2. Life Saver

The forest of damnation, Where every species are very huge including trees, plants, insects and much more, It was a forest of nightmares but it comes with a very thick amount of energy.. The reason why nothing happened to Kier while meditating was because he's dumb.

As Kier was heavily injured he found himself hanging for dear life.

"Yeah this is not a dream. What will happen if I die here? damn I just got here and this is happening to me already? The world must really be playing tricks on me huh?"

Kier asked these questions to himself and accepted the situation that he's in.

"Let's just give up and die then". As Kier said his last words a robotic voice shouted very loudly.

"GET DOWN!!!!"

A slash of the sword can be seen flying towards the mutated bull and got killed in one shot.

"WOOAAHHHH" Kier shouted like an excited little kid. "How did you do that Miste- uhh?.... WHAT ARE YOUUUUUU?? Do-don't eat me I'm not tasty". Kier yelled and begged for life as what he has seen was a human with a red flashing ball as it's head while wearing a sci-fi looking straw hat with 2 katana's in each side"

"I am Shin and I'm a cyborg. Do you know how dangerous this place for a little kid like you- uhhh? YOU TOOO WHAT ARE YOUU??" The swordsman Shin got surprised as he saw a glimpse of Kier's Aura.

"Are you a demon-kin? I've never seen such dreadful aura before." Shin asked.

"Demon? Aura? Wait! there are demons here? and what's an aura? is that the same as the magic that you used earlier?" Kier's curiosity went as high as the heavens.

"If you're not a demon then what are you? could it be that you're from up there?" Shin's curiosity went really high as well.

"You know where I came from uncle?" Kier asked.

"Otherworlders are indeed rare I only met a few of them. You're lucky I'm the one that found you, this world makes otherworlders as a lab rat just look at me" Shin explained a lot of things on how otherworlders are rare and if the world's government finds one they'll use any means just to capture the otherworlder for experiment purposes since otherworlders possessed a huge amount of aura. He further explained that he is one of the so called otherworlders and he turned into a cyborg because of continuous experimentation that causes his head to explode and that explains why his head is a robotic sphere glowing in red that serves as his eye. (To know what he looked like go visit my Twitter @Shimpessed)

" You're also from Earth uncle?" Shin asked.

"Nope I'm from the other planet" Shin proudly said.

As the two continues to talk they learned a lot of things about each other and Shin taught Kier a lot of things about how the world works including magic and auras.

"Magic and Aura are different. Magic consumes mana while martial arts consumes a person's aura"

"Then uncle's sword slash was an aura?"

"Indeed, with determination and practice you can achieve such state"

In order to absorb mana or aura one must know which practice suits them perfectly in order to display their full strength. Almost 80% of the world's population have these kind of strength while the rest are just normal people.

"I already tried meditating but nothing happened" Kier was confused.

"Come here kid, take one of these stones. This is a dawn stone it'll glow up if you have the aptitude in magic and the other one is the dusk stone it'll glow up if you have the aptitude for martial arts". Shin explained carefully, after their little test both stone glowed and the light it emitted was the same.

"HAHHAHAHA what a monster you are kid, you can do both magic and martial arts"

"But when I did it earlier I felt like nothing happened" Kier asked to Shin.

" That's because you did it wrong, here, study this, it'll help you".

What Shin handed down was a book with many years of research about different methods on how to absorb mana and aura efficiently. The reason why Kier didn't felt anything from his meditation was because the amount of energy he absorbed was not enough.( eherm.. If I say energy that means both mana and aura okii?)

" But before that let's test how you would do in fights. Hmmm.... let's find another bull since the bulls are the weakest monster in this forest" Shin suggested.

" Ehhh!? that's the weakest? Th-then how about that mantis over there? That looks like a weak monster." Kier pointed on a giant mantis with a size comparable to a bike.

" Try to approach that if you want to become a minced idiot. That's 5 times stronger that the bull earlier". After walking through the forest they found their first prey.

" let's try your magic kid, now try to feel the energy in your body and gather it in your hands and shoot it. Oh and use your imagination that's the fundamentals in magic your imagination". Shin instructed.

" Imagination huh, I read a lot of manga about this stuffs so it should be easy." Kier said so in his self.

As the bull tried to rush towards Kier, He gathered mana unto his palms and shouted

"HADOUUUKEEENNNN!!!!!" it's a powerful technique ( in street fighter) but what appeared in Kier's palms was only a little spark that's barely enough to start a fire.

* BWEEBWEEBWEEEE ( this the bull tryna laugh)

" HHHAHAAHAHAHHAA you're so bad that even the bull made fun of you" Shin laughed in a weird robotic voice.

" Ugh this is embarrassing, do I need to visualize it in my head? Then let's try the technique I saw in anime" Kier gave a lot of thought in his technique and came up with a new one. As the bull continued to sprint towards Kier, he shouted as loud as he can.

"EXPLOOOOOSSIIOOOOONNNN"

*BOOOOOMMMM!!!!!!

A large explosion happened inside of the forest causing a huge quake within it's surrounding. A huge mountain of smoke was created after the spell was casted and the bull was burnt to crisps while Shin was left dumbfounded.

" Master Shin I feel weak and tired~". As Kier was about to pass out Shin reached and grabbed Kier into his arms.

" You monster HHAHHAHAA very well then I'll teach you how to use that power well and maybe... maybe you'll be the hope that I was waiting for". Shin mumbled in his own and Kier passed out.

What does Shin mean when he said Kier was his hope? Who is this Shin? What will happen to our main protagonist? Find out in the next chapter of SPITE.