Party? New Friend? Mana? I’m Confused!

"Come on, I haven't even asked you yet," he says to me in an annoying and arrogant tone.

"Fufufu, you say that I can't know what your gonna ask, even though I do, but I guess I'll humor you anyway. What did you want to ask," I say a derisive tone that shone in my eyes.

Slightly taken back by my condescending tone, he answered with a little less confidence. "Well I wanted to invite you to my party."

"Why would you want me to be part of your party?" Posing the question I look towards him.

"I want to pursue you, if that's what you saw then you are right," he says this to me in a calm level tone, maybe a hint of hope. "More important though even if you're level 1 I can tell your strong, enough to help take down the demon king."

"Well, even if I were to join your party, and I won't, I'm not going to give you false hope. You and me will never happen for one simple reason, I don't like men," as I say this to him, any hope I saw to make things work disappeared. "Look, even if you didn't have a great first impression, you seem like a good person. So, if I'm ever in the same place as you and you need help, reach out."

"Well, I would like to be friend, so to that then, I'm Sumida," he tells me in a slightly defeated tone.

"I would love to be friends, I'm Erin," in a playful, and slightly teasing tone I tilt my head slightly to the side with my hands clasped behind me and a wide smile. 'Tease flirting is so much fun, just look at that dazed look on his face. Though I'm not quiet happy about this change, I'll sure as hell milk it.' Laughing a little at his dazed expression I ask Sumida a question, "I'm a little lost, can you tell me where the closest beast-kin friendly city is?"

"It probably isn't safe in this country for you, being a holy kingdom they are a little, purist. The closest safe city will be south-west by about 50 miles, were close to the border so the beast-kin country isn't far." Hearing Sumida say this my suspicions were confirmed, in that many humans were probably racist, making it unsafe for me.

"Thank you for the directions, I'll remember this kindness," I say to him as I check the sun and start heading south-west, waving Sumida goodbye.

Walking a few miles and seeing I wasn't followed I sigh in relief. Finding myself an especially thick tree I start to climb, trying to find more efficient ways to do so. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to level it up but that's probably a given.

Now that I'm sitting on a safe branch a few into the canopy, I sit in a meditative pose and empty my mind. 'Since this is a fantasy world then there is probably mana, I just need to find where it is. My best guess is probably in my mind, if not then maybe right below the sternum.'

With my mind emptied I start to see if I can feel anything different about my body. Searching in my head, even after an hour I don't find anything, so giving up there I move just below my sternum. Not long after I start looking for something different there I find an area that just feels empty, like it's missing something. Remembering the feeling I search for the feeling in my body and finally notice the difference. Bringing my awareness to my surrounding I find the substance and try to coerce it into that empty space in my chest. Following this I get a feeling of euphoria that effects my while being, it felt amazing.

Following this I move to my heart, which holds your bloodline, if you have one like with the web novels I used to read on earth. Diving in I delve in and look in the chambers of my heart that hold oxygenated blood. I'm the exact center of it I find something that is, different but I can't access it for some reason. I know it's there though and I will unlock it eventually. With these plans in motion I quietly accumulate my mana.