Chapter 13: Fire at will

"Hold it! I'll return it back to you right now little girl", he then stretches his hand out and a dark purple light envelopes me. It was warm and familiar. When it subsides the old man is smiling at me.

"Now that's a lot of mana even for me", I feel weak from the sudden loss and gain in my mana and I start shivering and collapse to my knees.

"What...did you do to me?", I could cast a spell, but with all this fatigue it would only be one.

"It was the only way to weaken you for a talk", he walks toward me and supports me. I couldn't fight him even if I wanted to.

"What happened to starting a normal conversation?" I counter. There's no logical reasoning for such measures.

"We've been watching you since you came to this town and based on your behavior, you would probably ignore or fight those who tried to learn more about you", at this point I'm feeling pain all over my body as my adrenaline wore off. I cry out at the ridiculous amount of pain. The man, clearly not expecting this, looses his grip on me, and I collapse to the ground.

I look at my hands to find they are glowing an ominous red color.

"I didn't mean for that to happen", the man says looking worried.

Abnormal Status Gained: Damaged Mana Links

Host will now experience pain when casting spells. Mana Capacity is now reduced by half.

"Well, now I have a reason to kill you", I say coldly. Ignoring the pain as more adrenaline pumps into my body from my fury fills me.

"We can get someone to fix you as long as they aren't shattered", he hurriedly backs away from me.

"Oh? So you can tell me who I can see then I'll let you die a merciful death", the guards who were originally going to help seem to turn and run in fear of the aura I was giving off.

"Calm down. Even if you are powerful, your mana capacity should be halved if they're damaged" Is he trying to convince me that I'm powerless?

"Who said I was going to use magic?" Instantly I close the distance while at the same time making titanium reinforced gauntlets for my hands. I smash my fist into his stomach, sending him flying.

When he lands he coughs up blood. Oh I ruptured something? Now your on a timer buddy. I smile and dash toward him but, just before I make make contact a familiar hammer slams into my gauntlet to throwing me backwards. Hammer dude has joined the fight huh? Let me show you how useless that hammer is. I focus and change it's atomic structure to that of glass. I then charge at him and shatter it when it makes contact with my fist again.

Stunned, hammer dude jumps back. 

"How?!" He shouts in frustration.

"I'd rather just kill one person today so if you don't wanna die, see your way out of this fight", I warn him.

"Go", the old man says. Hammer dude hesitates then runs back toward the gate. 

I cough up some blood those two spells are taking a toll on me.

"If you keep going you'll shatter your links and there's no going back from that", I just laugh at him.

"All abnormal Statuses can be cured. The system told me that and, well, that includes shattered links", I asked the system many questions in the past. It would probably ignore me if it was a person. As long as the question was related to the status screen it would answer you. Sometimes the answer was vague though.

"Sure but no one has done it before", he tries to counter. 

"Don't worry I'm done using magic. I'll just kill you with my bare hands", before I can dash toward him again I feel a searing pain in my right leg. I look down just in time to see it slide from it's ligaments. I fall to the ground screaming.

I then look back at the old man to see another one who looks similar standing next to him. They might be brothers. He's holding a sword. Presumedly, the one he cut my leg with. I'm fearful now. I didn't even feel his presence. I had kept my ears out but still couldn't detect him.

"This is going to hurt like hell but, it's my only chance to escape this alive", I mutter to myself. Prosthetics were still mediocre in my world ,but this world is probably different. I close my eyes with the image in mind. 

A metal leg begins to form where my leg was before. I can feel the very nerves attach to it. It takes all my focus and will power to not scream in pain again. It eventually stops. I look down to see a shiny silver leg there. Weirdly though, it's turning my skin color.

Hidden Skill obtained: Iron Body

Iron body: The user is so indepth with the earth element that thier very body is harder than steel.

I smile to myself. My leg still has blood where it was cut but it doesn't hurt anymore. I pull out my bow and jump back.

The new guy is completely flabbergasted at what I just did.

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"What the hell did you just do? Was that high level regeneration?" Hes asking me questions. Too late for that buddy.

"A magician never reveals her secrets", I say back. I nock three arrows and fire. He blocks them with some kind of barrier.

"I told you I was going to handle this by myself. She's trying to kill us now", the new guy says to the other man.

"She reminds me of us back in the day. She seems to only know how to settle things with force", he counters.

"She's much stronger than we were at her age" he then dashes towards me.

"Forget this", I can't use my magic effectively and my body is fatigued. I need to repair myself before I kill these two. I know when I'm beaten. I dash toward the forest at my blinding speed.

"Where do you think you're going?" a familiar female voice calls. I slam into a barrier right before entering the forest. It's a three versus one now.

I turn around to see the woman, presumedly Beatrice, standing beside the two men. 

"You've backed me into a corner. Don't blame me for what happens next", I'm going to release all my mana in one attack then escape. I start by creating a tungsten barrier around myself. I begin to gather all the mana inside me.

"She's doing something dangerous" the man with sword says. He slams the sword into the barrier. The metal box that stopped hammer boy has made an appearance.

These people have shown me that I'm unwanted and tried to kill me. I'll return the kindness one hundred fold.

"Stop, please! I promise they aren't trying to hurt you just come out and talk to them", the voice isn't coming from outside. It's like it's playing in my mind. It's unfamiliar so it's probably another person who joined the fight. Perhaps they are capable of telepathy?

"I'm not an idiot I will be killed if I step out of this box I'll be torn to shreds", still continuing to cast this city destroying spell.

"Then you leave me with no choice", suddenly a large green light appears beside me.

"I don't care about your choices", reacting quickly I cover the inside with fire.

Whatever it is, it's unfazed and flicks the fire away.

"Guess I'll fire this a little early then", I release the spell.

"Noo!" Whatever it was shouts. I hear the shaking outside my tungsten box. I immediately dispell the box making a break for the forest without looking back at the devastion I probably just caused.

 

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