Chapter 103: Mana
Abel hurried back to his room with large strides. He took a deep breath, calmed his nerves, and solemnly picked up the “Beginner Wizard Meditation guide”. The surface of the book was covered with a layer of grey-black orc skin. At the center of the book, there was the word “wizard” printed in dark gold color, with a small line on the bottom that read, “Beginner Meditation”.
As Abel’s eyes stared towards the book, he became very excited. Becoming a wizard had always been a goal of his ever since he came to this world. Any information regarding the wizards had made him indescribably exciting. From now on, he was about to unveil the secret of the wizards, and he would rely on this book to become a member of the wizards, which made him extremely confident.
At that moment, Abel couldn’t help but press onto the Horadric cube on his left arm with his right hand once again. Since wizard Yveline, the magic tower’s owner, wasn’t at the tower, it meant that Abel could safely use the Horadric Cube. He opened the cube in front of him while deeply staring at the “The scroll of town portal”, his eyes were filled with desire and determination.
“I will for sure get you opened, and then I can finally go home!” Abel muttered, staring at “The scroll of town portal.”
All the identities Abel possessed in this world, including a coat of arm lord, and a Master Blacksmith… all of these things didn’t matter to him. Instead, the only thing that he cared about was his friends and family. His mother Nora, father Bennett, uncle Marshall, big brother Zach, Master Bentham, Black Wind, Loraine, White Cloud. By count, these people were all equally important in Abel’s heart.
“God, if I can really go home, I’d better be able to come back. Hopefully “The scroll of town portal” will have this ability and allow me to travel back and forth through words!” In Abel’s mind, he wanted to go back to his old home on earth, but he also didn’t want to leave his family and friends in this world.
“I’ll decide when “The scroll of town portal” can be opened”. Right now, the most important thing for Abel was to learn “beginner Wizard Meditation” since it was fundamental.
In addition to “the scroll of town portal”, there was something known as the Portal bag in the Horadric Cube. Before entering the tower, Abel had thought about the bag being detected by the magic tower’s owner. But that did not stop the risk-taking Abel from placing the bag into the Horadric Cube. The bag would only take up one slot anyway, so Abel was optimistic that it could pass the detection
Abel had come to this world with a magical item known as the Horadric cube that was tied to him. He didn’t think that anyone would find out about the Horadric cube. It was an advanced magic item that could transfer a person’s soul, and after countless experiments, Abel discovered that he could take out the things stored in the portal bag directly from the Horadric cube. This allowed the Horadric cube to fully absorb the dimension wave unleashed by the portal bag every time he took something out.
Abel gently opened the “Beginner Wizard Meditation” and roughly skimmed through it. This thin book consisted of 6 pages. The first page discussed the wizard’s general knowledge. The second page talked about the wizard’s way of thinking. Moreover, the second page corresponded to level one novice wizards, while page 3 corresponded level 2 novice wizards and so on.
Abel concentrated on the first page. Everything a Wizard did was founded on the power of the will, a power directly drew energy from the soul. While you couldn’t see or touch it, it determined whether a person could become a wizard or not.
Everyone had their own power of the will, but ordinary people’s power of the will was very weak. In order to become a wizard, you had to be able to freely transfer your power of the will. Perhaps, it was because of Abel’s soul was from another world, and it united with the original Abel of this world. Therefore, this power of the will was twice as powerful as a normal person. This allowed him to forge, train as a knight and draw runes. Time and time, his mighty power of the will had allowed him to achieve things that no one could have imagined. During his rank up to an official knight, his power of will got a few times more powerful.
According to the book, as long as the student of wizardry was able to sense their mind between their eyes using their power of the will, they would officially become a Wizard. The more powerful their power of the will was, the more gifted they were.
When a student of wizardry could accumulate enough power of the will to draw out a magic pattern in their mind using their power of the will, they would become a rank 1 novice wizard. They would need to unleash magical power on to this pattern, and drew magical power out of the pattern from then on.
The magical power mentioned in “beginning Wizard Meditation” was a strange kind of energy. Although it existed in this world, it’s quantity was very limited. The only way to gather these energies was through the magic circle. Just like the magic tower that Abel was staying in, the tower’s magic circle continued revolving every day, absorbing the mana that were lurking in the air which was gathered inside the tower. Ultimately, these energies would be supplied to the wizard’s meditation inside the tower.
These magical powers had a severe corrosive effect on the human body. When the magic passed through the body, it caused damage to the body. However, it also had a positive effect since it increased the lifespan of the individual while weakening their power and body.
The reason why those students of wizards were staying in the clearings outside of the tower day and night for years on end, was because of one simple reason, a longer life span.
As long as they are able to be promoted to a novice wizard from a student of wizardry, their life span would go up to 150 years, with each increase in level, their lifespan would also be increased by 10. By the time they have reached level 6 novice wizard, they would’ve had 300 years of lifespan. This was the reason why countless students of wizardry had come here. Even with a tiny hope, they wished to seek a chance to become a wizard follower.
According to the book, from the time they were able to absorb the mana, they had to take drugs to combat the growing physical weakness. If not, the day when the wizard became a rank 6 beginner Wizard, their bodies would get so weak, they could no longer do any practice.
Abel couldn’t help but wonder how the level 1 student, Finkle, managed to maintain his stout body. Among so many wizards, he was the first fat person Abel had seen within the tower, he was truly a unique gem within the wizards.
On the second page of the “beginner Wizard Meditation”, there was a detailed method in using the power of the will to draw a magic pattern. From start to finish, the pattern was drawn by a stroke of a pen that created strange decorative designs around a circle. The pattern seemed to be the pattern of a rank 1 novice wizard.
Abel had achieved a lot of things through the power of will. He was proud of it. If it wasn’t for the power of will, he wouldn’t be able to forge the iron base of 100 skills, wouldn’t have been able to draw runes and many of the battles were won due to his power of the will too.
With his previous experiences, he was very good at drawing these unique magic patterns. Abel didn’t think a complex level 1 novice wizard magic map would be able to challenge him,
Looking at the pattern chart on page 2 of the ‘wizard’s primary meditation’, Abel began to use his power of the will and tried to recall. He immediately realized why wizards required the power of the will to meditate. Without the assistance of the power of the will, it would’ve taken countless hours just to remember the pattern chart on page 2 by heart.
As the power of the will moved along slowly with the pattern, Abel slowly realized the size of the strokes and the force of the strokes were reflected by the power of the will.
During the day, other than cleaning the first floor, Sam seemed to know that Abel was studying the “beginner Wizard Meditation”, So he didn’t bother him.
Abel spent almost the entire day sitting in his room, constantly trying to memorize the pattern through his power of the will. If it was a simple pattern, no matter how much brush strokes there were, Abel could still remember through his power of the will. But the strokes in this pattern were uneven with countless changing of direction. By this point, Abel realized there were more than 200 different places under his pen. He could still achieve something if he didn’t memorize each of them carefully and proceed to meditate. However, it would be nowhere as effective.
Finally, Abel felt that he had memorised the pattern from ‘beginner wizard’s meditation’ as it was exactly the same pattern from page 2 of the book. With every change memorized clearly, he stood up and stretched. A sense of relief rippled through him with the sound of his bones crackling.
When Abel opened the door, he went to the windows near the stairs. There were very few windows in the tower, only in the disciple’s room on each floor. Here, he could look out of the window. At that time, it was completely dark, the time was moving way too fast for Abel as it was already time for him to go give Black Wind a massage again.