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Chapter 4 - Serpent Understands

Vosh feels the avatar's body is badly damaged from that crash but can't even find the time to look at what he hit, because he didn't stop falling, he just kept spiralling helplessly.

"This sensation.... I've never felt it before but from what I've studied on human anatomy I definitely broke at least 6 ribs!" Vosh thinks to himself while barely managing to keep conscious from the pain.

Suddenly he feels slightly less strain on his mind from the pain and is able to focus slightly better.

Vosh spins counter clockwise to cancel the spiralling momenum he had so he could stabilize himself mid air.

He's hit with dizziness and a headache suddenly, but he does his best to ignore it after glimpsing the silhouette of what he crashed into and after the dizziness fades he finally takes a good looks at it.

But there was a problem. The object he glanced at was far too massive. He could see it's straight edge stretching for miles on out and as he was falling he could see more and more of it.

He noticed that a majority of it was covered in clouds.

He wonders if he should check it out in case it has humanoid civilization on it.

"Maybe...." He says to himself, wondering if humanoids would build objects in the sky to live. "No. Humanoids have legs to walk so them having habitats in the sky seems improbable.... That's if it's really something that has people on or in it." He realizes that maybe he should check it out after all.

He stands up straight, aiming himself at the edge of the floating massive object and uses the air resistance from jumping really fast to step on air much like how a speedster can run on water by moving fast. But he takes it a step further and adds even move force to it to launch himself through the air like a missile at high speeds.

He approaches the edge of what he hit and realized how smooth it was.

He passes beyond the edge and the surface of it was completely obscured by clouds. He air jumps to the surface and faceplants into an invisible wall.

Vosh slips off of it and almost falls but manages to sink his fingers in it through sheer force

Suddenly the wall vanishes in a giant circle around his hand and he falls. Through the hole light was shining brightly as if the entire area wasn't a huge amalgamation of dark clouds. A strong wind blows out of the hole, which Vosh found strange.

He grabs right below that hole and looks up at the hole where he just fell from only to see it reform incredibly quickly.

"A large platform in a large volume of clouds, an invisible wall(?) That repairs itself and a seemingly different atmosphere on the other side of the wall. Even for my baseless sense of normalcy, this definitely seems strange."

The hole opens up again and Vosh falls again but this time Vosh has a plan. He uses his hand like a knife and stabs a meter wide circle into the wall.

The wall opens up a huge hole blowing on him a torrent of wind on him and then he air jumps through it with all his might and makes it through the hole but is immediately met with a vortex of wind force that blasts him in various directions.

He was thrown around for a couple hours straight, unable to get his footing and he was thrown around so thoroughly that he can't tell up from down.

But it's not like he was doing nothing that whole time

=Perfect Reverse Mana Channel=

A skill only possible through intricate knowledge and control over mana and is the counterpart for the skill [Perfect Mana Channel] where instead of having complete control of the mana circulating inside you, you gain the ability to completely control your mana and your mana alone outside of your body.

•Skill level: 0.45%

•Skill completion: 0.009%

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======Mana Perspiration======

An inheritently attributeless passive skill that leaks the user's mana into their surroundings. Mana leaked may change physical states according to the user's mana affinity(s).

•Skill level: 2%

•Skill completion: 0.5%

=========Mana Lord=========

A title that can be granted by displaying exemplary skills in the field of mana control. This title gives the user more anonymous control over mana by thought alone. This title is also a direct declaration of your authority higher authority of all things mana.

•Inherent sub skill:

-Low Mana-kenisis [Passive]

•Title rank: World [Low]

•Title advancement: 0.04%

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After earlier failing to expand his consciousness he realized his human weakness and after using mana to fight, move, etc. He learnt how to consciously control mana enough to create a way to release mana out from his mana reserves and into the outside world while still maintaining control over it as if it was his own body.

With this he gained the ability to spread his sense of feeling beyond his body and into the air around himself.

Why would he do that? To overcome his limitations as a mortal being.

"It's not like I'm using my main body to do this, it'd take me the speed of instantaneous to do something like spread my consciousness throughout a world. But this body's consciousness can't stretch beyond the brain thanks to the natural laws of this universe and it's nature as a humanoid. With this, I'll be able to extend my sense of feeling, hearing and scent detection beyond my body."

