Chapter 22 The advantages of being friends with a panther 6 (2/2)
having confirmed with Victoria Mars focused on activating the [Energy: absorb shield] for the first time by following the instructions that had appeared in his heard when he had unlocked the skill, and a moment later he felt energy being drained and a transparent membrane that was covered with small unconscionable runes that formed a neat pattern
”...this must be it, Victoria you can fire now”
”okay... here it comes”
Victoria that was standing 20 meters from Mars began to from small shadow bullets by pulling them up from her shadow before quickly launching them rapidly through the air at Mars that was saying a small prayer
”...please work”
his small prayer turned out to be meaningless as the shield work as promised when the shadow bullets hit the soft looking membrane the seemed to slow down before they got sucked into the shield as the runes on the shield lit up a little and mentally gave Mars an exact amount of energy units that was now stored in the shield
”2 energy units... Victoria try something a little more deadly this time”
taking his words as a challenge Victoria let loose as her black fur seemed to melt into the surroundings creating a domain of darkness before 4 spears of darkness shot out from the shadows and hurled towards Mars with high speed before being absorbed into the shield as the runes on the shield lit up a little more
”20 energy units... Victoria try the magic you showed me a couple of days ago”
receiving no answer Mars knew Victoria was preparing to shoot out the spell that had pieced though a tree before exploding
”...this might be bad”
Mars felt a little insecure about being hit with a spell that deadly but was given no time to regret as a thick spear of darkness shot out from Victoria's shadow domain and almost instantly reached him hitting the shield without a single sound before being slowly absorbed as the runes on the transparent membrane lit up even more
”...60 energy units”
feeling the energy being absorbed by the shield Mars was a little stunned before he pulled himself together and felt even more respect towards Victoria
”Victoria let's stop here”
not feeling the need to know what would happen if the shield went over capacity Mars decided to end the test of the first shield skill and a few seconds later the transparent membrane making up the shield disappeared and he felt energy being added to his [Energy: storage]
”can... we play... now?”
as Mars was absorbed in the felling of gaining energy Victoria had unknowingly to him appeared right in front of him and was looking up at Mars with sparkling eyes, looking at Victoria Mars felt a little conflicted but eventually decided to test the final skill before playing with her
”...well we could play for a few hours right now, but if you help me test one more thing we can play until sunset”
as Victoria visible struggled with the question of playing some right now and helping a bit the playing for the rest of the day Mars felt a little bad about tricking her as she was only a big kitten born a little under a year ago but still felt that knowing his own strength should be the top priority as he mumbled
”...it's been a few days since i lit that giant fire if anyone at all comes to check it, they should be here soon”
”who... will be here?”
hearing Victoria's voice in his head Mars remembered what he was doing and petted her on the head
”i don't know who, but hopefully someone we can reason with... never mind that have you decided if you want to play now or later?”
”play... later”
as Victoria's voice entered his head sounding a little sad Mars started to feel bad but gave her a smile
”okay then let's get this over with quickly, so we can play for the rest of the day”
seeing her cheer up somewhat Mars decided to set some time aside everyday to play with her as she took some distance and waited for him to give a signal
”...okay Victoria just like last time, only this time you need to keep moving as there likely will be some sort of counter attack”
”okay”
as Mars saw Victoria was ready he activated his [Energy: reactive shield] for the first time and quickly felt energy units being drained as a transparent round shield appeared in front of him it was 2 meters across with the same inconceivable runes following along the edge of the shield
”...so it doesn't cover me entirely but it feels like i can move it”
testing the movement of the transparent shield Mars quickly got the hang of it and found out he could move freely but no longer then 3 meters away from himself
”okay Victoria fire some magic at me, but start off light and keep moving”
hearing his instructions Victoria began running around him in a circle and quickly formed 3 shadow bullets before firing them at Mars, hitting his shield almost instantly
”...this feels a little weird”
as the shadow bullets hit the transparent shield they were absorbed into the shield as the runes lit up before the shield formed 3 similar looking bullets made of bright pure energy and launched them towards Victoria and landed right behind her as she ran nearly hitting her fluffy tail
”okay that good for now”
not expecting Victoria being in danger Mars called off the test and together with Victoria walked up to where the counter attack bullets had hit a tree stump
”...this seem like i would have pieced though you if it hit”
looking at the 3 big holes in the tree stump that went all the way to the other side of the stump Mars felt a chill down his spine and decided not to test potentially dangerous skill on Victoria anymore as he petted her on the head
”let's go bring some boar meat down to the river and eat before we play”
hearing it was finally time to play Victoria lit up in excitement before her horns flashed
”play... finally time to play”