly fell into a trance, but I didn’t stop pulling in my aura. It only took a couple seconds to reach my limit though.
The layer of aura was around 5 cm thick which was quite thin, but I quickly realized an even bigger problem. -This is less than a quarter of my total aura when my reserve is full..-
I tried as hard as I could to think of a solution but nothing ca to mind. -Sh*t..-
As I snapped out of my thoughts, I looked down and stared at the flowing colors again. -At least it's quite pretty..-
"What in the world.." Mother was the first to break the silence. "Vasilias.. is that your mana control?"
The amount of mana I was controlling was completely out of the realm of a young dragon and would even be considered a lot for adults. Mother simply didn't know what to think after seeing control it so casually.
As I looked over to her, she mumbled sothing under her breath. "Were Ancient Fenrir.. really such monsters?"
Not paying attention to the awkward atmosphere, I decided to ask about my problem. "So, Mother.. I can't seem to suck back in my aura, so what's a different way for to keep my aura off people?" Even though it was only a thin layer, it was still far too much to be able to walk around a town with, visible or not.
“Ah..” She quickly snapped out of her trance. "Ahem. You can't suck aura back in, sweetie. A better way is t-"
Father stuck his wing out in front of Mother. "Don't just tell him. Let's see how long it takes for him to find a solution." He pulled his wing back and looked at . “If we give him all the answers, he’ll beco too dependent on us.”
It was a little frustrating, but he was right. -Plus, I'm sure I'll figure sothing out eventually.. hopefully..-
As I sat back down and started brainstorming what I could do, I rembered sothing I wanted to test. -Right.. what if I try to read that dense mana?-
As soon as I went to read the mana, an incredibly detailed view of the space around filled my mind. I could only really see what the 5 cm wide layer of mana touched, but what was there was freakishly detailed.
I could see the dust in the air, the individual cells in the grass and anything from large molecules to singular atoms of whatever I looked at.
It was quite a surreal experience seeing living cells with such detail, but at the sa ti, it wasn't nearly as detailed as the dream. In the dream, I could see each part that made up atoms, and even what made up those parts themselves in extre detail. (talking about quarks)
But just because it was incomparable to the dream, didn't an it was a useless experint. -So the density of the mana I'm reading correlates directly to the amount of detail..-
Although not solving my problem at all, it revealed a pretty useful detail.
After a bit more experinting, I figured it was ti for a break and released my aura to relax my mind. “Haah..”
Letting my aura spread back out, I looked up to see a sky filled with stars. -Was I really fiddling with my aura for a whole day?-
I quickly looked around to see if anyone was around and saw Ilios laying on the ground nearby. I couldn't see anyone else but I felt their aura emanating from the cave.
As the wave of my aura flowed outwards, I accidentally woke up Ilios.
“Sorry to wake you up, buddy..” I lightly reached down and rubbed his head.
“Mmmm..” Not even opening his eyes, he walked over and curled into a ball next to .
-Oh right! I can do that now!- I quickly transford into my humanoid form and laid into Ilios. His fur felt incredible. Simply laying back into the ball of fur and looking at the night sky felt amazing.
"The night sky is still stunning.. no matter how many tis I look at it.." As I laid there, I started to think about what possible adventures lay ahead of . I knew it would be a path with its ups and downs, but I was truly looking forward to it.
A warm smile ca to my face as my eyelids started to feel heavier and heavier. Before I knew it, I had fallen into a comfortable sleep.
*Liiiick*
I suddenly woke up to the feeling of sothing wet and warm rubbing across my face. My eyes jolted open in a panic but I quickly cald down after seeing it was just Ilios.
"Good morning Ilios.." I reluctantly sat up and brushed off the layer of dust on my clothes [1] before I saw Ilios get up and start walking towards the forest.
-Hm? Is he wanting to follow him?- Deciding not to question it, I quickly transford back to my dragon form and followed him into the forest. -Mother won't get mad right?-
After a few minutes of walking, we ca across a small pond only a few ters across under the shade of the dense canopy.
The pond was closer to the size of a puddle compared to my dragon form, but that wasn't what made it so unusual.
In the very center of the pond there was a red and pink lily that exuded a light, colorful aura into the surrounding area. The area itself was also abnormally colorful, with various different blooming flowers and even so fruits. It looked like sothing you'd see as a wallpaper.
As we walked up to it, Ilios walked out into the shallow pond and lightly nudged at the lily.
"What do you want to do?"
Ilios just stood there wagging his tail, splashing around water.
Walking out to him, I dipped my feet in the water and leaned down to sll the lily. It had a very sweet sll similar to mana cores.
Before I could think, I subconsciously opened my mouth and ate it.
It had an incredible taste, similar to honey, but once the taste faded away, it seed like that was it. -It had so mana but not nearly as much as I was expecting..-
As this thought crossed my mind though, an extrely familiar soothing sensation wrapped around .
The sensation felt so good that my knees buckled and I nearly fell to the ground and passed out.
After what felt like only a few seconds, the sensation started to fade and I slowly stood back up and gathered my thoughts. “Hooh..” -I really need to figure out what is causing that feeling..- On top of the enjoynt from the sensation, I also simply felt stronger, not physically, but ntally.
My thoughts were significantly clearer and a bit faster.
Out of curiosity, I closed my eyes and focused on my aura again. The instant I started reading it, I noticed a clear improvent.
Unlike before, I could now read out to around 9 ters. -Its still not much but its an improvent.-
A proud smile popped onto my face before a revelation hit .
-Man, I have no clue why that took so long to think of!- It was an easy solution to my previous aura control problem.
Since I couldn't suck back in my aura, I had thought I had to layer it around my body. -But what if.. instead of pulling in, I just push it up..-
Quickly taking control of my aura, I created a massive column of aura climbing several hundred ters into the air. -Wow.. even my control got a bit better..-
As I was feeling proud of coming up with a solution, the mood was killed by another major issue popping up. -Wait.. what if I want to go inside a building?-
My mind drew a complete blank as I tried to think of sothing. "Haah... Whenever I answer one question, 3 more pop up.."
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