Chapter 16: Chapter 15

Mana Hearts

When mana organisms die, the accumulated mana is freed, heightening the mana density of the surroundings. When organisms level 25 or higher die the mana forms a mana heart, containing some of the accumulated mana of the organism. The form of the heart is unique to the species of the organism.

 

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While Alyra had wandered off to get them clothes Argul tried to teach Fia mana manipulation. She did so in a very scientific way which, while easy to understand, still made Fia question if magic shouldn’t be more magical. Argul had just said that the more complicated technology is the more magical it is, so why should mana usage be any different.

 

What Argul did not know was that because of her existence as mana core her version of mana manipulation was so advanced, it would still take sapients a few hundred years to learn. It took Fia a bit until she learned sense mana, before Argul actually let her try learning mana manipulation, which in turn netted her a surprise.

 

You created the skill teaching!

You have taught a student an incredibly advanced way of sense mana. This skill will help you to give your knowledge to others and find better ways to teach.

 

“I might have just taught you something incredible…” Argul’s sense of normal was a bit screwed by having no one to compare herself to.

“The skill does say it isn’t supposed to be passive immediately. You really need some contact with others, Arg.” Arg had become the nickname for Argul since Fia had used it once. Argul didn’t mind as long as people wouldn’t pull arrgh-jokes on her. Alyra had already tried once and it had netted her a tickle attack.

 

They had traveled about three kilometers away from the portal. Alyra said it was south, but Argul had no idea. The level 1 mana zone had grown to an estimated 10km radius since the portal opened and would grow slower with time as long as Argul didn’t get anymore wisdom. Identify hadn’t been useful because all the plants were technically unknown.

 

Fia and Argul looked up when they heard Alyra walk around their bush barrier. She carried a little boy with her mouth, but the two weren’t worried as there was no blood anywhere. Alyra also seemed a little amused so Argul could guess he had fainted once he saw her or she started speaking.

 

Alyra approached their makeshift camp and laid down the boy, before she looked at the two naked girls again.

“He has your clothes. I would call them fur, but oh well. Also while he looks like a kid he became a Halfling and is 19. Just saying if you want to avoid annoying him or want to do it extra like me.” Alyra smirked. The poor boy would be surrounded by rather tall people.

 

Argul could only shake her head at Alyra’s remark. She looked at the boy and the fur pieces he had bound around his torso. That didn’t look too promising. She looked pleading at Fia, who just shrugged and took three of the pieces of fur.

 

Algur sighed and looked at the pieces left for her. After asking Alyra she now knew that you could roughly describe them as boyshorts, a breast band and a short cloak that also covered your shoulders.

 

She put on the boyshorts and a problem immediately became apparent. These shorts were not made with her hip in mind and they were tight. They were certainly not made to hold a penis of Argul’s dimensions and she had to try a bit before she managed to hide that part of her body at least a bit. Her tail was actually not that much of a problem as the shorts ended where it was connected to her body. Argul had the same size-problem with her breast band. It was definitely not comfortable but in her opinion better than wearing nothing. She threw over her cape and turned around to look at Fia.

 

Fia had already been done. She was holding her cape, as it was uncomfortable to wear with her wings. They were also a bit in the way for the breast band, but Fia had to live with it for now. Her shorts were a bit loose, but everything else fit her rather well. She still looked like a model that tried out the new caveman-fantasy-look and it had a certain charm to it. For Argul it was better, as despite being stunning it made looking at her easier .

 

When Fia looked at Argul though, she bit her bottom lip. Argul’s clothes were just so tight, they hid her assets, but showed enough of them to make you want to reveal them and it did not help Fia not to stare. On the contrary, Fia wanted to stare even more. It actually hid Agur’s cock rather well, at least as long as you didn’t know there was one. If you knew though, you also looked for it and you would find it.

 

Fia got red again and turned away. It took her a lot to do that too. Argul looked down at herself and saw the way the fur strained and how certain parts bulged out a bit from under the fur. She sighed, operation ‘clothes’ was definitely not over, no matter what her quest said.

 

Quest completed: Clothes!!!!!!!!!!

While you now look more like someone who desperately wants to get laid, you at least have something to cover your private parts. May you enjoy your trip to society! Int +1 (=+1 Int; +1 Wil for Avatar)

 

They still had to wait for the boy to wake up, so Argul just gave up, threw her arms in the air and flopped down to the ground to just sit there. She did all that in a boyish way. 

