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More skill progression and a new level of Magic Analysis, it seemed that Oberon’s efforts were bearing fruit but so far, his experimentation had yet to complete the ‘Light Ring’ spell. As far as form went he felt that the spell was complete, he’d allowed the ring to stretch as far as it seemed to want to before holding it in place, so why hadn’t the skill completed? Did he just need more experience, or had he tried to use the spell in the incorrect manner? Would skills only complete once they were put into practise appropriately?

The Sprite took a moment to gather more of the sun’s energy for another attempt, closing his eyes and focusing on the feeling of it on his skin. When he was mediating earlier he had tried to open himself up to allow the mana to flow into him more easily. His attempts to do the same for the sun’s rays seemed to be less effective yet he tried again anyway. Perhaps he was simply limited by how much he was exposed to.

Once he felt he had gathered enough power for a second attempt Oberon went through the same process again, forming a Mana Orb with light and watching as it began to glow and coruscate with a shimmering aura. This time he used Mana Shape to manually form it into a ring shape rather than letting it form naturally, hoping that by having a greater hand in the process he would gain more experience. When the ring was complete again, being about as wide across as it was before, he held it between his hands and used Magic Analysis on it again, wondering if perhaps now that the ‘Light Ring’ was fully formed he might be able to see more information about it.

He still didn’t know what kind of spell it was. If using the spell appropriately was what he needed to do to complete it then not knowing what it was for or how to use it was a bit of a problem. Given that it was created from the Mana Orb spell it was likely some kind of attack, probably a ranged one, but why was it a ring and not just another orb? Was it supposed to go around the enemy? Would it shrink and bind itself around them if it did? Or was it simply a projectile? If that was the case, then would he need to use it on another creature before it would activate?

Hesitantly, Oberon closed his hands around the ring, holding it like one would a steering wheel. If it was a projectile, then perhaps it was meant to strike with the outer edge. Letting go with one hand Oberon held the ring to his side and flung it like a frisbee and the next nearest tree, the ring spinning as it left his hand.

He felt like an idiot.

Regardless of if it worked or not Oberon decided it was time to head back. His short scouting trip and turned into a mini training session before he could stop himself. As he lowered himself down to the ground he could hear Ash calling out to him and Mourningstar. “Sorry, I got distracted. We definitely went north from the cave; the smoke trail from earlier is further south now. I didn’t see much aside from what might be a river to the north.”

Standing near Ash was… well from his face it looked like Digbie ,but clearly he had gone through a few changes since he had last seen him. As always when confronted with something new Oberon used Magic and Monster Analysis on the Demigoblin. “Well, you look different. How long was I gone for?”



@Rune_Alchemist@Gardevoiran@Zeroth
Even without using meditation it was possible for Oberon to feel his reserves of mana slowly filling up as he absorbed the sun’s rays; it was barely a trickle, far less than what his simple meditation skill could recover, but enough to be noticeable and more than his natural regeneration alone gave him. It seemed that the intensity of the sunlight made a difference, as was to be expected, and this high up he could feel that power more strongly than he had ever felt it before.

The Mana Orb easily took in the light he fed it, beginning to burn with a bright white light as a shimmering aura began to surround it, the halation around the orb taking on a shifting, prismatic quality. More than that, it seemed to want to expand in his hand, growing larger and wider, pushing against his attempts to confine it and developing a transparent hole in its centre as it did. Rather than fight it Oberon decided to see what would happen if he allowed it to continue; it didn’t seem to be running out of control, but instead wanted to take on a new shape so he let it.

As the orb continued to expand, growing in diameter, the Sprite activated his Magic Analysis to try and understand what he was holding.

A simple blast of Energy elemental magic with a range of 30 feet. At the moment it only does as much damage as a strong punch on average, unless the enemy is weak to magic. As it gets stronger it becomes a generic, non-elemental energy blast. Due to its simple nature and lack of elemental properties the Mana Orb spell is easily malleable into other spell forms. This Mana Orb is currently being filled with Light element Mana, causing it to transition into the Light Ring spell.
System:Oberon


“Light ring?”

Although the orb was expanding, it wasn’t increasing in volume. Instead the orb had stretched as it had expanded, the transparent space in its centre also widening as the outer edges of the orb thinned and flattened to form a ring. Once it reached a certain size it seemed to stop changing, or at least slow its transformation, and Oberon used Mana Shape to help the ring hold its form. This left him holding between his hands a ring of solid light; or light-infused mana at least.

To be perfectly honest, at this point he didn’t really know what to do. The Sprite had expected to create an orb infused with light, a variant of the Mana Orb spell with a new elemental quality, not a new spell entirely. He wasn’t even sure if this thing was supposed to be an offensive ability or not. With no better ideas forthcoming, Oberon released the ring from his control and pushed forward with both hands at the same moment, thrusting the ring away from himself in the same manner he did with his Mana Orb and Mana Dart spells.



