Chapter 9 Mana And Aura

The moment I got out of the bath after I woke up, I heard the system sound.

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

< World's will is impressed by your actions.>

<Reward for achievement is being distributed.>

<Your core is being strengthened again, and you will have a higher chance of awakening your bloodline power in the future.>

Hmm, it seems world will is really a thing.

In the game, it was said to be a legend that doesn't exist in reality, but it seems this is not the case here.

There might be a relation between my existence here and the world will, but let's leave it for another day.

Since I finally managed to purify and strengthen my mana core, let's check the changes inside my body.

'Status'

STATUS

Name- Callius Augustride ????

Age – 12

Class – None(Sealed)

Knight rank – 0 star

Mage rank – 1 star

Attributes – None (sealed)

Traits – [Noblesse], [Perfectionist], [Prodigy], [Aesthetic Sense], [Tyrant's Aura], [Ego], [Witcher]

Arts – All-Seeing Eye (0-star) (%43)

Skills – Disguise

Stats-

- Strength – 1.0

- Speed – 1.1

- Stamina – 0.9

- Perception – 2.0

- Magic – 1.5

- Luck - ???

- Charisma – 5 (sealed)

- Intelligence – 9

- Perseverance – 10

I see, so all of my stats are raised by at least 0.2, and my magic is raised by 0.3.

This is pretty much expected since my body throws out some impurities in my body, and this is the process that increases one's vitality and strength or other body aspects.

However, the changes in my body are less than I expected, which means either this body is not inclined to the body development part or there is something blocking my improvement.

Right now, I feel like it is the latter since, in the system, it says my class and my attributes are sealed, but at the same time, it might also be the former.

Since the improvement in my mana is bigger than my other stats, that means this body is more inclined to become a mage.

And my rank in mage is reached the 1-star realm, and this strengthens my point as well.

Note that to increase one's page rank, one needs to purify its mana and understand of the general mana concept.

In the future, one needs to forge its own domain and concept; it is like the beginning steps of doing that.

However, in the case of Knights, this is different.

To increase one's knight rank, one needs to forge his body to limits and awaken the aura concept.

Aura is different from mana, and it stems from one's will to fight and one's will to win.

The stronger one's emotions, the higher the aura one can use.

However, that also comes with a setback.

The difficulty in judging the situation correctly and controlling one's emotions.

And to solve that, all the aura knights and household use different kinds of techniques.

Some of them focus on the control of aura rather than its quantity, and some of them focus on the control of emotions, etc.

However, that simply doesn't mean if one doesn't have any strong emotions, one can't become a knight.

No, they can.

It would just take more time to improve, and this is it.

Aside from some mentally ill people, almost all humans have emotions; therefore, they have the potential to become knights as well.

However, as I said, just having emotions is not enough to become a knight.

You also need to forge your body to limits and awaken your bodily instincts to raise yourself as a knight, so it is not something you can achieve just by strengthening your foundation.

This is also the reason why I am not trying to be a knight right now.

Since I don't know my class or the sealed arts I have, I can only decide which path I will follow by checking my stats, and they are not suitable for becoming a knight right now.

However, it is still important for me to train my body regardless of my occupation, so I won't neglect my physical training as well.

Anyway, right now, I need to instruct the maids to clean this bathroom since it smells pretty bad.

It seems I need to take another bath as well because of this smell.

Ah, so much work.

With that, I cleaned myself thoroughly again and decided to get out of my room after dressing up.

Although I don't want to waste my time standing still if I start training the day after I saw father dying in front of me, most people would become suspicious, and I don't want to deal with anyone right now.

After getting out of my room, I went to the nearby maid and instructed her to clean my room with another person as soon as possible and went to the kitchen to eat another meal.

After I reached there, I ordered them to prepare the meal with high-quality 2-star monster meat with 2-star mana herbs.

In the game, the more you eat high-star beast food, the better your mana and your body constitution get, and it seems this is true for general times.

However, as a 1-star mage and 0-star knight, if one wants to eat the meat of a 9-star beast to maximize effects, they would maximize their life span and die.

It is an important rule not to forget not to bite more than you can chew.

As a 1-star rank, one can eat at most 2-star rank beast food, and it must be a high quality one, or else they would get just mana poison themselves and may even lose their core.

This was the reason why I ordered high-quality 2-star beast meat for my meal.

However, it seems there is something different about the atmosphere in the kitchen right now, and I can't figure out what it is.

Normally even though all staff would obey my orders and not complain, they would have a scorning gaze in their eyes.

But this time, it is a bit different.

They are not looking at me with those scorning eyes anymore; instead, they have melancholic and sad expressions on their faces.

Anyway, it is not like I care about the feelings of that personnel or something.

They can feel or think whatever they want.

With that, I started munching the meal prepared for me.

But this tastes really bad.

In the game, it was said that the taste of the monster meat is not really good, and if one decides to eat this with mana-evolved herbs, it will get even blander.

This appears to be the truth.

In the past, Callius is known to be a picky eater with high standards for the food he eats.

And he never ate any food prepared with beast meat since it tasted too bitter and bad.

He also has never eaten any mana-evolved herb as well.

But I can understand why he hasn't done so.

In the first place, if I were Callius, I would also not want to eat this food.

Well, if I didn't have knowledge about the future things that would happen to him.

But, right now, I don't have any luxury to care about the taste of my food or other things.

Right now, I need to maximize all of the possible improvements I can take from this household until I leave it.

And eating high-quality 2-star beast meat is one of the opportunities to improve, and I won't miss it.

Just like that, I kept munching and munching the food until it finished.

Although I didn't talk to anyone while eating, I kept observing their status pages I could see with my art [All Seeing Eye] while increasing its mastery rate.

After finishing my meal, I decided to take a stroll outside of the mansion while trying to get familiar with the atmosphere around there.

Since I will sneak out of this mansion tomorrow, it is important to observe outside as well as know about the possible faces I can use while leaving.

Just like that, I got out of the mansion and started walking around.

Just as you can expect, the mansion is really beautiful in both an architectural sense and the natural sense.

The design of the garden was Austin's own idea, and since he liked lilies very much, he designed the garden while using all kinds of lilies ranging from yellow to red.

And as I kept walking, I saw the training grounds used by the knights.

I decided to take a look to see how they were doing and what kind of training they were going through.

In the past, Austin also advised Callius to train his body with knights, but Callius refused while saying, "I can't train in the same ground with those peasants.".

And these types of attitudes are one of the most hated things by knights as well as talented commoners.

You see, if one wants to become a knight, he can work his ass and can be accepted in some low-level noble's house.

However, if one wants to be accepted as a knight of the dukedom, then one must be talented and determined to achieve higher ranks in the knighthood.

And a talented person would be egoist and prideful.

And to make those types of comments to their faces, only Callius would do that here, and this is one of the reasons he is disliked.

Anyway, just like that, I reached the training grounds and started watching the knights train and fight with each other.

It seems they are pretty worked up by Austin's death.

They are training very diligently as well.

While I was observing them, I tried to use my art [All Seeing Eye] to see if I could see their stats.

<Warning! The difference between the rank of the subject and host is too high. The host is in danger of getting caught.>

And, as I expected. I couldn't see the stats of the knights.

However, it is not like I am not gaining anything from the observations.

No, I am learning quite a lot, actually.

With my trait [Prodigy], I am analyzing all the habits of knights and sorting them by advantages and disadvantages.

And I kept observing all those knights for an hour or so and decided to return back to the mansion.

And at this moment, I saw a pretty useful thing…