147 Absorbing the Seeds. (1/2)

Ozul slept until it was almost midnight. It took so much time for the duo to finish absorbing all the Mana because they also had to separate the essence from it.

Sadly, the duo did not have any more of the breakthroughs since the amount of Mana wasn't actually sufficient, to begin with.

Although there were no more breakthroughs, Raven and Blaze felt even better than that after absorbing all the essence!

They hadn't felt any changes after absorbing the essence for the first time because the improvements weren't visible. Only with time did they realize the changes inside their body.

Not only did they have more stamina, but it seemed way more comfortable to control each part of their body. The duo had yet to notice, but their control over the Mana had also improved! It was just that the Elemental Seed controlled all the Mana, so they hadn't tested it for themselves.

When Raven and Blaze opened their eyes, another thing they noticed was how they could see things more clearly, even when it was dark all around them.

They stood up from their spots and stretched their bodies while testing all the other improvements in their bodies.

Ozul limited himself to watch from his spot as the duo closed their eyes to feel the changes. After a while, they opened their eyes, and both of them had bright smiles stretched on their faces.

”The essence is surprisingly supposed to be absorbed in the bloodstream!” Raven exclaimed. She was sure that everyone before them who had used a drake's Mana Core had been using it the wrong way.

Because they had absorbed more than 40 percent of the Mana in their Cores, but nothing had happened. However, separating the essence before absorbing it into their blood instead had shown the results far out of their expectations.

Not only their eyesight, but all of their senses had gotten sharper and precise! Even after a breakthrough to the next Rank as a Fighter did not feel as good as this.

Moreover, the duo had a hunch that the benefits of absorbing the essence did not end here. And they were correct since they would realize the real advantages later in the future.

”Tell me everything,” Ozul suddenly asked when the duo was still lost in their own thoughts.

It was clear that he was asking about their improvements that he couldn't sense. One by one, Raven began to explain everything to him together with their own hypothesis that they might have yet to explore the real benefits.

”Hmm... You didn't have to start replacing the cells with Mana, yeah?” Ozul pointed out something that left the duo wondering as well.

It was surprising for them because after Rank-5, the Mages were required to start replacing most of the matter with Mana.

Replacing the matter with Mana was a necessary process because the body wouldn't be able to handle the density and purity of the Mana at those stages!

But nothing as such happened with the duo. Instead, they hadn't felt better than today since forever!

”It just shows how effective the essence has been. I am now starting to think that there really may be some credibility in the legends of a drake being related to dragons.” Ozul concluded and spoke out his thoughts.

”Anyways, sit back down. You guys still have a lot of Mana to cultivate,” he ordered, confusing both Raven and Blaze.

”But we used it all. There is nothing left,” Blaze said since he thought that Ozul might have been misunderstanding something here.

”Yes, you did. But shut up and sit down.” Ozul did not want to explain the entire process again. It would be the same to practically show them anyway.

”Okay...” the duo replied in a low voice. They hurriedly sat back on the ground even when they had gotten quite sick of sitting all day.

Ozul gave them a few basic instructions before coating himself with a fragile layer of Ball of Purity. Because of how light the layer was, Ozul had to concentrate for quite a while before he was able to maintain it this way.

He took out the five remaining Elemental Seeds that had previously been stored in the Ball of Purity's cube.

Raven and Blaze looked at him curiously as he quickly threw them in his mouth. It surprised the duo that Ozul had even swallowed the Elemental Seeds.