chapter 48
Episode 48
Injecting mana was not an act with a special intention.
Mana carries the will of the user.
If you infuse mana into an object, you can feel the inside as if you were seeing it with your eyes and touching it with your hands.
That’s why I weakly injected mana to see what kind of structure the demonic sword was made of.
The reason why the magic sword and barding are symbols of absolute power is that they can express external energy.
That’s because he borrowed the mana of a high-level magic stone, not the user’s mana.
The important point is that the mana density of the high-level magic stone is the same as that of the master.
As a result, it was only possible for those with master level skills to handle the magic sword.
Originally it had to be.
“huh?”
Without any warning, milky light emanated from the sword body and covered it.
Anyone could see that it was outside.
My head was blank for a moment in my absurd mind.
“what?”
There was no time to be surprised when something unexpected happened.
I put my doubts aside and slowly pushed the demonic sword into the cave wall.
I felt some resistance.
However, even without much effort, the blade of the sword that penetrated the wall pierced the back of his nose.
There was no longer any doubt that the milky glow was outside air.
Blocked the mana flowing into the magic sword.
There is no effect without a cause.
I pondered over why this happened.
And after a while, I was able to draw one conclusion.
A normal skilled warrior cannot wield a demonic sword.
So what is the difference between them and me?
‘Yongcheon Suji.’
My body and mental strength were strengthened by spring water.
However, physical abilities have nothing to do with mana handling.
If so, it was possible to guess that the reason for this unbelievable occurrence was because of mental strength.
Psychic power is the power of the soul, willpower, and a means of mana management.
Just as an automated machine performs work by a pre-determined system without any intervention,
The mana mental method is also operated consistently without being conscious of it.
Also, as if ordering another task to an automated machine through a separate operation,
You can activate the mana psychic method using your psychic power and use the mana as you wish.
A very small amount of psychic power is consumed to handle mana.
Even with a very weak will, the mana moved naturally according to my will.
In fact, it was hard to even feel how much energy was being consumed.
As an analogy, it was comparable to the effort of pressing the operation button of an automated machine.
But if you have to pull a stiff lever to operate an automated machine.
And what if the person pulling it is a powerless child?
A grown adult will pull the lever without much difficulty, but if a child pulls the lever, the lever will not budge.
It was like this for skilled warriors to deal with the mana of advanced magic stones.
Nick said that the talent of mana represents the karma accumulated in the soul.
But at the same time, it was also said that mana talent is not determined only by karma.
Just as the mana sensitivity increases when the soul gets stronger, the strength of the soul also affects the mana talent.
When the soul becomes stronger, not only the mana sensitivity but also the psychological power becomes stronger.
However, just as strong muscle strength does not mean good eyesight, psychological power and mana sensitivity were also separate.
I was strengthened by spring water.
In conclusion, my handling of the demonic sword meant that although my mana sensitivity was at the level of an expert, my mental strength was at least as good as that of an expert.
However, as I was organizing my thoughts, an assumption passed through my mind.
‘Wouldn’t that be possible if the mind was strong?’
I looked into how magic warriors train in order to use their status as magic warriors.
If you double imprint, two simbeop collide in the strong palace.
It is like two people who have a treasure in front of them and are fighting each other to get possession of it.
Conflicts occur in the process of mana simbeop imprinted in the sea and the sea, fighting for the mana that came into the strong palace.
The magician’s training method was similar to distributing treasure equally to those who covet it.
Those who walk the path of a magician are all geniuses among geniuses.
They used their excellent mana sensitivity to evenly distribute mana, suppressing the conflict of the psychic methods as much as possible.
However, no matter how finely mana was manipulated, it was impossible to completely avoid the conflict between the simbeop.
And here I have a question.
Unlike magic warriors, priests can practice simbeop without any problems even after imprinting 2 simbeop.
Of course, I already knew how that could be done.
It was because of Teres’ terminal that he accepted into the strong palace.
Priests are gods and contain the souls of those worshiped.
And karma, a measure of mana sensitivity, accumulates in the soul.
If karma is piled up in Teres’ terminal, and that karma increases the mana sensitivity of priests, then all priests will have divine mana sensitivity beyond genius.
And with such a transcendent mana sensitivity, it was understandable to control mana perfectly enough to avoid the collision of psychic laws.
However, as far as I know, even the clergy who accepted Teres’ terminal had no change in their innate mana sensitivity.
This is a story I heard from priest Philip, so it must be true.
If so, back to square one,
The question remains as to how a priest with double imprinting can avoid the conflict of mental laws.
Here I set up a hypothesis.
It was that Dereth’s terminal might not strengthen mana sensitivity, but psychological power.
Just like dealing with mana, mana simbeop is also moved by psychic power.
If my hypothesis is correct, the priests would have been able to control mana and prevent conflicts with their transcendent psychological power.
You don’t know how strong your mind is to walk the path of a magician.
However, once it was proven that my mental strength was more than that of a master.
Perhaps there was a possibility that it was at the level of suppressing the conflict of mental laws.
