Black Clover: Untitled

'He must have very good instincts to not only create a mana blade with that much compression but also to move mana inside his body to lessen the impact' The man thought while readying a fire spell which would have high speed to reach the boy who was far away from him. 

Little did he know that the boy had done all that on his own skill, the compression part was trained by his own and the movement of the mana inside his body was not instinctual but all predicted by him beforehand and done consciously. 

It seemed to be the end for the boy but a unexpected roar caught the attention of the man as he turned around to see a boar charging at him. 

'Fuck, when did that reach here, no way, that boy distracted me from my sensory field to be activated properly and his mana usage should have attracted the boar, I am fucked if other animals come' The man panicked momentarily as the boar was charging straight for him at lightning speed despite it having a large stature. 

It was after all a mana beast and is deadly. 

The man knew that he didn't have any spell to kill the boar with 100 per cent certainty at this close distance, so he made a quick decision. 

He fired a fireball not at the boar, but at the carriage, at quick speed. 

Before the boar could reach him, screams could be heard from the carriage of pain and agony. 

Being burned alive is very painful, especially when the caster made a spell which would not kill them quickly, but make them last long so that they scream. 

This made Boar change his direction to the carriage as he was attracted by more noise and there seemed to be more people there. 

It definitely was not sentiment fully, otherwise, he wouldn't have made that move.

Anyway, the man's gamble played well as the boar had changed his target, he quickly used a spell at a very high output and just as the boar reached near the carriage, he launched it at that carriage so that the boar wouldn't dodge it. 

The boar was instantly burned alive and his bones weren't left behind due to the strength of that spell. 

'And there goes my goods, well I could always earn more as long as I live' The man placated himself about his loss, but his eyes suddenly widened as he felt the world spinning. 

He saw the moon shining brightly above, followed by the boy standing beside his fallen body with his fingers down. 

Despite him being the murderer, he didn't have any blood on his body. 

The boy suddenly ran away from his body. 

'He should have used those screams as a cover to hide his footsteps from me and formed a mana blade exactly at the time I released the spell, making me have my guard down... was that a coincidence or was all that planned?' The man wondered as that was his last thought before he died. 

The boy far away noticed the man's head which was now on the ground and his grimoire which had started disappearing now fully disappeared. 

'Okay, so he didn't have any spells which activated when he died, now should I loot him?' The boy looked at his headless body. 

However, something in him told him that it was a bad idea. 

He thought for 5 seconds and a realization hit him, he quickly started running away from the scene at full speed. 

In less than a minute, many mana beasts had appeared in this position and started fighting as these were mindless ones. 

Meanwhile, our main protagonist was running at full speed. 'Is it a way for me to increase my running speed?' He tried by releasing mana from one of his feet which was going away from the ground, he felt himself being pushed forward at a higher speed and almost stumbled but, he quickly released the man from his other foot which was now going away from the ground to balance himself. 

'Damn, this is awesome, but the mana requirements are high' He frowned while stopping using mana and changed his directions as he didn't want to be trackable to either other animals or possible accomplices of the slaver. 

After a few minutes of intense running, he stopped and crouched inside a bush after checking it and nearby bushes thoroughly. 

His breathing was heavy, but he made sure to breathe such that it didn't made much sound while inhaling much air. 

'So, those guys are dead huh' He thought about all the other slaves who were in the carriage, not only did they lose their lives while being baited, but also didn't have painless deaths. 

'Then again, like every world, this one also follows "strong killing the weak", well, in my previous world, money was the main strength indicator along with some other factors, but here it would be your lineage + your strength, as despite anime not portraying it straight up, the clover kingdom was divided into the forsaken realm, noble realm and royal realm or something along those lines' 

He didn't feel much remorse over their death, as he wasn't really directly responsible for their death, he had to survive he did that, if he had a chance to use them to survive, then he probably would have killed them himself. 

He after all was a selfish person and recognized that. 

'Anyway, I don't know how to survive, this is an unknown forest, and I don't know how to kill and skin animals... Yeah, I would rather stick with a vegetarian meal, I would have to look at non-poisonous stuff here' He sighed while closing his eyes and looked at his mana which was slowly recovering. 

He noticed that now its recovery rate increased when he was actively focusing on it. 

Meanwhile, he started shaping the mana and compressing it in different shapes while his mana regenerated, it didn't require as much focus as before, so he wasn't exhausted mentally much. 

After around an hour or so, he recovered his mana. 

He looked at a rabbit nearby which was eating some grass. 

'Why isn't it sleeping? Well, not as it matters, I don't know if rabbits sleep in day or night, I need to test something out' He closed his eyes and focused on the mana inside his body. 

He started shifting all the mana inside his body in his solar plexus and whenever it got full, he compressed it further. 

He thought that this act alone would take around a few minutes, but he had underestimated the difficulty of the task heavily as it took him a few hours to get all his mana to be centred in his solar plexus. 

Night fell and Day came. 

he had to take multiple breaks throughout the night to let his focus be maintained, and his not sleeping last night was also a debuff-like factor. 

Despite it being multiple times when his progress declined whenever he took breaks, he finally reached the state of his mana completely in his solar plexus and compressed as much as it could. 

The rabbit was long gone, however, he now realized that he needed to sleep, otherwise he would be not able to take optimal decisions. 

'This body is also young, so I have to sleep more, anyway, I don't have an alarm, so I would naturally let this body wake up' He thought while moving to find a place to sleep. 

However, he noticed that as he was moving, some mana was going out of his solar plexus.

He redirected his effects to prevent that and after a few more hours, he was able to prevent any mana from leaking from his solar plexus while walking. 

'Fuck, I need to sleep quickly, things are getting difficult now, plus hunger is also catching up to me' He quickly tried to find a cave or something, but after half an hour of not finding anything, he decided that he is going to dig inside the ground and cover it with a stone and sleep there. 

He soon found a big stone and decided to dig near that. 

Throughout all this, he had noticed some animals roaming around, but due to him not getting in their sights plus his mana being compressed inside his body, they failed to detect him. 

He quickly focused inside his body and started letting mana flow from his solar plexus to his palms. 

He noticed that mana was not going only to his palm as intended but going to his other parts. 'I will deal with that later after I wake up, first, I need to sleep' He quickly started digging by releasing mana bursts to soften the ground and then remove the soil manually. 

Soon, he formed a hole inside the ground and slept there after covering the other opening with a leaf as most of it was covered by the rock. 

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