Chapter 319: Mana Practice
The teacher began her lecture as normal, and everyone pulled out their note-taking devices and wrote as much as they could. And, of course, Moby followed suit, although he was half asleep the entire ti, only paying attention to the new things while training. And, from what he had seen,? nothing seed to be particularly important.
That was when miss Rayna put down all that she had and walked up to the front of the class once more with a subtle smile.
"Okay class, that will be all for today's lecture. Now, I'll be teaching you all about so mana control."
"So of you may know this, but to actually get a mana crystal to work a certain type of pure mana needs to be infused into the catalyst. That also goes for recharging it. That's why it is left to the experts to recharge a dead mana crystal once all of its energy is used up. This is usually really expensive considering you must hire experts and so crystals may require reinforcent to the catalyst if it's too old. If it's not done correctly the crystal will be corrupted and no longer usable. By the end of the class, you all will be able to do all of this on your own!"
The teacher's smile grew even wider, clapping her hands together rather loudly. And, as soon as she did, small sparks of red energy that did not give off any light was seen coming from her fingers, and as she opened her hands up, a crimson ball of energy was seen hovering over her palm, making the entire class instinctively lean closer in their seat.
"This, between my hands is mana, expelled out of my mana flow in its purest form, not as part of my ability. This is what is used to charge these mana crystals."
"There are more than one type of discharge and they all conveniently bear different colours each ti. There is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet." She spoke, switching between all the three colours with a simple flick of the wrist. "Each discharge has it's own unique properties that I will discuss with you later and each catalyst or crystal will require a different discharge. I made this look extrely easy but I promise you this is far more difficult than you would expect. This requires an extre mastery over mana manipulation and months or years of training."
"Sadly, there is a massive elent of talent in this field… More often than not, people are not able to use all the discharges. So people simply can't use so of them no matter how hard they tried. Finding soone like , who is able to use all 7 discharges is extrely rare. If you can't use all the discharges, don't be too down since mastering even 1 or 2 will set you up well for the rest of your life!"
She paused for a mont, letting the class take everything she just spoke in before she continued. And, Moby in particular was very surprised, he never knew that such a form of mana manipulation was even possible… It almost reminded him of how he used demon energy, sotis discharging it in its purest form and at others manipulating it into sothing far different.
This also raised a certain curiosity in him… What if he tried to infuse a crystal with demon energy instead of mana. How would it turn out? He could not contain his curiosity and ecstasy just thinking about it, he had never felt this way in a very long ti.
"But! Before you get into these advanced discharges, let's begin with the absolute basics." She flicked her wrist once more and the ball of mana shifted tones into a white with hints of darkness orbiting all around it.
"This right here is the most basic of basic discharges. It can only be used on low-grade crystals and nothing more. Here is where all of you are gonna start! Everyone can do this, but it will most likely take a few weeks to a month to complete depending on the person. Let show you a more slow and thorough run-through of how to do this now." She closed her hands into a fist and dispelled her ball of mana before taking a deep breath and looking over at the impatient class.
"Focus on your mana, flowing from within your core… And, instead of letting it explode outwards out of your body like you would with abilities, you must slowly guide it out of your body. This is the hardest part since if you lose focus or control, your mana will go out of your grasp and you would have to start over. For this, it is best to release the mana out of your fingertips rather than your palm like most of you are used to.
"This is much harder than it sounds since controlling mana to this extent is stressful on both the body and mind. First, take it slow and steady… But, the more you practice, the faster you will get at it until you reach a point where you could do it without much thought like this." She demonstrated once more, before taking it away.
"Now, we have around 30 minutes left of class. I'll give you all of this ti to try and do this. Experint and see what you can do! Don't be afraid to ask questions! You can start now!"
The class went silent, only small grunts of frustration filling the air from ti to ti. Everyone was fully focused on the task at hand and was clearly struggling.
That was when a small shout of celebration was heard from the front.
"I did it! I did it!"
However, he was then later disappointed yet reassured by the teacher that he was on the right track but had not yet completed it.
In his hands was a small ball of white mana and nothing more… It was a far cry from what the teacher had shown.
Not even a few minutes later, other students began to show the sa progress with the white balls while the others were still left staring at their empty hands.
Although Moby had gotten past the very initial stage, it was all much harder than he expected. He imagined it to be as easy as controlling his demon energy but when he tried to control mana, it was extrely wild and unpredictable, it would start leaking on its way to the outside of his body and there seed to be nothing he could do about it other than practice… At tis he almost felt like the mana itself was rejecting him.
Still, despite all of that, he seed to be about on par with every top student in the class, if anything he seed slightly ahead of everyone even still. It seed like his energy controlling training from Mason Griffith was paying off.
That was when he heard a voice co directly from his side, words that were spoken a few minutes prior as well.
"Okay Miss, I did it, I'm done,"
It ca from Regrit, and he seed to be much calr than usual compared to how he would imagine. Still, that was not the most surprising aspect… It was the fact that between his hands was a perfect ball of mana… Identical to how the teacher did it. People could not believe it.
"Huh?! But how!? wow! Oswald! That's amazing! You're the first person in my class to ever do this! 150 points! Congratulations! You truly have a talent for this!"
Yet, despite all of the teacher's praise, he did not brag or seem full of himself.
"Eh, it's no big deal… This is how my family makes all of it's money. I've seen this process happen more than once but it's never been directly taught to . This should all be natural, I have an advantage over everyone else… I deserve no praise for sothing handed to . I only take praise for the rit of my own hard work…"
'Is this still the sa guy?' Moby questioned himself.
That was when another voice suddenly sprung up from the front of the class.
"I'm surprised you're not trying to show off as always Regrit! Maybe humility finally hit you!"
Everyone's attention imdiately turned towards the front where there sat a smug-looking orange-haired boy with streaks of blonde flowing down vertically. He stood at around a respectable 6 feet and was rather handso and polished even amongst all of the rich students in class. His open eyes were split between a glowing yellow on the right and orange on the left. He bore an appearance like that of an exotic lion, even his teeth looked abnormally sharp.
And, in his right hand was a completed ball of pure mana, white with a dark energy orbit just like that of the teacher.
When Moby looked around the class, he did not even notice him since he was fairly quiet and well reserved but now that he thought about it… Regrit was really avoiding looking in that direction...
"But, I won't allow you to outdo … It's sad we only share one class… Brother…"
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