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I know I shouldn’t worry too much,
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“Elliot said with a sigh. “I’m feeling peckish since I only had one bowl of stew during dinner. I hope they get the ovens fixed soon...”
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I look at the messy table between Cat’s bed and mine and was able to find a couple of caramel bars
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Later, I heard Elliot snoring softly, yet
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And so, I made my way to the 5th floor baths with the usual
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I-I’m sorry, Senior Ethan,” I apologized with my head hung low, “it is true that I have been busy reading the tomes lately, but that’s no
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“d him, “I was just really busy, in fact, I am very grateful for the pouch you lent me the other day...”
“smug grin. “You can keep it, where else could you hide the stuff we ‘borrowed’ from the library?”
“can?” I thought of how much the pouch was worth and asked him again. “Can I really keep such a precious artifact?”
Don’t worry, it’s just a replica ‘perpetual mana siphoning spell’
Yes, as a matter of fact, I’m
What a
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But it’s the best way to hasten the creation of a new mana
If you ask me, i
“your core to break, or worst, make the magician and their surrounding suffer in a magic backlash.”
Exactly. Your magic will
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“is element was water, thus, the top of the tower he was occupying burst out like a geyser, and flooded his land. It’s now known as the Mossy Tower that sits in the middle of the Blood Swamp in the eastern kingdom. The mana in the area dried up, killing all the living organisms in a 30 meter radius. The area is uninhabitable to this day.”
I
So, what did you have in mind again?”
“creating a similar spell...”
Senior Ethan’s frown got deeper.
B-but mine wouldn’t just
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In the spell I’m formulating, the caster
“a sucking spell?” a brow raised questioningly.
Well, since mana is being replenished naturally, then getting a little from
Hmm...
“mana depletion after all, not to mention, mana autophagy.”
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“such a thing to other people!” I gasped in horror.
“from plants and livestock, but not from humans?” he asked flatly. “Let’s get real here, humans are a readily available and abundant source of mana. They won’t notice anyway if it’s just a little from each. And you said it yourself, that you can choose the target?”
“would be unethical!”
You do know that mana from humans make up a big percentage of the mana ‘human mana’
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“If we can adjust the amount of mana flow and guard the core to prevent a mana overload, the mana burst should be just enough to initiate a manifestation... we can even add a fail-safe equation that would stop the accumulation of mana just before the new core emerges...” Senior Ethan mumbled to himself. “Can I see the formula you’ve been working on?”
Of course, senior,
Senior Ethan took out his pencils and sketch pad to write on, and we devised the rules for the ‘perpetual mana siphoning spell’.
Are you ready?” he asked me. “Are you sure you want to try
“Ethan double checked the formulas we wrote on his sketchbook.
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“now,” I insisted before chanting the first lines of the spell we just created.
It took a full three minutes to finish
I gasped as I felt mana drain from inside me, just as new mana from the air around us
“Ethan held my shoulder as I almost fell on my knobby knees.
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I’ve set it to
Isn’t that too much
I shall
True, but the body can only use about 5% of the oxygen we breath,” my senior pointed out, “
“my mana is replenished.”
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“discuss about the outcome and results later in the library,” he finally gave in.
“I hurriedly asked.
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“about the perpetrators?”
“still trying to track the books, but I’ve already blocked them. I’ve broken the tracing spells even before I sent you your haul, so there’s no need to worry.”
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