scene 6

"How many months has it been since I attempted this?"

The now 21 years old Neklous said to himself. It had been a while since he attempted to further his path in nature magic after his injury caused by the backlash.

It happened around the same time he had just turned 20 and here he was a year or so later attempting to touch upon nature's boundaries once again.  This time though, Neklous wouldn't rush it and nor would he use in exterior sources of energy such as from Earth crystals.

The energy from earth crystals were indeed attributed in a way that could help with Nature magic but the energy absorbed from it was too chaotic and uncontrolled to do anything except from using as alchemy ingredients.

Anyway moving forward Neklous had already thought of a way he was going to go about it. He was going to semi-enter his consciousness while drawing nature like energies into him.

He had made an extra step before hand drew symbolic rune tattoos on his arms that related to nature. These tattoos would at least help him form a connection with nature's specific energy type and allow him to draw it to himself easier. The Symbolic rune tattoos could be said to just be a gateway to regulate and allow the energy flow of nature.

Making a few strong martial arts movements, Neklous circulated his mana circuits and willed the earth in front of him to lift.

A shaking ripple went out as  hill like sizes of the earth were lifted up into the air and placed to the side. The pit that was created due to this was hole that could fit a wide 2 story house or about 30ft deep. Jumping into the pit, Neklous did the same action and willed the previously lifted earth back into its place thus burying him.

Once 30ft deep into the earth, Neklous will small pockets into the soil above so that he could breath. He also shifted around the dirt he was in to give him enough space that would be about as wide as a closet.

"Now that everything is set, lets begin!" Neklous said as he sat into a meditative position and held out his right palm. A sphere of natural mana formed above it which soon started to spin as Neklous began to spread his mana into the runic nature tattoos. The rune like tattoos  were in fact small nature related magic circles which acted as a gateway for nature energy to be drawn into. With nature energies being drawn into small space underground, The sphere of mana began to spin faster as it absorbed the energies and turned a greenish hue. If anyone were to look through the ground with x-ray vision, Neklous would look a curled up fetus with green magic circles spinning on his arms and a green sphere floating with a slight rotation above his right palm.


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To sum up these past events, Neklous basically buried himself in the ground like a plant seed and used natural mana plus the nature rune tattoos to draw in nature energies.

With all that being said and done, Neklous closed his eyes and dived into his consciousness. Deep within his consciousness was a world filled with white. The whiteness seemed endless as there were no other colors within it.

With a thought from Neklous, color poured into a certain area within his consciousness to reveal a young yet old tree. One side of the tree had nice and smooth bark with youthful leaves growing from its branches while the other half of it had old and wrinkled bark with bare branches. The tree gave of a feeling of distance yet a serene peacefulness at the same time. Behind it a dreamy, illusionary image flashed back and forth. On the younger half of the tree's side the image depicted warm colors, making one think of it was an image taken in the summer while the other depicted cold colors making someone think the image was taken in the winter time.

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This tree that stood before Neklous was the one he had birthed when he had developed his time magic.

Looking around Neklous had saw in another white space a floating thorned rose about the size of an elephant. It was partially withered, looking as if it was dying yet and rose petals would constantly fall from it time to time. The only thing holding it there was silver chains that draped around its stem.

Beneath it laid a field of white baby roses that almost completely blended in with the surrounding of his consciousness. If not for their swaying movements time to time, you wouldn't think anything was there.

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This Thorned rose was what was left of Neklous's failure of trying to forcibly control Nature magic by fusing it with his time magic. The chances of it succeeding probably would have gone up if he had understood nature magic more at that time and not been so rash.