A New Beggining and Mana

After closing my eyes i felt like i was in a cage of some sorts, it felt oddly comfortable to be in though.

So this is how it feels to be dead, honestly i expected a more comfortable place with nothing that makes me feel uncomfortable.

Not like it matters that much anyway i just need some time to get used to it.

Though i wonder how they my family and friends are doing, are they still sad about my departure? I do hope they are doing well.

My little nephews must be stressing themselves out with all those expectations, they could only really relax when they visited me, must be the reason why they consider me as their true parent instead of their biological parents.

My brother and sister are definitely shitty parents if even their children like me more than them and that's when they can only visit me four times a week.

So what do i do now,do i sleep for eternity? distract myself until my consciousness disappears? or do nothing.

3 days later(He doesn't know how much time has passed whenever a time skip occurs because unlike certain protagonists he doesn't count himself to death)

This place it feels even more uncomfortable and crammed than before, what even is happening?

This cage's walls feels soft and rough at the same time, because apparently i am very much unaware of my surroundings the whole time i was here, pretty weird i must say.

You would have thought that i would have wondered where i was the moment i woke up too, but no it didn't even cross my mind.

Besides that it feels a lot warmer in here, i might need more time to determine whether i am dead or not though being in a cage of sorts means i might be alive i still want to be sure of it.

3 days later

I'm a dumbass

I am definitely not dead it seems like i am in some sort of egg, is this the reincarnation genre that those kids talk about on the internet, although i have other things to worry about.

First of all what am i? Am i a bird, a reptile, a mammal though there's only 2 mammals that lay eggs.

Wait why am i thinking i would even be reincarnated to back to earth, this suddenly got a lot more exhausting to think about.

This does not bode well for me, i just remembered some critical information, will this creatures parents even care about me, OR worse not even consider me as their child and eat me.

What's even more worse is that i can't make plans if i don't even know if i can do the things i want to do.

Sigh, looks like i will have to rely on my luck for this then, meanwhile I'll distract myself by counting how much time has passed.

5 minutes and 51 seconds.....7 minutes and 3 seconds..SHIT!!!

I lost count again why am i still this bad at this isn't this supposed to only apply to my old body?

Actually now that i recall the only reason i ever won in a memorizing competition with my friends was that i had actually researched on how to improve my memory span... Temporarily.

You know what I'm just gonna sleep this is just the worst.

3 weeks later

Now this egg is even more crammed, but now i can move a little bit and i still cannot see anything, but progress is still progress no matter what.

But one thing that is good that finally occurred is that after some time i have learned how to fall asleep instantaneously though i am still a newbie in that regard since whenever i wake up a brain destroying headache occurs.

My way of doing this is by making my either formed brain or incomplete brain to receive a lot of stress in any way possible which would me feel exhausted and give me the urge to sleep and BAM! sleeping time.

Though i only used this three times i don't know about It's i expect to be devastating side effects, part of the reason why i don't do that anymore is because i can physically exhaust myself to sleep.

Every time i use this i meditate because somehow it makes me feel a lot better and feel a little bit stronger.

I move my body the 23th time this day and suprisingly i was able to move in a more flexible way than my previous attempts by a lot, though one thing that is bothering me lot is how do i know how to move already, It's like being human but .... different, i instinctively know how to move but considering that a lot of animals i know can move when they hatch i just ignored it this is normal.

1 day later

Now this is getting out of hand, last time it was only an inconvenience now I'm not even comfortable here, it feels very crammed in here to the point that it even feels like a jail now a very tight one.

Feeling the obvious signs, i move my supposed hand? with as much force as i could muster and repeatedly struck it against the walls of this egg which by the way does not let any light pass through so I'm practically blind.

After a minute of repeated hits against the it, a tiny piece of the egg fell and a blinding light appeared which forced me to cover where my eyes are supposed to be.

I slowly opened my eyes, it took a few minutes to get used to the light, i keep punching the egg until a larger piece fell and an even more blinding light than the last one appeared which forced me to yet again cover my eyes.

Though i got used to it in a few seconds and kept repeating the process until i made a big hole in the egg which i can go out of.

