After everything I've been through in my life, nothing compares to the time I've had to fight for this dammed hut. Every time I had to fight for the food I earned and every day I had to work for five hours just to eat once a day properly, every time I had to starve or when I almost died of thirst, it was nothing compared to that.
Steven grabbed the box and opened it, and white steam rose for it once more. 'It's as if it's calling for me to make it part of me,' he thought as he went into a trance when he saw the mana core but he didn't stay in that state for long as he snapped out of it and grabbed the mana core and bit into his thumb as some blood grew and dropped it on the mana core as if the mana core had a mind of its own the lights particles in the core started to glow brightly.
Steven drank the mana core down his throat and waited after seeing this. But nothing occurred. "Did I just injust a diamond instead of ma-" he couldn't finish the phrase as pain exploded from his chest.'I can't breathe,' he thought as he lay on the floor. After a few seconds of wiggling around like a dying snake, he eventually stopped when he could breathe again. "haaa....ha.....ha" he took a long breath to fill his lungs once again.
He was motionless on the ground. Only the rhythmic movement of his chest could distinguish him from the dead man. When his breathing became more stable, he saw that everything was different; he could see everything clearly in the dark, even without any light. He could easily hear everything, including the sounds of the huts nearby. He sprang to his feet and reached for a shattered piece of mirror in the corner of the room.
He was taken aback by what he saw in the mirror. The tint of red in his eyes had developed, and there were now just a few strands of his black eyes left there, and his eyes were slightly glowing, which was not obvious until someone looked at him closely, and his hair had new strands of red hair. His height also felt different; was he taller and healthier now?
"How did this happen? Did the mana core transform my body?"
He said to himself, "that book," and then grabbed the book near the mattress and began reading it. After a few hours, Steven closed the book and put it down.
"Nothing," he explained, "mana core simply aids in mana growth." There was nothing regarding the change in body structure in the book, and nothing concerning bodily modifications either. Is it due to my mutations?" He thought aloud. After that, he tested his new body strength he could easily do push-ups and other exercises without any problem now.
He knew how the basics of mana worked 'To increase my mana, I meditate and focus on sending mana to every single part of my body and circulate it,' he thought while sitting crossed-legged on the floor again. There was still time until daybreak and he had been up for almost the entire night, might as well.
When he began to circulate, mana agony shot out from his chest, where the mana core was housed. According to the book, as the mana is circulated, it creates new routeways in the body such as nerves, therefore he had to bear the pain till he could. 'It's occurring quickly,' he thought as half of his upper body completed the mana circulation system.
Only his brain was left, but he stopped there because it was almost time to head to the factory for work. However, as he opened his eyes, he was startled to discover that light was streaming in through his window. He was more astonished by the fact that the west window.
He hadn't worked today, so the food he'd saved and the energy bar were the only things he could eat. So he went up to retrieve them, but when he got up, he didn't feel tired at all, as if he didn't meditate there for 12 hours." Was this because of mana?" he thought as he ate. After that, he resumed his meditation and started with his brain's mana circulation system, but the pain was nearly intolerable.
The nerves that were growing there, which were moving through the brain and connecting to other nerves in the circulatory system, were the source of the headache he was experiencing. Following that came the lower body, which was making good development until the nerves reached Little Steven and began to enlarge there.
'Fuckkkkk, why does that area need nerves in the first place?' 'I'm not going to cast magic from there,' he reasoned. Soon after, Brak awoke to find himself drenched in sweat and smelling like shit.