CLEARING THE CHANNELS

"Brace for the immense pain you are going to feel." GAMA warned Ragnar.

Ragnar didn't listen to the system and continued his breathing exercise. He was trying to achieve something. At the end, the system showed that his body was shutting down due to mana overload and his breathing was disturbed, thus ending his meditation. Ragnar almost lost consciousness during this time.

"Ragnar Avalon(Ragnar Grime/Avalon( past))

Level:1

Strength: 11

Endurance: 10

Agility: 7

Mana: 15

Intelligence: 12( 1000(locked/ancient/past memories)

Wisdom: ??

Ability: Body strengthening (F-rank)

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(closed slots)

Bloodline:

Troll (Low level awakening)

Elf(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Dragon (Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Flame Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Aqua Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Wind Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Rock Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Metal Fairy(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Illusion Fairy( Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Druid(Dormant, mid-level conc.)

Human Weapon Bloodline(Dormant,High-level conc.)

Giant Bloodline(Dormant, Mid-level conc.)

Flame-steel Dwarf Bloodline(Dormant, Mid-level conc.)

Demon Blood(Dormant, Low-level conc.)

Angel Blood(Dormant, Low-level conc.)

Ancient Beast Bloodline (unidentified, multiple traces, low-level conc.)"

His mana level had tripled but he wasn't happy.To think his channels were so weak that he was forced to quite after a simple small time usage of Troll's breathing method. It was a matter of shame for Ragnar of the past.

Channels referred to the path through which energy flowed within an organism's body. These pathways dictates how mana will flow around the body, how much of it will flow, what kind of mana would flow, where from it will flow and where it could flow to and many more things. Inherently, channels were something that weren't researched upon much in the human domain. The warriors of human race always thought that mana quantity took far more importance than the channels.

Ragnar thought in a different way. During his time in the then White academy, he got access to resources beyond the comprehension of the general public. He managed to recieve historical records, findings, experimental outputs and it helped him in his growth cycle. During his last life, Ragnar had conducted extensive research on the human mana channels. He not only worked day and night to try and find the entire circuit of his body, he also experimented and researched on topics like channel strengthening, expansion, creation, tempering, energy channel interaction and so on. That helped him create multiple theories which he then inculcated into his training. The knowledge he managed to gain through al his struggles was finally going to bear fruit today.

Ragnar was trying to do something that took him his entire life to do last time. He was trying to not only open up all the mana channels available in this body, but also create new channels of his own design and connect every single inch of his body.

The basis of this attempt was the memory journal which led to the creation of the final form of mana circuit that Ragnar had designed after prolonged research. In his last life, he wasn't able to complete his ambition. He stopped at fifty percent, and it made him powerful enough to defeat the sixth rank demon king, Hela and almost defeat the fifth rank Azarthos. This time, he decided to complete it and transform his body.

But the process couldn't be completed in a simple attempt. It was going to take a lot of time, efforts and resources to finally reach that stage. The body he possessed as of now was too weak. Hence channel construction is not something he would be doing now. The first task was to open up his blocked channels.

"Could you show me the internal condition of my body?" Ragnar asked.

"Yes sir." GAMA replied before the tab in front of Ragnar changed and showed what looked like a human body's anatomical structure

There were various options present in there along with various viewpoints, summaries, stats to show present conditions and so on.

"I will be using the Troll's breathing method once again and you will be recording the internal condition of my body. Preferably, if you could map the flow of energy through my body, it would be of great help." Ragnar said.

"It will be done sir." GAMA replied. "Initiating video mode. From now on all the activities of your body will be recorded and can be viewed."

"Thank you."

Ragnar closed his eyes and restarted the meditation process. His aim was simple. The first thing was to identify his body's condition. The next idea was to slolwy clear his original channels. It wasn't going to be easy. The elimination of blockage were characterized by two things. One was immense pain and the second one was an abundant requirement of mana. From his comparision of stat with the power he felt combined with the experience of his past, Ragnar could only take it slow. He felt that he needed to expand his mana reserves a bit more before he could start uncovering his blocked channels.

After one circulation was complete, Ragnar opened his eyes.

"Show me the video."

The video of his internals started. The same anatomical structure could no be seen with various filters, showing various aspects of the body. Ragnar compared them.

"Could you record my observation?" Ragnar asked.

"Journal mode has been used. The host can entry any of his words into the journal for future reference. Please speak and the journal, both audio and written format will be created." GAMA replied.

"Good." Ragnar said.

"First of all, looking at the condition of the host body, I observe that a majority of his channels are blocked. This might be the reason that even after having so many different kind of bloodlines, the host is only able to awaken one, that too with a low level concentration. I hypothesize that this is due to some problems during the birth itself. No matter, there no visible permanent defect that can't be rectified. We will begin with improving mana reserves, while simultaneously increasing strength, endurance and agility."

"Is the schedule created?" Ragnar asked.

"You haven't shown the usage of the other two things." GAMA replied.

"My fault." Ragnar said before demonstrating the other two arts he was going to follow. The system recorded all the arts and then formulated a schedule that Ragnar could follow. Ragnar experimented some more before ending the day with three more rounds at breathing and light exercise. The days ahead were going to be stressful and painful.