After some talk about puberty with Lucy, we separated and i called Aria.
"Aria take this [B] rank core and sell it. After that buy reinforced handcuffs that could tie a 4th crystal fighter and some lower rank handcuffs." I said to Aria.
"Yes master."
After sending away Aria for the errand, i went back to my basement.
I took out a purple crystal and shaped it into a cross after that i carved [Telepathy] magic on it.
I linked both of the earrings to other one to easy access with telepathy magic that i carved.
I carved the runes of the telepathy magic with high grade core because with this telepathy magic's range increased largely. I don't know its range limit but it must have a minimum 500km range limit.
I plan to give this Lucy to easier communication for future. But i can't give her randomly. So i will give her on her birthday, so that my gift would be more impactful.
After preparing my gift, i waited for Aria to come.
Aria came after 1 hour of waiting and brought 10 handcuffs.
"Aria today too we will pick up some thugs, so get ready and get me some girly, white clothes." i said and send Aria off.
Today i am going to experiment on extracting mana crystals from fighters. I read this in the novel and don't know or remember the method.
Normally when a mage or fighter dies their mana circle/crystal would dissolve and blend to ambience mana and thus can't be collected.
But i remembered that in the novel there was someone that could extract it. Although i don't know the method of extracting mana crystal from fighters, i can experiment with it with some thugs to find out.
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Me and Aria went to slums and catch some thugs and tied them to the wall with newly bought handcuffs.
"Aria take a guess for this night's experiment topic." I turned to Aria.
"Forcefully injecting innate power?" Aria answered seriously.
That was good topic for an experiment to be honest. I didn't actually expect good answers from Aria.
"Your guess isn't bad Aria, we can do this for another night. But you deserve a reward for your good suggestion, ask something from me after this experiment." i said to Aria and patted her cheek slowly.
Aria nodded quickly, it seemed that she was excited.
"Aria bring a low rank thug and tie them to the table. Our experiment topic is extracting mana crystal from fighter's body."
Aria nodded and did what i said.
"Aria do you have any suggestion for this, i know that someone managed to extract it but i don't know the method." I asked Aria because i thought that she would have a good idea.
"I am sorry master." Aria bowed her head.
"Don't be sorry for nothing my dear, we are just getting started you can think something later."
I went to the operation table and started to think.
"Should i just shove my hand to crystal's location" i murmured slowly and shook my head.
'should i send my mana to thug's mana crystal and try converting it to my mana crystal? But how should i do this? Shove my hand to crystal, grab it and transfer mana. Well, it could work.'
I searched the body of the thug and found mana crystal's location. I strengthened my arm and punched his right ribcage and grabbed its mana crystal. I started pour my mana into his crystal and waited for its change. After a while crystal's color shined cold blue and broke apart because thug died.
It started to change but it was too late.
'If i continue to this method, i will need tons of healing potions. I will try another method then.'
"Aria clean this up and bring new low quality one." i said and looked at Aria's face because i wanted to see her reaction. But i couldn't decipher her blank expression.
"Aria what are your thoughts right now?" I asked to Aria because Aria is blunt woman, so i didn't have to guess her thoughts. I was just playing guessing game in my mind.
"Intrigued about the outcome of this experiment and annoyed about the victim's screams and blood that i will clean up."
"Is that so? Well, it can't be helped that cleaning blood is an annoying matter, but i can silence their screams for you."
"Thank you master." Aria said and brought the new victim.
I located his mana crystal but this time i didn't shove my hand just pierced his skin with a tiny ice needle. After that, i transferred my mana to his mana crystal slowly via an ice needle.
Afterwards, i waited for the change of mana crystal. It changed and started to reject the thug's body, so i shoved my hand and picked up the crystal.
Crystal was pale blue and radiated coldness around it. It seems this crystal took my mana's characteristics. Well, it was different than i wanted, in the novel that someone extracts it pure, without characteristics.
I tried to absorb its mana and i absorbed it in a second. That was fast even for a low rank crystal, so i inspected my gain. There wasn't much change in my mana reserves.
It was low quality one, so i decided to repeat it with middle quality one.
"Aria bring me 2nd crystal thug."
Aria brought the thug and i repeated the process with difficulty because extracting 2 crystals at the same time was hard.
Anyway, i absorbed these 2 crystals too and my mana reserves increased slightly.
"2nd rank mana crystals have much more mana compared to [E] rank beast mana core, about 2 times. Note this somewhere and bring me middle quality one."
Aria brought the new one and turned to leave.
"Aria come here." I called Aria.
Aria come back and stared at me blankly.
"Did you understand what i did and can you do it?" I wanted that Aria to test it because my body wasn't normal and i wanted clear results without variables.
"I understand the idea master, but i don't know if i can do it." Aria said slowly.
"All you have to do is that open a hole in thug's body and melt the flesh around the hole to prevent blood loss and transfer your little bit of mana slowly to thug's mana crystal. Afterwards take the crystal. Easy right?" I spoke with a relaxing tone.
"Thank you for your explanation master. I will do my best." Aria said was about leave for hot iron, but i called her.
"Bring the iron to me, i don't want to wait for it to heat up."
