Chapter 47: Mana Control (1/2)

Tyler thought for a while on which spell he should learn first. Although there was a lot of Tier one spells he was interested in, he decided to put the thought aside for now. He wanted to research more on Mana control and basic Tier spells wouldn't help him do that.

He still remembered all the close calls he had whenever he would cast a spell. Even if he got stronger and learnt more powerful spells, it wouldn't be of much use if he ended up incapacitated each time he used a single spell, and who knew what strange effects would happen if he used higher tiered spells.

Tyler searched around a bit before finally taking a Tier 2 spell book off one of the shelfs. He then walked around for a while before he found what he was looking for. It was a section of the library, dedicated on Mana control. There were several degrees of Mana control for casters at different level of potential. The higher ones potential was, the more difficult it was to control their Mana.

There were very few grandmages and sorcerers in the past and most of them had spent centuries researching this problem, some even ended up relying on magic artifacts to control their strengths. Tyler couldn't help but smile upon reading this part. He was relieved he wasn't alone in this even though those grand mages and sorcerers were most definitely dead by now and there might've been various breakthrough in the last thousand years.

He was also very pleased in his comparison to a grandmage. It was important to note that such a title wasn't given lightly. These were all magic casters with uncommonly high magic potential and incredible achievement in their pioneering the vast void that is the unknown aspect of magic.

Tyler had heard of a Grandmage in the human continent, two in fact. He heard they could extend their lifespan for decades and one of them at the time was over 200 years old. Most humans would only have a potential of tier 1 and those that reached Tier 2 were considered as the gifted, then there were the rare few that had reached the peak of human potential and capped on tier 3. Those were usually the higheres ranked adventurers whether they were full on mages or just magic fighters.

It wasn't until the human race had faced the consequences of their reckless actions that heros that surpassed those limits appeared. Amongst those heros was the Grandmage Deneil Askain Steinford. From what Tyler remembered he was a true legend that lived in the Le Aliztan Empire. He had risen to fame even before the Human alliance was formed, back in the days when the kingdoms and Empires were still at odds with each other, this was predating the great war.

He was promoted to a rank of equal status with the emperor, although he had no administrative duties. He created and lead the Magic Institute of Le Aliztan and was the head researcher for magic, the creation of new artifacts and Mana control. Thinking of this Tyler couldn't help but think about reading some of his research notes. 'No, I need to focus on what's in front me and not something that might never happen.'

He proceeded to read as many books on Mana control as his level of magic runes allowed. Time flew by quickly and Tyler was unaware of it. He barely felt the flow of time in the library and didn't know how much time had passed so far. The lighting in the room was constant and there were no windows to indicate the time of day.

Tyler spent hours in that section untill he finally read enough to understand the basic. What these books told him was that Mana control was directly related to how one builds their Mana body. The Mana body could be considered as the core for every living and intelligent creatures in this world.

Basically, it was the same or equivalent to the cores and magic crystals in magic beast. Only, unlike beasts, this wasn't just the source of Mana in the body, this would also strengthened the physical body to the limits of it's potential, providing the various tiers of physiques. However, When an intelligent lifeform is born they don't automatically possess a Mana body. They would possess what was know as a Mana pool.

This Mana pool is then influence by the amount and purity of the natural energy around them which can later develope into an innate ability, if the child was extremely lucky. The Mana pool grows with the body until it reaches it's limit and then slowly mutates and forms what is now know as a Mana body. This is also why ones a Mana body forms, it decides the potential of that person and can no longer be increased.

Tyler woke up in this world already and adult and was not blessed by the effects of an hero summoning spell. He had not gone through such a process in his life and even though he had an innate ability he barely had enough potential to use it. Now however, he felt like his body was most likely forcefully fed with enough natural energy to bypass such restrictions, it was no wonder he barely had any control over it.

Heroes received blessings that negates any negative effect from not developing their mana pool into a Mana body while those that were reincarnated used their previous knowledge to properly develope their Mana pool to get a relatively high potential. But, he didn't fit into any of this categories. He had died yet he wasn't reincarnated and he didn't know if he was summoned as their was no one where he had woken up.

An hero summoning required more than fifty mages, in order to perform the ritual and they also needed the blessings of a priest so all heroes that had been summoned so far, were all summoned by one of the three churches. While sometimes they were used for politics based on which church summoned them, Tyler never witnessed such things, having transmigrated during the time of the great war.

The entire thing was giving him an headache. Was his imprisonment in the underground prison of the demon king's castle a coincidence. He decided not to ponder questions he couldn't possibly get the answer to and focus on how to fix his current predicament.

So far he understood his Mana pool hadn't develope well with his body to form a perfectly synchronized Mana body. Right now he couldn't do any thing about that and to fully fix this problem he would need to master all levels of an advance magic rune. But he could still start the process now. He didn't know how long he had been here but he felt he didn't have much time left.

He sat down on the floor and adopted a meditation pose. According to the book he needed to feel the source of the energy surging inside of him until he could visualize his Mana body. Tyler tried to focus intently as he turned his attention within him. It was quiet, for a period of time there was no sound in the vast library.