A Little dilemma and a big dilemma

Still at night, now that Teclos knew he was a dark mage or darkness mage he tried feeling the ambient mana. Finding the dark mana was a bit of a challenge as the book only said that it should feel similar to his own mana ,but once he actually tried feeling it he couldn't really distinguish it from other types of mana. The first thing he did after that dilemma was crawling around to see if anything felt diferent, right now he could feel 7 diferent types around himself. Once he neared the fire place one of the ambient mana started to become stronger.

'Hmm so this is probably fire mana? Lets go to the cleaning bucket to see if there is a reaction to water'

And indeed another type of mana gained strenght around the bucked full of water, so he concluded that it was water mana. But here was also the problem, if he felt 7 different types of mana around him that meant that those were probably watter,fire,nature,darkness,wind, earth and life. There was also another faint one but he could safely exclude that being darkness

'Now how do i seperate them? Life is probably stongest around mom and dad so i'll know which of them it is, but i should do that last incase i wake them up. Darkness should be everywhere right now as its night and i already know water and fire mana....i can probably take a deep breath and blow to get a reaction from wind hehe i can blow the wind so to say, but for nature and earth i don't know what to do'

With no solution yet he crawled around again and something did happen when he neared the chimney or stone part of the walls ,one of the ambient mana got stronger while the other got weaker. With that he could exclude them both as they were probably earth and nature. Only life remained but was quickly singeled out once he came closer to his parents.

'Now that i know which mana is which i can safely start pulling the darkness around me , but which one should i start with? As a baby i probably don't need mana regen and spells that much so heart is out. Now quicker thinking would help me with learning the language faster but i pretty much already learned it, the reflexses are nice tho i guess. Hmm that leaves the body ,more power and probably a healthier body which right now as a baby is good enough for a start'

After deciding where to start he went back to his bed and concetrated on the dark mana ,once he felt the closest mana around his body he tried to pulling it in ,which was a novel feeling as his body felt invigorated but the process was also painfully slow. That also meant that his conclusions about the ambient mana was right and wouldnt suddenly implode from the inside, the problem was now that during the day he could hardly practice drawing in mana as there isn't as much darkness. He figured that he could just close the wooden shutters on the windows and make it dark in the house...but he wasn't exactly living alone .

The feeling of mana flowing in to his body even if it was slow was pure ecstasy ,it was as if he was floating in the sky and was completeley weightless.

Teclos also discovered that even tho this was just the start still, his strenght was increasing nonetheless ...his senses also seemed to increase as he could hear better ,smell better and also see better tho not by much, he still noticed it.

As stated in the book he tried to make a circle by spinning the absorbed mana around his abdomen . It was less than a circle and more of a slowly spinning spiked and deformed hedgehog ,plus instead of a circle it was more oval shaped and not really part of his being or body but it was a start atleast.

Time flied and the morning was approaching when he noticed a decrease in ambient dark mana .

'Oh shit its amost morning already ,i have to go to bed otherwise ill miss breakfast. Tho i doubt mom will let me starve and will probably wake me up'

With that he went to sleep which happened fairly quickly as his body was relaxed.

Come morning Talmir woke up first ,he made a herbal tea for both him and his wife . Usually she would sleep in for a bit longer but he still prepared it in a way that the only thing she had to do was heat it. With that out of the way he had to put on the leather armor with his new chest peace that Saldia bought him and washed his face,now all ready he steped out of the house because he had to go hunting early every morning. Once out of the house he relocked it and went on his way to meet up with Kosak.

"Hmm is it just me or was this morning unusually lacking? Its like a bit of something was missing? I guess im still groggy or didnt get enough sleep"

After he passed a few houses and arrived at the entrance of the village he saw Kosak standing there half asleep. With not exactly alot of energy Kosak tried to greet him.

"Hey *yawn* there fellow hunter ...how about *yawn* we take it easy today?

"Well sadly for you today is north side of the forest day ,while i would like to take it easy, taking it easy there would lead us to our early grave "

"Daam it, can't we switch with another hunting party just for today?"

Rolling his eyes Talmir simply said "you say that every day we have something harder to do than the lake"

Hearing this Kosak steped closer and put his arm on Talmirs shoulder "Yet you never listen do you?"

As per usual they went on to a forest trail leading to the north side where the more dangerous animals were and the occasional monster was. Once there they quickly discovered a problem ,it was too silent.

Talmir stoped ,signaled to Kosak to do the same and started whispering .

"Somethings wrong ,by now we should have heard atleast some of the territorial calls of the beasts yet we don't hear either the dire wolves or the talon bears."

Kosak tho nervous from the silence tried to be casual and said.

"Its probably because of the giant spider monster right? I mean what else could it be?"

Shaking his head Talmir jumped up on to a tree nearby and surveyed the sky if it was clear. Not sensing or seeing any beast or monster in the sky he took flight to get a better overview of the situation

While flying away Kosak became visibly more nervous but Talmir had to check the situation up ahead as he was the stealthier of the two

Meanwhile Kosak also jumped on to a tree and made a fortification around it using earth. Altho he was scared he still readied his weapons.