Liora closed her eyes, staring into the darkness as she activated her [Beast Domain] Skill, a bright, mesmerizing light appeared in her vision, lighting up the darkness and blinding her.
"Ow..what was that?" Liora muttered to herself as she rubbed her sore eyes, feeling a bit frustrated.
When she opened her eyes, her jaw dropped and her eyes widened in surprise. She found herself floating in a mysterious place, the atmosphere was colourful and so was the rest of her surroundings.
She felt like she was dreaming, she didn't really understand what was happening, "Where..am I?" Liora whispered to herself, she had noticed that the Fox Mask wasn't in her hand anymore, even though it was just there a second ago.
"Is this the space inside my mind? Where all the Elite Pets will be stored after I tamed them?" Liora muttered to herself, and the system responded to her confusion.
[The Beast Domain is a space inside the mind of the Host, In the real world, the Host is still lying on her bed, looking sound asleep, when you actually aren't. The space can be manipulated and changed to whatever the Host desires, but doing so requires magic.
The Host can choose to leave the space by activating the Skill again, but if the Host is low on Magic and can't activate the Skill again, the Host's consciousness will be trapped inside the space until enough magic is restored naturally, allowing the Host to wake up back in the real world.] The system explained.
'So this space can be changed to whatever I like?' Liora thought, placing a finger on her chin and looking around for a bit.
'Alright, let's try it.'
Liora closed her eyes and began to use her imagination, she pictured a green grass plain, stretching far with no end in sight. The air around her became a bit thicker as her magic was being used, the colourful atmosphere at the top remaining the same, but the one below starting to change.
She opened her eyes to see the green plain she had just imagined, with grass so green and flowers blooming. A huge wave of shock and excitement hit her at the same time. She felt like a deity in this place, being able to do whatever she wished, but it was only inside her imagination.
She gently descended onto the plain, the blades of grass gently stabbing into her bare feet. It all amazed her, everything felt real, the air flowing into her lungs, and the wind blowing into her hair.
'This is..truly wonderful.' Liora thought.
With excitement coursing through her veins, Liora began to run across the green plain, a grin plastered on her face as she enjoyed every second of this new world she had just created.
After a while of running, she discovered that she had unlimited stamina in this new space, as long as she used her magic and imagined it, she could truly do anything inside her new world.
"Hahaha!" Liora laughed as she fell to the ground, looking up at the colourful sky. She held her hand in the air, spreading her finger as she began to imagine clouds, white puffs of smoke materializing and shaping to form the huge gasses of air that floated high in the atmosphere.
She then began to change those clouds and bend them, she first started by turning them into her Snow Rabbits, her Stone Golems and then a pang of longing hit her chest as her thoughts drifted to Cain, and the clouds shaped to form his figure high in the sky.
"Cain…" Liora whispered to herself, her voice soft with the pain in her heart, tears starting to flow from her eyes.
She continued to lie there for a while, staring aimlessly at the image of the love of her life with a lost expression, her eyes a bit red with how much she had been crying. A sudden notification of the system shocked her out of her transed state, bringing her back to her senses.
[Warning: Host's magic is running low, leave immediately or be trapped inside the Beast Domain] The system sounded.
"What am I doing.." Liora thought as she continued to stare at the image of Cain, "I can't keep missing him like this…I need to stay strong, for his sake." Liora said in a determined voice.
She stood up from the grass and dusted herself off a little bit, before closing her eyes again and deactivating her [Beast Domain] Skill. Her vision turned dark again and she opened her eyes once more, finding herself back inside her room, with the Fox Mask still in her hand.
What truly surprised her was that it was already day time again, "Huh!?" Liora gasped in surprise, "I thought time was different in the space, It felt like I was inside the [Beast Domain] for hours."
The system responded again, appearing in front of her with new information:
[Time inside the Beast Domain is the same as the time outside of it, if the Host chooses to stay inside the Beast Domain for long periods of time, then outside time will pass for long periods of time as well.
