《Wish of the End》 Begin the end Looking through the window, Dimitry, gazed at the sky. Weather was particularly gloomy today, or was it always received like that through his dead fish eyes. ¡°Houuu¡­¡± he sighed. Mondays do suck. Focusing his eyes at front of classroom, he saw his teacher. ¡°Now, principle to write good poem is to give meaning to it. Don¡¯t write just random words that rhyme, tell emotions that you want to express!¡± teacher was talking to class. ¡®Now why does everyone look so young and small, or is it just me being tall, probably¡­¡¯ he thought in his mind. Dimitry was first year student in college; at the age of 20 he seemed oldest in class. ¡°Haaa-aa¡­..¡± he sighed again, how I wish everything would just disappeared and ended. Meteor would be nice and it would light up this monotone world a little. Deep in his thoughts he was interrupted by two classmates talking to each other, looking at them he wondered when was last time he talked to someone. ¡®Was it in college orientation, ¡­forgot, ha how I wish to jump from this window, wait why I¡¯m even here¡­.Ah right I can¡¯s skip more days, tuition will be cancelled and I will be homeless.¡¯ Once again he dived into his thoughts. He was born to somewhat wealthy family, Mather singer and father businessmen, but that seemed like century ago for Dimitry. ¡°Seems like you are thinking deeply about what I¡¯m saying aren¡¯t you Dimitry Nem..-zir.~k.eee¡­¡± said teacher trying to sound sarcastic, but not till the end when he started to pronounce last name. ¡°And you are still butchering my last name as always,¡± retorted exhaustively Dimitry. Not blaming teacher, as no one till this day have pronounced his last name right. His full name was Dimitry Nemyzirke, his first name Dimitry came from his mother father who was Russian, but last name was something that his parents came up with so he had unique name, he still could not understand why they did it. ¡°Why don¡¯t you show us an example of poem, with all elements that I have talked about,¡± said teacher. You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.Wait there was¡­¡­ emotion and ¡­.something¡­.. thought Dimitry standing up from his chair. Everyone became quite in class and Dimitry looked at everyone and thought, I do hate people. ¡° Oh gloomy weather, Oh gloomy sky, Why don¡¯t you move to a side! Let this meteor strike, And, end, this endless suffering of mine!¡± Said Dimitry, and everyone looked at him not saying anything. ¡°That certainly seems from your heart¡­.¡±said teacher. ¡° haaa¡­ I remember reading your college admission essay, what was it titled; ¡®Why humans are worst that has happened to this planet¡¯ it made quite commotion between teachers and others. Some even recommended making you see psychiatrist, but speaking technically your essay was beyond excellent and your math placement was through the roof also, so you were accepted as potential genius. But why are you so Cynical¡­. ¡° expressed teacher, talking to Dimitry who seemed to not even bother acknowledge what teacher was saying, It seemed like teacher was talking to empty shell with no emotion. Different perspective - Astronomical observatory ¡°Chief, something is not right, it changed trajectory!¡± yelled man in his 40 wearing white lab coat. Looking at screen chief was in disbelieve. ¡°How is that possible!?! Are you sure it¡¯s not machine malfunction!¡± yelled back Chief. ¡°No sir, it¡¯s not machine!¡± exclaimed man in white lab coat. ¡°¡­..Holly¡­GODS¡­.have mercy¡­.¡± weakly mumbled chief. Back to normal perspective- Classroom light started to increase and started to illuminate classroom as everyone looked outside at the sky. Fire roared in sky as it was falling down, shock was visible on everyone face, except Dimitrys¡¯ who silently looked at sky and for first time in many years, slightly smiled. ¡®Oh¡­ meteor so you are, falling down, you are quite generous to fulfill my fish¡¯ thought Dimitry as he looked at sky by window while everyone was running in panic, trampling anyone who was in their way. Remedy of death Had to take few days off, finally few days off from studying and TURKEY MEAT. I think i did better this time than last. --------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Opening his eyes, Dimitry looked around him, what he saw was weird buildings build of ceramic, or material that resembled it. There was no sky, only stars and cosmos, he saw people walking in distance and immediately girl appeared in front of him. She wore black robe and gold necklace, she had serious face of businesswomen. Her hair was black and her eyes were dark green giving serious atmosphere together with her face. ¡°Hello there Mortal Soul, I was assigned as your Grim Reaper to take your SOUL!¡± girl declared, trying to sound menacing, but it did not seem to effect Dimitry that much as he just stared at her. ¡°Tch!¡± could be heard from Dimitry as he looked at her and disapproval could be seen on his face. ¡°What¡­is it?¡± asked girl. ¡°You know, Grim Reapers should me tall, face of skeleton, have scythe, clouded in darkness, and you know look cool, not like this¡­¡± said Dimitry pointing at her. ¡°I see¡­you want some sins to be added to your list?¡± said girl threatening. ¡°¡­.Not really, I don¡¯t really care that much,¡± immediately responded Dimitry. ¡°I see¡­got myself apathetic one this time,¡± said grim reaper. ¡°Just to be sure, you know you are dead?¡± she asked. ¡°So it seems¡­¡± he answered. ¡°Yes, indeed,¡± she said and raised her hand in air when clipboard materialized form tin air. This interested Dimitry as he looked at it. ¡°Under rule #2, you have right to know cause of your death.¡± She declared. ¡°I know it, it was quite spectacular¡± He immediately answered. ¡°Stop being pain in the ass, and behave like normal soul who is afraid and wants to go back to life,¡± She barked at Dimitry. ¡°So you will give me my life back¡­?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°No, in your case¡­¡± she looked at clipboard in front of her and after silence said ¡°In your case judges issued two thousand years of suffering in hell, and then maybe possibility of forgiveness of your sins,¡± ¡°hou?...so I had than many sins¡­¡± mumbled Dimitry to no one particularly. ¡°Well that meteor was your fault so give or take a lot of people died,¡± Said Grim reaper to which Dimitry for first time looked at her intensively. ¡°How that happened exactly?¡± he asked her. ¡°Well you see¡­¡± she again started look at that clipboard in her hands, ¡°Meteor was infused with detection magic and was supposed to fly pass earth, and in some thousand years hit different planet and kill few bad people there. But when¡­you started incantation¡­for some reason meteor reacted to it and changer trajectory¡­.that is most likely theory¡­ but we still can¡¯t figure out how you have done it without mana, as earth is planet with zero mana.¡± She explained to which he started thinking deeply. ¡®So mana, that is interesting and was that incantation I did?¡¯ thought Dimitry. ¡°Anyways what is done is done, most of people with be reborn in near future, now in your case¡­¡± she started speaking. ¡°Wait first tell me what is that, in your hand and what happens to a souls?¡± he interrupted her. ¡°Fine, there is still time to kill before your sentencing as we have overload of souls to take care of thanks to someone.¡± She said, looking at Dimitry who didn¡¯t seem at all apologetic or concerned. ¡°Also under rule #1, no discrimination against souls, the first to die are first to be judged, so you have to wait till people who died before you are being judged,¡± expressed Grim reaper. ¡°Why I¡¯m now with them?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°Well you are reason most of them died, so just in precaution we don¡¯t want mayhem to start and we are obligated to tell why and how they all died,¡± answered girl. ¡°Let¡¯s continue,¡± she said. ¡°This is paper taken from ¡®Book of All¡¯ every soul have record of their past and this book shows it, this particular page is your soul history, we can see all that happened in your life and we know your location thanks to it,¡± explained grim reaper. ¡°And how does it work?¡± Dimitry asked. ¡°You don¡¯t need to know,¡± was an answer. ¡°What happens if someone attacks someone here?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°Mortal soul is unable to use mana here, so child with mana here is a lot stronger than mortal with that it¡¯s easy to keep order here,¡± she answered. ¡°Now for souls there are three paths, first those that have not sinned they are being reborn, second those who slightly sinned are working in city and helping till their sins are forgiven and they can be reborn, and lastly those who have sinned greatly are being sentenced to hell, like you,¡± she continued explaining. While she was saying this, girl in purple dress and with curly brown hair runs in their direction. ¡°Miss Irina!