Finishing my trump card and an anti-climatic end

Waking up, I unwrap myself from my blanket, placing my bow down, I put everything in my backpack. I stretch my stiffness away and eat some food, climbing down the tree, I make my way over to the clearing I've been using.

After getting here, I decide to try to make explosions, at first I couldn't think of what to do. I tried lots of mana, big fire no explosion, I tried expanding the mana into a wider area, I set the area on fire, because there weren't any trees near, the fire had nothing to burn.

I tried less control, it didn't do much until I used a lot of mana, it was a ball of fire like when I used a lot of mana while controlling it, but taking up more space and you could see through it, at this point I was near 50% mana. Meditating till it's full took 2 hours, when it filled up I tried other things.

After a while I decided to try something I didn't think of, I started collecting my mana, compressing it into a single point. I held it for about 10 seconds excepting it to explode, when it didn't I let it go thinking it failed, the explosion that followed was small, because I used little mana.

After a few attempts, I realized my problem, I didn't apply friction to the ball of mana, after knowing this I went about trying it. The way I went about this was making the mana spin, as it did the ball of mana caught fire, letting it go it exploded, sadly the explosion was roughly the same size.

I would repeat this with different amounts of mana, after about 30 tries both with friction and without and meditating 3 time, it was already midday. I had found that with friction, the explosion would contain a lot of fire, but it lacks power, and without friction it explodes the way I want, but doesn't have much fire.

After meditating again, I start the process of using my bow and Imbueing compressed mana into the mana arrow. My first try was with friction, I just made the arrow of mana compress and spin, sadly it failed and scared the shit out of me, the arrow exploded 1 foot away from my bow.

I was less inclined to use friction with the arrows now, I continued with that thought in mind. Just compressing mana into the arrow worked wonderfully, I needed to use more mana to keep the original shape of the arrows, but the arrows wouldn't explode until the arrows hit something.

I think the reason the explosion happens, when not using the bow is because, after releasing it the mana that has been compressed, causes friction against each other. And when using my mana bow, the mana arrows keep the compressed mana within it.

I repeat my tests for the last 2 days before the final day, my exploding mana arrows are complete, and I'm resting for the final day. As I'm climbing down the big tree for a walk, I'm halfway down when I hear a sound to me left, turning my head left I see nothing, but this was a terrible idea.

After looking left, I got a smell of myself, I nearly died, I smell so bad. Climbing the tree as fast as I could, I look around when I get to the top, apon finding my destination, I climb down in record time, and started sprinting, I even used mana to enhance my speed.

Apon reaching my destination, I strip and jump into the water, I was so focused on training, I forgot to bath. After soaking for awhile I got soap out and started scrubbing, I washed myself and my clothes, took everything out of my backpack and washed it too.

As I was going to wash the blanket, I heard a sound again, thinking someone was watching me. I grab my bow and shoot an exploding mana arrow, at where I think the noise came from, after the explosion I hear the cracking sounds of someone running away.

I yell out "Try this again and I will kill you!" Quickly drying myself off and getting dressed so I'm not naked, I finish washing my things. As I'm walking back to the big tree, I find that I'm being followed, using Mana Sense and Stealth, I see that they are a Pallum and a Dwarf.

I walk behind a tree and wait, as they pass me I hear their conversation, "Where'd she go?" "I don't know Gareth." "Why are we following her anyway?" "Because, if she can deal with the goliath, by herself, then she'd be an excellent addition to our expedition force."

Leaving shortly after, I think back on what I overheard. "An expedition huh?" It'd useful to remember this, just incase I need to get to really low floors. Though, I don't know if I'd need help, if I level up enough, I might be able to do it myself.

Walking back to the big tree, I see them again, I'm going to need a new place to sleep tonight. Wandering around for a while, I find a place that's open, but enclosed in trees, laying out my blanket, I meditate for awhile. Soon enough, it was dark out, grabbing my bow, I wrap myself in the blanket while hugging my bow and fall asleep.

Waking up, I get everything ready to leave, once done, I stretch and put my gear on, I eat while making my way to the 17th floor, as I arrive I see a group of people. It would seem that some people are either here to see me or kill the goliath, sadly they won't see me as I walk past them in Stealth.

Walking into the room the goliath spawns, I head to the other side of the room like before, I wait for a while, and nothing came, I decide to sit down and meditate. After a few hours, I hear cracking, opening my eyes, I look up to see the goliath ripping through the wall.

Standing up, I ready an arrow, casting Mana Bow and Mana Sense, I aim for the crystal in the center of it's body. Drawing it back, I start compressing mana into the arrow, I've only done upto 500 mana before, for the exploding mana arrows, but this time, I use 2,000 hoping it will be enough to kill it.

Once all the mana was compressed into the arrow, I release it, as the arrow flys, I hear an boom. Shortly after, the arrow hits the goliath in the stomach and tears through it's crystal. Once it was through the goliath, the arrow hit the wall, shortly after hitting the wall the arrow exploded.

The explosion damaged the wall a great deal, suddenly the wall started cracking again, something I've never seen before comes out of it. Drawing another exploding mana arrow back, I use 500 mana to test the creepy creature, releasing the arrow at it's head, half of it's body explodes.

Walking over to the crystal and item on the ground, I pick up the goliath tooth and look at the creature that's slowly disintegrating. "What the hell was that?" Speaking my confusion aloud, I hear people running into the room, not wanting to deal with them I start chanting.

"My path is a solitary one, any who follow shall be burned by the flames, I step with certainty, I will reach the eternal flame, PATH OF THE BURNING STEPS" Once I'm done chanting, I run out of the room and up the slide I came from before.

Not wanting to stay in the dungeon any longer, I run past all the monsters, after about an hour of running, I was low on mana. Stopping my supply of mana to my magic, I continue up, sadly I'm lost on the 12th floor again. °~°