Aria brought the iron and i heated up with fire magic.
Although i don't have any affinity for fire, i learned some basic spells of main elements because they were useful to have. They cost too much mana though.
After heating the iron, Aria started and did as i told her. Made a hole in thug's body, melted thug's flesh to prevent blood loss and transferred mana to mana crystal.
But the mana crystal didn't change after waiting for 15 minutes.
'Is there something important that i skipped?' i thought for a while and concluded.
"Aria try to absorb the crystals without killing the thug."
Aria inserted her finger into the hole and touched to mana crystal and started to absorb it. After 5 seconds mana crystal disappeared from the thug and thug's screams became louder.
I forgot that crystal user's mana is like ambience mana just more denser. So there was no need for mana transfer because Aria was a user.
"Aria what do you feel and what's your crystal progression?" I asked to Aria because i needed data.
"I don't feel anything weird master and it is as you said 2nd rank crystals have much more mana than that of a [E] rank mana core." Aria answered.
"Well we found a way to absorb mana crystals but it was too easy to find. So i am sure there are too many people out there who know this method.
But i was thinking of easily harvesting the mana crystals, not like kidnapping thugs and extracting their crystals in a row."
"Anyway, Aria absorb all of their crystals. We have to make you 5th crystal before academy even if your physical abilities stay same." I wanted Aria to be more powerful because i can easily rank up but i didn't. Because that would attract lots of attention.
Aria absorbed their crystals which upgraded her mana quality and quantity to [D] rank.
"Aria tomorrow night, a guest will come. She is 4th crystal and i made a no-killing contract with her and in return, she became my experiment material. So you will absorb her mana crystals. I wish someone would kill Anna, if Anna got killed suddenly i would be happier than now. But don't misunderstand me, my dear it's not order, it is just my greatest wish and if you do this you will get a wish from me."
I couldn't kill her directly and i can't order someone to kill her openly too. So i indirectly told Aria to if she kills her, i would be happy and you would get a wish from me.
"I understand. I will do my best, master."
"Good. I am going back, so dispose of the bodies. I need a bath and sleep, i am a growing boy after all." i said and went to the bathroom.
After taking bath i went to my room. It was a good idea to separate the rooms with Lucy because i started to bored of acting like a loving brother.
Acting is a great way to relieve my boredom but if i act like same every day, it's started to get boring. If my boredom reaches a critical degree, i don't know if i can force myself to act. So it's good to take a break from acting loving brother.
Anyway, i entered my room and found that Aria was in my room and she was wearing a see-through nightgown. But strange thing was that she was sitting on my bed and looking at the wall with a blank look.
"What are you doing in my room Aria?"
Aria got up and bowed.
"I am sorry for entering your room without permission master." Aria apologized.
'She is my maid, so it's okay for her to enter my room without permission' was my thought, i didn't care about her entering my room.
"Just say what you want and i don't care even if you didn't get permission. You are my maid and maid's one of the many jobs is the clean their master's room too."
"I understand master." Aria said
Aria started to fidget with her finger.
"Uhmm, master said that i can ask something from the master after the experiment."
"Yes, i said that but you aren't coveting my immature body right my dear maid?" i said and hugged my shoulders and trembled.
"No!" Aria shouted monotonously.
'How the fuck she shouted monotonously? Should i inspect her body more thoroughly to find something irregular? Well, i can do that later when i have free time.'
"So what do you want?"
"Can i sleep with master again?" Aria murmured.
'It seems i can't sleep alone even if i separated the rooms with Lucy'
"So you were coveting my body but not the way that i thought. Anyway first tell me the reason."
"Normally I can't sleep longer than 2 hours master. But when i slept with the master, i slept comfortably 6 hours." Aria answered pretty quickly.
"So you want me to your sleeping medicine huh? Well, i don't mind it is a good idea. I can tease you freely and you wouldn't mind it right?" i openly told to Aria, to which she nodded.
Teasing with women became my favourite boredom relieving activity, because i found their embarrassment amusing. Yes amusing, i can slightly feel amusement from someone's embarrassment. I said women because i didn't tease men before so i didn't try it. Maybe i will try to embarrass some men, if i am bored of embarrassing women but i don't think so.
After some thoughts about amusement, i laid to bed and closed my eyes.
"Master?"
"What?" i said and opened one of my eyes.
Arin's ears were red and she was looking at my abdominal area.
"If i am not overstepping, won't master wear clothes?"
Well, i was wearing just a bathrobe and it seemed to me that she was embarrassed to hug my waist like last time.
"If are you embarrassed to hug my waist like last time, then come and hug this master of yours normally.
"I ca-" i cut Aria off and pulled her to my side with ice chains.
"How old are you my dear?"
"I am 21 master." Aria mumbled.
"You are 21, beautiful woman my dear and you were thug leader too. How the hell are you embarrassed to hug someone normally? Well, i don't care honestly, so don't tell me anything."
I turned Aria's back to my front and hugged her.
"Do you think you can sleep comfortably like last time my dear~ ?" i whispered slowly.
"I don't think so, well it is your problem, not mine." i said and closed my eyes.
"Master?" Aria called me but i didn't answer and just slept.