I try to move my head to the opening and it was suprisingly easy i then push my head out of the egg and i observed my surroundings for a bit and got myself used to the fresh air, mildly strong winds and heat pretty warm, i was also in a cave that had lava all over the place but i wasn't affected in the slightest.

Before i want to do anything i have to get out of this egg first..... After a few seconds i am finally out of my egg.

But first let's talk about serious business. I AM DRAGON!!! I dance with my all, taking steps that would circle the egg while also trying to make it look like a dance with my tail spinning wildly, my head swinging everywhere i go, my wings flapping as hard as it could.

I was also trying to sing though that was a horrendous failure since my vocal cords are vastly different from a human's, thus i decided to imitate a drums sound it, somehow ended it up as a laugh.

A few minutes later i was just standing in place.

Actually after thinking about it for a little while, and I've come to realize that my dragon species may not have a parent that would stick with the child until they are good enough to survive on their own.

Oh no anyways i think their irresponsible or at least i think so most dragons i have read about have some intelligence so if this is a intelligent species this might be a tradition or they just don't care.

So as i heard dragons eat their eggs when they hatch, but i don't know it was pretty hard to break the egg with my strength so i don't know if i can even bite off a little chunk from the egg, not to mention whether it would be a good choice to do so.

After some time i just tried to bite off a small piece and tried to eat it, a few seconds later a warm and comfortable sensation traveled through my body.

Needless to say i chomped on the egg which was suprisingly brittle or are my teeth just that strong or is my strength just that lacking.

After eating all parts of the egg what happened next was not within my expectations. I suddenly found myself in front of three dragons who are ABSOLUTELY MASSIVE!!!!!

I could tell what their dominant element just from the either their color or that one of them is literally releasing their element all over the place, One of them is a Fire Dragon, one is a Lightning Dragon, and the last one is an Earth Dragon.

"Huh, why are they not moving though" i thought as i slowly make my way to the three Dragons.

As i got closer and closer until all three Dragons moved their front legs to me and i tried to run though it was futile since they already reached me when i just turned around.

I was forced to a sitting position and one of the three Dragons poked my head with It's finger claw and i suddenly found myself in a Barren plane full of only soil.

''So what am i supposed to do here then'' I thought as kept looking around the barren plane.

It's times like these where i have to meditate to not stress myself out, first of all i did not choose a lotus position because even if that was possible for me laying down and feeling comfortable is better.

I lay down and choose to focus on my breathing for a few minutes then i focus on my pulse which was a bit harder since it was harder to notice it but once i did it was easy.

I did this for a few minutes and i alternated to my breathing and kept repeating the process until a warm sensation traveled across my body which made me calm, and made me think a little bit faster.

I then focused on where that warm sensation originated from since i was trying to find another Focus point though i couldn't find where the warm sensation originated from.

So i repeated the process until another warm sensation traveled through my body this time i was focusing a lot more on that sensation and managed to pinpoint where it originated from.

"How the hell did i not notice that the first time" I thought since the warm sensation originated from my heart.

"I WAS LITERALLY FOCUSING ON MY PULSE THE FIRST TIME IT HAPPENED!!!" I shouted to myself since i was quite literally confused at how i did not notice it the first time.

No matter, i first have to find out how the heck it produced such a sensation in the first place, maybe my heart occasionally makes a type of blood that makes me feel that way? or is it something else?

Let's not dwell on that topic for too long it will only waste my time, once again i am gonna meditate so that i can observe how it works.

After a few minutes of focusing on my breathing and pulse i felt another warm sensation, i then try to feel how it travels through my body but couldn't find out, after a few more tries i finally find out how it travels through my body.

First of all it doesn't even use the circulatory system to move through my body no, no, no it can just phase through every part of my body but it seems that it doesn't go out.

One thing i found out as well is that it leaves some of it behind every time a wave goes out, it was evenly spread out as well not only that but it also gets absorbed by my body which is the cause of the warm sensation in the first place.

Could this be the legendary MANA! that people use in those fantasy stories?

After thinking about it i did some more meditation and also thought of something that maybe causes mana to appear in my body, My theory is that it is made of a combination of Mental energy and physical energy which is the same as chakra.

