9 Stages for both huh.. I laughed.
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I let out a big sigh and continued to scan through the books and tried to store out as much information as I can. The downsides are, overuse of this ability made my brain hurt. It's giving me a huge headache. I scanned 6-7 more books and decided to stop until I found a book labeled
" Magic Theory and Magic Apprentice Theory. "
Seeing the book's name, Immediately jumped with joy and scanned the book. Walking back to my room as soon as I was finished and sat down on the floor with my legs crossed.
The human body uses the heart as the container for mana.. and to use mana, the body needs to unclog the so-called " mana veins " which are spread throughout our bodies like blood vessels. Ready to push out and spread mana to enhance our bodies or conjure spells of our chosen element.
Humans are capable of casting all of the existing world elements provided they know how it works.
Earth, Fire, Water, Air, Ice, Darkness, Light, Nature, Lightning, and so on but people generally focus on one or two elements. As it is hard to master even a single element to perfection.
In order to enter the first stage, magic apprentice. One must unlock his/her mana veins by sensing the mana in the atmosphere and absorbing it in. There are 13 mana vein points that are needed to be unblocked by pushing mana through it.
1 at the head, 1 at the chest, 1 at the pelvis, 2 at the shoulders, 2 near the elbows, 2 at the palms, 2 at the knees, and 2 at the feet. A total of 13.
But first, in order to unclog my mana veins, I have to sense the mana surrounding me and absorb it in through breathing.
I started closing my eyes, attempting to sense the mana that should be present around me. Trying the hardest to sense even a single particle of mana.
After trying it out for a while, I was left dejected. Not being able to sense even a single slither of mana. As I was about to get up, a panel popped out.
< Host, would you like me to guide you to sensing mana? >
I looked at the panel projected by nano in front of me with wide eyes.
Is that possible nano?
< Yes >
Then what are we waiting for?
I closed my eyes once more and tried to sense mana with nano's help. Suddenly, I felt my breathing change, almost as if matching the rhythm of my own heartbeat. What came after surprised me even more, I was able to sense a tiny bit of mana!
The trance of sensing mana felt like you're in a different world, like being submerged in an inexplainable liquid. Mana didn't have any color, feel or smell. It just felt like something, otherworldly.
I remembered the text in the book I scanned, I have to absorb the mana by breathing it in and pulling the mana into my lungs to my veins, and to my heart.
I calmly breathed in the mana and did as the information in the book stated. Failing a few times but eventually became better at absorbing the mana present in my surrounding.
" This is way too slow... even if I had only gotten the hang of it. haaa.. I guess it is what it is.. " I said with a disappointed voice and then continued absorbing mana.
< Would the host like to use the Mana absorption boost? >
< 1 time use. Cooldown : 7 days. >
< Increases mana absorption rate by 300% for 3 hours. >
That's more like it! Activate Mana absorption boost.
< Mana Absorption Boost activated. >
I eventually entered a meditative state, breathing in air that contained mana and letting out stale air with the mana absorbed into my body.
After several hours of accumulating mana I tried pushing mana to one of my blocked veins, mana rushed from my heart and rammed into the mana vein located at my left shoulder.
Ding!
< Host, would you like to unclog the left shoulder mana vein? >
< Unclog mana vein. < Y / N >
I'm not even surprised any more nano. You can really do some godly things! Yes!
I then felt a huge amount of mana about 80% of the mana I accumulated rush out of my heart and pushed the clogged mana vein on my shoulder.
THUD!
The mana vein opened!