Chapter 22 – Rank up

Third Person's POV (4yr.s and 8 months old)

"Lightning magic: lightning bolt!" he used his scythe as the casting point as it created a magic circle -the color of yellow- that summoned a lightning. The lightning strikes the long green snake creating a massive thundering sound.

*BOOM*

*ROOOOAAAAARRRR* Making it scream in agony, -try imagining the roar with that of king ghidora getting beaten up, have you seen Godzilla King of the Monsters? no? okay.

*yellow crackles*

Jumping back a good 10 meters away and putting a distance between them, Ken watched as the snake writhed in pain, trying to disperse the electric shocks on its body,

It's quite intelligent if he might add, as it struck its tail on the ground in seconds, nullifying the effects of the lightning, the snake turned to his direction, a menacing glint on its eyes, but the boy just smirked.

"Momentum magic: Flight.” he floated in the air as the magic circle the color of grey behind him glimmered, it’s machinations infusing his body with the spell. He flew to the wall of the cave.

Going at the side of the circumference of the cave, he can see how big this part of the cave was now compared to when he came inside.

Without sparing Ken another chance of thought, the snake coiled on itself and launched itself towards the boy’s direction, a gasp stuck in his throat as he dodged clumsily, but he evaded the snake’s attack nonetheless.

‘That was close! I could have been eaten alive, the mouth was so near, good thing I dodged in time. Oh no it's doing it again. ‘

"Arcane magic: Blink Zone." Blinking away from the jaws of the snake, and appearing behind it, gave Ken the ample time to strike.

"Earth and Nature Magic: Piercing Thorns!" A combination of earth and vine spear-like pillars, with a size nearly half of the circumference of the snake, shot from the earth around the snake impaling it's sides, drawing blood, and caging the snake inside the vertically aligned spikes,

But not on the center of its body, it's scales seem to be stronger. ‘Well then let's see if it can handle this.’

Blinks away, and appears above the snake, quite near the ceiling of the cave, drawing his scythe.

"Wind magic: Scythe cut!" together with the swing of his scythe, a big wind blade the size of 1/4 of the snake’s length, bursts forth, and aimed vertically towards the snake’s body.

*BOOM*

'Gotcha!'

*ROAR!*

The snake's scream bellowed around the cave making it quake noticeably, small rocks fell from the ceiling and unto the ground, Ken’s gaze frantically shifted everywhere trying to find the snake-

*SMASH!*

"UGGGGHHHH!!!!!!" Ken get's toppled to the side, but before he could recover-

*SPEW*

Flame bursts from the mouth of the snake

*Blink*

Thankfully his blink spell is still active, if not, he would have been roasted alive, looking back at the snake by the corner of the cave he’s at, it's still spewing flames from its mouth from where he was moments ago.

The snake's flame breath falters, then stopping completely, then starts wiggling out and biting of the earth, and vine cage

‘Now's my chance, and without it noticing, let's give him, a single target skill, but this time, it'll finish it.’ he strapped his scythe unto his back and held both hands in front, with the palms facing up, in a position of begging, but in this case, it's more of preparing another skill.

Conjuring a fire at the top of his hands, he concentrated its intensity with his magic, turning the once orange flame slowly, into blue, then finally into white, its energy coursing around in white lightning crackles.

"Follow the path unto the sun, may your legions become undone, burn the path set before me, ignite your light to let it all free."

Revealing himself to the snake, he held his hand out with the ball of white fire, making the snake look his way, it screamed a viciously worried roar, as if it's both angry and anxious, making it bite off and wiggle out of the cage faster, - well too late for that-.

"Fire magic: LAGUNA BLADE!"

*BLAST*

A quick burst of white lightning from the ball of white crackling fire from his hands struck the green snake, hitting it in the face, creating a loud boom, then burning and peeling off its skin down to its bones in just a few seconds as the white lightning consumed it's head and quite possibly 1/4 of its upper body, incinerates it into oblivion.

(A.N.: before anyone could sue me for copyright purposes, because I used a familiar skill from a popular game, I just want to say that I am a fan of Warcraft and, and was awe-inspired by their choice of words when naming a skill and it's visual representation.

I became even more fascinated when DOTA 2 came into public, it's visual representation of the skill "Laguna Blade" by the hero "Lina" made me extremely happy -even if it's just a worldly satisfaction- and think 'that I just had to use and see this hero in action' and after playing the game and using her for quite some time,

I became satisfied, and it is only now that I remembered to use her skill as a reference to the skill used by my character in this story, I am not saying all rights belong to me seeing as I had only copied it, it belongs to the producer and maker of the game.)

Finally, that last skill left Ken gasping for air as the extensive use of mana wore him out, good thing he cultivates and trains his magic by using too much spells in a day that he’s able to deal with the backlash of using such a high tiered skill, and he’s not even a teen yet! Just a toddler, but when one’s mentality age is over 20, then they can achieve great feats....

‘Enough chitchat, I need to get a move on, but first, I need to heal, myself.’

"Healing magic: Regeneration." Ken sighed in relief from the cool and calming sensation coursing through his body.

‘I'll have to take a rest for a while, since the magic I used took quite a huge chunk of my mana pool.’ situating himself unto an indian position and laying his scythe in front of him, hands clasped together,

he slowly but surely filled back his mana pool, while also increasing the proficiency and efficiency of his magic, as well as inserting a little bit of training for his magic, to enlarge his mana pool.

-A few hours later-

One thing he noticed after he finished recovering however, is the blinking red dot of his notifications. Checking it moments after, greeted him with the increase of… are those points? For his skills? His level ranked up thought, but what’s with the points or something?

It read like this.

[ Fire Magic: Laguna Blade Level:1 Points: 10/200 ]

‘But wow, that's quite surprising, since I hadn't noticed it before in my character stats, or did White add another feature, hmmmmmmmmmmmm...........’

'Before you get anymore second thoughts, yes, I had added a new feature to your status window, one that will keep track of your development in all aspects, not quite all but the majority of it.' -White-

"Oh thank you, and seeing as my status window dictated that I am at level 10 with my stats over 20, I think that fight with the green snake, really did its job." Ken nodded approvingly.

'Right, but be on the look-out for new things, I have a feeling there's a much greater battle you will be facing on ahead.' said White, concern dripping from his voice.

"Okay, but just so I can reassure you that I will be fine, I'll definitely find another way to survive if I have to come across a battle greater than what I had faced." The boy replied to the ball of white, determined to survive for the sake of his mission and purpose here on this planet.

And to find out why he has that points thingy on his skills.

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