Lord Of Puppets Chapter 5 – How mana work?

Question - How do the golem / puppet-type beings operate?

To operate the golem-type creatures, their creator needs to use either of the two common thods.

The first thod is puppetry, a direct control of the creature’s every movent.

However, what if the user doesn’t want to directly control the creature or doesn’t have ti to?

Then the second thod cos in, and it’s the core engravent coding.

This thod simply puts gives codes, commands and orders, simply put "Actions" that the creature can take and instruction how to fallow it, without needing to be directly controlled by their creator.

So, how is the core engravent done?

With magic.

You need to learn a special form of mage craft in order to write the coding and give it to the creature in question.

Now here is another question: How to learn magic?

Magic usually revolves around a special source of energy that can be found almost everywhere and in almost every living creature.

Mana.

However, even though it’s "there", it doesn’t an you can use it.

To use magic, you need to follow a few steps in order to even start learning.

[1 – Sense]

[2 – Reaction]

[3 – Affinity]

The first step is about sensing the mana within your own being.

The second step is about causing your own mana inside of you to react in any form or shape.

And the third step is most important. Manifestation of affinity.

Mana by itself won’t do anything, you need to give it a "nature" in order for it to be used.

And that is where the elental mana and affinity cos in.

You need to create your own affinity for an elent, a gateway of so sort that will allow you to handle a specific elent.

Those are the three basic steps of learning magic. And truth to be told, each of these steps may take people a lot of ti, with so people not being able to produce results even after week or maybe even months of training.

Now, what about the dungeon master? Can it use magic?

Well... Yes, its core is brimming with mana, so it should be able to use so magic in theory.

However, can it learn it?

And how long would it take?

Days? Weeks? Or maybe months before it completes its first step.

....

But in reality?

It managed to already complete both of the first steps in the span of 8 hours.

The dungeon master took only over 8 hours to complete both [SENSE] and [REACTION] steps.

If you think about it logically, it shouldn’t be possible for it to learn it fast?

Was it talent or a natural-born gift?

Well, no.

Curiosity.

Golem-type monsters create sothing called a pseudo nervous system using their mana, which allows them to use mana to manipulate their body.

And this entire thing is managed by the core.

The first step, sensing mana, was sowhat easy for the dungeon master, thanks to its body and consciousness.

The second step however, was sowhat problematic, with the creature failing to do anything for two hours.

However, it then realized sothing.

Its core can change outputs depending on the circumstances.

So, it forced its own core to sotis lose power or act up.

Sowhat torturing itself.

But it wasn’t the real start of torture.

It attacked itself, destroying its own body, hands and feet, EVEN attacking its own main organ, the core.

Why?

REACTION.

It was curious what sort of reaction its own body would have if it couldn’t work properly in so areas or if it couldn’t connect properly.

This was madness.

But that madness made the creature understand sothing.

It was seeing reactions.

It was seeing problems.

IT WAS GETTING MORE CURIOUS WITH EACH PASSING MONT!

Those should have been a problem for the creature, the experint it was doing to its own body, but it didn’t cared.

It wanted to learn, even if it ant torturing itself.

And that self-inflicted torture was giving the creature results.

It felt differences. It felt reactions. It felt changes.

And it was using these things to learn and understand the mana.

The process was wild, but it gave results.

In only just 8 hours, the dungeon master was able to both sense its own mana and make it react.

It was so initial talent or anything like that. It was just the mad monster curiosity.

However, those were only the baby steps.

Next obviously, ca the affinity, a key part needed to learn magic.

And obviously, the dungeon master did not have any single affinity for any elent.

So, it needed to manifest its own affinity, all from scratch in order to use spells.

However, the dungeon master had already selected an affinity it would be aiming for.

But while it was trying to manifest its own affinity, there was sothing else going on.

Not in the dungeon.

But in the town.

[Location: Rabbit Town]

Rabbit town.

It wasn’t a very big town, if anything, it was a very small town and a very peaceful town at that.

However, even though it was small and peaceful, this town was known for its nickna.

[The beginner town.]

Reason why it was called that?

Simple.

This town was a perfect location for many young adventurers to start the journey and learn the ropes.

Yes.

A peaceful location where you can easily start and develop.

However, even the most peaceful areas aren’t perfectly safe.

Especially in areas where the adventures work.

[Current location: Adventure guild – guild master’s office.]

"..."

"What did you just say?" – asked the man with a brown short beard.

"My little brother. Arthur. He had gone missing." – said the young man with black hair who was carrying a sword on his back.

"..."

*Sigh*

"Look, maybe he is camping or sothing. It’s not- "

"He was hunting horned rabbits. He was in the fucking area. But he is gone." – said the man with black hair.

"His current talent is that of an E rank and very close to D rank."

"His teammates are the sa."

"However, they went missing."

"None of the people who were on the horned rabbit grounds had seen them either."

"There is no way they would get killed by horned rabbits."

"And even if they did, there would be so traces or anything."

"So where the fuck is my brother?!"

"..."

"Is this true?" – said the bearded man while looking past the man, staring directly at the young girl with short hair.

"Y-yes sir... Arthur and his team had been completely silent. The parents of the young mage and archer had also asked where their children were." – replied the girl.

"..."

(Arthur and his friends went missing?) – though the bearded man.

(Arthur was greedy, hot-headed, and overconfident, just like his brother here.)

(But he and his friends had talent to show for.... Honestly, they even managed to get my attention, since they did show a lot of potential from the get-go.)

(But for these guys to go missing out of the blue? Against the monsters that they would have zero problem dealing with or sustaining any injuries alongside the fact that there are no traces left after them?)

"..."

(There is sothing "off" going on right now.)

"Fine."

"I will post the missing posters in the town and also post the search quest."

"You will have my world, that I will use whatever power I have as the guild master in order to help you find your missing brother and his party."

[Guild master of the Rabbit Town – August]