Chapter 2

"Well enough chit chat" Said Hircus, after questioning Phan's choice of desire. "Let's move to strengthening your soul, for the split."

"Question!" Phan said With his hand in the air.

"Yes!" Hircus replied, quickly turning around and pointing at Phan.

"How would I strengthen my soul?"

"Good question. The answer is to devour other souls. But the real question is how"

"Then, how do devour other souls?"

"There are two steps. The first is to be able to see souls. The second is to see how a soul would eat another soul and imitate that."

"How would I do these steps?"

"I'll explain on the go. Nothing beats hands on learning."

"One problem, I don't know how to get out of here." Phan said feeling like a disgrace and preparing to be beaten on a spiritual level.

"Oh that is a Problem, but an easy fix for me" Hircus said not realising Phan's behaviour.

"Aru?" Phan said, in surprise of not getting beaten.

"Huh? What do you mean 'Aru?'"

"Aren't you going to beat me?"

"Why would I?"

"Well that's what the others do to me, when I can't do something that they consider easy."

"Hay kid, let me let you on something." Said Hircus patting Phan's head, trying to act cool. "It's okay to not know how do do something the first time. Learning something takes time, if you can't do something the first time, second time, heck even the nine-hundredth time, it just means you need to keep trying, till you do. If you have no one to teach you, then teach yourself, and if you do just work harder."

"Thanks." Phan said feeling much better. "So how do I get out of here?"

"Just wake up, when you enter here you try to sleep but retain conscience, so just wake up. Easiest way is to imagine a near death."

Phan sat there, imagining something that could leas to near death. He sat there thinking of a long fall. Just before his mind hit the floor, his body woke up, covered in sweat and breathing heavily. Phan took sometime to calm down before he took a look at his surroundings. Phan looked around him, It was night. The moon shone brightly, as it was full, and the stars shimmered. The forest surrounding him was peaceful. The fireflies flashing their gentle looking light. Phan was hungry and stiff, as he sat down for what seemed to be hours. Phan got up and wondered the forest, to enjoy the scenery and think of what he wanted to eat.

Wondering through the forest, Phan stumbled across a young, juvenile shock boar sleeping. It was about two meters tall and three meters wide. It had a yellowish fur with a black streak across it which looked like black lighting. It's tusks were shaped as bolts of lightning and were extremely sharp. Phan decided to make this his prey, as it had a very shocking taste.

"Earth. Pit. Depth: Three meters. Radius: Four meters" Phan said as a chant. Soon after four rings appeared, the first was brown and the others were white. The ground in front of him started to change, a pit formed and was the same death and radius as he said in his chant. "Earth. Spike. Length: One meter. Location: Pit floor" Phan said after the pit had formed. Three rings formed instead of Four, with the first being brown. "Light. Mirage. Type: Floor." Phan said after making sure, the spikes were done right. Three rings appeared this time as well, but the first ring was yellowish. "Earth. Barrage. Type: Stone. Size: Six centimetres." Phan said after not being able to see the pit and rising his hand. Four rings appeared in front of his hand, the first ring being brown once again. "Shoot." Phan said, and a barrage of stones were hitting the shock boar.

The shock boar woke up, and began to charge at Phan. Phan stood there without fear. Just before the boar hit Phan it fell head first into the pit Phan had made prior.

"Earth. Pillar. Hight: Three meters. Radius: Four meters" Another set of rings appeared with the same amount and colourisation of the first spell. The pit was filled with a earth pillar, in the process pushing the boar corpse to the top.

Phan took the boar of the floor and cut its' head off. He then hung the boar of the ground to let the body bleed. While the body was being left to bleed, Phan set up a large multi-layered smoker. After Phan had finished the smoker, he started to skin the boar and remove its' hide. By the time Phan had finished removing the skin and hide, the corps was ready to be cut up and smoked.

"Barrier. Shape: Square. Size: 2 meters." Phan muttered and a transparent square appeared beside him. "Barrier. Shape: Dagger. Transparency: Opaque." Phan once again muttered to himself and a black dagger appeared before him.

Phan took that dagger and started cutting the boar up. He cut the belly open and removed all the organs and left them out. He then cut the remaining meat in to cutlets. Each cutlet he made, would he placed on the square barrier he made. After he finished cutting up the boar, Phan pulled the barrier across the floor. Afterwards he would place the cutlets on the smoker and set a spell under it.

"Fire. Ignite." Phan said, two rings appeared the both being red. The ground beneath the smoker suddenly combusted into flames.

Phan would periodically feed the flame under the smoker just so the boar cutlets were thoroughly smoked. After the meat was smoked, Phan let the smoker burn down but put it in a another pit made out of magic.

Now that his food has been made, Phan ate about half of it, which weighed several times his body weight. The rest was given to his sister in the middle of the night.