'Am I…dying?' Atlas thinks to himself as he looks at the flashing red screen flashing in front of him with his consciousness fading in and out.
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♥️ HEALTH: ▪️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️(5/100)
♦️ MANA: ⬛⬜️⬜⬜️⬜️⬜️(9/60)
♦️ STAMINA: ▪️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (1/100)
Despite being burned alive, he didn't really feel much pain. However, he did feel exhausted and couldn't move a single thing in his body. As he shut his eyes, a ding sound rang in his head causing his shutting eyes to open back up a third of the way. Atlas had a hard time focusing on it with his blurry vision, but he heard the distant voice of Cel's saying:
[Congratulations,
Emergency Quest: Defeat the weakened Wildfire Boar
Objective: Completed!
Rewards:
Physical Attributes: Increase in strength, agility, speed, dexterity, endurance and fortitude by +15 points
Mental Attributes: Boost in Intelligence, wisdom, and focus by +15 points]
[Initiating glove innate ability from locked bloodline 1 'Devour' to assimilate rewards]
The timer of the symbiotic connection hit zero and Cel's physical glove form reverted from the weaponized version to the normal gloves, and began to glow a deep red from it's original black color like metal being heated.
The glowing red glove tightened around Atlas's left hand once again causing the tiny needles to sink into his hand. As soon as that connection was made, the veins in Atlas's left arm bulged and shrunk in a wave pattern starting from the wrist, traveling up his arm, to his chest, and getting absorbed in the clear spherical object centered around his navel. Each time this happened the large body of the boar would shrink bit by bit.
'So warm.' Atlas thought to himself in a daze not realizing what was transpiring at the moment. All he knew was that this unknown energy traveling through his body felt warm and refreshing like taking a hot bath.
[Adding rewards to Host's stats]
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♥️ HEALTH: ▪️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️(5/50)
♦️MANA: ⬛⬜️⬜(9/30)
♦️ STAMINA: ▪️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ (1/50)
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{ MENTAL ATTRIBUTES } 🔷 ➖
INTELLIGENCE: 10 -> 25
WISDOM: 10 -> 25
WILL POWER: 6
FOCUS: 4 -> 19
PERCEPTION: 12
CHARISMA: 12
> M.A POINTS: 0
{ PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES } 🔶 ➖
VITALITY: 40
FORTITUDE: 8
ENDURANCE: 10 -> 25
STRENGTH: 8 -> 23
DEXTERITY: 8 -> 23
AGILITY: 8 -> 23
SPEED: 8-> 23
> P.A POINTS: 0
[Host stats have been rewarded and adjusted.]
Once Atlas's stats were adjusted his body started to heal at an amazing rate as Cel continued to absorb the boar. Atlas's charred skin started to shed off leaving behind smooth brown skin almost as if he wasn't burned to a crisp prior. All that remained on him that didn't shed off and grew back good as new was his burnt clothes.
Throughout that process only 1/3 of the boar was absorbed. This was understandable since the boar was 2 whole ranks higher than Atlas.
[Absorbing rest of boar to mana core]
All the energy started to go into the clear spherical sphere in Atlas's navel area causing his realm rank stat and progress bar to steadily rise until it was full. Yet, all that did was bring down the boar's mass to about half of what it was originally.
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NAME: Atlas Blaze
AGE: 13
RACE: ???
BLOODLINE 1: 🔒
BLOODLINE 2: 🔒
STAGE: Mortal
REALM NAME: Awakened
REALM RANK: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 9/9
PROGRESS: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️100%
[Absorption of boar is 55% completed, host can no longer handle anymore energy. Condensing mana core]
The once clear sphere like object was now full and looked like a red sphere. All of a sudden the red color started to shrink to the center until it became a small dark red bead within the mana core. This reverted the realm rank back to 1/9 and the progress bar back to 0% causing the core to be clear again with an addition of a dark red bead in its center.
