While I couldn’t practice my Sub-Technique for some reason, I strangely found that I could still train my meditation technique.
Through it, I discovered that the meditation was slowly modifying my body. My mana began flowing in and out of me naturally, like breathing oxygen, energizing me the same way a good night’s sleep would.
I was both confused and ecstatic. This meant one technique was considered natural by the system, while the other was viewed as artificially made.
Because of that, my body didn’t suffer any side effects from using the cursed Meditation Technique.
After several attempts, I discovered that absorbing the world’s energy allowed me to stay awake for at least a week—though not indefinitely.
Each time I used cursed Meditation, the energizing effect would last for a shorter duration, and only proper sleep could reset its effectiveness.
My progress made me realize just how unique the system’s meditation technique was compared to my own. By using Cursed Eyes, I could perceive the changes in my mana core’s size and gain a rough understanding of the energy contained within my body.
This was one of the effects I noticed from constantly using one of the Cursed Eyes features – Mana Vision.
Cursed Meditation slowly fed world energy into my body and mana core at a snail’s pace, allowing my body to mature and adapt as my mana core expanded from the size of a bean to that of a glass marble.
Once my mana core reached marble size, further progress could only be made through Cursed Meditation, which supplied my physical body with energy that forcefully compressed the mana core back down to bean size.
I had no idea how the system worked, so I wasn’t overly apprehensive about the phenomenon. I also found no way around it—it all happened automatically. Mana core development and body development had to progress hand in hand.
There were no shortcuts.
Bottlenecks occurred whenever I tried to use the Sub-Technique while my mana core was at peak capacity.
The world energy would be rejected by the core, and if my body forcefully absorbed it, the energy would run wild.
Through continuous cycles of expansion and compression, my mana capacity had already become incomparable to when I first discovered my power.
The downside was that I could barely control five percent of the mana within my core.
I also discovered that while practicing Cursed Meditation, I could temporarily modify my body.
When I inhaled natural mana during that state, I could combine it with my own mana, momentarily exceeding my limits and empowering my entire body for thirty seconds to a minute at best.
During that time, I could expand the resulting energy from my solar plexus outward until even my eyes overflowed with mana—just like when I used Cursed Eyes.
Ever since obtaining the system, I had noticed qualitative changes in my body. Aside from becoming more resistant to cold, heat, and illness, my skin had turned pale and flawless.
Even my birthmark was slowly fading, leaving me with the spotless appearance of a healthy baby.
Whenever my entire family caught a cold, I would either recover before symptoms even appeared or heal within a day or two.
Unless all of this was a crazy coincidence, Cursed Regeneration and Cursed Meditation were automatically activating together, constantly tempering my body.
If my guess was right, I could even use injuries as a means to heal myself effortlessly. Hopefully, as the technique leveled up, it would be able to overcome severe wounds without any side effects.
As for my family life, it also changed over the following months.
My relationship with my family improved, especially with everyone except Gustav.
They rarely left my side, and even when they did, they stayed within a certain distance, always watching over me.
With Gustav out of the way for now, life moved on smoothly.
I had already started babbling words aloud, making sure to say "Mama" when Elina least expected it, and "Dada" whenever John wanted some private mating time with his wife.
Even though I had only just turned one, John already seemed eager to bring another child into the world—something I definitely wouldn’t allow.
My peaceful baby life was finally improving, and another child would ruin everything.
John would always get frustrated whenever I interrupted his sweet moments, forcing him to hide his "little brother" back into his pants while Elina chuckled shyly beside him.
In the mornings, he would wake up annoyed by the previous night’s incident and head to work, starting his busy day with me on his mind.
With no other choice, he could only let me steal Elina’s attention. Whenever she was busy, my older sister would spend most of her time with me instead.
Without realizing it, John was slowly distancing himself from me—the little wife stealer. Whenever he mentioned it to friends in the neighboring village, they would only laugh it off.
Though he felt annoyed at times, deep down he was always happy watching me grow. He was also sad and frustrated that he couldn’t spend much time with us.
Even though he constantly thought about catching up with his family—especially with me—he always came home late at night, when everyone was already asleep.
To comfort himself, he assumed I was too young to notice his absence. He would promise himself to work harder the next day to make time for me, but the cycle never lasted long.
The constant mental and physical stress always caught up to him.
All he could do was create a mental shield and promise to catch up later. Still, my strength and strange habits never failed to amaze him.
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