I am aware that my last entry might seem a bit morbid, especially since I’ve never seen a skeleton in my life and this is really and truly(and actually) spooking me out, but if I just keep going at it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.

…

Why is nothing happening?...

The skeletons are gnawing their teeth and glaring at me and Allan with two very evil eyes(one for each), so, why aren’t you doing anything, Allan?

Who, me? I should be doing something?

I’m like two mana! At most!!

Even if I wanted to help, what could I do?

I could probably have phased through them, gotten straight to the core and, I dunno, destroyed it? But I ain’t how I used to be!

Allan, you’re my only hope!

A-, Allan, you look pale…

You always look somewhat pale, but you look straight-up porcelin at this point!

Come on, go at them! Stab stab!

“Th-, this, no, I-, we have to retreat-, this is not something I can do anything about-, we should just-,”

Just go back? There’s nothing behind us, remember? There’s only one way to get ahead- through them!

“...”

Ah. I see how it is.

No worries, papa Magnus is gonna show ya how the big boys do it.

Atleast I think so?

I’m kind of apprehensive about putting my little plans into play, but, you know… mistakes are required to pregress, right? Unless they result in your death, then it was kinda, well, useless?

Whatever-, my little mini-body swiftly and soundly dissolves into the thin coat of mana around Allan’s body before the whole mass suddenly pools on his forehead, forming a little blob.

“What in the world are you-,”

Locking in on target, calibrating…

Alright.

Right in the forehead of the blue one.

That oughta do it, right?

Right.

Here we go.

Ptoom-

With a silent “ptoom” only I could hear, my needle-thin body was thrust through the air, and into the forehead of the blue skeleton. However, unlike my expectations, instead of cracking it open or something, instead, I somehow created a little pinprick through which I kind of fell.

Where in the heck am I-,

- Would you like to absorb the 23 corrupt mana in this cavity? It will cost 1 mana to purify. -

Huh?

Uh-, uhm-, yes?...

- Commencing. -

Tch, I can never be as robotic as that voice…

“Hey, what did you do-?”

I have no idea, but I can feel what little mana I have pooling in the hole-cavity. In the skull. Where the brains hould be.

Ugh-,

I can feel how around half of myself is drained and dispersed in the skull-cavity.

The complete darkness in there was lit up for a second, revealing the pale, yellow-ish bone and my little mini-me form that I apparently took in self-defense standing in a huge blob of slowly dissappearing dark blue goop.

Please don’t be brains please don’t be brains

The goop slowly dissappeared, the blue light shining quite brightly. I could feel myself getting bigger already.

Soon enough, I just about filled up the entire cavity with just myself, and the blue goop was gone, so I guess that was the “corrupt mana” the voice spoke of?

- You have absorbed 23 mana. You now have 24/80(+80) mana. -

Nice!

Alright, this farce is over, time to mimic a terrifying sci-fi villain!

By just flexing my newly created muscles, the bony dome that was my prison shattered into pieces, my small, doll like body bursting out in it’s place.

Graaahh!

But instead of the skeleton falling apart as expected, instead, a pair of bony hands grabbed me.

Urk!?

And I was promptly thrown to the ground.

“What in the world-,”

You-, I-,

The head-less body stood on it’s own for a second before actually collapsing, as I wanted it to.

But the orb, along with all the corrupt mana(?) glooping around it, threw itself to the other skeleton, who happili accepted the reinforcements.

In fact, the orange orb already in the skeleton smoothly swiveled up to the face of the skeleton, where it entered one of the eyes, filling it up with, well, orb-stuff.

The other orb did the same, entering the other eye.

...Did I create a boss-monster?

If so, I’m very sorry, I didn’t mean to.

Allan, please save me.