 

Argul had also managed to do all that in a way that still made it look beautiful. Alyra had to laugh again, as you couldn’t hide things related to the system and Argul just created a skill she wanted to lose even before she got it. Fia was left looking confused at a laughing and then mad grinning Alyra, who sent her a message which made Fia hide her own grin behind her hand.

 

Skill created: curse of arousing beautie (l)

No matter what you do, how you do it and how you look like you look beautiful while doing it and for those able to mate with you, arousingly so.

 

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Argul buried her face in her hands. The skill didn’t really change the way she looked or acted. It infused the mana in her surroundings with the intent to make her look like the skill describes. That is how curses worked and for Argul it now leads to the creation of small unnoticeable illusions that would make her look more harmless, arousing and especially beautiful.

Those with a strong enough mana sense such as Alyra, Fia and Argul could look through such illusions and even ignore them, but the same could not be said for more normal persons.

 

Aina jumped into Argul’s lap and pressed itself against her belly, trying to comfort Argul. It could only see mana, so nothing much had changed for it. Argul hugged Aina again - who was somewhat disappointed by the fur that denied it glorious heaven - and thanked her for her support in silent whispers. It was easier for Argul to address Aina as female, so that's what Aina was for her even though she knew Aina didn’t have a gender.

 

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Arthur opened his eyes looking at the most stunningly beautiful and arousing woman he had ever seen. Actually make that two as he now also saw Fia. He was so fascinated by what he saw that he didn’t notice the non-human parts on them at first. Once he saw them though, he remembered a certain white fox and immediately was on the lookout for it.

 

It sat behind him looking down at him with a raised eyebrow. Arthur hadn’t even known that foxes could raise their eyebrows. Maybe this one was as special as it looked. He opened his mouth to make a sound and closed it again before something could come out.

 

He looked back at the two women and opened his mouth again only to close it the moment he realized that they were wearing the clothes he had brought with him. It was just too much for him, so he closed his eyes again hoping to wake up from this weird dream.

 

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Argul could hear Alyra chuckle again.

“Well won’t you introduce yourself, little one?” Alyra made it sound like she was some old and wise spirit beast. For Argul it just meant the boy woke up, so she looked at him.

The boy set himself upright and looked at the three for a few seconds before he managed to get out a word.

“Arthur, Arthur Hunter is my name.” Arthur said somewhat palely.

Alyra looked pointedly at Fia who sighed and introduced herself next.

“Fia, thanks for the clothes.”

“I’m Argul, also thanks for the clothes. The annoying fur mountain behind you is my adopted daughter Alyra, so you can stop being afraid.” They had decided to only tell their first names, as Fia having the name of the universe would raise suspicion. 

Alyra pouted, or at least tried to and pointed at her mom with one paw. “You destroyed the whole atmosphere mom. Shame on you for not letting your daughter have some fun! The slime in my mom's lap is Aina, it’s a pet.” The last part she said more for Arthur than anyone else.

 

Arthur was unsure of the situation, so he put some distance between himself and the trio of not-humans and asked some things he wanted to know.

“How did you know where to wait for me?”

Argul spoke up this time. “We had to leave all our stuff including our clothes behind to run away from a group of man that wanted to rape us. Then that weird message appeared about the universe and we decided to ally ourselves with it. The next night we woke up with a weird system and I got a quest to wait somewhere around here.”

 

Argul was a bad liar and Arthur noticed immediately, which actually made him trust them more. They had secrets they didn’t want to have spread and didn’t just tell him, so they at least hadn’t planned to kill him for now. The talking fox had certainly not helped Argul’s lie.

“So where did you come from? Alyra said you looked as if the devil himself was hunting you.” Fia tried to save the flow of the conversation.

“There had been a village a bit south of here, but I was the only one who didn’t choose to fight the universe. All the others turned into monsters and fought themselves. I ran away when something ogre-like appeared.” Arthur explained only the necessary. After that they all got a new quest.

 

New Quest: What remains

The members of your former species had been given a choice, a choice that has already produced many casualties and will continue to do so as the level 1 mana zone spreads. Gather at least 50 survivors and build a base of operation from where you can send out relief squads.

 

• There is a small settlement 15km west of you that will be integrated in about 5 hours.

 

 

They didn’t all get the same quest, but the intent behind it was the same for all of them.

 

“You all got the same quest?” Arthur asked and got a “Yup”, by all three of them. He shrugged and thought why not, it wasn’t as if he had something more important to do right now

 

They looked at each other again, coming to a silent conclusion and Alyra took the lead. To the west!

 

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