Sensing the Mana in the air, I begin to absorb it into my body. Surprisingly, it doesn’t take much effort, but it still requires to absorb and refine it—I can’t just pull raw Mana into my body. Even when I try to harness raw Mana, I see the waves moving away from as if rejecting .
I glance at Lilith and see a small pool of Mana forming around her, about a 0.5 ter radius. The warm energy dances around her in a srizing way.
"WHAT THE HELL?! ONE TER RADIUS IN SUCH A SHORT TI!" Aleena suddenly exclaims, looking at like a monster, her eyes wide in shock.
I’m startled by her reaction but I don’t stop what I’m doing. Apparently I still can’t exactly gauge the size of my own Mana pool yet, but it feels like I can absorb even more Mana.
Lilith, on the other hand, is already sweating buckets. Since the last ti, her Mana pool has only grown a little—maybe about 0.2 ters more but her total is still not up to a 1 ter radius.
I continue absorbing Mana, but then I notice Aleena’s face looking even more shocked, making twitch my eyebrows at what the fuck is going on.
"T-Two ters!" Aleena shouts again.
Even with her shocked expression, I feel like I can still do more, but I stop absorbing and put on an expression as if I’m in pain.
"Haaa~ I can’t absorb more," I say, faking heavy breathing.
"That was epic! You managed to boost your Mana pool to this size on the first day of learning how to do it! I’ve been training my Mana pool for over five years and it’s only three ters radius. You’d be a prodigy if you had the warrior Class or mage Class," Aleena blurts out, saying the last part in a low voice.
I simply let out a sigh. Then she turns to Lilith too.
"Lilith, you also did great! The size of your Mana pool is almost a ter radius. That’s bigger than mine when I started learning magic. You two are amazing," Aleena says with a bright smile while Lilith flushes.
"Now, it’s ti to study that spell I gave you guys," Aleena says, and we nod, holding the paper firmly in our hands.
The next mont, I imagine my system scanning the docunt, and imdiately a notification appears: [You have learned a basic fireball spell.]
Soon after, familiar texts begin to appear before my eyes. I read it out, stretching my palm forward.
"fubâúajajk^°¢%"
VOOOM!
The mont I chant the spell, a burst of fire explodes from my palm and begins levitating just above it. It’s about the size of a tennis ball and perfectly spherical.
I try to move the fireball around my palm and it actually moves. Each ti I do this, I feel my Mana draining bit by bit. Even sustaining the fireball drains my Mana.
I point at a patch of grass a few ters away and propel the fireball there.
VOOM.
The grass explodes into flas but they quickly die out almost imdiately. At the sa ti, I feel a significant portion of Mana taken from just from propelling it forward. That ans every action with a spell consus Mana as long as it’s active.
A grin curls on my lips as I look over at Lilith, who Aleena is explaining sothing to. Apparently Lilith is having problems with chanting—hers is way too slow to activate the spell. When chanting is too slow, the spell won’t activate. That ans in a battle between two magic users, it’ll be decided by who can cast faster. A slow caster would be an easy target.
"You’re getting better. Now chant it faster," Aleena says, cheering Lilith up.
"fubâúajajk^°¢%!" Lilith lets out in a shout. Imdiately, a fireball bursts from her palm, but it quickly fizzles out as she panics.
"Finally... I finally did it!" Lilith pumps her fist and high-fives Aleena.
"That’s it. Since you can now cast it, it’s up to you to keep practicing until you can control it well. Just don’t do it indoors. Once you can control it really well, I’ll give you the other basic spells I have," Aleena says to Lilith, who nods in return.
Then both of them glance over at .
"I—I saw Jacob conjure the fireball toward the grass," Lilith stutters, looking at as if she doesn’t know what to say.
"You know what, Lilith? Don’t compare yourself to anyone if you want to grow. I actually sucked a lot when I started learning magic. I was usually bullied—which is why I hate Magic Academies. Jacob has always been different ever since I knew him, so I’m not surprised he learned to control the fireball on his first try," Aleena explains to Lilith while I put on a confused expression, as if I have no idea how it happened.
"I don’t know how I did that. I just imagined controlling the fireball over there and I actually did it," I explain, and they seem to believe my bullshit.
The only reason I could do it was because of the card I consud: Profound Mana Control. But sothing else is still bothering .
I walk over to Aleena and sling my arm around her neck while Lilith folds the mat and ties it up.
"I was wondering if the system ranking is actually the sa as the Adventurer ranking? For instance, my System says I’m now E-Rank. Does that an I’m automatically an E-Rank Adventurer?" I ask.
Aleena’s eyes widen at my question. "No, it doesn’t work that way because of a lot of inconsistencies. Your Class rank is different from your actual adventurer rank. For instance, can an S-Rank Class Artisan beat an S-Rank Class warrior in battle? No. The Artisan is only S-Rank in his craft. That’s why before each rank up in the Adventurers Guild, a machine scans you and updates your information. To avoid this inconsistency, you can change your system class to display another style of leveling. That’s what I did," Aleena explains, and I nod, everything finally making sense.
The next mont, we enter the house. During the entirety of this week, I stay in seclusion, training my magic casting speed and honing my Mana Control even further.
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[A/N: I shot myself in the foot by trying to unify the system ranking and general power-level. I realized this blunder early on and I apologize. The system will start ranking in Levels now. As of this ti, Jacob’s Class is at Lv2 while he is E-Rank as an Adventurer.]
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