103 Fusion (1/2)
Before he could continue his train of thought, Miss. Klein once again spoke to them.
”For now, I'm going to show you how to fuse two mana spheres.”
She then formed two mana spheres and positioned them beside each other. ”These mana spheres are made by mana, which has formed a thin membrane, so to fuse them you will have to either connect one of the membranes to the other and then remove the separating part, or you form a new sphere over them. The first method has a high risk since it is very difficult to connect them since one has to have a high amount of control to bring them close enough to each other without them interfering and destroying each other.”
She then slowly brings the two spheres closer to each other until they touch. In the instant, this happens a small explosion happens.
”As you see, failure will result in an explosion, that would completely distribute the medical essence into the air, leading to you losing all of it. The best way to merge them is to start at a small point and then extend it.”
She too demonstrated this. She brought two newly created spheres beside each other and then got them into contact at a small area before expanding the opening between them until the new sphere looked like an elongated sphere. She then dismissed it and once again formed another two spheres.
”Now to the second method. While it is much easier and safer, it will reduce the efficiency, since there will be a bit of additional air in the new sphere.”, she then too brought the two spheres next to each other and then formed another around them, while explaining, ”The closer you can create the new sphere the lesser your losses in efficiency. Of course, the difficulty will increase as well. And remember not to be disheartened if you fail the first few times. Especially for the first method.”, she paused and then continued, ”I think for now you should practice the second method. Start with a wider sphere around and then slowly decrease the distances until there isn't really any space between them. This way you can slowly train your control.”
”Then wouldn't having mental energy be better?”, Serge asked.
”Not really, since it doesn't allow one to control mana. And for this, you will need good control over your mana, which means that it should be easier for you.”, Miss. Klein answered.
After this, the two of them practiced forming the new mana sphere as close as possible to the others while maintaining a high success rate. According to their teacher, being able to be successful in nine out of ten cases would be the best time to decrease the distance between the spheres. And as Miss. Klein had expected, Serge managed to reach a smaller distance than Ivan.
”Alright, that's it for today. Practice hard and think about the offer.”, at the end of class, she reminded the two.
”Goodbye, Miss. Klein”, they said their goodbye before leaving. They had one more class before school ended and they could go to the dungeon.
Soon it was the end of school and Irena, Greg, Serge, and Ivan went to the training field to wait for Pia, who didn't let them wait for long.
”Hey”, they greeted each other before directly proceeding to the dungeon entrance hall.
Having already experienced the first floor before they easily managed to clear the normal rat groups. This time Serge who too was a melee fighter shared the heavy load with Ivan since both of them had a high enough level. Seeing the way Irena blocked the incoming rats, Ivan was once again impressed with Susan who had managed to do the same thing with a much lower level.
Still, even though it was much easier for this group, it still took them some time to finally reach the rat boss.
”Alright, Ivan has already told us about this guys attacks, so everyone should be careful of his tail.”, Irena as the team leader once again warned the others.
Ivan was the one who should take its aggro, according to the plan, so he shot towards the rat lord and used his sword to slash at it. Like before he didn't use his flame blades since they were still training their coordination and using it would defeat this purpose.