Chapter 25

--- 2 days after the confrontation; House of Madelin; room where Levi --- is staying

The small room was being lit by a simple candle, located in one of the corners.

The light provided by the candle was barely able to illuminate a small part of the room. In that small illuminated part, you could see on the floor and walls, some stains of fresh blood, as well as some torn uniforms, accompanied by small fragments of bones.

In all this time Levi did not leave the room, he was devouring the corpses and the remaining manna in them.

During the process, he was surprised to find another kind of energy in the flesh of the corpses.

Absorbing the manna from the corpses did not take long, however, absorbing the unknown energy took Levi longer than estimated, taking another 7 days.

At this time Levi finished eating all the corpses, leaving some small fragments of bones.

He was happy to notice that he was about to increase in rank, he only lacks 1 point in his magnitude all thanks to the manna he absorbed from the three cyber-wizards. Even so, he encountered something that made him a little depressed.

Levi. - I don't know what to do with the unknown energy. I try a few ways, he thought it was a similar process as absorbing mana, however, it always failed. Not knowing what the process is to carry out, I simply release it all.

He gets up and observes the situation of the room. Levi. - I'll have to clean up first -.

--- Half an hour later ----

The room returned to its original state, with no blood stains everywhere and scattered bones, even now it was well lit. Levi placed four lamps on the ceiling.

When he finished, he thought about whether he should continue making the potions or try to move up the ranks. He made an estimate of days for Madelin to finish refining the souls. He assumed that the earliest would be 3 days.

Levi scratched his head. - Maybe I can do it -. I touch his necklace, touching it he remembered the potions inside it. I look at all the potions that were on his necklace, but he didn't find any potions that would help him in his training. He can only sigh helplessly. - Well. I shouldn't waste any more time -.

Without further ado, he lies on his side and begins to absorb the manna from around.

---- 3 days after -----

Levi was still absorbing manna. He could have finished earlier, but when his core completely formed the tenth line, Levi compressed the absorbed mana as much as possible.

Madelin on the other hand looked like it would take longer, therefore Levi didn't stop.

I spend another day.

At noon Levi could no longer compress the mana, so he was forced to move up the ranks.

The "Cor animae" was having some changes within Levi.

------ In the Mind/Soul of Levi ----

The "Cor animae" is having a great movement, causing the four circumcising elements to come into conflict.

You could see how they wanted to be the dominant among the four, however, the conflict did not last long. The "Cor animae" glows with a black light which suppressed the other elements, then four vortices are formed in the "Cor animae", which begin to absorb the elements, leaving no trace of them.

When it absorbed the four elements, the vortices disappear and the nucleus becomes a sphere without imperfections again, but it did not take a minute for a crack to appear in the sphere.

Many cracks began to appear on the sphere, as if it were an egg.

Levi calmly watched what was going on in his mind, because Kame told him about the changes his core would have when he rose through the ranks.

The seconds passed, the world inside Levi's mind was no longer one of darkness, now it was a mixture of red and blue.

The cracks in the sphere stopped appearing. The sphere began to slowly fade.

When the sphere disappears completely, what I left in place is floating figure.

Levi looks at the figure carefully.

The figure has a dragon-like head; 6 small totally red eyes, three on each side; its mouth appeared to be that of a serpent, with large fangs; it has only two front legs, like those of a dragon; its torso is like that of a snake, with scales, most of its scales are black, with some red and blue, from which small needles like those of a porcupine protruded; and finally its tail, which surprised Levi, because it is surprisingly normal, a simple snake tail which made it stand out more.

Levi was amazed at the look of what came out of the sphere. Wanting to know more, Levi materializes his figure in the mind, appearing right in front of the other.

Materializing in front of the monster, Levi is disappointed to discover its actual size. - I feel like I've been scammed -. The creature that came out of the sphere/egg, barely had a length of 50 cm and a height of 30 cm.

Levi kept a considerable distance from the creature. - Can you talk? -.

A voice answers. - Why are you talking to yourself? -.

Levi is surprised to hear the question, suddenly a person materializes in his mind. This person turned out to be Madelin.

Madelin looks at the little creature curiously, then looks at Levi, turned his gaze constantly until he said. " It's your core .

Levi is surprised. - But why would it take this form? -.

Madelin didn't know what to say, "I don't really have much knowledge, but if I'm clear that this is her core," she decided to be honest because she didn't know much. - I'm not sure why I take this form, but I can assure you that this creature is your core. It must be caused by your blood of Ente and leviathan -.

Levi nods thinking that this may be the reason, however, he still has several doubts, "It will be best to ask the old man when he sees it."

