Carl stretched out his hand and concentrated. He imagined the particles of mana inside his stomach and focused on gathering a little bit of amount. Successful, he then guided a good amount onto his upper limbs.
Carl raised his right hand at this time, and looked at it carefully.
'The mana requirement is met, but it's bigger than I expected, it almost took all of my mana right now,' Carl thought, as a quarter of mana in his mana pool was taken out.
'The next thing I need is the image!'
Carl visualized the image of dark fire—calm and silent—forming onto his hands, and in nearly an instant, a black ball started to materialize on top of his palms.
'Make fire! Make fire!'
Carl tried to imagine more but was slowed greatly as he tried forcing his body to make something else to appear. Carl did not lose focus, and remembered the 'devour spell' formation.