If my Aura Core were common, as soon as it exceeded the limit, I would start feeling agonizing pains throughout my body. This would be a sign that the Aura Core is on the verge of shattering.
In the best-case scenario, I would only feel pain until my Core tunes and releases the excess, returning everything to normal. But in the worst-case scenario, I wouldn't see another day as my Core would shatter, resulting in my death.
However, my case is different. When my Core 'bulks up,' it also pushes its tuning and releasing capacities beyond the limit. These two processes are crucial for enhancing any aura core.
More important than just absorbing aura, tuning allows the core to condense and store the absorbed Aura much more efficiently. That's why Aura Cores can store much more aura than Aura Veins.
And because it's condensed, the core needs much less effort to release the same amount it absorbed. This process is vital for the core to operate safely, but the releasing capacity is always lower than the absorbing and tuning capacity.
By forcing these two capacities to operate beyond the limit, my core makes the amount of aura passing through the process about three times more than in the state of interaction with Aura Veins.
This absurdity left Mother concerned about what could happen if something went wrong. Abigail also seemed very worried, but about something else.
She questioned what Nala would do if she found out. Mother was horrified just thinking about the possibilities. But it would be a great folly to try to hide it from Nala since she decided to take a vacation with us until I turn 6.
The best idea they had was to bargain Nala's silence in exchange for letting her choose my training regimen. I honestly didn't like that; Nala doesn't seem like someone who would go easy even on a child.
Anyway, despite my Core being able to reach such efficiency when 'bulking up,' it doesn't last more than 5 or 6 minutes. After this time, it reaches a stopping point, which Abigail called Break Point.
Upon reaching Break Point, I either faint or enter a trance while my core completely ceases its absorption of Aura. However, the core continues to force its tuning and releasing capacities beyond the limit.
As a result, all stored aura is tuned and released rapidly, causing my core to 'slim down' quickly as well. Upon 'slimming down,' my core becomes completely devoid of aura, and only then does it return to normal.
But if I'm conscious and still interacting with Aura Veins, my core will redo the whole process. The secret to staying conscious is to keep improving and evolving my abilities. This way, my core doesn't have to force my body to the limit.
Staying conscious triggers my core to enter the cycle of finding a feast, eating until bulking up, reaching Break Point, slimming down... Finding a feast, eating until bulking up, reaching Break Point, slimming down...
Only after they explained it this way did I understand why they called my core 'hungry.' But honestly, I think 'Glutton' would be more stylish and less degrading. Or maybe not; I don't know if it would really make a difference.
However, as I mentioned before, the hungry state of my core doesn't occur with ambient aura or just by coming into contact with any woman. There are specific conditions for this.
The first condition is for my core to sense a source of aura directly. The most effective way is to touch a woman and feel the Aura Veins... Something relatively easy to do.
The second condition is for my core to have some time to tune a certain amount of aura from the source. In this case, it takes me a few hours for this to happen, but I think it will be much shorter in the future, after I train, of course.
The third condition is for my core to interact with the aura veins while the woman is meditating. In other words, I need to contact the woman while she trains her veins.
The fourth condition and the key to awakening the hungry state of my Aura Core is to sense the aura overload signal in the veins.
Overloading the aura veins is extremely dangerous and rarely allowed to happen. This state occurs when the Aura Veins have absorbed a large amount of Aura and are about to reach the limit.
It is extremely dangerous because if the woman loses control even minimally, she will destroy her aura veins.
Aura overload is one of the triggers for inducing Blood Frenzy, but it is extremely opportune for women with a Statera. If they want to improve quickly or break a bottleneck, they are forced to face an overload.
With the help of a Statera, they can reach the overload without losing control or going insane. But if they reach the total limit, Blood Frenzy is induced instantly.
Probably, Aglaya was at the beginning of an aura overload when everything happened. And since she meets all the first 3 conditions, the hungry state was initiated almost immediately.
And it is precisely because of having these specific conditions that this peculiarity of mine was not discovered before.
All the palace girls are capable of activating my core because I have interacted with them even when they took time to meditate. In fact, they don't leave me even when they are meditating.
Anyway, all fulfill the first 3 conditions perfectly, but the 4th condition is a bit more difficult to meet. Overloading is something dangerous if not controlled, that's why it is considered a dangerous training method.
However, as soon as Mother and Abigail started testing to better identify the characteristics of my core, all the girls volunteered to participate. Even risking with the overload, they were very eager to participate in the tests.
And the result was strangely good... Even when they just started an overload, it's enough for my core to absorb their Aura extremely aggressively. It only stops absorbing when I faint or when all their aura is replaced by the tuned aura of my core.
Mother and Abigail also participated in the tests, but the results, for sure, were far from positive. Whenever my core started absorbing the aura from either of them, I began to feel agonizing pain for a few seconds before fainting.
So, it was determined that, for now, training with a dragon is extremely dangerous for me.
On the other hand, whenever weaker women than Sonia were subjected to the same test, the aura is quickly drained from the veins as soon as they start interacting with me. In a matter of minutes, the veins that were overloaded are completely drained.
But if the woman resists enough, she is completely filled with tuned Aura. Something extremely rare to happen since it requires the core to absorb and release more Aura than the veins can Absorb and release.
After the first time my core got hungry, Mother and Abigail did a series of tests and experiments for about 3 days. The hungry state of my core was tested many and many times during these days.
In addition to the girls, they also called at least a dozen women from the village to be able to prove all the conditions. So it's very difficult to have anything that hasn't been clarified yet.
So, after they decided that there was nothing else to research, for now, they decided to get ahead and planned a training routine for me. They probably didn't want to wait until Nala came back and took care of everything without them.
As soon as they announced that they were looking for someone to train my core, all the girls volunteered. Since they couldn't choose, they decided that all of them would be my training partners.
As there was no risk of the overload getting out of control during training, there was no need for Mother or Abigail to be watching. But it was decided that they could only train me for about 30 minutes a day.
At first, I was still wondering why they would be training me so early, instead of just waiting until I was older. But after a few days, I realized that age is not something important to be taken into consideration.
The Aura Core does not depend on my disposition or my will; it does its job independently of my will, like the heart.
It was then that I realized that this training is something very necessary for my core to develop. And consequently, it will be very useful for me to become stronger. Moreover, the difference was noticeable even with just 10 days of training.
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