The next day in the morning on my way to the forest
-I'll do a progress check on how well I can form basic runes for both basic and evolved elements, when I'm at my trainings spot. I didn't come here last Sunday to do it. I had the maid pack me my lunch so that I can stay the whole day. –
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I came to a clearing near a river.
-This was a beautiful place but because of my training I destroyed it a bit. –
Some places suffered from darkness magic other had a lightning mark, there were a lot of different marks with different elements done.
-First, I need to find out how perfect I can make the basic element runes. –
With that I conjured for every element the basic and advanced runes.
-So, for fire I can form a perfect basic rune. Three colors and it emits strongly. As for the other basic element runes except light and darkness two colors with beginning of the construction of the third color. As for light and darkness I'm still stuck with one color, but the run has a clear form and emits the color has depth and is beautiful, they are the most difficult ones. Next the advanced ones… I can form them with two colors.
The only reason why I improved so fast was because of my knowledge from earth and Zeros tutoring. It explained to me the concept first, even with visuals, and transferred the knowledge to my brain later. With that my understanding of the elements deepened fast besides I don't even need 50% understanding of an element to form a perfect basic run. The reason why only the fire rune is perfect is because I train with it the most. Infusing a flame with another element depend my understanding and my proficiency immense, especially in the fire element. It is also a part of the understanding to know how a element interacts with another one.
In the books that are in the library aren't that many information about light and darkness and I don't have much knowledge about them form earth. As for time and space, I have barley anything. There was one book about forge mastering form witch I have the basic runes, but my understanding is 3% and 2%, I'm not even able to form the run. Sound is nonexistent, it isn't even mentioned so 0% progress at that.
The only way to furthered upgrade the runes is to practice the element and deepen my understanding that is why I already started studying the mid-level runes. It's about the same just that the rune itself is more difficult to write and to form. I also train to gather the element without a rune. The difficulty with that is that I need to constantly concentrate on attracting the element and if I lose focus then in the best case the gather element will just scatter and in the worst case make a world spell by combining itself with the world mana. The good part is that I can decide on how fast it is gathering at any time, with a rune it is decided on how well the rune is formed and what grade it has. A basic rune doesn't have side effects if it isn't done properly unlike a higher leveled one that has the same side effects as rune less element gathering. When the element gathering is done properly then the element doesn't fuse with mana without the caster's interference.
As for today I'll start my training in fusion magic. The problem is that I didn't get any information about it from the library. So, it depends solely on my imagination? Hmmm, I'll need an element, it doesn't matter with which element I start so I'll just take air. Next, I should conjure a rune. –
With that I conjured an air rune.
-So, the supply of the air element is ensured. Now I only need to figure out on how I can boost my body with it. Maybe fusing the element with my mana and get it into my body? I'll just have to try. –
I fuse my personal mana with the gathered air element and try to get it back into my body.
I walked, ran and hit a tree.
-Yeah nothing changed. I probably should understand first how the mana inside my body works. –
With that thought I sat on the ground and started contemplating.
-Accumulation exchanges new mana with old mana. When world man enters my body, it becomes personal mana and when personal mana leaves my body it becomes world mana again. When I cast a spell with personal mana it is taken from all over my body, That makes my whole body a mana container. So maybe a mana grain fused with an element isn't suited to be placed inside my body? There is a constant exchange already and fused mana gets rejected every time I put it inside my body and gets exchanged with a new one that isn't fused. So, if I'm right than it won't work inside my body but maybe outside. –
I again fused my mana with the air element the rune was gathering.
-So, should I but it like an extra skin around my body or but the mana grains inside the topmost skin layer, somehow that part of my body isn't part of where the mana grains get put. I'll try the later first. –
I tried to put the fused mana grains inside my outermost skin layer.
-It feels different, hopefully it works. –
I again walked, ran and hit a tree.
-Nope the same. It doesn't work. I mean it does work, but I don't feel and significant difference. –
-I should try to lay it around my body like an extra skin, maybe that'll work. –
Afterwards I again walked, ran and hit a tree.
-Nope, It's more like a shield than enchanting anything.
Why doesn't It work? Ok I'll just have to analyses Accumulation again and if that doesn't inspire me, I need to come up with something else. –
I again sat down on the ground and started contemplating.
-So, world mana gets into my body and becomes personal mana. That should be the same even without Accumulation. Then it gets transported to spot in my body. There would probably be the first difference, without Accumulation it would just wander around. Afterwards it gets exchanged with a depleted mana grain which absorbed some impurities. Without Accumulation they get randomly exchange randomly sometimes they are new and full of energy other times they barley manage to get out of the body and sometimes the mana grains themselves turn into impurities.
Do I need to exchange the mana grains with new ones when they don't have enough energy anymore? I'll go over it once more.
World mana gets into my body… Wait WORLD MANA not personal mana. That makes sense personal mana doesn't work on the caster so if I try with world man then it should work. Now I have a new problem. I did train with world mana but only light spells and easy ones, I don't even now the difficulty level of fusion magic. I'll have to try it sooner or later anyways I only hope that I don't kill myself. –
With that I activated mana sensing (the same as when I train mana sensibility) and tried to fuse air and world mana.
-This isn't so easy, it is also rather hard to fuse world mana with light, but I get the feeling that it is a little different with air tough. –
Near the element rune is the element concentrated and if I keep the mana near there than it'll absorb the element mostly on its own. The difficulty is to keep it in place so that it can absorb the element.
-I need to have control and supervise every single mana grain. That could be a bit exaggerated.
Personal mana at least doesn't try to constantly escape, it's also easier to put back in place, besides it stays in the place I put it without constant supervision. World mana constantly tries to escape even when I focus on a grain. This is exhausting. –
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-Finally, I managed to have some world mana grains fused with the air element. Now put it into my outermost skin layer. Not to deep or it won't work… Wait maybe with world mana I can even put it inside my body. I'll try that later on for now I put it in the outer layer of my skin. –
With a lot of patience and time I managed to do it
And then I again walked, ran and hit a tree.
-It works!!! I'm a loot agiler. It the enchantment grade most likely depends on how many fused mana grains I put inside my first layer of skin. Now I'll try to put them deeper inside my body. I'm curious how that'll turn out. –
-Doesn't seem to change anything. They are completely ignored. Probably because of Accumulation. I won't stop using it just because of fusion magic tough, besides I can still put it inside the first layer of my skin. There aren't any other mana grains occupying that space anyway. I wonder why? They are only deeper inside of me like in my blood. They enter my blood via breathing after all and the blood transports it to the rest of my body and Accumulation makes sure that it goes were it is needed.
Figuring that out took me a long time. Zero how long till lunch? –
[30 minutes]
-Yeah, I was right. I'll just eat now make afterwards a short break and restore the rest of my missing focus and mana with charge. –
I went to the basket and took the food out and began eating.
-I'll need to get faster at getting the fused mana grains into my skin otherwise fusion magic won't be to useful. For the beginning of my training I'll use a rune so that I don't need to focus on attracting an element later I'll try to attract it without one, I won't have time in battle to form a rune. It's helpful that I already train in attracting an element without a rune but it's a lot easier to fuse an element with personal mana it'll probably take a long time till I manage to use fusion magic without needing a long time setting it up. –