Magic Training

Meditation is a method that helps you achieve inner piece. When someone uses magic for an extended period the magic stored in his core will become empty. To replenish the magic there are certain ways like sleeping, eating, etc. This daily activity can replenish someone's magic but at a very slow rate. When you are in a deadly battle magic recovery is essential and the faster the recovery rate the greater the chance of survival.

As of now the fastest magic recovery method is known as meditation. While you are meditating your mind will need to be at peace. Because of a peaceful and calm mind, you can control the flow of magic and use that flow to channel the magic from the surrounding area to your mana core at a faster rate. That was true for every race in this world. Because of this Magic recovery is one of the most fundamental limitations of magic that various researchers tried to shorten the time. But all in vain as meditation is still the fastest way of recovery. But that's not the case for me.

In my first dream, My mana core was a low-rank core. With that core, it was nearly impossible for me to become the man I was in my final moment. What helped me to gain power is not the mana core but the recovery rate. I had figured out a way to recover at a much faster rate. I called it auto-recovery. It's a simple method to understand but hard to implement.

While you are meditating you need absolute peace of mind. In the beginning, it was very hard for me to recover magic as my mind was always in chaos. But one day I figured out a method. I split my consciousness into two dedicating one half to the sole purpose of keeping a peaceful mind while the other part is for daily activities. I split my happy memories into one side while all the dark memories are on the other side. Since most of the time, my dark memories side are in control of my body I became an evil that wants to destroy everything. As a result, my mana was never lost and if a single thing was lost I would recover them at a faster rate.

In the second dream, I didn't know anything like that as I had a big mana core.

"Judging the facts I can't use the same method as the first dream," I said to myself. There are lots of reasons. One major reason will be that I don't want to live in bloodshed and revenge. On the other hand, splitting consciousness is also a hard process. I managed to do this that time because I had no other option and also I had a mature body. But right now I am not sure if I could pull this off with this body.

That doesn't mean that I don't have a way. In normal daily life, achieving absolute inner peace is very hard. Daily life is filled with lots of emotions such as love, happiness, anger, frustration, sadness, etc. To achieve absolute peace at all times, you have to let go of your emotion or more specifically let go of all the belonging to the world. In this way, you can achieve absolute peace. Various monks usually achieve inner peace in this way. But when you are fighting a deadly fight it is impossible to maintain peace. Because you are fighting with your life or people's lives on the line.

Right now I am trying to experiment with a similar method. In the training room, I set on the bench in a meditative pose. But instead of trying to achieve inner peace, I am trying to feel the mana around me without a peaceful mind. Usually, this process doesn't require inner peace. You can feel mana in any state of mind. But you need a lot of practice to do that. What comes later after this step is controlling the flow of the surrounding mana absorption rate. Without a peaceful mind, you can't handle this part correctly and as a result, the rate will decrease.

What I am planning is to bypass this whole process. I want to automate the absorption in a way that will not harm me and also keep a steady flow of mana In my body resulting in a high recovery rate.

In the meditation method, there is a phenomenon known as a mana Vortex. It happens when you get disrupted while controlling the flow. As a result, a sudden out-of-control absorption of mana forms a vortex in the mana core. This vortex starts to absorb mana from the outside like a vortex and quickly overloads the core. An overloaded mana core is like a bomb without any remote it can easily blast at any moment. Also, mana overload damages the core to a certain extent that the quality of your core may drop rapidly.

That's why even though the vortex is much faster because of safety reasons, people tend to use the meditation method.

So right now you can say that I am doing the most dangerous thing in my whole life. I wanted to create a vortex in my core and also I will try to control that vortex.

For controlling the vortex I don't think I need to enter the inner peace mode. But I do need to focus a lot. First I will create a small vortex in my core, a very small and tinny core. Then I will try to control that core as much as possible. If it goes out of control I will block my core using the talisman that I bought with me. Claire is close to me and if she sees a single thing going wrong she will use the talisman on me.

After calming my mind I started to absorb the mana inside me. Earlier I used a lot of mana so now my core is nearly empty. Soon the man entered my body. I very carefully guide the mana to my core while doing so I also tried to remain as peaceful as possible. Mana entered my empty core and started to fill my core. As soon as I gathered a hefty amount of mana I used all my focus to control that mana in my core. First I started gathering all the mana into a single point. After the cluster of mana gathered in the middle of the core I started spinning the core in a clockwise direction. As the mana started spinning I started releasing the mana flow. After a few seconds later the core started absorbing mana automatically. At first, it was in control and I realize that the speed is much faster than normal meditation. But soon I noticed that the vortex is getting bigger. That's a huge problem but I didn't lose focus, I started controlling the core. After a few minutes later the core became stable but bit by bit the vortex size is getting bigger.