@Zeroth
“Okay. That’s all the paperwork we need. Your registration is complete Mr Takagi.”

Ryuhei gave the woman behind the desk a polite smile, raising a hand to rub awkwardly at the back of his head at being called such a formal title. “Ah, thank you. Ryuhei is fine. So I just need to show up on time for my match?”

The clerk, a young brunette woman around the same age as Ryuhei nodded to him. “Yes, it’ll work the same way as previous rounds did. We’ll make an announcement an hour before the match so that the audience can find their seats and the competitors can make their way to the waiting area. If you haven’t shown up by the half hour mark we’ll send someone to find you. If you’re late, then I’m afraid you’ll be disqualified. Do you have any other questions?”

“No, that should be everything.”

“Okay. Then you’re good to go Mr… Ryuhei. Good luck in the tournament.”

Hefting his duffle bag onto his shoulder Ryuhei turned away from the desk with a final smile and wave before beginning to walk in the direction of the competitor’s locker room. It was still some time until the next match but he might as well start getting ready; he could spend the time mentally preparing and image training for the next fight. It was too bad he didn’t know who his next opponent was slated to be but the mystery would help keep him on his toes and it disadvantaged his opponent as much as himself. He knew who the other semi-finalists were so it could only be one of three people.

The public areas of the arena were jam packed with people here to see the fights and visit the attractions, making progress slow. A part of him was worried he might be recognised and that he was going to be mobbed but even he had to admit that was an unlikely fantasy. It wasn’t like he was anyone famous after all, just someone who had managed to make it to the final four of the World Tournament; even as popular as this event was it wasn’t like all the previous fighters were celebrities or anything. People remembered the winners for a few years, but go back even four tournaments and the average person would struggle to remember the names of any of the competitors.

Besides, wearing normal civilian cloths like he was nobody would ever recognise him anyway.
The journey away from the Goblins was, thankfully, fairly uneventful until they reached the creek. Along the way they passed by a number of plants, some of which Oberon had already seen and a few he hadn’t; he used Magic and Monster Analysis on the Blue Argeps and the Purple Ferns, still using the skills as a replacement for a true plant analysis ability until he managed to obtain one. Once he was sure the Argeps were safe he plucked a few from the bush and ate until he didn’t feel so empty anymore. With his small body that didn’t take very long.

At one point Ash discovered a fragment of the Flak Beetle on the ground, a piece of its mandible by the looks of it, and picked it up with what must have been Lesser Force. Aside from this there didn’t seem to be any signs of life in the forest, everything in the area probably being driven off by the explosion, until they found both a set of footprints and a tuft of fur caught on a branch; something had been through here fairly recently. Oberon used Monster Analysis on the footprints and the fur, curious to see if his skill would give him any information on a creature from those clues alone.

Overtime they began to reach parts of the forest that showed no signs of Goblin activity, going beyond the range of their expeditions to collect wood or food. Digbie said something, asking if he was a bad as the other Goblins, and while the Sprite wanted to reassure him that this wasn’t the case, that he had healed Torrent, helped them fight Rattleskull and so much more, by the time he had turned back to say anything Mourn and Ash were already there; the two former-humans had already said everything he was going to and Oberon couldn’t help but smile contentedly as the words seemed to have a positive effect on Digbie’s mood.

Once again their journey progressed without incident until they reached a small clearing and Oberon began to feel a tingle at the base of his neck. Turning around the Sprite scanned the trees around the clearing for creatures but saw nothing, or at least not directly. If he didn’t look directly at the branches he could almost make out a shape among them, a hanging tail or a serpentine body, but how much of that was real and how much was humans ability to see patterns where they didn’t exist he wasn’t sure. They walked a bit further and as they passed another bush laden with those blue berries a deer-like creature sprang from the bushed and disappeared before he could get a good look at it, seeing only curved horns and a blue-hide.

Whatever it was he was pretty sure it wasn’t the thing from the clearing however.

When they reached the creek it seemed like that would be their stopping point for now, allowing them the opportunity to gather fresh water and maybe even make this their shelter for the time being. Oberon used Magic and Monster Analysis on the frogs and stayed far away from the burrow that seemed to contain a rather irritable creature before returning to join the others.

“I agree with the others on this Mourn. There’s no need to pick a fight and we don’t know anything about what’s in that burrow to begin with; a lack of information is what led to that mess with the Flak Beetle. Look, I used an analysis skill on it right before it blew up, none of us expected that thing to explode when Torrent hit it with a fireball, but the Beetle was filled with an explosive chemical that it uses to shoot projectiles at its prey. The creatures in this world aren’t like those back home, we can’t make any assumptions about what they’re like and we shouldn’t be attacking anything without finding out as much as we can about it first.” Oberon turned to face the Pygmy Drake before making one last point. “And to be fair, the beetle attacked us. We didn’t pick that fight.”

