After Timber and Clay woke up they ate breakfast double checked that they had everything and were prepared to go into the cave, once done and all preparations were made Clay and his glorious companion set out for the cave.
As they neared the entrance of the cave the density of ambient mana seemed to increase a little bit but Clay payed it no mind as he and Timber took their first steps into the cave, after walking for a bit the path forked into two tunnels using his mana enhanced vision Clay saw that the elevated mana levels were coming from one side while there was barely any mana coming from the other side.
After thinking for a while Clay decided to head down the near mana less path first because he had a strong gut feeling that it would be beneficial for them.
On their way down the tunnel unease seeped into the two of them with it clay pushed mana into his body in order to strengthen it and Timber moved closer to Clay as she felt it her job to protect him and his job to protect her.
After walking for a while the duo came into a room of decent size with smooth stone walls and in the room there was bare earth instead of a floor and from the earth grew five plants each one sending out mana correlating with a different element each.
Feeling the mana Clay picked up an orange peach that gave off a warm feeling that trickled throughout his body as he ate it.
Curious to see if anything had changed Clay formed a flame above his palm, the flame that before would've taken a substantial amount of mana to keep live now took just about the same amount as infusing mana into his body did.
Ecstatic Clay decided to eat three other fruits and leave one for Timber to eat as he wasn't sure she would even be able to use it.
The fruits that Clay ate were a abnormally large blueberry that gave the cool refreshing feeling of water, a strawberry that gave the dense strong feeling of earth, and a oddly shaped green apple that felt like a powerful yet light gust of wind.
These fruits made the different elements that were being cast for the first time easier to manipulate and create multiple by times over,
The last fruit that Clay gave to Timber was a smaller than average white mana that gave the feeling of a sunny day when eaten as it held the element of light.
Once finished with the fruit Timber started to run and jump around everywhere in the room leaving a streak in the air as she used her new powers, the next thing she did was letting out a roar that elevated the surrounding dim cave light to a blinding level but only for the duration of the roar.
Seemingly satisfied the two begin to make their way to the exit of the rom but right before they leave Clay notice that the far wall was having odd mana fluctuations, as Clay enhanced his vision with mana Clay saw that there was the outline of a handprint. With near no hesitation Clay put his hand onto the print and injected some of his mana and without pause a doorway opened up around the handprint and as the door began to open up Clay made a small fire in his palm so that they could see inside.
Once inside Clay saw a pair of black daggers with black veins in it, a black metallic ring, and two necklace made from a white metal. All of which shone with a brass light when looked upon with mana enhanced eyes.
As Clay approached the first thing he did was to wrap his hands around the handles of the daggers as he did so he felt the volatile fire mana inside that once supplement with clays basic mana made the daggers because flesh scorchingly hot, happy with his new weapons Clay then next moved onto the black ring which upon inspection seemed to be another special ring but instead of a 6 by 6 area inside this one had a 15 by 15 area inside, as Clay was checking out the interior of the new spacial ring Clay found that there was a small tree sapling that seemed to be alive and growing as it was constantly feeding off a nearly imperceptible amount of clays mana, with his new ring on his hand next to his old one Clay moved on tho the final two items the twin necklaces, as Clay but on a necklace he felt the mana inside of him become denser and more potent then it was only a moment ago making manipulating and moving his mana a lot easier.
As Clay had two necklaces and he was only using one he put the other on Timber and as soon as he put it on the mountain lion of a cats neck it shifted into the form of a brilliant white collar with a brass buckle and gave her that same boosts that it gave Clay.
Now with their newly acquired treasure and boost in power they started off towards the mana dense path.