Walking and magic

Now I've read a lot of light novels back when I was human and most of them have one thing in common, they skip over the travelling parts. Like this journey will take 5 days and 2 pages later they have arrived. This slightly annoyed me because I like the slice of life parts and these were perfect times to deepen your characters relationships not have them stagnant for that time. But now I see why.

Tree, tree, tree lots and lots of trees and I have no one travelling with me it's just boring. Like this trees green the tree beside it is slightly yellower no one cares about a tree unless this tree will be the reason I kill something powerful later on then it needs to be a baddass tree totally different from the rest. I'm getting distracted again god dammit and I haven't been walking that long maybe 3 hours.

'Sigh' Should have asked mother to teach me a bit more about magic, learning teleportation would have been nice. Speaking of magic, I closed my eyes focusing on the Mana inside me. 90 orbs started circling my vision each one a different ability I could learn, humans were limited when it came to this as they could only have between 0 and 7 of these orbs 7 being hero class but most mages had around 2 or 3. While I could learn everything I couldn't just use it all now as only 6 of my orbs had any colour in them indicating I knew how to wield that power the rest were clear like glass. These 6 lit orbs were:

Fire or pyromancy mother had taught me this for cooking food and I'd done a little experimenting till I could throw fireballs still not very strong but who doesn't want to call fire to their fingertips?

Water which mother had to teach me after I almost burnt a forest down so I wouldn't do u again, as I said a little experimenting.

Mental defence, this one was definitely needed as getting hit with sleep spells and such are really annoying, it is also my 2nd strongest orb because mother refused to stop attacking me till I could smile without flinching when she stabbed my mind with her attacks not that I hold it against her if anything I think she was going to easy she can also still affect me with her spells because she's much stronger but most other things cant.

Regeneration, from what I can tell this is normal for leviathans to have this from birth and I'm thankful because being able to regrow your arm is an amazing feat, yes I have tested this, yes it was painful, no I don't wish to do it again.

Ethereal, this one is fun it allows me to become a ghost so long as I can focus but I'm not good enough to bring objects as I fade, it also has a side ability to make my snappers invisible by fading them into an ethereal plane which I will be using to blend in at school.

Desicration, this is by far my strongest orb and simply put it, it kills everything. From what mother has told me I can designate an area and it uses all my other orbs to wipe out everything in it. Mother did tell me I could control it if I tried giving me complete control over the area but after I left a crater at our last house I kind of just use it for emergencies it also has a unique effect of ignoring magical defenses so no escape but doesn't leave anything behind so no hearts for me.

Breaking my attention I let the orbs dissolve from my vision and practised fading my snappers this didn't take much effort to keep them like this but if I got in a fight I would struggle to keep them invisible.

"Aaaaaaaaaah" A scream echoed through the trees startling me and on reflex I'd bought my snappers into a defensive stance. The scream was followed by a loud explosion and the neigh of a horse. A cart under attack? Taking a look at my map I noticed the red dot had moved slightly interesting it shows where I am exactly nice mother thank you but looking at the surrounding area I picked up a road just a little bit away from where I am now. I'd normally like to avoid roads as I'd like to enjoy having my snappers out till I have to hide them at school but that road leads right to the academy city. Dam I could use the lift and if they discover what I am ill just leave their corpses on the side road. Another explosion echoed across the trees, If their not corpses before I arrive.

"Hold formation men archers focus their back line." I've arrived just in time to watch the fight between some trained guards for someone very rich if the gold plating around the cart is anything to go by and some bandits but from the number of bandits here it must have been a planned ambush. 12 guards stood in the way of 30 bandits while the guards looked like they could hold out I noticed some of the bandits using magic quietly. Yep definitely planned the mage bandits cast a spell together creating ice spikes behind the guards impaling 4 of them instantly.

"Haha just give up already we only want the girls and gold don't waste your lives." A big bandit yelled presumably their leader.

"Never we will fight to the last." one of the guards yelled back pointing his sword at the bandit leader. The leader gripped a mace and shield every other fighter stopping their little skermishs and backed up.

"Then I shall kill you first, see if your men fight with your head on a pike." Both fighters walked towards each other getting ready for a dual. As entertaining as it would be to watch them the mage bandits were getting ready to cast again this dual was probably to buy them some more time to kill the other guards. Impressive plan but it relied on your opponents not knowing who your mages were and a 3rd party like myself not getting involved.

Hiding my bag in the shrubbery and making sure my snappers were faded I calmly stepped up behind one of the mages wrapping my arms around his head and pulling hearing the satisfing click of his neck snapping. The mage to my left stuttered his focus on his spell broken, instead focused on me with a stunned expression. I stared back with a smile.

"Sorry was he a friend of yours?"

"Son of a bitch." The mage to my right swore creating a ice shard in his hand and throwing it with a good arm, however I'm faster. Dodging to the right then closing the distance I grabbed and twisted his arm. A cry behind me made me look, ha the ice shard he threw was sticking out of the surprised mages eye, guess he didn't see that coming.

"I'll kill you for that." Another bandit ran at me wielding a sword. Moving back I pulled the mage I had by the hand up, the sword meant for me slid straight through his belly.

"Now I know you weren't friends." I taunted sticking out my tongue. Yelling the bandit charged me missing his first swipe then his second before I grabbed and broke his arm. He grunted in surprise before I sent an uppercut to his chin breaking his jaw, neck and most of his teeth. Letting his corpse hit the ground I stretched out.

