Xian watched as her mother slowly fade away into specks of blue light as it gathered into her bracelet.
The morning breeze washed the leaves of tall trees, the cacophony of forest is pleasing to the ears. Insects and animals begun to woke up one by one as they greeted the peaceful morning.
By now, Xen's body was all gone, leaving only her clothes and accessories, her sword is on the ground that shines with the lights illuminated by the rising sun.
Xian slowly stood up with grave expression, she looked at her mother's clothes and then the silver sword. She went to pick up the silver sword and her sword besides her. The difference between the is that Xen's sword was heavier and longer but Xian easily carried it.
Then, she stabbed her sword to the ground just besides Xen's clothes as she raised her mother's sword in the air. It shone even more brightly because of the morning sun.
Xian then brought the clothes of her mother to her arms as she slowly walked towards the brown and red house. The walls of the front section is destroyed leaving a big man made hole in there that can fit a pair of person but Xian still used the door.
She felt the warm wood beneath her feet as she walked towards her mother's room. Inside there is also similar to Xian's bedroom which consist of cabinet, study table and a red sheeted bed.
With the clothes of her mother folded, she placed it above the bed and she sat down, gazing into the window which leads outside with a deadpan expression.
'Sigh, im all alone now mother.' Xian said in her mind then her deadpan expression changed as she felt something was wrong in her surroundings.
'What is it?' Questioned Xian as she heard different sounds coming from everywhere, she can also see something different from her eyes, it was tiny bits of dust in her mother's table.
"Senses, my sense changed!" Shouted by her as she felt the vibration of her voice through the room into her ears.
"It doesn't hurt my ears though," she said as she focused her hearing into the distance which she was also looking.
There she heard the howls of wolves and what more surprising is that she can see clearly the pack of wolves at that distance.
"My senses is actually became better than before." She said while caressing the bed sheet of the bed, she felt every fiber there and dust that fall from the ceiling because of the shook earlier.
She then stood up and glance at her mother's gift, the bracelet. The silver bracelet with blue gem was alluring to eyes.
"I wonder what can you do." Xian said as she walked towards her bedroom.
"I better leave this place, those demons might come here sooner or later." She said while packing some clothes in a brown leather sling bag. After a while she finished and said. "I will problem later where to stay."
By that, she went outside again with sheated sword in her waist and sling bag in her back. She also changed her clothes into a long black cloak, white shirt, and black trousers with brown boots.
She glanced at her house that her mother built one more time and said. "Things happened fast, mother was cooking food for us that afternoon then she died earlier this morning."
She sighed and continued. "And that nightmare, I never thought it will came true, if I know it will become true I might as well inform my mother."
Then, memories of her mother flashed through her mind under the leaves of the forest, she shook her head and finnaly left the area, her face has a sharp eye but it seems empty.
...
While walking under the forest of vast woods slightly far away from her house, Xian with a small sheet of map in her hand was walking above the paved road inside the forest.
"If I continue in this path, I will eventually leave the forest then I will find the nearest village." She said as she walked.
She stuffed the map inside her sling bag and with danger not coming to her for now, she can finnaly check something that change from her body.
"Hm, I really felt something unfamiliar flowing through my body." She said before realizing something. "Wait, maybe this was a demonic energy passed to me by that demon!"
She opened her mouth wide and after a while she shook her head and continued to walk.
"No, not that, this is definitely connected with my newly changed senses." She rebut herself.
After a series of walking, she finally concluded the reason of unfamiliar feeling. She said. "Yes, I have my reason now, meaning I finished the 2nd path."
"This is definitely connected with my transendance power, but what is that feeling actually."
She walked and walked in the long path and wide paved road. Then suddenly, from the corner of her ears, she heard a howlings and movements of several creatures that has four feet according to the sound.
Xian glanced at the source of sound and at the very far distance, she can saw the pack of wolves that was she also saw earlier at the house.
"Four wolves, two dires, and one alpha." Xian counted the number of that pack as she stopped her movement.
"I haven't taste an alpha's meat before, hm." She said, then she turned her body towards the pack of wolves and her figure instantly faded leaving an afterimage where she stood.
"Im more faster?" Xian surprised by the sudden change not only to her senses but also her physical abilities. She dodge every trees with ease as she unsheathed her mother's sword which is now her sword.
