Chapter 39: [Chapter —39]
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—[Hours Later | Outside Beacon Hills Preserve]—
Markus grunted as he trecked through the forest, holding his chest where with each step he could feel a spike of pain.
" Great, I probably have a cracked rib or something." He muttered disoriented.
He had been walking for hours now and the moon was overhead him, probably already midnight.
He hadn't stopped once, feeding his body with aura enhancement just to not break down.
He hadn't heard anything or sensed anyone for a couple kilometres away from him so he thought he might be fine.
He was far enough at least, enough that he could maybe check up on himself before going further.
So he laid down on the ground, grunting before letting the aura enhancement go.
Immediately he felt fragile again, even with his over human standard stats he was still beat up and bruised in some places, he had even found a cut on his calf that he hadn't felt before so that was nice.
Chuckling to himself he rummaged through his bag, a bag that was containing his [A State Of Matter] Magic book, the empty vial with only a drop of the cleansing potion and his [Trace Gloves].
He grabbed the [Trace Gloves], putting them on before breathing in.
He knew what he was doing was dumb, he had never tried tracing his body before and with all the cells, bacteria and organs in his body then he was sure that he was gonna have a major headache when he was done.
He could only hope that it wouldn't be as bad as last time though.
So breathing in he touched the open area of his chest, though for a split second he breathed in and had an idea.
Could he control the depth of his scan maybe?
Because he sure as hell didn't want to dig deep into his genetic makeup, that would just be a never-ending hole of information.
And so with that thought he focused, putting it at the forefront of his mind about how much he wanted the depth of his scan to become.
And just as he did, he felt a pulse of mana being drawn from him into his gloves.
" Uhm...that's new, but okay?" He muttered, taking that as a good sign before saying fuck it and activating the gloves ability.
" Fuck!" He grunted, a spike of pain hitting his head before receding quickly, leaving behind a trove of knowledge.
He chuckled when he saw the damage.
His rib was slightly cracked but nothing major, his body was seemingly already healing it, something he probably gained from how high his stamina stat was and probably from his bloodline.
And just as he thought that, an idea sparked in his mind.
" Fuck! I'm such an idiot!" Markus shouted while facepalming himself.
He could make bloody clones!
He could have done that at the start and hid while his clone ran.
But then again, his clone wouldn't be as powerful as him and he was sure that they might not have his perks or some of his skills too so that clone might have just been killed already.
Though that would get the hunters off his back, he didn't want that as he still wanted to go back home, to his mother at the very least instead of leaving behind a dead corpse and a half hearted letter he had wrote before leaving.
Sighing to himself he further assessed his body, finding that aside from that he had minor damage to some of his organs from the impact travelling through his body.
So now all that was left was to find a way to heal himself.
And since he definitely didn't have a fucking healing potion or something, he'd need to find something else to speed his recovery.
And he just had the thing.
Runes, or sigils in his case.
He had one of the most overpowered magics, he was sure that he could cook up something to help him.
But he hadn't analysed and understood any 'healing' type runes yet, they hadn't been of much priority back then, look how that came to bite him though.
But then again, he was in a forest, with plants and flowers that could hold healing properties.
So with that idea he stood up, hoisting the bag on his back and then closing his eyes before letting his senses run free before he let [Aura Source] out of its imposed 'nerf'.
Immediately he felt a jumble of information run through his mind, he quickly filtered through it all though with minimal effort, something that he found surprising with how little he had used the ability in the last couple days since he got it.
He quickly found a berry bush of some kind not far away that had the healing properties he needed, he then quickly looked at the sigils wavering around said bush.
He snickered when he found some of its properties besides healing.
There was an aphrodisiac property in there, one that would make you so horny that your dick could possibly burst out.
He paused when he got that information.
" That's new..." He muttered, he had never obtained such detailed information on something's properties and of its effects on the body before.
Though he quickly moved on, simply going for the healing sigil and analysing and studying its meaning in a dozen seconds.
Breathing in he reigned in his senses and put a slight lid on [Aura Source] too before walking towards the berry bush.
He needed something to carve the healing rune into after all, and a bush with a healing property would synergize greatly with what he had in mind.
So moments later he was infront of the bush, he broke a small section of it, then he focused his mana—washing it over the broken piece in his hand.
He then watched as it morphed under his control with [Matter State Magic], then like a punch from nowhere he found Craft[C-] and Jury-rig[B+] push through into his creation.
What he had envisioned as a the stem turning into a stringy texture with a small compacted berries fused into one became more.
The string turned, broke apart and then actually became rope like in structure and texture with beautiful leaf-like patterns, the berry further compacted and turned into a crystalline shard in the shape of a beating heart that exuded strong amounts of 'healing' energy—having been enriched with mana.
" Okay, what the f—"
[—Ding! Transmutation has Ranked Up from [E+] into [D-]-]
[—Ding! You've created Skill - Artificing[F-]-]
" Huh? What? Huh?" Markus found himself dumbfounded by the two screens infront of him.
First he wondered when he even got the [Transmutation] skill from and why it was so high leveled, then at the fact that he created a new skill.
" Great, more skills to my already ridiculous list." He muttered, not knowing whether to sulk or not.
' I just wanted to create a fucking twig necklace man....' He thought chuckling.
He had been meaning to immediately instill the healing rune on the necklace, but it seemed that he had something even more important to worry about.
He hadn't seen the notifications log that had bombarded him during his warding on his home, having been too busy panicking and drowning in enlightenment to care.
Then he had to run and jump off a cliff, but now it seemed that he really needed to take a look as there was a lot going on that he was finding out.
So with an inhale of his breath, he called up his notification log and winced at how larger it was than he was used to.
[—Ding! Dice Of Fate Roll Results.....]