World Seed

Before leaving the ruined city, I decided to test out some of the power that came with this new form, which I decided to call the Elemental Titan. In my tests, I found that I could not only move the different elements as I wished, I could even completely swap them. For instance, after I created a large metal greatsword in my hands, I was able to change its composition to shadow mana. In exchange, the cape on my back stiffened slightly, becoming similar to a metal cloth.

Once I was done, I took a deep breath and focused. “Now, separate.” I commanded, carefully severing the connections that had been established between myself and the fifty soldiers. This was the part I had been most worried about, honestly, aside from the initial merger. There was the distinct chance that the elemental soldiers would rip through my body or crush me as they were leaving.

To prevent this, I exerted some control of my own elemental abilities to create a ‘safety bubble’ around my body. This way, they should not be able to so easily push through. And indeed, although some pressed against the bubble, they ended up taking the path of least resistance to seperate.

From the outside, it looked almost as if the elemental titan had exploded, pieces of it flying everywhere to reform into fifty different humanoids. Where the titan had once stood, my body slowly descended to the ground, accompanied by the wind elemental soldiers that were the last to depart. The transition of seeing through the elements and seeing through my own body was fast, but also disorienting.

It took me several long moments after landing on the ground to gain my bearings again, after which I opened my status window again. As I had expected, it only took a few seconds to refill the little mana that I had spent in the titan form. If I continued to level up, or increased my affinities even more to hasten my mana recovery, I might even be able to sustain the form indefinitely in battle.

“Lex, put them all back in the grove.” I said as I looked down to my finger, seeing the ring that rested there. I felt a pulse of mana sweeping out, an order to the soldiers to return to the ring. Like when they came out, they turned into streams of energy that rushed around my body, pushing themselves back into Lex’s grove.