Chapter 8 Mana Veins

After I reached my room, I started preparing the things I would need in advance, and it didn't take too long for my meal and the things I ordered to be served.

While they were serving my meal, both two maids couldn't hide the disgusted expression on their faces, and it was pretty normal since even I couldn't hide it right now.

This meal smells really bad, like it is so heavy that I feel like I will suffocate if I get exposed to this smell for too long.

"Lord Callius, here is the meal and the things you ordered in the list. Is there anything else you want to be prepared for?"

After everything was served, the maid asked me.

It seems both of them want to leave this place as fast as possible.

"No, that is all. After leaving my room, I made sure to tell everyone not to disturb me until I got out of the room. Understood?"

"Understood, lord Callius. No one will bother you until the next notice."

"You shall leave then."

"Yes, Lord Callius."

/TOCK/

With that, both the maids left my room, and I started preparing the recipe I got from the game.

Know that normally in order for 'Blackthorn' to be able to effective, one needs to eat this her for at least a month consecutively.

However, I don't have this much time since the anniversary of Nightfall's Abyss is tomorrow, so I need to be sure to make this thing work in just one day.

And to achieve that, I will use other herbs as well.

Demon's Delight, Hag's Brew, Dragon's fire, Blister Quassia.

These are the herbs I will use to increase the efficiency of the Bloodthorn plant.

But there is a very important thing I must not forget right now.

All of those herbs are used for making poisons or antidotes, and they are all pretty dangerous to consume without any proper preparation.

And the thing I will make right now will be one of the most dangerous things to try with those herbs as well.

But it is what it is.

I am pretty sure I will be able to handle it, so there is no need to overthink that.

With that, I started eating the meal with Blackthorn herbs first.

And I must say, no matter how painful it will be in the next 3 hours, I don't think it will ever surpass the distasteful feeling I am getting from this meal.

If I lose my composure, even just for a second, I am pretty sure I will vomit.

Anyway, it is good that I ordered chiefs to use some of the heaviest spices, and thanks to that, the disgusting taste of the food can be suppressed to some extent.

After finishing my meal, I brought the foundation-strengthening liquid from my inventory and gulped it in one go.

<Ding! Foundation-strengthening liquid is identified in the host's body.>

<The core strengthening process is being started.>

The moment I gulped the foundation-strengthening liquid, I heard the system's notice.

I can drink it later as well, but the method I will use right now will also enhance the effects of the foundation-strengthening liquid I decided to gulp before.

After I used the liquid and finished my meal, I took my clothes out and went to the bathroom.

The first herb I will eat will be Dragon's Fire.

As the name indicates, the herb Dragon's Fire is a fire-attributed plant and is used for fire-attributed poisons.

It looks like a pomegranate, but an orange one.

This plant will make the fire-attributed mana in my body go berserk, and my body will start to heat inside.

Know that even on the earth, if you want to forge iron or another metal, you would always heat it to make the bonds between the metal atoms weaker and weaker, and that way, you won't need to have a strong force to change the shape of the metal.

And this is the exact thing I am aiming for.

By making my body hotter inside, I am basically making the closed veins in my body expand in the circular axis while at the same time making them easy to process.

However, know that this process is very sensitive since my body is not metal, and I can't overheat it, or I will explode inside.

"Gurghhh, cough, cough."

The moment I ate the Dragon's fire, my body started burning, and it started to get very hard not to breathe.

"Cough, cough. Blurtt-"

Ah, even though I feel like I am dying, I can feel the core in my body strengthening right now, and my mana is getting purer and purer as well.

Anyway, the next step will be to inject the Hag's Brew directly into my body.

The Hag's Brew is a brew that slows the blood flow in one's body by making the viscosity of one's blood higher.

This is a very important thing since I am heating inside of my body, my organs will be affected negatively, and my heart will overwork itself, so I need to slow the blood flow of my body.

And after injecting that herb, I will wait for a bit to let all the mixture mix with my blood.