They both decided to talk in the real world.

Their figures disappeared, leaving the creature alone.

The creature seeing that it was alone, took a position to fall asleep.

------ Back to ----- Reality

Levi asks the first question. - And how about? -.

Madelin responds with a smile. - Wonderful. It is understandable because the highest quality souls have great value and demand in the market. Thanks to the girl's soul, my understanding and intelligence were raised, in addition to my power, I even think that my natural talent also increased. I should add that after a few years I was finally able to advance in rank and I feel that I will not wait many years to move up the ranks again. She pats Levi on the back, making him understand that he has done well. - Well, let's talk about what's important-

Levi nods.

Madelin. - Apparently your core took a unique form, similar to that of cyber-wizards -.

Levi. - I think the same teacher and I guess as my power increases my core will grow, right? -.

Madelin didn't want to give them hope, it was the first time he knew about the transformation of a wizard's core. - I hope so. I wouldn't know what to say clearly for your situation. The only thing I could say is that the rank system of cyber-wizards is inspired by some ancient species and the entities are one of those species, so I can say in 40% that you will have no problem improving -.

Levi sighed helplessly, "I can only ask the turtle to better understand the situation."

The two don't stay long inside the house, they both go out.

Levi stayed in front of the house ready to train. Madelin was about to leave, but before he said. - Sorry -. Levi's face formed a face of doubt upon hearing Madelin. Knowing the doubts that his disciple Madelin has, he said. - I also absorbed the other boy's soul, so I have nothing to exchange for sword art.

Levi shake my hands. - Don't worry about that, but I'd like to know something else.

Madelin approaches with curiosity.

Levi explains what happened when he consumed (ate, devoured) the corpses, how he found another energy that he did not know inside their bodies and know why he could only find manna in three of them, but in all he found that mysterious energy.

Madelin understood what Levi meant, he clears his throat. - I will clarify your doubts one by one. First let's start to know why only three corpses contained mana, this is easy, because they

can use magic, I assume that the manna you extracted is from the three cyber-wizards and as the others were warriors who do not know how to use magic and have not absorbed mana, because they would not have manna in their bodies, but that does not mean that they will never have, they may have very little or a lot depending on the subject, but that does not mean that they are magicians, it just means that they had the ability to become magicians, but for some or some reasons they could not be, or simply did not want to be. Well now we go for the other doubt. What you found in their bodies is a type of energy produced by cyber-warriors and cyber-wizards or any living being to improve their physical abilities, which is generally known as aura. This aura is produced by the brain, heart and lungs, when the subject performs a highly demanding and efficient training, sometimes you do not need these three organs, but they are the main ones in most species. Well, let's move on. When training, they travel the aura through the body, improving it and thus overcoming their physical limitations, which when they reach a certain level will make the individual have the ability to use the psionic energy of their brain and awaken a power or powers -. At the end of her explanation she takes a bottle of water out of her space ring. Giving a small class dries his throat. When he begins to drink, he begins to observe the face of his little disciple waiting for some question.

Levi hearing his teacher's explanation, understood what kind of energy was the aura. Now that he already knows what it is, he thought about whether there would be any possibility of also using it, "After all, it seems that the aura has no relation to psionic energy, just like mana." He already made a decision, I look at his teacher who drank water calmly. - Teacher, do I have any chance of being able to use the aura? -.

Madelin drinks the remaining water from a drink when he hears his disciple's question. He gave her a simple answer. - Yes -. Hearing the answer, Levi clenches his fists in a sign of excitement, however, Madelin's next words calmed him down. - Of course you can use the aura, but you need to push yourself physically every day, but that only applies to those who want to improve their whole body. For example, cyber-warriors, they have no choice but to improve the whole body uniformly, on the other hand, cyber-wizards, most of them decide to improve specific parts of their bodies so as not to waste a lot of time -. He pauses a little. - Of course you will decide what to improve, if everything uniformly or dedicate yourself to only some parts specifically -.

Levi. - I understand. I'll think about it carefully -.

Madelin. - I can help you in that, there are some arts that teach how to make the body more flexible, hard, light, heavy or all in one, I will be back tomorrow -.

Levi. - Why until tomorrow? -.

Madelin says with a euphoria. - I will have an increase and the trials take time -.

Levi. - That's good -.

Madelin. - More than good. Now I will be an arch-mage teacher, my salary will be quadrupled and my chances of creating grade 6 potions will increase. In addition, little disciple, the discount when buying will increase, along with my prestige. Hahahahahahahaha -. Madelin's laughter echoed around.

End of chapter.