48 48 Some Tough Truths (1/2)

Donis had made his way back into the headquarters, and the crew had been lost deep in a conversation, they hadn't even noticed Donis's arrival. Not that Donis minded right now, he was quite lost in his own little world. That is until Striga pulled him aside.

”Lad, you okay? You don't seem like your usual certain self” whispered Striga.

”Yeah, not really. I'm not sure I feel okay right now. I have the report for the population control of Meckstras ready here though,” said Donis as he handed over the Monster Logger.

”Yeah, thanks. You know that I know what's wrong, right? We had someone watch you from the beginning anyway, just to make sure you were okay. If you wanna talk about it, you know where my office is,” smiled Striga. In reality, Donis didn't understand a thing she said, but the subtitles made him smile at least.

”Thanks, I think I will. Later though, but right now I need to process a lot, and I'm actually exhausted,” fake yawned Donis.

”Alright kid, take it easy,” said Striga as she started walking away to the chorus of drunken cries that the crew was.

Donis headed into his attic room, opened the single window and let the cool air in. He was weirdly warm, and oddly sticky. He wished there was a bath here, or anything to wash himself. He did the next best thing though.

Looking into the seen skills column of his skills tab, Donis quickly perused to the spell which Striga used when summoning that massive water column, and also later washing herself with it, -Water Prison-.

-[Water Prison]-

[Intermediate]

[Damage: /]

[Cost: 20-150MP/s]

[Level: 1/5]

Requirement: Intelligence 20 + Elemental Magic.

A column of rotating water that increases it's rotation power the closer you get to the edge. More mana increases the strength of the prisons walls.

Noticing that he has enough Intelligence to learn the skill, Donis goes right ahead. A small wave of euphoria washing over him once more.

'Learning stuff using the system is actually far too addicting. It's like getting high for a brief moment without any negatives,' thought Donis to himself.

After cleaning himself up, Donis used a bit of Fire Charged Mana to heat his body up slowly so that the water would be dried off.

'Huh, it's kind of like a makeshift bathing set, but with magic. It's cool, but it's not the same satisfying feeling of washing at home,' he thought to himself, remembering the comforts of his home back in Vorinar.

Donis laid in bed mulling over the fact that he actually killed something today, and how he even rejoiced when he killed many of them with his spells. He remembered how it all felt, replaying the memory in his head over and over again, letting it echo without pause.