Three hours after midnight, Timothy successfully improved the quality of his mana. He now had the honor to identify himself as a bearer of Great, Golden Mana, and he was very excited about it!
Despite the his didn’t mean that his mana had a golden color now, it was still as blue as the o, but it still was a great level to attain. This sort of mana quality was also known as level seven, and as of now, he only had to pass through another level, the eighth one, and then he'd have the opportunity to escape the God's Punishment Realm of mana ond food!
“Oh… my god.” He grunted, as his spine cracked tens of times while he tried thten up, and thetered. “Whatever it is like to get chewed up and swallowed by a Demole, I uand it, this has to be a simir feeling.”
Timothy felt like all sorts of things. He felt like he was hit by a big truck, by an airpoo, or any other vehicles really. He felt like he was run down by all of them, and rightfully so, because at some point he had eve his bones move, or retract, before they went back to their inal position! He didn’t know why his bones moved around during the process, he didn’t know for sure, but he just assumed that it had something to do with his body accepting a better quality of mana. The mana was stored in his body, after all, so he could uand how a greater quality needed different physical ditions to suit it.
[gratutions on asding your mana quality to level seven. You've e a long way ever since you left the sea.] The system beeped, and then she also added. [You accumute up to 65,000 mana points now, while you're in this goblin form. It's a sizable amount, and although your mana pool has beeied during the upgrade, you'll be gd to know that you aturally gee 900 points of mana an hour now! These couple of ges came hand to hand with your mana quality upgrade, as you know?]
“I know… I don't have any mana now, huh? Good thing we found this town, then, because we'd be naked without a bunana to protect ourselves with. Well, we are naked right now, but that's not what I meant.” Tim bbbered, he mostly spoke to himself, and wasn't really wanting to make versation with the system right now.
Timothy didn’t lose as much mana when he was asding through the first few levels of the mana realm, he got to keep a lot of it back then, but he could uand that higher levels had higher demands. It was logical.
heless, having ay mana pool was a curse as much as it was a blessing. Sure he was an overall stre now, but he couldn’t protect himself, not until after a few hours. He'd have to wait until dawn to have just enough points to protect himself from any and all attackers, which made him a bit anxious, but he found relief in the fact that the dragons were proteg them. That aside, Arvena and Gustav weren't upgrading their mana quality tonight, so they were to do all the hard work in case of an emergenbsp;
Timothy mao rex. He ed himself up with an old cloth, started a fire in the firepce again so he wouldn't get cold at night, and then he just fell asleep. The upgrade had tired him beyond preparation, so it wasn’t a surprise that he fell asleep so quickly.
“I could've used a couple of naps earlier on, too bad the pain was keeping me up.” He muttered, moments before he fell asleep.
Anyway, Skendus and Ortana experiehe same night more or less. They asded to level seven as well, so they suffered everything that came with making that attempt. Now, they too were proud to bear Great, Golden Mana in their veins!
It hasn't been an easy assion, and they imagihat wheime came to upgrade their mana quality again, level eight was to shake them even harder! For now, they were happy that they could finally fall asleep.
…
Tim woke up at early noon. He realized that he had slept well, when he wo mio remember where he was. He was stiff as a board too, because he had apparently crawled out of his sleeping bag throughout the night, and the cold had gotten to him, so he started blowing a low-temperature fire out of his palm, and tried to warm himself up with it. He warmed up eventually, and realized that the cold had also numbed any kind of pain he felt, post upgrade, so he’s been in a sort of deep sleep, as if he had been uhe influence of ahesia!
“I feel like a fug mummy,” He grunted, aually, he walked out of the hut, because he was hungry.
Tim needed some meat down his stomach right now, he craved it, so he hoped that either Arvena ustav had hunted something today. Apart from feeding themselves, it took a lot of effort to feed eight dragons as well, so they had to hunt often, almost everyday.
When he walked outside, he was delighted to see that Arvena reparing to cook something delicious! She had knocked down a few boars, from the looks of it, and brought them here. These boars had to be well over five feet tall, sidering how huge and fatty their raw, meaty remains were, so his mouth started watering in response, his stomach singing! He couldn’t wait to have them cooked.
Notig him and his enthusiasm, Arvena expressed. “Oh, you're awake? You must be hungry right enough, I'd be too if I slept for thirty-four hours. That's your new record.”
“Thirty four, huh?” Tim grunted, ae his enthusiasm he was still walking around like a zombie. “'t say that I'm surprised, that mana upgrade almost brought my kido my throat, it was brutal. It's good I slept that long, cuz my body and my brain e thhly!”
Anyway, as he tried to help Arvena prepare a rge bonfire, he started notig this weird feeling from deep inside his body. It was difficult for him to uand this feeling, but in short, he felt more capable of handling a power that was very o him. Soon enough, it was all he could think about!
Timothy suddenly felt capable enough to try and open a portal, a portal that would lead him to the needle universe of Purpureus Mundi. The bug world, to be exact.
Firstly he didn’t uand where this urge came from, but since he was feeling very capable of summoning a portal today, it could only meahing. His assion to the Great, Golden Mana level had to be tied with his sudden urge to open this portal. This had to be the root cause of his fidence!
