Chapter 181

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I was standing on top of our carriage in my true form. I didn't have any clothes that would fit my body in this form though so I was standing there completely naked, to my mild embarrassment.

"Are you sure those wings will hold her? She's kind of huge..." Cecilia asked.

Morrigan shrugged. "She was able to glide with them in her normal form but she hasn't tried them in that form."

"Be careful!" Bella called out, she was a bit nervous because she would have to be the one to fix me up if something bad happened.

My true form was kind of huge and the difference in scale when my body transformed made things feel a bit weird. My true form shifted with me proportionally though so my wingspan was rather large, around half the length of the carriage and much wider than I was tall.

I took a few cautious flaps of my wings, I still wasn't completely used to moving them yet. They felt natural on my body and I instinctively knew how to move them intentionally but that didn't mean I knew exactly how I should be moving them. It was kind of like when you were nervous and you didn't know what to do with your hands. The more you focus on them, the less you know where they should go.

Thinking back... I don't really know how birds fly. I've seen them flapping and gliding but I don't know when the best time for each was exactly. I guess I can remember pigeons flapping to gain lift off the ground. Did I jump and flap? Would I fall?

My stomach started to get butterflies as I looked off the edge of the carriage. It wasn't all that high up but with what I was about to do, the height made me nervous. For all I knew I was about to do the extent of waving my arms while jumping off of something, hoping it'll work.

"Quit being a baby and jump!" Raya's voice excitedly called out.

My face flushed a little but I decided I was putting this off for too long. I beat my wings while trying to get used to the muscles in my back. They were rippling with the exertion, awkwardly trying to get used to the feeling. I took a deep breath and jumped while trying to catch the air with my wings. After only two flaps I could tell I wasn't gaining any lift so I stretched them out and let myself glide back down, which thankfully wasn't too difficult. As I descended I could feel the presence of air currents around me, yet none of them were powerful enough here to let me climb so I just let myself gently touch the ground.Điscover new chapters at novelhall.com

[Flying has increased from level 1 to level 2]

Bella ran up to me and was relieved that I wasn't hurt. Gliding wasn't that difficult but it wasn't really what I was going for either.

"Booo, you were supposed to fly, not glide," Raya jokingly said.

I gave her a lopsided grin. "I couldn't help it, I couldn't get enough lift. My body isn't light enough."

"Are you calling yourself fat too?" Raya joked.

I laughed and pushed her away.

Theo walked up rubbing his chin. "You know, maybe your wings aren't meant to flap that way. Did they feel natural?"

I shook my head. "Not at all, if anything it felt really odd moving my wings that way."

"May I touch your wings for a second?"

The thought made me shiver but I nodded and stretched a wing out toward him. I had to stifle a moan and bite my lip once he started touching and examining it.

Everyone ran up to me at once.

"Are you okay?" I heard Bella worriedly call out.

Morrigan and Raya crouched down next to me. Morrigan's hand traveled lightly across my forehead as the three of us came to a conclusion at the same time.

"Mana exhaustion!" Raya laughed out loud before flopping into the grass and giggling.

Morrigan chuckled and patted my shoulder. "Looks like you really pushed yourself to the edge. It's a good thing you ran out of mana while landing, rather than while up in the air."

Sibyl crossed her arms and smiled down at Raya who was enjoying my misfortunate far too much. "It happens to the best of us," Sibyl said with a laugh.

I started to shift back to my normal size but I left the wings intact for the moment. I still wanted to experiment with my mana circulation. Though maybe... not right now... The thought of using any mana right now made my stomach turn and I needed to steady myself before I vomited again. Once I had finished shifting back to my normal-sized form Sibyl and Morrigan helped me back up to my unsteady feet.

"Lilith! That was so cool! I wanna fly next!" Mimi yelled out excitedly.

"So? How was your first flight?" Silva asked with a grin.

I grinned at her, "It was fucking amazing."

Mimi handed me some clothes to put on, just some simple work clothes and underwear, some of the same ones I had gotten back in Traehall. I frowned at the shirt, I couldn't wear it with my wings out, I would need to cut holes into it. None of my other clothes were backless either. I shrugged and tore two vertical holes in the fabric. With my enhanced strength it was easy to rip, I just had to be careful not to pull too hard and tear the entire thing apart. I hid my wings until I could get the shirt on before holding the holes open and bringing the wings back out through them.

"What are you doing?" Morrigan asked curiously.

"I got a new skill, [Internal Mana Manipulation], I want to practice changing how I circulate mana through my wings. I think I can make the wings easier to use with some practice."

Theo smiled wide. "You got that skill already? Great! I was actually going to show the two of you how to get that skill soon, it's the counterpart to enhancement magic, the same way something like [Fire Manipulation] is to fire magic. It helps a lot with altering enhancement magic on the fly or wild casting it. The variation you can get makes the skill a lot more powerful and useful than many of the other manipulation skills."

Morrigan's eyes lit up. "Really?! That sounds amazing! I didn't know there was a counterpart to enhancement magic!"

He nodded. "It's a rare skill. Most people treat enhancement magic as cast-and-forget spells but the discipline is much more versatile with a little work. The way the two of you have been working, it was only a matter of time before I showed you how to learn it. How did you end up stumbling across it on your own?"

I scratched the base of my horn, feeling a bit bashful all of a sudden. "I actually learned it by accident. The way I got my wings to work was by saturating them with mana using my aura, once I did that they started to connect to the rest of my mana on their own, the same way my arm might. From there I was able to internally shift my mana around and I got the skill from doing that."

"Hmm, that's very similar to how I was taught, though kind of in reverse. Aura skills are very rare, especially at lower levels, going outside-in rather than inside-out is a fairly novel way of doing things. Most people make the mana inside their body bleed outside of its confines using [Internal Mana Manipulation] and then create an aura that way until they're able to learn it as a spell. The usual way of learning [Internal Mana Manipulation] is by forcibly increasing the mana in one part of the body until you're able to sense how it circulates and then adjusting the path. It's an effective training method but it requires [Mana Sense] or something similar to observe the change. Since both of you already have that, I was going to teach it to you soon."

Sibyl stepped forward. "Hey, one of our racial abilities lets us see magic. Would that be sufficient to learn this skill? It seems like it would be a natural thing to learn if we want to make use of our natural auras."

Theo rubbed his chin in thought before eventually nodding. "Actually, that is a good point. You should probably teach this to all of the succubi. It would probably be valuable for all of you. I wouldn't mind helping each of you learn it."

Everyone looked excited by the prospect but I noticed that Morrigan was giving uncertain glances towards Torien. This may end up being the lynchpin that forces the twins to make up their mind about whether or not to become succubi, it appears Morrigan is getting antsy for an answer.