¡± yelled girl in purple dress. Turning around grim reaper that first appeared in front Dimitry, said- ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°They are having problems, numbers of souls are way too much for trainee to be able to take care of, Mister Thesaur sent me to inform you about this. And said that you should immediately went there to help and I will take care here,¡± informed girl in purple dress catching her breath. ¡°Why has it happened today, when we have training routine for newbies, the number of soul to take care of today is record high?¡± signed Irina and said- ¡°I got it, can¡¯t really go against orders form Thesaur, take here form me, I will be back so for now just tell him rules and what you were taught to do!¡± ¡°Y-Yes! Will do!¡± stuttered girl in purple dress. Irina handed clipboard to a girl in purple and vanished only living few particles that vanished few seconds later. ¡°ha-a..¡± signed girl with curly hair and said ¡°How I wish to be able to do that also, so I don¡¯t have to run all the time¡­¡± ¡°So you can¡¯t do that?¡± interrupted her Dimitry. ¡°Aa! y-yes, to be able to do teleportation¡­ you need a lot of strength¡­ and mana not to mention talent¡­,¡± answered girl nervously, ¡®It feels like I¡¯m speaking to a timid child not Grim reaper, wait she is trainee most likely, hmmm¡­ that means I can get more answers if I do this right¡­¡¯ thought Dimitry. ¡°So continue were my previous guide left off,¡± said Dimitry. ¡°Ahh¡­hh-h¡­¡± in panic girls started looking at clipboard in front of her then shifting her gaze at Dimitry not knowing what to do. ¡°Wait can you not read it?¡± asked Dimitry after seeing her continuously shift gaze from clipboard to him. ¡°Ugu¡­.¡± She answered with tears in eyes, ¡°To be able to read from Book of All one need to be on level similar to Miss Irina or being soul whose history is written there,¡± she continued, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I will tell you were I and Miss Irina have Left off,¡± said Dimitry putting on fake smile he perfected for situations in life where he had to smile. ¡°You don¡¯t need to be so tense,¡± said Dimitry, ¡°You know I had sister similar to you and well¡­she¡­¡± lied Dimitry. Seeing sadness and regret written on Dimitry face girl immediately started to guess that his sister most likely died. ¡°You... don¡¯t have to push yourself¡­, you are very nice person,¡± said girl with smile on her face. ¡°Sorry¡­just remembering¡­.., but yes ¡­¡­well lets continue, OH! I forgot to ask your name?¡± said Dimitry skillfully showing fake emotions he perfected over years on his face. ¡°My name is Atira!¡± said girl in purple dress with smile, not nervous now at all. ¡°It¡¯s nice to meet you Atira,¡± said Dimitry. ¡°Yes! Same here!¡± declared Atira ¡°Now Miss Irina was explaining to me how my page form Book of all was working and what happens to me if it were to be torn apart,¡± said Dimitry slightly showing sadness form previous conversation. Dimitry began to suspect that it had some kind of important secret, remembering how first Grim reaper didn¡¯t give too much info about it. ¡°Well, ¡­I slept a lot on lectures so I just know little of what I hear,¡± said Atira embarrassed. ¡°Don¡¯t worry we all did that,¡± said Dimitry giving her smile, which she returned. ¡°From what I remember, if someone were to tear their page in half, then their record would disappear and no one would be able to locate the soul of that person, but to be able to do that one needs mana, but as soul of mortal is not able to have mana here, there is not much they can do with their pages form Book of all,¡± explained Atira. ¡°But what if they were to stole it?¡± inquired Dimitry. ¡°The page can¡¯t leave this place, as book is here,¡± ¡°What is exactly mana?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°Mana is energy, cultivated form around us and stored in our bodies, that can be controlled by living organisms or artifacts to produce magic or spells, there are different kinds of magic and it¡¯s complicated,¡± she answered. ¡®So, primary what I thought, and they deny access to mana for mortal soul here for them to be weak and not do something stupid¡¯ tough Dimitry. ¡°How about tour?¡± asked Atira. ¡°That would be good,¡± answered Dimitry and they started walking. After two hours of walking and her explaining to him what other stuff were they came across white building without any walls just rooftop and beautiful carving on its pillars. Seeing colorless orb floating in middle of building Dimitry asked- ¡°What is it?¡± ¡°That is ¡®Fate of Choice¡¯ it is place where chosen heroes can obtain their power,¡± she answered. ¡°So¡­heroes¡± mumbled Dimitry quietly. ¡°Yes! Aren¡¯t they cool!¡± yelled excitedly Atira, not picking up slight disgust from Dimitry emphasis on word heroes. Dimitry always disliked people who believed in their rightness¡¯s and never listened to anyone else. In stories heroes always declared someone evil and always killed them in end, and no one questioned if hero done right thing, maybe diplomacy was possible or there was mistake, no one cared, it¡¯s always if its light it¡¯s good if it¡¯s dark it¡¯s bad. Churches killed a lot more people branding them witches or heretics, while yelling they are right to kill evil, than most of cruelest leaders in history. ¡°You know heroes can be summoned to different words with summoning magic, and they always have to choose their power there, it¡¯s so exciting to just thing of all adventure they can have!¡± Atira was mostly talking to herself now with slight sadness and envy. ¡°So anyone can be hero?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°No, you see, only few can get close to it, and less can touch it to get their powers that they desire or are granted with to choose,¡± explained Atira. ¡°I forgot exact percent of heroes that succeed, but its low number and most fail, those who fail are sent back to their world without remembering, while those who did summoning are punished for summoning not qualified hero,¡± added Atira. ¡°So that how it is,¡± said Dimitry, while thinking he get to know so much new and interesting stuff today. ¡®When was last time I was so interested in something¡¯ ¡°Ok, let¡¯s go!¡± smiled Atira and started walking and Dimitry followed her. ¡®Hiss-sss-sss-ss-s¡¯ ¡®What was that¡¯ thought Dimitry as he looked behind him, looking at colorless orb floating in air ¡®Can it be?¡¯ ¡°What happens to Heroes who are able to choose their power?¡± asked Dimitry, ¡°Ah, when they choose last power they are then immediately teleported to a world that have summoned them,¡± answered Atira stopping and looking behind to see Dimitry walking to an orb. With a wide eyes she yells- Did you know this story is from Royal Road? Read the official version for free and support the author. ¡°What are you doing!?¡± Ignoring her Dimitry walked to an Orb. ¡®I always listened to my instincts if my gut feeling is right then ¡­¡­.I hope my instincts are working here also¡¯ stopping five miters from orb for second, Dimitry continued to walk right on. Four meters. Three meters. Two meters. One meter. ¡°No way!!?¡± confusedly said Atira. Dimitry placed hand on orb, and immediately felt as if all his body is being set on fire, after few seconds it all subsided but there was still feeling that something was now missing inside of him. On orb text appeared displaying_ 1 Do you want to obtain ten chooses of skills from hundreds. 2 Do you want to obtain one wish (can''t be skills or power) and three chooses of skills from hundreds. ¡°I choose number 2,¡± said Dimitry. You choose 2 What is your wish? ¡°For everyone on earth, except me, reverse effects of meteor falling,¡± said Dimitry. Choose your three skills Hundreds of different names and indication floated on orb, from fire magic to a flying, from swordsmanship to a culinary. ¡®I don¡¯t have time to sit here and think about this for long time, they will likely stop me from going anywhere,¡­think¡­.What I need in new world¡¯ thinking deeply Dimitry came up with solution. ¡°Acquire language skill,¡± he said to orb Do you wish to obtain ¡®Speak any language skill¡¯ ¡°Yes!¡± Dimitry said excitedly. Choose your second skill ¡®Now this is important¡­I hope there is skill I need¡¯ ¡°Show mana skills!¡± he said again 1 Mana recovery (faster recovery of mana by 10X) 2 Mana interruption (interrupt other people mana) ¡­¡­¡­¡­ ¡­¡­¡­. ¡­¡­¡­ ¡­¡­¡­. ¡­¡­¡­. ¡®Tch¡­. I don¡¯t have time to look at them all¡­..think¡­..ah!