After a moment of us watching each other, I stand up and walk towards her. I stop in front of her and just watch to see what she'll do. I see some sort of black colored veins surround us and she moves to my left. I keep following her with my head and she keeps going until she is behind me, in which I spin my body around slowly as to not startle her since she's probably on edge from me seeing through her trickery.
The black veins weaken and she speaks to me again, "so you can see magic as well I see"
I shake my head, which confuses her.
"So you can see through darkness?" I look in detail and see that her face is scrunched up a little bit, showing that she's confused.
I shake my head again and point my hand around the darkness veins and she follows my finger and while following it with her eyes, they fill with a baby blue color which I believe means that she is using some sort of vision enhancing magic.
Her eyes widen and she blurts out, "You can see in mana vision?!"
I take a moment then nod and shrug my shoulders.
"So can you see anything other than mana veins?" She sees that she's getting closer to my vision dilemma
I shake my head and give her a thumbs up.
"I see..." she takes a moment to think, "so do you have a master? I haven't seen a golem before without one"
I shake my head, and already prepare myself for the following question.
"Would you be interested in being my golem then?" She seemed a lil happier as she believes that she may get a golem for herself.
I shake my head again and get ready to leave until she talks again.
"Were you made to not have one?" She seemed more intrigued then depressed after I turned her down
I shrug my shoulders and go back to the water. She follows and watches me as I do my thing. I put my hand in the water and try to grab and pull the vein but, like the water it's part of, it goes through my fingers and I can't grab it no matter what I do.
I hear her giggle and when I turn to her, she has her specially enhanced eyes again as she giggles at my attempts, knowing exactly what I'm doing.
"You won't be able to do that without a water affinity" she is entertained in either my attempts or the fact that she gets to inform me.
I get a little irritated so I start writing in the dirt. I then write, "don't you have somewhere to be?"
She looks at it then to me with shock written all over her face.
"You can write? I never heard of this before! Who created you?!" She is appalled and interested to the highest degree.
I clear my previous writing and say, "Yes, I know how to write. I don't know where I'm at, but I can guarantee that I wasn't made by man. I was reincarnated here after I died in my previous world from what I can gather"
She reads it and is excited to the amount of a child who was just given a big new toy from their parents.
I clear the message and write, "so what's your name? From where I'm from, my name was micheal"
"The name's sylandrica, I'm a tiefling who learned how to do electric magic. My race usually does fire magic but I decided on electric instead since I fancied it more. It's nice to meet you micheal" she was prideful but a little depressed near the middle, then presented her hand to me at the end.
I grab and shake it once then let go to write in the dirt again, "it's nice to meet you too, silandrica"
"It's with a y not an I at the beginning but no worries" she says then waves her hand afterwards.
I wipe off the words then say, "so what brings you arou"
I reach near the end then hear stomps from the forest behind us. I quickly stand up and look towards the sound. This surprises and confused sylandrica until it gets close enough for her to hear it as well. I then hear crackling and chanting from her as I see a small aura of blueish white veins cover her arms and ball up in front of her hands towards the tree line.
I look back and I see a big ape shaped creature move towards us in big stomps. It has the same blueish veins mixed in with his green veins to give a sort of lighter green that is bright. I quickly pull her hands down which shoots the electricity into the ground as she just finished chanting as I did it.
She looks at me in confusion and anger as she says,"why did you do that!"
I slowly crouch and write in the dirt, "from what I can see, it has the same magic or mana as you so your attack could have empowered it from my understanding of magic"
She enhances her eyes and looks at it then her hands which give off a little of the electricity then says, "you are definitely smarter than a golem I can give you that. I'll have to use my fire and wind magic, but I'm very limited to a few of them so you'll have to take the brunt of the fight"
I nod then stand to a fighting position.
The ape sees my aggression and beats its chest which I mimic then run towards it. It jumps at me which I dodge easily since its mana or magic is basically telling me where it's going to go and what it's going to do.
I jab at him a few times and swerve myself to dodge his punches. I'm basically boxing him right now and it's obvious who's on the winning side. I dodge to the right of his punch and do a heavy right hook on his jaw. Bone cracking can be heard and it backed up, spitting out something which I presume is teeth as I just decked him hard.
It sees that brute strength isn't going to save it, so I see the electricity in it starts riling up to the point where electric veins start building up around it.
It then jumps to me again and it's definitely faster then before as I barely had a chance to dodge this time. I speed up and change into a kick boxing stance which allowed me to utilize my legs more since my jabs and hooks alone won't be enough.
It punches towards me with increased speed, and I dodge it again as I'm not relaxing for a single moment now. I've had to box and kick box with a first sergeant who had many years of experience while I just started out so I definitely have the experience and endurance to deal with an overgrown monkey like this one.
I back up and it swings at me with electricity balled up in its palm. I push myself down into a crouch to narrowly dodge it, I push into its chest and headbutt it's chin. In a fight to the death, like a street fight, there are no rules. If you can do something to survive then there's nothing stopping you.
