Freeing myself from kidnapping

My consciousness returned little by little. I did not open my eyes because I was listening to the short creature speaking, continuing with its habit of monologue out loud. My chest hurt, and it was difficult for me to breathe. I tried to use life mana to heal myself, but something prevented me from channeling the mana, was tied by the wrists and feet to some type of altar or stretcher...

"Very interesting, very interesting, a good specimen, not like the other two... it has tested positive in 13 of the 14 stones of Siun... so the only thing left is the cold... I think the last obnimagic I met was the master of the Briscars tower in Carepur... but his mind continues to resist, even more than the other two..."

"If only I could take control of his mind, it would be the best... yessssssssss I will have to break his mind little by little... yesssss pain is always the first step to breaking the mind... it is not a bad body, even if only "It is in its natural phase... it will resist... yes it will resist..."

Listening to a short bastard talk about torturing me and taking advantage of my body is not something that had me in a very good mood... The chains and shackles that held me were metallic... Metallic, I could feel the metal, its nature, its shape... my metal mana worked; it wasn't limited like the rest of the main mana...

The best thing about having spent time in the dark, in the different hallways, in the different tests, the best thing in this situation was that my senses had been heightened. His skin smelled rancid, and the room smelled like sweat, but I could detect metal moving in the air. About four meters from me... it was some kind of scalpel... you could feel it was sharp, very sharp.

The metal of my shackles began to rift when my mana began to infect it... I didn't have the will to control it, but if I injected it little by little, I could notice how the density of the metal changed and how the rifts spread from within... I couldn't risk using too much and having the shackles break before the right moment so I wouldn't be discovered.

"When I have control of that body, we will have to make it growrrr.... it doesn't even have a level one magic circle created, but with that potential, it won't be difficult to create one... good potential yes sir, good potential..."

I could feel the metal of the scalpel inching closer in my direction. I could feel the rancid stench of that small body nearby... 3 meters, 2 meters... 1 meter...

The metal of my shackles broke and I managed to hit him with my left fist. It is true that from my position I could not exert all my strength, but the blow served to push him away, surprise him, and for me to stand up with my eyes. Finally open...

My kick hit him in the head, causing him to lose his balance. I was naked and unarmed, but luckily, when the shackles broke I regained control of the mana that was felt flowing through my body again...

The air blades shot towards him as soon as I could throw them, but it was faster, unusually faster... strong stone walls rose from the ground at a speed crazy for what I had experienced so far.

They crashed against the rock, destroying the walls, but the creature was not behind... my instincts told me that it had appeared behind through a rift... I activated an area of darkness while I jumped through a rift to the entrance tunnel to the room. ...

Timing was crucial, two lightning strikes shot from my hands into the darkness... the response was more than 5 ice spears that I dodged by dropping to the ground inside the tunnel.

Without weapons and without equipment the fight would not be easy... I thought he would follow me to finish me off... but it was worse than that... the same chant with which he summoned the ogre began to sound in the room...

"Shit, bitch..." if facing an enemy with more control of magic was bad, facing him and the ogre who was capable of breaking your rib cage with one blow was worse...

I couldn't let him summon the ogre... I detected him with my eyes, I began to levitate and I went to a crevice that took me right behind him, he didn't have time to face me, grabbing him from behind with my two arms I bit him directly on the neck ...

I noticed the blood dripping between my teeth as he continued to squeeze, the summoning was interrupted but he managed to shoot ice spikes from his back as if he were a hedgehog...

Three of the spikes stabbed me, belly, shoulder and leg before I managed to get a couple of steps away, I could tell that he was manipulating something in his hand with my mana senses since we were in the dark zone... I shot him a laser light that must have hit him...

"ARRRGGHHHH!!! "Like shit he got loose..."

I threw air blades at him again but he intercepted them again with two stone walls, I noticed how he disappeared from my senses... I was no longer in the room... I was no longer in the entrance tunnel... I had fled for the moment ...

I canceled the darkness knowing that time was money in that situation, in a corner of the room was my equipment... there was no time to grab everything so I grabbed the belt with the sword, the shield and my spear just in time to hear the heavy steps and growls of the ogre's bulk running through the entrance tunnel...

I prepared myself on one side of the entrance where he couldn't see me... as soon as he crossed the threshold I launched a psychic blow at him at full power... it wouldn't kill him but I'm sure he wouldn't be unscathed... he actually stumbled and with his inertia He ended up crashing into the wall in front of the entrance, I didn't waste time with subtleties and decided to stun him a little more with two lightning bolts in parallel.

The monster was tough, he hadn't died with those attacks, although he shook his head as if to clear it... I concentrated my death mana on his body but I didn't have time to kill him...

Ten spears of ice shot out from the door making me jump into a rift... I launched a dome of darkness but this time it was canceled by a magic I didn't know that diluted my mana in the air.

Now I was on the ceiling floating with my levitation, I released a bubble that created a vacuum of air around the ogre's head, as I shot towards the short creature... however my kamicace flight stopped in mid-air when a powerful force threw me against the wall...

I hit myself hard but I didn't let go of the shield or the spear, I aimed the latter as best I could at the gnome and fired the water magic... This surprised him in the middle of an unknown spell, hitting him on the shoulder and leaving his arm left hanging. I didn't stay on the ground licking my wounds, I opened a rift towards the center of the entrance tunnel, far from the gnome and above all away from the desperate ogre who was trying to breathe while throwing hammer blows left and right in the room as if fighting an invisible enemy. ...

I landed and extended my senses as much as I could, at that distance I could sense the two beings still in the room... I concentrated more than half of my fire mana into a single ball and threw it at full speed down the hallway...

The gnome was distracted canceling the bubble that was drowning the ogre when, the ball of concentrated fire entered the room...

He was only heard saying "shit" when it was already too late… The subsequent explosion had a devastating effect… even my body was thrown back by the shock wave… The fire couldn't harm me because it was my own mana. ..but if the cave collapsed he would be in big trouble.

The cavern shook and there were sounds of some small collapse in the room area...

He no longer detected the presence of the ogre and the gnome only had a thread of life left... although it seemed that he was trying to recover...

I flew as fast as I could to the center of the room, I didn't want to use a dimensional rift for fear of not appearing in the middle of the collapsed area...

Remnants of furniture were broken everywhere, the ceiling above the bed had collapsed, burying almost a third of the room...

In the corner opposite the entrance of the room was the gnome; half of his body had been blown away, his legs were missing, and his life was escaping him due to the bleeding that he could not stop. His skin was charred. Although he was beginning to show signs of regenerating a little... too little, too slow to prevent me from approaching... I don't think he saw me coming; his eyes were nothing more than two useless charcoals right now.

I raised my spear and pierced him from side to side... Was it an act of mercy in his suffering? Was it a cold execution? Or was it just a natural act in the face of a being that intended to torture me and supplant my mind to escape? God knows what...?

As luck would have it, my backpack and my equipment were partially protected by the desk that crashed in that direction and took the impact of most of the fire...

Little remained of the gnome's studies, books, and objects... only a very dark wooden box was saved from the whole disaster.

As soon as I picked it up I felt that it emanated two different energies, one I knew, it was dream mana... the other...

"Congratulations to the player for finding a source of the secondary sound magic during the tutorial."

"Secondary sound mana affinity created. 1/100"

"Congratulations to the player for eliminating a hidden intruder in the sanctuary."