¡± ¡°Show mana manipulation skill¡± Mana manipulation (manipulates mana) ¡®Now I need to be sure its what I want, can it show its description¡­¡¯ ¡°Show description of mana manipulation¡± Mana manipulation (manipulates mana) [Mana can be manipulated in any desired way Restriction: Can¡¯t use incantations Special affect: Able to transform your blood to mana (loss of blood can result in death) ¡°Perfect! Acquire Mana manipulation skill!¡± yelled Dmitry, excitement creeping into him. Noticing this he stopped to think- ¡®Ironic how I feel more exited and alive now when I¡¯m dead compare to me when I was alive,¡¯ when he was thinking he noticed that that feeling that something was missing inside of him slowly was filled. ¡®So orb made space inside of me for skills and now it¡¯s being filled¡¯ ¡®Now¡­¡¯ Dimitry slowly breathed in and out four time and lifted his arm from orb. Turning around he still saw Atira standing there dumbfounded. Walking to her he put his best smile and said- ¡°Guess you never suspected I was a hero?¡± ¡°You are h-hero!¡± yelled Atira at Dimitry who made his best attempt at apologetic face and said- ¡°I wanted to surprise you, guess it worked?¡± said Dimitry laughing slightly. ¡°y-yes you surprised me,¡± said Atira not knowing what to say or do, seeing her dream in front of her hero who can go on adventure. ¡°Well, guess surprise was too big?¡± said Dimitry smiling. Coming to her senses Atira asked- ¡°So you were hero?! But usually¡­¡± ¡°Yes usually it¡¯s different, Miss Irina told me about it, it¡¯s just that I¡¯m special,¡± said Dimitry trying to imitate embarrassment. ¡°But why didn¡¯t you teleported to where you was summoned?¡± asked Atira. ¡°That is also because I¡¯m special, look here it¡¯s written, Miss Irina showed me,¡± said Dimitry coming closer and pointing at clipboard. ¡°Oh, I forgot you can¡¯t read it! Sorry¡­¡± recalled Dimitry to her. ¡°I-Its ok!¡± she assured him a bit still stunned. ¡°Let me show you anyway!¡± he said standing beside her and looking at clipboard. To clipboard was attached yellow paper that had weird symbols, he could not read them but he somehow understood what they mean. All of his history was written there, after moment he took himself in control as emotions wanted to take hold of him when he saw all loneliness and betrayal he felt to world resurface again with those symbols. Trying to make sad face was not hard for him now as he felt generously sad looking at his past and pain he experienced there. Noticing his face in agony that screamed to her of pain, she asked ¨C ¡°Are you alright?¡± ¡°Oh¡­sorry it¡­just¡­.my¡­sister she was big part of my life and now looking at my past it¡¯s written with her presence and it made me remember her¡­.¡± Said Dimitry in most sad voice he could produce. Looking at him Atira could not say a think only trying to come up with something. ¡°Aaa¡­there,¡± said Dimitry pointing at random text ¡°That was the best day of my life, we had family come over and ¡­¡± he tried to made tear fall but it seemed too much for him so he given up on it and said- ¡°Can I read it, I want to memorize it completely so I will never forget?¡± looking at Atira he give her face of sadness to which she handed clipboard to him. Dimitry took Clipboard and sited on ground as if he will never move from that place and with long and sad face looked at clipboard. After few moment he broke silence- ¡°Ah! I remembered Miss Irina told me that after I will get my power she would see how I did!¡± declared Dimitry. ¡°Oh, really¡­!¡± surprised Atira said after silence was broken. "Yes but...if only i had power when she was..." Dimitry tried to speak but looked at clipboard and this time give even more painful expression. Seeing this Atira not wanting to give him even more pain said- ¡°I will quickly bring her here!¡± and run off. Looking at direction she disappeared to, Dimitry quickly went to his feet and started to think how to activate his mana manipulating skill. ¡®Something like mediation or imaging my blood being transformed¡­?¡¯ after one minute he felt as if something inside of him moved. After realizing that it was probably mana he focused on that felling and felt light headed as more mana circulated in his body. ¡®I lost too much blood, this should be enough¡¯ Dimitry took paper from clipboard and placed it between his hands and started to pull. ¡°Nothing?¡± said Dimitry as paper not even slightly ripped. ¡®So I need to infuse mana to my finger¡¯ imagining as something from his core moved slowly alongside his chest to his arm, and hands. He felt as something was inside his fingers, this time he focused and ripped paper. Paper easily piped in half and started to disintegrate. ¡®Now I need to get out of here really fast!¡¯ thought Dimitry as he run to an orb. Placing his hand on orb he saw Irina appeared out of nowhere- ¡°What have you done!?¡± yelled Irina standing on spot where she appeared. Next to her man in black coat with covered face appeared. ¡®So they can¡¯t come inside here¡¯ relaxed Dimitry, but her next words made him tense again- ¡°Inform judges immediately!¡± she yelled again. Man next to her disappeared again. ¡®Shit! Think¡­. last skill..... I need not to die so toughness skill will be good¡¯ ¡°Acquire toughness skill,¡± he commended again holding on to orb. Do you wish to obtain ¡®Penetration Resistant Skin¡¯ ¡®I more thought of the steel or rock body but this will do,¡¯ ¡°Yes!¡± said Dimitry and disappeared. --------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Standing few kilometers away two men looked at this and man to left bowed to man to his right and asked- ¡°Why, did you help him?¡± ¡°Hou..Don¡¯t know what you are talking about, Thesaur, ¡±said man on right. ¡°Your majesty insisted that I ordered Irina to clean up mess, and I find it hard to believe that person with zero experience and na?ve personality would be to take care of person who killed so many?¡± said Thesaur. ¡°He didn¡¯t?¡± answered man on right. ¡°What you mean?¡± ¡°He passed few of my little tests, and we need to put Rioyhoul back to constant, it will need few more millenniums to refill its mana to full,¡± said man on right. ¡°You mean Rioyhoul, artifact that can move time in past, for desired area of effect?¡± asked Thesaur ¡°Yes, pity it can only be used for so little and has so little advantage to use, I will say it has more disadvantage than advantage,¡± answered man on right. ¡°I see, but why help that mortal, and in this costs?¡± inquired Thesaur. ¡°Hu-hu find it out yourself,¡± was an answer. ¡°But now when he destroyed his record form Book of All no one will be able to find him,¡± ¡°Hu-hu-hu,¡± ¡°I see, you have some way,¡± said Thesaur. Standing straight he looked at horizon and bowed again to man on right and said- ¡°I will get going, you highness,¡± saying that Thesaur disappeared, and lone man was standing there now looking at horizon. Green As you all know hardest times for students starts now, I''m talking about exams. I will try to post as much as can. -------------------------------------------------- Green Standing on little clearance of hill, looking at endless forest in front of him, young man in early stage of becoming a man looked to be about twenty years old. His black hair seemed darker than a night, and his mud colored eyes with slight hint of green, give impression of endless sinking mud pit that will suck in all that comes within its reach. Standing at six foot and two inches he gives impression of above average looking guy, but not enough to be called handsome. Wearing dark jeans and red hoodie from that same day, he looked at scene in front of him. Inhaling with big breath he said- ¡°Air quality is definitely better here¡­.but I hope I am not on planet that is devoid of humans¡­¡± saying that he slowly started to sink in his thoughts. After what seemed to be ten minutes he came to his senses- ¡®My bad habit to daydream resurfaced again,¡¯ Checking his pockets he found, pen, phone with headphones plugged in, wallet, and keys to his Toyota Camry 2000 model. Unplugging his headphones from phone he pressed button on phone. Screen came to live and he checked connection to satellite which was zero. With everything in his speculations he checked time which showed three am. Looking at sun that blasted ultraviolet radiation to its fullest he changed time to a noon, and powered phone off so it would not discharge. Putting phone in most secure location on him, which was front pocket with zipper on his jeans he added headphones together there. Putting everything back into pockets he again looked at scene in front of him. ¡®So¡­first I need¡­water then shelter later¡­.. Don¡¯t know if I will find civilization in near days.