Cel continued absorbing the boar until the mana core got filled to the brim again.
[Absorption of boar is 70% completed, host can no longer handle anymore energy. Condensing first mana ring]
A ring began to form as it shrunk down to about the size of the dark red bead and started to rotate around it. This process repeated once more when the absorption reached 90% completion and a 2nd ring was formed and rotated around the 1st ring. The finished product looked similar to a two ringed Armillary sphere inside his mana core.
At this point, Atlas was fast asleep and laid on the floor of the forest floor as the remaining 10% got absorbed into the glove filling up his core just over halfway.
[Absorption of Wildfire Boar completed. Due to absorption of energy, 15 M.A points and 15 P.A points have been added.]
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NAME: Atlas Blaze
AGE: 13
RACE: ???
BLOODLINE 1: 🔒
BLOODLINE 2: 🔒
STAGE: Mortal
REALM NAME: Awakened (Condensed x3)
REALM RANK: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜4/9
PROGRESS: ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️◾⬜⬜⬜⬜55%
THUMP
A sharp rough red crystal shaped object fell on the forest floor not to far from Atlas. It was around the size of an ostrich egg and inside were 3 shining orange orbs.
[potential item drop: Wildfire Boar beast core.
Placing item into Inventory]
The glove forms of cel dissolved and turned into a black mist before surrounding the Beast's mana core. As soon as the mist touched it a flash occurred and it disappeared. Cel then goes back to Atlas, separating into two parts, and becoming the tattoo bands on his wrist.
All that remained were the soft snores of a 13 year old boy with hardly any clothes and the crackling of flames shaped like leaves on the branches of charred trees.
Meanwhile, in a different location of the Blazing Phoenix Forest was a group of young individuals consisting of 3 boys and 2 girls. Two of the boys and one of the girls had an interesting characteristics.
A mix of orange and red in an ombre effect with a touch of blonde at the roots. Their eyes a sunset orange with sparks of flames that danced within.
One of the boys, who seemed to be the oldest, with short spiked hair was on one knee gutting a monster of a Twin Tailed Fire Fox. He stuck his hand in to remove a rough orange crystal with 4 orange orbs within it and tossed it to the girl.
"Here, little Sophie. Congratulations on breaking through the Spirit Realm." The boy who tossed the mana core to the girl said
"Hehe, thank you brother Alex!" Sophie replied jumping with excitement. This made Alex nod his head with content. He then turned his hand to the corpse of the twin tailed fox. A ring on his finger glowed white before the carcass disappeared.
"Can we go after th—" The second boy with similar characteristic as Alex but younger tried to say something but was cut off.
"Huh!? How in the..." The third boy who had green hair with red orange strands and green eyes that swirled like wind turned in a certain direction with shock on his face.
"What's wrong, Grayzer?" The girl with more red orange strands and similar characteristics as the boy named Grayzer asked.
"The life signal of the Boar I put the track spell on...it's gone."
"What?! What do you mean gone!" The second boy asked walking up to Grayzer pissed, grabbing him by the collar.
"Calm yourself Kevin! Anger won't get you nowhere." Alex said walking up to Kevin and Grayzer to separate the two. "Grayzer, where was the last direction before its life signal disappeared."
"Calm myself! After all the work we did so I can have a spirit bond? How can you expect me to—"
"Silence!" Alex yelled towards his younger brother waving his left hand from the front to his side in a quick motion causing a trail of blue flames to follow. Kevin took a step back looking away and sucked his teeth.
Alex faced Grayzer nodding his head for him to continue. Grayzer responded by pointing in a direction before answering "About 3 miles south of the Forest, Young Master Alex!"
Alex nodded "Good, let's quickly head there." Alex turned to face his siblings "Kevin and Sophie will stay behind me. Grayzer and Windy will take the lead since you guys are faster."
"Yes, young master." Grayzer and Windy replied before they took off into the trees jumping from branch to branch.
