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Chapter 8 - chapter 08 : time skip

(After two years)

One sunny afternoon, Ellis stood in front of his bedroom mirror, his heart racing with frustration , as he looked at himself, he felt a wave of anger wash over him.

"Why do I look like this?" I muttered, scowling at my reflection. My pale skin seemed to glow in the sunlight, and my hair fell perfectly around my face. But instead of feeling proud, i felt like i looked more like a girl than a boy.

I crossed my arms and frowned, my purple eyes narrowing. "I supposed to look handsome, not… not like this!".

As i stood there, i remembered the words of my mother , who always said, " i will always love you however you look but to be honest I love your looks pretty and petite i can just pick you up at anytime to gobble you , you look like mini me ." 

I took a deep breath, trying to calm the storm of emotions swirling inside him. 

I thought about what the one and only great love immortal venerable Fang Yuan said " The human body is merely a sack of flesh, I was just changing the sack, what was the point of making such a fuss? The so-called beauty and ugly are superficially and weak things"

With a sigh, i stepped back from the mirror , With a newfound sense of confidence, i turned away from the mirror walking to my favorite destination .

In the past few years I tried a lot of my own mana theory and also found out that my eyes are not normal , i can see in slow motion,

In the dark and the most importantly mana , i can see how it's moves so now i can predict my opponent every move effectively. 

To be honest I can't see in slow motion it's more of my eyes take a lot of information from my surroundings and send it to my brain which allows me to greatly increase the speed of my thought through the process. In simple words it's more of thought acceleration than slow motion and I can turn it off and on by will .

From the moment I started to augment my body there was something bagging me, if any other person augmented his body with mana the ratio is always the same. Let think about it you have one hundred percent of mana Amount , when you augment your body the ratio will be 

20% : right arm

20% : left arm 

20% : right leg 

20% : left leg 

20% : middle area and head 

It always seems to be the same with a little to no variation maybe when you get a surprise attack the attacker ratio will be 80% to 20% to have a one kill hit effect other than that it's the same. 

I thought of a way to augment my body , (Ryu ) is to Allocate percents of your mana to different parts of body let's say my opponent used the same amount of ratio from above I'll use thirty to forty percent in the limb to defense and seventy to sixty percent in the rest of my body that i will use to protect myself then change the ratio again when attacking in other words they will use one hundred percent in all of their body meanwhile i use ratios for different parts of my body basically Ryu from HxH (Ken + Gyo) . 

 It will vary depending on the level of mana core of my opponent at the same level as me I'll have the upper hand every single time but if he is higher it will depend on other Various things like mana control , fighting ability, experience….ect .

There is also another technique that i was trying to learn .

Mirage Walk - While training , Arthur learns to completely hide his mana presence by balancing his output of mana from his core through his mana channels and his intake of mana from the atmosphere through his mana veins, rendering him essentially invisible to people and animals trying to sense him via mana fluctuations this technique is the most powerful way to go unnoticed so I have to learn it.

The first few months were challenging , when i tried to put my knowledge into practice, i quickly realized that in theory it was much easier than execution. 

My first attempts at Mirage Walk ended in frustration ,But i was not one to give up easily. 

embracing the trial-and-error process, treating each mistake as a lesson. I spent my free time in the forest , surrounded by Mud and branches, experimenting with different ways to employment the technique. Each failure only fueled my determination to improve.

As the months passed, my understanding began to grow. I learned how to properly balance my output of mana from my core through my mana channels and the intake of mana from the atmosphere through my mana Veins . With every step i take ,my confidence blossomed.

After months of hard work, research, and countless hours spent in the woods . The day came when i finally succeeded .

The rest of the time I focused on my elements , I was able to unlock the Deviant Elements - After having mastered Fire and wind elements to a certain extent, i was able to use the upgraded versions of the elements (higher forms of elemental manipulations are known as deviant forms of magic), lightning, and sound .

 I also discovered that i have infinite to Gravity magic, the deviant higher form of the Earth element, but only gravity not earth magic I still can't use it but I'm getting there i just need time .

the more understanding you have of an element the stronger it gets , example of this statement .

Fire the more you understand it , the more it becomes easier to manipulate , it temperature increase and it changes color . 

you start with Orange flames , blue flames, or flames with a blue base, it's what you unlock after , you can expect the temperature to rise dramatically, The brighter the white, the higher the temperature.

I also had a problem with my eyes, to be more precise, my slow motion vision .

 my body can't keep up , Average humans have a reaction speed of about 0.3 seconds and trained fighters can have it shortened to 0.2 or 0.15 seconds,but still I couldn't keep up with my vision so after unlocking my lightning Deviant I developed a spell which will help me to keep up with my slow motion vision I still didn't have a name for it .

To use the spell i need to let lightning affinity mana go through my nerves allowing me to enhance my reflexes and shorten my time of reaction, aka making a quick feedback loop .

" maybe I'll find the inspiration to name it in another day." I thought to myself as i lay under the tree using it shade as a cover protecting me from the sun .

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( Hello readers , thank you for reading my book till this point , I have to tell that i need to give the Mc a new power so he can fight in the big league , I don't have anything specific so I'll put thirteen names in a Roulette and see what happens , if he needs another type of energy to activate the power I'll adjust it to the world he's in .)

( i promise i will roll the roulette one time only to make it fun )