Ascension: Strongest Fateless Mage

After reaching the top of the hill, Zevien started breathing calmly. He actively refilled his mana pool by absorbing mana from the atmosphere.

Once he refilled his mana pool, he opened the stone bowl and used Blood Morphing Art while still in his cat form.

Inside his magic eidos body…

The magic core wrapped up in the Shaman Seed's magic force destroyed the magic force that was converging there by the Blood Morphing Art.

Magic Force was a term used to describe the form of power of a magic spell. For instance, Nyxite Claw was filled with a magic force that resulted from both the mana and the magic formation of the Nyxite Claw spell.

Just like that, the magic force of the Blood Morphing Art, which resulted from drops of blood, mana, and a magic formation, was destroyed by the Shaman Seed's magic force when Zevien tried to transform.

'I need to control the magic force of the Shaman Seed...,' Zevien frowned as he realized the first problem.

After ten minutes, he finally managed to make it such that the Shaman Seed's magic force wouldn't destroy the Blood Morphing Art's magic force anymore. However, the next problem was how to actually combine both of them.

'Combine both….but in how many layers?' Zevien fell into deep thinking, 'first, I need to superimpose the magic power I get from both magics. Next, the physical aspects and then, internal buffs.'

Zevien started controlling the magic force of Blood Morphing Art, which was a blanket of blood particles around his magic core and tried to infuse it in the Shaman Seed's power.

'Not working,' Zevien thought after seeing the blood force diffusing instead of combining.

Suddenly, Zevien thought of something as a startled expression appeared on his face, 'wait for a second…the answer lies in the Blood Morphing Art! I see…Tarto already learned about the Blood Morphing Art the moment I used it, and that's why he said it's possible to combine both.'

Zevien closed his eyes and thoroughly started learning the Blood Morphing Art. Since it was an awakening magic spell that was like a gift from a magic labyrinth, he had to learn it thoroughly, unlike regular magic spells where he can only weave them once he thoroughly learns them.

An hour passed quickly as Zevien learned how the Blood Morphing Art allowed him to transform partially. After learning that concept, he expanded it and used a similar idea of partial transformation to make a connection with the magic force of the Blood Morphing Art and the Shaman Seed.

…

After another hour, he finally succeeded.

Taking a deep breath, Zevien first recovered his mana.

Afterward, he opened the stone bowl and pointed his hand at it before using Blood Morphing Art. Five drops of blood floated from the bowl and got absorbed into the whirlpool created on Zevien's palm.

Zevien was still in his cat form, but his legs started to change as they became that of the Pyrus Mane Horse's legs with hooves on fire.

His magic power also increased to 1349. It wasn't much of a huge increment, but something was better than nothing.

More importantly, he had the traits of both transformations now, and he could change them according to his wish.

For now, he changed his legs into that of the horse's legs while keeping the rest of his body in the cat form.

He then consumed mana to use the fire hooves' trait as his legs produced fire, causing him to float up.

'Great!' Zevien flew up slowly. This blood of the Pyrus Maned Horse will make it easier for him to travel in the forest. Though if he had vampire blood, it would have been even easier.

By consuming ten mana every second, he started flying in the direction of the city. Now he only hoped not to encounter a powerful flying beast until he consumed half of his mana.

...

After ten minutes, Zevien consumed half of his mana and descended on the ground slowly.

*ROARRRR*

Raging Grass Lion!

Zevien quickly recognized the beast based on the roar, but when he turned in the direction where he heard the roar, he sighed in relief.

From its size, it was still a 5th-grade Raging Grass Lion.

Casually waving his hand, Zevien used 100 mana to use Somatic Happiness magic internally and buffed his spell potency before using 1000 mana to release Nyxite Claw towards the Lion.

The Lion roared with red eyes and swiped its claw to shoot a dark green claw-like projectile towards the incoming Nyxite Claw.

*swoosh….*

However, much to the beast's surprise, the Nyxite Claw passed through the dark green claw projectile before hitting it and cutting it into pieces vertically.

Zevien quickly collected the beast core of the Raging Grass Lion and left the spot cautiously with silent footsteps. He found a relatively big tree and climbed up before covering himself with bushes he picked from the ground.

After properly hiding, Zevien started recovering his mana.

In five minutes, he fully recovered his mana and glanced outside.

He was about to fly up, but his heart suddenly dropped after noticing something.

'No fucking way….Why do I have to encounter this nightmare?' Zevien thought as a heart-palpitating feeling enveloped him after seeing a magic beast that looked like a parrot the size of an adult eagle.

Silver Wind Parrot. A terrifying grade-3 magic beast, practically the strongest magic beast found in this forest. It was super fast, and its attacks were also super quick. It was currently perched on a tree just fifteen meters away from where Zevien was hiding.

The chances of him surviving if that Silver Demon Parrot saw him were very...very low.

'The Silver Wind Parrots are rare in this jungle but lo and behold….fuck,' Zevien cursed as he was already sweating. Now, he could only hope for that parrot to fly away quickly.

"Meow~, it seems that you are having fun," Tarto appeared and stood on another branch.

'What the hell are you doing at this time?' Zevien telepathically said to Tarto before quickly looking at the parrot and sighing in relief. It seems that Tarto didn't fully reveal himself and was in a unique state where the only ones who could see him were the ones he allowed.

"Chill, only you can see me. As for why I am here? Hehe, I just want to observe this situation in the flesh. It will be interesting to see how you escape from here," Tarto said before licking its paws.