My Beginning After the End

Uto's Horns

(One Month Later)

I was meditating on the floor in my room, it was nice way to calm myself, I felt relaxed and safe here. There was no urge to kill, it was like I was at the beach enjoying life. During this time, I tried to forget about everything that was going on.

I opened my eyes, and stretched out, I've been doing this for a while, it was time to either train or absorb mana. Today, I decided to dig into Uto's horn, and absorb the shit ton of mana inside of it. I knew that it was going to agitate something in me, like my thoughts, but I was going to reach white core.

I activated my mana ring and pulled out one of his horns from inside of it. It felt weird inside of my hand, it had grooves on it, and the point on the end was sharp. This thing grew from Uto's head, that's pretty cool. 

Imagine if I had horns, if I was a Dragon or Vritra with my blood magic, I would truly be unstoppable. Jeez, I don't even know what would happen if I introduced my blood magic to aether.

I gripped the horn and began to slowly absorb the mana inside of it, without my ring activated, all of it went to the Acclorite in my palm. I could feel the darkness creeping inside of me, reminding me of Uto's aura, which made sense since this belonged to him. 

It was like a dark cloud entered my mind, my eyes started to drift shut, but I dropped the horn out of concern. I knew Arthur had trouble absorbing the mana, but it freaked me out. I picked it up as everything started to clear.

When I absorb this, it may put me in a memory of Uto, I didn't want that. There had to be a way to prevent it, Arthur didn't have my absorption technique. Maybe if I do it and absorb mana to my palm at a steady rate, not as fast as I can. I could prevent my mind from entering into Uto's memories, and in the process get stronger.

"Screw it." I said out loud, then activated "Blood Oath" and the black ring on my finger. I needed to create two paths, one that takes the mana to my palm, and one that goes to my core. I knew if I just absorbed it, all of the mana would go to the Acclorite, which I didn't want. 

So, that's what I did, I found two paths I could use to direct the mana coming into me. Hopefully, this way, I won't lose conciseness and will keep my mind at peace. Uto's memories could harm my mental state, which the fact that I comprehend, that I am having issues, pleases me.

Let's do this, I attempted to absorb the mana, I searched for it in the horn, then as the dark clouds formed again in my mind, causing my eyes to shut. I pulled half the mana I found to my palm, and half to my core. I made sure to go slowly, since I was able to control it. 

It felt like I was in a dark room, sitting on air, being able to do nothing. It was a cloud of nothingness, that cleansed my mind of everything. I was worried it would make crazier, but it actually stopped me from thinking about everything. I sat there in peace, enjoying being in a prison of darkness.

It didn't feel like anything was happening, but I kept going, I knew it had to be working in some way, because I wasn't entering any memories. My Acclorite, whatever creature or weapon it turned in to, was going to be somewhat like Uto, which didn't really alarm me, knowing about Regis helped, but he did have other factors that made him who he was.

Was it going to be a Wolf, Serpent, a Dragon, who knew, I couldn't wait to find out though. If I had to pick something, I would want a dragon or some bird. It would be nice to fly on something, like I did with Avier in the battle for a short time.

I was getting to white core, no matter what, this was how I was doing it. This horn was going to get me to white core and push me further into it. What was I going to be able to do when I actually got there? My control over mana will skyrocket even more, it will be fun to try things at that level. I'll also be able to fly with ease, something I couldn't do while fighting against Uto.