Evolution

It's almost been 3 weeks since I got the wolves. Today also marks a month since everything happened. I just hit 100m3 for my mana last night and can lift around 2 tons now. The wolf pups are about a month and a half old now so the little fluffs are all over me whenever they have the chance. We Have pretty much just been idling around, hunting, and cooking for the past few weeks. One of the adult wolves has been absorbing mana abnormally faster than the rest of us for the past few days. It looks like his body is trying to evolve so that'll be a good boon for our combat power. The problem is that evolutions don't have a 100% chance to succeed. If it fails then he could die. The good thing is that there is a spell that can reduce the pain from the evolution and spread it amongst others. If I use this then the wolf should be able to concentrate more on the evolution.

I have been preparing for the past few days on how to correctly split this among myself and the wolves and I found something interesting. If you concentrate the Mana in the environment then you can turn it into a liquid form. And if I draw runes on the ground for the spell and connect them all with this liquid mana then the rune will spread out the effect to whomever stands on it. After I explained what I was going to do, the wolves all tried to help. They aren't as good at condensing the mana but combined the 5 non evolvers are as good as 3 of me. So I drew out the runes on the ground and had the evolving wolf lay on the center one. I connected 5 more of the runes to it and filled it with the liquid mana.

However I am going to try to get the best out of this evolution as I can. So all the extra liquid mana was placed in one of the big stone bowls. I sat near the evolving wolf in the center of the formation as the other 5 layed on each of the runes on the outside. The good thing is that this will help prepare the other wolves for their own evolution. I could feel that the mana was getting erratic signifying that the evolution was about to start. I decided that now was the time for me to play my own part, So I picked up the liquid mana and drank it. All of it down to the last drop. The wolves looked at me as if I was crazy as the amount of liquid mana was more than 10x my body's limit. I immediately started to act.

"Zu'u ofan hi aan name do suleyk, hi kos Fenrir" I spoke in the runic language. As soon as I finished the last letter I felt the mana being drained from my body. It only took about half of it before calming down and at that moment I felt like I fucked up. I continued pushing as much mana as I could into the wolf to try and drain it from my own body. I was able to get rid of another 25% before it refused to take any more.

I started to panic, not knowing what to do. So I took the only option I had. I immediately started to refine the mana, incorporating it into my own. I continued doing this, ignoring everything else that was happening, until I finally finished . It felt like my body was going to explode but I held it in as hard as I could as I gradually lost consciousness. The pain finally let up as I did at the same time.

I woke up feeling incredibly heavy, my entire body aches as the mana threatened to burst. I looked around and found the wolves surrounding me and the pups trying to cuddle up as close as possible while whimpering in their sleep. I noticed that there was a larger wolf among them. I was so excited, the evolution worked. As I was staring at him the wolf's ears perked up before his eyes opened and looked over at me.

"Hello Fenrir, It seems you successfully evolved." I spoke to him.

"Thank you for this chance Master." He replied by as he nodded his head

"Ooh telepathy" I replied somewhat surprised. It was said that some beasts can gain the skill after they evolve so this is perfect.

I also sensed that he was more powerful than me, but not by much. Wait, not by much? He is almost halfway to being a 4th stage beast now. I stopped and immediately went into my mana realm. "What the fuck…" I was stunned, due to the leftover mana that I fused with myself I had been pushed all the way to 580m3 I was nearly a third stage mage.

"How" I said when I exited.

"The liquid mana you drank gave you a boost, however the downside is that you've been asleep for 4 days"

"Well it makes sense that there was a downside." I thought while thinking how broken it was to be able to just drink condensed mana and gain.

After a few minutes all the other wolves woke up. They all looked happy to see that I was fine Especially two of the puppies. I don't know why but I'm getting alarm bells in my head but I pushed it off to the side. [AN: The puppies are 2 girls and 2 boys ;) ]