"You will understand soon enough what I'm trying to convey when you do it later. I want to show you how it is done but for reasons that are out of my ability to control came up and I need to go back first and deal with it. Don't worry and train for now and I'll send someone who is better than me to teach you."
Kristine hastily went out and Julian saw that she was blushing when she was talking about the situation that she can't control. Out of reflex, he turned his head when he heard the door closing and he saw that Kristine's dress got a bit of red stain on his back.
"So thats why". Julian already have a feeling that his benefactor is kind of rushing explaining things to him to the point that what she is saying is kind of messy.
_Okay... anyway she left me with something before she went away. Shit, I forgot to ask her about the pamphlet. She didn't even explain how should I make a skill. Forget it, I better on this first._
_Ok, I need a plan for this. I have a way to see the flow of mana and my objective is to gather mana forming a circle which I will make a bit bigger until I can't anymore. If she said was true, then the diameter of my circle should be around 19 inches that's because for every inch should be equal to 50,000 banks. Now the problem is I don't know the trick behind it. There must be a way to do this efficiently and quickly._
Julian tried to gather the mana into a circle but it just doesn't seem to follow what he wanted. The first try ended with the mana suddenly dispersing. The successive times gave him incomplete circles but he was successful on trapping the mana inside. He tried resting in between to think of a better way to this but it just felt that something is terribly wrong with what he was doing.
"Oh not bad for a sapling, not bad at all. You definitely did something pretty ballsy for someone like us. As expected of Lady Kristine, her way of teaching is hilarious." A female voice suddenly broke his train of thought behind him. Julian immediately found the origin of the noise standing near the opened door of the dimensional storage room.
"Who are you?"
"The name is Derry Gretta. Just Der is fine and I'm staying here too. I usually do my training in room number two so our head decided for me to coach you before I go there."
"My name is Julian. It's nice to meet you. Let's just get straight to the problem here. What am I doing wrong?"
"Well, you can't just create a huge circle then quickly fill that with mana. That process is only possible if you're a veteran which you are not. Start by creating a small circle first then make it like a barrier trapping the mana. When you finished filling that, then create another circle around it, doubling the size of the first one. When you finally strengthened the second one then make the first barrier disappear, when that happens, fill it again and do it until your limit."
Derry made a small circle and filled it with mana then created another one with the first one as its center. The mana was trapped to the second one when the first barrier was gone. Julian finally knew what to do now and tried to slowly imitate what she did. For the first time, he succeeded on forming the circles without the mana dispersing.
"Ok, I will be going now. Here take this and use this three times before yelling 'Set Exit' then the door will appear. You better take care of yourself, so go out and eat to your heart's content." Derry tossed a medium size hourglass to Julian and exited the room, then the door closed.
_Why don't you let me reply first before you leave me. This already happened twice this day. Haa, my luck is totally bad_ Julian set the hourglass down and started training again.
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Town Hall
A beast woman with distinct appearance of a fierce tiger and a man in red is talking with each other while drinking some kind bloody drink.
"As usual, this concoction of yours is truly one of a kind. I feel envious to people like you who are potion masters." The tiger woman emptied the large glass cup like she was drinking beer in a bar. The way she licked her lips in satisfaction was really seductive.
John, who was always in red, just nodded and kept drinking. The town lord invited him here to discuss plans regarding something private, but in the end he was extorted by this fierce lady into presenting his new batch of heavy mana wine.
"You see, John, someone sent an information to me while you are on your way back here. Seriously, you need to go get some pet or something so you can come here faster. Anyway, another talent showed up in my little town again. What do you think will be our chances for the next Battle of Chrome Stead?"
"Lord Alma, we still need to polish the gems before we can see what we are dealing with. Only time will tell, if the so called 'talents' can really rise up to the challenge."