Tentacle Lord

Chapter 8 : Tentacle vs Twisted Beast

On top of the field of the training ground were carcasses of human and snakes alike lying around, forming a pool of blood around them. And in such field were two monsters of their own right, ready to fight for their own survival, one of the monsters was a scythe-wielding Tentacle monster in the form of a young man, whose hiding his real identity as a monster. his reason to fought the monstrosity infront of him which other humans normally ran away from was for his own and his loved one survival, nothing less nothing more, the Tentacle monster was me.

The other monster was the Twisted beast with cobra head and two other head as hands and stood five meters tall with its bright red and black stripes body with glowing golden eyes, the very sight of it was more than enough to instill fear to anyone who looked at it. And there i was looking straight at it with many peoples behind me cowering in fear.

Well, it's not like i didn't knew their fear because even i was taken back by how it's looked, if it not for Tsurai, Saya and Alice were here i would never risked myself to helped them. i mean i was supposed to fought the monster infront of me without my tentacle only with my scythe, if this wasn't recklessness i didn't knew what to call it.

I reconsidered the choice to ran away as far as i could from here with Tsurai and co but if i did that it would make a chance for the Twisted beast to attack us and most importantly the fact that i ran away abandoning this people would put a big dent in my relationship with Tsurai. I didn't cared if all this people died, but Tsurai wouldn't let that the proof was that she tried to sacrifice herself to helped this people. With the abandoning choice impossible to be put into action, i was left with only choice left, that was to fight the monstrosity infront me, but of course i wouldn't fight it with only scythe, i got something new to test on this sucker.

SHAAAAAAAA !!!!

With a frightening roar the once unmoving twisted beast, which only observing me at first suddenly threw a fireball at me, all the people behind me show a horrified expression. without moving a muscle i looked at the fireball and said this in normal voice.

" Earth wall " (kagero)

And just like that a wall made from Earth with length 5 meters and height 1 meter with 30 cm in thickness rose infront of me, protecting me from the fireball. Yes, the new thing i was talking about was magic, the reason i holed up in the library this morning was not only to avoid Tsurai but also to learned how to use magic. ever since i got magic, i had always wanted to try using magic but since i didn't knew how to used it i neglected it.

I only found out how to use magic after reading at least 20 books about magic, it took that much of research because the way i used magic was different from other people, All the people who had jobs that granted them magic had the same mechanism to used their magic. to used the magic they only needed to choose the magic they wanted to use at their mind, of course the magic they could use were only magic granted by their jobs as their leveled up, and inserted the amount of their magic power or Mana to the magic they wanted, this determined the size and strength of their magic.

In simple terms, you could thought of using magic as firing a gun that could change it's caliber according to the bullet loaded to it and the user's Mana was the bullet, and you did this all in a second. First, you picked the gun (magic) then in the same time you created the bullet's (mana) with size and strength you desired. After you created the bullet (Mana), the gun (magic) would give the bullet (Mana) a casing (form and element) according to the magic you choose and fired it, But this was strictly for a one-use type magic like the fireball.

Now what made my magic mechanism different was that while i had magic it only served to gave my Mana an element and that's it, i had complete control what my magic form would be like. With that i only needed to thought of which magic element i wanted then imagined the form, size and strength of my Mana in my mind and fired it, just like that i could use magic with any form in any element i wanted, as long as i got the magic, but for now i could only used earth magic and the best part was this wasn't the only magic mechanism i learned.