Avatar: The Gamer

42 - Ungrateful

Immediately he felt the blood flowing inside his and Acnologia's bodies, as well as the blood of some of the spirit animals close to him

Taking a deep breath in again and exhaling it out Levi closed his eyes and concentrated on his blood without trying to move it, he had one hour in this state and he wasn't in a hurry to try anything.

First, he noticed how his blood moved around his body, how fast it moved, and the amount of blood that spread around every corner, it would be really idiotic to try bending his own blood and move it too fast or send too much of it to a specific body part and kill himself right then and there.

'That would be an unfortunate ending to the one who is supposed to rise to the top of this world.' thought Levi sarcastically, shaking his head in amusement at his own self-proclaimed title

For fifteen minutes Levi stayed like that trying to remember everything about his own blood and how it behaved, after the fifteen-minute mark, Levi finally decided to try his theory.

Moving his hands up and down Levi tried to reach for his own blood and control it, he decided that the safest way for now was to try slowing it down, even just a little, even if he messed up somehow or blacked out it shouldn't be too serious, his body could just resume its previous functions normally without his interference.

Sadly for him, none of his attempts seemed to be working, but he didn't despair, he only had a one-hour window of opportunity every month to do this and he wasn't going to waste it, and so Levi kept at it, again and again moving his hands in blood bending motions, motions that he got from memories from the system.

He was so engrossed in his attempts that he didn't notice Acnologia who was staring at him for a while in curiosity before losing interest, seemingly not caring about his human friend's antics any longer.

Turning around and observing the meadow they were on, Acnologia's eyes shone as he ran his tongue around his mouth, his saliva dropping to the ground soaking it wet, it was time to feast.

Lunging forward faster than any of the poor animals around could react, Acnologia started his hunt. Levi although noticed Acnologia getting further and further away through their shared bond but he didn't care too much.

He knew his friend's habits, it was a surprise that he even waited till now to start his hunt, and it didn't matter how far he went, with their bond he could talk to him and know his location at any time he wanted.

And so for the next forty minutes Levi tried every trick and he could think of going at it for the entire forty minutes not stopping for even a second, but sadly for him, he didn't succeed and his one-hour window of opportunity was up.

He wasn't discouraged though, he didn't plan to succeed on his first try, not even his second one or third actually, he would just keep at it till it bore fruit, he'd only have to do it once a month for one hour so it didn't bother him much.

Plus, he might have just imagined it but he could swear that he felt his blood slow for barely a fraction of its speed, sadly for him there was no way to confirm it as even when he asked the system it said it didn't detect anything.

Opening his eyes and standing up Levi looked to the west, that was where Acnologia was, Levi didn't know if it was just a coincidence or if it was intentional on his part so he wouldn't slow them down but Acnologia was actually heading towards Koh territory, it was still a month journey away so Levi wasn't too worried.

Shaking his head Levi looked around, he had one more spirit slot and there was no reason not to use it right away, if he didn't like the bond spirit he could always change it, but if he had to choose one Levi would rather choose a spirit capable of flight.