"Let's go!" Alex said and started following Grayzer and Windy on the branches.
"Tch, I knew we should've finished off the boar first. Now Sophie gets to have a spirit bond while I'm left with nothing." Kevin said underneath his breath but his older brother and younger sister heard him.
Sophie rolled her eyes and Alex just released a sigh.
"You're quite stupid aren't you." Alex said and glanced at Kevin behind him while continuing to jump from tree branch to tree branch following close behind his servants.
"What did you say!" Kevin replied with a vein appearing on his forehead.
"Don't you think we might come across a better beast if your oh so precious boar died, idiot."
"Oh...true." A blush of embarrassment filled Kevin's cheeks as the realization hit causing Sophie to giggle behind them.
"Sometimes I wonder where your brain is Kevin. Don't tell me I got all the smarts." Sophie said giggling some more.
"Shut up!" Kevin replied
"Young master, Alex!" Grayzer yelled from further up ahead with Windy following him by his side. "We're coming up on the destination where the signal was lost. Get ready!"
Not long from that announcement, Grayzer and Windy jumped down from the trees and stopped on the edge of the area where the boar used its skill Inferno roar. Soon Alex, Kevin, and Sophie landed close by them to take in the damage the boar dealt.
"Look, there's someone over there." Windy said dashing to an individual lying on the floor of the forest.
"Windy wait!" Grayzer called out before he followed Windy to the individual while Alex, Kevin, and Sophie looked at each other and shrugged while following behind them. When they got to the individual, Windy was already on one knee examining them.
"She seems to be alive despite the burned clothes." Windy said as she placed two fingers near Atlas's nose and mouth to see if he was breathing.
"Strange," Sophie began "have you ever seen skin so dirty and hair so knotted before. They must be filthy."
"Do you think it was her that defeated the boar?" Grayzer asked Windy who pushed Atlas's locks out his face to get a good look.
"Oh, she's quite pretty." Sophie said when she got a good look at Atlas's face.
Ignoring the random comment Windy answered "The burnt clothes point to that fact, so I would say yes."
"Then where's the core?" Alex asked "I see no ring on her finger so she definitely doesn't have a storage ring. Not even the corpse was left"
"You're right, I don't see or feel it anywhere around here." Kevin said looking around with his eyes close pushing his perception outwards. An ability which seems to be possible for those who broke through the spirit realm. But when his perception crossed Atlas's body he had to do a double take.
"Mid ranked Awakened?! There's no way she killed the boar. They probably just got unlucky to come across it. Which explains the burns."
"Hmmm, the realm difference does make it seem like it wasn't them." Alex replied "But the real question is what do we do with her. Do we take her back?"
"What?! Take her back? You want to bring some unknown person back to the clan?" Kevin questioned.
"Well do we just leave them stranded?" Alex asked looking at Kevin.
"Yes!" Kevin said seriously,
"I believe we can take them in for questioning." Windy mentioned looking between the young masters.
"Oh my God!" Kevin turned smacking his right hand on his forehead. "And I'm the idiot of the group?!"
"Yes, Kevin." Sophie replied with a smirk. "Unless you're afraid of a mid ranked awakened girl."
Kevin looked at Sophie with a small pout on his face. "No one's afraid," he mumbled crossing his arms.
"Grayzer and Windy will take them to the branch family. Will that put you at ease Kevin?" Alex asked as he looked at Kevin which caused Kevin's right eyebrow to twitch.
"Do whatever you want!" Kevin yelled turning around facing away from the group around Atlas's body.
"It's decided then," Alex began turning his eyes to Grayzer "Grayzer you carry them on your back. We'll head back to the clan for now. It's starting to get too dark now." Alex continued turning his head towards the sky where the stars were becoming visible.
"Yes, Young Master!" Grayzer complied and picked up Atlas on to his back with Windy assisting him. Once he was ready they all started heading in the direction to get out the forest and back to the clan.