Seeing the damage caused to the surface of the tree he had fired at, and the resultant system message about his new skill, the corners of Oberon’s mouth lifted up into a grin at his success. It might not have been much in the grand scheme of things, but as the first elemental skill he had intentionally created from nothing and after a day of unsuccessful experiments he was happy with even a small victory.

He couldn’t stop there however; he still had the Wind Break and Wall spells to complete and then he wanted to start work on creating some more defensive abilities to go alongside his new offensive spells. Whether they would take the form of elemental variations on his Shield or Wall spell he didn’t know; one would likely grant resistance to the element in question while the other would form a barrier of that element. Both would be useful to have.

Ideally he wanted to finish at least one defensive ability before nightfall, at which point he and the others would likely retreat to their makeshift cave where they could discuss what to do about the Goblin tribe that was to return tomorrow morning and decide on their course of action. It was going to be a busy, tiring day followed by a potentially dangerous one.

Allowing himself to bask in his success for a moment longer, Oberon turned his mind back to the Wind Break spell he had started earlier. Creating a spell from air would probably be a more difficult prospect than creating a spell from water or even light. Air was ethereal, insubstantial and difficult to work with; water by contrast was easy because it had a physical presence to it and light was possible to work with because of his nature as a Sprite and the fact he already had Gather Light as a skill. That being said, all he could really do was try and see what happened. He had had some success earlier, before he had lost his concentration, so it wasn’t impossible by any means.

Moving away from the stream, Oberon started by raising his arm and holding his hand out with palm upraised and forming a Mana Orb above it. He then closed his eyes and tried to do what he had done with the stream, drawing the surrounding air into the Orb as he had done with the water and trying to hold it together. If it wanted to change shape like the Light Ring had he would let, only restricting it if it felt like the Orb was about to fall apart. If it felt too dense he would attempt to loosen his hold on the Orb, allowing the diffuse nature of air express itself without letting it go entirely. It was a process driven more by feeling and following the flow than anything else, guided by an awareness of the mistakes he had made while creating his previous spells.

Whatever the result, after his first few attempts had fallen apart Oberon would open his eyes and take the time to restore his Mana. Strangely even though he had been experimenting most of the morning, then used a few spells against the Giant Slime followed by more experimentation, after he had recovered from the Mana Burn this morning he had not received a single warning about his MP running low.

Even though he had evolved and levelled up several times in the past few days, he didn’t think his Mana reserves had risen that much, had they? Unfortunately he didn’t know what his total MP was nor how much his spells cost; even though he had system messages and skills points, it seemed this video game-like existence didn’t come with a HUD. [color=f49ac2]“System: Show current HP and MP status.”[/color]

It had been a while since he had messed around with the system functions available to him. He knew he could view his skills at any time, as well as his status and inventory, but what else could it do? He’d tried opening his character tab once, and while it had been successful he remembered the migraine that came with it; an influx of too much information at once or the result of seeing something his mind couldn’t handle? What else could he see that would be useful to him?

[color=f49ac2]“System: Show current experience or level progress. And show… show my evolution tree.”[/color]

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Attempting to cast "Wind Break" by absorbing air into "Mana Orb"
Attempting to use system to view HP and MP levels
Attempting to use system to view EXP and Level progress
Attempting to use system to see Evolution Tree
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[@Zeroth]