¡¯ Looking at endless forest from up top of little hill he started to look for river. After few minutes he saw irregularity in trees, while everything looked pretty much the same, to the far left there was line were trees didn¡¯t grow close to each other. Concluding that it was probably stream of water, he picked up a stick and started to walk in that direction. Carefully walking down hill so to not trip, he descended and entered deep forest. Trees were massive and some were small while most were the usual size, he carefully walked and looked out for any dangerous animals, after twenty minutes of walking and hearing birds sounds in distance he saw little river. It was three miters wide and two miters deep, with strong current which was excellent for him as it meant it was not still water. Walking closer to a river he heard a rustle in near bush, immediately stopping and not making any sound he saw boar slowly walking away from bush and looking at him. ¡®Well¡­now I¡¯m sure, I¡¯m not on earth,¡¯ thought Dimitry, staying still as to not provoke this monster, who had red fur with strange black marking, one meter of height, muscles ripping from its legs, like sword horn on center of its head, red eyes looking at Dimitry. In a red flash in started to run at Dimitry, not having reflexes to dodge out of its way, sharp and pointy horn connected strait in middle of Dimitry stomach. ¡°Ugh!¡± feeling the pain run through his body he closed his eyes, in the next moment Dimitry felt air hit his back as he started to fly back form impact of attack that this monster did. Opening his eyes Dimitry started to mentally calm himself as he could not breathe in because of the impact. From what felt like eternity he slowly was able to breathe in, looking in front of him he saw boar like creature on other side of river, standing there and looking at Dimitry with rage in its eyes. Slowly standing up, he started to look at this creature and after two minutes monster turned around and walked inside of forest. Falling back onto ground, Dimitry taken off his hoodie and shirt which both had small hole in them, looking at his stomach which had a bruise, Dimitry thanked his ¡®Penetration Resistant Skin¡¯ skill and thought about its weakness. Weakness which was he still takes blunt damage form impact. Feeling like with every breath pain just worsened, he concluded that he need to rest. Looking where he can spent time in safety he saw wide tree branch and decided to recover little there. Trying to climb tree with his injury felt like hardest thing he did in years, after successful climb Dimitry arranged some tree branches with leaves so that his visibility was as limited as possible. Putting his back against the tree in most comfortable position possible and looking if he didn¡¯t lost anything from pockets, he checked his phone that was all right, but he lost his keys. Dimitry stated to think about what happened- ¡®I was unable to dodge¡­well not surprising, I never had to dodge in my life at that speeds so that is something understandable¡­but now I need to be able¡­so training¡­not now, that would be stupid with food deficiency, if I start training I will just fasten my metabolism and die of starvation, not to speak of monsters, and injury¡­.now monsters, so I¡¯m definitely not on earth, which means I can use mana here if this world has It, also I¡¯m glad that I didn¡¯t break my bones or got hit in organs, ¡¯ thinking deeply Dimitry focused on that feeling he had when he was ripping his page form ¡®Book of all¡¯ , after few minutes he again started to feel something inside of him. ¡®All those times I tried to use chakra as kid after watching Naruto seems to benefit me here, Now I need some old master who can teach me how to use it¡¯ signed Dimitry, after few minutes of trying to make mana in his body he started to feel light headed. ¡®ohhh¡­ is this injury making me stupid, I forgot that I transformed my blood to mana there, so here I should take mana from environment¡­¡¯ trying to ignore the pain and focusing on meditation and feeling his surrounding Dimitry meditated for one hour until he felt something on his back. Focusing on this feeling he felt cold and refreshing energy circulating in the tree, concluding that it was mana as he remembered Grim Reaper said all living beings and artifacts have mana. Dimitry slowly focused on imagining absorbing that mana, after fifteen minutes he finally noticed as mana form tree is moving into him, after two more minutes he opened his eyes as no more mana was present in tree. Focusing on inside of him he tried to see how much mana he got but what he felt was little to no difference from before even trying. Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon. ¡°Nothing¡­huh¡­Au!¡± remembering pain from bruise after meditation he got an idea, ¡®If mana is energy can it speed up recovery of cells if I supply my mana to them¡¯ focusing on his stomach and place where he felt pain Dimitry tried to condense quantity of mana there. After five minutes of trying he stopped to think about it, ¡®It seems to not help, so just condensing mana will not do anything, except I feel like pain subsided a little¡­, now to think about this rationally, when something condense its becomes harder, then maybe¡­¡± focusing mana on his finger Dimitry lightly taped on tree branch that he was sited on, feeling nothing he this time added more speed to tap, and not feeling any pain this time either, he with great speed thrown his arm with extended winger into tree branch that he sat on. Raising arm he looked at his finger that had no damage, then he looked at were finger connected with tree branch and there was small dimple. Feeling good about his discovery he continued to theorize ¡®So if I condense my mana in my whole body and add that with ¡®Penetration Resistant Skin¡¯ ¡­I need to make my mana tank bigger¡­ now if I remember correctly in Naruto there was guy¡­what was his name¡­Ka-¡­..Kabuto!.....if I remember correctly he could make his hand razor sharp with his chakra¡­.will this work with mana¡­hhhh¡­first mana is energy and energy is in physical realm it can¡¯t be destroyed or created but can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms¡­.if I remember correctly form my physics class¡­ so change form¡­.to cut it needs¡­.Lets think differently, I can control mana with my thought so to cut something I need to condense it and make it thin¡­if I make it thin enough so it can separate molecules apart then there would be nothing I can¡¯t cut, but for this I need to control mana outside my body¡­¡¯ braking little piece of tree branch of four inches in length and clearing few leaves from it, Dimitry putted it in front of him and started to send mana to tree branch. ¡®I¡¯m doing something wrong¡­.and I just realized what it is¡¯ signing Dimitry rubbed his eyes ¡®I feel like idiot¡­ This tree branch is dead, so it can¡¯t circulate mana and sending my mana into it is pointless¡­huh I¡¯m tired¡­. Now to move it I need some sort of wire made of mana¡­.and how should I do it?¡¯ again signed Dimitry ¡®Am I overthinking this,¡¯ picking tree branch and placing it in his hand Dimitry focused on his mana overlapping surface of branch. When he felt that all is done he focused on making mana on one end of tree branch condense into sharp edge, after few moment of exhausted imagination, Dimitry pressed tree branch against branch he was sitting on. Moving it in horizontal motion he saw small line on tree skin, ¡®It¡¯s not really sharp, but progress is progress maybe with practice it will be better¡­Au!¡¯ exhaled painfully Dmitry ¡®With all this I forgot about my injury, now that I moved a little it¡¯s getting more painful¡¯ puling his hoodie up and looking at bruise he again thought ¡®I should focus on this now¡­damn I¡¯m tired and want to sleep¡­ ¡°huu-u¡± exhaled Dimitry ¡®Bruise is ruptured underlying blood vessels, huuhh¡­maybe just like with cutting I should not overthink this¡­.¡± Again getting into meditation like state Dimitry focused his mana in bruise area and thought about it healing him, after ten minutes he concluded its not working ¡®So it¡¯s not as easy¡­if I remember correctly healing is rare gift in a lot of books and stories and healer is usually always needed¡­should have focused more in health and biology classes¡­.now bruises are damaged blood vessels and with that attack from that Monster probably some muscle tissue¡­wait what if I don¡¯t just focus on healing whole bruise but focus on transforming my mana energy into energy that fuels my cells into overdrive and with that my cells will do their job a lot faster,¡¯ thinking about this theory Dimitry again started to meditate and thinking about his mana nourish cells around his bruise. After half an hour Dimitry felt as pain from his bruise is calming down, thinking he got what he wanted to continue to supply his mana to cells. After twenty more minutes he felt as something come from his nose, opening his eyes he saw drop of blood and pass out. ¡°ROOO¡ªooorrr!