Don and his two companions, Lank and Kara looked nervously at the man who just stepped out from the bush. It wasn't fair to call him a man because of his dark blue skin and tattooed arm. Even his face had a tattoo that covered all the way from the top of his skull till the area under his eyes.
The trio felt like looking at a demon from hell. Don especially, had a special ability that enabled him to see other people's aura. When he subconsciously used it on this thing, he felt like his mind floating in an endless abyss and tormented by a thousand cuts slow death.
Luckily he managed to wake up from his stupor. "Get back" he shouted "his aura is…I've never seen anything like it before"
However, in her fear, the Archer unintendedly shot an arrow.
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Swoosh
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Sen has been playing around with the boar for three days adjusting to his abilities and he got quite used to it.
Just like any other game, LR also has a skill and spell system. However, once Sen reached his final evolution, things started to change for him: he lost all of his skills and spells.
However, what he got was much better than those. He acquired arts.
Arts are a combination of battle skills, magic spells, and movement skills.
So far, Sen has four arts and these arts use one of two types of power. Mana, or energy.
Of the four arts he has, two are energy-dependent while the other two are Mana dependent.
But after three days, he still did not know how to call on either of the two powers so he tried what a rational thinker would try.
Taking the most obvious meditation position which is legs crossed and hand on the knees while leaning against a tree, Sen closed his eyes and started meditating. Breathing in and breathing out. The darkness took over his vision as he listened to his heartbeat and the sound of nature around him.
Seconds turned to minutes and minutes to hours, and in the loneliness of the forest, Sen's figure sat there snoring, peacefully asleep.
Maybe he was tired, maybe the stress of three days without sleep which he did not seem to even notice, or with everything that was happening, but Sen was deadly tired as he closed his eyes and drifted away.
The energy he wanted to feel was not there, not even a spec of it. But after entering the calm state he was reluctant to open his eyes, so he just slept it away for hours.
"Hmm?"
After he woke up, he realized that the boar actually managed to escape. Since the boar had helped him somewhat adjust to his skills, he decided not to kill it. But he still had no idea to use Mana or energy so he still needed the fat fellow.
The poor boar was the target practice, every time it gets injured, he would force feed it a red health elixir that he had concocted in the game.
As he stood up, Sen realized something was different, around his hand was a faint glow, blue covered the right hand while golden covered the left one.
"This is it"
Sen clearly felt the connection, these were Mana and energy. He joyfully tried to channel energy to cover his entire arm.
Swoosh!
From the force of the swing, the tree that he punched shattered to smithereens. Ecstasy filled him as he tried it this time with his legs. He jumped, kicked, punched, and the victims of all his assault - the trees, were lying on the ground smashed and broken.
"Ha! The body enhancement art! This is great!"
This is one of the two energy-based arts Sen has. It is a passive art that enhances his strength and speed. And can be used to focus energy on certain body parts.
The second art is a combat art. In the game, this art used to have many combat skills from dashing, parrying, swordsmanship, archery, and many other weapon masteries.
However, when Sen tried using this art, he founds that he could only perform a few moves. As for the rest, it was like a giant barrier that was blocking his consciousness from accessing that information.
Bewildered, Sen tried using the Mana based arts. Unsurprisingly, Sen was then certain of his conclusion.
The body enhancement art is the weakest among his four arts while the rest are all of a much higher rank.
"What should I do to access all the arts completely?" he asked himself and the answer to him was obvious. When he channeled Mana and energy, Sen could clearly feel their limit. Especially Mana. When he used it to conjure that small bit of magic, he felt it almost deplete.
"Well whatever, I'll just focus on the energy for now"
Players are different types, those who prefer the support role, others prefer tankier and sturdy play styles while others were magic maniacs. Sen was the type who liked to feel the rush of the battle, a complete juggernaut enthusiast. His two magic arts, he actually only used when the need arose.
Playing a bit with the body enhancement arts, Sen decided he needed a live target. He remembered the boar who had escaped.
Sadly for it, Sen had awakened his first art completely. Meaning that not only he could use energy to enhance his strength, but also his perception, vision, smell, and hearing. Therefore, he embarked on a journey to retrieve his big, cute black boar using his heightened sense of smell.
About an hour later of admiring the huge trees and the weird insects that attacked him, the scent seemed to stop which reminded of the pitiful boar he's been chasing at his own leisure and completely forgot about while walking.
"Hmm?" Sen picked up three different smells as he approached. There was also the smell of blood, it was so thick that Sen disabled his enhanced smell.
The place he reached had many bushes and thick trees. He didn't struggle at all clearing them but as soon as he stepped out he was greeted with three vigilante-looking people.