Fox Tale Of A Dungeon Boss

We walked for most of the day, taking s break at noon. We don"t have bags(where would we get them?) so all good had to be hunted or trapped as we went.

While hunting I wanted to figure out a projectile spell that wouldn"t largely damage the targets body(cause blowing up prey makes it had to eat, and WindBlade is kinda wide).

I decided to use water magic for this spell as I didn"t exactly have a lot of water spells.

Water, in this case, is ice. I know I could make a whip of water like Luna, but it felt more difficult to move water fluidly than to freeze it.
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Guess that"s just a quirk of how my intent looks at water magic? I have always thought Ice magic seemed cooler than water magic... plus if you could make icy fire or use the idea of absolute zero, that"d be terrifyingly awesome. To me. At least.

So arrows are a pretty basic projectile, so I created the simple intent of an arrow, froze ice in the right shape, and hoped it would work.

So I watched ice freeze into the shape of an arrow... and the drop to the ground and shatter. Whoops.

"Ah... I need some kind of propulsion here."

Not to be denied, I made is so as the water particles came together and froze, they were already moving to the target. So the spell starts right in front of me, but the ice arrow is formed over the first meter of travel, and it"s only after moving a meter a full shard of ice is built and moving.

It"s range is... I think okay? I can"t change its direction as it"s the kind of spell you cast and then let go, not a continuous link such as FoxFire or WindBlade.

Also do you know how hard it is to AIM THE FREAKING THING? Unlike my other spells, this wasn"t reaching out to the target, it was chucking something at it.

Something affected by gravity that you can"t course correct.

After 15 minutes of embarra.s.sing failure, I got a rabbit by luck by the hind leg, and Fenrir finished it off before I embarra.s.sed myself further. Thanks buddy.

"Hey... why didn"t Fenrir hunt from the start?" Luna asked, with some confusion.

"...uh...if I say he was letting me try to figure it out because he wanted to give me a chance... will you be mad?"

"..." I think Luna is starting to just accept my ridiculous behavior. She doesn"t even look surprised anymore. On the upside, my hyper personality has made it so she no longer startled at every fast movement.

Got PTSD? Meet a species you thought extinct and be driven half-insane by a weirdo who doesn"t understand basic things, yet can do random s.h.i.t that you don"t think possible, like creating any spell he d.a.m.n well pleases whenever he likes. It will TOTALLY cure you!

"Yeah... I"m gonna get s.h.i.t for that joke. Luckily n.o.bodies here to listen to my inner monologue. Not like anyone will ever know."

After cooking the rabbit and getting something in our bellies, we set off again, and after an hour of silence I finally asked something that"d been bugging me for a bit.

"Hey Luna?"

"Yeah?"

"The Foxkin... we... were we considered evil? Is the reason n.o.body protected us 300 years ago because we did something?"

I continued, "I don"t think we could have... I don"t see how a species that seemed to have your respect and the kind of impact that 3 centuries later, slaves know of their legends, could"ve been evil..."

"...so why did no one help us? And if our G.o.d struck in vengeance and terrorized the human kingdoms, leaving them too afraid to conquer this land, then why didn"t he defend us in the first place?" I could hear my voice break a bit as I said the last sentence, an unexpected wave of bitterness filling my heart.

Luna started in shock. It had never occurred to her... how little he knew. How he had no knowledge of anything his race did or accomplished, and only a basic understanding of why they were gone.

And... it felt like her heart broke a little bit as his voice cracked on that last line, tears swimming in his eyes before he roughly brushed them away, refocusing to look ahead of his feet.

"Well..." Luna began to speak, hesitant in how to begin. How do you inform someone of their entire legacy? But... the only one here who could was her!

"I"m only I mean I WAS only a slave, and I"m not a historian, so I can"t tell you everything you want to know. But I can tell you the stories my mother told me, of the Beastkin empires, and of the Kitsune who fulfilled a sacred task."

I looked over a bit surprised. Sacred task?

"Let us begin with the commonly believed history of how the world came to be. It is believed that this world originated with a single being. And when this being had a thought, the world was born. This being is the High G.o.d, the eternal one."

"n.o.body knows what thoughts he had to create the world we have, but we have it nonetheless. And in the beginning, there were humans, made so that the Eternal was not alone. Made like him... with thoughts."

I interrupted at this point. "There were no Beastkin, or elves?"

Luna laughed. "There weren"t even creatures with magic. Mana did not yet exist."

My eyes widened a bit. What kind of development happened to this world?

"Don"t worry, they come soon." She said with a slight smile, and continued "Though humanities thoughts were weak and paltry in comparison, more and more began to spread, and with the spread of humanity, came more and more ideas, filling the world."

"Now the next part is something that is a sore spot between just about all the other species and the human race."