World Seed

Author’s Corner: Rejoice! For I have been unable to fight the desire to write an extra chapter tonight.The cultivation went fairly smoothly, especially since there weren’t any plants trying to eat me. My cultivation showed only a bit of progress, with my Lightning Affinity increasing to 7% after the first few hours. None of the other elements I was practicing showed a noticeable increase, though. On the other hand, the Plant Affinity that I was only passive training increased to 11%, which surprised me. This was likely only due to the dense plant mana this planet offered, and I wouldn’t see such increases after leaving for a while.Anyways, after a few hours of cultivating, I got rather bored and wanted to do some experiments. Specifically, I wanted to see if I could alter my wings to be able to take in mana types other than plant. Like I had done with the lesser orthrus, I focused on a single leaf of my wings. Having studied this aspect, I naturally knew which part it was that absorbed the plant mana, so I tried changing that single part of the aura to wind.To my surprise, this seemed to trigger a chain reaction throughout the entire aura, with every piece of plant mana in the aura changing into wind mana. Naturally, I suspected this meant my feather leaf would fade away, but when I looked there was simply a small gap between the feathers. According to my Aura Sight, it was still there, but had been rendered invisible due to becoming one with the wind. I did another quick change and switched it back to plant mana, and the leaf returned.Over the course of the next hour, I experimented with changing the leaves into every element I was currently capable of wielding. Earth had the leaf turn to stone, which unbalanced me a little due to the extra weight. Water had the leaf turn into a large drop of water just hanging off my wing, which I quickly turned back in case it fell off. Fire had the leaf burst into flames, which hurt a bit as it burnt the surrounding leaves.Lightning had the leaf crackling with electricity, which shot off of my wing into the ground. That one actually hurt more because I felt the feather forcefully plucking itself from my wing. Light and dark turned the leaf into a stationary mass of light and shadow respectively. Finally, void was interesting, as it turned into a black feather similar to how it reacted to dark mana. However, there were tiny specks of light on it, which looked like shining stars. Out of curiosity, I expanded this effect to an entire wing.It actually looked like a scene of a starry sky, like one would find in space. Though, there was hardly any void mana to be found in this planet’s atmosphere, except for the Seed of Void I brought with me. After that experiment, I did one more. This time, I changed all of my leaves into light feathers, and actively absorbed the light mana around me. It was still a couple of hours before the sun will set, or else I would have done this with darkness instead.I could see the light warping around me as it gathered in my wings. Rather than letting myself take it in like I had been with plant mana, I held the light mana in my wings for two or three minutes, until it felt like I couldn’t hold anymore. This caused my wings to continue growing brighter and brighter, until I finally let them release.Not wanting to be the enemy of the forest again, I directed the release upwards to the sky. Immediately, a thick beam of light emerged from each of my wings, shooting off where I had directed until my wings had exhausted the stored energy.