Alphonse sat crosslegged and established a link with the Earth attribute Mana in the atmosphere, and attracted it toward himself.
When this happened George was in the library reading a document about the latest political development in the Alexa Empire. When suddenly he noticed the odd flow of Earth attribute Mana particles in the atmosphere.
His eyes followed the flow of Mana Particles and then.....
The document fell from his hands. His mouth was wide open.
'How long has it been since he got the
The hardest part of becoming a Knight is sensing Mana and establishing a link with your attribute.
Unlike Mages, who are born with Anark Core, are able to easily sense Mana in the atmosphere as the Anark Core act as a Mana sensing organ, Knights who have no Anark Core have to depend on their other sense organs to detect Mana.
It is similar to how bats find their path using sound instead of light.
In short, it is extremely difficult. It took George 6 months of hard work to be able to sense Mana and 4 more months to establish a link with his attribute. But he was hailed as a once in a millennia genius in the Desolate Continent.
'Gees, just what kind of monster did my big brother adopt into the family,' George thought, 'Too bad he is not a Mage, otherwise his future would have been even brighter.'
Alphonse did not know of George's reaction and continued to cultivate the Everchanging Human Body.
Although he had no Anark Core, he still had Spirit Sense, which enabled him to easily sense all form of energy in the atmosphere. Thus he effortlessly established a link with his attribute.
The atmospheric Earth attribute Mana particles rushed towards him. He took a deep breath and breathed in the Mana particles.
Unlike breathing in air, Earth attribute Mana felt extremely heavy to breathe it in. It felt like he was breathing mercury.
He endured the uncomfortable feeling and allowed the Earth attribute Mana particles to enter into his lungs. He felt extreme pain as his lungs expanded. The Earth attribute Mana particles was absorbed into the bloodstream from the lungs. His Pulmonary veins threatened to explode as they carried the Earth attribute Mana particles, as his blood pressure multiplied by 5 but thanks to the intense exercise that his body had undergone his body was tough enough to hand such blood pressure.
This high blood pressure also caused pain to heart as well, and this pain and pressure spread across the whole body as it the Earth attribute Mana particles travels through the blood.
All cells of the body including his blood cells began to absorb, the Earth attribute Mana particles, and store it according to the Everchanging Human Body.
After taking in three breath of Earth attribute Mana particles, he stopped attracting Mana toward himself.
It was not that his cells were full capacity, but felt it this was the optimal amount to begin the next set of exercise.
He took Thunder Slayer from the table and quickly began to do a set of Sword exercise.
His movements were very slow and precise, but to the common eye, it looked awkward and irregular.
Any sword expert could see that this sword exercise is not designed for attack or defense. In fact, it was not even designed for killing.
In his previous life, this sword exercise was used to excavate the bodies potential.
He theorized that this sword exercise could increase the Mana digestion rate in all the cells in the body.
This sword exercise is called the Mountian Moving Sword Art.
Even Alphonse did not know the origin of this sword exercise. He found this sword exercise in his parent's locker after their death.
You could say that this sword exercise is what lead him into martial arts.
During his journey to the peak of Mortality as Edward Hyde, this sword exercise helped him a lot by excavating his potential.
After he became the strongest on Earth he tried to find out the origin of the sword exercise but other than the copy that was in his hands there was no other sword exercise like that of the Mountian Moving Sword Art.
There were a few sword arts with the same name but they were different from the Mountain Moving Sword art that he had.
This leads him to the conclusion that this sword exercise was an alien sword exercise to this world. As to how his parents got their hands on it, he did not know.
He continued to do the nine moves in the first layer of the Mountain Moving Sword Art.
The Mountain Moving Sword Art had a total of 9 layers, his body toughness only enables him to perform the first layer, if he tries to perform the second layer his muscles would cramp up.
In fact, even in his previous life where he reached the peak of Mortality and became the strongest on Earth, his body was only strong enough to display up to the third layer.
In his previous life as Edward Hyde, he only realized how miraculous this sword exercise is after he became the strongest on Earth. This not only trains muscles but also organs as well. And that was just the first three layers, who knows the effect of the remaining six layers.
On Earth where martial arts was undeveloped this kind of sword exercise was none existent.
As he performed the first layer of the Mountain Moving Sword Art all the Mana stored in all his cells where rapidly digested and used to improve the power and efficiency of the cell.
He only had to the sword exercise two times before all the Mana in his body was used up.
The Mana digestion rate of the Everchanging Human Body was already very high, and the first layer of the Mountain Moving Sword Art, multiplied the digestion rate four times.
He once again sat down cross-legged and began to breathe in Mana. This time the pain he experienced was far less than the first time he breathed Mana.
He took in three more breath of Mana according to the Everchanging Human Body and did the first layer of the Mountain Moving Sword Art again.
He repeated this process until his body could not stand anymore, he collapsed on the ground.
He fainted, in his excitement of being able to cultivate again after 12 years, he forgot the limits of his body and kept pushing his body again and again.
As he lay there on the ground soaked in sweat he unconsciously began breath in Mana according to the Everchanging Human Body.
Popping and cracking noise could be heard from his muscles and bones. His cells began to reach their saturation point, and then suddenly, he broke through, and his body stopped breathing in Mana.