"OK I think I've ironed out the kinks, anyone else want to go?" Spitting in my direction the rest of the bandits charged and one by one they fell, I tried to keep their damage to the heads so I could get their hearts but there were just so many I had to break a few ribs. By the time 20 corpses were on the floor I'd grown cocky. This proved painful as a mace appeared from my blind spot hitting me in the cheek sending my body a good distance before I hit the ground.

"Outh." I muttered realising my jaw was broken. He hurt me! How? Taking a second to spit out a tooth and readjust my jaw already noticing another tooth growing back, man I love regeneration. Glaring around I found the one who hit me the leader had abandoned his duel with the guard it seemed.

"Well would you look at that, we got ourselves a leviathan here boys." Growing I noticed my snappers were hissing with me. Dam lost control of their invisibility not good.

"Seems this one's a baby awwww haha we gonna be rich boys. Leave the cart a couple of drops of blood from him is worth ten times more than this job." All the men started laughing and the gleam of greed in their eyes said enough. To hell with this the guards cart is 50m away give or take. Picking myself off the ground and dusting of the dirt I looked at the guard that tried to duel.

"Mate do you mind getting back closer to your cart I'd rather not get you in the crossfire." The guard stumbled in a run back to the rest of his friends the lead bandit smirking.

"Coward! But little leviathan think he's tough tell you what I'll give you the first attack." Cocky bastered but it doesn't matter holding up my hand I snapped my fingers, both my snappers glowed, one red the other blue the bandits bearly had time to register how screwed they were before one started coughing up blood as his insides turned to liquid, another had all his bones shattered then sent into his squishy insides, another started eating his own arms the switched to tearing out his organs eating them to. Every bandit was suffering a similar fate but my attention was on their leader who was frozen stiff, wrinkles becoming more visible on his face and arms as water dripped away from him. He was dying of dehydration from all his water being forced out any way it could find, not very pleasant at all. Letting out a last cough he collapsed into the ground slowly turning into dust, his friends following into the afterlife those who's bodies didn't get destroyed started burning or melting till nothing was left.

This is desicration something I hope I can better control with time or learn something else from the school that I can use. It's not pretty and on top of killing everything it destroys anything that use to be living so all those bodies I saved are gone. Letting out a sigh and making sure my snappers had stopped glowing I walked towards the trees away from the cart thankfull that the guards were still alive. Yay I can control the distance of it. Maybe. Probably. Ah who am I kidding that was just a fluke.

"Wait please!" Before I could make my escape into the trees a soft feminine voice yelled out making me freeze. Dam I have a weakness to pretty voices. Turning around my eyes glued themselves to a human woman with silver hair and a face that's only flaw was the make up covering it. She was almost running towards me holding the skirt part of her silver dress up off the ground her guards trying to keep up in their armour.

"Wait princess he could still be dangerous." Wailed one of the guardsmen trying to put himself between us. The princess ignored his attempts at protection instead coming very close letting her dress hit the grass beneath. Taking a second to catch her breath she bowed.

"Thank you for saving us Mr leviathan we would be dead if it weren't for you or worse." She shivered before continuing the thought of what those men would have done was no secret.

"While I don't think for a second you couldn't kill us all now I have to ask why save us doesn't your kind kill humans on sight?" This stumped me, true mother killed most people that came to us but some got away if they took her deal but I don't know about other leviathans. Mother always said we were a race of only about 30 in the world so most people shouldn't even know about us.

Reaching out with my right snapper towards the princesses face I nipped her hair pulling a few strands away from her eyes. Her guardsmen all moved towards me with their weapons but a raise of her hand was all it took to stop them, I smiled at that, their well trained.

"Your hair matches my eyes." Confusion crossed her face so quickly I had to laugh.

"You are correct we kill most humans we see but do you know why?"

"Something about your blood." Her reply came with a quick look at the bandit leaders dust.

"Yes our blood gives you something close to immortality but only if it is willingly given something your chroniclers forgot to write down but a few drops extend your life by years at least." Pulling my snapper back from her face I could hear her let out a quiet breath, she's still scared of me. Interesting I could have a little fun with her.

"Then why reveal yourself to everyone here? Doesn't that hinder you?"

"I wanted their hearts." Almost reflexively her hand went over her left breast of which I'd say were a solid D. Her voice took on a little waver to.

"T-then why did you leave us?" Her reaction was almost to cute I just had to tease her, so I made one of my snappers glide up her side pulling her arm away while the other stopped just touching the tip of her breast.

"Im starting to wonder as well. Maybe a little taste." She squeeled but didn't pull away I could almost feel her heart beating through her chest.

Letting out another laugh I let her go.

"Sorry you were really cute. But as to why I didn't kill you and why I'm letting you go I don't know really but that will all change if that archer of yours shoots me." The princess turned around to scold the archer taking everyone by surprise, I used this opportunity to turn into a ghost I couldn't keep this up for long so I slipped into the trees picking up my bag and map taking a quick look to make sure I was going the right way before bolting away hopefully they'll forget this but that seems unlikely, she was cute though maybe I'll act like a dragon and kidnap her, haha now I see why they think like this.

By the time night settled I could see the walls around the city coming into view, the watchtower fires just being lit ready for the night watch. Settling down in some roots of an overgrown tree I got ready to sleep, not that I needed it but I could use this time to get the skill like mothers so I can change my appearance at will. Hopefully. Well I have a whole night to practice, and with that I took up a meditation like seat and focused. Tomorrow I would be starting at Rula academy.