571 High Hopes

Wolfe looked over his handiwork with pride. He had just finished with the older witches, and he was about to start awakening the younger ones. This was always his favourite part, seeing the reactions of the Elders when the teenaged witches started to gain auras after only a few moments of work.

So, when he started on the gentle cleansing and awakening of the barefoot group of potential successors and prodigies, Wolfe put in a little extra effort to nudge them along the way without putting in enough mana to cause an inappropriate physical response.

A slow infusion for witches whose aura hadn't started to form was enough, and they would barely feel it until the dam broke, and the mana stored in their body started to form their aura, at which point it would only feel like an explosion of power from within them, an intensified version of the natural awakening process.