Now I really do not have many options left. I've spent the past two days looking around my house, and to my disappointment I was right, as always, there are four herds of Obonks, by what I have observed the herds do not mix, and when some individual from a herd enters the territory of another herd, he is immediately attacked. The territories of the Obonks are north, south, east and west, apparently the land around my house does not belong to any of the herds.

In addition to watching the herds in recent days, I also tried to cross the territory of one of the herds, nor did I get close to it, barely walked a few meters beyond the edge of the territory and some Obonks began to run towards me almost immediately, I had to run with all my might to escape, I was lucky since they did not continue to persecute me after I left the territory.

Now I am here, sitting on the couch in my backyard, the horizon painted orange because of the sunset, but I am too discouraged to be able to enjoy the view.

The more I think, the worse my situation seems. I only have a month and a half of food, if I ration, the worst is the water, since the reservoir only has enough water for three weeks if I spend in 5L averages a day.

 Wailing will not solve anything, I need solutions.

If I am not able to cross the territory of the Obonks without being seen, I can not kill them, even if I can kill some with the bow, I only have twenty arrows, which is far from sufficient since each herd has in average 250 Obonks, and as long as I do not get a class I can not raise my level, killing one or two Obonks will not change anything.

The only way out is magic, but I have no idea how to use magic, or where to start .

I'm going to leave my problems to settle tomorrow, now I'd better prepare dinner.

As I returned to the kitchen and lit a candle, I went to the stove and with a hand movement a non-stick frying pan appeared on the stove, with another movement a chicken egg appears in my hand, I break the shell and put the contents in the frying pan with due care not to break the yolk and put a pinch of salt and add a spoon of water, after cover and wait for the egg to cook, this is my dinner today.

I woke up the other day with the snoring of my stomach, only one egg at dinner is not enough to satisfy me, but I have to put up with it.

The sun is still hidden and the stars are still in the sky, now it should be around 4 o'clock.

I sit down on the couch in my backyard so I can think better. Or rather, try to figure out the answer to the question: How do you use magic?

According to games, fantasy storyline and novels, the first thing someone has to be able to do is to use magic and be able to feel the mana in the environment.

I'll try to start there, close my eyes and I concentrate.

Without noticing the passage of time I continue to concentrate, ignoring all the distractions and emptying my mind.

The only thing I felt was peace, tranquility and a feeling I can not describe.

I think it's mana, it's like the air around me, it's there, but I can not touch it, but different from the air, I feel like I can touch the mana around me, it's like she's there, but at the same time had not, the feeling is so confused that I do not know how to describe.

When I wake up or return to reality, the sun is already high in the sky. That's when I realize my mistake, I meditated out here without any form of security, totally unprotected, that was a great stupidity and very dangerous.

I quickly turn inward to lock all the doors and check the windows, go to the bedroom, sit in my bed and try to feel the mana again, than to my joy and surprise and I can feel the mana as soon as I concentrate, despite of being able to feel the mana that is in contact with my skin, but this is already a great advance.

Step One: Feeling mana, complete.

Now that I can feel mana, the next step is to manipulate mana.

Still sitting on the bed I concentrate and try to make the manna move.

After much effort I am able to make a small amount of mana accumulate in my hand. As I concentrate I try to make the manna turn into fire.

After concentrating for a long time the result was a complete failure.

But what I wanted too, right on the first try, I can not be discouraged, my survival depends on it.

 Eight days, eight days and nothing. In these last days, in addition to getting the area where I can feel mana, I can now feel mana within a radius of 50 cm and not only the one that is in contact with my skin, I have not been able to do anything, not even a spark, that is frustrating

The time is running, today I decided to change tactics. Instead of trying to manipulate the mana around me I will try to manipulate the one inside me, but for this I have to feel the mana that is inside my body.

After a meditation section to calm down, I start to "look" for the mana of my body.

I do not know how much time passed, but when I realized I was in a totally dark place.

As I inspected my surroundings, I saw a light.

As I approach, I see that what is emitting light is a blue sphere with a multicolored flame in the center. The sensation that the sphere conveys to me is similar to that which mana gives me, but it is a purer sensation. It did not take long for me to understand that this sphere is where my mana is stored. What will this flame in the middle of the sphere mean?