¡± sounded in middle of night, with wide eyes Dimitry immediately awoke and searched for source of noise, after listening carefully he heard a lot of animals noises he never heard. Looking at his stomach Dimitry saw only slight bruise that seemed to be almost healed, stretching his torso from left to right he was glad pain was gone. Trying to not make any noise he waited for sun to come up as most creatures seemed to be nocturnal here. Not getting any more sleep, Dimitry saw sun getting up as noise of birds started to wake up all Diurnal animals or monsters. Droog ---------------------------- Droog ¡°I¡¯m glad I choose ¡®Penetration Resistant Skin¡¯ skill,¡± with happy eyes Dimitry thought of mosquitoes that couldn¡¯t bite him all night long. Looking at sun that is rising, he thought back on theories he tried to prove while not falling asleep when beasts roomed the night. Turning his phone on and changing time to six am. He powered it off and put it back in his pocket. First, it seems that moving mana in his body without doing anything is not decreasing his mana. Second, if he tries to use mana inside of his body then mana is decreasing two times slower than when he uses it outside, like with tree branch to make it cut something, he tried more and it gets easier and sharper. Third, mana is essential to living being as tree from which he stole mana is now seems to be dying. Fourth, using mana to near deprivation is bad; as it can not only make him pass out but in worse case lead him to death. Arranging his thought and thinking what to do next he felt exhausted ¡®Well not surprising I used near all my mana over this few hours¡¯ thinking back after he regain his consciousness it seems that most of his mana refiled itself automatically. Getting himself in comfortable position with his legs crossed, Dimitry started to meditate, this time he wanted to gain mana form air. After one hour of trying to feel mana in air he finally succeeded in sensing it, not wanting to lose this feeling, he focused on directing mana into his body. Opening his eyes, he could not tell how much time passes, checking his phone he saw that he meditated for two whole hours. Focusing on inside of him he felt as tank where mana is stored is almost full, feeling energized and strong he thought what he should do next. He concluded that he needed water and new shelter as this one was dying, and also he should try to find civilization if one is present here. After five long minutes of looking from tree top and examining if there was any monsters in near area he slowly and quietly descended tree. Not doing the same thing again as last time, he throws a small stick close to a river while hiding behind the tree. After minute of nothing coming out of bushes, he walked to a river and saw clear water with strong current. Sipping little of water, he concluded that in majority its good, not having a means of boiling it, he given up and drank water. ¡°So, following downstream¡­¡± said Dimitry and headed downstream, just as he took two steps he spotted his keys and picked them up. While he was walking he started to feel hunger, and hear slight rumbling in his stomach. Looking at his left he tried to find anything edible, after ten minutes of walking he finally found something. What he found were pink berries growing on small bush, barriers were of unusual shape and had small black dots on them. ¡®Should have been a botanist, but don¡¯t think that would help here¡­poisonous or not...¡¯ looking intensively at berries Dimitry decided to not take a chance. Walking away from bush he continued to walk downstream. After twenty minutes he spotted something drinking water from river in distance. Quietly hiding behind near tree, Dimitry waited for fifteen minutes, after which monster similar in size and shape to a crocodile but with fur and wolf face slowly retrieved to a forest. Waiting for five more minutes Dimitry continued walking, while he walked for ten more minutes he noticed interesting sight. River widened in double here for about ten miters and in middle of river was Small Island or more correctly to say rock with flat surface and one miter wide and five centimeter high form surface water. Noticing this unusual sight Dimitry continued walking while looking for food. ¡°Kiii-iiii!¡± After fifteen minutes of walking he heard high pitch peep. Slowly taking cover and listening to sounds, he concluded that something small is fighting with each other, based on sounds that they produce. Getting out of his cover he walked to a sounds source, because if it¡¯s not big monster then it will not have enough power behind its attack. And with his Penetration Resistant Skin he doesn¡¯t have to fear for sharpness of their teeth or poison that they can carry. ¡°hhiiii¡ªiiiii!¡± ¡°Kiii-iii-¡° ¡°yiiii-iiii¡± Walking closer to noise he now saw two small monsters fighting each other, while biggest one was laying on the ground probably dead. Looking at similarity between dead monster and smaller one that is fighting, they seem to be related. They can best be described as hybrid between squirrel and hamster with tree small horns that curl behind their head; both have white fur with red markings like tattoo. One that was not similar to them was rabbit with two harp teeth too big to fit in its mouth; it had gray fur and black eyes, while being two times bigger than his opponent. ¡°kiiii-iii¡± squealed rabbit like monster and attacked smaller one with both of it paws. But smaller one seemingly with ease avoided attack of bigger monster while dodging from side to side as if predicting were attacks will land. Dimitry looked at this with interesting eyes, as monsters seemed too focused on fight, to notice him. Dodging last attack smaller monster slipped under paw of bigger on and attacked with its head that had three horns that curled to back of its head, not having any penetration attack, this attack did nothing to bigger monster that again attacked. Again looking at dead monster and small brave one that seems to protect it with all it got Dimitry hear again rumbling in his stomach and said- ¡°You are putting a good fight against this bigger one, you know, if I was not hungry I would leave you both to deal with this between each other, but as I am hungry I will have to eat someone,¡± looking at them both that stopped fighting and immediately looked at source of voice. They both turned around and faced Dimitry with fear visible on them as their fur gotten up. Looking at Dimitry eyes that portrait coldness and hunger both monsters took step back. Silence overlapped everything, as they looked at each other. While rabbit like monster looked at Dimitry smaller one took this chance and roamed its head into bigger monster tail. Rabbit like monster started to run at Dimitry from unexpected pain and with its jaw open bitted on his leg. Looking at a rabbit biting his leg, Dimitry slowly stretched his arm into rabbit like monster direction. Wrapping his arm around rabbit neck, Dimitry with momentum pulled rabbit from his leg; only damage that was done was to his jeans. Holding rabbit horizontally to his chest and with stretched arm, Dimitry putted more pressure in his grip. Immediately monster started to waggle and scratch Dimitry arm with its paws, but with no effect it slowly started to struggle less and less. After two minutes Rabbit was now motionless, Dimitry holding onto monster descended his arm in more comfortable position and looked at smaller monster. This entire time smaller monster was looking at this and not moving from his spot at all. ¡®This monster is quite smart, he understood that it could not defeat this bigger one, so it pushed bigger one to attack me by unexpectedly hitting its tail,¡¯ thought Dimitry looking at small monster that looked at him. Walking closer to this monster that not moved from his spot, Dimitry squatted one meter away from him and looked into monster eyes. ¡°¡­.hou¡­¡± said Dimitry quietly seeing intelligence in monster eyes, and that it didn¡¯t moved even millimeter in all this time. ¡°So, you fought to protect it...so no one will eat it,¡± pointing to dead monster that lay on ground Dimitry said, ¡°For this,¡± said Dimitry indicating monster he killed. ¡°I can make a little grave, what do you say¡­¡± not expecting an answer Dimitry expressed, he remembered his parents graves, ¡®I will not be able to visit them now,¡¯ thought Dimitry, it was not because of his parents that he sympathized with this monster, he usually would not do this and would just walk away. But seeing intelligence in eyes that is not supposed to be present there made Dimitry quite interested. ¡°quii-ii¡± weakly squeaked monster moving few inches to a side. Seeing this Dimitry thought ¡®Can he understand what I¡¯m saying?...for now let¡¯s burry this body¡¯ . Putting rabbit monster to a side, Dimitry tore a seven inch wide piece of tree skin and infused mana over it. Focusing on condensing and making front sharp after two minutes he was done, thinking that with practice it¡¯s just getting better he decided to practice every day from now on. Dimitry quickly made a grave and buried the body, placing rock on top of grave. After finishing he looked at small monster that all this time just looked at this from afar and only now has come closer to grave. Putting his small paw onto rock it stayed like that for one minute after which in slowly walked away from grave towards Dimitry. Standing one meter away from Dimitry, small monster now looked at him. Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more.¡®hmmm¡­should I test how intelligent it is..¡¯ thought Dimitry. ¡°Move to a left,¡± said Dimitry, and with wide eyes saw as monster picked itself up and moved few inches to a left and sited again. ¡®This just makes it even more confusing, how he knows what is left¡­.and how can he understand what I¡¯m saying¡­¡¯ thinking deeply Dimitry remembered he had Speak any language skill ¡®But will it allow me speak with animal ?¡¯ ¡°Voice,¡± ordered Dimitry, ¡°Qiii-iiii yii-iii,¡± peep was heard from little monster. ¡®So it is not working,¡­ but if to think logically, language is combination of words and sounds that have meaning, into sentence, and his squeaking probably just represent his emotional state, most likely this monster can speak different way, pheromones or other way that is not restricted by language,¡¯ started to theorize in his mind Dimitry. Coming back to his senses he picked dead monster up, ¡°¡­good luck¡± said Dimitry to a little monster and started to walk away. Getting closer to a river he saw that it is following him, not paying it any attention Dimitry started to walk back from where he came from. After some walking, he finally noticed that small island in middle of river. Looking behind him he saw a little monster is still following him, ¡°You know after this one, when I will get hungry, and you are still around I can eat you,¡± declared Dimitry looking at little monster that seemed to not be fazed by his declaration. Looking at determined eyes of monster Dimitry signed- ¡°Go and bring sticks, and then I will share with you,¡± ordered Dimitry looking as monster started to run in forest. After five minutes monster have gathered little hump of sticks- ¡°Should be enough,¡± said Dimitry picking sticks and placing them under his arm and holding it tight, while holding dead monster in another hand. ¡°Hop on and hold tight,¡± expressed to little monster Dimitry, which monster immediately did, climbing on side of his shoulder and holding to his hoodie. Taking two meters of distance from river, Dimitry focused on supplying his legs with mana, and not forgetting to infuse more mana to muscles and not bones. After he felt that he reached desired effect when he jumped on one spot two times, he with fast running momentum jumped from river side to a rock in middle of river. Cautiously landing onto rock he looked back and saw distance he jumped which was two and half meters. Putting dead monster and sticks on rock surface, he looked around, standing in middle of river about two miters from each side of earth, he concluded that no monster would be able to ambush him here and before it attacks he would notice. Sitting on cold rock, Dimitry felt as little monster jumped off his shoulder and sited beside him on rock, patiently waiting. Arranging sticks to be able to start fire he finally started to think how he should go about making fire- ¡®So, to start fire I need fuel, oxygen and heat, I have fuel which is sticks and oxygen, now I need heat¡­¡¯ opening his eyes wide a maniac grin appeared on Dimitrys¡¯ face. Moving few inches away from Dimitry, little monster looked at Dimitry as his face again changed to his normal, devoid of emotions. ¡®Seeing as mana is energy that is freely controlled by me, if I were to condense pure energy which is mana in particular dense ball, and let it loose wouldn¡¯t that created explosion¡­and if I were to compress even more mana into even smaller ball¡­oh just thinking ¡­that would be similar to a big bomb¡­.wouldn¡¯t it¡¯ ¡®For now should focus on heat for fire,¡­.so heat, to do that I need¡­.wait on Earth there is no mana so fire need fuel, oxygen and heat, but here mana can be fuel and not sticks and for heat I can just¡­.let try¡¯ moving closer to a water, Dimitry extended his arm and hovered it few inches from water. Focusing on creating ball of mana in his hand he felt as mana leave his body, feeling some mana over his hand was progression, as at first he could not control mana outside his body and feel it. Focusing on moving mana inside a ball faster and faster, he set like that for half a minute when he felt heat on his hand. Forcing mana to move faster inside a ball of mana, in second puff of flame appeared and disappeared. ¡®So mana can provide a friction needed for ignition, now I just need to focus on supplying mana all the time for fuel to keep fire going¡¯ slightly smiling Dimitry celebrated him being right again. Focusing again on creating ball of mana and moving mana inside of it was a lot easier than first time, now supplying constant mana as fuel to his fire, Dimitry looked as fire hovered over his hand. Focusing on moving flame Dimitry could not believe how easy it was for him to control flame shape and were it hovered. ¡®Is it because this flame is created out of my mana?¡¯ concluding that as most plausible answer, Dimitry lighted sticks on fire as mana is not unlimited and he needed to be focused all the time for it to work. Silently watching, little monster looked as Dimitry took a keys from his pocket, taking biggest key in comfortable position and surrounding mana over it and making It sharper, Dimitry started to skin the rabbit monster. After somewhat successful removal of fur, Dimitry cut off pieces of meat and placed them on sticks and placed then over flame. ¡®Smell will definitely make some company for us, we need to eat and move quickly,¡¯ waiting for little while as meat almost seemed cooked, Little monster walked closer to a flame and looked at Dimitry. ¡°qii-i,..¡± it looked Dimitry in eyes not blinking. ¡°Want to be first to eat him?¡± ¡°qii-i,¡± it give affirming sound. Taking piece of meat with stick he passed it to little monster, and placed it in front of him. Looking at meat, monster took bite and started to chew, after few moments it started to choke and meat gush out from its mouth. Little monster again took bite and stared to chew this time gulping down meat. With exhausted eyes it moved away from meat and looked at Dimitry. ¡°qiiii-I¡± monster voiced and fallen face down on rock. Looking at him slightly moving from breathing, Dimitry thought that it probably passed out from exhaustion. ¡°I see you hated this guy quite a lot, was he the one responsible for death of your relative, for you not carnivore to eat him and be first to do so, I see you can hold grudge,¡­¡±keeping an eye on monster said Dimitry, ¡®Am I holding grudge against someone¡­oh yes remember now¡­.time sure flies...¡¯ quietly and quickly Dimitry consumed meat while thinking about his past. ¡°¡­I need Ketchup¡± After two minutes Dimitry picked little monster in his hand and with mana infused legs jumped to a river side. Landing safely on ground Dimitry picked pace and with speed left that place- ¡®I left one piece of meat for smell to be focused there, so my smell should be minimal compare to that, now I need shelter¡¯ running downstream Dimitry spotted good place and decided to spend time there. Drugoe Nachalo Give you more content. while I''m banging my head again the wall from all the studying for the exams. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Drugoe Nachalo Again finding a good tree where he can rest, and where he can hide from most eyes. Dimitry climbed a tree and placed himself on biggest branch, catching his breath. ¡®I will need to do more cardio¡­now what do I do with this¡­¡¯ Dimitry looked at sleeping little monster in his hand. ¡®Should I just kill it?