The next day started, putting on my usual white dress that I took a liking to, I decided to only wear the hoodie in public. Itvd be weird to wear something so flashy in class. Sinple is best after all~ Teleporting into my seat in class as if it was normal, I sat there and waited for gorilla sensei to come. Well I gained roughly 230 levels yesterday, so I should have plenty of mana training to do.
Just as gorilla sensei enters the classroom, we all stand up and greet before sitting back down. I've never actually described the lesson in detail before as I usually don't have mana training to do, but turns out gorilla sensei gives all the students advice on how to control their mana better.
According to him there were multiple methods or tricks to this. The first was to use imagery, perhaps picture mana as a liquid or use a simple water magic to form a ball in the air. Overtime, with enough practice, the student can create a bigger ball of water even though it was the same spell used.
Another method that is more effective but harder to utilise was to just feel the mana with your skin. When you can control enough mana, you can condense it, when its condensed itvs basically a blob of energy so you can feel or your skin get warm. If you can condense mana even better, you can even make it imitate a solid and hold it, though it is dangerous if you don't have experience. Sometimes gorilla sensei would show a demonstration too to help the students.
I didn't know there was this much thought put into mana control training. I forgot that we were still just 9 year olds so some people would naturally struggle.Whatvs actually not normal was me, haha...
Well, this will be the first time I take mana control training seriously then. Condensing the mana in the surrounding, it was if there was a strong wind or some force blowing towards me. Cupping my fingers and leaving space in the middle, waves of mana converged in the middle into a thick black orb. Was this my limit? No, I was just getting started. Soon winds strong enough to blow the tables away or flew towards the orb, expanding the orb to as huge as a table.
This isn't enough! I can go further! Condensing the orb even further back to the size that can fit in my hand, the orb was so dark it looked like the abyss. Continuing without stopping, the flow of mana in the air was so dense it started carrying me and I started floating. Whoaa.. Strangeee. "Look Emily's floating!" (James) What the hell? Did he have to point out something that obvious? On second thought he did, as gorilla sensei couldn't feel the strong winds for some reason. Is it because he was used to it in dungeons? Apparently not...Turning to look in my direction gorilla sensei was terrified.
"EVERYONE TAKE COVER ITS GOING TO BLOW" (gorilla sensei) What are these funny antics? If it was going to blow, I would shoot it out the window before so that it only destroys the buildings outside... Naaah, it won't happen... Probably... Anyway, as everyone was hiding under their tables I looked at them with a deadpan look. "Is it going to blow?!" (gorilla sensei) "You guys do know, if an orb this condense were to explode, the school would be gone and those tables won't protect you right?" Its okay, I'll just open a black hole so that the damage will be kept to a minimum. Hmm... I wonder if I can shape this dense mana orb into a weapon? If that was possible, I would also be able to create those cool shields that support classes make. First I shaped the handle, making 4 diagonal concaves so my fingers can fit comfortable, I proceed to shape the blade. Pushing a huge mass of the dense mana a bit to the top, I shaped the one-sided hilt and sharpened the edge.
With the added volume, I could condense even more mana into it. Pushing it further, the dagger became so densed that I could use it as an explosive the would do half the damage of [void energy]. Ok now I should try making a wall with this. Expanding the dagger to the size of a wall and shaping it as a dome over me, it was a translucent black. How about I condense it further with more mana just because I can. After that, the wall was so dark it looked like an abyss on the underside. I can use it to trap opponents and contain explosions, or even cause an explosion after trapping them.
After dispelling the mana, gorilla sensei calmed down. The other students weren't worried. A certain someone even screamed "I, the great James have faith in Emily!" Really, how do kids say these things without being embarrassed? After mana control lesson was the usual break. When break was over, we headed to the courtyard for our usual sparring lessons. But this time second years and third years were here too.
"The tournament starts in 5 days, you guys have 3 days to train in your teams with your senpais here, you can train on the 2 weekends as well, but that would be your choice." (pervert sensei) With that out of the way, pervert sensei would call our names and tell us our teams and we would start training immediately...