Chapter 287: Push and Pull

Chapter 287: Push and Pull

If his hypothesis was correct

Gerald didn't even want to think about it, he was already shaking with excitement as is. He also didn't want to hype himself up too much in case he was wrong.

He clapped his hands and then rubbed them together, "Well, there's only one thing left to do!" He chuckled quietly and rose to the skies.

"Murder everything in sight! Let's go!"

The space around him twisted, and he began falling sideways. It was quite interesting having the ability to manipulate gravity in this way. There were some tricks to go much faster, but it was expensive to do so.

For 1G acceleration, he had to burn through about 1MP/s, and the terminal velocity was around 200km/h. Updated from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

If he wanted to go faster, more energy was required to counteract air resistance. 2G equaled to 2MP/s, and 3G needed 4MP/s, etc. It went on like that exponentially, probably into infinity.

It became increasingly less efficient to travel at faster speeds, and it also became cold, so Gerald limited himself to fly at the lowest speed most of the time.

In the vacuum of space, such abilities would have been godlike, especially on long travels, but in a dense atmosphere of a planet, it was just okay. Too much drag.

In any case, as he traveled a dozen kilometers or so, the beasts' attacks became powerful and aggressive again. So much death everywhere, he didn't even have to do anything.

He would just fly above the battle, absorb a hundred or so dead monsters/people and then find a quiet spot to digest his catch.

He, of course, helped kill a few Orcs every time he did so to help the morale of the soldiers below. Repeating this cycle many times, an entire day went by while his Aura grew by 20%.

It took him months to get here, and now a day in this war equaled to previous months of hard work. It was crazy to think about it, but Gerald didn't complain.

"Yup, that's crazy" He closed his pocket watch and barely held back his smile. "Less than an hour, god damn!"

His Mana regeneration finally exceeded his actual Mana stores.

"More than 1.000MP/h, oh man! It's getting difficult to get an accurate measurement."

"I Uh" Gerald stared blankly at the empty space. He was dumbfounded.

"I didn't even touch it!" He protested out loud to nobody in particular.

"Okay, okay Maybe I touched it, but it was just a little!" He momentarily entered a thinking mode where his eyes narrowed and his lips pouted while releasing a long and pondering "Hmmmmm."

After a bit, he created another Mana swirl, touched it, and willed it to ignite.

Woosh!

The Mana swirl went up in flames. Again.

"Hm?" He aggressively lifted one eyebrow and tried something else. Soon a small light was born beside him, and a piece of rock reshaped itself into a bolt.

"Oh? Oh. Oh! Yohoho! Ahahaha!" He erupted into a bout of uncontrolled laughter. His suspicions were confirmed. "Dude! No way! That's amazing!"

He could barely keep it together, and the culprit was the new discovery which was

He could use magic! Without a drop of Mana! Or at least, he didn't use any Mana that belonged to him! Commanding ownerless Mana outside of his body! If anyone heard of it

"Fuck me! That's awesome!" There was a drawback, of course, there always was. Despite being able to command Mana in his near vicinity, since it was outside of his body it required much more effort. He couldn't just mobilize hundreds of spells in a few seconds like he could with his own energy stores or Crystals, but still

"Yup, I love my life, and I love magic! Hell yeah!" Gerald punched into the air in excitement.

While being the most flashy ability, it wasn't actually that useful. There was, however, something invisible to the naked eye, that carried much more value.

Now that he could interact with Mana on his own terms, he could push...or pull it into his body!

Remember the hard limits of regeneration? Yup! They are gone! With enough effort, Gerald could now stuff more Mana inside his body at once!

A whopping 1,4% increase!