After dinner, Father asked us to go back to our rooms early for some reason, and well, we always obeyed his words so we did as he said, resting ourselves for tomorrow's lessons.
Me, our father and my three brothers stayed in a room, while mother and our sister stayed in the room next to us.
When we entered the room, the warmth of the room made Ron quickly fall asleep....ah eventually everyone did the same, but I got out of bed quietly after seeing everyone including my father fall asleep.
I walked through the hall lightly and came to the door of the room on the other side. As I sneaked out of the house slowly, with the dark sky facing me, I quickly ran inside the forest.
I decided to go farther into the forest because I want to train harder and I can't let myself to get in trouble with anyone one seeing me walk inside the forest alone.
I guess as long as the way is deep enough, self-protection is not an issue if I relied solely on the distinct mentality of my past life.
The woods are dark due to the dense flora.
Just as I found my usual spot on the edge of a hill, I slowly sat, crossed my legs, and began to cultivate my mana core. Well, Mana manipulation of course.
Mana manipulation helps us to enhance, both physically and magically.
I planned that if I did this I can get enough enhancement to train my martial techniques for developing my physique.
As I concentrated on the mana core, The mana from the surroundings slowly swirled inside my meridians, as I could feel that flow inside my body.
Although my body began to feel both hot and cold, as long as I can manipulate mana in my mana core, it doesn't affect my meridians.
...
"ahh—k,"
After a few minutes, I felt my heart slowed its beating just as I was finishing up.
Because of this just-a-scratch-body, I tried to relax by slowly relaxing to relive the hold up.
As my breathing returned to normal and I regained my breath, and my heart began to beat normally again.
The only disadvantage of mana manipulation was that it was not a substitute for strengthening your mana core. To purify my mana core and advance it to the next stage, I must solely focus on gathering mana from both my body and the surrounding environment and using it to gradually remove impurities.
One noticeable difference I noticed was that once my mana core was dark red, the amount of mana I could store inside increased significantly.
While the size did not change, I believe the purity allowed for more mana to be stored.
Within time, I slowly opened my eyes and rose my little torso after.
"hmm! Maibe its becuse of my boby, I can't do mare than what I cluld dhu!" I said to myself.
What can you do, when I have no developments.
To survive in a world where power holds everything, I have to be stronger. So, I'm diss..appointed. And damn, its really embarrassing to hear my own voice. Man its too adorable.
Then I started streching my boy and started to do my fighting training. Indeed, it was with a melancholy expression on my face.
Suddenly,
"DUHD"
When I heard the sound of something falling down, I instinctively went to the side of a large tree, suppressing my breath.
"Puff!"
I slumped back on my butt, perplexed by what this could possibly mean.
Was I caught? I can't see what's going on around me.
So I have to enlarge my field of vison. Thinking of my vision, father taught us all the way to reinforce our eyes to see clearly with the help of mana. As a result, I was strengthening my eyes with mana, as instructed.
Well, I did a few things with it, such as strengthening my body for physical enhancement or ears for hearing easily and over long distances, and so on.
And just in case, I reinforced my body as well, allowing me to perform mana manipulation, which had become second nature to me by this point. Right now, I'm a dark red mana core stage, so I could only absorb mana from the atmosphere about roughly twenty percent of what I could do while just meditating, And its also thanks to my night trainings that I developed so fast.
Something was off.
So, I hid myself completely behind the trunk.
"NOOO! help ! Kindly Help SOMEONE! Mama! Papa! NOOO! "I'M Scared!!!"
"Someone stop her!
She's going to attract attention!"
*THUD*
"Quick. Put her in the carriage's back seat. The We'll be safer that way. Keep moving and don't relax."
"Hey, Boss? How much do you think she'll scoop up? Don't elf girls command a high price? Hehe, she's a child! I'm sure she'll bring us a lot of money, don't you think?!"
The hell....they are all...Slave traders! What are they doing here?
I climbed a few branches up the nearest tree and positioned myself once I was sufficiently high. I concentrated mana solely on my eyes, enhancing my vision even more.
I took a careful look around to find the small carriage, which could only fit about five or six adults.
Mana beasts that looked like a cross between a panther and a dog were attached to leashes. I've heard about them all, and they're known as Pantherdogs, and they're native to the Deep Forest.
I turned around just in time to see a middle-aged man dragging a young girl into the carriage's back seat.
She appeared to be around six or seven years old, with blond hair and the pointed ears that elves were known for.
Wait, first of all how did they manage to kidnap someone in the first place? The Woodrow Kingdom's protections were supposed to be strong enough to defeat even the most powerful mage.
Hmm...Should I finish them and save the girl? or leave them alone and go back to my home?
I guess they are trying get in to the city.
After a few moments of thought, I'm faced with a quandary. It didn't feel right to abandon the elf girl.
Nope, I would never let a young girl to suffer something like that.
I now have only one option, which I have always excelled at.
The only thing I can do, is kill all of the slave traders and the mana beasts, and release the elf girl before returning home. I've already taken too long.
This would be my first assassination attempt in this life. But I simply follow the code. "I kill, I breathe!"