Mana Pills I

Luke found his consciousness in the body of another person that looked almost exactly like him. A body he could possess but had zero control over. It was Zeke.

The last time he'd been in Zeke's body, Zeke had been on a battlefield and Luke had watched the battle come to an end. This time, he woke up to find Zeke in a forest. The Woodan Forest.

Somehow, Luke knew the name of the forest even though he had never seen it or heard about it.

Zeke stood up from his sitting position and looked around. Luke noticed they weren't on ground level. "Well, I think this is enough for today." Zeke jumped down from where he had been standing.

Zeke turned to look at what he had been standing on. "It's my biggest daily hunt so far."

In front of Zeke, stood a heap of corpses. Bodies of different creatures. Creatures of different sizes and shapes. Some had furs and others had scales.

One of them in particular caught Luke's attention. It was a creature that would've stood on two feet if it were alive. It had two smaller forelimbs that looked more like hands than legs. Its dark green scales were covered in the blood of other creatures on top of it.

Luke traced its body till he found the head of the creature. It had a similar head to a crocodile but two hornlike things protruded from the top of its head.

'Well shit. I thought I had seen the scariest but what the hell is this?' Luke thought to himself.

Zeke walked around the heap of corpses and then he picked up a dead rabbit. It looked like a normal rabbit till Luke saw its two-tailed, sky-blue fur and eyes, its three toes on its hind feet, and four fingers on its paws.

"A double-scut rabbit. A good ingredient for making pills of all sorts. It amplifies the effectiveness of all pills where it is added. The small orb found in its heart is a good ingredient for mana pills." Zeke kept speaking as he cut out parts of the rabbit.

Of course, the flesh still served as a source of meat for Zeke.

Zeke slowly and accurately cut parts of the animal away. He took the parts to a river and got it all washed clean.

He set some twigs on fire and roasted the meat using the burning twigs.

With tears dropping from his eyes, Zeke spoke. "Owen's gone and I have no one left to journey with."

He cleaned the teardrop from his eyes. "It's been over a month since I left his family's place and here I am, still stuck at the first circle. I need to get stronger for the sake of my survival and for the sake of the promise I made to Owen."

"First circle? What's that?" Luke asked when he heard Zeke's words but it wasn't like Zeke could hear him. Zeke would definitely be stunned if he found out that someone has been watching him.

Zeke readjusted the meat and took off his clothes.

He took the roasted meat and blew at it for a moment before biting into it.

"Can't get enough of this." Zeke let out a gasp.

He took another bite and another one and then, another one until eventually, he got full.

Zeke stood up, naked, and walked into the river.

Dipping himself into the water, he let out a soft gasp. "It's always so good to do it after a hot roasted meal."

He went down until only his head remained above the water.

After spending over ten minutes in the water, Zeke started speaking to himself.

"I've got excess ingredients for the pills I need. Thirty-five orbs from those rabbits, blood from the same rabbit…" Zeke counted the items one after the other.

After another ten minutes, Zeke rose from the water. "I think I can start making them tomorrow. I'll be training my body also. It's about time I see some changes."

*****

The sun was already setting and Zeke sat cross-legged in an open space in the middle of the forest.

He was meditating and everything became calmer with each breath.

The calmer it became, the more he could hear, feel, and even smell. As if they were one, the trees swayed in the wind, each swaying in rhythm with Zeke's breathing.

As he breathed, the tree swayed as if in response to his breath.

This state of rhythmic meditation went on and on. Luke on the other hand remained in Zeke's mind, spectating everything that was happening.

"Well, that's one hell of a meditation." Nobody could hear Luke but at least, he could hear himself when he spoke.

Then something happened and Luke couldn't help but gasp.

Blue and milky white aura started to gather towards Zeke.

"Ohhh boy… That's the same thing that I had used when fighting isn't it? The color's different though."

"Here I was thinking I always had it in me but I didn't even know it could be absorbed from outside the body." Like just kept speaking but no one could give him answers.

The mana worked its way into Zeke's body from all angles, settling in his abdomen.

"What in the star's name is that?" Luke was inside Zeke's body and could see the mana particles gather in Zeke's abdomen.

The mana came together and something else invincible for Luke to see held them all together in a sphere shape.

The mana came into the sphere and never came out.

"Well, that's sick… I'll have to try it when I get back." Luke kept talking as the mana kept pouring in.

Then it stopped. Zeke's eyes were now open and he was sweating and panting heavily.

Luke had been too focused on the inside to notice what was happening outside.

"Yeah, I think the training can wait." Luke had to think again.

"Damn it! Still the same limit as last time. I need to see changes and here I am stuck on a stumbling block." Zeke cussed.

He breathed in and then breathed out deeply. "Phew… it'll change starting tomorrow. The ingredients are all ready, I just need to do it according to what the ancient recipe book suggested."

Zeke stood up, stretched himself, and made his way up a tree close to him with lots of branches.

He yawned and closed his eyes.

*****

Luke opened his eyes and found himself in his room.

His memories of his dream remained intact and there was something else in his memory that made him smile so much that it seemed evil.

The recipe for the mana pills.

It was in his head like he was the one that had read it and not Zeke.

Now, he just had to find the ingredients needed to make the pills.

*****

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