"Alright let's get to it, first things first...how to I control magic let alone create a nexus of six different types of magic?"
'How about I just try thinking of the nexus.' Closing my eyes I held of my hands and thought of what I wanted, a nexus of six different types of magic, fire, water, earth, air, light and darkness.
Slowly opening my eyes all that stood before me was...nothing, nada, absolutely nothing...I felt like an idiot.
"Hey umm...Irean are you still there? I have a question about magic?"
"I am listening."
I jumped as Irean just showed up right behind me, 'okay that's gonna get me for a while.'
"Yeah my question is how to I use magic? I want to learn how to use magic since it's gonna play a key part in my [Core]?"
"That...is acceptable but you do realize i'm not allowed to really help you, at best I can tell you some basics and it depends on your understanding to learn how to control magic."
"That reasonable, I didn't even expect you to show up."
"Yeah, me too but it's sort of my job to help you if i can."
"But back to magic, magic is a form of energy, it has its own laws and has only one form, but from that one form you can make a bunch of different elements from it like light."
A ball of light appeared in here hand in just floated their.
"That form is something only the oldest of Gods know, but we haven't seen one since the end of the Mystic Era. To learn how to use this energy you must learn how to feel said energy and from their understand how you yourself can control such energy."
"...Okay?"
"Look that's all your gonna get so unless you actually have another decent question I'll be taking my leave."
And just like that she once again was gone and I was left to myself to learn how to use magic, where do I even start?
Usually from novels the system is what helps them use magic, they just chant the incantations to spells they already learned and boom...magic! But they still have to learn said spell, and also learn how to use magic, maybe if I take a different point of view, why not just try some things.
"First things first let's try something from some cultivation novels, like meditating to try and feel the magic around me."
And so I somehow sat down even though I was still floating in space and closed my eyes. I used the type of mediation I learned as a kid to help clan my self down, breath in...and out.
Over and over I repeated said steps and just focused on my breathing, but in the end I couldn't really feel anything.
"Darn I really thought that would work!"
"Of course that wouldn't work, you were too focused on your breathing that you didn't even think to feel the magic around you!"
"Who said that?"
"Me you idiot!"
To the right Ruby was walking over towards me, she was the same like in my game room but her aura was completely different...almost domineering.
"How did you-"
"Do you really even need to think about that right now, I am here to just give you a hint, I too am under strict rules and just showing my self to you right now could get me in trouble."
"The why do it?"
"I sort of felt guilty after you know?"
Ruby looked off into the distance and avoided my gaze, that reminded my of the pain from my left eye, 'seriously why did this carry over into the game?!'
"Okay and if this doesn't works?"
"Then that means your an idiot and I risked my ass for nothing."
Once again siting in a lotus position I closed my eyes and focused on my breathing this time trying to not completely focus on my breathing. Following Ruby's advice I tried my best to feel the space around me, it was...weird but I definitely felt something.
It was weird, it felt like some form of mist but whenever I tried to control the mist but it would slip through my control over and over. For an amount of time unknown all I did was focus on trying to get a grasp on the mist.
"Okay, okay, fine...look your doing it all wrong, your trying to control the magic outside of your body before you even learn to control the magic inside your body."
Irean stood before me with a look of impatience as she tapped her foot which was hard to imagine being possible floating in space and all.
"I though you weren't allowed to reveal anything else?"
"I was sick and tired of you doing the same stupid mistake for the last five hours that I asked to give you one more hint, your welcome!"
"Thank your then."
With a nod I once again focused on my breathing knowing that she would be gone already. Focusing inward I saw how whenever I breath I would breath in mana, and vice verse when I exhale.
The mana inside my body was currently all over the place, I focused on grasping the mana and...it worked! The mana moved in the direction I wanted it to and now it started to focus in one section of my body and condense.
'Wait, why not try something different that might be way more cool?' I stop the condensation of my mana and thought back all those cultivation type novels I read.
'I'm going to need to do some more research to see where exactly i'm supposed to allow my mana to flow.' So once again I pulled up the system and excited the game.
The game room had access to the internet andI was able to look up the information I needed without logging out of the pod, well sort of. There wasn't really an exact tutorial on how to cultivate but I was able to get an idea.
From the images on some meridians and acupoint's I would allow the mana to flow through then and hope for the best.
• • •
Within a place of light two figures stood in the main hall.
"Irean, how is he, does he have potential?"
"I believe so my lord, he shows a determination not seen in many even though he still hasn't formed his [Core] like most of his kind."
"Do you have any idea what he plans to do with the creation of his [Core]?"
"No my lord, I tried to read his surface thoughts but I felt some sort of interference blocking me."
"Strange...keep and eye on him, if he asks for help deny it, I want to see what he's capable of."
"By your orders my lord."
With a bow Irean left the palace of light.