18 Dying Once More

I keep trying, but nothing works. I do get the feeling this vessel might not be suited for that type of magic. It would make sense considering Yggdrasil helped me made it.

Have you ever seen a tree throw fireballs around? Well, I guess it would be possible but also extremely dangerous. It would be really easy for an accident to happen.

To be fair humans too play with stuff that could easily kill. Then again, as a species, we are dumb as fuck. Actually, rather than being dumb we probably mostly lack wisdom.

It is our intelligence that allows us to create nuclear bombs and our lack of wisdom that makes it so we actually go through with such an insane plan.

So what should I do? Just keep trying in vain? Should I go tell her it isn't working? Or should I just wait until she comes back to tell her about my failure? She probably won't get mad, right?

Ah, I'll just wait it out. This courtyard is really empty beside the dummy, how boring. At first glance, it seems to be a dark alloy but looking at it closely I can see streaks of purple. Makes sense it's purple after all, the color itself is already legendary.

She said something about it having been made by the old dwarf himself. I guess he really is an impressive forging master. How stereotypical. Whoever designed this world has no imagination at all. Why can't the dwarf be a professional ballerina dancer or something?

*Shake my head*

Oh well, it can't be helped. Two options are possible: either this world is godless and is just the result of evolution or there are really gods. I can't blame evolution for happening. I won't blame the gods either because I want to live.

Yep, let's just leave it at that.

I can't help but think that I would expect something else from this dummy, to be honest. I mean it is supposed to be extremely sturdy right? That's it? No other special ability?

Could you imagine legends describing how op something was because it was…sturdy. I know bricks that sound more mythical than this. It would be pretty good if this was a shield. You know an unbreakable shield is a myth that I can relate to.

But a training dummy?! Then again, I guess it isn't that far stretched. You know how every cultivator will test his power on rocks or trees? Well, this over-the-top training dummy solves this problem.

I truly wonder how much the bigger sects, which are full of hidden tigers and crouching giant lizards, need to spend every year in landscaping.

I can imagine a sect master in some universe going: we will have to cut into training resources again *sigh* damn landscaping!

Still sad how it has no other special ability. What kind of power could a training dummy have? How about reflecting the damage back to the attacker?

That would be really dangerous, but you could use it on the battlefield. *Gets a dummy out* the enemy would taunt you until he gets killed by it from recoil.

Alright, let's try and figure something out that would be more useful while training in general.

Why am I thinking of all that? Because I am bored. Extremely bored. So bored that I would rather think about any random thing than keep meditating and trying to sense the fire element.

Could add an ability to quantify the power but I'd rather put that on a scanner and bring it everywhere with me.

What if the training dummy had the ability to cheer people up? C'mon, you can do this. Just one more slash! Would be fun for a while but probably annoying in the long term.

Talking about annoying what if they used magic to make that dummy the most annoying existence ever.

Oh god, I've just had the funniest idea ever. What if upon getting hit the dummy asks for more. An extreme masochistic dummy. It could also rate the power used as well while low key insulting the user.

I so wish this could be a thing. I really wish it could…. I feel something happen. All of my energy is getting sucked into the dummy.

Oh god don't tell me it uses the surrounding mana to reinforce itself and I just delivered myself as its food! This vessel is full of mana! Noooo, don't eat me!

[I was kidding I'll be good! Stop this!]

No matter what it isn't stopping at all. Well, this is how I die it seems. Goodbye world. Then my vision goes dark.

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A dark abyss. I really need to stop dying. It's already the second time. Don't tell me this is my life now? Dying over and over again until I finally realize that I shouldn't be that dumb.

Still, this is messed up. Killed by a training dummy. What are the odds? I feel like there should have been a warning there.

Please be careful this dummy is totally safe except if you stand nearby for it can suck your mana and your soul away. Safe for all ages to play with otherwise.

I feel like flipping a table. Let me see where this is. Somehow this feels weird. I get the feeling I am back in that dark place I spent a few years, but I can actually see things.

I walk until I finally see something. Right there placed on the ethereal-looking black ground there are … What the hell? These are figurines. I am not kidding. Figurines of various characters. Anime-style.

I see an elf, a dwarf, a spider, a lizardman, a bat, a dragon, a deep abyss fish, an orc, a cactus, there are many many figurines. So many of them this is crazy. These are just the first ones I see. In the back are rows and rows of them.

I keep walking seeing countless of these. At the very end, there are 2 figurines standing alone. A tree and a shadow overlooking it. The first clearly representing Yggdrasil himself. The shadow should be a god. Probably the one that gave him life.

This is crazy. I guess there are gods here. For some reason, I don't see myself anywhere, however. This is kinda making me sad.

That's when I feel an incredible suction power dragging me away. I try to resist but nothing works.

RIP