Chapter 3：Having the affinity to become a Mage (2/2)

Leo just nodded in response, before turning his head to looked at the mountain in front of him. From his current location, he could already vaguely see the Heart manor on top of the Heart mountain.

”Such a huge manor but with only a few people living!” Leo suddenly thought, feeling helpless deep inside.

After his parents and brother's death, the manor had slowly became a lonely place for Leo. Such feeling was really depressing, and it was exactly that reason which drove him to always go on hunting every time his fished with the Heart city affair.

Shaking his head to suppress such depressing thoughts, Leo softly hit the side of his horse to make it move towards the direction of the manor.

It didn't take too long for Leo to arrive in the gate of the Heart manor. Putting his horse in the stable at the side, and telling his men to rest, he quickly walked inside the manor.

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Finally arriving inside his room, Leo took the Mana stone from his bag and inspected it.

”Mana stone? hmm... I think we had a book that talks about these stones uses around here...” Leo said while walking towards the bookshelves in the side of his room. Arriving in front of the shelf, he then began looking for the book related to the Mana stones.

”Bingo!” Leo immediately exclaimed as he suddenly grabbed a book entitled, 'Mana stones 101'.

Opening the book, Leo was quickly able to find the information he needed.

”Mana stone, a Magical stone that can be found inside a Magical Beast body or Caves with rich Mana environment. These Mana stones contained a different level of Mana, specifically the darker its color the more Mana it contains, likewise, the lighter the color the lesser the Mana it contains.... How to use a Mana stone.... Hmmm... here! To use a Mana stone, the user should hold or put the stone in front or somewhere within the users spirit range, before focusing their spirit towards the stone. If a user can absorbed its Mana, then congratulations, they can become a Mage, if not, then it is strictly advise not to apply any force. Forceful absorption of Mana may destroy the spirit and soul of a person. It may lead to unimaginable danger, such as death and sickness due to the damage of the spirit and soul that had been inflected after the forceful absorption.”

After reading, Leo walked back to where the Mana stone was. He picked up the Mana stone on top of his study table, sat cross leg on his bed while holding the Mana stone upclose, before he finally began focusing his spirit towards the Mana stone just like what the book had said.

While in deep meditation, Leo's spirit was slowly moving towards the Mana stone. Despite knowing that the Mana stone in his hand only contains a slightly bit amount of Mana, he was still astonished as he stared towards the dancing Mana around the stone in his spirit form.

”What a beautiful sight!” Leo can't help but thought.

The Mana around the Mana stone was like a beautiful blue butterfly dancing around a blue-colored flower. This blue-colored flower was also constantly producing more blue butterfly after those other butterflies landed on its body. The scene was really pretty to looked at.

However, Leo knew that he shouldn't waste his time just staring at the scene. He quickly dismiss such thought as he made his spirit move closer towards the Mana stone. As soon as his spirit could finally touched the Mana stone, the blue butterfly around the Mana stone has suddenly started slowly moving towards his spirit form.

Afterwards, the butterfly-like Mana went inside Leo's spirit, which implies that he had absorbed that wisp of Mana. Unfortunately though, the Mana he had absorbed was just a tiny amount.

”How long would it take for me to finished absorbing all of the Mana this Mana stone contains?” Leo exclaimed, feeling a little bit depress and annoy.

With how insignificant amount of Mana he can absorb every now and then, Leo was sure that it would probably take him hours to completely empty the Mana stone.

As time ticks on, exactly 3 hours later, Leo with all of his effort, was finally able to successfully absorbed all the Mana inside the Mana stone.

Opening his eyes, Leo became excited as he thought, ”I have the affinity to become a Mage! I can become a Mage!”

”Wohoooooo!”

Outside and inside of the manor, a loud shout with obvious sign of excitement was suddenly heard.