Chapter 63: Baby Steps (1/2)
"Did you guys do your hoet a better view of the class while I fixed h most of my Fundamentals of Mana Manipulation class so I felt a lot better Looking around frolance desperately at each other in hopes that one of them had the answers to the questions I asked them yesterday
"Looks like there's no choice but for hed before standing up
"The mana core is an excellent way to easily and accurately e's power because it is correlated with howand refining s into their core" He finished off with a swish of his hair while sitting down
"No" I hopped off the stage and walked toward the shocked Feyrith
"It certainly is an easy way to gauge the e's power but it's far frohter that stood at two hed almost three hundred pounds full of hter?" I turnednext to the ehter to have robust strength," she finally said after pondering the simple question
"Correct! All we can tell is that the oaf is probably freakishly strong Does that say anything else about his coreat coility, technique, e's mana core is only determines how much 'ards to the other factors Refining your es is still important, of course, but if that's the only factor you use in gauging your opponent's level, you're setting yourself up for defeat" I saw soht lasses raised her hand after she finished writing down her notes "Question!" she declared
"Yes, Miss Myrtle?" I found it a howto sense the opponent'shis or her level, what do we do?" she asked with an expression thatme
"You don't Just assu the e of anyone should just be used to satiate your curiosity but nothing beyond that Even if sensing the th of your opponent, what are you going to do if your opponent's fighting strength is lower than yours? Go easy on him? Pick on hi strength is higher than yours? Run away? Chances are, if you're in a situation where both of you are actively sensing each other'saon't be an option" I paused for aoverconfident because you found out that your her than your opponent's canscared if your opponent's her than yours can make you feel hopeless Bottom line is, life isn't so simple that you can accurately knohether or not you can beat someone based on the color of their es because the ant Always assuer than you and try your best If that opponent is weaker than you, then you put an end to the fight quickly to save hiratulations, you've overco onto all your lives" I felt like some inspirational speaker rather than a lecturer
I walked back to the podiu
"Now, for the next piece of houre out what I did last class with the tind spells?" I asked, leaning back against the podium
A hollow silence filled the roo spoon-fed answers all their lives really took a toll on their critical thinking skills
"I'll do a little de Sylvie to the side, I took out two pieces of paper from underneath her I crumpled one of the papers into a small ball and showed it to the class
"Watch" I put the ball onthe suspense
"Fwoo" Utilizing all of the air in ed to blow the crumpled ball of paper about a meter away from me
The students stared at me with blank faces froers up to silence any students about to argue what the point of that was, I rolled the other paper I had into a htly into the back end of the tube, I inhaled deeply oneout another deep breath, the crumpled ball of paper shot out round
The faces of so while others voiced their surprise I couldn't help but grin as the students all brightened up and took notes Princess Kathyln furiously scribbled in her notebook while Feyrith stared blankly at the ball of paper on the ground
"Since many of you seehten the rest of the class?" I asked as I picked up the pieces of paper I had littered
"It has to do with concentratingit out, right Professor?" A tie spear next to her responded in a hushed tone
"Correct! Augmenters are raised to utilize the plethora of mana channels they have so we unconsciously use a lot of ourit It doesn't matter so reatly when atte the paper tube I rolled up Blowing through one end, the ball I put inside loosely just dropped down in front ofable to better control your reatly Now, the Conjurers' turn" I picked up the cruain
"Since conjurers naturally have much fewer mana channels compared to mana veins, they naturally shoot their spells in a compressed for an area to have the mana alter it into the form of their desired spell What conjurers need to do is utilize the raw amount of mana they can absorb to compensate for their lack of ine this" The students looked at one another, confused, but they lowered their gaze nonetheless, waiting for ine both conjurers' and augmenters' bodies to be pools of water We'll say that leaves are particles ofdropped in various locations over the pool While these bundles in to spread and join the other leaves that spread from other directions until the surface of the water is covered in leaves That is the essence of body enhanceantic ball of leaves drop into the pool of water Because it coer for it to spread, but in the end, the leaves will still be able to cover the surface of the pool That is how body enhancement should work for conjurers" The class remained silent as they opened their eyes and pondered over what I had just said
"The reason why all of you conjurers injured yourselves while trying to absorb the spell you conjured is because you didn't use the mana from your core The only mana that you're completely immune to is the mana refined in your mana core Even that, after your mana influences the environment into a spell, can hurt you Therefore, conjurers will need to utilize both mana from the atrate it into their body, or drop the big pile of leaves to make it spread over the pool of water" As I finished explaining, I e and start practicing For the rest of the class, I went around helping the them little tips on how to better visualize what they needed to do
After the giant bell rang, Sylvie stirred awake and hopped on top of my head as I dismissed class I was surprised when I overheard so to their peers that the class was too short
I took the long route to my next class to take up more time while I did a broad surveillance Ivery faint pulses of wind to try and use it as a sort of three-diht it would be Earth Pulse was also of little use since I could only detect the very basics, like how many people were in the area, not if they were actually in cos and trees diluted the accuracy
I arrived at Gideon's class late but he just motioned for
"Hey Why are you so late?" Emily whispered to o around school until tenht! Let's get in pairs and work on our project The o at once" He took a seat and began reading over soot up to collect theArtifact I was about to walk over as hen Emily stopped me