So I tried moving my hands to see if they have enough strength to move themselves at the bare minimum.
After sitting there in my thoughts for what felt like quite some time, I remembered that the system said my physique is more related to healing, so I expected I'd at least be able to stand.
And my arm is able to move. Even though it is very, very painful, the pain is still manageable.
And I feel like I've felt this pain before.
But I can't remember if it was recently with those painful sensations, or if it was way before that.
I shrugged and removed those useless thoughts from my brain.
Within the short time I have known myself, one of the things I have learned is that I don't like dwelling on useless thoughts that don't help me in some way or entertain me.
And as for nasty thoughts, I don't even let them stay in my mind. They can tarnish my ultra pure mind.
Well my hands can move.
So I put my hands on the ground and tried standing up.
The moment I pushed myself up, pain spread through both of my arms.
"Damn..."
My legs trembled a little the moment they supported my weight.
I almost fell back down, but somehow managed to keep my balance.
I stood there for a few moments without moving.
Once I was sure I wasn't about to collapse, I cautiously took a step forward.
It hurt.
But hey , at least I can already move.
But I stayed still.
I just stood there , since it would be a pain to stand up again.
And I also don't want to fall.
I also feel like I am constantly losing something, but I don't know what it is.
I then started moving my head around to see what is making me lose something.
I moved my head from left to right and looked around the whole room but found nothing.
That's when my eyes landed on the fire.
" Ohhhh , right ".
" The fire ".
I dismissed the fire and I felt that my energy stopped leaving in the littlest amounts I can manage.
" So , I have been subconsciously sending energy to the flame all this time , while I wasn't thinking about it ?"
[ Yes ]
" Well that's good".
And well, since the fire is gone, it is incredibly dark right now, but I am ignoring it.
Let me think of something that I can do to distract myself for 5 minutes.
" Hey , system can you show me how much energy I have remaining?".
[ Energy which I said you can call mana for now 23/70]
" Yeah I know you said I call it mana for now , but I forgot " .
I dismissed the panel and then summoned a ball of water above my head with as little energy as I possibly can.
I don't really have enough to just make it appear.
Mana is a type of energy. Making energy tangible without it backfiring is much harder than most people think. The system told me that people underestimate it because they see others doing it effortlessly.
At I am very lucky that I am very talented and that I was previously very experienced with it.
So after creating the water bubble, I forced myself to stand as straight as I can at the moment since these Injuries make it very difficult.
I then let a small stream of that water fall on me.
I used the energy around the stream to keep it stable and recover as much energy as possible.
I don't want to constantly use more energy than I already am to keep the bubble in the air
I sighed out of reflex from I don't know when.
" I need to remove this blood off of me and my clothes , I don't want it to attract anything more than it already has ".
" And the things in this trial are very strange ".
Like first .
My arm somehow got skeletofied.
Not petrified, skeletofied.
Second it forced me to endure painful sensations that I speculate haven't happened yet .
Like , who the hell does that.
And then I looked at my body like it was almost instinct as I am still in my thoughts.
And I found that there is no blood .
So I stopped supplying the water with mana.
SPLASH!
And all the water dropped on me.
And then I felt the coldness hit me.
It was not very strong , but I really don't like this bit of coldness.
So I tried making a fire , but a small spark appeared and left just as quickly.
And I tried again which In turn just produced a spark again.
" Why is it so accursedly annoying! ".
My mana is done.
I turned to the energy panel I hadn't dismissed.
[ 0 / 70 ].
" I really should have just moved bloodied ".
I then sat down.
After sitting , that's when I realized how clean this area is compared to the past areas.
And I just waited there without saying anything.
After 21 minutes and some seconds , I felt that the accumulation of my mana has finished.
I stood up and started drying my clothes.
Since I am basically immune to my own magic I just hit myself with my clothes on with wind and fire.
And my clothes dried incredibly fast.
And don't think that my clothes share my immunity to my own magic.
It is just I have a decent amount of mana control.
But the system says it's bad, so it is bad.
And I am done with what I wanted to do so I removed myself from my thoughts.
I shifted my focus to where I am right now and how it looks like and so on.
But that's when I noticed the mana fluctuations in the area.
And well, it has gotten brighter somehow.
And there is a bit of light .
And the light is the orangeness of fire.
But it is so little and faint that I almost didn't notice.
So I started using divine perception again to see the colour of the mana and how it is flowing to check what it is doing.
And well , it is flowing very very efficiently.
Way more efficient than me.
" Why does this mana feel familiar ".
But I can't remember ever coming into contact with it.
I went through my memories to check if I had ever been exposed to it, even for a second.
But even after a few minutes , I couldn't recognize it.
And the mana control... it is so good that it looks like it is dancing.
And the dance also feels familiar.
Like I had seen it before.
The dance is beautiful, graceful and elegant... but above all else, playful.