Legends and Reality (Part 1)

"I want to do it." Ryka took a single step inside the cave and spread her roots again.

The world energy flooded her, making her skin turn violet as the light reached her mana core. Her body swelled, shrunk, and snapped trying to accommodate the raging flow of energy.

Less than one minute later, cracks appeared on her bark and green sap bled out of her wounds and orifices. Her body jolted back like she had touched a high-voltage cable, sending Ryka writhing on the ground in a seizure.

A thin smoke came from the burned roots on her hands and feet which smelled like charcoal.

"Stay back and don't use any kind of mana on her. She's about to burst." Lith said while watching the Titania's core pounding against her life force.

It was overloaded with world energy that the core couldn't assimilate fast enough. Her body broke down and regenerated, holding itself from falling apart by sucking the nutrients in the fertile soil around her.