Chapter 88 - The Lake (2/2)

He had seen many bright crystals of different shapes and sizes before, but what he saw now was on a quite different level.

The fourth section was a huge cavern with countless incredibly bright crystals. Each one was unique in its own way, and even from a distance, you could feel that they were all filled with mana. The crystals came in a variety of colors and sizes, but the blue crystals were the majority.

Nevertheless, the crystals were not the most important feature of the fourth section. In the middle of the cave, there was a small lake with aquamarine water that sparkled even brighter than the crystals. In the center of the lake was a small, round platform.

It was perfect for ”Creation”, and it wasn't a matter of beauty or convenience, but of its special location.

The fourth section was saturated with mana, but the center of the lake was where mana density reached its peak. It was all about the water, or rather the crystals at the bottom. Unlike the air in which mana slowly dissipated, this water stored and accumulated it.

That was why in the fourth section one could stay only a limited amount of time, after which one had to give time for the water to be saturated with mana again.

But even if the lake wasn't here, the fourth section would still be an amazing place. Evan hadn't started the ”Creation” yet, but he could say with certainty that the mana density here was many times higher than in the room in Zak`s mansion where he had ”Created” before.

”Well, the last time I condensed mana into ”Void Liquid” was over a month ago, time to catch up.”

After these words, Evan quickly made his way to the platform in the center of the lake, took a seat, and began to ”Create”.

Whoosh.

His crimson ”Warp” immediately swirled, thereby collecting all the mana around it. Gradually, Evan's ”Nirvana” became filled with hundreds of pale blue bubbles that slowly flowed to the ”Warp”.

As time passed, the speed of the ”Warp” increased significantly, and the bubbles turned into pale blue streams that flowed into the crimson sphere like rivers.

The last time Evan ”Created” he had achieved a result of 25 drops in four days, six drops per day to be exact. Zak had come in a little late then, which gave Evan a couple of extra hours.

It takes a thousand drops of ”Void Liquid” to turn the ”Warp” into a ”One -Pointed Star”. At this point, Evan only had 25.

<This is incredible... so much mana... it makes me want to absorb it all at once!>

Evan was very happy with the reward he`d received for winning the ”Tournament of Precious Stones”, it was definitely worth it. The mana hovering in the air and in the water was slowly absorbed by Evan's ”Warp” and condensed into the 'Void Liquid'.

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In absolute silence, Evan continued to ”Create” and after exactly five days, he opened his eyes and laughed out loud.

”AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this is fantastic. My condensation rate has increased fivefold at this point! In five days I've condensed as many as 150 drops of ”Void Liquid”, which is probably even more than those who have purple ”Warp”.

Quite contentedly Evan muttered. Because Zak had tricked him then, he still didn't know that his speed was several times faster than the geniuses with purple ”Warp”. Now he was in the fourth Section, a place with a phenomenal concentration of mana.

Thirty drops a day was an unprecedented rate, no magician could have imagined such a thing.

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Evan continued to ”Create” until, by the beginning of the eleventh day, he had condensed 333 drops of ”Void Liquid”. At that moment, Evan hit the second ”Barrier” and even though he couldn't go further for now, he still continued to greedily absorb mana....