For miles on end he spread his mana out into the swirling winds and finally found a calm area. He uses [Mana-kenisis] to use his own mana to push him through the swirling winds towards the area.

As he approaches he feels gravity increases greatly as he starts to feel he's falling.

"So on top of swirling winds, there was also gravity distortion?" Vosh thinks to himself.

He finally falls past the dark clouded winds and feels strong sunlight on his skin. His eyes were almost blinded by it and it takes a short while for his eyes to readjust.

He looks below him to see an enormous green landscape, very unlike the forest he was in. Its a stretch of green grassy plains for far out that lead to a forest in the distance and a mountain behind it. There was a river snaking from the mountain, through the forest and into a large lake that was actually right below him.

"Huh?" He focuses his vision to right below him only to see what looks like a fight occurring right below him between two groups. It was a group of 5 humanoids with different shapes, sizes and appendages fighting a group of greenish blue serpentine creatures. One of those serpentine creatures was incredibly larger than all the rest and it expelled grey fire that burnt even the water around it.

Vosh saw this and said to himself, "Finally! Fellow humanoids!" And took out his sword ready to fight.

Vosh noticed that suddenly one of the humanoids in the back of the group furthest away from the fight looked up and saw him. This particular humanoid had the ears on the side of its head like the wolf he killed.

"Wait, if it's like the wolf will it attack me?" He thinks to himself but decides to worry about that after he kills the Serpent.

He decides to use a skill he didn't get to use in the fight against the woman that he fought a couple hours back.

======Transcend Strength======

An advanced skill available for those who meet the conditions of being able to lift 1000kgs and have at least 50% in the muscle control sub-stat. It allows the user to bypass the subconscious limiter to harness strength that may break the user's bones. Uses mana to make the body move instead of muscles alone so the amount of strength displayable is proportional to how much mana is poured into the skill. At base it gives a twice enhancement to physical strength stats with the minimum mana requirement varying on the person using it.

Skill level: 0.1%

Skill completion: 0.02%

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He feels a force controlling his own mana to solidify it in a sub-atomic thin but sturdy layer around his bones and muscle fibres. He suddenly feels how quicker his body can move in response to his thoughts.

After all, his muscle movements were bypassing the need to send signals back and forth from the brain giving him an increased reaction speed and most of all the conscious control over his muscles.

He focuses on his abdominal muscles and the back muscles and the muscles in his right hand that was holding the [Wolf Blade]. He tenses them preparing to do one incredibly powerful slash. While doing this he air jumps to make himself fall faster. Eventually he ignites the air around him from sheer speed alone.

Vosh hears a voice in the distance "Retreeeeeeaaaaat!" But he pays it no mind as he approaches the serpent.

He decides to put all of his focus on cutting off the head of the serpent, which hasn't spotted him just yet.

The humanoids dissapear suddenly from the area as the serpents look around confusingly for them, unaware of the incredible danger above them.

The serpents suddenly start noticing the thunderous rumbling around them, as well as a presence that seems to be in their immediate vicinity but they can't find the source. The waters trembled where they swam and for reasons they couldn't understand. They stood on alert searching for the cause in vain.

The biggest serpent was confused and wary of the danger, for it was the most threatened it ever felt in all its thousands of years of living and fighting. It was the strongest being in the entire lake for over multiple centuries, which is a position you can't hold by being weak. Yet, for the first time since the day it decided to fight the former strongest monster of the lake it had never felt so threatened.

It suspected whatever was causing all of this was likely what also caused the humanoids to run away. But it sees nothing.

Suddenly waves form around them going outwards with them at the centre as winds from above them press them from above. The waves grow larger with every moment that passes and so does the wind pressure.

Then the serpent musters all of its strength and manages to look up.

The serpent became petrified with fear.

It was as if a living explosion was homing in on its very existence without warning. Directly above its head descending onto it and before it could run it was already too late.

In the tip of the descending fireball headed towards itself, the serpent sees the vague image of empty eyes staring back at it.

Eyes that implied nothing except nothing, yet that in itself spoke of a hidden unfathomable depth that the serpent had never seen before. It sent shivers down its vertebrae.

"An abomination on reality!" The serpent thinks as it stared into the eye's of what felt like the unknown itself.

It was at that moment Vosh found himself within the appropriate range to put all his strength into a single swing.