The creation of mana is caused by the violent mixing of the two energies, but even if one of the two energies were to have much much more the other one no harm would be done since it would only let out a fixed amount of those two energies.

The normal time of a pulse of mana happening is around 2-3 minutes so it would be time consuming, but now i am also 2 times faster than my thinking speed an hour ago.

I get up from my meditation pose and look around i figured since i can't do anything here how about i try to do something that i won't do in the real world.

Oh i also needed to mediate for this to work.

So i got into my meditation pose and tried to make another pulse of mana occur with my technique i now name "Focus Point Technique" unnecessary but i don't care.

I open my mouth little by little so that i don't lose my focus, after half an hour which felt like more than three hours i got used to it.

After meditating with my mouth open i kept trying to direct some of the mana to go out of my mouth, results? Failure even after two hours of doing so.

But i can now redirect some of that mana anywhere i want to.

I do this by

Though i kept doing the same thing over and over again until i felt a new sensation that felt like i was getting heavier and heavier until the sensation disappeared but the effects didn't disappear though.

Next thing i knew, i found myself in front of the three humongous dragons again, but the Earth Dragon already retracted It's front leg while the Lightning Dragon put It's finger claw on my forehead and suddenly i was in a barren plane full of lightning.

Lightning struck every second near my location.

Each lightning strike was bigger than most of the lightning strikes i have ever seen, they also made the most deafening sound i have ever heard and experienced.

I got hit by a lightning strike but it didn't hurt no it cause another sensation that made me feel a little bit static.

It was the first time i got a three combo heart attack, so i spent some time calming down and trying to get used to lightning every once in a while a lightning strike does hit me but the same sensation always occurred.

And little by little i lost control over my body the same static sensation overriding my sense and i got to my meditation pose and tried to just focus on that static since it was the only thing i can feel.

Every time lightning struck me the static feeling got stronger until a warm sensation made the static feeling disappear.

For the next few minutes i just laid there, meditating i also noticed a little detail, every different mana pulse i experienced now stacked with each other while the although the lightning pulse seemed a bit weaker than others which can easily be explained i think.

I walked around the barren land contemplating, lightning strikes occasionally hitting me.

Now that i think about it meditating no longer calms me down instead it just makes me feel a false calmness it doesn't naturally calm me down rather it forces me to calm down now.

i call it "Meditation Overdose" it would have been good if i didn't know about it, but onto new discoveries i am healing at an extremely fast rate, in just a few seconds i could walk normally already.

I ran but it was more like jogging because i was deliberately going slow since i didn't know if i was fully healed or not.

I stopped and stomped on the ground causing a crater that was two times larger than my body.

I tried to dig into the ground but the ground above where i just dug fell down.

Lightning also struck that place, anyway i went to another spot and dug another cave that i would call temporary shelter the ground above it collapsed again and i relocated same thing kept happening until i finally succeeded.

The cave was just perfect for me to fit in and it also served as good protection against lightning.

I went inside the cave tried to go deeper but ultimately i didn't go to far in fear that the cave would collapse.

I laid down not to meditate but to rest meditating is now a chore for me and It's not enjoyable anymore.

After three hours i got up and i suddenly thought of my normal day routine or rather my occasional routine i jog a few miles then head back home.

But i then remembered i am in a forced dream it doesn't matter even if i exercise.

I got out of the cave looked up and saw the usual lightning madness, i went back to the cave where i am protected from the lightning.

Well since i can now calmly meditate i will try to manually move mana from my heart to anywhere on my body

I then got into my meditation pose and focused on my heart and tried to remember the warm sensation i always felt when a mana pulse happens.

I meditated for a few minutes then a mana pulse occurred i manipulated some of the mana to go back to my heart, it did so and when it did i felt overwhelmed.

The mana that i manipulated went back to where it was supposed to go and dissipated, meanwhile i was awed by the amount of mana in my heart in fact there was so much mana that even if every mana pulse was combined it would not even reach to one percent the amount of mana here.

Sheesh so i didn't think it was possible to put so many mana in just one sentence.

Anyway let's focus on other thing such as how can i get access to this mana.

I already tried manipulating it like i would with the mana pulse.

I tried another method which involved me waiting for a very long time.

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Chapter ends