Condensed Mana Blasts

After making sure that their ears were not ringing anymore from the explosion that had just occurred, Calle and Edric finally opened up their ears and stared at the cloud of dust in front of them that seemed to be so thick that it probably wouldn't be going away in only a few seconds.

The two stayed silent as they wondered how big of an explosion Calle's mana blast did that it actually caused such a huge explosion that even their ears hurt from about 10 meters away from the source of the sound. And right now, the two kept their mouths shut and stared forward as they wanted to see how big of a crater Calle's kamehame- mana blast made with that single attack.

The thick dust cloud had finally settled down after a whole minute, and Calle and Edric were finally able to see the aftermath of the explosion.

Putting it simply, it was a huge crater. Way bigger than the man-sized crater that the ordinary mana blasts that Edric and Calle could make using a single mana blast.

If the crater from before could fit a grown adult male inside, then the current crater that was the aftermath of Calle's charged mana blast was not only able to fit an adult male inside, but the adult man could also roll around inside the crater left and right a few times without hitting the wall of the crater.

And of course, the targets of the charged mana blast, the 5 blue slimes, had ceased to exist, leaving nothing behind after being hit by the charged mana blast, not even a tiny bit of them were seen in the vast crater that could easily fit three or four people together.

"Wow…Calle, you're amazing…" Edric muttered as he looked over to the crater, comparing it to the crater that he made with his own aura blast.

He was the one who taught Calle how to use the mana blast but seeing Calle was able to surpass him after only a short time easily, gave Edric the motivation to make another spell that he could teach Calle how to use and improve again later.

He still remembered how Calle looked so excited and happy when Edric first showed him the mana blast and when Calle was also able to use it for the very first time.

Edric wanted to see it again because he liked it whenever Calle felt happy, the shared bond that they got as a master and a familiar, and also the dungeon sovereign contract binding them together, Edric could vividly feel the happiness that his parent and his master felt.

'I will recreate another spell from Calle's memories!' Edric swore in his mind as he looked at the huge crater below him.

And Calle, oblivious to what Edric was thinking, was still busy admiring how powerful a simple spell like the mana blast could do if he tweaked around with it, and wondered what other things he could do with the simple mana blast spell other than just adding more mana and condensing the mana together.

Calle could actually know what Edric was thinking since he was basically Edric's master and Edric was also not hindering Calle's from seeing all of his memories which consist of about an hour of his fun journey with Calle, and the running around that he did while he was still inside the white egg.

However, Calle didn't have any plans on intruding into Edric's mind without a clear reason, hence he didn't know the little dragon's plan to copy the abilities of the protagonists of the anime and cartoon characters that he had watched ever since he was a kid until a few days ago since Calle didn't close the access of those memories from Edgar.

Little did he know that Calle would constantly have the weird tingling sensation in his body every time Edric was about to outright imitate the exact moves and lines of those characters, resulting in Calle having to stop Edric midway until the weird tingling sensations in his body disappeared.

But for now, Calle was still busy thinking about the wonders of the mana blast as he finally moved on from being mesmerized by the huge crater that he created essentially using his own two hands.

"Edric, let's continue moving. There's nothing left here." He said as he gestured for the baby dragon to get back up onto his shoulders.

The little dragon hurriedly complied by flying above Calle's head, right below the ceiling of the cave before slowly descending on top of Calle's shoulders, and sitting there to rest his wings.

It had already become a routine for the two that whenever they were wandering aimlessly in the cave searching for the slimes, Edric would perch on Calle's shoulder and when they spotted their enemies, Edric would fly again and fight the enemies together with Calle, throwing their mana blasts together.

Their journey continued like that for quite some time and as they fought more groups of slime, Calle had finally found another fact about the mana blasts, and that was the difference between making a bigger ball of mana and condensing the mana ball into a smaller size, but with the same volume of mana.

When Calle just gathered mana in one of his hands and added the maximum amount of mana that he could handle just fine with one hand, the mana ball had actually grown about half the size of Edric's body, and it actually became easier for him to hit the group of slimes with a bigger mana ball since the visibly bigger size makes it easier for him to aim.

However, without condensing the mana at all, the mana blast that he sent was moving at a noticeably slower speed compared to the usual mana blasts that he usually uses. Not that it matters that much when it was still fast enough to catch the slimes off guard and blast them away.

While on the other hand, if he condensed the mana so much that the mana ball in his hands was only as big as a ping pong ball, it will have the opposite effect where the mana blast would actually fly at a blinking speed that Calle even doubted he would be able to dodge without putting all his focus and attention into dodging it.

And even though the damage that the two did was not too different when compared to each other, the condensed mana blast actually caused a bigger and louder explosion compared to the uncondensed mana blast.

With the bigger mana blast left a more stable crater while the condensed mana blast left a more rugged and uneven crater due to the mana being so cramped with each other that the moment they were released, they raced and crashed against each other, causing the explosion to become considerably more agitated compared to the bigger mana blast where the mana had considerable room from each other to prevent such chaotic explosion from happening.

Calle decided that he would constantly use the condensed mana blasts from now on since not only it was more powerful, but it also trained his mana control better since condensing a huge amount of mana into the size of a ping pong ball needed more effort compared to just pouring out his aura without doing anything to them.

Calle continued doing that again and again after each group of slime that at one point, he even asked Edgar to stay seated on top of his shoulders while he kept throwing the ping pong ball-sized mana balls toward the groups of slimes.

And nothing could stop Calle from getting even better and better at his mana control that he now only needed about 1 and a half second to conjure two condensed mana balls on both of his hands and cleared 4 groups of slimes in only 5 seconds.

But that soon changed as Calle and Edric soon met with their first real hurdle in conquering the slime dungeon.