While Angel remained silent, the serpent’s corpse began to turn into smoke and drift towards William’s ring, just as the beetles had done last ti. Perplexed, William approached the corpse, and the closer he got, the faster it vanished. Little by little, the entire serpent’s body disappeared.
As he looked at his ring, he noticed it had grown slightly larger. But it wasn’t just his ring; he also felt better. It was as if he had just woken up from a refreshing sleep, his entire body feeling full of energy, a reduced version of the sensation he had when he ate the Kraken’s heart last ti.
"Your body is improving rapidly; your stats increased by .01. The impressive thing is that all your physical abilities increased at the sa ti," Angel inford him.
"It feels great. If I hunted many of those things, I could beco much stronger. Now I want to know what happened," William said.
"What happened is strange to explain, so I’ll start from the beginning. When they taught you how to cast spells, I tried to copy you so I could help you. I thought if both of us could cast spells together, we would be unstoppable. But since then, no matter how hard I try, the mana of the magic world rejects . Although it doesn’t feel as clear as when I was here and it forced into a sphere shape, the truth is I feel like sothing is pushing away at all tis. I’ve co to the conclusion that being inside your body makes the sensation not as strong. The second ti we ca here, I tried to experint by entering your body, but I realized I couldn’t exist in the sa way as in the magic world, so I gave up on that experint."
Angel paused, as if she were searching for the right words again.
"Last ti we were here and I was sent to that place against my will, I rember being in a dark room surrounded by that grey energy. Frightened by what was happening, I tried to use that grey energy, and the energy moved. It was strange, it seed to listen to , but I couldn’t do anything with it. I didn’t want to say anything because I wasn’t sure what was happening, and I didn’t want to give any false results.
Unfortunately, we were expelled very quickly, and and I didn’t manage to do anything. Today, when we entered, while you were preparing everything for the journey, I was trying to manipulate the energy, and I realized it obeyed , but it was very different from what you do. I have recorded every small detail of your way of casting a spell and replicated it over and over, but it didn’t work.
Then I thought: why can spells be cast in Remika, in Volga, and even in the language of storms? Perhaps mana doesn’t understand your language, but rather the user’s intentions. In the fundantals of magic class, the teacher used the word resonance to refer to the way we link with the world. So I tried to connect with this world and I succeeded. Just as the snake appeared, I managed to activate my first spell. I even managed to copy Neri’s spells, and to top it all off, I developed a spell on my own, just by talking to this world. Instead of going through the process you use, I just imagine and directly ask the world to do it for . It has so disadvantages, but also advantages.
For example, if we could assign a value to the damage caused by the spells I cast, we could say they have a damage equal to 1. In contrast, when you cast a spell with mana, the damage is 2 to 2.5, and when you combine them, the damage multiplies to 5. That is, the grey energy is weaker for attacking but works excellent as a reinforcent.
But I compensate for it with speed. I could cast spells over and over without needing to wait, so I can compensate for quality with quantity. And the last advantage is that I don’t use my own energy. Even if I could cast a spell over and over, everything would end when my energy ran out, but in this place, I can manipulate the energy around , so I have infinite energy. The snake you killed, I was able to contain it using these principles. It had the physical strength of a level 3 knight, so it would be impossible to subdue it with my spells, but I managed to cast them on it over and over again until it was immobilized and you could kill it."
Angel’s words were extrely revealing. If everything she said was true, it was like having a bodyguard with infinite ammunition by his side. William was visibly excited by this, fantasizing about the possibilities.
"So, can you teach how you do it?" William asked. "I can try, but I don’t know if you can learn it," Angel replied.
For the next hour, William tried to copy Angel’s thod, but he definitely made no progress. It was as if he couldn’t even feel the grey energy. But this experint showed him sothing interesting.
When William cast spells in the magic world, he used external mana, passing it through his body, and all the adjustnts were made in his brain, like in his old life, if electrical energy passed through a circuit to obtain so result.
In contrast, in this place, the grey energy did not interact with his body. Angel had shown him how she saw, and they were completely surrounded by grey energy, just like mana in the magic world, but he could not co into contact with that energy. He obtained the grey energy from the corpses of the beasts he killed.
The thod was completely different, so he had no way to copy her thod. But it wasn’t all bad news; this had given them a new combat strategy. Although she couldn’t enter and hide in his body as before, Angel could adapt to any form she wanted, so she transford into wings and placed herself on William’s back. This way, while William attacked from the front, she could summon spells to surprise anyone. No one would expect magical attacks from a pair of wings instead of the mage casting them face to face.
This world was strange, so they had to try to keep as many abilities secret as possible to avoid being killed.
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