GENSHIN MAD: CHAPTER 5 (Patreon)

Chapter 5: Mana!

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That night I didn't know when I fell asleep.

The newborns, except for the [Level 5] young master, were ordered to sleep in the same hut they were in for the last 3 days.

I and Mean laid in one corner of the room and I waited for her to fall asleep. After I was sure she was asleep, I decided to try things up a little.

I closed my eyes and started to focus around my environment with just my ears and a distant 6th sense that I seemed to have picked up after reincarnation.

In short, I tried to feel the mana present in the atmosphere around me.

For the first five or so minutes, nothing happened. I wanted to keep going, but concentrating like this was… breathtaking. It pressured my mind a lot, so I couldn’t keep going more than that.

Guess I gotta try again.

I took a deep breath and started to do what I was doing again.

This time, I held on for a little more than half an hour I think, and finally, I was starting to see things.

It was as if distant stars were shining in the darkness of my closed eyes. The scene continued for minutes before I felt no other change.

…This isn’t helping.

I shrugged my shoulders. Guess this is the first fail. I have to try something else, I guess.

So, with another deep breath in, I dived inside my body.

This time, instead of trying to feel things outside me, I tried to feel Mana inside me. I believe this would certainly be easier than that, right?

With that, I started to feel for something like a Mana Pool.

If I follow the usual fantasy world, the Mana Pool should be just below my navel. So I concentrated my mind on that spot.

This time, my concentration was already at the peak from trying before, so for the first half an hour, even while nothing happened I wasn’t disheartened.

I am either doing it wrong, or there is no Mana Pool for the creatures in this world, to begin with.

After that, I decided that I should stop for today, however, I kept going for another 5 minutes just when…

I felt something.

A warm, barely sensible, ball of blue light rested on my stomach.

I could ‘see’ it, more than just imagining it. It was like seeing something with my Mind’s Eye if that makes sense.

It was hard to focus on, but I was in a moment of full concentration right then. I started to stare at it and visualise it further.

Soon, as seconds felt like minutes, the blue ball started to become more bright in my mind, and not long after, more details started to appear too.

The blue ball of light was spinning, as if it was a blue sun, at a very fast speed. From within the blue ball, mana was flowing out of it and spreading through my body in the form of bright thin blue threads.

Inside my body, there was a spiritual web spread around. It was similar to my Circulatory system but only existed in my spirit. That's where the mana flowed through.

Let's call them Mana Channels.

I was grateful for not needing to sit crossed-leg or anything. Because of that, I could do this while laying down and act as if I am sleeping in case someone comes in.

…My main goal here is to enhance my Mana reserves without levelling up so that I can get additional benefits when I do level-up.

I am currently level 3 and have [300 MP]. So I assume I get a 100 increase in MP on each level-up. But that won't do. I need a way to increase that amount differently. I will someday reach a state where levelling will take days or even months.

So… Do I try some breathing techniques from Xianxia novels?

Then again, I don't know any. Those authors just said 'XXX breathed in a rhythm and the Qi entered his body', they never cleared up the actual rhythm.

…Eh, let’s try everything available to me one by one first. Not like I lack any time.

First, let's try some random things. If it works, then it works. If it doesn't, then… Well, I will try again.

This can get real dangerous, but I have the "Player" attribute. All the wounds/damage to my body and spirit should be healed upon levelling up again.

I took a deep breath in and laid straight on my back, my feet and hand stretched out.

Then inside my mind where I was visualising my Mana Pool, I started to visualise a wheel, a wooden wheel.

I couldn’t even sense the atmosphere, so I can’t carelessly try and take in the mana present in the air. There might be ailments I am not aware of here. Such as; there might be multiple elemental energy present in the air, and if I try to take all of them in carelessly, who knows what would happen. I might just blow up.

…So, I will try this one.

Until now my Mana Pool was spinning aimlessly with strings of mana just leaving unsystematically, but now, as I visualised the Wheel, I imagined it to spin to the left, and to my surprise, it did spin.

…But my Mana Pool didn't.

This will be hard.

So, first, I needed to stop the flow of my mana and then start moving it based on the wheel.

The wheel stopped spinning and I forced the Mana Pool to slow down as much as I could. It was honestly hard, I could feel sweat trail down my face.

I even started feeling pain around my body when the Mana Pool was barely spinning, it felt if I stopped the spin entirely, I would die.

So, I used the wheel to match the speed of the mana pool and start spinning as well.

After both things kept spinning for minutes, I felt as if I was on the verge of collapsing. It felt as if I was taking breaths through a drenched cloth.

Then it happened, something clicked and I felt both the wheel and my pool moving at the exact same speed.

I released a breath in, as the mana pool went back to spinning at its previous speed.

I let minutes pass, calming my body down a bit, before going there again.

This was but an imitation of something called Heaven and Earth Purification Wheel from a published novel. The user of this technique is quite a guy, and I felt like this would work.

Now, I just need to make an actual breathing technique, because even this author never explained the ‘rhythm’. From the things that was indeed revealed, I assume it’s like; the moment I take in a breath, threads of mana travel through my mana channel, and the same happens when I release a breath. Only on the small intervention between each breath is when the threads don’t move around my body.

“...”

This can also get dangerous. But let's just see where it goes.

Life without a bit of risk isn't a fun one.

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When I woke up, I was sweating and the sun was only starting to peek from the sky. Everyone else was still asleep, so that's the least good thing about this sweaty morning.

Then, without wasting a breath, I called out for my Status.

|—=Status=—|

HP: [300/300]

MP: [350/350]

|—=Status=—|

...Wow, it actually worked. What the heck.

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