¡¯ weighing pros and cons he thought. ¡®It¡¯s unlike me to think so much about not important stuff¡­let¡¯s just go with flow for now¡­¡¯ concluding his thoughts Dimitry looked at sky. He always liked to look at sky, he didn¡¯t know why but he always looked at it. His favorite sky is when it¡¯s just about to rain or before storm, when sky turns dark and colors are not as bright. In time like those he can look at sky for hours. While looking at sky, in corners of his eyes he noticed darkness starts to appear. ¡®It haven¡¯t happened for some time now¡­so I guess it¡¯s to expect¡¯ placing monster that was in his hand far away from him and so it was not in his sight. Dimitry sat again in comfortable position- ¡®While I¡¯m at it, why don¡¯t I acquire more of mana,¡¯ focusing on gathering mana from air, Dimitry dived deeper and deeper into meditation while darkness in his eyes spread and consumed his vision. Opening his eyes, Dimitry looked at sky and saw reddish sun setting down, guessing that about five hours passed while he was in trance he give a sigh. ¡®So about the same amount of time as usually¡­¡¯ trying to remember when it started Dimitry could not come up with an answer. After that accident and after what he saw, he gotten this. Doctors could not particularly help either as they debated with each other over what specifically it was. But majority agreed that it was because of that accident. Doctors were torn because of his symptoms which were, every one or two months Dimitrys¡¯ consciousness would slip into darkness and he would be stationary without doing anything, he would just sit there and don¡¯t do anything. But if someone were to annoy him in that state he would attack that person without caring what happens to them. Because of that he was prescribed a medicine after he almost killed his classmate. Medicine, which he didn¡¯t take, because how could he trust someone with medicine when they didn¡¯t even know what is wrong with him. But after few time getting into that state, Dimitry could guess when it¡¯s about to happen. So he would find place without anyone and stay there for few hours. After doing so few times and after some time, he lied to his doctors saying he have not had those trance like states happen to him anymore, after which he was releases from taking pills and going to hospital. Checking his mana quantity, Dimitry saw that it was full. Stretching from not moving for long time, Dimitry stood on his feet and looked around. He was standing on meter wide branch, close to a river to see it and hidden by other branches so he is not in full view. Going to where he placed little monster, he saw that it was still sleeping form exhaustion. ¡°Rooo¡ªrrooorrr!¡± sounded echo of beast roaring through forest. ¡®Would be wise to wait for morning¡¯ having decided on what to do, Dimitry started to manipulate his mana in various ways as he was not sleepy. ¡®Repetition seems to be a key on improving mana control¡¯ After some time he noticed he was almost out of mana, and felt tired. ¡®So low mana, makes me tired it seems,¡¯ laying in comfortable position, and looking at sky that was almost dark, as sun has completely vanished. Dimitry fell asleep. Did you know this text is from a different site? Read the official version to support the creator.Opening his eyes, he saw little hamster-squirrel and with tree curl horns looking at him. Sitting up from his laying position, he said- ¡°Haven¡¯t run away yet, for some reasons?¡± getting nothing in response, Dimitry looked at ground below. Seeing no monsters he descended tree, and little monster followed him. Throwing stick close to a river he waited for minute while little monster looked at him, after nothing happening he walked to a river. Looking at his reflection, he saw beard starts to grow on his face- ¡®Damn, I hate shaving, but it¡¯s not like I have mean to shave right now, and my mana control is not good enough to make stick sharp as a razor, but its improving quite a lot...¡¯ drinking little of water, Dimitry washed his face and saw as little monster was imitating him. First it drunk water, then with its small wet paws started to rub its face. Looking at this Dimitry turned around and stared walking- ¡°Let¡¯s go,¡± he said and saw as little monster followed him. ¡°I will name you Thor,¡± ¡°qui-i!¡± little monster named Thor gave an approving peep. After walking by familiar looking berries, Dimitry asked Thor ¨C ¡°Are they safe to eat?¡± ¡°qiiu,¡± Thor gave negative peep, while shaking its head from side to side. Walking farther Dimitry saw different colored berries- ¡°Are this safe?¡± ¡°quii-i!¡± Thor gave approving peep. Taking one berry up, Dimitry passed it to Thor- ¡°Here eat first,¡± Thor without hesitation starts eating it, after two minutes of Dimitry looking if anything happens to Thor, decided it¡¯s safe to eat. Picking up berry, Dimitry bites half of it, and start chewing. ¡®It¡¯s sweet¡­too sweet¡­but sugar should help with energy, body needs¡¯ though Dimitry not being fan of anything too sweet. Placing all other berries in his free pocket on hoodie, Dimitry walked downstream, not forgetting to feed Thor who eat berries with happy look. While walking by the river Dimitry had to hide five times from monster who all looked bizarre, except one time when it was just normal bear. All those times he spotted monsters in far distance and took to hiding and waiting for them to leave. But one time when he was walking and decide to rest by tree monster who looked like a wolf walked from near bush. Slowly moving behind a tree, Dimitry, waited for monster to attack, as it was from dog family it got to have good nose. But after monster drunk water it went back to a forest only once glancing in Dimitry direction. ¡®Now this is weird, how could he not smell me so near him, he should be able to find pray in forest not only with his sight. And all those other monsters there should be some that focus on smell¡­¡± getting nowhere with his thoughts, Dimitry decided to continue moving with Thor on his shoulder. After one hour of walking he saw what he have not expected to see in forest. There was a wooden bridge over river. Looking very old but without any rotted wood, which was unusual with so much of moisture. Connecting bridge on both sides was slightly noticeable trail. Coming closer to a bridge Thor started to move a little which was unusual as he never moved on Dimitry shoulder till this moment. Looking at Thor Dimitry saw he was sniffing something in ear, doing the same Dimitry started to notice smell. It was unpleasant smell, and it came from opposite side of river. ¡°Think we should check it out?¡± ¡°Quiiiu,¡± Thor undecidedly voiced. Picking up flat rock on ground, Dimitry took pen out of his pocket and draw small dot on it. ¡°If its dot side up we are going to check where this smell comes form, if its other side we are going opposite direction,¡± flipping rock in the air, Dimitry extended arm to catch it. After rock successfully landed in his hand Dimitry and Thor looked at it. There was nothing drawn on rock. ¡°Let¡¯s go check the smell,¡± said Dimitry to a Thor ¡°qii-e?¡± confusedly voiced Thor. ¡°I don''t like to trust someone, even if it¡¯s Fate, or random chance¡± said Dimitry walking closer to a bridge. After few seconds of standing there he walked onto bridge. Successfully crossing it he was now on opposite side of river, and smell only worsened. Encounter After finishing my two exams i feel violated in more than one way, still few more exams to go... :( --------------------------------------------------------------- Encounter Walking closer to a smell, Thor on Dimitry shoulder started to make low growling sounds and after few seconds stopped, and stayed silent as if mentally fighting something. Dimitry cautiously walked staying as quite as possible. After few more steps he saw bloody scene if front of him. Intestines covered majority of land, with body parts lying sparsely, blood was sprayed everywhere, and rotten metallic smell was hammering insides of his throat. Only few bodies seemed to be in decent shaped with one of them having great sword sticking up his belly pierced into land. Other body with a two arrow one in his shoulder and another one in his leg, he was seated by a small wagon with dead horse still connected to wagon. Taking a long moment looking at this scene, Dimitry not being used to seeing this took four small breaths and his face hardened. He walked closer to a wagon, trying to see if there is something that can be useful to him. While walking he stepped on someone¡¯s organs and they made a mushy sound, feeling as his stomach tensed he restrained vomit from going to his throat. ¡®Should I now¡­ get used to this¡¯ Looking at grotesque scene in front of him, he stayed like that until he got used to the smell and what he saw, Dimitry always thought that he was good at adapting quickly. Now without any feeling of nausea Dimitry walked up to a wagon, and noticed that Thor was as silent as ever not even moving for millimeter. Being meter from body impaled with two arrows Dimitry saw that man was still breathing. This man had a short red hair, amazing muscles; he wore what seemed to be a heavily destroyed warrior outfit, with breast plates and metal covering weakest body parts while being covered in blood. ¡®First alive human that I meet in this world¡­.should I help him¡­¡¯ Feeling like he decided what to do, Dimitry went closer to a tree and found stick, while returning to an injured man on his way he saw broken bottle with red liquid inside only having little bit as rest was gone because of cracks on bottle, Dimitry went to injured man and started to poke him with stick. ¡®Seems like not enough,¡¯ With stick he started to slap injured man on his cheeks, after five times it seemed to have affect as injured man started to make a painful sound- ¡°Aaa-a..!