It was a simple thing, since everything she was looking at is mana then shouldn't she be able to control it? The problem is that she didn't have that kind of power to control external mana.
Since she can only control mana from inside then she let Carel get close to her before she sprayed what came out like a blast mist of blue mana.
Carel entered the mist as it it was nothing and indeed it was, only that it still has her internal mana and she have control over that.
"Pause." Litha said and the mana mist trembled, Carel's form was condensed and froze for two seconds but that was enough because that was when a blast of hot mana take his head off like a spoilt watermelon.
Immediate the darkness peeled away as life left him and she breath a sigh of relief. She couldn't believe that work, many she should improve it into her fighting style. She watched the blood gush out of his head and she shook her head. "What an interesting ability. Very dangerous."
Honestly she didn't know why he attacked her when he could go after easier Awakeners. Maybe she looks weak. "Maybe." That's something she might look into later but for now!
She turned to the hopping rat lair and one big orb raised above her head, she placed it directly above the lair and grinned. "How many badges will I get from this? Maybe today is my lucky day after all."
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Temur was sent inside a cave, fortunately he was alone and surprising there wasn't any other monsters nearby. That pleased him and he quickly made his way out into the forest.
They rolled, each trying to get the upper hand. The rule of this for Temur is to make sure the monster's head doesn't get to anywhere close to his vital organs. Because some monsters might have the jaw strength to tear through metal and reach his flesh.
But the monster is a weak one so he made a small dagger appeared on his fist and then punch it on the head and immediately the monster went still then to a single shining badge appeared next to it.
"Will you see that, my first badge."
Temur bent and checked the monster's body with his hand. "Lean meat, not much fat. I wonder how the meat will taste? Unfortunately I can't do that here."
He sighed but didn't remove his armour as he began to explore the forest. And he was right because another of the tiger monster jumped him.
By the time he killed two, Temur said outloud. "So I'm being hunted by a pack!" If not for the armour then he's sure he'll be seriously wounded by now because the monsters are so good at sneaking.
That must be how they dominate this place, not by raw strength but by simply getting good at killing. No matter how Temur tried he can't sense them at all even when they are standing in front of him.
Even powerful will fall if they don't see the attack coming.
At the end, Temur just let them find him because no matter how he tried he couldn't trace their lair. So he began wondering, just how do they do it? A secret ability or learned?
"It won't be bad to learn something like this." He said as he get ready to kill another of the monsters. "But at least for now you've provided me with many badges."