“Haa… haaa…”
I sprawled on the grass, chest heaving, arms like jelly. The sun had only recently risen, but I already felt like a roasted corpse.
Combining magic, mana, and aura training was a nightmare.
Did Selena really endure this insanity for seventy years?
As I wiped the sweat from my forehead, she casually approached, holding out a glass of water like a saint.
“Here. Drink.”
I grabbed it like a lifeline and gulped it down in one go.
“Puhaaah… Thanks, Master.”
Selena crouched nearby, her silver hair catching the light as she watched thoughtfully.
“So,” she said, “have you figured out how to regain your aura yet?”
I wiped my mouth and groaned. “I heard it's possible to convert mana into aura… but I don’t know how.”
“Mm, correct.” She nodded approvingly. “Have you tried channeling mana to where your aura resides?”
The mana pool was located around the chest, while the aura pool lay slightly lower abdon. If it’s a martial art world, they would be called Middle Dantian and Lower Dantian. But unfortunately, not only was this world not a martial world, they didn’t have official nas for these places either. We only call them ‘mana pool’ and ‘aura pool’.
Anyway, I thought swapping mana and aura between these places would be easy. But…
“Yeah. I tried... but sothing blocked it. Like… a wall.”
“How about moving your aura toward where your mana is?”
“Tried that too. Sa problem.”
She smiled faintly. “That’s normal. Think of it like a door—only letting certain things pass through.”
A door, huh?
Like one of those security scanners that block anything suspicious.
“So, the trick is related to that door?” I asked.
“Exactly.” Selena shifted to sit cross-legged. “There are two thods to pass through.”
I perked up. "Wait, wait. You an... not just mana into aura? You can do the reverse too?”
“Of course.” She shrugged. “You know how aura dissipates into the air and turns into mana naturally? It's just reversing that process, internally.”
“Whoa… Okay. What are the thods?”
“The first one,” she said casually, “is brute force. Smash the door open.”
I imdiately frowned. “...That sounds dangerous.”
"Not really," she said with a small chuckle. "It's dangerous... only if you ss up.”
I flinched.
“Just kidding.” She waved a hand dismissively. “You break the door, mana passes easily, and it transforms into aura. But—there’s a disadvantage.”
She raised the glass.
“Like a glass filled with water. If there’s a hole, then the water will flow out. Our aura will leak through the broken door and fill our body with it. It will be harder to control our aura at will because we have to focus all over the place instead of only focusing on one place.”
“Ah… so it becos harder to control big techniques, right?”
“Correct.” She smiled. "If your aura spreads too thin across your body, it’s harder to gather a big chunk of it for a powerful attack.”
I rubbed my chin. “Then what’s the second thod?”
“Disguising your mana,” she said simply, “so the door mistakes it for aura.”
“...Huh?”
I blinked stupidly.
“Disguise mana… how?”
She giggled softly at my dumb face, then leaned closer.
“Do you know the difference between mana and aura?” she asked.
I scratched my head. “Uh… mana feels like a breeze? Aura feels... warm?”
“Yes.” She grinned. “So all you have to do… is make your mana feel warm, like aura.”
I stared at her.
“That’s it?”
“That’s it.” She flashed a thumbs-up.
I thought hard.
If it needs warmth… then…
“Wait. Are you saying… use fire mana to pass the door?”
“Bingo again!” She laughed.
Damn. I actually got it right?
“But…” I hesitated. “Doesn’t that an people without fire elent can’t do it?”
She tilted her head. “Who knows? Maybe they break the door instead. Maybe they found another way. But I figured this trick out myself—because my past world had similar systems.”
She said it so lightly, but that’s actually kinda insane.
“I see. And you said we can convert aura to mana with a similar thod, but how? We can’t adjust the fire temperature to be as cold as the breeze, right?”
“Yes. That’s why I can’t do it. It’s just a theory that I made by myself and I don’t have any way to prove it. Hehe.”
She let out a small chuckle. I thought it had been proven because she said it with confidence. But it turns out it’s just her theory.
I asked inwardly.
【Yes, Master.】 Aza answered imdiately.
【In fact, it’s sothing only otherworlders would think of. In any human academies, the books only explain about break the door thod.】
【Also, light elent can be used too—not just fire. And if you want to reverse it, converting aura back into mana, you need water, wind, or dark elents. Only earth elent is useless for that.】
So it’s real after all.
I refocused on Selena, who just stored the glass into her magic bag.
“Anyway,” she continued, “even if you can make mana feel warm, there’s another hurdle.”
“Another?”
“Normally, you only apply elents to mana as it leaves your body, right?” she said, glancing at .
I nodded.
“So now you have two options.” She raised two fingers. “First: apply the fire elent the mont the mana exits the door, then move that fire mana to your aura pool. Second: let fire mana out as usual, then imdiately absorb it back before it dissipates.”
I blinked.
That second option sounded familiar.
【Correction: I'm here to make sure you live happily ever after. Preferably drowning in at. Delicious, juicy at. Every. Single. Day.】
I buried my face in my hands, groaning.
anwhile, Aza was practically dancing in my mind.
【Marry her, Master. Make —I an, yourself—happy!】
anwhile…
Sowhere out in the forest, I could faintly hear the sound of trees rustling.
Probably Selena finishing off today's "lunch" in her usual monster-slaying princess style.
I sighed deeply.
Living with a monster princess who slaughters boars before lunch and a fake angel who wants to marry off for at…
Why are there just abnormal won around …?
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