Chapter 152: Source Origin(2)
One hundred thousand, that was the moment he began to feel something else, something he had been praying to feel so long, he felt something using his newly acquired mana sense, and he felt that it was near, he felt that it was relatively big, moving, and had what seemed to be a broad back, and as soon as he felt it, he began to turn his body around using his own mana, pushing it out of his own body and changing his latitude, the same trick he had used to break the hole in the beginning, though he had also used the sticking step, or as he liked to call it, the steadfast active, to bind his feet to the ground and just force his mana down, breaking the ground apart.
However, as his face began to turn down, facing the endless darkness, or perhaps facing the endless something, whether he was falling down, whether he was sometimes changing directions even, he didn't know after all, he began to almost see the being, be it that he was only able to do it because of the mana sensing, a skill he really should've learned much, much sooner, seeing as it seemed to also allow him to sense the opponent's mana a bit, in the form of how well he could make the beast out, which, in this case, was quite easily, proofing to him that he wouldn't have much trouble ripping the wings of whatever that thing which he was now 'looking' at was, though he was quite scared of finding out what it was.
It was about thirty foot long, a multitude of countless writhing, short tentacles at the end of a long stick-like body that extended to a ridiculously broad and flat back full of bushy, disgustingly well-kept hair, and muscles hidden under a layer of what seemed to be that very same hairy bone.
The thing had wings that spun about three hundred foot each, something quite terrifying to Cades as he had never seen something quite that big, and truly felt fear at the sheer grotesqueness of that thing which was now in front of him, a being that seemed to defy the laws of nature, especially seeing as it had such an interesting face as he now slowly began to realize when feeling the being more and more and positioning himself to try something he had always wanted to try after figuring out how to use mana sense, be it that it hadn't been that long since he had figured it out in the first place.
Whatever the being might be, whether it was an animal, whether it was a magical illusion, whether it was some type of golem, or whether it was indeed just a monster, or whether it was something completely different, it had a face he recognized.
The face was childish, long silver hair flowing out of the scalp protruding from the hilariously small neck when compared to the rest of the body, the eyes following the falling Cades as he directed himself towards the beast using his own mana expulsion despite the fact that it shouldn't have known where Cades was, and especially not be looking through the mass of bony hair that covered it's field of vision.
Cades denied looking at it, Cades wished he wouldn't have to, and interestingly enough, the mana listened and avoided that place, avoided the face he missed dearly, avoided hurting his reopened wounds, avoided looking at Hecir, his sisters face, someone he had not seen even weeks before the entire calamity began, because she was at another school, and even more so because he had a lot to do and had been holed up inside his room all of the time or simply just been outside collecting wood and books from the library while she had been studying something he hadn't ever even thought about helping her with.