Agnisotra: Origin Tails

I slowly melted the ice pillar I was sitting on. My feet feel fine now but I don't want to overdo it. Sup! Is the guardian dead? Ehhm, about that… Gregory explained the situation, apparently they met a breakdancing mole guarding pink broccoli shakes and agreed to a match whitout knowing the terms and now they were set up for a losing battle. I can't believe these guys.

You guys suck! Never pick a fight you can't win! Yeah! Gregory smacked Raishin. This is your fault! So, do you have any ideas to win this?

Hmm, let's give up on the rap battle, we’re not winning this. But my rap will be awesome!

He is blind, not deaf! This brings us to the breakdance part, we have already won that one. Huh, why?

Precisely because he is blind. You are not going to lie to a blind opponent, are you? I’m just bending reality that's all.

That is the same! Just give up that is his race’s identity it will be here whether you like it or not. How fast can you dig Greg? Uhh depends on how much mana I need to use for that.

Right, I will take that one then. I thought you sucked at earth magic!

Yeah, so? Don't you need earth magic to dig a hole?

Let me ask you guys, did I use earth magic to make a hole in the town square? Oooh. Oooh. I guess this area will lose another mountain, that is fine, we have more than enough mountains…

So that is the plan, quite the easy one, did you guys even try? Nope!

Well, my feet feel better now. I saw a man almost slip over the ice I left behind in the village and forcefully melted all the ice I had lying around. It was time to sell my rubies again. I think I might be the wealthiest person on the continent by now. Maybe the whole world, I don't know much about the other continents though, maybe the richest person here is a beggar compared to the other 4 continents. I only know there are 4 more, I don't know their name or their size, and I don't even know how big this continent is. I know so little of this world it's frustrating. But that will change after we get out of this town. I headed down the mountain. Had the same interaction with Terry, it seems his name was Jeremiah all along. The conversation seemed to be slightly different but the contents were the same. I assume I will have to deal with Rock tomorrow too. I walked back up the mountain and after entering the town I saw Uraya taking a stroll.

Oh, I forgot to ask do you need more items for your potion? She stared at me for a bit and spoke.

“I already got what I needed, I needed something that was magic dense but after you, um, destroyed the town square I managed to capture some residue mana., even more than I needed.” I have a question; how would you react if Azu decided to do her own thing after she gets free? Uraya looked at me as if she didn't understand.

Oh, with Azu I mean Azurra mist.

“Oh, I did understand your question, let me think, the thing is she has had to put up with a lot of problems before she got imprisoned, she never really experienced freedom, ironically she seemed the freest I've ever seen her the last month or so.” Month? Oh, right we have already been at this for over 20 days because of all the time loops.

“Anyways I will be ok with whatever she decides.” We walk around the hole I made. Some citizens decided to make some bridges at the side of the hole so that people could still kind of pass through the town square. “My potion is technically done but it will need to simmer for 2 weeks." So, we will get to see the result in the last timeline? Is it something to help Azu?

“Something like that yes. And could you be a bit more careful next time? It almost seemed like you blew yourself to pieces.” Ugh, suddenly everyone is telling me to be careful, fine! I will do my best.

“Good, now go be a good kid and go do some kid stuff for once.” With those words, granny Uraya disappeared to her shop after a short wave. Wait, what does she mean by that? Kid stuff? What do kids do these days? Donkey likes to bully, and troll likes stalking. Is this what society has devolved to? Bullying and stalking? I could do that. So, who am I going to stalk? I slipped into stealth. I looked around and saw Charlize and the troll chatting while heading toward the bakery. Found my targets! I sneaked around. The moment they were putting their foot on the floor I made a minuscule [Frozen ground] and made them slip.

“Ow!” they looked around and at their feet but I instantly made the [Frozen ground] disappear so it looked like they slipped over nothing. I sneaked behind them and tapped both of their shoulders. They looked at each other and asked what was wrong but became confused. Hmm, this isn't as fun as I thought it would be. I decided to go home and do some casual blacksmithing

Day 3: You thought I would wake up to an energy wave, eh? Well, you’re wrong! I got up super early to investigate what this bullshit is all about. I'm here hanging on my [Lightning Umbrella] and waiting for something to happen while scanning the town. This energy wave better hurry up before my umbrella will take me to space. And there it is the energy in the sewers starts to swell and pushes it out through some weakness in the fabric of space. It creates an energy wave and the energy forms into shades. Yikes, that's a lot of mutants. Luckily a lot of shades fall into the holes Raishin and I made yesterday. I locked on to the weakness in the fabric of space and managed to fix it. Now ideally, I would want to strengthen it along the sewers but I can’t do that. Not like I don't know how to do that I just can’t. That is the job of another tailed race, strengthening and stabilizing space and structures, would make a good sidekick but I forgot which tailed race did that. It is not like they are common or easy to find so that wouldn't have mattered anyways. Now that this is fixed hopefully, I won't have to wake up early. That there will be no shades is just a side-effect. I grabbed the umbrella with my tail and hung upside down.

