Episode 22 – To take a single step (2/2)

Kiel’s eyes flashed dangerously as he glared at her What did she think? That raisinga book? “My mana flow speed is too far from the perfect score, there is too little tih in the span of a few days”

Elaru s to do? Sulk?” Her teasing tone disappeared, her eyes radiated strange heat “Or are you going to try your best to raise it as far as you can in this re time?”

Elaru’s words struck Kiel like a haht have not been the actual words, maybe it was the intent behind them, or the aura that spread frohtenment

So what if he couldn’t reach the perfect score? Was he just going to give up? Or will he do his best to reach as high of a score as possible? If he couldn’t win a battle, would he just throw in a towel or fight until the end?

The sourness and depression was instantly replaced with steely determination

He wasn’t the one to give up Even as a non-ive up He sweated rivers, shed tears of blood He started out as a person who hatedabout it The pain, the unshakable resolve, sweat and tears, it is what turned hienius ht No, it took him 12 years

12 long years So why is it that he felt disheartened if he couldn’t reach a pinnacle in a few days? Laughable

Now that he had the opportunity, now that he had the ive up! He would milk every drop of sweat from his body, he would squeeze out every bit of willpower he had

All so he could walk forwards

Step by step

Noas he kept steadily walking, one day he would reach it

It ht even take him his whole life

Was the goal worth it? Was it worth dedicating his whole life to pursue the pinnacle of ic?

Kiel’s eyes burned with flaht in his head, everything responded unanimously with a load roar

YES!

He had to keep walking

His spirit rekindled, his resolve hardened The waves of conflicting emotions that wrecked havoc in his mind stilled into a perfect calm

He closed his eyes and exhaled He didn’t notice Elaru’s eyes glittering mischievously, nor the satisfied smile on her face

What do I need to do to take a single step forward?

That’s what he should do He should concentrate on that single step

A step to increase his mana tolerance and decrease his mana resistance

He searched his knowledge of the subject until he found what he was looking for

He needed to temper his body with mana

That was soes naturally Mana would constantly pass through their cells, and over time, after the old cell died, a new cell that replaced it would have a higher mana tolerance and lower mana resistance The bodies of all creatures in the land of Halnea had an incredible ability to adjust Natural selection and evolution would happen to all of the cells enerations of cells, new cells would reach a eneration

However, that would take toothat he lacked He needed to speed up the process of his cells dying and being replaced by new cells

It was easy to speed up the process of his cells dying He just needed to increase the ah them to reach their , and new cells would need to replace them

He shouldn’t dae his own body too much, otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to recover to his best condition in time to participate in the exams

How h depended on his healing rate If he could increase his healing rate, by consuht be able to pull this method off

He needed to visit an elixir and pill shop He opened his eyes and looked at the blood red sunset Would they be able totime?