when Qu woke up her system sat before her eyes
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"due to the frequent amount of times you have been damaged an analysis of your physical body and mana has been taken into account to create a new piece of information.
I am proud to announce the 'health bar', this will give you a rough estimation of your life, if this reaches 0 it is safe to say your dead"
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After reading this helpful update, Qu chose to ignore the sudden sentience her system seemed to have gained and checked just how much health she had. At this moment in time she had a total of 200 health. After checking this Qu stood up and went to transform into her fire elemental human, after doing so to her surprise there was another system update.
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"Due to frequent amount of battles taken place i have also developed a damage indicator, this will allow you to see how much damage has been dealt to a person so that you can accurately gauge how much damage you are doing in comparient to the creatures health"
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Qu read through the alert and did a few stretches afterwords, it did seem useful what the system was telling her but its effectiveness would only be shown during battle. After a few warm up stretches she tried to test something she did when she first discovered the earth mage, as she stood there she tried to feel and detect the mana in the area, eventually she was able to do so and could feel the fluctuating mana in the area and the surprising amount of fire mana congregating around her. After doing so she got a message telling her that she unlocked an ability called mana sense which also seemed to be useful. But something else that was weird was the sheer amount of different mana types, if it wasn't for how dull they were it would be overwhelming, it also seemed as if an infinite around around her at all times. After thinking about this she remembered the message the system gave her when she got her elemental human, it being that there was practically an infinite amount of magics in the world. which then only made her wonder the sheer amount of different mages there were and the capabilities of each and every one of them.
After idling around for so long Qu chose to start heading off to find some things to hunt and possibly consume for new forms. As she trekked through the forest she allowed herself to truly appreciate the senses she now has, taking in the sounds of the wind rustling the wind, the smell of damp dirt in the air and the feel of the dirt creeping her way between her toes. It was so much worst being caged and unable to perceive the world, be that through captivity or the lack of perception when she was a grey ooze. Another thing she noticed as well was that as she developed and grew stronger, she grew to be more like the species she was copying. Her body actually had proper texture and the same properties the real ones had, she first noticed this when she was a dire rat and her tears actually absorbed into the fur, she also felt as if real blood was starting to develop and proper muscle was being made. It seemed as time went on she would develop more into these bodies and grow closer to anything she changed to. She would no longer be a ooze copying something, but rather she would be the thing.
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keno awoke, he manipulated the loose dirt for a door and smoothed it away. Once he crawled out of his teepee he spent his time to remove and smooth it all out to allow others to camp here without his dirt teepee being in the way, he then opened up his backpack and pulled out a bit of jerky and ate it for breakfast. Once he was done with this he then continued on his trail after his brother, although now the mana trial he was following was significantly weaker than it was before. At times it was so weak he lost the trial and had to wander around until he found the trial where it left off.
As he continued to walk along his brothers trial the strange mana he felt before felt a little clearer, perhap if he went the night before he could have probably figured out what type of element it was or at the very least what type of class the element would fall under, like if it was metal which would fall under earth attunement. But at the very least the weird mana trail seemed to be going in the general same direction to his brothers, it was possible that the archer of the group his brother would hang out with may have been with his brother hunting some sort of elemental animal or beast. This brought him to the conclusion that the beast that the archer described must have been nothing more than that of a elemental animal, and the archer chewed more than he could swallow. So it must make sense that his brother was still tracking the animal and was going to bring it back to ensure that his family would eat and live for a little while without worry.
But to stop this train of thought he finally saw something more than a bit of mana trial but rather some faint footprints and something better yet, a set of what seemed to be deer tracks, which seemed to be exactly what they were hunting a elemental attuned deer. Zenos heart sped up after learning this as it meant that his brother truly was hunting this deer and if he was to help his brother, he may even be able to get a share of the spoils from it to allow his magic advancement or even get a fire crstal from it and be one of the very rare lucky few to get two different magic attunements or from the rumours he heard even get a combination and develop his earth to magma through the combination of fire and earth. And then finally he would be able to outshine his brother or at the very least be on the same playing field as his brother.
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After walking around for a long time Qu was finally able to find something to hunt, she found a rabbit. The rabbit had white fur but with the slightest hint of the lightest blue, but before Qu could see anything else about the rabbit it ran with incredible speed out of her sight. But luckily it left very clear tracks which allowed for her to easily track the rabbit, she continued to follow the tracks it made until she found it in a clearing eating at the roots of a large tree. While she had the opportunity she slowly activated her flames allowing them to feed all the way up to her knuckles, she then activated her dream venom causing her flames to change to a dark green colour.
Once she finished doing so she slowly crept up on the bunny on all fours, once close she slowed down further and poised herself to strike and then just as the bunny went to bite into the root again Qu grabbed it by the neck and snapped it quickly before it could begin to struggle.