Alrighty… I need a plan, and to have a plan, I need to know what's goin' on outside of here. To do that, I'll have to use Mana sense! Well, it's always on, but they're all too far away for me to sense them. So, if I add mana to the skill, it can sense farther than it normally can. I'll have to trade in my precious Hp to use it at a farther range, though.
From some experiments, I've done before, and a lot of appraisal-ing, I've learned that Mana sense uses 1 Mana per five seconds it's on as an active skill, and Hp converted into Mana, equals 5 Mana. So, per one Hp I lose, I'll get 25 seconds of 'Mana Sense+'!
Now, to test it out… Oh, by the way, I use Gluttony to manually convert Hp into Mana. By using it to consume my Hp, I can convert it into Mana inside of me, and then boom! Mana. That's the only loophole of having no Mana I've found so far.
Okay, for real this time, time to test it out! I activate Gluttony, consuming some of my Hp-- Ow! That hurt, but now's not the perfect time for whining. I convert it! ooh-- holy shit, that feels weird. It's like having air going throughout my body… kinda. Now, I concentrate on using that Mana on Mana Sense… And here we go!
Oh, oh no, that's bad. There's like, fifteen of them. I was expecting like... five of them? Seriously, it's one wagon! This is so bad...
"All of you! Come out with all your shit and we'll make sure your death isn't too painful!"
Oooh… That's worse.
I whisper something to Ai, "We're gonna listen to them for now, okay?"
She nods.
Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking, but I have a plan. You'll see it in action soon… If everything goes well.
Alright, I've deactivated Mana Sense+ for now, but I still have some Mana reserves left from my Hp, three Mana, to be exact. So that's 15 seconds of that. With that, I can pretty much predict their moves. People usually make small indications before they move, a twitch in the body is a pretty good indication. But eyes can also signal movement. How do I know this? Well, I got bored one day when I was still human. Now, since I'm closer to them all, I don't need to use Mana Sense+ to see them, regular Mana Sense will do.
"Eh? It's just a couple of kids… Hey! Driver, are these seriously the people you're driving…? Eh-- He fainted."
Huh, he fainte-- D i d h e j u s t c a l l m e a k i d ? ALRIGHT! SCREW THE PLAN, I'M MESSING THESE GUYS UP! I begin charging up Demon Lizard Breath in my mouth… It won't kill them, but it'll definitely do some damage... I think-- Thank god for Body Manipulation or using it in this form wouldn't be possible.
"Oh, who cares. Take whatever he has on him, guys. Now you two… It'd be stupid to just steal whatever you have, could sell you two for a pretty penny. One's a girl and the other-- You know, I can't really tell! Why don't you take off your hood, kid?"
You can't tell? YOU CAN'T TELL?! HAVE YOU EVEN SEEN MY SUPER MASCULINE BODY? MY SUPER MANLY LOOKS?! HOW DARE YOU! A-ahem, Heh-heh. You won't be so cocky when I give you 100th-degree burns! That's not a thing, I know, shut it--
"Or do I gotta for you?" And he reaches to grab my hood-- Oh get your grubby little hands away from me! Of course, I grab his hands… AND RELEASE ALL THE BUILT-UP SMOKE AND FIRE IN MY BODY! MWAHAHAHAHA! YES! YES! BURNNNNNNN!
I jump back after, 'cause I knew that wouldn't take all of them out commission. I didn't really, actually try to kill anybody though. Sure, that's gonna do lotta damage, but I weakened the flame, so it's mostly just smoke. A lot of smoke. And you know what? I've got a name for that move! Smoke Hurricane! Look, I'm not great at naming stuff.
Now, I transform into my Ice wolf form before the smoke clears up. Now, while they can't see, I can see perfectly fine thanks to Mana sense! I'm also gonna be the first to admit I'm not that strong, so I've gotta make up for it with my forms. And at the moment, Ice wolf is the very strongest of them! With stats over 30, it way surpasses me! Now, if I combine the agility stat of the Ice Wolf at 45, combined with the skill Gust, which creates a gust of wind, I can move super fast!
I haven't needed to use them since they're better against multiple enemies at the same time, but now seems like a great time!
The smokes still up! Now's the perfect time! I activate Gust behind me-- AND HOLY SHIT, THAT'S FAST!
Anddd, I ran into someone-- I guess it kinda worked then. Hehe, I'm basically a giant,` slower, less efficient bullet!
Now… I aim myself toward someone again… AND FIRE! I activate Gust again and run towards them! Boom! And the ball's out of the park! The ball being one of the bandits. Now rinse and repeat until the smoke clears up…
And so I did. I mean, it's not like any of those bandits could see me. That was a bit monotonous, but it's not like any of them are super trained! They're just bandits after all… I didn't level up, so I didn't kill any of them. We should get out of here quickly, I guess.
"Hey, Ai, go wake up the carriage driver. It'd suck if any more appeared..."
Now, onto what I wanna do! Stea-- I mean, kindly borrow their stuff for the rest of time. Look, they're the ones who wanted to do the same to us! Sooo, is it really unfair if I do the same to them? That's right, it's not! So, who cares if it's somewhat wrong.
Alright! Let's see what they all had on them! How about the leader, first! I reach into his pockets and-- Wha-- What the?!