In an instance of 5 seconds, Xian appeared above the pack of wolves who was about to lunged to their prey which is a sleeping pairs of reindeer.
Xian instantly observed the area in just a matter of half a second. There was four wolves with black fur, two wolves bigger than the four, and the alpha who was the biggest of them all, standing over several meters tall and several meters wide, the alpha sense something above as he glance at the air.
Then, just when he was about to howl for a warning and when he was about to saw the figure flying in the air, the figure was already faded and instantly appeared infront of him.
Fear struck the mighty alpha when he saw the intimidating sharp eyes of Xian which is infront of him. She canceled the howl and tremblingly bowed it's head to the 1.5 meter tall girl.
His pack also saw the intimidating girl as they tremblingly bowed their heads to the ground. One by one, the pack of wolves was now lying in the ground like a group of supplicants worshiping their gods.
"Huh? Im about to eat you all and now y'all bowing to me like a pet waging your tails?" Xian complained, the pack of wolves trembled even more that they were like shaking to death.
"Hm, guess I can spare y'all for now, since im not really hungry." Xian said as she instantly vanished again from her spot. The wolves slowly stood and 'sighed' in relief, they never thought that a simple hunt will cost their lives.
Xian appeared again in the paved path and started to walk again. She thought and said. "I can eventually just run all the way there if I want... Hm, guess that will be boring and I need the silent to think."
Speaking of silent, Xian was actually quite annoyed by her hearing that even the slightest move of an ant can be heard.
"Nevermind the silent, I didn't even know what is it." She said, she was thinking again about the unfamiliar feeling moving in her body and after a while, a spark of thought came inside to her mind.
"Mana!" She shouted from disbelief that after a while of thinking, she never thought about mana and magic until now.
"I even thought that this unfamiliar feeling is the ghost of my mother! It was mana and magic after all!" She shouted again, her voice was echoing through the forest to her ears.
"Ah, so noisy of me." She complained again about her ability to hear greatly. She then saw a sign board just besides the paved road that said.
[Mornca]
"That's the village." Xian said as she continued to walked to the paved path. Then, the issue earlier came inside Xian's mind again.
"But how can I use this mana?" She said as she was caressing her chins thinking of something.
Then she remembered what her Auntie elf taught her in the past about magic.
"Imagine and cast." She said.
"Hm, imagine and cast huh, hm, let me think Xian." Xian said to herself as she walked and after a while, she decided to cast a simple flame.
'Flame, Fire, Torch,' Thoughts came from her head about how to imagine flames and after a seconds of imagination, she chanted:
"Flame."
Then, her eyes can't believed what happened, her hands was... actually nothing happened. She sighed and said. "I need to be more specific about imagination."
Then she started to imagine again, this time she imagined an orange light flowing upwards with smokes coming at the top of it. Thanks to her transcending power to think fast even though she was dumb, it only take a second to imagine the flame.
"Flame." She chanted, this time something really change from her hands, sparkles of orange light slowly appeared in her palms and in instance, it bacame an orange flame that was flowing upwards.
"So this is the feeling of mages when they cast a fireball." She said. Xian knew about the mages because she was taught by her energetic auntie about it.
After a while, the flames didn't faded and Xian, again, thought of something and she focused on her hand, the fireball grew big, it was now the size of a head.
Xian wanted to throw it then remembered that she was in the forest so she can only order the mana to distinguish the flames.
"Let's try something new then." She said then she imagined a blueish barrier that was flowing side by side to her. Then after seconds, water slowly appeared out of nowhere and circled around Xian, the flowing water slowly formed a barrier that was following Xian as she walked.
"I wonder how much this barrier can deflect attacks." Xian said as she order the blueish barrier to begone. Then the flowing water slowly faded in the air to nowhere.
"Mother will be shocked if she saw me casting different magic even though I have a heavenly body." She said.
"Speaking of mother, I didn't know yet what her gift can do." She then looked at her bracelet in her left wrist. "And what negative effects can it bring to me."
"Well, I'll check it out in the village, for now, I need a place to rest." She said.
After a while of walking, she can now saw the small village at the far distance from her eyes. She remembered that there was place called hotels that let people sleep in, this was taught by her mother.
"A hotel it is, yes I'll find a hotel first before finding out what's this bracelet can do." She said while still walking towards the distance village under the sun in it's peak.