Author’s Corner: Alright, now on to so more action! Pew pew and what not.That night, I devoted all of my attention to cultivating Void Affinity. For the first ti, aside from the jungle planet, I even decided not to sleep first. I needed to get this one to 10% as soon as I could, so that I could finish securing my house. After that, I could begin working on the others. I had decided at this point that I would log into the ga to finish my training after my house was secured, and have my AI alert if there was a call for .With that, I’d be able to finish my elent training a lot sooner, and not end up falling behind. Over two weeks in the ga now, if they devoted a single officer to training up as so kind of mage or soldier during this ti he might already be able to take care of things. However, I was still called early in the morning once again. Moving down to the living room, I accepted the call.This ti, Faraday had a rather tired look on his face as he spoke. “We’ve got another sli issue. This ti, it looks like they’ve joined together to beco bigger, so our usual thods aren’t working. Think you can handle it? It’s down at the beach.”“Should be alright.” I nodded my head, and again the call ended.“So, a big sli this ti. Still want to study it?” Celeste smiled as she appeared at my wrist again.“Would like to, yeah. Depends on the situation. If it’s attacking people, I’ll have to stop it. But if there’s nobody around, I can take my ti.”After I spoke, Celeste nodded, fading away. Stepping out of the house, I went ahead and created my wings again, before taking off into the sky. It may be a bit more tiring to fly instead of taking a car, but it was much better for my wallet. And, for not at least, I had to be careful with how I spent my money.Just a few minutes after I set off, I was already approaching the beach, and could clearly see a giant blue sli slowly walking up and down the shore aimlessly. The size of it should have been sowhere around fifteen ters in diater, and I could make out over a dozen sli cores inside of it. Most likely, these were all water slis that had ford in the bay and had co together before making their way to shore.From another point of view, that was at least a dozen Seeds of Water in this sli, most of them probably dium grade. Although they did not have much worth yet in the real world, it shouldn’t take too long before enchanting catches up and people start needing them. No matter what, I absolutely couldn’t use the void breath and simply suck away these cores. Especially since I did still want to study it.Nearby, there was a group of officers who all had their guns trained on the sli, as if waiting to see what it would do. Not like their guns would do anything to it, but it probably makes them feel better. Before I landed, I mumbled under my breath. “Celeste, can you identify?”Giant Water SliLevel: 20-25Mana: 1000Health: ???Key Affinities: WaterSpecial Abilities: ???The information appeared in my Cybernetic eye, and I nodded my head as I landed. So this thing is stronger than a couple dozen water slis individually. Might even raise a level after I defeat it. My landing space was about ten ters in front of the giant sli, and I imdiately sent out my Mana Sense to study it.It seed to be able to detect my mana, because as soon as I began studying it, a bit of sli lashed out from its body like a whip heading straight for . It was easy enough for to dodge, and I ducked down away from it. However, after the whip passed over , I rembered the very important fact that I had large wings sticking out of my back. This realization ca right around the ti that I was sent tumbling off to the side, cursing as I cancelled the spell.Standing up, I found that the sli had already reached . Its body quickly wrapped around my own, and I could feel its slimy substance all over. It was, in a word, gross. Thankfully, though, it did not burn my body with acid like the plant sli. Instead, it felt like it was trying to suck out all the water mana from my body. Well then… two can play at this ga!I began drawing in water mana from the sli all around , while it was drawing the sa mana in from . In a strange sense, this was like a form of cultivation. Although I wasn’t quite as good at drawing in water mana as this sli, I wasn’t at too much of a disadvantage. Now I understood how the thing ate, at least. A plant sli dissolves whatever it touches with acid to consu the nutrients, while a water sli absorbs the water mana to dehydrate creatures.So as to avoid becoming sli food, I began releasing a bit of lightning mana to mix in with the water mana it was absorbing. It didn’t seem to like that much, as it recoiled away from , practically spitting out in the process. Once again, I tried to study it with my Mana Sense, but it shied away from my mana. Seems like it’s afraid of lightning mana. Not surprised.Even when I wasn’t releasing any lightning mana, it seed to have rembered what my mana felt like and avoided it. As such, I didn’t really get a chance to study the sli like this. Shaking my head, I couldn’t help but sigh as I was left with no real alternative but beating it until it was a single normal sli, and then taking my ti to study it like I had the plant sli. Raising one hand, I began firing off shadow blasts, which burrowed into the water sli and dispersed, making it turn into a dark murky color. Seeing this, I was a bit surprised at the combination effect, but still felt that I had control over the shadows I had fired. As such, I kept firing them. Before long, it looked like a giant black blob, unable to dodge fast enough to avoid the repeated blasts.Once I felt like the shadows had taken root enough to act, I started using them to wrap around the cores of the sli one by one, pulling them out and back to . After each core was removed, the sli grew visibly smaller, until I had taken out all but one core. Strangely, at that point I felt like there was a disturbance in the shadows within the sli, like they were being devoured.The sli had stopped shrinking at roughly six ters in diater. I had honestly expected it to beco even smaller, but I was too busy being surprised by what it was doing with my dark mana to care. In under ten seconds, it felt like all of the dark mana inside the water sli had been eaten, but the sli’s murky appearance hadn’t changed.The sli’s elent has changed. It’s registering as having equal parts Water and Dark Affinities now. Celeste’s words appeared in my Cybernetic eye, surprising . Well… if I had known that could happen, I would not have played it like that!Still, I had retrieved a total of nine dium-grade Seeds of Water, and five lesser-grade ones. Into the inventory they go, and once more I tried to study the mutated sli. This ti, it did not shy away from my mana, which confused . Either way, I studied it as much as I could while it made its way closer to . This ti, it seed intent on swallowing up again rather than lashing at first, which made worried. However, I did not feel an aura which suggested acid in the sli, but still… Nope nope nope, all of my nope.A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation.Unlike lightning mana, when I wielded the power of light mana, there was plenty to work with nearby, as it was still early in the day. As such, it took far less mana to attack the sli with condensed lasers! Though this wasn’t as strong as plasma, it still had the effect of burning an ant with a magnifying glass. Except this ant was several ters wide.
