Despite he could see it with Invigoration, a mana core wasn't a physical organ. It was inside the human body but at the same time it wasn't. During the years spent as a healer in the Lutia village, he had cured countless peoples with stomach wounds, but none, no matter how deep, had ever affected a core.
Lith had to rely on his newfound mana sensibility, sending a tendril of pure mana from his core to the woman's. At first, nothing happened, her core seemed stable, keeping its yellow colour despite the flood of alien energies.
But a few seconds later, Lith could see that the zone where he had attached the tendril was getting weaker and weaker. The yellow was turning to orange, slowly spreading to the whole core.
The woman suddenly started to scream in pain, all her veins and arteries bulging out, as if they were trying to shake off her skin. The red of the blood turned blue as the mana that was invading her body.