As the vortex is getting bigger it started to become harder to control the vortex. At one point I decided to stop as I realize that any more will be impossible to control.

To stop I simply blocked the supply of mana to the core and then started to make the vortex smaller by scattering the mana. In a few seconds, the vortex is suppressed and the mana core becomes stable.

"Hah...." I let out a long breath. My entire body is sweaty because of the training. Claire quickly gave me a towel and drinking water.

"Thank You", I said to her as she nodded.

*****

That day I practiced a total of five times. Only one time I lost control and Claire has to use the talisman.

From the training, I realized why meditation and inner peace are needed as inner peace helps control the vortex much more stable. Also without inner peace, I can control the vortex up to half of the mana core diameter. During this time 70% of my mana has been recovered. On the other hand, if I switched to inner peace mode I can easily control the vortex more than half the core size and also completely recover mana. The only drawback is that it's a painful process and a few times doing it will quickly exhaust my body.

But it is still a faster process and I can recover my mana in just 5 minutes compared to the other method. I believe the limitations such as body pain and fatigue can be solved if I train more and build up my body. The increased amount of Chi will also help ease the process.

"So in the end I need to train myself," I said to myself.

My body training is progressing rapidly and started to feel the difference. Now I can run up to five kilometers worth in 30 minutes. I can lift 10 kg amount of weight for more the 10 minutes. Also, consent training increased my Chi capacity as I can use Chi to strengthen my arm. As for magic I still need to solve the issue of vortex but my mana core is started to change. It will probably take a bit more training before my core upgrades to the E+ rank.

As for the sword training, I still didn't start it yet. But I am planning to start my sword training after I reached E+ rank. I need to stop for today.

While I am washing my body with the towel that Claire gave me I looked at her. She has been observing me the whole time. Last week I said to her in the carriage that I will train her. But I postpone that because I realize I need to become strong to a certain extent. Also what kind of training should I give her is also an issue.

I wanted her to become my second hand. But I can't just make her a knight. One thing that came to my mind is that I can train her in association or the way of assassins. I never personally learn assassin's way but I know how to train an assassin. In my first dream when I was still training I tried to become an assassin. That's why I specifically trained my body as an assassin. In the end, I never learned because there was a certain technique threaded to you being a female. But from that initial training my body become flexible so later that flexibility helped me a lot.

The technique's name is ultimate assassins way. It was a technique that was developed by a dark elves master. That men spend the majority of his life developing a technique that in the end can only be used by female. I didn't fully read the whole thing but after I completed my initial training I saw that the method is made for women. So I stopped. But I know the technique now as I can remember every content of it.

I went close to her as I wanted to tell her that I decided when I will start my training but all of a sudden the communication stone started shining.

Both me and Claire were surprised as no one ever contacted us through this. Claire went up and picked the stone. Soon a voice can be heard from the stone.

"Hmm...Hello. Is this Young Masters training room." A men's voice. Claire looked at me and I gave her permission to speak. She replied, "Yes, I am his maid. What can I do for you?"

"The Duchess wanted to inform the young master that today a guest will be attending the dinner. So be ready." Guest? I become curious. I looked at Claire and told her to ask about the guest.

"Young master wanted to know who the guest is? Can you tell us?" Claire asked.

The men replied with a nice tune, "It's Barone Dumphy and his family. There are here for the annual harvest discussion."

Now I am shocked. Ann is here.

****

In the guest lounge, a girl is sitting on the sofa with her mother on her side. Her mother is currently busy chatting with her maid. Her mother is getting ready for tonight's dinner with the Duke family. Her father has already met the Duke. She had already gotten ready but her mother is still deciding on which dress she should wear. And now she is regretting getting ready too early. "I am bored." She said in her mind. She gets up from the sofa and opens the balcony door.

Its already started to become dark outside. She set down in the armchair and started to think about the last time she visited this place. It was one year ago. At that time she was still young and wandered off the castle on her own. But soon she realize she was lost in the castle. She started to become scared a boy with a handsome face approached her.

"Hey. You shouldn't be here." With an arrogant tone, he asked her who is she and where did she come from. As she became frightened by his questioning she started crying. So the boy become very annoyed but then he held her hand and took her to a hall where her family is. For the rest of the night, he never talked to her but she became quite interested in him as she started to look at him sneakily.

" I guess I'll meet you. Young Master Aaron."