Chapter 2: The Encyclopedia of Mana Manipulation (1/2)

I was a king I could havedoith the snap of a finger I've outdueled my competitors from different countries as well as my own people to settle disputes and maintainki, I was second to none, for having personal strength was essential to becos weren't born, but raised Yet, I couldn't think of a prouder moment in my two lives than now

I can crawl baby!

'Till now, I had toto rumbled out noises of complaint when she stopped too early My father would so to ave me some hints as to what kind of world this was and what it was filled with

Reynolds Leywin, former adventurer, (apparently that's a viable occupation in this world) had quite a lot of experience in this field He was a part of several parties that went on expeditions to search for treasure and fulfill missions they acquired from the Adventurer Guild He eventually settled dohen he dom's border in a city called Valden He proudly told ht when he visited the town's Adventurer Guild hall that she had been working at at that time, but I suspected it was the exact opposite from how my mother slapped hi me lies

My name was Arthur Leywin now, by the way Art for short, which, as a for a glimpse of myself in the metal sheet they used as a ot ht azure color, inherited fro to turn out as Ias I don't turn out fat, it'll be okay

Watch out future ladies! Prepare to be heartbroken!

After weeks of atte an uncoordinated scuffle in place, I had finally succeeded; evento sneak into the fa the laundry out to dry Mother rued the day I started to beco to becoe as your father"

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I closed the encyclopedia and situated round… basically I just laid on ht was so da over what I had just read, this world seemed pretty underdeveloped Froical advancement The only source of transportation appeared to be horse-driven carriages, that varied in size for overland use, and shi+ps with sails for rivers

Weapons were freely allowed and not really regulated unless you were visiting the royal family or people that held authority For God's sake, it continues to bafflefor groceries

Sure, in uards who carried concealed weapons, despite that, they weren't for the purpose of killing, but to deter crih, I witnessed a thief who stole a couple of iteet slashed in the back by a large, balda polearm Moreover, the bystanders even went as far as to applaud that oversized

A similarity that both this world and my previous world shared was the systedo and his royal fae; the title passed down fro, to his son and so on

After scanning through the encyclopedia, there didn't seem to be much information on other continents besides the one ere currently in I found this a bit odd since there were shi+ps that carried goods and passengers across the continent by river I just assuy on shi+ps haven't been developed enough to sail across oceans

One thing that was going to be hard to get used to was the whole pre about superhuman powers, sure, the countries on Earth relied on such people

On Earth, practitioners learned how to condense and utilize the innate ki that they had in their body Think of it as athe ki center down through exhaustion followed by rest would cause the ki center to grow stronger, allowing access to a bigger pool of ki The ki would then be channeled throughout the body via special veins orof the body and weapon

In this world, instead of ki, it see was that it existed in the ates, would use the surroundingit in their mana core In my old world, ki only existed and formed inside the body Whether ki had never existed in Earth's atmosphere in the first place or ceased to exist because of the pollution caused by humans, we'd never know

On Earth, while practice was incredibly important, the size of a user's innate ki center was even more important because the limited amount of ki one had in his body was all one could ith Did that mean that one's innate mana core size wouldn't matter as much because of the available er the cup, the ht?

In e, I was considered a prodigy at channeling and utilizing e ki center With the way I utilized every bit of est of the elite division of Duelists, earning the right to beco

Now, if I could still practice the way ki practitioners used their ki, but with mana that was both present inside theatth that I had before?

The next book that I ed to pull from the bottom shelf, explained a couple of questions for e"

"While the power to control enetic, there are i come out unable to sense the hly 1 in a 100 children are able to sense mana, but the extent of which could only be tested when their mana core first completely developed—anywhere from their early adolescence to late teen years It will be apparent when a e first awakens by the initial repellence of the surrounding mana when their mana corearound the awakened that lasts a couple of es, I found soht my attention

"…Mana can be used in a couple of ways The twomenter), and emission of st warriors who utilize then themselves and their attacks"

"… The practice of conjuring is seen in Mages, who, after utilizing their ive off a certain effect on the surrounding area or directly at a target"

Weaknesses and Liility, their weakness lies in their lie…"

"conjurers possess unfathos to their will However, such powers comenters, who utilize most of the mana in their own mana cores, conjurers need to borrow mana from the outside world, in addition to their own s in the fores, or Mana Manipulators, for the orized by theirtheir aptitude"