Chapter 2 - Strange energy

After being hit by the lightning, John was now lying on the ground with his eyes closed as he tried to process the pain that was now engulfing his body.

-Urgh.

"What just happened? Did I just get hit by lightning?"

John could not believe that he was hit by lightning when he had just arrived at his house front door. He could only blame it on his bad luck as he tried to get up.

"Today, I should have stayed at home. How could I be so unlucky to be even struck by lightning as I was about to enter my house!"

As he tried to get up, the feeling of pain was slowly fading away as a warm energy began to circulate all over his body. But John couldn't be bothered by it because he was now too overwhelmed by the situation he was in.

When he got up and opened his eyes as the pain faded away, John slowly became aware of his surroundings. He was overwhelmed because what he was now seeing wasn't his house's front door anymore. He was now in a place surrounded by trees.

John scratched his eyes as he couldn't believe that what he was seeing was real.

"FUCK , WHERE THE FUCK AM I!?" He exclaimed in extreme disbelief.

"Did that lightning strike put me in a state of dream, after it struck me or something like that!?"

John strongly pinched his arm as he tried to confirm if his situation wasn't some sort of dream. But to his dismay, the pain caused by his pinch told him it all wasn't just a dream.

"It hurts! So this isn't a dream... " he couldn't belive in it, but one thing that he could belive was that act in panic wouldn't help him in this situation.

"Let's just calm down first and try to understand our situation right now."

John slowly breathed as he tried to calm himself down. After a couple of minutes regulating his breathing, he started to calm down.

"I was just in front of my house's door a moment ago before the lightning struck me, and now I'm in a strange forest..."

He mumbled to himself, mumbling to himself was something that always helped him to think about the problem that was in his hand, it helped him organize his thoughts as he tried to resolve them.

"I'm at a strange forest... don't tell me!!"

John's eyes grew big as he somehow began to understand what was happening or at least what he think tha could explain what was the cause of his current situation.

"Did I... just transmigrate to another world after being struck by lightning!?"

His heart began rapidly to pound against his chest as the idea of being transmigrated to another world crossed his mind.

John always thought that transmigrating to another world was something that only occurred in web novels or manhwas, but he somehow was now in what looked to be the same situation that occurred in one those types of works.

-Phew

"Isn't that great? From being soaked in water to being struck by lightning and now transported to what seems to be another world!!"

This set of events was not something he expected to happen, even in his wildest and craziest dream he wouldn't be expecting something like it to happen.

"I would say that this is the unluckiest day of my life, but at least it's lucky to be alive after being directly struck by lightning, wait... how am I alive after being struck by lightning!?"

His heart once again began to race uncontrollably as he rapidly began to search around his body for any signs of damage caused by the lightning strike, but apart from some dead skin and torn clothes, he couldn't find any traces of damage in his body.

Instead of finding any damage or feel any pain, he could feel that his body was somehow slowly becoming stronger as an warm feeling started to took over his body.

"... why I'm feeling that my body is becoming stronger and why is it so confortable now? Wasn't pain the normal thing to feel after being hit by a lightning?" he said that while clenching his fist trying feel his newly gained strenght.

While doing that his imagination went all over the place trying to encounter an explanation for what could be the cause of of that, one thing that he knew was that his situation wasn't normal, so he tried to compare his current situation to those ones occurred in fictional works.

After doing that a thought slowly come to his mind of what could possibly be the cause of the strength gain and comfortable feeling could be.

His heart raced when that thought came to his mind, if what he was thinking was real, his shitty situation could be turning completely ninety degrees.

The tought that come to his mind after comparing his current situation to those occured in fictional works was that what was causing those strange change in his body was an type of energy.

To be more specific, this type of energy was something that only existed in fantasy histories an energy that turned the impossible possible an energy that sometimes defied even the laws of the universe , that energy was mana!

When that thought come to his mind he started to laugh like a crazy scientist thinking of all the possibilites that it could bring if he could somehow control this energy.

"HAHAHAHA!! IF THIS IS REALLY IT THE POSSIBILITIES ARE INFINITE!!!"

His mood greatly increased as he imagined all that possibilities that it could bring, he could even surpass all of the advancements made in the modern world if he could somehow control that energy.

"If I'm not wrong, this thing that is circulating inside my body should be mana, but how could I control it?"

John sat on the ground with his legs crossed as he began to profoundly think about it.

Initially, because of the circle of events that occurred one after another, his head was all over the place while he tried to process his situation, but now he was focused on something that was much more interesting than thinking about his dire situation.

After all it was magic that we are talking about! How could someone not be interested in something so strange that sometimes even defied the laws of the universe?

As John calmed his thoughts as he tried to find a way to control the mana that was inside his body, as he tried to find a way to do this, he slowly began to remember the contents of the strange book that he used as a makeshift umbrella when he was running in the rain.

"Hmm... If I'm remembering correctly, in the strange book there's a part where it explains a method of how someone could control mana."

"In that part of the book, it stated that if someone would like to control the energy that was circulating inside their body, that person would need to first calm their mind and heart, or else it would be impossible control it, next the person would need to use their mind to control it to the desired body part"

After remembering the contents of the book, John began to put it into practice. First, he slowly regulated his breathing, and shortly after that, he closed his eyes as he focused his attention into the energy slowly trying to control the mana inside his body with his mind.