The night was approaching but still half of the city was left to explore and everyone was scattered everywhere. Elder Solon activated his spell and spoke, "We are very late and the jungle will be very dangerous in the dark therefore we all will be staying here only. I have contacted King Maximus through communication crystal. Find the buildings with intact ceilings and sleep here with your respective group. Tomorrow we will explore the rest of the city and those who find useful information will be rewarded with spells."
Air carried his voice and everyone could hear it with ease. This was another basic spell of air element and was very handy at times. Vaelorian heard Elder Solon's words and frowned. Why were they risking the lives of the reincarnates? It must mean this city used to be very important in the past. 'Mom is right, knowledge is indeed power.' He thought.
Currently, he was already inside a building and fortunately, it had a ceiling. The rest of the members joined Vaelorian. "Did you find anything?" Lavinia asked as she walked next to Vaelorian.
"Nope," he spoke and noticed Theo glaring at him.
"Lavinia comes closer," Vaelorian looked at her.
As soon as she moved towards him Vaelorian grabbed her face and kissed her, forcibly groping her soft breast.
Lavinia pushed Vaelorian and slapped him very hard on his face. "Stay away from me!"
'Gladly' Vaelorian thought and gave a look to Theo who was stunned. Apparently, this spectacle had gathered the attention of everyone and the girls were giving a disgusted and angered look to Vaelorian.
"I think you need to get out of here," Theo spoke as he observed the same thing. "Go find some other group or best, stay alone. Fucking pervert!"
Without a word, Vaelorian was kicked off and he didn't mind it one bit. Lavinia had tears in her eyes and many people comforted her.
"I am sorry you had to go through that," Theo spoke and embraced her in a light hug.
There was still a little light left and Vaelorian made use of it. He moved quickly looking for another building. "Why are you roaming here?" He turned and saw Elder Osiris walking towards him.
"I couldn't find my group."
"Come on," Elder Osiris spoke and led the way to another building. "Stay here." He spoke in front of everyone.
Vaelorian observed everyone and they were doing the same. He saw a familiar face and immediately frowned. It was Li Han. Vaelorian made his way into an empty corner and sat there. Looking at his lack of interest everyone got bored and got back to their respective conversations.
He leaned backward towards the wall and closed his eyes. He needed to learn more spells but for some reason, he was unable to extract his element. He thought about the breathing technique, he followed everything like how King Maximus had instructed and there was no problem with that aspect, of course, his smoke was not dense like King Maximus. Suddenly Vaelorian sat up straight, his smoke was not denser! That simply meant that his mana was impure and maybe that was why he couldn't fully extract the element! But it didn't mean he had failed in extracting! He could see patches of wind gushing out every time he tried and maybe this was his limit!
He needed to practice again. Vaelorian immediately got up and started walking outside, no one gave him any attention. It was completely dark now but for some weird reason, Vaelorian could see everything clearly. 'Maybe my eyes have gotten stronger from mana circulation!' He thought in excitement and walked further into the city. He found an isolated building and made his way there.
Patches of wind started gushing out, Vaelorian immediately started compressing the wind and swiped his hand in a crescent motion. An irregular slash shot forward and disappeared after traveling two meters. Vael widened his eyes and smiled. He got a gist of it, all he needed to do was purify more and more mana and practice.
He closed out his eyes, took in a large amount of air, and breathed out the smoke. For some reason breathing out smoke was more fun than he had thought. He took in another batch of air and blew out more smoke. He looked at dark smoke disappearing into the air. And soon his entire night was spent like this.
It was morning but Vael was nowhere near tired, he blew out another batch of smoke and sighed. He never thought that breathing could be this fun, he could do this for months and years! He did not want to go out and join everyone but he had no choice.
Vaelorian quickly moved out and unconsciously blew out smoke. He saw people moving out of their respective buildings and joined them.
After 30 mins everyone was in groups again. "Let's begin the exploration," Elder Solon spoke and the exploration began again. Vaelorian didn't bother going back to his group, he knew it was a bad idea and soon the news was going to spread about what he did. He sighed thinking about the pain coming his way. It would be bigger than the fury of two desperate guys. He messed up again. 'No crying over spilled milk now,' he thought as he went from one building to another.
He couldn't find anything worth and neither could anyone. Soon the entire city was explored but it was dark again. Elder Osiris informed them that they would spend their last night here before traveling back to Aetherholm City. Vaelorian separated himself from the rest and went to that building again.
It was late at midnight and Vaelorian was practically breathing pure mana now when he heard a loud scream followed by more screams. He jumped to his feet and quickly ran towards the entrance of the building and peeked at the source of the scream. He saw several large figures dashing out with bodies in their mouth. Several fireballs shot towards them and one of them fell down letting out a huge growl.
After a second of silence passed several loud growls were heard from everywhere. They were completely surrounded! Vaelorian saw an Elder running out, and within a second the entire place was illuminated with light. Vaelorian squinted his eyes and everything was clear once again. Everyone rushed out and ran towards the large wolf. The person in its mouth was not moving. Vaelorian decided to wait before following them. He blew out smoke as it gave him a sense of calm.
After another five minutes passed he snuck out and joined the rest. No one spoke anything, they all kept looking at each other and the wolf that Li Han had killed.
"We lost 5 members today." Li Han calmly spoke, "Do you still think that making an exploration team without any skills was a good idea? Are we reincarnates your spare tires? From tomorrow onwards you are going to give me what I demand of you as it will help us get stronger. If not then we are not going to follow your orders anymore." He deadpanned and quietly moved back to his building.