Lucas slapped her hand and rolled his eyes. "I’m not a god, I can’t create food." What he could do was at most some replication that looked like food, but it wouldn’t have any nutrients.
The instant healing he showed was different. All he did was accelerate his already powerful healing ability, so he wouldn’t revert back to his injured state when he leaves the sacred land.
Of course, actions like this consume the very energy of the sacred land, so he didn’t become some invincible creature.
Thankfully, that energy can slowly recuperate, and if he can take control of an equally strong source of energy like the Nemeton tree, he could do much more.
"We will stay here for a couple of days." Lucas ignored the disappointed Malia and gazed at Allison and Lydia.
Both nodded, and Lydia looked around, then at the car. "So where should we sleep, in the car?"
Lucas smiled but didn’t respond and chose to show them. He raised his hand high, and tremors appeared on the ground, then from the sand, a mansion made out of rocks appeared in front of them.
It looked like an expensive resort, it even had an open-air pool with steam coming out of it.
"You can do that, but not make some meat?!" Malia grabbed his hand furiously and pointed at the enormous mansion.
"It’s an inanimate object." Lucas shook her hand off and glanced at Allison. "What do you think?"
Her astonishment slowly vanished, and she glanced at him. "But what’s the deal with the pool?" They all saw the steam coming out, and she didn’t like the idea of washing in sand.
"That’s real water from underneath the earth." Lucas pointed down. He could have made water from sand temporarily, but using the water from underground saved a lot of energy.
"Sounds good to me." Lydia moved at lightning speed and took her bags from the car, then ran towards the mansion.
She was dirty all over, which was horrifying to her. The mansion was like a drowning man in the desert to her.
Allison shook her head helplessly at her friend, then disappeared from the spot and began moving all the bags from the car into the mansion.
Only Malia and Lucas remained in that spot, when Malia suddenly said something, "Couldn’t you have the bags appear in the house with a flick of the finger?"
Lucas glanced at her and raised an eyebrow. "Yep."
Malia fell silent for a moment, then glanced at the hardworking Allison. "Then why...?"
Lucas shrugged, and both watched Allison as she moved the bags with a smile on her face.
He then gestured towards Malia to get inside and disappeared into the desert.
Hundreds of meters underground, there was a massive cave filled with water and white crystals.
Suddenly, the silence that had remained from ancient times was broken, and Lucas appeared. He hovered in the air while looking down at this spectacular view.
Right at the bottom of the clear water, there was a barely visible line of green crystals. He noticed the immense energy emitted from it, and he instantly appeared underwater.
A vacuum formed around him, and all the water was pushed away.
"This is it, I can feel it." Lucas touched the crystal and felt a strong connection.
Now the only question was if he would be able to absorb this much energy. Lucas closed his eyes and suddenly embedded his hands in the green crystal.
"Boom!"
An immense amount of natural energy entered his body. When he opened his eyes, instead of turning red, they fully turned silver.
"I can do it!" He gritted his teeth as every part of his body was breaking apart. This much energy was not something a being could absorb and wield. Despite that, Lucas still tried.
Invisible waves spread around him, sending seismic shocks throughout the desert.
Although the energy didn’t have a conscious mind, it still tried to fight even its new master, as if realizing what he was about to do.
Lucas’s body soon became riddled with holes, and from them escaped massive amounts of natural energy.
The ground underneath his feet became flooded with his blood. Lucas then underwent this process for five straight hours, with his body healing, then cracking immediately after.
"Thud!"
Lucas collapsed to his knees and breathed heavily. The pain was so bad that he couldn’t stop trembling.
"Sigh..." He glanced down at the slightly dim green crystal, as he couldn’t absorb the energy in one go.
Now he knew he had to repeat that process a few more times, and this made his face twitch in pain just thinking about it.
Lucas then took a deep breath and concentrated on the energy he absorbed in his body.
The energy was so impressive that if it went out of control and exploded, it could be the equivalent of a nuclear weapon.