Lil announcement, I will be working on a second book soon when I get more time. I have an absolutely amazing idea for a golem instead of a fleshy thingy and with that book, I may start going into the 18+ territory.
But that's for then as I don't want to mess anything up by adding such a scene here with my sharky boi.
*back to said sharky boi*
When I hear him say the words "if he becomes leader a strong female will challenge him and he will lose" it nearly sends me into a rage. I was ready to yell at him with the rage of a burning fire but I can't as my endurance and conviction is what's gonna keep me alive as I have no such ability or I proficiency to help me. I will just prove the guy wrong at the arena.
After he says this, my sister was ready to burst as well. Her mana is all over the place, she has zero control right now and a single mistake or instigation will set her off. Time to defuse the situation the best I can right now.
"S-sister, let's go. I am tired from the running and the swim here" I say to her, in hopes to diffuse her.
"Ok let's go, it's a good time to rest anyway." She says and we leave the "living room?" A moment of swimming later and I use my memory to see if I can locate my room or "bedding chamber" as it's called down here.
"Hey brother, would you be interested in sleeping in my bedding chambers tonight? It's been too long since we slept together." She said it slowly as to not forget or miss any details.
"Sure, I would like to" I want to see if I can see her stats. Maybe in her sleep. Though I have no interest in anything weird, I don't want to even attempt anything as I was from Alabama before I died and those jokes are very old to me.
We both head into what I believe is her bedding chambers as I feel warmer, which makes me believe that these chambers are mainly near or in vents from the bottom of the ocean.
I keep following her on some sort of bed and rest next to her. Wait, how am I gonna meditate like this?! Ok think bud think, how am I gonna meditate like this? I can't transform as I don't want her seeing that. If she says anything about it then I'm boned as that's my trump card that I'm saving for just in case I get in a bad situation.
Ok the requirements are for me to be relaxed and be able to manage my mana. Maybe I can do it while I'm in the sleep position, I just will manage my mana while doing it. Well let's see what she's doing.
I turn and look at her with my mana sense to be met with something shocking when I look at her. She is slowly growing two large wings on her back. Is she mutating?! What is she thinking? Well now's the time if any to do it as doing a mutation is very energy consuming.
I nudge up to her and open my screen. After a moment of watching to see if she moves, I slowly move my mana towards her and attempt to connect to her mana. From what I can guess, I need to pull some of her mana into my screen here.
I slowly but surely grab a little with mine and maneuver some of hers into my screen and it changed from my stats to hers. And How. I. Was. Surprised! At what I saw.
Name:Levien
Species: Carchocles(megalodon)
Condition: currently mutating(50% chance of succeeding due to mana fluctuations, calm the mana in order to increase success rate)
Age:juvenile(don't ask specifics, it's rude)
Proficiencies:Tail swipes, ramming, water magic, barrier magic, magic chomping, lifesteal (idk if it's a skill or proficiency, should it have to be activated or should it always be active?)
Current possibilities(based on mutation succession amount): wing boost, wing glide, flying (mutation of lungs required), wing slice.
Skill(s):berserk rage
Ok she has grown in size but definitely didn't cultivate much. Maybe everyone here relies on mutations to change or get stronger. Let's scroll down and see what we got here.
Prestige: head of the battle arena(due to the defeat of the previous head of the arena), possible heir to the leadership of the megalodons(wasn't guaranteed when her little brother returned to the colony)
Teeth quality: iron reinforced( after eating enough meat, the iron from it connected and reinforced the seems and the points of the teeth)
Familiars:cady and marline (friends of levien but have pledged their allegiance to her no matter where she goes)
Ok that's interesting. Again everything is from her growing and strengthening herself physically but I can guarantee if she fought against anything with mental attacks or whom have strengthened their cultivation, she would lose miserably.
Ok well I'll help her as I don't like those odds on her mutation. It is right that her mana isn't calm at all, it's just pushing with no regard of the details of her wings.
I put some more of my mana into her body and help direct her mana into her wings but I take it slowly, anytime her mana tries to push out, I forcefully push it back in line. By doing this, I am basically telling her to slow it down.
While all this is happening, I'm watching her condition in hopes to improve her chances. It is slowly going up, 51%...52%.....53%. Very slow but I'll do it to help her since she was always helping me.
This goes on for 2 straight hours until I see her condition change from mutating to very tired. When I look at her proficiencies and her possibilities, the possibilities disappear and her wing glide and flying went to her proficiencies, while her wing boost and wing slice went into her skills.
After that, I sleep as well due to my exhausted mind from helping my sister mutate. I close my eyes and focus on controlling my mana and slowly gathering from the water as in here, it is rich in mana due to circulation from the vent that's nearby. In my body I also go through my memories and practice my ancient language with the elder as he knows some of it himself from the memories that I gained. He has been looking through them since I entered the body.
