I had gotten slightly acquainted with the spirits in this spot, so staying in the town one more night slightly worked well for me.
With the trees on my back and the stars in the sky, not that far away from the inn, I sat down once again and stared at the numerous spirits that were flocking around to the me-shaped statue made out of another spirit-grown tree.
"You got way too tired yesterday, huh?" Titania muttered placing her hand on her waist. "You must have used a fair amount of mana too."
The odd thing about mana was its use.
I had a very large tank since I came into this body, even refined, my reserves were monstrous. If I had to put things in context, then I could use a spell on the level of the one earlier today, Tempest of Destruction, a total of twelve times before emptying myself out.
That led me to around thirty-thousand hexagonal shields to completely empty my reserves or about seventeen thousand spells like a rain of fire.
"Your hexagonal shields sure are a convenient ability. Very economical."
"They're attribute less so it's natural. The more conditions you add the higher the mana requirement increases."
"I rate your mana a total of 600 on a range of a thousand, and that death queen at about 950."
"Principal?"
"999?"
Huh.
That was annoying. If I had to compare it with my old body yet, then I would probably rank it at 200 so it was a grand change.
On the other hand, my Ki was even more voluminous. But the utilization was that much more difficult. It would naturally increase as I broke through more and more realms, but that wasn't the case yet.
Both of them were refilled from within. Even if my circuits were blocked, I could still move my core and refill my strength.
Though, without circuits, they were not utilizable. The chains that Balam had pulled were pretty useful in that regard.
It took about three weeks to restock and re-refine all my mana and Ki to the optimal status.
"Why can't I use demonic energy, Titania?"
"You can manipulate it lightly, I believe," my favorite fairy teacher fluttered in front of me and spoke. She pointed out her two fingers atop her head. "But to make it your own you'll need horns."
Annoying.
I had understood the brunt of it, but that I didn't have horns was slightly annoying now.
"Well, enough about that, Eugy. Now that you're already tired, I doubt your body will be able to handle the recoil of Spirit magic."
"Right."
"So now's the perfect time to practice the hardest! If you don't manage to be your truest self now then the recoil will kill you!"
Titania beamed out wide and I smiled back.
"No better way to train than on the brink of death, right?"
The manager had taught me that bit well.
"Well, don't worry a bit, Titania, I have a fallback, if you will."
I snapped my fingers, and in my hands were three bottles of hard liquor.
"What is this?" Titania asked.
"Alcohol. I saw it on the battlefield and bagged it."
"Huh? Risky, I like it."
With Titania's approval down, I picked up the bottle and swigged it down straight. The strong potent liquor doused my mouth and a burn spread through my throat.
Once I felt that going in, I stood up and hopped a little to shake the alcohol inside.
Then, I spread my arms again.
"SPIRITS!" I called, as truthful as my voice could be. Speaking straight from the heart, I tried to command them to come to my aid. "Get me undrunk."
The spirits seemed to have laughed.
They passed through me.
And made me more tired.
I could feel my body wobbling, but didn't stop.
"More truthful, Eugy."
I guess I didn't want to be undrunked.
I took out the second bottle and swigged it down.
"Spirits, make me the most powerful man on earth."
They hit me another time.
"Spirits, bring disco rock into this world."
"What are you even asking for? They can't do just anything!"
Aw.
I drank more.
And tried more.
"Make rocks fly!"
"Spirits! Make me go super say—"
After hours and hours of chanting and trying to get them to work my way, I was only tired more and on the ground more.
I had managed to turn some trees upside down and made one rock jump around like a bunny, but that was all I could manage.
"At this rate, you'll need a good year to use it properly."
"Blahblah… that's too long…"
And I was completely intoxicated.
"You need to drop all pretenses, Eugy. Well, for now, let's go back."
"A year is too long…"
I leaned against the trees and made my way back. These damned spirits had sucked everything out from the very fabric of my being.
"Damn, it…"
I yawned as I pushed myself to go back. It was getting tough to even walk let alone run all the way back to the inn, but I still had to since I hadn't fainted.
I came out of the thicket of trees and neared the spacey town, after finding my way back to the inn, my eyes fell on some beings walking toward the same place.
Much further away from me, these guys with horns on their heads looked like little ants.
"Oh hey look ants."
"Hm? Aren't those demons?"
"What. No wayyyyy…."
The worker ants hopped the walls of the inn and pushed open the window to the room next to mine on the first floor.
"I guess they're Irina's friends?"
"IDIOT!" Titania seethed. "Those are the demons you guys spared! Instead of running away they came back to fight."
"Oh no?"
I muttered.
"That sucks."
I closed my eyes and started walking once more. The last of the demons went inside, and a faint, very faint scream echoed in my ear.
"Woah!" My eyes widened as I looked up. "Irina Lester is in trouble! Spirits! Make me get there now."
A single word, the world around me changed.
I was in the middle of the room, behind me in her nightgown was Irina, the head of one of these scums in her hands.
And in front of me were the other two demons that came all this way instead of running.
"W-what in the world?"
"Who are—"
"WAIT!" I screamed.
Everyone quietened down.
"Uwaak," and I puked on the floor.
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