103. the way forward
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“Cadets of Han Chun-seong. I will manifest huge mana in the future. It will probably open up your power to a surprising extent. The current physical contact… I hope Cadet Han Chun-seong doesn’t misunderstand too much.”
“…Yes. All right.”
While answering, I had to try to control myself so that my voice wouldn’t tremble.
I understood why Carly came so close to me and held me close to me as if hugging me.
So that I could feel mana more easily… She was just closing the distance with me…
“Then I’ll start right away.”
Even so, her breath, like a whisper in my ear, felt so loud.
The stimulation isn’t great, to the point where my mind gets distracted in an instant… .
“……Yes.”
Even so, he forcibly answered and calmed his trembling heart.
so as not to think in vain. I even bit my tight lips and radiated pain as I looked at the edge of my spear.
slippery… !
I could see blue mana rising from Kali’s body as she held my hand.
and that moment.
I was able to experience a strange sensation that all previous thoughts disappeared at once.
“……”
With his mouth open in a daze, he couldn’t help but be astonished at the vast amount of mana he could feel from his body.
The mana that now filled my vision was like a limited expanse of the sea.
The total amount of mana was unfathomable.
Even thinking of Kali as a wall during my practice seemed to make me realize just how little I had seen her.
The wall called Kali, which he thought was facing, was only the lower part of the wall shrouded in fog.
‘… this.’
Mana that Kali made up her mind to manifest.
But even now, I didn’t think it was power. My field of vision was already dyed all blue, as if I was in another world.
…I even had the illusion that the entire training ground was swallowed up by Kali. In addition, when I thought that I was in close contact with Kali, my body was also slightly boiling with mana as if it were resonating.
My mana was really weak to resist this huge mana.
As if to defend against being eroded by other mana, the mana of the whole body reacted instinctively and tried to cover my body.
Seruk.
But I suppressed that instinct.
This was mana that should not be resisted or repelled, and even if I tried to do so in the first place, it seemed that my mana would not be able to resist Kali in the slightest.
‘If Carly puts her mind to it… .’
I can’t refuse no matter what I do here and now.
“…”
Even breathing blankly felt so different.
A strange sensation, like breathing Kali’s mana in a space covered with oversaturated mana.
“The mana is probably reacting inside your body right now, but first focus on calming it down.”
When Carly’s soft voice reached my ears, I focused my mind.
‘calm down.’
As if calming down the mana that was trying to rebel, he slowly inhaled and exhaled again.
I could feel my body gradually adapting to Kali’s mana slowly entering my body.
“great. It would be best to exhale slowly as you do now and adapt to the mana.”
…I suddenly felt a transcendental sense in her voice, as if she was admonishing a child.
The moment I met her as an instructor in the classroom, or the moment I had a conversation with her in private, felt like a fleeting dream.
The moment I felt while looking at her felt like a lie.
‘If you can control your energy to some extent… … .’
Is it possible to hide such a huge power normally?
Even with this mana alone, I felt how much difference there was in not being able to call her true form.
The difference is so overwhelming that I feel sorry to say it is a difference.
And I instinctively sensed that Carly could become stronger here.
…
It took about a minute for me to adapt to Kali’s mana.
In the meantime, I also felt why Carly was so attached to me.
My body was shaking without even realizing it.
And Kali was holding me close to me as if to support me.
“Cadets of Han Chun-seong. I’m going to stick a little closer for the time being. Even if it makes you uncomfortable, I want you to be patient.”
Carly’s voice reached my ear like a whisper, so I nodded blankly.
And rather than being uncomfortable, I felt a sense of comfort and stability.
It feels like floating in the sea. Khalira had given everything she had to the sea.
My thoughts, my body, anything else… .
“Cadet Han Chun-seong wouldn’t be easy to talk about right now. Because I am directly feeling the mana of others. But you’ll be able to focus more fully on this status phase. How I manage my mana, for now, just focus on that.”
At the words that followed, I nodded slightly.
And soon, changes began to occur.