Warning: If host develops an addiction to the Beast Domain skill and the space inside it, the skill will automatically be disabled as a protective measure to protect the Host. As time continues to flow normally inside and outside of the Beast Domain, the host will also gradually begin to starve and lose magic.
If the host continues to stay inside the space, losing and regaining magic, just to stay inside the space, then the host will starve to death. Use the skill wisely.]
The system instructed Liora before vanishing.
Liora continued to stare at the place where the system last was with a dazed expression, the words the system said felt like a bucket of ice water that was just dumped onto her, making her shiver in fear.
'Hopefully I don't get addicted to that..with each passing day, my desire to see Cain again grows stronger and stronger, I would need to distract myself when that happens. Like going to the guild or training my swordsmanship.'
Liora thought as she climbed out of bed and stretched her limbs. Her body felt weak and sluggish, her magic was drained dry from using her [Beast Domain] Skill for hours, leaving with barely enough magic to even stay conscious.
'I need to replenish my magic.' Liora thought as she opened her status window to check out her Stats first, before checking out the [Shop].
[Status Window]
[Name: Liora Rohart] [Race: Human]
[Profession: Grand Beast Master] [Level: 16]
[Talents(S): Nature's Gift, A Master's Blessing]
[Stats]
[HP: 130] [MP: 130]
[Strength: 130] [Defence: 100]
[Agility: 130] [Intelligence: 40]
[Skills]
[Summon Lesser Beast-Lv2] [Tame-Lv1]
[Blood Contract-Lv1] [Golem Summoning-Lv2]
[Misc]
[Beast Points: 8630(+1000)]
[Stat Points: 1020(+1000)]
[Exp:6020/16000]
Liora smiled at the amount of Beast Points and Stat Points she had gotten from her past two days of adventuring, "Now then..let's see.." Liora muttered to herself as she began to distribute her Stat Points.
Liora first added 160 to her Intelligence stat, bringing it up to a 200. She then added a hundred to Defence as well, bringing it up to 200. After that she added 70 to HP, MP, Strength, and finally Agility, bringing them all up to 200.
She now only had 480 Stat Points left, and after pondering for a little while, she decided to add 80 points to every stat, bringing them all up to 280.
[Status Window]
[Name: Liora Rohart] [Race: Human]
[Profession: Grand Beast Master] [Level: 16]
[Talents(S): Nature's Gift, A Master's Blessing]
[Stats]
[HP: 280] [MP: 280]
[Strength: 280] [Defence: 280]
[Agility: 280] [Intelligence: 280]
[Skills]
[Summon Lesser Beast-Lv2] [Tame-Lv1]
[Blood Contract-Lv1] [Golem Summoning-Lv2]
[Misc]
[Beast Points: 8630(+1000)]
[Stat Points: 0]
[Exp:6020/16000]
'This is good.' Liora thought as she felt much stronger already, 'Time to check the shop for something that could restore my magic.'
Liora opened up her [Shop] and started to browse through the items it held, she soon found a Small Magic Recovery Potion which cost her 2000 Beast Points. She quickly bought it and only had 6630 Beast Points left. The item materialized into her hand.
She popped the bottle and began to drink the contents of the potion, after finishing the bottle, Liora felt energized and brimming with energy that just demanded to be spent.
Liora gazed at the Fox Mask that was still in her hand, and decided that she should probably hide such an important item just to be safe. Liora started to walk around her room, looking for the perfect spot to hide her Fox Mask.
After a few minutes of searching, the best spot she found was her closet.
It was filled with her clothes, and she could just hide it under some of them, since nobody would come inside her room without her permission, especially the maids, even if they want to clean the room, they always come to ask her first.
She opened her closet and slipped the Fox Mask perfectly in between a pair of her clothes, making sure it wasn't visible to anybody. After that, she closed her closet and breathed a sigh of relief.