Alex was about four hundred yards from the manor in a small grove of trees. He found this place the other day. It was a quiet place with a small fish pond. There was no currently alive fish in the pond due to being abandoned for years now. Alex didn't really care though it was a nice little place. It was surrounded by trees so you couldn't see in from outside and it had some nice stone benches. So he liked coming down here this was actually where he would mediate now. That's what he came down here to do. He was angry and upset now and he knew deep down he shouldn't confront them angry because he believed yelling doesn't prove your point.
Alex was sitting on the bench with his eyes closed and focusing his mind. He could feel his mind going empty and felt his little mana surging around in his body. He felt it traveling throughout and slowly drawing more and more from the outside energy. He felt mana slowly enter his body. It came in as a transparent liquid mist. It looked more like a shiny fog then anything. He realized that was mana. He slowly tired to reach out with his sense and could feel the draw slowly increase. He wondered what else he could do.
Alex decided to try different shapes and spinning to see if it would increase the drawing power. He started by trying to compress the mist into a ball. He failed and failed again and again. He decided to change his shape. He created a pyramid from his own mana and tired to capture the mist inside. He actually succeed but it wasn't very cost effective. He tired to think harder ahha he had a light bulb moment. He created a swirl that connected to his bellybutton and had it spin like a fan. He thought about how fans sucked air in and blew it out. So he created a spiral that had a fan at the outer end and funneled into the spiral. Alex was surprised about how well it worked. It was very effective he watched as a lot of mist mana was sucked into the fan and sucked into the funnel. The fan even made the mana be forced faster into him.
{ Congratulations to Host for creating a mediation techniques. +2 stat points to willpower and intelligence (Intelligence is 14 , willpower is 12) Reward skill Mediation- Allows host to instantly enter mediation anywhere in the optimized self created form Host has also unlocked skill Mana Shaping- Allows user to form own mana into different shapes outside of the body."}.
"Hey system why was my healing spells that sickly purple and bright blue not the usual white?"
{ "It was your first time casting the spell so you subconscious mind was thinking about how sickly and death like Sparrow looked. It colored your new spells towards your minds state. Healing hands was pure white because that's what you thought it would look like when you first used it. Sadly host you won't be able to change the color after the first use because that's what you engraved in the spell. So they will always keep the same color even if you lost your memory and used them again. Think as it was now coded that way in stone and can't be changed. }
Alex stopped and thought about what he said. He had another question then.
"Why was the mana that I saw in the world in a formless gas state and not a liquid and hard state like when it's inside of me.?"
{"Since you already have mana Shaping I can answer. Mana is naturally produced by the world. What you do is forcefully capture it and then refine it into useable mana. This causes it to liquify and harden under your will. Therefore changing your mana until you cast a spell where it activates the mana intend purpose and completing the mission you assigned to it. After completing the spell or mission it dissipates back into formless mana. However it gets sucked back into.... error knowledge not allowed to be shared yet. Please learn where mana goes after it's used on your own.}
Alex sat there in silence for a little bit thinking about what the system had just told him. He decided to see if he could find out where mana goes. He casted healing hands on a tree and watched the mana enter it but he couldn't see it leave. He looked everywhere around and tried multiple times but couldn't find anything out. He tried different spells until he ran out of mana again. He still didn't find anything out. Over two hours passed as he was experimenting. He tried over and over and over again but he got a whole lot of nothing. He even tired meditating and casting so he could see it in its gas state but he couldn't see the mana leave. If he wasn't told that it went somewhere he would think it just disappeared into nothingness.
He decided to give up and head back to the manor he was hungry. He had already forgotten about the whole robin thing due to his mind being focused on the mans problem. However he didn't know that Alfred and Bruce both went searching for him. They checked the whole manor through cameras and didn't find him. They checked the garden and didn't see him. So they started to search the forest and roads outside the manor. Only leaving the weakend Sparrow in the manor. Since he couldn't move around at full speed yet due to laying in bed for over 6 days. He was regaining movement fast but they thought it be better for him to stay behind.
Alex walked into the manor and into the dining room. Finding no food on the table he just headed to the kitchen instead. He pulled out the bread and sandwich meat and made a regular ham sandwich. As he was eating it and thinking about where mana went. Sparrow upstairs heard the banging and doors opening at closing. He looked out the window and saw that the car was not back yet. He decided to check it out himself. He walked into the kitchen and saw Alex munching on a ham sandwich while looking at nothing. As if he was in deep thought. He just paused and watched him eat for about thirty seconds. "Hey that looks good can you make me one?"
Alex not even really paying attention to robin just slapped together and sandwich and handed it over. Sparrow started to eat his sandwich in complete silence. He felt like he had a big brother for a moment.