TBATE: Warriors

Epilogue 3: Progress & Sneak Attack

3rd pov

It's been 3 months since Cross had that fight with the wolf and over those 3 months Cross has been trying to form his core. And because of being in the beast glades, he made a lot of progress by creating at least half of it which would be super impressive if Cross didn't notice how Mana seemed always to be attracted to him no matter where he went.

Cross also started reading books other than the training/ Technique books that are all about being able to make your own clothes and cookbooks which surprisingly came out very useful. But right now he's sitting in a meditating position while drawing In ambient mana.

(Cross) * hmm at his rate I'll be finished making my core in about 3 more months while leaving 1 year and 9 months before Arthur goes on a trip to Xyrus. hmmm, I'm still wondering what I should do about the story cause It will change dramatically no matter what I do in the story but I guess the only thing I can do is make him stronger to protect everyone. but how to introduce myself* Cross thought but was interrupted by feeling his forming mana core take a ton of ambient mana in one fell swoop building a thrid of his mana core to his half surprising the heck out of him.

* what the heck was that it felt like I was a vacuum to mana I wonder if I'm the only one dealing with this in the world. must be due to my king's body or probably just because I'm and elf but oh well* Cross thought confused but eventually went back to forming his mana core cause now he only needed one month of forming his core to complete it.

/Timeskip 1 month/

Cross was walking into the forest that he usually trains in with his martial arts when he can but because he doesn't have martial arts besides that, he was getting around fine by using breathing techniques that he read about cause he bought a book about all of the breathing techniques in Demon slayer from the Karma shop just in case He mostly got it because even if you do have magic you can run out of it then what you're defenseless.

but to young Cross that was just an excuse so that's why he trained his breathing techniques because even if you had depleted mana you still had your raw strength and skill So far Cross has only gotten to using total concentration breathing but once he fully got it down he could start trying to use different breathing style.

While Cross was talking to himself he had finally made it to a clearing that had no trees around it. But just to make sure he used one of his abilities which was his heightened senses to see if anyone was around but to his pleasure, no one was around so he sat in his meditative pose and started bringing the last pieces together.

*10..9..8..7..6..5..4..3..2..1.and-*

|KABOOOOOOM!!!!!!!|

A massive explosion was the only thing that he could hear

/with the strange individual watching him/

The strange individual was even more intrigued when he found out that the half-elf boy was making his mana core on his own by drawing in nearby mana to help pt his core together faster but what they just witnessed was nothing short but fa nominal.

* The size of that explosion was even greater than most asuras when they awaken their ability to use elemental mana* the Individual thought in amazement while also thinking about what would have happened if they didn't put up a barrier around the area the boy was in because if he didn't at least half of the people of the top of the beast glades would have to head the explosion*

"Man this kid is gonna be trouble one day But for some reason, I can't wait to see what he'll accomplish in the future," The mysterious figure said while going back to just watching the boy after putting down his barrier.