chapter 14: skin strengtheing

"Well, I forgot to mention it, I'm sorry."

Finn could say from the smile on Randolph's face that he was not honest in his apology. Although Finn has lived with Randolph for almost a few days, Finn had that curiosity, to know more about him, in the end he is his teacher, and he is the one who saved him from that injury. He was curious to know why Randolph was living alone in the middle of the forest.

Finn knew from the memories of the original body owner that in the North Moon forest, there was an unknown race, no one had seen them before and no one knew their look, only some saying from people who claimed to see them. Since Finn came to this world, and he expected anything to happen, this was completely different from his previous world, without talking about magic, even the creatures were different, this world was like the Middle Ages, as it is called in hisoriginal world, and with the addition of magic, you can make the best story series which you will make a lot of money from it in his original world. But Finn didn't want money or fame, all he wanted was strength, now that he found a chance to become stronger than all those around him, unlike his previous world, in which he relied on his luck to survive, he certainly wouldn't miss it.

"Now go back to meditation, lamy."

Finn didn't pay attention as he was thinking for a few minutes, after hearing Randolph's voice he returned to his session and closed his eyes. After Finn knew that these lights are multi-colored in fact a dissent path from the original one, which came in his head a theory and wanted to try it, Finn was expecting that since the multi-colored lights are paths that split from basic paths, he could try moving certain single-color lights and see which of the multi-colored lights would move. But he had a problem, how he could move specific lights, until now that once the lights appeared and his focus increased, it started one by one to move, he had no real control over the movement of these lights.

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The lights appeared one by one, as Finn predicted, the one-colored lights were in the middle, while the multi-colored were around. Some of them started to move as usual, but where he noticed something strange, some of the lights were suddenly shining, they were at first shining with a bright light, then they started to move, then the same thing happens to other lights even with a light that had two colors. That was when he understood something.

'Apparently my theory was wrong from the beginning, the lights seem to have a certain tidy to move. But that doesn't help me how I can assemble them...'

He thought a little and because of that he lost his focus, he opened his eyes and saw that the sun began to sunset, although he started early in the morning.

'Damn, how much I stayed meditating."

Randolph wasn't anywhere he could be seen, 'he seemed bored as he was waiting so he went' thought a little bit, he was feeling a little frustrated because he didn't get any progress.

He didn't like the idea that he should try until he succeeds once, he thought he should do something about collecting the mana, not just trying. Finn remained like this until an idea came to him, as soon as he returned to his cross-legged session and closed his eyes. The lights appeared one after the other, the one-colored lights began to move until a two-color light moved, the next light had two colors, one of them was a blue color like the clear river while the other color was white like snow, he didn't know what's this element was but soon he realized that it was fog, the light began to move in a strange and irregular way, Finn knew something when he saw that, the lights had a different movement, it is possible that a few lights had the same movement but not all of them, such as red light, which is the element of fire, this light was moving circularly while there was some shine rising above it, or The green light representing the plant element, the light was relatively constant in movement with some occasional renations.

Finn opened his eyes and a big smile appeared on his face, he felt that he was finally approaching to collect the mana. then he remembered that time when Randolph said that that the person becomes stronger whenever he understood the path or the world around him, he did not understand how this could happen in that time but now he understands, he had known a few elements from their movement, if he remained the same he would be able to know all the elements and their movements, and from that he can know how to move them and gather them.

That made Finn feel excited and try again.

The lights appeared and started moving one by one, some of them were fixed as they were rotating, these lights represented elements such as ground or wood as an example. While there were some moving randomly, such as water and lava. After a little time and finally Finn managed to move them all, he had now understood the way they moved and their nature, so keeping them moving was easier than before.

The lights all began to move in the form of circles around each other, Finntried to move them to a certain place in the orbit of his consciousness and the sudden that he succeeded without distracting his consciousness. Now here is the most important step, he had to move them to his skin, then his blood, then his bones and then his muscles, he didn't know how this would happen, but he tried the same way that he made the lights appear and move the first time, which is perception. In his first attempt, Finn didn't know how he could show these lights, without talking about how he moved them, Randolph was saying he need to sense the mana, but saying was easier than the actual work, how he could feel something that could not be seen, but he understand how now ,it's all about imaging, it's impossible to see lights that don't exist without imaging them. Finn didn't know why Randolf didn't tell him he had to imagen in order to sense and assemble the mana.

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Finn depicted Mana moving close to his body, all the lights and of various colors were moving in a harmonious way like the river runoff. Finn felt as if his skin was burning. In the same second, he felt that it was freezing or as if it had hit the ground. He also felt a cold breeze hit his skin, it was strange to feel many things at the same time.

After that, it was not long before he felt anything anymore, he did not know what had happened, but he felt that the Mana began to move on its own and without guidance from him, it was moving inside his body and deepening, he felt the same thing but this time in his blood, he felt that his blood boiling like water and then he felt cold as if he was freezing from the inside.

Finn felt tired, did not understand what was happening but soon realized that he might have been exhausted from the mana collection, Randolph did not tell him that but concluded after he was exhausted from simply sensing the mana.

Finn opened his eyes and the sun had already set, looking at the night sky studded with beautiful stars and of various colors.

A smile appeared on his face sinking with sweat.

Finally, Finn took his first step in this magic world