Chapter 1396 - 1395: Making The Most Of It (5)
"Yeah, this just seals the Gods damned deal for me... this place can piss off and be wiped off the map for all I care! I don’t want to be here any longer than I have to and I want to start building my dream home in the middle of a pretty forest where I can walk to civilization maybe half an hour to an hour away!"
My own voice was helping to guide me through the forest as I walked in a straight line, the noise it made catching on the trees around me and helping me discover something very, very important.
Something that Draka and I missed thanks to our terrified silence during the initial foray into the forest; there were definitely a LOT of trees - I mean, it was a forest after all - but some of them were definitely... not just trees.
Maybe it had to do with me being on my own at the moment, but some of them were just not staying where I had last seen them, and they were definitely not catching my voice like the others were.
That was a nifty thing I did when I got a little scared and sent a blast of mana at one of them using my voice, hoping to catch something off guard and help end this ruse far faster than ’they’ had hoped, but that didn’t happen.
I did learn something however, and that something was that the mana infused sound tended to bounce back at me when it struck something, like a typical sound wave might do - at least I thought it might do what with my remembrance of how they worked... kind of, I think - but what I did notice had me a bit more confident and less irrationally scared.
My mana infused voice actually went through one of the trees, meaning it wasn’t there; a glance at it with the special vision magic thing that Lilith showed me revealed it was just a construct of mana that looked practically identical to a normal tree... until it was disturbed.
That was enough to give me hope that I could emerge from this victorious and leave here far quicker than I had initially expected, but until I actually caught whatever was doing these things to the trees I was left wandering around talking to myself.
Not the worst thing in the world but definitely not what I wanted to be doing, though it was certainly a good ’training’ session in controlling the mana in my voice for long periods of time without actually casting a spell!
"Like that’s any damn good... Probably would want a house a bit closer to make getting necessities and food a bit easier... that and I can only imagine that Anput and Jahi will want to have someplace local to drink at without worry... hmm..."