Simple man have a simple plan
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The bats flew fast around Mormo, he couldn't see anything. They moved faster than his brain could process, but he could smell their fear!
Mormo inserted 90 percent of his essence into the floor of the cave. His essence spread around as far as it could, in this way he tried to map the structure of the cave.
He knew that above him was the exit to the cave, but he didn't manage to detect any walls even when he extended his essence as far as he could inside the floor.
He couldn't see anything, and he could hear only the strong wind that came from everywhere because of the bats.
He collected 60 percent of his essence back into himself to create a shield around his body. The remaining 40 percent he sent into the ceiling. Mormo jumped into the exit of the cave after detecting it.
As Mormo was in the air, a terrible sound entered his head, it was a high-pitched scream. The sound paralyzed Mormo, he couldn't move any part of his body, while tens of bats smashed him repeatedly in the air, Mormo flew in the air as if he was a ball between the bats, each time another one smashed into him, and then quickly returned to fly around him.
Mormo couldn't detect any of them, so he just covered his body equally with protection, which made his essence barrier to be less effective than usual.
Mormo's body accumulated damage fast, as he flew around getting beaten from every direction.
"Explode" Mormo shouted inside his head, as the essence that was inside the ceiling started to run wild, the top of the cave started to fall apart. Giant boulders fell from the ceiling, as the ceiling got demolished.
Mormo inserted some essence into the falling boulders, each time a boulder hit a bat, the essence entered the bat's skin and started to injure it from within. It was manageable easily because the bat dropped its guard down after it got hit by a boulder that was enhanced with Mormo's essence.
Mormo fell to the ground, nothing was broken but blood covered his whole body.
No bat died but now the broken cave was filled with a sticky smell of fear! The bats were strong, but they weren't smart, Mormo terrified them, and they couldn't understand what happened.
Mormo's essence flew all over the cave consuming the fear that was emitted from all the bats. His essence grew bigger and shinier at a visible rate. Essence wasn't something that could be seen by the naked eye, all you could see is the color that the essence is emitting while they are in the air.
White light with a gleam of gold covered the floor, while Mormo looked like a demonic creature ready to massacre the bats.
The emotions that entered Mormo's body, while he "consumed" the fear that the bats felt, actually couldn't be felt by Mormo, it was absolutely nothing to him!
Mormo didn't collect more essence, but he felt like he has more and more essence in his body. He grew closer to the border of the 4-god-level without even understanding why, it never happened to him in the past.
He thought that there is a big chance that he will lose this additional essence, but he couldn't care less. An evil smile appeared on his face as he run in the direction of the closest bat ready to kill, his sword was flying fast around him.
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Yaacov was full of determination, he was the worst of the trio in essence manipulation, but he was the best in controlling the power of the essence.
"I WILL MAKE MYSELF USEFUL!!!" Yaacov shouted!
He moved 80 percent of his essence into the giant snake. The snake was covered in blood, but no real injury could be detected on its body, it was totally fine but angry.
Yaacov tried to use it to his own advantage! Yaacov knew that he is one of the best fighters!
He didn't try to make the snake feel scared or lost, he tried to manipulate its concept of reality.
That was Yaacov's thesis from the moment he learned about the power of emotions, he thought that maybe it's not emotions that the power can manipulate, but the actual mind of the user.
He didn't tell Mormo about his ideas because he thought it was too arrogant on his part to teach his master something about his master's power that was only bestowed to him, so he waited to see if this is actually the case.
They did know that they can create illusions or imaginable scenarios, but they never checked it on anyone that wasn't part of the trio, and any one of them could easily dismiss the scenario and understand what is true and what is fake.
The snake shoot in the direction of Yaacov, it opened its mouth wildly to devour Yaacov.
Yaacov jumped back, he tried to run from the snake to the best of his abilities but eventually, the snake ate him.
The moment it closed its mouth, a black stream flew out of the snake's face, from every hole, it was quite confusing as the smoke expand all over its body. The smoke was pitch black, and it was full of Yaacov's essence, it was the color that his essence emitted!
The snake was quite confused as it flapped its wing and shoot to the sky, when it reached the sky, it couldn't detect the black smoke at all, he couldn't detect anything.
Yaacov vanished.
The snake watched from the sky, trying to find Yaacov. In the middle of its search it saw the most absurd thing it ever saw in its life, the scaled lion flew into the sky. Blood was flowing out of every scale of its body, an absurd amount of blood covered the sky below the lion.
The snake's mood flipped from confused, into complete madness, the lion was one of its companions in the forest.
The snake forgot about Yaacov as it flew as fast as it can in the lion's direction.
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Moshe stood on the ground, his essence circled around him wildly, the aura around him was colorful, all the color of the rainbow flickered on and off.
He had no pupil in his eyes, his whole eye emitted strong and colorful light, it looked like the color danced inside his eyes randomly.
Moshe looked like a transactional being, and he felt … strong.
He felt that if he would hit the earth, the earth will split into two.
He looked at his hands, he couldn't understand what is happening.
BBBBBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM
A lot of dust flew everywhere as the lion fell to the ground, Moshe couldn't determine if it was dead or just unconscious.
To his amazement, his essence started to heal his own body. The colorful wind that flew around him, started to close his wounds, and connect his muscles and tendons again!
His essence, for his utter astonishment, had also the power to heal its own body!
As his body began to heal faster and faster, the snake came to Moshe's location. After it saw the sorry state of the lion, it shouted an angry roar!
Immediately, hundreds of animals began to move into their location, they sensed danger.
The inner forest was very different from the other areas of the giant forest, all the beasts lived together and they protect one another in case of outside attack, they behaved as a big clan or guild would.
As the snake finished its roar, a cloud of black smoke started to fly around Moshe, he knew that it was Yaacov's doing, he was the one with the essence that have a black luster.
Yaacov jumped from the forest to stand near Moshe, he managed to locate him thanks to his essence.
"What's happened to you?? Why are you looking like … WHAT THE FUCK???? ARE YOU HEALING ME?!" Yaacov's injuries started to heal just from standing near Moshe.
"I don't know, it's new to me as well" Moshe said to him confusedly.
"And … I'm pretty strong" Moshe added.
Yaacov looked at him as if he was some kind of retarded.
"Fine, whatever, we need to run from here" Yaacov said.
"No, I think that we might win" Moshe added as he saw the legion of monsters that run in their direction.
"HOW?" Yaacov shouted at Moshe.
Moshe looked at him, in a very serious manner and said, "We will run straight to them, and we will kick their asses!"