Chapter 17

As I reach within ten meters, a new arrow makes his way to me.

I use my left hand to grab him but as soon as I touch the arrow a aggressive energy tries to shred my hand.

With little effect, through the reinforcement from the earthen heart the arrow only manages to destroy my skin but nothing more.

I spit a dose of burning liquid in his face which he dodges by jumping to the left.

He throws his bow in my direction to use it as a distraction so that he can draw his sword, but he failed as a bladed tail swipes at his thigh.

The cut is clean and goes down to the bone.

Interrupted by the sudden pain, the elven hunter fails to draw his sword and lands only to lose balance and fall onto the ground.

I don't let this opportunity go by and dash at him with claws ready.

A swift cut and his head rolls separated from his body.

I pierce the head with my tail and lift it to my mouth where he got swallowed.

With one arm I grab the rest of his body and exam his equipment, just out of curiosity I try and eat one of his arrows.

They taste like wood, iron and feathers.

I don't really know what I have expected but I still felt disappointed.

With the confirmation that the equipment doesn't have any value to me I start eating the rest of his body.

The presence of the elven hunter opens the possibility of a settlement being nearby, so I start searching for his tracks and follow them.

After an hour of following the track of the elven hunter I reach the end of the forest and in the distance I observe a village with a wooden wall of three meters high and behind it barley twenty houses.

I decide to not go there right now and go back into the forest till I find a big tree, I start climbing up to its crown and hide there.

Once in a secure spot I concentrate on the energy and the new blueprint.

The amount of energy should be enough to build the new blueprint, so I start exploring the new ability.

The information describes a special condensed crystal organ that enables a creature to transform normal mana into spiritual mana which can be used to attack or manipulate the mind/soul.

I'm immediately interested in the new form of energy and start channeling my energy into the blueprint and create the new organ next to my three hearts.

Now that I think about it I never gave this energy a name, and with the two other energy's namely spiritual mana and mana I already got three different energy's inside my body.

I don't ponder long about it and just give it the name "Evolution energy".

With that cleared I shift my focus on the newly formed organ inside my chest and try to feed it some of my mana.

Slowly a small stream of crudely controlled mana flows into the new organ and starts to change.

Once again distracted from the original goal of experimenting with the new energy, I start to focus on the flow of the mana that I feed the new organ.

Why the hell didn't I experiment with my normal mana before?

I ask myself but soon found the answer, as I found out the existence of mana I was chased and had to flee from the city and after wards I had a completely new body so the discovery got kind of buried under the hectic situations and I forgot about it till now.

Slightly angered about my own stupidity I stop the flow of mana into the new organ and completely concentrate on my mana instead.

I start improving my control over my mana which is a lot harder than controlling evolution energy because the evolution energy has an own will while the mana doesn't.

Time passes and the sun disappeared behind the horizon to make place for the stars and moons.

Finally, I reach a satisfactory level of control over my mana and start to experiment with different forms and shapes that I observed on the connecting string between the familiar and its master, and on the giant magic circle.

Some of them give a respond while others only look fancy, suddenly I got snapped out of my concentration by a low grumbling coming from my stomach.

Time to eat, I slowly climb down the tree and scan the surroundings with my antennas.

Once I confirmed the absence of any threat, I lock onto a green deer thirty meters away from my position and begin to sneak up on it.

With only ten meters between me and my prey I don't hesitate anymore and jump forward with claws ready.