With that, I waited a bit more to maximize the effects of the Dragon's Fire, and after it injected the Hag's brew directly into my body from my arm.

"Ughh!"

The moment I injected it, it felt like all the veins in my body suddenly started expanding more, and I started to feel a bit dizzy.

It is pretty normal since, with the slowed blood flow, my brain also won't get enough oxygen from my blood as well.

After I started slowing my blood flow, with the increased size of my veins and increased pressure, the mana veins in my body started expanding slowly and forcefully.

"Ughhh!"

And, of course, it was a painful process since it is not a natural thing.

The moment pain starts to become unbearable, I will eat the Demon's Delight.

Demon's Delight is a herb that has the effect of anesthesia, and it will also strengthen the mana veins in my body as well as the mana nerves connected to them.

Know that the mana path's in one's body is very similar to the person's circulatory system and nervous system combined.

And when Demon's Delight is eaten, it will make the person feel anesthesia at first; however, later, it will make the person injected sensitive and very sober.

You can even say this is the key element to making the bridge between heating and cooling.

Since it is also very important to develop the mana nerves inside one's body to feel the mana smoother, I decided to add this step as well.

And, just like that, the moment the pain started to become unbearable, I got the sign and ate the Demon's Delight and directly jumped into the cold bath I prepared since if I kept getting heated, I wouldn't leave this process unscathed anymore.

With the shock I received from the sudden heat change combined with the anesthesia effect of the Demon's Delight, I started to feel dizzy as well.

And this will be one of the hardest parts of this process.

No matter what, I must not lose consciousness since I need to finish the last step as well.

With that, I started to give one of the hardest fights I have ever had.

Fight against the instinct of sleep.

Anyway, after waiting for no one knows how long, finally, the effects of the Demon's Delight started to waver, and I got out of the not so cold anymore bath.

The moment I got out, my sensitive body felt very cold, and I started to shake, and this was normal as well.

And the last process will be the most difficult one since, with my all-sensitive body, I will freeze the mana veins inside my body to make them strengthen.

And to do that, I will consume the last herb I have.

The Blister Quassia.

This herb is one of the hardest herbs out there to acquire since it only grows in the territory of Ice Griffin, and this monster is a 9-Star rank, so you must have understood how hard it is to acquire this herb.

Anyway, the moment I felt ready, I directly put the powdered Blister Quassia into my mouth and swallowed it with a glass of water.

"Huh, blurghhh!"

As expected, Blister Quassia showed his effectiveness instantly, even without a second delay, and I felt my body start to freeze.

At the same time, since I finished opening my mana veins forcefully, my body started throwing the impurities as well. Therefore, I started to puke the impurities in my body.

This will be one of the hardest things since I can clearly feel everything inside my body getting frozen, and I can't use the hot bath yet, since this would just nullify the effect of the herb.

Moreover, I need to choose the time to stop this accurately as well, since if I decide to went heat my body too early, the process will be meaningless, and if I do it too late, it will damage my body inside, so we can say that I am walking on a very thin thread right now.

Just like that, I waited and waited while puking all the impurities in my body, and I started to feel like my consciousness was slipping.

Yes, I was losing consciousness as well as my body started shaking, which means I am starting to show the signs of hypothermia.

And this is my sign of stopping this and going to the hot bath since, from this point on, this will damage my body.

Just like that, I went into the hot bath, and with the increased drowsiness coming from hypothermia, I lost consciousness and fell asleep not long after.

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Uhh, my head hurts.

I woke up with sudden pain inside my head.

With that, I decided to get out of the bath, and since the water was still not cold, I concluded I hadn't slept for too long.

I feel refreshed, even though I have a pain in my head.

All my body feels refreshed and light. It seems throwing all those impurities out was really effective.

And at that moment, I heard the system's notification.

<Ding! Host achieved a feat that has never been achieved before!>

<Reward for achievement is being distributed.>