I can already feel the manna of the environment and of my nucleus, as I named this sphere.

And now?

Before thinking about it I decided to explore this space to see if I can find anything else.

I did not need to look for long until find something.

It is a red-transparent dodecahedron. Unlike the core that I was able to find out what it was about easily, this in front of me I have no idea what it can be.

By looking at the "object" from several angles I noticed something that caught my eye.

There are several things attached to the dodecahedron, they look like wires, and looking closely these wires are hollow, in fact, looking closely these wires look more like veins, only they are blue and there is nothing running through them.

While observing this dodecahedron and these "veins", I thought of a possibility of why I have had no success until now.

And if, in order to use magic I have to make the mana of my nucleus pass through this dodecahedron, to enter into these blue veins, until it leaves my body, so I can use magic.

Now all I have to do is find a method for the mana to reach the dodecahedron.

But before finding a way to get the mana until the veins, I decided to explore the veins to see how far they go, and where they go.

After exploring the veins I was able to discover some things about them:

1: There are two types of veins: Thick ones that are in smaller number and the fine ones in great amount.

I called the thick veins of spiritual veins. And the fine ones of Spiritual Vessels.

Not very original and creative, but that's what's for dinner.

2: The spiritual veins are few and run through the whole body, the whole trunk, head, legs and feet, arms and hands.

3: The spiritual vessels are many and connect the spiritual veins with certain points, that I still do not know what they are or what they are for. These points are golden spheres scattered all over the body.

4: There are 9 dodecahedrons in total, each with a different color, red, blue, brown, yellow, green, white, black, gray, and violet. I'm not entirely sure, but I get the impression that each dodecahedron represents one element.

Before testing my theory, I had to come back to reality, since I was mentally tired and hungry.

Just the other day I was fully recovered from mental fatigue.

Okay. It's now. Please, let me be right.

After returning to the spiritual system, which is how I am calling this dark space, I began to extract mana from the nucleus and direct it to the red dodecahedron, when the mana reached the dodecahedron I made it stop to advance, now it comes to the difficult part , to create a spiritual vein between the nucleus and the red dodecahedron.

I do not know how much time passed, but I did. My mana is over, but I got it, I .......

Hmmm!!

My head hurts. What happened?

I do not know when I fell asleep, but now I'm not good enough to worry about it. My head is heavy as if I had not slept for weeks, and my body is dormant and lethargic.

In front of me there are two message screens.

Abnormal condition: Mana fever

When the mana of the nucleus is completely used the abnormal status 'Mana fever' can be acquired until the nucleus stabilizes.

Mana regen -80%

Spirit -50% Affinity unlocked: fire attribute.

Mana fever, this explains why I'm feeling this way.

If I had not been feeling so bad, I would surely be jumping for joy now.

I think I'm going back to sleep, but I'd rather kill what's killing me.

Cook, what's the menu for today?

Egg!

Shit, I hate eggs.

Finally I finished connecting the core with all the Gates, that's the name I gave the dodecahedrons, it took six days, but I finished. I was lucky, because every connection made to the next one was easier and I spent less mana, nothing like practice. Each gate represents one attribute.

Red: Fire

Blue: water

Green: Air

Brown: Earth

Yellow: Lightning

White: life

Black: Death

Gray: Space

Violet: Nature

I decided to complete all the connections first, because after I completed the connection between the core and the fire gate, signs began to appear that the core was being influenced by the fire gate, so I was afraid that the gate convert the core, for only the fire attribute could be used, and if that happened it was not reversible.

I started trying to use magic only one day after completing the link between the core and the gates, rested and full of energy and anticipation for what I might be able to do.

To start experimenting with magic, it's best if it's in the yard, I do not want to blow up the house I live in.

After arriving in the yard.

I stretched out my right hand,

I made mana from the core pass through the fire gate and led it through the spiritual veins to the palm of my hand.

As soon as the mana came out from inside my palm and came into contact with the air, the manna began to catch fire, lasted only a few moments, but it was the most glorious of my life.

It worked, it seems like a dream.

KuhuhuhuHAHAHAHA I am a genius. HAHAHAHAHA !!!

I'm very excited, now I have some hope.

Calm down Alex, calm down, there's still a long way to go.