Chapter 15: Merbaby

Isaac starts to walk towards the pond where the merbaby is, but before he breaks into a sprint towards the pond, his senses picks up magical energy towards the body of the flamvell wolf.

"I just killed the wolf...what's causing my senses to detect magical energy? There is no way the wolf is alive with how I just impaled it". Isaac thinks as he goes closer to the wolf's dead body. A small glow is radiating from the area of the wolf's heart. Isaac realizes that he can't actually get to the heart because the pelt of the wolf is stronger than any normal wolf on Earth.

"While my dual bladed polearm could carve apart the pelt, there is no way I'll be able to get a good grip with such a long weapon...I need something smaller". Isaac thinks and begins to enter his magical tree by entering meditation. Isaac looks as the sub spells for his foundation spell, and begins to ponder on a new concept. It doesn't take too long as a purple glow connecting to to the purple orb of form change begins to appear. Now a third purple orb is connected along side the orbs for the extension spell and throwable spear spell.

"With this, I can get towards the wolf's heart". Isaac says to himself, as magic begins to gather in his hand, within two seconds, Isaac's spell is complete. "Summon"! A small purple hunter's knife appears in Isaac's hands. "If it wasn't for the boy scouts, I guess I would be all out of luck". Isaac thinks and laughs in his head. Back when Isaac was a kid on Earth, he had attended the boy scouts camp during summer, and apart of any other things boy scouts did, Isaac was assigned to food gathering, and he was allowed to carry the hunting knife with him. Even though he didn't have anything happen to where he needed to use the knife, he remembers very vividly being impressed by the design of the knife and spent most of his time while searching for food, inspecting the knife.

Isaac returns to reality after thinking about his boy scout days and begins to skin the pelt to get closer and closer to the heart of the wolf. When Isaac reaches the heart, in the center of the heart is a spherical object that is radiating mana.

"I think this thing is a beast core, which Ms. Kanade has told me about". Isaac says as he pockets the item. Beast cores are spherical object of mana all magical beasts have regardless of the tier they are. While humans also possess magical cores, there cores are formed when they reach tier 1. Humans at tier 0 have magic stored in their veins, the reason why humans must form a core to progress to tier 1 is that the human body can't handle higher amounts of mana, if the amount of mana used in higher tier magic passed through the veins of the human body, the body would explode into a gory mess. The great thing about beast cores though, were that they could help improve the mana capacity of the body if you absorbed them. Once you absorbed enough beast cores, you could make a breakthrough. The only thing is, the higher tier you are, the more higher tier monster cores you will need, because lower tier monster cores will provide drops of buckets of energy for higher tier mages.

Isaac makes his way back to the pond with the merbaby. When he makes his way back, the merbaby is washed up near the edge of the pond, looking depleted of energy.

"Small thing looks so depleted of energy". Isaac says and tries to touch the merbaby, but it swims back towards the center of the pool, looking apprehensively at Isaac. Isaac quickly thinking on his feet, lays the beast core he got from the wolf by the edge of the pool, then takes 10 steps back. The merbaby continues to stare apprehensively at Isaac, but quickly swims up to the beast core and grabs it in its little hands. Suddenly the beast core begins to slowly disappear into the merbaby, and the merbaby regains a bit of energy in its face, and quickly swims circles in the pond, in what looks like to be excitement. Isaac waves a the merbaby and turns to leave before he hears a splash of water.

"What the?" Isaac says as her turns around. Right there in front of Isaac, is the merbaby, but instead of the mermaid tail they had before, there fishtail turned into a pair of human legs.

"Thank you for saving me". The merbaby says to Isaac.

"You can...talk"? Isaac asks in a curious tone, as if he can't believe the events that have unfolded. "Oh wait, magical world and the unnatural...I shouldn't even be surprised". Isaac thinks as he waits for how the merbaby will respond.

"Yes, I am Coralia, pleasure to make your acquaintance". She says while bowing

Isaac blinks after being bowed to, because he thinks it feels awkward to bow to someone the same age as you, bit then he quickly responds after catching himself, "I'm Isaac, I have to get back home for dinner with my mom, if there is anything else you need, or any other wolfs that end up chasing you, I'll try my best to help you as soon as I can". Isaac turns to leave, but it stopped by the shout that comes from Coralia.

"Please don't leave me alone here! I'm scared"! Coralia begs as tears begins to form in her eyes, and rushes at Isaac, but trips in the process and lands on the dirt and gets herself scratched and dirty. Isaac walks over to Coralia and then grabs both of her hands to help pull her up.

"You can come with me to my home, but I can't guarantee my mother will let you stay". Isaac replies feeling sorry for the helpless merbaby.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you"! The merbaby screams in excitement and jumps up and down, but almost falls over, if it wasn't for Isaac catching her. After catching her, Isaac picks her up bridal style and begins to rush towards the town.

"Wait What!? Put me down this instance"! Coralia screams with a red blush appearing on her face as she is carried across the forest area.

"Sorry, but I can tell you don't know your own center of gravity and it would take too long to reach back to my home if we both walked at your pace, it won't be too long, promise". Isaac replies calmly.

With the merbaby currently holding on to his neck for dear life, she looks away from him and proceeds to calm down, while Isaac carries her back into town.