It recoiled again from the light mana, so naturally I kept shooting more at it, its size slowly reducing. Beco my study material!
After a few minutes of this extrely one-sided exchange, the sli had been reduced to less than half a ter wide, and barely had any power to move itself anymore. Or, well, that was the impression I got at first. Nobody told to expect that when I got close to it, its shadow would suddenly spread out and rise from the ground to lash at ! It seed to have beco more intelligent by absorbing the second elent, as the shadows tossed around for a mont like a ragdoll, lashing at my front, back, legs, head, and finally throwing into the water. Owww…When I pulled myself out of the water, the sli had returned to its full size, making want to cry. “That is so not fair, you aren’t allowed to trick like that.”My health by this point was fairly low, having just twenty points remaining. I cast a quick Alchemic Heal to fix this situation, and then wondered just how I could kill an intelligent sli. The most obvious thod was to remove its core like I had been doing before. However, with how dark the waters of the sli were, I was unable to even see where the core was for this sli. Looking around, I saw one thing that I could probably use here, and there was even plenty of it.Tapping into the earth mana, I made the sands rise up. Go, filter the goo for ! I grinned as I sent a large mass of sand into the sli. Although it was more difficult to control the sand after it had entered the sli, it did not show signs of being devoured like the dark mana had been. The last thing I needed was an even more intelligent sli to fight with.The blackish water sli rushed towards again, and I hurriedly sifted through the mass of goo with the sand into I struck sothing solid. Then, with a thought, all of the sand in the sli surrounded the core and yanked it out. The result was… ssy. The sli, which had been just a couple feet in front of , practically exploded in my direction, covering from head to toe in black sludge.You have leveled up!Bringing my hands up, I tried to wipe the gunk off of my eyes, which failed spectacularly since my hands were also covered in it. Instead, I decided to walk into the water and wash off briefly. Once I was able to see again, I brought down the pile of sand holding the sli core. Looking it over, I saw that what should have been a pure blue core now had a mix of blue and black along its surface. You can make dual elent seeds? Good to know…I decided to put the core away in my inventory with the rest of the sli cores, and looked over at the ss that had once terrorized the beach. I hate slis.Since my work here was done, I once more grew my wings and flew off, heading ho. I was already at 9% Void Affinity, and felt like there was just a small amount left before I broke through. And, as I suspected, after cultivating for about another hour once I got ho, I finally got to 10%. With this, I was able to quickly cover my entire house in a void field spell formation.Good, now my ho should be safe against monster spawns. Or random burglars for that matter. I smiled, and began work on my sli studies! Using my own void abilities to suppress the void field around , I took out one of the dium-grade Seeds of Water. At the sa ti, Celeste appeared at my wrist, looking curiously at it. “Are you going to try to make a sli? Are you sure that’s a good idea?”“Nope, not in the slightest. However, if it’s just a tiny sli, I can destroy it if it becos a problem.” I smiled confidently, and began feeding water mana into the elent seed. Very gradually, I could see water droplets converging around the seed, the first step to it becoming a sli. However, since the area was sealed off with void mana, there wasn’t a good source of water mana to use here aside from myself and the other seeds. To test sothing, I turned my left hand into a clawed fist, and pricked my right thumb. After dropping a single drop of blood on the sli, I noticed a slight change in its aura.After the change, it began rapidly sucking in the mana I was giving it, as if starved for more. I could feel the air around becoming dry, and even the water mana in my own body was rushing out to et the sli. However, this lasted for only a few monts, before the sli’s body had grown to be roughly four inches in radius. Unlike a normal sli, it had two air bubbles next to each other that gave it the appearance of eyes.Yay, I made a sli! Now… to see if I can communicate with it… I put my hand on the top of the water sli’s head, and sent a ssage into it with water mana. ’Can you understand ?’I was awarded with another ability, just a copy of the last ones saying that I could speak with water creatures. However, looking at the sli, it didn’t seem like it could answer . Its bubble eyes ‘blinked’ by popping and quickly reforming. So, instead, I told it to move to the left, which it did so. So, it can understand … but isn’t smart enough to answer…I decided to perform a test, and used the sa animal companion bonding magic that I had used on Yin and Yang. I honestly hadn’t expected it to work on a monster, but sure enough the effect took hold without a problem.You have made an Animal Companion bond with an Advanced Water Sli.Please choose a na for this companion.Advanced water sli? Is that because of the blood? I thought it over for a mont, before looking down at the sli. “Yo.” Now I had my three stooges, Yin, Yang, and Yo.
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