‘I’ll have to check it out as soon as I get back to Erita.’
It was necessary to find out how the clergy controlled mana simbeop.
If my thoughts were correct, the path of a true magician would be opened.
Even if I lack the willpower, I still have one more chance.
‘If you climb the master’s mirror, the spring water will resume strengthening.’
As he became skilled, his mental strength was strengthened by about three times.
I wondered if it would be possible to walk the path of a magician if the mana sensitivity was three times stronger than that of the master.
I gave up my long thoughts and focused on the magic sword again.
As soon as the mana was blown into it, that milky light covered the blade.
‘Shall we try a little more?’
I put more psychic power into mana.
While looking at the demonic sword here and there to closely observe the outside air.
Ugh.
The magic sword vibrated briefly.
At the same time, through the mana injected into the magic sword, I instinctively realized that a certain trigger would be activated at the moment I wanted.
I triggered the trigger as my instincts told me to.
At that moment, an amazing thing happened.
“her!”
The external air that maintained the shape of the sword body was fired like an arrow and flew to the cave wall.
It was so fast that even I couldn’t avoid it if I didn’t concentrate.
Injecting outside air is possible only after reaching the 9th tier.
Admiring the magic sword’s ability, he approached the place where the outside air had blown.
There were only traces of outside air penetrating the walls of the cave.
The touch of the hole with my fingertips was as smooth as touching porcelain.
I moved the seat to check the exact power.
He extended his sword toward a rock about two meters in diameter.
Wait a while to inject mana again.
Sak!
An eerie sound was heard as the air fired and pierced the rock.
When I went back to the other side, I could see traces of the outside air breaking through.
I moved in the direction the outside air had blown.
The air left a hole in a tree about 10 meters away and disappeared.
‘I know roughly the power. Range?’
During battle, life comes and goes with the difference of a single finger.
In order to find out the exact range, the outside air was injected once again.
The range of the outer air was about 16 meters.
‘If this is the case, it’s worth trying against the master.’
The magical power of the master’s mirror is three times that of the master’s mirror.
Likewise, the weapons strengthened by the master were three times stronger than those strengthened by the master.
A master warrior would not wear iron armor.
Even if I had a true silver sword, it was difficult to break through the defense of the master wearing silver armor.
As such, due to the absence of means of attack, he always had escape in mind, even though he had superior athletic abilities than master warriors.
However, as long as he got the magic sword, he had a good chance of winning even if he fought the master.
Of course, fighting head-on was still dangerous.
Even if I wore the silver armor, it didn’t change that I was cut off with a single sword.
If you were to face off against the Master, you would have to fight with agility rather than confronting him directly.
When I learned about the magic sword’s ability, my excitement did not subside.
I was so excited that I injected mana to fire the outside air once again.
But then a problem arose.
The milky sheen that covered the sword body gradually faded and disappeared in an instant.
‘Did I run out of mana?’
A magic sword without magic stones is no different from an ordinary true silver sword.
To check the remaining mana, I put my hand on the mana stone and blew mana into it.
It was felt that there was almost no mana left.
Manastones have homeostasis, so the mana consumed will recover over time.
However, it was not as fast as mana users operating mana simbeop.
Also, the smaller the remaining mana, the slower the recovery speed, and the more repeated consumption and recovery, the lower the total amount of mana.
‘This must be why there were extra magic stones.’
Click.
I unfastened the decoration that held the magic stone and took out the magic stone.
A new magic stone taken out of the subspace pocket was inserted into the groove.
‘Shall we go to the next level this time?’
When the fresh air injection trigger is ready.
Through mana, I instinctively felt that there was another ability beyond the ejection of external air.
I was surprised just by the ejection of the air, but I was looking forward to what kind of abilities awaited me next.
By injecting mana, his mental strength gradually increased.
Immediately, a vibration signaled the ejection of the outside air.
He continued to energize.
And finally, a new change occurred in the magic sword.
The air surrounding the demonic sword began to whirl rapidly as all of the hair stood up.
‘It’s bloody.’
Even without checking, I knew that whatever the whirlwind touched would be shattered.
However, it is natural to test this right away.
He approached a large rock and swung his magic sword.
Then, as if cutting cheese with a hot knife, the rock melted away.
However, the magic sword’s ability was not over yet.
Ugh.
As I poured more of my heart into it, the demonic sword vibrated a little after a while.
The trigger was activated just like when injecting outside air.
At that moment, the whirlwind of external air that was wrapped around the sword body was fired like a shot.
After escaping from the magic sword, the whirlwind gradually grew in size and grew to the size of an adult’s upper body.
And after reaching the end of the range, it disappeared into the air like sugar dissolved in water.
I would be afraid even if the outside air only flew in the shape of a blade, but thinking that it was flying in and engulfing the space gave me goosebumps.
‘It’s not over yet.’
The magic sword still had hidden abilities.
When I checked the magic stone, close to 70% of the mana was used.
I inserted the last remaining magic stone into the magic sword.