I took out my frost bow and wondered if I should do this. It would be better if I dropped my eternal winter and winter's end combo. I decided against it. I wouldn't know what to do with the remaining 5 or 6 nukes after I wiped out all the shades. It would also take a while and I’m seriously high up now because it took a while for them to appear. The air started to become a bit thin and the clouds were getting in the way. I shot ice arrows and it seemed that from this height they really picked up speed and seemed to grow stronger. Do my arrows get stronger based on my distance? Is it because it is like -30 ℃ up here? Distance is easy to check. I shot my ice arrow as hard as I could toward a mountain in the Umbra mountain range, totally not a mountain close to the potato village. Ohh that is a lot of damage, the arrow that I shot made a sizeable crater. Hehe, I am so overpowered! The ice melted quite fast though.

Right, I got to snipe these shades. The town was really small under me. I could see some villages in the distance and what is that? I focused on something super far but shiny. Is that a city? It sure looks huge. I got distracted and looked at what was going on inside the city. I never zoomed in on something this far before. This city seems to be very distant. What is this a golden city block? How tacky. There seem to be enormous differences between this city and Boshi town. Is this even the same country? I don't know, my eyes can't see the borders of countries. Anyways, the air started to become thin I think I should cancel my umbrella. I entered freefall and started sniping shades. I might or might not have added multiple craters to Boshi’s pavement. So, I have sniped all the shades but I’m nowhere near the ground. Why am I falling so slowly? Well, this works out because I haven't figured out how to land but if I fall this slowly does that matter? I decided to land in a huge pile of snow. I have to do it close to home because Terry will ring the door soon. I shot an arrow at my destination and made it explode into a huge pile of snow. Now to land… Did gravity break or something? I gently fell into the pile of snow almost 18 minutes later.

Terry arrived on time; he seemed like he got spooked by what he calls some freakish hail that destroyed the shades. The exchange went well, Rock didn't give me any issues. I needed to kill some time. I went to Gregory’s house and read some more books about metals rocks and minerals. Gregory joined me in the reading session. It seems like he was reading up on some potions.

Ever thought of weaponizing your potions? Gregory looked up from his book.

Do you want me to become like Raishin? How would I be able to control the effects after throwing it? You can use water magic, use it. I think I’m fine like this now, besides we already have you as a water user. We continued reading our books.

How are your stress levels and do your feet still hurt? I looked up from my book.

I think I’ve de-stressed for the most part, my feet are fine, it’s just… What is it? I seem to have gotten lighter… I hope this isn't something bad and I poof out of existence when my weight hits 0. Hmm, I think it might just be related to your race, you were around the same weight as us when we were in Hourai but your weight decreased over time. Did it? I don't know if that is normal for your race, I don’t even know what is normal for my race. Do you have any weird stuff happening? Well, I do know that I’m highly resistant to curses and that nothing can wipe out my shadow, how useful that is… I don't know but I also think my shadow talks to me sometimes. So, you are finally going crazy? I don’t know. What is it saying? I don’t know, I didn't pay attention to it. Does it feel malicious? It doesn't. Try listening to it, you can decide what to do after that. Sounds reasonable. We continued reading.

How skilled do you think Raishin is at rapping? Gregory looks up from his book.

We are 100% going to lose this round. Thought as much. I closed my book.

It is time to go. Let’s make this loss quick, what is the status on the shades? I found out what was spawning them and I think I fixed it. The streets are shade free. Gregory opens the door.

Oh, we just were about to ring the door. Raishin and Ted were standing in front of Gregory’s door.

How is the rap coming along Raishin? Oh! You will hear it during the match! This win is ours! We looked at Raishin it seemed like none of us believed that he would win but maybe he has a really good rap.

So, is it just a rap or is it a rap battle? A rap battle? What is that? We all facepalmed.

Yup, we lost this one. I can’t say that I’m surprised. We headed underground and descended into something that looked like a big bathroom. I looked around and just as my buddies said a weird energy was emanating from this moles fridge. It was the energy that was characteristic of the root. I sneakily made a shadow clone and covered it in a 5 layered illusion. I sent the clone with my buddies and I headed toward the kitchen in stealth. I inspected the kitchen there didn't seem to be any magic traps or systems in place to protect the fridge, it was just a kitchen. I used my wires to open the enormous fridge. Rows and rows of refrigerated pink bottles could be seen in this fridge.

