TBATE: The strongest fox

chapter 2

The sphere that recently emitted yellow light has lost its original properties and has become just a colorless ball.

"What are those multicolored dots in the atmosphere?" After successfully absorbing the yellow sphere, Akio began to see strange multicolored dots.

There were only five colors that Akio saw, namely red, blue, green, brown and finally purple.

There was another change that Akio felt, he felt a strange bright red sphere in his body, this sphere automatically absorbed almost all the particles from the atmosphere, only the purple particles remained intact.

"So that's how the beasts used magic," Akio came to this conclusion and began trying to interact with the strange sphere in his body. He didn't know how to do it, he didn't even know what kind of strange bright red sphere was in his body, but still Akio decided to try. Akio mentally tried to control the bright red sphere, he concentrated on the bright red ball and ... what a miracle, the red sphere shone even more and Akio's body was surrounded by a yellow aura.

"Wow, I feel great" What Akio has just done is that he has evenly distributed mana throughout his body. For an ordinary person, it would be difficult, but for Akio it was as easy as breathing, as if he had always been able to do it.

"Ahhh... now I get it... These small multicolored particles in the atmosphere, this is what magic cannot be used without, and the red sphere in my body is a large accumulation of these particles" Roughly speaking, Akio was right, mana is all 4 elements, in its purest form, namely fire, water, wind and earth. the mana core is a very dense accumulation of mana particles, without which it is impossible to use magic, the higher the quality of mana in a mage's mana core, the stronger the spells that a mage is able to create. It can be said that the mana core is a magician's tool for using spells.

Akio seemed to have already forgotten that he was sitting on the gutted corpse of a bear.

"This means that I need to hunt animals anyway..." Akio was depressed, he had no idea how he would fight the beasts in this forest. What was the cost of one saber-toothed tiger, who with one of his attacks was able to make a hole in a three-meter bear.

"Even though I can use magic, I'm still a long way from that tiger" Akio was right, he was just a little fox who had recently learned how to use a mana core. If Akio knew how to properly distribute mana to create spells, then he would at least have a chance to escape.

"Well, since I've already learned how to use magic, then why don't I try it out?" Akio was about to jump off the corpse of the bear and rush into the forest, but he suddenly felt someone's presence behind him.

Akio tried to jump aside from his seat to avoid the creature standing behind him, but Akio did not have time to jump back in time and was grabbed by an unknown creature by the scruff of the neck.

Unknown 1: "It's not for nothing that we came to this forest. Look at this fox cub, don't you feel something strange about him?" said a large man with black hair, he was wearing iron armor, he was wearing a large broadsword wrapped in a white cloth.

Unknown 2: "What exactly is strange about this fox cub? So far, all I see now is a very cute fox cub with small horns on its head," said a beautiful woman with brown hair. She was wearing a leather armor that fits snugly to her body, exposing her feminine features. On her back was a silver bow with the engraving "God of the Wind".

Unknown 3: "Apart from his horns, I don't see anything strange about him... What... wait... how is this possible?" the man with glasses on his eyes said in surprise, he had a thin build. He was wearing a blue coat with gold stripes that depicted a whirlpool. On his lower back hung a belt, on which was attached a silver wand with a large blue gemstone on its end.

Akio was dumbfounded, he did not expect that he would be captured by people. Akio tried to escape from the man's tenacious hands, but the man, seeing his attempts to escape, put a strange glowing collar around his neck.

"What the... why don't I feel the red sphere in my body anymore?" Akio was shocked, he never expected to be captured by people. Of course, he was glad that there were people in this world, but he would prefer not to meet them. Akio was not an idiot and understood that people mostly catch animals in order to gut them and get skin, meat, etc.

Unknown 3: "Why is his mana core completely different from other animal cores. I've never seen anything like it."

Unknown 1: "That's what I want to say, his mana core looks like a human"

Unknown 2: "Wow, if this fox cub's mana core looks like a human, does it mean that he has the same potential as humans?"

Unknown 3: "I don't think it will become particularly strong, most likely it is some mutated species with limited potential, it's just a fox cub with a strange core"

Unknown 1: "In any case, we'd better take him with us, the guild has sent us to explore this strange area in the beast glades. There were too many A-rank beasts coming out of here, all the adventurers who were sent to this forest didn't come back, and to be honest, I'm not eager to stay here, we met too many animals from rank C to rank B, and this despite the fact that we didn't even go deep into the forest. I think this will be quite enough for the report"

(arthur is currently 4 years old)