First star

"Again?!"

'Please, not now!

I have to follow the others, if I get inside that strange place once again I will not only fall unconscious for a couple of hours but also end up wasting all my mana.'

Hans put his hands above his chest as if he could somehow stop the absorption of his mana.

But he couldn't.

His mana was quickly getting absorbed by the black power and after only a minute, he was already only left with ninety percent of the mana he had managed to regain.

The absorption rate was even crazier than the first time,

So much so that Hans was about to go and tell Caleb he needed to rest.

But as he approached Caleb, his mana suddenly stabilized, and the power around his heart stopped absorbing it.

Once consumed that much mana, a change had occurred to that darkness.

A shiny dot, similar to a bright star in the starry sky, had appeared in the middle of the black power veiling his earth.