Finally, the training began. I clenched my fists tightly. During this time, I had to generate as much mana as a pea.
"Your body has a strangely intertwined flow of mana. Did you know?"
The flow of mana was strangely intertwined. Could it be the effect of a curse? I shook my head and answered him. "No, I only heard that there is as much mana as a rat's tail."
Isaac swallowed lowly. "I'm going to work on releasing the flow of mana."
I cheered up inwardly. Cheer up, Meldenik! To survive! To survive and make a locked diary to deliver to the Sufia Academy!
"Okay. Let's get started. Give me a hand." I held out my hand towards him. "Here, hand."
He laughed lowly. "Yes, Master."
His hand rested on mine. "Can you imagine mana?"
I remembered a little mana that was overflowing close to my heart. I constantly imagined the feeling of mana waving and the feeling of power being carried in the middle.
How much more time had passed? It was at that moment that I was leaning against the wall and concentrating constantly. I felt like a pure white light was shooting into my chest.
What does this feel like?
What did it mean? I felt like I was lifting above the clouds, and I felt like a pure white light was spreading in front of me. It felt like someone was holding my whole body.
"Oh, Master."
I felt my heart pounding with frustration. I leaned forward and swayed my upper body.
I think I just need a little more.
It was a pity that it felt like more mana would gather in my heart. I closed my eyes and continued to focus on something that was gripping my heart.
"Let's focus on the heart area for now."
There, something began to scatter like a gentle wave, like a flame.
Is it going well?
"Meldenik?"
But suddenly, Isaac, who was always relaxed, grabbed my arm with a puzzled face.
"I'm going to stop now."
"Yes?…"
Only then was I able to distract myself from the strange feeling of burning my entire chest. It felt like something was hot in my heart and something was descending vertically downwards. It was like getting motion sickness on a roller coaster. In an instant, his whole face turned bright red.
"Oops."
Isaac put his big hand over my heated face. And he started giving me mana.
"Ha…"
As his mana entered his body, the feeling of fluttering in his body gradually subsided. However, a strange sensation still lingered in the center of my chest. I began to cling to the cold, cool aura flowing from Isaac's hand.
He stood up and approached me. I strained my staggering legs to face him.
"No, this is a little…" The two bodies were softly pressed together. My body was hot and his body was cold, so I just didn't think much about it, but it became like a hug.
He muttered in a cool voice in my ear. "…If you move like that."
"…Yes."
"It's dangerous."
Isaac finished his words and hugged me roughly. My stiff, muscular body and my slender body collided violently as if in dissonance. Unlike when I only touched his hands, I immediately felt a cold ice awl pierce my whole body, and then I became dazed. I buried my face in his firm chest and gasped.
"No, why are you still…?"
"…There is definitely a problem."
Isaac muttered in a low voice and pulled my body away. I could tell that something was wrong with his words. Even if I usually went on a rampage, a simple mana exchange would be enough to solve the problem. But not now.
I could clearly see a small magic circle like a bluish vein on the back of my hand. He bit his lip as he looked down at me, still panting.
"Heh, heh." The hot sensation was gone, but the problem was that I couldn't breathe. I felt like someone was holding me back.
Isaac narrowed his eyebrows, grabbed my hand again, and muttered a low incantation. I don't know for sure, but it was probably healing magic.
"Whoa…" My breathing slowly became relaxed.
What kind of person goes over the threshold of death like this several times in his life! I managed to catch my breath and raised my hand and waved it at him.
"Something was wrong just now, that's it!"
"…"
"Hey, I had something in my hand, right? Did you see it?" Something appeared on the back of my hand and then disappeared. "It's really strange."
I carefully searched through the genealogy book sent by Prince Cassian.
"When the power of a dragon is manifested, a pattern like a magic circle is created…"
"…"
"I don't know if it's credible."
"…First, take another breath."
I frowned slightly. It was strange. I felt that the mana, which was clearly as small as a rat's tail, was slowly increasing little by little. It felt like something was pounding and pulsating near my heart.
I opened my eyes wide and whispered earnestly, "I feel like I've got more mana, Master!"
Isaac replied, cutting my words like a knife. "Cultivating doesn't mean that your mana will increase immediately."
"But it feels like it's really increasing!" I grabbed his hand and shook it.
He grabbed my chin and my hand and fixed my body. "Be careful."
I looked at him with wide eyes. This man sometimes made me feel strange and odd. He looked at me with a grin. His decadent eyes softened, and a smile appeared on his bright red lips.
"It's really improved."
"Really?"
"Yes, as if it was originally hidden in your body…" After finishing his words, he paused for a moment. "For now… The flow of mana in your body is moving forward. I don't know if it's temporary."
I nodded at him. "Anyway, the important thing is that I am still generating mana now."
Until my sister, Duchess Sheria Babyloa, arrived. Until Dominic captured the blood relatives of the Marquis of Kinnoa alive.
"Time is running out." In the meantime, I had to raise my mana capacity and improve my skills. Only then would I be able to stand up to Duchess Sheria Babyloa, to be precise, when my stepbrother returns with the approval of the Pope. Therefore, the only way to stop Sheria was through constant cultivation.
"And…" After carefully reviewing the plot of the original work, I whispered to Isaac with a determined face. "Today, I have something I want to do right after I practice."
Before Isaac could say anything, I coughed and turned to him. "It's for our revenge."
"Is it for our revenge?" His gaze sharpened for a moment. "Now, listen to it."
I began to explain to him step by step the opinions I had deduced. "First. Sheria is currently on vacation in the Holy Land."
"Yes, I know."
"Second, the Duke of Hesmann headed to the Holy Kingdom not long ago." There must have been a purpose to avoid being embarrassed by his affair. Isaac's eyes deepened little by little at my explanation.
"Third. There are rumors that the Holy Kingdom is currently developing new holy water and holy relics. He said he would distribute it to the Empire as soon as it was completed." Actually, this was not a rumor, but rather something I read in the original work. Sheria awakens her divine power in the original work and develops holy water and holy relics with the Holy Kingdom, which makes her extremely popular with people. What happened after that… She was going to marry Lennox.
"The last. Sheria and the Duke of Hesmann have always done business together." Lennox and Sheria were always perfect business associates who got along well. Perhaps the holy water and holy relics distributed in the Holy Kingdom would also be brought in together.
"Then they will try to bring back the holy water and holy relics to us with the approval of the Pope. To make a comeback." It was a perfect reasoning. I nodded at Isaac. "That's right. God is divine. I'll cover up their scandal."
It was going to give wings to a huge competitor to our stationery store. In many ways, it was not very desirable. Moreover, I found out that Lennox and Sheria were not very good.
I need to learn about holy water and holy relics. What exactly is it?