I positioned my hand in dummies direction
And soon a fire ball appeared on my hand.
Considering my previous attempt I made this fire smaller, around tennis ball size.
And with slight motion of my hand the fire ball flew toward the dummy at high speed.
"Boom!"
With the small explosion The fireball landed on the dummy's chest and its whole body caught fire but instead like before where the dummy turned to ashes in under 5 seconds. This time it took around 10 seconds for that to happen.
But when the dummy finally turned to ashes, I heard that sound again.
[ You gained a small amount of mana ]
Those words appeared simultaneously in my mind and I could somehow see them and even hear them.
"Now I can even see them"
I said in astonishment. I knew that this appeared because of my ability which could absorb mana from anything.
'if this is the correct way to use it, then I need to use the second part too"
I said as he remembered the description about my ability.
{ Chaos Fire } : [ Other than having an extremely high temperature, this fire can disintegrate anything and absorb mana from any material living or non-living and provides their abilities and skills to its host. ]
'It also said my fire has a high temperature so shouldn't there be burn marks too? But all it did was to break down into smaller pieces and then turn to ashes.'
'whatever I'll check it next time. Right now I need to do some experiments.'
"Maverick ready the mounts we are going hunting."
"But wouldn't that be a dangerous young master?"
"Don't worry we are only going to roam around the outer layer of the forest, and aren't you with me? With you nothing will happen to me anyway."
"That's true…"
Maverick fell in thought
'what the young master is saying is correct there should not be any danger at the boundary of the forest.'
After some thought Maverick also agreed.
"Ok, young master I will prepare the mounds we should be ready to go in 20 minutes. "
"After saying that Maverick disappeared in thin air."
"It still creeps me out whenever he uses his ability"
I thought as I remembered the moments where I was scared to death by Maverick's sudden appearance here and there.
'whatever, I should recover my mana now."
Although I was not as exhausted as yesterday, I still felt tired after using my ability.
*
I was standing at the entrance of my house waiting for Maverick. When I noticed a large wolf running towards me, behind it on another wolf was Maverick.
Wolf who was running me stopped 1 meter away from me, and Maverick who was behind it came in front.
"Young master, we are ready to go."
I didn't answer him and just kept staring at the wolf. After a while I moved my gaze away from the wolf. And inquired
"Are these shadow wolves?"
"Yes"
"Hmm… how many of these do we have in the Alastair family."
"More than 100,000 I think."
"And how many do we have in our house?"
"Around 100"
I was slightly surprised after hearing these numbers, since Shadow wolf was a beast around C to E rank in strength. It was only for beast force. there were other arcane power users who rode different kinds of beast as their mounts.
And the number of arcane users were more than 50 times the beasts. with this kind of manpower in their arsenal it was no wonder that Alastair's were called the strongest family among the fours. At least this much amount of power is necessary to call yourself the first line of defence for mankind.
'anyway let's go hunting now'
I thought as I mounted the wolf and left for the forest.
After arriving at the forest I began to look for a beast.
'This part of the forest is mainly occupied by flame python so I should be prepared for sneak attacks.'
I thought as I remembered what Maverick said earlier.
"Young master I should go hide with these wolves. if those beasts sense the wolves aura they won't even come close."
since all the monsters here should be around F to E rank. And wolves which they bought were D rank beast, if those flame pythons sensed the wolves aura they would be so scared that they wouldn't even come out of their hole.
*
Just when I passed by one of the trees, I heard a sound of wood breaking and when I looked back I saw a 2-3 meter long snake with dark red skin looking at him.
I tried to step back. Beast noticing my movement lunged itself in Eric direction.
Seeing this I just smiled and waited for it to come closer until it was just 10 meters away from him.
Noticing that it was standing there doing nothing, python gained even more confidence and increased its speed by producing fire at the end of its tail.
I observing this change moved my hand in python direction and then a purple fire ball appeared in my hand. I just motioned the fire ball in python direction and it left toward the python who was coming at high speed toward me.
Python saw the fireball coming towards it, and it couldn't do anything, as it had already increased its speed by fire and it couldn't change direction in mid air , it could only watch as it headed towards its own demise in despair.
Soon the fire ball collided with python and it crashed into the ground. It slithered for a while but soon stopped moving and its body started to break down and turn to ash.
I was seeing all of this from some distance away, heard the voice which I was waiting for.
[ You gained a small amount of mana ]
[ You gained fire resistance : I ]
[ You gained poison resistance : I ]
[ You gained the skill : flame dash ]
I smiled after hearing the first prompt.
But my smile turned into a creepy one after hearing the rest of them.
'With this ability I can get as much power as I want! Without any limit with this I am one step closer in finding my brother'
I thought excitedly. Just when I was thinking of hunting another beast. I felt slight pain in my head. I was familiar with these pain, it was the pain of information forcefully pushed inside one's head.
[ Flame dash : with the power of fire at your feet you are able to increase your speed for a short interval of time. ]
It was a simple description of how to use the skill which I got from flame python.
'Now that I think about it I don't feel as exhausted as before or rather it feels like my mana capacity increased.'
Maybe I should try flame dash skill."
I thought as I remembered the snakes quick speed amid the fight.
"Young master, do you want to train here or should we move to different locations."
Just when I was about to use the flame dash I heard Maverick's voice.
'Since all the monsters here are of the same rank I won't get any new abilities or skills. I should hunt other beasts to gain new abilities and increase my power fast.'
"Let's move to another spot."
I said as I began to walk toward the wolf behind Maverick.
As I sat on the wolf I began to reflect on my fight with flame python.
'I knew about its skill from the book ( most common beast in and around Midgard ) it was a good decision to lure it into attacking. I wouldn't be able to attack it if it stayed vigilant. what I should focus on from now on is to increase my mana capacity as fast as possible.'
Soon I came to the conclusion about my first weakness.
"It's time to hunt."
I smiled with the possibility of gaining another ability.
*
Back at Eric's house in one of the guest rooms.
Alex was talking to someone in a communication orb. It was just like a cell phone but instead used mana to operate.
The man in the communication orb looked around 70 years old, with a head full of white hair and wrinkles on his face, but his build was not at all like an old man he had the body of a professional wrestler he was Jonas darious SS rank arcane power user alias [ Magician ].
"Headmaster Eric Alastair is very talented. his talent in mana is several grade higher than mine, although I don't know his arcane power since his family has refused to give us any information about him. But even without that he still qualified to enter the academy just with his talent in mana. This is the end of the report from my side."
Jonas didn't speak for a few minutes.
"Keep an eye on him for some more time, If your mind doesn't change even after that then I'll talk to Draven"
"Yes, headmaster"
**
do understand that
arcan power = ability
I may use different words in the same line but both mean the same thing