The spear missed. It seemed the mana entity had misjudged again. The glowing spear missed Soverick by a little bit.
But things were out of the mana entity's hand now. The spear will continue to hunt its target as long as its orders remain. The small illusion that Soverick was using to muddle the senses of the mana entity didn't work on the spear. Its cold gaze was locked onto him and they would be no mistakes anymore.
The spear was so fast that it came around for another attack even before Soverick's fire pillar reached the mana entity. It penetrated his back and came out of his stomach. It obliterated everything in its way. It turned around for another attack and was about to reach Soverick's chest when it fell harmlessly to the ground.
Its orders had disappeared. Its owner had died. So it began to dim. Soverick's fire pillar had finally reached the mana entity. He had a head start, yet the spear reached him twice, and was about to get the third opportunity before his own attack killed the mana entity.
The spear was fast and impossible to evade, but its controller is weak and on his last legs. The Celestial God of Lightning had sacrificed himself to create an attack that should kill Soverick.
He dropped down to his knees. He felt pain, but it isn't why he dropped down. He just felt incredibly weak, so weak, he couldn't stand on his legs. A huge cauterized hole in your gut can do that to you.
"It's now or never." He said as he began to crawl towards the ball of light left behind by his opponent.
He understood more about his wound than it looked. The wound wasn't healing. He couldn't just lay down and hope his vitality will heal it. There was something within that attack that is preventing his wound from healing. It is probably the remaining divinity of that celestial god that he sacrificed for his last attack. So he understood that he could die here unless he breaks through and become a mana entity.
His previous 37 fights have given him enough energy to meet the requirements for all 9 of his gates. He just needs a little more to push it forward so that his vitality core can crystalize. That's why he is crawling towards the ball of light, to get that bit of energy he needs. It is a funny thing that the 20 meters distance that he could skip over in less than a heartbeat has become a daunting task to overcome now.
The muscles of his stomach and lower back had been obliterated. There was some damage to his spine. That damage to his spine messed up his connection to his gates. Thankfully his arms were good. He used them to pull himself forward. He left a blood trail behind. It wasn't much but it is bound to increase as his wound enlarged.
"Finally."
After a few seconds which felt like an eternity, he reached the ball. Then he touched it, absorbed the energy, and began to break through to the mana entity stage. The energy he had from within him went into his cores, converted them, and crystalized them. Even his gates of momentum joined in the transformation.
As the cores were transformed by pure energy, he reached the point where he should create a focal point for mana. A focal point will connect his core and his entire being into a particular or a set of mana elements.
This is where elemental affinity comes into play. The more elements of mana that you bound to your core, the faster you regenerate, the stronger you are and the more options you will have for mana augmentation.
Mana is everything. There are 9 elements of mana. Earth, water, fire, air, light, darkness, life, death, and lightning. Lightning is also called heavenly mana. Soverick is naturally blessed with god-level talent in six of those.
He can forcefully sense the other elements because of his powerful soul but he can't add them to his focal point. The connection to mana and the congregation of the elements to the focal point has to be a passive process, not one he can force with his mind.
The six he has is okay. He might be greedy, but this much is enough. There is no way he can force it, even if he does, it will impact his path as a titan in the future.
The elements of mana in his focal point will affect his divine ability when it awakens. The mana of his core will go to fueling his eyes, it will create chaos if they don't match.
His path is already difficult as it is, there's no need to add more trouble to it. He just has to make the best use of what he has. That's why he is going to create a high-order mana element.
Not create exactly, more like concoct. High-order mana elements exist already. The destruction or creation energy possessed by unique dragons is a high-order mana element. Rebirth energy possessed by phoenixes is another type. High Elves also possess Natural or plant mana.
All these types of high-order mana elements have one or two basic mana elements as their foundation but are expressed in different ways.
All High order mana elements have a unique formula that isn't public knowledge. He knows about that of High Elves to be life mana plus vitality but he doesn't know about the others. Even though he knows the formula for Natural mana, he can't replicate it. He just doesn't have the affinity for it anymore. But he will make his own. He can do at least that much.
He isn't aiming high. He just wants something that can enhance the elements he has. Fire can deal a lot of damage but it is slow, light is very fast. The fusion of the two can create something marvelous. They can fill each other's shortcomings.