Following the slowly rotating mana, the blue wave filled inside rapidly changed.
… … !
Mana, which was brilliantly blue, slowly began to turn red.
saaa… … .
Inside the training room filled with mana, dozens or hundreds of streams soon took over the space.
The vivid reddish mana soon turned into a huge flow as if resonating greatly.
that’s really…
It was like a huge sea.
When the reddish sea rushes in one place, the waves around it form the same flow as if they were fluctuating.
As I gazed at the reddish mana that rotated in a huge circle around the training room, I slowly fell in love with it.
‘Concentrate.’
Carly even making physical contact with me would never be an easy thing to do.
So, I shouldn’t have missed that opportunity.
I looked at the infinite flow of mana that seemed to have surpassed thousands before I knew it by calling in dozens or hundreds.
As if entrusting my consciousness to countless streams, I just captured them in my eyes.
And I felt with my body how the vast amount of mana still gushing out from Kali’s body touching me created such a flow.
What kind of flow is it forming, where does it go and what is it trying to draw?
…Then, I gradually began to see it with my own eyes.
Why does reddish mana form so many flows, and why other mana forms a huge flow as if they are in tune with the great flow… .
It was a kind of ‘cycle’.
As it goes somewhere endlessly, the end of the flow is not fixed.
The flow drawing a circle was rotating and circulating infinitely, as if the beginning and end continued at the same time.
The reason why so many mana cooperated with the flow was because of circulation.
An infinite cycle in which one flow creates thousands of flows, and thousands of thousands of flows soon become one big flow.
‘…The beginning and the end coexist.’
Absolutely nonsense.
And I felt that concept… slowly being injected into my head.
All my thoughts disappeared, and I became immersed as if I was falling into a loop of circulation.
Numerous streams drawing circles of red light formed a scene that would be overwhelming to anyone who saw it.
Beautiful, wonderful, mysterious.
Anything else I could say could not adequately describe the mystery I felt.
And at the same time, I felt the power contained in this aura.
The forces leading to infinite circulation are directed towards each other and amplify endlessly.
The vast expanse of energy can be condensed into a single force at any time and concentrated more strongly.
And at the same time, it is possible to change the condensed power into thousands of tens of thousands of branches and unfold it as if unleashing it… … .
“…”
In an instant, the accident stopped.
And the feeling of the body creaking.
At the same time, the red energy that filled the space began to disappear as if it were slowly fading.
“Cadets of Han Chun-seong. Now… it’s okay. Because I’m really fine now.”
I opened my eyes in a daze at the urgent voice, but I couldn’t understand it.
‘…What’s good?’
It felt great that the energy that had been so ecstatic had disappeared so quickly.
More than the sense of difference in which the body creaks, the inability to see a cycle close to infinity is so… … .
It was really, really sad.
Seruk.
My eyes seemed to wake up in a daze at the sensation of slowly sweeping my hair.
“Cadets of Han Chun-seong. You can’t even think about it any more.”
When the extremely cold voice fully awakened my mind, I was able to realize the reality only then.
“haha…”
And at the signal my body was sending, I had no choice but to exhale urgently.
…My heart was beating like crazy, and my head seemed empty.
It was only then that I was able to realize my situation, as if my thoughts were belatedly connected to the supplied oxygen.
I thought it was a moment that was not long ago, but my body was strangely heavy.
As if sandbags were attached all over the body… .
Even though it was my body, it was not like my body.
And in my field of vision, I saw Carly who carefully accepted me.
The way she looked at me and bit her lip was as if she was sorry, but I didn’t know why Carly was acting like that.
“Why… are you looking at me like that?”
“……”
“A little… I… I… definitely… saw the road. The flow you showed the instructor…”
Even as he spoke, his vision was strangely blurry.
“Cadets of Han Chun-seong. You don’t have to say any more. So… just focus on taking it easy for now.”
I had no choice but to accept the slight shaking of the voice.
I felt like I shouldn’t… do anything else now.
Really disappointing, I thought he had his own skill but there are already people who have the same