Cast Out (Book 1 Done; Book 2 In-Progress)

Chapter 4: Part 3.2

Previously......

'This has to work. No, this WILL work!'

A split second later and the root was already a hair away from the top of my head.

BOOOOM!

Debris filled the air as yet another root slammed into the ground.....

NOW:

The giant root lay still on the ground. A hazy mist still hung in the air from when the root had slammed down onto the ground.

No one paid any attention to it. Why should they? After all, the root was just another of the many that were still slamming themselves down onto the ground, trying to squash the Boundary Guardians and Zhang's party.

Suddenly, a part of the mist rushed back to the ground. It gathered together and condensed, re-forming a certain adventurer that had almost been flattened into a paste by the root that was now behind him.

Immediately he took off at a sprint, only giving a moment's glance towards himself to check that everything was still in place.

Wahshi felt a surge of confidence, but quickly buried the feeling. He was still about to go up against monsters that were so far out of his league that it wasn't even funny. If he felt anything other than calm, he knew he'd die.

Still, the new notifications that had appeared in the corner of his vision had made his whole body feel lighter from excitement, which he'd decided not to bury all the way, since a small amount would help him push his body closer to the limit of what it could do.

THROUGH PROFOUND REALIZATIONS ABOUT YOUR ORIGINS, YOU HAVE UNLOCKED A NEW BRANCH OF ABILITIES.

BORN OF THE MIST: A special branch of abilities which can be accessed only by those that have been birthed by the Mist of Souls, and have understood and accepted their origins.

NEW (BORN OF THE MIST) ABILITY DISCOVERED

MIST FORM LVL 1: FIRM CONVICTION IN WHAT YOU THOUGHT WAS TRUE ABOUT YOUR ORIGINS HAS ENABLED YOU TO TURN BACK INTO THE MIST THAT SPAWNED YOU

AT 1ST LEVEL, TURNS YOUR ENTIRE BODY INTO MIST. HIGHER LEVELS WILL ALLOW YOU TO CONTROL WHAT PART OF YOUR BODY YOU WISH TO TURN.

AT 1ST LEVEL, MIST FORM CAN STAY ACTIVE FOR A MAXIMUM OF 2 SECONDS. ABILITY MAY BE CANCELLED AT ANY TIME.

ACTIVATION REQUIREMENTS: NONE

ACTIVATION COST: 2% of Max Health

Ever since I'd ended up on the receiving end of Misa's spell, I knew that I had to find a way to better protect myself. There was no way that I was going to end up like that a 2nd time. I knew I wasn't like the typical new player though. There were too many things that made that obvious.

If I was a normal new player, I wouldn't have been the first to make it out of the Mist of Souls.

If I was normal, I probably never would've met Gaia and become her first friend.

But the thing that gave me the idea in the first place, was the fact that if I were normal, I wouldn't be "First-Born of the Mist".

FIRST-BORN OF THE MIST