A deep, endless darkness, or maybe there was not even darkness there. Inside Isaac's true world, it looked like an endless expanse devoid of anything, but deep inside Isaac, he felt the truth. There was no space to begin with, it was truly [Void].
Isaac didn't know what this place was meant for, all he knew was that something deep inside him wanted to flow out of his body and make itself known to everything that might be dwelling in the [Void].
And so he lets it all out. Little by little, small drops formed inside Isaac's true world. As more drops formed, Isaac felt his whole being was being wrung dry. As his body became heavier, it was increasingly harder for Isaac to stay inside his true world, but he pushed through it.
Each droplet was filled with a moment in Isaac's life where he was learning something new, from being able to walk, to just moments ago, where he learned to open up to someone. As the droplets collided with each other, they began to form a bigger drop of combined moments in time.
As the moments grew more connected, Isaac began forgetting how to do some of the most basic things. At first, it was almost imperceivable as he began to forget the things he had just learned, but after a few minutes had passed, Isaac began forgetting how to use his system.
While the system was not need for someone to be a wanderer or use their traits, it was a mark on his journey that was unforgettable, as it was the product of him almost dying, while trying to learn how to sense magic, which soon began to be forgotten as well.
Isaac audibly gasped as his view of the droplets vanished, and his ability to see the drops was forgotten to them. Isaac began to hold back the drops, but due to forgetting how to control mana, it was useless.
His only hope was to relearn how to control magic before the drops could make him forget anything essential to life, like breathing, but that was a lot easier said than done, unlike before, where the world was filled with mana, the only thing slightly magical was the droplets, making him forget.
Isaac quickly opened his eyes and returned to the real world. Over three hours had passed since he first began meditating, which made Isaac stop moving, as it had only felt like five minutes had passed since he first began.
Isaac shook his head and began looking around, trying to grasp any form of mana in the air, but nothing was around him, not even his own mana that would leak out of him, which could only mean that whatever was happening to him also affected his ability to sense mana.
Isaac ran over to his bags, which would normally be full of mana berries, but they were completely empty, as a group of squirrels ran off after eating the last of them. Normally, they would not go anywhere near a person, but due to Isaac and Tiy's excessive gathering of the berries, they became scarce.
Isaac inwardly cursed himself for not thinking about the repercussions of over gathering, but he didn't have time to dwell on it, as the memories of all the plants he tried in order to learn magic began leaving his mind, at a rapid pace due to being so closely together.
As they began to fade, Isaac ran over to the book where he wrote down the plats and their effects, and as he did, all the memories related to them came back, but soon began to fade again.
Isaac kept rereading the book in order to keep them in his mind so that nothing else would fade away. If Isaac didn't have the berries, then he had the other two methods to relearn magic.
Those being, having someone of similar forms of magic, and race, and then flow mana through you, which no one fits, and the other method, which is to eat a conduit and flow the mana in your body, which was very possible for Isaac.
A lot of things can be conduits, but the best example is circle magic, and Isaac still has the paper that Tiy gave him with circle magic on it. All Isaac would have to do is eat it and flow the mana through his body while remembering it so that he doesn't forget it again.
Isaac opened his bag and brought out the paper, which was folded roughly and covered in dirt. He put the paper into his mouth and swallowed it in one take so as to not make it any worse.
As soon as the paper reached his stomach, the mana stored inside the circle erupted, as it poured into Isaac's body. Before Isaac could even have a chance to make the mana flow in his body, it already began flowing through the pathways that already existed in his body.
It seems that the constant use of magic caused the mana to make desired pathways in order to maximise its distribution, and something like that could not be learned, and therefore could not be taken away by the droplets.
Isaac quickly looked around and observed the mana in the air, as all the memories about when he first learned how to use mana, including when his system first appeared, and as such, even his memories about his system returned.
Isaac quickly reached for his book on magic and began learning all the spells he could. His goal was not to be able to learn all of them, but just to create a buffer, so that the droplets would have to get rid of all the useless spells before they could reach anything important.
Isaac still was not comfortable with how big the buffer was, so he reached deep into his bag and brought out his phone, which was long dead even though he had turned it off when he was first brought here.
He began to cast the spell 'charge,' which was a relatively weak spell due to how many meanings the word had. After around half of the spells Isaac had learned were gone, the phone was around half full.
Isaac sat under a tree and put on some music that was still saved on the phone, and then began to enter his true world again. Unlike magic, his true world had never been forgotten, and seemed to be closer to something physical, and was always inside him rather than something that could be learnt.