[Center][H2][color=662d91]--- Shor Ehm ---[/color][/h2][/Center]
Waking up on the side of a dirty, sparkly and bloodstained bed, Shor rose rose to her feet. After a few moments of looking around and seeing Kubo, she remembered the events that had transpired the previous day. [color=662d91]"F***ing mess"[/color] She mumbled to herself, but when the medic chuckled at Shor's comment, Shor realized that she too, was a mess. 

Shor took a long shower to ensure all the blood, dust and glitter was gone before anything else. Since Kubo hadn't waken up yet Shor had decided to let him rest for a while longer and travel alone for the day. Shor returned to her room and started planning. First she'd need a target. Settling on Qi and Life, Shor considered several biomes but eventually settled on a dense forest, forests were blooming with life and Nature would make training Life easier.
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Shor stopped by some stores to collect everything on her quickly written checklist, before almost forgetting to get her metal reagent crafted into a proper artifact. Rushing in a shop selling accesories, buying somthing she'd considered buying the day before, then quickly heading back out, Shor went to an expert to help her craft the metal fang-reagent into an artifact. With the expert's help Shor managed to create the artifact swiftly. The artifact itself was a snake bracelet* that'd allow her to create chains and slighy manipulate them. After finishing this artifact Shor thanked the expert who had helped her and quickly finished her checklist, had some breakfast at the bakery, bought some food for the trip and headed off.

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Having taken an airboat to a forest located a good ways away from most villages, Shor was getting ready to embark on her journey into the forest. Shor checked her supplies once more before putting her scarf in the bag and closing it tightly. She pulled her boots around the pipes of her pants so they wouldn't get caught in some thorny plant. Complaining to no one in particular [color=662d91]"Can't even wear my scarf here. It's no good since it's out of power and it would just get caught in something...Damnit."[/color] Shor entered the forest.

At first she was met with little to no manabeasts at all, but sure enough, plenty of manabeasts were to be found just a little deeper in. The forest turned out to be less than hospitable when the first manabeast she encountered was a giant ape. Despite it being a lot bigger than her, it seemed to have noticed Shor and slammed its massive fist down towards her. Shor managed to roll out of the way, but a shockwave brought forth by a strength the creature shouldn't possess (even despite its size) knocked Shor up into the sky. When the ape reached for her with its other giant hand, Shor instinctively reached for a branch even though there was no way her hand could reach it. From her new bracelet, a thick steel chain shot forth and wrapped itself around the branch, pulling Shor towards it and out of the ape's grasp.

The ape, apparently having missed this, looked around confused and frustrated. Shor, on the branch had pulled the hunting rifle from her back, loaded it and took aim from around the tree. It was tricky business since she'd likely plummet to death if she were to fall. Shor took a deep breath before whistling a high-pitched whistle, drawing the ape's attention. Before the ape could rush at her it let out a shriek of pain. Its eye bled as crystal grew outwards from the eyesocket. Shor's shot had (luckily) connected as it was supposed to. 

The ape now flailed madly, constantly agonized by the crystal growing in its eye. Shor quickly lowered herself from the tree with another chain, it might not have been the absolute best tool, but it would have to do now her position was compromised and she needed a quick getaway. The ape ran into several trees in its pursuit, but managed to keep up with Shor despite his lack of depth-vision. Running past several other manabeasts, Shor slowly lost the headstart she had as the ape ran straight through the manabeasts she had to avoid.

Shooting a chain at the ape, it stopped and grabbed it, pulling it towards it. Shor disconnected the chain and turned around, once more aiming the hunting rifle. She shot again, but missed the creatures other eye. A crystal started growing next to its eye, but it seemed mostly unfazed by this as it threw the chain at Shor. In response Shor had little choice but to drop to the floor in order to dodge the chain. The creature charged her once more and Shor had no opportunity to start running again. Aiming one more time, Shor took another shot at the ape. It reached for its eyes but lost its balance, tripped and tumbled her way, a rolling ball of destruction and no way to dodge it. Once more relying on her metal cover, Shor closed her eyes and hoped for the best.

The creature rolled over her, slightly denting part of her shell and came to a dead stop. Correction, just a stop. As Shor removed her metal cover and feeling sore, the ape was already getting up. Turning around to once more stare the ape in the face, Shor saw she had barely missed the eye, half of it now hidden by crystal. The squinting ape seemed to be listening for sounds. Shor picked up a stick and threw it against a tree, drawing the ape there. Quickly turning around, Shor aimed again, she was pissed now. Shooting once in the flailing ape's neck caused it to turn around. The second shot was once more meant for the ape's eye, and this time it hit, accompanied by the sound of the rifle emptying. The creature, now blind, dropped to the ground, wailing in pain.
Shor used her chains to bind the ape to the ground before plunging a crude, rock weapon into its heart. The ape's spasming broke through the chains without a whole lot of trouble, but it was too late for the ape now, it was dead.

Shor had some trouble drawing a chalk circle on the soft ground, but other than that the process of creating a reagent went smoothly. Unfortunately, many of the local manabeasts looked less than pleased, being trampled over by some giant ape. Shor stood still for a while, carefully observing the manabeasts around her. One by one the manabeasts lost interest in her and left, except for two monkeys. A moment of staring passed before the two charged Shor at a ridiculous speed, even though they were the only manabeasts left in the area, Shor's arms were now being forced on the ground by the pair of monkeys.