¡± man painfully gasped. Opening his eyes he saw Dimitry looking at him with cold eyes- ¡°Ha-ha so you finally came¡­ for my soul, just know¡­¡± injured man started to talk and look at sky at which point Dimitry slapped him again with stick, ¡°Hey! What that¡¯s for ¨C cough! ¨C Aaa-a!...¡± injured man started to yell but ended up grimacing form pain. ¡°You just seemed to go somewhere far¡­ stay focused¡­ I¡¯m not here for your soul¡­¡± Answered Dimitry ¡°I see¡­ I¡¯m not dead yet,¡± injured man said to himself, to which Dimitry just nodded his head once. ¡°Who are you and what you are doing in this place, we are right now in east side of Kangest forest, this place is avoided¡­¡± injured man inquired. ¡°I got lost, as you can see from my clothes; I¡¯m not from these places¡± answered Dimitry, ¡°Indeed, I have never seen clothes like those¡­if you are lost here, then you came from east side of forest as its closes to border of this nation, but there is vast sea¡­¡± ¡°We got in ship shipwreck and I was only survivor,¡± Dimirty said flatly not even bothering to sound emotional. Injured man just stared at Dimitry and then noticed what was on Dimitry shoulder. With eyes that almost popped out of his eyes socket- ¡°That!...That is Tigono isn¡¯t it!¡± yelled injured man forgetting about his injury and again letting painful groan. Dimitry looked at Thor and then on injured man- ¡°Is this monster special?¡± asked Dimitry ¡°Of course Dude, every adventurer memorized its looks in hope of finding one, but you have better chance of becoming royal guard than finding one, Tigono are sought after scholars and magician, they fetch unimaginable price if you were to sell them!¡± injured man explained greedily. ¡®I see rare monster, but why they want it, will have to ask little later right now need¡­.¡¯ Thought Dimitry. ¡°So, how is your condition,¡± asked Dimitry, looking at two arrows sticking out of man. ¡°Now when you reminded me about it, pain started to worsen¡­¡± exhaustively stated injured man. ¡°Can¡¯t you heal yourself?¡± ¡°Ha- I wish, I¡¯m not a healer as you can see...and if I remember correctly last heath potion bottle have broken during that fucking trap attack, at least I took all of them down with me!¡± with rage bellowed warrior. Royal Road is the home of this novel. Visit there to read the original and support the author. ¡®Health potion, that is interesting, ¡­now I will not be able to heal him with my mana manipulation as I had hard time with only bruise, for now I don¡¯t have enough mana to heal him and not to speak manipulate mana outside my body which is harder than on inside¡­¡¯ thinking deeply Dimitry looked at injured man and said. ¡°I will help you, and in return I want¡­¡± said Dimitry living pause before continuing. Injured man looked at Dimitry and saw his cold eyes intensively staring at him, after minute of silent staring injured man said- ¡°I¡¯m not into man,¡± at which Dimitry smacked him again, ¡°You are lucky I can¡¯t move¡­if I could I would!¡± as injured man tried to frighten Dimitry he got again smacked with stick. ¡°I mean information,¡± ¡°¡­I see¡­I indeed don¡¯t want to die, but what information do you want¡­so you know I will not share information on how to charm ladies¡± injured man kept spouting nonsense, at which Dimitry smacked him again. ¡°WhA- the Fuck! MAN!¡± yelled man again painfully exhaling after he moved slightly and his wounds seemed to cause immense pain. ¡°Stay focused,¡± coldly said Dimitry, ¡°Damn, I¡¯m injured do you have no pity!¡± voiced painfully warrior, ¡°I lost it long ago, so what you say, information I want is everything conserving life here and don¡¯t worry I don¡¯t want any politic or warfare secrets,¡± answered Dimitry asking. ¡°Fine, I don¡¯t want to die¡­but on condition that you don¡¯t touch or open black wooden box back at cart as it is my mission to deliver it,¡± agreed injured warrior. ¡°That is deal then,¡± said Dimitry, remembering broken bottle with red liquid. ¡°Is health potion red in color and is stored in bottle?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°yes,¡± answered injured man. Straitening himself up, Dimitry walked to where he saw broken battle and asked- ¡°Come to think, why is there no monsters here, it¡¯s just like open restaurant for them here?¡± ¡°It¡¯s all because of mana stone that fends of monsters, if not that I would be long dead¡­¡±answered injured man. ¡°How does it work?¡± asked Dimitry. ¡°Dunno about all the details¡­¡± was an answer ¡°So I got myself meathead¡­¡± sighed Dimitry, now knowing that this man will not be able to answer all his question regarding most difficult questions. ¡°Hey, I¡¯m warrior not mage or scholar, all I know is that its somehow influences monster¡¯s instincts tricking them on not to come near stone,¡± answered injured man. ¡®That is interesting¡­now to think about it¡­¡¯ Dimitry looked at Thor on his shoulder ¡®This little guy has been super quiet was it because its fighting his instincts¡¯ Walking closer to a broken bottle, Dimitry picked it up trying to not spill anything of what was left, carefully walking back to an injured man, Dimitry showed him bottle. ¡°There is little to nothing left, it will have little affect¡­¡± dejectedly said man. ¡°Well better than nothing,¡± said Dimitry, carefully placing it on ground farther from them. Then he placed his hand on injured man armor trying to take it off- ¡°¡­what are you doing, as I said I¡¯m not into-¡± before injured man could finish Dimitry grabbed arrow and broke it, to which injured man painfully grinded his teeth. ¡°I need to take them out first,¡± said Dimitry and with force ripped piece of already broken armor off, while injured man gave even more painful growl. Now being able to take whole arrow out, Dimity did so, while injured warrior grinded his teeth from the pain. Moving to a leg Dimitry with yank pulled whole arrow out, to which injured man passed out from the constant pain and exhaustion. ¡®¡­now this is problematic¡­he will bleed to death if he doesn¡¯t drink health potion now¡­¡¯ Dimitry started to slap inured man on face but it seemed to hold no affect. ¡®¡­.I will have to wash my mouth with bleach later¡­.¡¯ painfully sighing, Dimitry took all health potion in his mouth and delivered in into injured man mouth. Standing up fast, Dimitry went to a river and washed his mouth for five minutes, while Thor started to move on his shoulder. ¡°Don¡¯t like that stone?¡± asked Dimitry, ¡°quii-ii!¡± Thor gave affirmative peep. ¡°Well it will save us in this forest, so hold on,¡± said Dimitry to which Thor nodded his head. ¡°Would be useful if I had more skill, superior healing seems like good one¡­¡±said Dimitry, while Thor give questioning peep. ¡°But you know¡­ I felt like if I chose other choice I would not be able to escape,¡± continued Dimitry, while Thor looked at him not knowing what he meant. Turning around Dimitry walked back to where smell originated. Sorry---- \(-)/ Following month break from college and holidays i took some time off writing, and now i can''t really write. Something alongside even if i write it somehow seems too dull and boring, and not as i want it to be. SO to not write something i don''t want i will put this story on hiatus, until i feel like i gotten better and can write it. And to get better i need to write so i will start a new story, following that story i will learn and experiment on my writing problem. Sorry for all who wanted to see how this story was going to progress. Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings. My new story is called ''Bloody Luck'' Again sorry (. .) *bows head*