Moonlight Blue

I stand in front of the nearest wall. I want to test my restructured body, so I slightly punch the wall. It is a normal punch. A punch that didn’t even have form. But the effects are unexpected. My fist contacts the wall and the wall shakes from the impact. Not just the wall, the entire room shakes. A medium sized hole appears where I punched and cracks spread out all over the wall.

They even climb up to the ceiling and bits and pieces of earth fall down. A cave-in is about to happen. I lift up my hand and stare at the cracks that are spreading fast on the ceiling. They abruptly stop before receding back. As if time is reversed, the cracks slowly disappear all the way to the wall I punched.

Even the medium sized hole disappears and the wall reverts to how it was in the beginning. Right now, I’ve just used the earth laws to fix the entire place. This is one of the advantages of being able to control laws. Using the earth laws, I was able to control earth itself instead of creating earth like magic does.

This is the difference between magic and laws. Magic creates or conjures (brings forth), meaning manifesting magic is creating something out of magic. Laws however, allows the caster to control what’s already there, what already exists. Of course, you can also create or conjure with laws too since the reason magic itself exists is because of them.

Even though controlling the laws doesn’t use your mana on the outside, issuing commands to them needs mana but you use that mana within your brain instead of using your hands or wand. Of course, the greater the comprehension you have of the laws, the greater the effects are and the less mana needed.

“It seems this isn’t the place to test out this body. Ariel, create a new folder for testing this body’s full capabilities. Make the progress percentage to 0.”

Command received.

Within my field of vision, a bar appears. The bar has Progression on top of it and 0% below it. This should measure the overall power of this body. That includes raw power, durability, speed, reaction time and overall body performance. This is so that I know the body’s limitations thus boosting my overall combat efficiency and I also want to know the body’s strength so that I don’t accidentally blow someone’s head off while slightly slapping them.

Of course, for the progression bar to go up, I’ll need to put it into the test like fighting monsters or a really strong opponent. The bar disappears from my field of vision.

“Kyuu.”

Huh?

I look over behind me only to see Lime jumping up and down. A gust of wind propels him upward towards my shoulder as he lands perfectly. I’m shocked.

“Did you just use magic?”

I look over at Lime on top of my shoulder. He makes sounds, agreeing with me.

“Show me.”

“Kyuu.”

As if agreeing with me, Lime looks over the wall. A fist sized fireball appears before him as he shoots it towards the wall. Followed by a boom, a charred crack appears on the wall.

“That’s incredible bud.” I say as I pat him on the head.

He can use magic now. How is that even possible?

Slimes are creatures that can’t use magic period. They only live by scavenging or eating plants, otherwise they aren’t fighting monsters. Reason being that even other monsters rarely attack slimes due to them being non-aggressive and dumb so they don’t, nay, can’t develop any fighting skills whatsoever.

And yet, this guy showed a certain level of intelligence right from the beginning and now he can use magic. Is it the magic from the magic cores or is it his own?

I remove Lime from my shoulder and place him on the ground.

“Show me more.”

***

After Lime is done showing me his magic, I realised something. His magic resembles my own. I thought he was using magic he absorbed from the magic cores, but Lime was able to showcase other magical attributes that the magic cores didn’t have.

“Can you use the magic of the magic cores you absorbed?”

Lime looks at me and shakes his body.

“No huh.”

Well, I guess it makes sense in a way. After all, monsters use their magical energy for their innate ability. Example, the flame tiger. The magical attacks it uses weren’t learned like how we humans learn magic. They are its innate abilities, ingrained within its DNA.

The only thing it does is awaken those abilities. I’ve read though that there are some monsters that can learn magic but of course, they need to have the attribute for it.

Lime’s innate ability probably has something to do with eating energy or eating itself. He probably got the magic he showed me from my cells when he ingested my blood. What about the magic from the magic cores? What can he do with it?

“What else can you do bud?”

As if he remembers something, Lime starts grunting as if pooping. Then, two small round cores pop out of his body. I take them and inspect them.

“Amazing.”

Although these two magic cores are small, inside them there are energies from all the magic cores he ate mashed together.

“Fusing energies.”

Fusing different kinds of energies is difficult even for me. It took me a lot of time before I was able to fuse different attributes to create stronger magic. Like fusing fire and lighting or fire and wind etc. This little fella not only fused different attributes together, but he even stabilized them as one.

I bet you already know what happens when two different energies live in a single vessel. That’s not all though, he also removed the magic signatures of the monsters too. Meaning if I wanted to absorb these cores, I wouldn’t need to go and remove the monsters magic signatures to make the energy mine. I could just absorb it.

Of course, this little amount of energy wouldn’t help in refiling my magic. But if we were to use them on crafting magic weapons, then we could have weapons that have different abilities using only a single magic core.

“You did good bud.” I say with a smile to Lime.

He then starts jumping up and down all happy.