Chapter: 711
– Uses mana to sense the surroundings
– Three meter radius from mind
– 2 mana per second
“Finally, the mana sense skill. I deserve it after all the practice I put in.” Jay smiled, but it was quickly turned to a frown.
“Wait, why did Viladore want me to learn this again? Hmm… I guess it will help in some way, perhaps to see behind doors or something?”
The mana sense ability was not the simple ability to sense mana, but an active skill which used mana to sense everything else. Almost like echo location, except more personal, as a practitioner of the skill felt every detail.
The next notification he opened was only one for exp, but despite being so small he was quite happy.
[6 Exp]
“Looks like Handy and Lamp caught something. Hope it’s not some shit-eating rat.” Jay thought, rolling over to one side as he was still in bed.
For a moment his eyes didn’t really focus on anything as he relaxed, though as the sun began to creep through the trees, something caught his attention.
Almost right next to him, something glistened in the light.
A large, white and silvery feather lay there on the bone platform.
Jay reached over and grabbed it, then twirling it in his fingers he looked at the glistening sparkling light reflecting off it for a few moments.
“Where did you come from? There’s no birds around here…” he wondered.
Looking into the sky he couldn’t see any birds or hear any of their morning songs, so the feather was a strange anomaly.
Some paranoia tried to grip Jay, but seeing that his skeletons had not reacted he didn’t either.
“Oh well, It’s just a feather. Time to get up.” he nodded, tossing the feather away.
Standing by the fire, he was pleased to see that Heavy had tended to it overnight; Jay didn’t wake up at all since it was neither too hot nor too cold.
As he stood there over the first, he made sure his skeletons were keeping busy, but then his stomach grumbled.
“Ah where are those skeletons…” Jay thought, chewing on some nuts.
He was waiting for Handy and Lamp to return with their hunt; he sensed they were not too far away, so his breakfast should be arriving shortly. It seems that they found something to kill in the early hours of the morning after midnight – otherwise they would have already returned.
Handy and Lamp weren’t the only thing Jay sensed however.
Somewhere below him, he sensed a squirming snake-like skeleton in the cold soil, under the intricate root systems of the trees – his bone helminth had returned.
Raising a brow, he wondered why it was yet to come up to greet him. He willed it come to him, but it remained below the earth.
“Come up here. Now.” Jay said a bit more sternly.