103 Chapter 103 Child Of Prophecy (1/2)
After lunch, each day, the mages would gather to learn from Joseph, during the warmest part of the day.
”Mana is the power behind all magic. Without mana, magic will not happen. What you have been practicing is a skill called mana emission. It refers to how well you are able to emit mana. This is primarily how much control you have over your spells, and how efficiently you can utilize your mana.”
Joseph surrounded himself with mana particles to show them an area emission.
”Many of the first of you, have already learned the basics of gaze and breath. They are fundamental sub-skills. Gaze allows you to see magic and increases the strength and aim of gaze spells. Breath increases the strength of breath spells, but more importantly, increases the speed of internal mana recovery by pulling in external mana.
”What I am demonstrating now is another sub-skill called area emission. You must circulate the mana, or even with the benefit of breath, you will pa.s.s out. Start from the basics and it will become more detailed and complicated. Expanding your area too much is pointless. Your goal is to learn control not to expand size. A crude a.n.a.logy using fist fighting, would be to stick a finger into their eye, rather than to punch their stomach.
”I approached the edge of mastery but wasn't able to breach the barrier. My ability evolved into a grand skill known as mana control, and downgraded from advanced level to intermediate. Mana control is extremely powerful but is no longer capable of being advanced by simple practice or I would have trained it back to advanced already. It only advances, as I learn completely new skills. Only some of which, can be done with mana emission. For now, it is enough to know that these things will be possible for you some day as you advance.”
He then cycled the mana around him through the life/death cycle he had learned from the fog, as several of the shamans' gasped.
”Now, shamans use spirit magic. The basis of which is a contract with a spirit that knows one or more magic spells. Living mana exists in you and is how you do spells. Spirit mages give their mana to a spirit who converts it into dead mana to do a spell. Depending on the contract, and abilities of the spirt, the dead mana can then be converted back into living mana and returned to the spirit mage. What we are going to discuss now is the process for the spirit mages. This will provide benefits equivalent to mana breathing, for us who draw runes, so it is extremely important for you to pay attention. Few spirits are capable of doing this for you even if they would be willing to return the excess mana or harvest from the mana in the environment.”
Several hours later he was finally able to return to his carriage. After the lecture, when the mages and shamans went back, the message appeared again. That made 4 bonuses to reputation today alone.
”Hey, Stella?”
”Yes, Master Joseph?”
”Do you know why my reputation keeps increasing? I had several messages saying my reputation increased among the mages while Selena and I were working earlier in the morning, and another a little while ago after everyone left.”
She pondered for a moment.
”Ah, I was telling them all, that you were a G.o.d who had descended to spread the knowledge of magic to the lost humans once again, while I was helping in the kitchen this morning. Could that have done it?”
Joseph paused. Cold sweat began to break out on his face.
”Stella, you did what?”
She finally smirked.
”Oh! Thank G.o.d you were joking!”
She giggled sweetly.
”At least do a supervillain giggle if you are going to scare me like that.”