I quickly back up after that as I felt no concussion or pain from doing that. So I definitely have something it doesn't, a lack of pain. It groans as it takes a couple steps back. I take full advantage of this and rush it. By the time it looks back down at me, there's a rocky fist heading straight towards it's face.
I hit home as it didn't have time to react. This sends it down on the ground. I jump back and get ready to go again but then I hear sylandrica call out from behind me, "move now!"
I look back and a huge ball of red veins are in front of her, fighting to get out. I move out of the way and she send the ball towards the ape. I watch as the red veins hit the ape then burst open like a massive pile of red snakes. Enveloping their prey and eating away as the ape starts writhing and screaming, trying to get the red veins that are eating away at it off of its skin.
It keeps writhing until finally the screams stop and the ape falls limp on the ground. The red veins have successfully subdued its prey and is now eating away at the body. I look back at sylandrica and give a thumbs up.
We look at each other for a moment until she speaks up, "are you sure you don't want to be my golem? We are able to work together pretty well"
I shake my head and write in the ground, "I won't be anyone's servant. If you want, we can be allies?"
She reads this and responds happily, "sure, that sounds like a great idea"
We hear more movement come from the forest and when we turn back, a group of people are there. I look closely and see that it's the people I met when I first got here. For a moment that felt like an eternity, we just stare at each other. They take a look at the corpse of the ape and the one to break the silence is the one who cut my arm off.
"So you two are the ones who killed this shock charge ape?" He says solemnly
"Yes that is us" sylandrica says back.
"So you're his master" the girl who was behind the knight said sadly.
"No I'm not, I already asked and he said no" sylandrica responded almost as sad
"Oh so it won't even become the servant of a sorceress?" The girl says
I take offense to this so I cross my arms and raise my head away from them.
"He's definitely not a regular golem..." sylandrica starts reiterating what happened with us when we first met, up to the part where we killed the ape. She said everything except for the part where her panties were on my head when I first got to the river.
The group of people stare at me for a moment with mixed emotions about what I am and what I can do.
I just wait for someone to break the silence.....again. We wait for a moment until the knight speaks up, "my princess, that golem is a danger as a golem without a master has no restrictions, it must be destroyed before it starts killing people"
This shocked absolutely everyone there as it's obvious that I can hear so why say something so bluntly, especially if I'm so "dangerous". I put my hand on my head and shake my head slowly as to show my disappointment.
"Well then, if it's such a danger and should be destroyed, then you wouldn't mind doing it yourself, right?" The princess says to the knight
"Yes! I will destroy this abomination" he says this with pride.
Abomination....abomination.....abomination....that word rang through my head a few times, pissing me off more and more as it is replayed.
He lunges to me, but he has lost the second he said that as I tighten my legs from anger which seems to pull the earth from the ground. It goes in my legs, strengthening and enhancing them. Interesting?! I can use this.
He brings his sword to cut me in half, but I enhance my arm and grab the sword. It had to be with my whole hand since I was only blocking where I thought it would be based on his hand shape. But it is stopped in my hand never the less and the guy is definitely either furious or scared. I tighten my grip and I break his sword. This startled him and everyone around us.
My turn, I lunge to him and hit him hard in the chest with my palm. Sending him flying towards his princess and the group with them.
I then back up towards sylandrica. My body is brimming with anger right now. When I get angry, i get calculated and malicious. I don't act reckless like others. I start feeling the earth energy under me. I look and it looks like I can mess with it's mana. I use my imagination again and make a sword from the ground under me. I pull from deep in the ground, where the hardened rock is. I pull it up the best I can.
Next I hear something break through the ground next to me. I hear gasps then I look to my left and see that the hardened rock came out and is just floating there. I then use my imagination and morph it into a sword I can use. It comes together and forms a general shape of the sword in my mind. I go for a great sword that is dual sharpened and has a hilt that's is twirling to the end where there is an orb that is sharpened under the hilt.
I grab the sword and it compacts into the detailed shape that I was imagining and I hear a ding in my head, then a monotone female voice says in my head.
(The owner has gained a earth hardened great sword, would you like to connect this to your interface and name it?)
(Yes) (No)
I get surprised by this as I thought an interface was only a thing of fiction and games(even though this entire situation feels like fiction or a scene for a game) and look at the sword again. I was never one for naming but I might as well since this is my first one that I made. I look at the yes and it highlights a bright green. I push with my mind and it looks like it got pushed down then a bar appears before me. Something to know is that this feature was in a VR headset I played on a while back so I can kinda get how to do this.
I say the name of my new sword and it appears in the box.
(Do you want to name this sword "nightwing"?)
(Yes) (No)
I press yes and the sword glows, going into my head. I can see it clearly now without the vein stuff. It is a pitch black great sword that is slightly curved upwards on the blade. There is a cross-guard that looks like a pair of black raven wings that protrude out of the handle. It has the twist from before and has a dark blackened red orb at the bottom that is sharpened so if need be, I can stab with it.
I call out nightwing, like in a sword fighting game I played on the VR headset, and it reappears in my hand.