Chapter 212
After that, after hearing a simple story about the disposal of Thunderbird’s corpse.
We left the hotel together.
The destination is a training ground that I personally rented.
I plan to concentrate on weaving a ring of awakening until tomorrow morning in a high-end private room that is rented 24 hours a day.
“Looking at it, it must be terribly expensive.”
I got out of the car first, and then Captain Charles got out of the driver’s seat.
“Since it’s a training ground affiliated with the Madosinga, it didn’t cost me any extra money.”
“oh. okay? nice.”
I said I could go by myself, but he insisted on taking me.
It’s not even Seoul, it goes to Gyeonggi-do, but he said he couldn’t let me go alone.
It is true that Gyeonggi-do has poor security compared to Seoul, but it is still in the top 10 of the world.
You seem to be worrying too much.
‘It’s okay. Because you know that I was designated as a special S-class dangerous person in the Black Mage Tower.’
It’s worth worrying about.
As much as Sophia-nim entrusted me with my escort, there must be a sense of responsibility.
“thank you. Thanks to you, I came here comfortably.”
“no way. Why do you even thank me for something like this? it’s okay.”
Captain Charles waved his hand.
“Oh, and on this occasion, I speak. It’s good to make sure you say thank you. Even if I do it often, I tend to do it too often. Then the value of saying thank you is reduced. Be careful. Especially if you’re going to become the head of household later.”
“I don’t go around saying thank you to anyone. I only do it when I feel really grateful.”
I know what Captain Charles wants to say. That doesn’t fit the current situation.
“I don’t know if you simply took me. You were worried about my safety, right? I think that’s something to be thankful for.”
Captain Charles’ expression hardened for an instant.
“… … You mean you say really embarrassing things very casually?”
“I’m not casually saying embarrassing things. I don’t think the captain has too much tolerance for such words.”
“I?”
Since he has lived among ferocious mercenaries all along, he must have no resistance to such words.
As mercenaries are treated like outsiders, they probably have little memory of receiving favorable attention.
“… … is it? I guess that’s what it sounds like when you hear it.”
Captain Charles twisted his hair and tilted his head slightly.
“Anyway, cut back on that thank you. It’s because I don’t know how to react.”
“I can’t help it if it makes you uncomfortable. I will take care of you.”
“okay. Let me ask you a favor.”
Captain Charles patted me on the back and got back into the driver’s seat.
“Then training hard. I’ll come back tomorrow morning.”
“You don’t have to go there… … .”
“it’s okay. I don’t have much to do while I’m in Korea anyway. I’m coming because I’m free, so don’t decline.”
Captain Charles pulled his hand out the window and stroked my hair roughly.
“Then suffer. I look forward to seeing you.”
Captain Charles smiled brightly for the last time and got behind the wheel.
Then he stepped on the accelerator and quickly moved away.
* * *
Upon entering the training ground I had reserved in advance, I immediately spread out the prepared equipment on the floor.
“If it wasn’t for A.S., it would have been a job just to bring all of this.”
The equipment I have prepared is none other than the ‘Mana Freeze Preservation Flask’.
As the name suggests, the effect is to freeze and store mana as it is at the time of collection.
It is usually used to check mana in places like the land of monsters or the land of the dead.
I used this mana cryopreservation flask to collect mana from all over the place.
A total of 47 mana were collected like that.
A total of 47 flasks contain 47 types of mana.
For reference, one flask is roughly the size of a 1.5L water bottle.
If it wasn’t for Aes, just moving this would have been a big deal.
As there are restrictions on what you can bring into the training ground, you might not have been able to use the training ground.
‘Long live A.S.’
It seems that the uses of real AS are endless.
It should be said that the more you use it, the more satisfied you are.
I touched A.S.’s luxurious outer skin with my hands once again, and then stored it in the sub-space.
And immediately touched the setting of the training ground.
As it is a training ground affiliated with Madosinga, it is a familiar training device.
I started setting with skillful hands.
[Additional settings.]
[Mana vacuum state.]
and last. After setting the most important mana vacuum state.
Clicked the Done button.
Woo woo woo woo woo-!
The 13 mana fans filling the training ground began to turn and the mana concentration around them began to fade.
fast at first.
And then slowly and slowly.
Mana disappeared.
About 10 minutes passed like that.
Inside the training ground, no mana could be found, and it became a mana vacuum.
“… … I really don’t get used to this feeling.”
Mana is like air.
It is everywhere, but there are places where it does not exist depending on the place.
This mana vacuum setting is an exercise in case of such an emergency.
Let’s get used to not having mana even a little bit, and don’t fall into a panic when an emergency occurs.
Well, that’s pretty much the setup.
… … only.
I didn’t set the mana vacuum for that reason.
‘Let’s start slowly with the first flask.’
The reason I made the mana vacuum inside the training ground is to prevent any change in the mana stored in the flask.
I slowly opened the first flask.
The mana contained in the first flask was scattered in a vacuum without a handful of mana.
‘The mana collected at the cafe during lunchtime. Everyone’s energy is still in mana.’
