Sensing Mana
For two days, Leo practiced with the mana thread ball, but saw no visible results.
Each attempt left him more puzzled than the last as no matter how he tried to mobilize mana, without having even a basic understanding of the force he could not grasp how to wield it.
It was like solving a math problem without knowing what the signs meant, however, Ben kept encouraging him to keep trying as he was confident that Leo would suddenly gain enlightenment one day.
Leo practiced for hours daily, yet the ball remained a tangled enigma, unresponsive to his silent pleas and focused stares.
Then, on the third day, something shifted. As Leo sat in quiet desperation, his mind wandered back to an old memory from Earth—a parlor trick of trying to bend a spoon through sheer will.