We both wake up when father calls to us. After a moment of getting our bearings, we both head to our father. Well I follow my sister as she goes to where father is. The air is full of mana so it's hard for me to see walls, my imagination sight is roughly that of a person who has 6-6 vision in a house due to the thickness of the mana in the water. The reason I can follow sister is because her mana is moving through her body rapidly as she seems either agitated or excited.
We go to where father is and we're greeted by him with mother and two boys. Both about the size of me but a little puffier. At that moment, I knew what he was doing. He didn't want me fighting in the arena as his son since even if he took the first place Carcho as his son. He'd still be known as the leader who had a disappointing son. So he's gonna try to get rid of me here and have one of these two go in for me.
"So now that you're here, you have two choices. Choose one of these two to take your place and leave, or leave now and I'll choose for you" he had a serious "business" like tone.
Sister was absolutely furious but after seeing her back off, I knew that she was being pressured by him since she would have gone off by now. Father probably foresaw what she would do and is now pushing his aura on her and me to get the results he wants. I am not affected because of my influence by the elder and the captain, also because of my cultivation with my mana as it gave a barrier against auras and mental attacks.
She looks towards me and I can guess that she's looking at me in fear. I know what I need to do now since I won't give up without a fight.
With no emotion, I say to him "I will not choose nor will you choose for me." This peaked his interest as he was expecting me to leave from the reaction I got from his mana. "I wish to fight them, If either of them beat me, then the winner can have the position"
"I'm sorry but I have no faith that you will win and I can't be having you hurt these two before you inevitably lose" he retorted angrily
"Let him" my sister speaks up "from what I believe, he's the reason why I have successfully completed my mutation"
This surprises my father considerably, "and why do you believe this?"
"I felt my inner self go out of control while doing it but I felt something enter me from brother and it guided me through the process, I believe that brother is stronger than he looks." She exclaimed
"Is that so?" Father was really interested now. "Fine then! You will fight these two, but we don't have time so you will fight both of them at the same time. If you can come out of the fight with little injury, then I'll have them leave and you'll fight in the tournament."
"What?! That's not fair. A battle is a one on one, no matter what. That is a ballen set by the first leaders of the colony!" Sister completely bursted, and mother even pitched in an "I agree" when sister said that.
Father looked at both of them, then at the two boys next to him who were expectant of what he'll say.
He says to them "which of you two is stronger?" After he asked this, the one to the left came forward and said "I am" while the one to the right lowered their front half and backed up.
Father then says, "you shall fight him then, get ready as we're going to do it in a moment when we get to my mini arena"
He swims off and we all follow him. We go through a passageway that was BRIMMING with mana. After we go through, I see it. An arena that father could sleep in. So it was big enough for me and the other Carcho to fight without going out of it. He points to the arena with his horn and says to the both of us, "go and get in position"
We both go in and we go across from each other and wait for his call. We wait while he watches both of us, especially me. He is definitely waiting for me to slip up and call it so he can get this over with. After a couple more glances, he finally says "FIGHT!" And we both push forward.
I push towards him and see that his mana is pushing up, so I presume that he'll go up and chomp or ram be from above. I wait a moment and my suspicion was correct as now his entire body is going up. What these people don't know is that their mana will go where they go so someone like me can easily foresee what you are gonna do.
I let him go up and push down on me until the last second when I see that he is about to bite. I dash to the side and he goes teeth first into the ground. That definitely did some damage. I keep my mental eye on him and see that some of his teeth came off since his mana isn't going to those parts anymore.
I take advantage of this and dash at him as he kicked up a lot of dust which blinded him but not me as the arena itself doesn't have that much mana going in it. I get close to him then I try something that was only a probability. I direct my mana to my head and try to harden it in hopes to make a hardened shell to do damage to him but leave me with little damage.
When I do it, my theory became reality. My head hardened on top and I ram into him right on his head as he was backing up out of the dirt. This straight decks him as he wasn't expecting a surprise attack like this. I turn and prepare for a second attack when I hear him scream out, "I give up! Please spare me! I'm s-s-sorrrryyyyyy!" He is crying are this point.
This completely stuns everyone but me. As soon as he hit the ground, his mana was losing control but in a sorrowful way as in it was slow but it wasn't flowing correctly. When I saw that I already expected it to mean that he was ready to cry, so I did the head butt and like that, I won.
I don't give any emotion, I swim towards him which makes him cower. "Leave the arena, I won" I say without any emotion. I feel bad for the guy but I can't show it as I need to show father that won't show pity for my enemy.