Mana is a kind of chameleon.
greatly influenced by the surroundings.
And the mana affected in this way changes the structure itself.
In order to understand this structure 100%, it is necessary to observe and analyze mana with different properties one after another.
‘I’m full! excited!’
‘Let’s play some more!’
I conducted an analysis while sharing emotions with the energetic Manas.
‘This is the structure of mana full of vitality.’
Using the pen and notebook prepared in advance, write down everything you see and feel.
And when the cleanup is over, touch the settings again and release the mana from flask #1 to the outside.
Creates a mana vacuum again.
‘Then, flask number 2 is next. Mana collected during physical training.’
Then, release mana from the next flask in the vacuumed training ground.
And observe that mana.
Again, write down the newly acquired information in your notebook.
‘The next three times. Mana collected in the intensive care unit.’
‘Four times. The mana collected at the wedding hall.’
The back was this iteration.
Free the flask’s mana.
make a vacuum.
release mana again
This process was repeated infinitely.
1 hour, 2 hours, 6 hours.
Forgetting even the passage of time, he continued this act over and over again.
‘next. Flask No. 47.’
That’s how I release mana from the last flask.
Feeling the nature of that mana, I entered the last information.
This is the 12th note.
The preceding 11 notes have already been filled out, leaving no room to write anything more.
‘This is the end of the analysis of the shy mana structure.’
That’s how I finished writing 47 mana information in a total of 12 notes.
I was then able to straighten my back.
But that’s for a while.
‘Then let’s check again.’
I bent down again and read the notes that I had organized in turn.
From the first note to the twelfth note.
A record of everything I saw and realized today.
It already remains as a record in my head, but reading it again like this gives a new realization.
I read the text slowly but quickly.
continue, continue.
As if possessed by something, I repeated speed reading and thorough reading.
That’s when I finished organizing all my thoughts.
It was already 12 hours later.
A whopping 12 hours of concentration.
12 hours of concentration in a vacuum of mana that ordinary wizards find it difficult to endure even 10 minutes.
Even though it was something I could have been proud of, I didn’t get any inspiration.
“… … i get it.”
It is because a greater joy filled my head than such trivial things.
“The Structure of Mana.”
With my blackened hands from turning over the notes dozens or hundreds of times, I gripped the notebook rather tightly.
“It was a structure very similar to human brain waves.”
According to the changing brain waves according to the change of emotion, the mana also caused a change.
That’s why he felt that the structure of mana was constantly changing.
“This is the real mana… … .”
Mana was only mana.
But mana was not only mana.
If there is a source of mana, it can be said that it is the essence of mana that only those who understand this structure 100% can see.
“then… … .”
I got up from my seat and touched the setting of the training ground again.
After disabling the mana vacuum state setting and clearing all settings.
The inside of the training ground was restored to its natural state.
and sat down as it were.
The position I feel most comfortable with.
Sitting in that position, I breathed new mana into the Infinity Circle and Mana Core that had been empty for a while.
Repeatedly inhaling and exhaling.
My body returned to its best condition in an instant.
I took out the ‘Tears of Heaven’ from Aes and drank it all at once.
Klopp, Klopp.
Heavenly tears running down my throat. As if the modifier heaven was not attached for nothing, the taste was also heavenly sweetness itself.
pounding!
My heart raced.
pounding, pounding!
twice, three times.
Her heart, affected by the tears of the heavens, beat like an overheated engine.
It is as if he is trying to send the absorbed heavenly tears to all parts of his body.
He poured the tears of the heavens into his blood and spewed them out in all directions.
I felt the surging energy through my whole body and moved my mana.
‘A space where you can only be yourself.’
A place where you can be unaffected by the surroundings as well as yourself.
A place where mana can only exist as original mana.
‘That place must have been the Ring of Awakening.’
I moved mana slowly.
He created a path that only those who understood the structure of mana 100% could create.
So that Mana has no will.
So that when Mana was born, she would be in her true form.
An iron fortress that could not be invaded by anything outside was made in the form of a ring.
‘It was like this.’
Memories accumulate and learning is stored.
Just as there are times when learning that has no meaning for a moment can be helpful when you look at it over time.
A lot of information that I thought had no meaning was giving me countless realizations.
It felt like fireworks were exploding in my head.
‘Turn around. A little faster.’
A Ring of Expansion that unites the three smaller Infinity Circles.
And next to it, the chain of truth standing side by side.
As if entwining the two large infinity circles, a new ring began to form.
It was as if a snake were dangling entangled in two rings.
‘… … .’
‘… … .’
quiet.
Mana is silent.
It’s not just mana circling the ring of awakening,
Even the manas circling the previous five rings are all silent.
The primordial mana is circling my body.
‘This is the real mana.’
A sense of exhilaration covering the whole body.
Exhilaration soars with new realization.
The primordial mana that shows no change in my intense emotions.
Feeling all of that with my whole body, I moved my mana again and again.
‘I want to stay like this forever.’
For a while.
for a very long time.
Forget about even thinking.
He just continued to move mana.
The path of the new mana in my body slowly began to become clearer.