Ash suggested building a shelter upstream from where they currently were and Digbie agreed to help. “I can heal us at least. Give me a chance to recover my mana and I’ll patch us up; speaking of which I just learned an ability that can speed up mana recovery and I think we should all learn that as soon as possible. I haven’t seen anything like a mana crystal out here so far.” As Digbie began digging out a circle in the dirt in an attempt to recreate what he had done earlier and Mourn flew up to get a better view of the area, Oberon decided to do what he had done earlier and scout the local topography. “I’ll fly up and see where we are. I think we were heading north so we should be closer to the mountains now.”

Oberon craned his head back to try and see which of the trees nearest to them was the highest and flew up towards it, this time not bothering to stop on every bough but instead push upwards, only stopping to rest if he felt himself start to tire. Like before, if the tree he had picked wasn’t the tallest he would move over to the next until he was sitting atop the tallest tree in the area, holding on to it as he turned full circle and scanned his surroundings.

While he was there, basking in the sunlight above the tree layer that otherwise covered the forest floor in shade, he decided to try and learn more about the Gather Light skill he had found out about earlier. He closed his eyes and focused on the warm feeling of the sunlight on his skin; so far he had absorbed light as a kind of side effect of using his mediation skill, opening himself up to the ambient mana around him and coincidentally opening himself up to this other source of power as well. Now he tried to focus on just the sunlight, to ignore the ambient mana around him and absorb just the energy from the sun’s rays.

If he could feel this working then he would then move on to the next step and try to use this energy to cast a spell. Since Mana Orb was the Sprite’s simplest spell as well as being neutral in terms of affinity, Oberon began to create an orb between his hands, attempting as he did so to use only the power he had gathered from the sun.



@Zeroth@floodtalon@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam@Rune_Alchemist
@KhKj here's my contribution to the RP.


As he come out of his mediation Oberon was now certain that the sunlight was having a positive effect on his mana recovery. It was hard to tell exactly how much, but the process was definitely being sped up to some degree; the question was, was his new body absorbing sunlight and converting it to mana in the same way he opened himself up to the ambient mana in the surrounding air, or was the sunlight simply making his mediation more efficient and would it have a similar effect on his other abilities.

Looking down at his arms and chest he could see that the sparkly substance on his skin was shining brighter under the sun; was the effect just visual, or did it signify an effect being active? Curious, he activated Magic Analysis on the sparkles and then for good measure Monster Analysis on himself, hoping that perhaps the skill would give him more information than the general knowledge he had gotten on levelling up. Whatever was happening it was surely tied into his Light Affinity in some way and he would have to check later to see if the skill had earned any experience when he had the chance.

For now, he had more pressing matters to attend to, as the reason he had awoken from his mediation was due to a commotion on the ground below. From listening in it appeared that there was some disagreement among the Goblins and one of the younger members had challenged Crispy to a duel. From his elevated position Oberon used Magic and Monster Analysis on both Crispy and Orchid, seeking information on the Flame-Wielding Goblin now that he had more skills to work with and examining his fellow Reincarnator with the Monster Analysis skill he had lacked on their first meeting.

While the biggest threat was distracted the Sprite dropped down from the branches and came to a stop next to Torrent using Lesser Flight. He was surprised to see that the Lesserwurm had mostly recovered from her injuries, shedding her skin in order to rid herself of the burns that she was suffering from even after being healed. “Are you okay to move? We should leave while they’re distracted.” Turning to the two people he had known the longest since waking up, even if it was only for a few hours more, Oberon called out to try and get them to follow Ash’s advice. “Digbie, help Torrent move. Mourn, we need to leave before they remember we’re here.”



@Zeroth@Gardevoiran@Old Amsterdam@floodtalon
@Doll Maker it's preferred that you make a hero first, but there's no rules against making a villain first if you want.

There's a discord link a few posts up if you want to join us in the chat.
@KhKj mind if I use my own character template for this? I'd like to split the combat section up so there are separate weapon and semblance sections. Maybe add a few extra sections for stuff like what Kingdom the come from or what their occupation is; student, hunter, teacher and so on.
Casual is the section that is generally the most active, so unless you want to enforce a higher standard of writing that would be the place to put it.
It depends on if you want our characters to be involved with the events of the main plot or not. It may be easier to have our characters be in Vacuo, or even helping with the clean up of Vale, and have a completely separate story, rather than try and influence events that we don't know anything about past the latest episode. @KhKj
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