70. Dagger of Ek Chuaj

Getting out of bed, I put on clean clothes and teleported to New York. I bought coffee and cake again, after which I went to the moon.

I enjoyed having breakfast on the moon so much that I decided to make it a tradition. At least when there is time, I will always have breakfast on the satellite.

Half an hour later, when the food was over, I decided to conduct one experiment.

I had an idea for a long time how to slightly increase the amount of Mana in my body.

My plan is to first fill my body's reserve to 100%, then use the Mana from the Infinity Tattoo's storage to add Mana beyond the reserve. This is supposed to increase my body's natural mana reserve.

I hope so.

Having replenished the reserve to the full, I began to add Mana to the body a little bit.

When it reached 101%, I still didn't feel anything.

At 102%, it felt like my body was slightly puffed up. True, there were no physical changes. But it did not cause any discomfort and could be tolerated.

At 103%, this feeling increased, but there were no other changes.

At 104%, an unpleasant itch appeared all over the body. The feeling was disgusting, but tolerable.

And finally, at 105%, this itch became absolutely unbearable. I could hardly bear not to scratch. Although it is not clear what to scratch.

I decided not to add more Mana. That's enough for the first try. Moreover, I can only make things worse out of ignorance.

For the next hour and a half, I sat cross-legged in the lotus position and raced Mana all over my body to get used to the increased amount of magic in my body.

For the first half an hour I had to endure this disgusting itch, but then it began to pass and I felt better.

After another half an hour, all the side effects disappeared and it seems that I began to adapt.

And finally, I was able to do it. I increased the amount of Mana in my body by as much as 5%. Now the former 105% has become just 100%. It's great.

And most importantly, neither the density, nor the concentration, nor the control of Mana decreased at all. Perhaps the density has become even more, but I'm not sure.

But, I will not do this very often, after all, this is a very unpleasant feeling. I need to give my body time to get used to it.

The biggest disadvantage of this method is that I will not be able to fill my Mana storage for the next 24 hours, because I can lose everything that I have achieved in these two hours.

In addition, magic should not be used for the next five hours either. This is the problem.

Perhaps it only works because of my special body, which is able to adapt to all unusual conditions.

But, even this body needs time, so I will use this method only once a week. Perhaps in the future, I will be able to increase the amount of Mana not by 5%, but by more. But this is over time.

Having finished with the experiment, I teleported to my cave.

I wanted to check what was left of the Sword of Ek Chuaj

Arriving at the laboratory, I took out the handle of the sword and carefully examined it.

The handle itself is stylized as some kind of snake or possibly a lizard.

In appearance, the handle is made of what kind of wood, but it feels like it is clearly metal, of unknown origin.

Instead of eyes, let's say, after all, snake, there are two gems similar to rubies, but it is unlikely that they are.

Also, there is a pattern of gold color all over the handle. The snake's mouth is also painted gold.

This is all that can be seen from the outside, so I tried to use X-ray vision to see what was inside, but suddenly broke off.

I can't see through the material the handle is made of. This happens to me for the first time.

This sword is most likely of technological production, so I turned into an Upgrade and tried to soak into the hilt.

And broke down again. As I thought, this sword is a mixture of magic and technology, just like my spatial storage.

The upgrade is not able to soak into such magic-technologies. I already tried, but it didn't work. It's beyond his ability.

Therefore, I was never able to reproduce the same inventory as mine. Maybe in technology I understand well, but in magic I am, so far, a complete zero.

Well, we are all not perfect.

Since it's really related to magic, I can do my favorite trick and pump up this hilt with my Mana. Maybe something will come out of this.

Unfortunately, I shouldn't use my magical energy at the moment, but I can always use the reserve from storage.

Taking the hilt of the sword in my hand, I began to feed my Mana from the storage into it. So, I will not lose my progress, but I will be able to learn something about this sword.

