As soon as he swallowed the seed, Kayden felt the mana in his body multiplying. It wasn’t like the seed of the world tree, where the mana came from the seed. This time, the mana in his body seemed to be increasing on its own. In just a few seconds, the amount of mana reached a point where Kayden began to cultivate with only the mana coming from within.
The amount increased every second and he continued to absorb and circulate it. He didn’t even have to fix anything. Right now, his foundation was perfect, at least as far as his knowledge could see. Therefore, just by circulating mana, it didn’t take long for him to be close to reaching the ideal point to advance.
In just a few seconds, Kayden felt himself within momentum, a kind of nirvana where anything could be possible and his movements were error-free. Kayden, once again, sought to improve his veins and his heart as he saw fit. It didn’t even take him 20 minutes and he was done.
Still under the influence of the impulse, he began to think and, unfortunately, the only thought he could think was that he only had one heart, but that didn’t make sense to him as soon as he came out of the impulse. In a few minutes of pain and burning, Kayden felt his body being improved and all his attributes increasing.
The pain was familiar to Kayden and in the same way as before he released several impurities. It seemed that even though he improved his body to the extreme, it was still not pure enough.
"Sixth level," Kayden muttered as he tested his new strength. "This…", Kayden felt that he had improved a little more than expected, the mana was circulating better through his body, and it was probably because of his investments in his base. The improvement wasn’t much, barely 5%, but it was still only at one level. If it were to accumulate over dozens of levels, it would become a very large snowball.
Kayden smiled thinking that he made the right decision in improving his mana base from Ipê. Kayden now had to prepare well for the next advancement, again he would have to double his mana to increase its density, in the apprentice realm he got five doubles, this time it had to be at least 6 and the ideal was seven, after seeing the seventh ray falling, Kayden raised his standards, there was no point comparing himself to mediocre people.
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"Lightning is one of the most unstable elements that exist, for mana to acquire its element you need to create a discrepancy in energy, the amount depends on the size of the spell and how much mana you want to convert", Athena was explaining the basic steps to Kayden over the elemental mana of your element. The boy still hadn’t succeeded even once. Before, he used a lightning spell and then used his main spell, but now, under Athena’s tutelage, he was learning the high-level way to manipulate mana.
The woman made a small lightning spell and threw it at Kayden. It only caused a slight insignificant numbness practically, but when he used the elemental mana, the numbness was amplified a few times and in several locations on his body.
"Low-level elemental mana is using spells as a base, high-level elemental mana is using the principles of the element in the mana." Fortunately, Kayden had already learned the concepts of energy and electrostatic energy. If not, much more time would have to pass before making any progress in this area.
"You can try to learn it on your own, but without some concepts, the journey will be much more difficult, I recommend first learning the concepts of balance and imbalance of energy, they are not difficult concepts and should take a short time after that start training to change your mana ."
Kayden put one more thing to do on his priority list, at the moment it was directly above most, as he only had a few months in this realm and then communication would become difficult.
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The boy’s days consisted of spending hours in the library studying everything he could, from basic neutral mana spells to complex theories that would make it possible to increase the lightning count during an ascension. He also set aside time during the day to cultivate, but other than that he didn’t do anything else, he didn’t visit any tourist attractions or leave the library, he even took a cold shower to save time.
His physical training was completely left aside, at most, he did an hour a day just to avoid getting rusty, Kayden was making the most of his stay here.
A month later, Kayden was sitting in a room in the academy of the kingdom of the Enlightened, along with him there were a few dozen other people, the funny thing was that at all times people had to walk from one side of the room to the other, always interspersed with a red line on the floor dividing the room in two.
"This is frustrating," Kayden looked at some students, each person seemed to glow because of the amount of small colorful dragonflies on their clothes, each of these small animals carried a tiny amount of energy, but when added together by the hundreds they represented a large flow.
The idea of the room was to learn the concepts of balance and imbalance, those who kept moving wanted to either organize the balance or unbalance it, Kayden just sat there feeling the flow of mana around him.
He had only been here a week, but he felt closer and closer to understanding this concept, mainly because his other concepts already dealt with certain parts of balance, his gain in strength would be minuscule and barely reach 1%, but this it was not the intention to learn these two concepts.
Kayden was pondering something else too, how many concepts could he learn? Because some just added up and didn’t show any real gain in strength, what’s the difference between learning 7 concepts and 100 concepts?
Maybe he was the first to ask these questions because he was the only one who didn’t need to tie his concepts and just subjugated them to his path, so he didn’t have any difficulties other than learning the concepts. Another question that increasingly appeared in his mind was why he learned concepts, what did they represent? His best answer was based on the knowledge he had from his past life and that was that concepts were the basis for understanding laws.
What exactly Laws were or what they did, Kayden had no idea, it wasn’t something he could reason through logical thought, assuming his hypothesis was correct.
Kayden took out an apple from his space ring, it looked like any other, it didn’t even have a strong mana leak, but it was a specific treasure for learning concepts, it gave a boost when it was missing, its flaw was that it only worked on simple concepts.
As soon as Kayden put it in his mouth, he felt nothing, just a few minutes after his mind started to feel lighter, he felt himself in a slight state of euphoria similar to the Impulse, but it was much weaker. Kayden quickly understood why it was for weak concepts, this apple emulated the sensation of momentum, but in a very grotesque and weak way, so it was only used to learn simple concepts.
Kayden put these thoughts aside and began to analyze the flow of electric mana in the environment, in just a few seconds he recognized a pattern of balance and then it automatically broke. The balance was only maintained for a few seconds, then chaos came and was also maintained for just a few seconds because even in confusion there was a certain order, the eyes would never be able to see, but Kayden could feel the rapid and then constant flow of mana.
In the next few seconds he began to play with the concepts, one time he would break the balance by pushing someone using mana, and another time he would stop someone from moving, because of the large number of people his actions went unnoticed.
In just a few minutes, Kayden had a sparkle of mana in his eyes, he understood that balance and imbalance were constant, and depending on the point of view he was balanced and unbalanced at one time, it didn’t take him any time to learn these two concepts. As soon as he opened his eyes, some rays shone momentarily and then disappeared, this also signaled the end of the pill’s effect, Kayden studied his two new concepts a little and realized that he didn’t gain anything, his mana manipulation or anything else remained the same.
"This", Kayden realized that he gained 5 meters in his spiritual sense, this was a minimal gain, but it represented an improvement in his path, as he could now reach more mana at once.
I could change the mana in the environment easily without even needing to spend much effort, but that was the easy part, the difficult part was making sure your spell didn’t struggle with the environment loaded with elemental mana. Slowly time began to pass, Kayden just cultivated and went to the library, his classes with Athena were sporadic and mostly to answer questions, he didn’t care, could he ask her for chewing techniques? He could, but that would represent something that went against his ideals.
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