There was no mistake, this was the root in liquid form. I created 4 shadow clones and loaded all the bottles into my dimensional pocket. I scanned the whole area to make sure there were no leftover bottles, there seemed to be one in what looked like a bedroom and there is one on a table next to the breakdancing mole. I raided the fridge. I stored all the bottles in my dimensional pocket. I didn't touch anything that wasn't pink protein shakes. I dropped a 10-layered illusion on the fridge to make it seem like I never raided this mole’s fridge. I wanted to close the door and go after the leftover bottles when I realized I missed something. My illusions are generally as effective as the knowledge I have of the situation I think that that is the whole reason that my eyes can do what they do, now some things can’t be seen with my eyes. I took a bottle out of my dimensional pocket, opened it, and smelled it. Ugh, this smells terrible. I took a sip but almost spat it out.

Yuck protein shakes are not my thing, doesn't he put flavoring in them? I returned the bottle to my dimensional pocket and adjusted my illusion so that it won't get unmasked by simply opening a bottle and taking a sip. I almost made an illusionist rookie mistake. I closed the fridge door. And headed toward the living room. Invading rooms is quite easy because there are no doors. I swap that protein shake with an illusion too. The only one left is the one next to the rapper mole. I head over to the living room in stealth. It seems they haven't started yet. But at this point, it doesn't matter. Even if we lose, we will still get our hands on the shakes because we already have all the shakes. We just have to destroy them at the right time. It is different from our original plan which was, beat the guardian, and then we don't have to worry about that on day 5, but this works too. Now that we basically already won, let's try to enjoy these next couple of days. Neither my buddies nor the rapping mole seemed to have noticed that my clone is pretending to be me nor that I’m sneaking to the table to replace the last shake. I successfully replaced the shake. A moment after I did the mole reached for the shake. I guess this is the moment of truth. He downed it in one go and seemed to have no clue he just downed an illusion. Guess that’s it, we won. I relaxed on the table and saw how Raishin and the mole got ready for their match.

“Are you ready to lose?! Who of you is going to rap? Or are all of you going to rap? I sense that you have an extra is it a pet? It seems to be light but moves as if it is a human.” Oh, he must be talking to me, maybe he detects presences by how heavy they are. It’s a good thing that I reduce many things to 0 while sneaking around, Currently, in stealth, my weight is almost nonexistent. Is this driving my weight down or is it just a race thing as Gregory said? I thought back to my days spending time with Viridian and Hisui, I’m trying my best to remember, but I think it also seemed like gravity didn't apply to them.

“I will give you the honor to start, do your worst mate!” Haha, don't get discouraged when my rap is going to blow your mind! Alright! Be prepared to be amazed!

Yoyo, My name is Raishin yo!

I will blow you away with my electrifying flow!

Just like my Raishin kick, I will blow you to pieces

My spear will impale you just like I will do with your nieces

Seducing chicks is what I do

We will beat your mole ass till you see blue

But you are blind so you won't see a thing!

As we kick your ass and knock you out of the ring!

I facepalmed but at least this rap was better than I expected, but this rap is a bit lacking…

Yo listen up, I'm the mole with rhymes so cold

Gonna diss this terrible rap, and leave it untold

I'm the king of the underground, with skills so real

While this other rap is just wack, it's no big deal

I'm the mole, with bars so tight

Dissing this terrible rap, with all my might

I got the flow, and the rhymes to spare

Leaving this terrible rap, beyond repair

My rhymes are sick, and my flow is insane

While this other rap, just ain't got the skill to remain

I'm the king of the underground, and I'm not to be messed with

Leaving this terrible rap, in the dust, it's just a myth

Well, no surprise there in my opinion the mole won. It seems Gregory and Ted think the same.

“Well, I guess you were lucky we didn't agree on a rap battle but I think this is my win.” How come you weren't affected by my rap? It was supposed to mentally destroy you! Silence fell, nobody seemed to know what to say in response to that.

“Practice more and maybe one day you will, I got this win in the bag, not looking so good for you guys” Raishin seems down and Ted consoled him. Well, that was a waste of time. I disagree with Gregory but he doesn't know what I've been up to. My buddies and my clone headed back to the surface. I stayed to see what the mole was up to after we left. He just started to rap again and after that, he headed over to a room I hadn’t visited yet. It seemed to have some weird appliances. He seemed to start to work out using these odd appliances. I concluded that this mole is harmless and just living its life. Now that the shakes have been acquired things seem to be looking well. My clone separated from my buddies so I cancelled it and I was free to move around. I walked through the streets and remembered that only bad things happen when I do this.