Half an hour later, when the hilt had soaked up about a quarter of what was in storage, it finally began to respond.

First, all the gold patterns changed color to blue like my magic.

After that, a blue-colored energy blade began to appear from the handle. The blade itself was only 40 centimeters, so it was more of a dagger than a sword.

I was right. The energy source of the dagger is magic, and apparently all the time that it was kept in the Mayan temple, it worked on the previously accumulated power.

I can't imagine how much energy there was in the dagger before, if for so many millennia it could maintain its shape until it crumbled in Grandfather's hands.

I decided to test my new dagger, but since it is said that a single blow of it can destroy an entire city, I decided not to risk my base and teleported to Mars.

Finding a good target, I tightened my grip on the dagger and swung it.

The dagger shone blue, after which, a meter-long blue slash escaped from the blade.

Slash flew several meters, then crashed into a rock and completely destroyed it.

Pretty powerful, but not like in the legends. Maybe it's just not enough energy. Well, I'll find out about it in the future.

By the way, as soon as I released the slash, some information about this dagger came to my mind. However, I love all things magical. Always all the information comes immediately to the head.

In general, this dagger is able to cut through everything magical.

The sword that I created before is not capable of cutting through my magic constructs, only destroying it with bare force, and this despite the laser edge.

And this dagger can cut everything, absolutely everything, magical. At least what works on Mana.

In addition, he himself is very sharp and can easily cut through many things. The same Big Tick this dagger would cut without problems.

And that's not counting the power of the slash.

The slash itself can cut through an entire building. True, this is in the future, when the dagger gets used to me and absorbs more Mana.

And the best thing is, from now on, this dagger belongs only to me. Only I can use it and only in my hands will it work.

Even if it was stolen, it will be able to return to me. It's not really clear how.

In fact, this dagger is very dangerous in my hands. After all, I studied knife fighting and I know how to use just such a dagger.

And if I use aliens who have a physique close to me, like the Osmosian, for example, then the dagger will become even more dangerous.

For example, the same Fasttrack. He is strong, agile, flexible, and most importantly very fast. With a combination of Fasttrack and a dagger, I can become incredibly deadly.

This is what I decided to check.

Turning into Fasttrack, the first thing I did was carefully examine myself.

Surprisingly, I was very different from Ben's Fasttrack.

Firstly, I was two meters and the figure was quite powerful, like a swimmer. Even more powerful than mine.

Ben's Fasttrack ​​was lower and his figure was frail.

In fact, my alien no longer looks like Ben's Fasttrack, but Ben's 23 Fastcat. But again, mine is clearly stronger.

The arms also have spikes similar to Batman's and they are quite sharp. They are light blue. There are some on the legs too. The main body of Fasttrack ​​itself is blue and I am wearing only black shorts. On the chest there is wool of light blue color. It also has a not very long tail.

Taking the dagger in a reverse grip, I began to use my Fasttrack abilities to the fullest, along with my knife fighting skills.

As I predicted, it was powerful and deadly.

I really liked this combination, so I will try to use it more often in the future somehow.

I spent another hour on Mars, after which I teleported to the hotel.

Everyone was already awake, so we took our things and left them on the bus. After that, we had breakfast at the hotel and again returned to the beach.

By common agreement, we will stay on the beach until six in the evening, after which I will return us to the border and we will return to the USA and continue travel to Las Vegas.

So we did, but the girls got a little carried away and we were able to return to the bus only at seven in the evening.

With the help of the map, I found the perfect place to teleport, near the city of Mexicali. Unfortunately, you can't teleport directly to the USA, otherwise there will be a lot of uncomfortable questions for us.

So, using Echo-Echo, I created clones and together we teleported the RV.

Once near the border, I returned to the bus, Grandpa started it and we went to Las Vegas, where we arrived at midnight.

Quickly finding a good hotel, we rented our favorite room and immediately went to bed.

I wonder if our shared dream with Hope will repeat again today?

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