Chapter 289 Condensing Mana Part 2

"Sister Josline makes a good point. If you are to condense mana it might use more mana to cast a spell while it might be more powerful you will run out of mana faster and then you will be stuck in a state of mana exhaustion." Lillia finally spoke up. "But this is only in theory. It could also use lower mana as well but get better results. There is no real way of knowing without actually doing it. I have read a few texts in the past that talked about how oddballs as they were called at the time had similar ideas, but none of it was to condense mana inside you but during the magic circle process which failed miserably."

"Yeah, I wouldn't do it during the magic circle process because the spell needs an even amount of magic input to cast. But you are right, we can only try it and hope that it works out. But Lillia, if I were to actually condense mana inside my mana pool would it harm me in any way?" Blake asked. He wanted to get stronger so he could protect everyone, but this also required that he did not destroy his future.

"Even if it were to cause a problem at first, I could always forcibly melt the mana back down to fix it I believe," Lillia replied. She was not one hundred percent certain, but she had melted condensed mana before in a test to see if it could be done.

"Then I see no reason not to test this theory out. If it can make us stronger in the long run, then we should do it." Blake just wanted his people to be stronger as well as himself.

"We should have some volunteers to test this out first, no?" Erica asked. She was worried about Blake.

Blake shook his head. "I will be the one to test it while Lillia is watching over me. If there is any change, she can take immediate action. If something happens and someone dies while attempting this, due to my own curiosity, I would have to live with that for the rest of my life."

"Then we are all going to stay by your side." Sam felt the same as Erica. She did not want Blake to come to any harm.

"Yes, you girls can all be there for this." Lillia knew she could protect them and her man without issue.

"Then we will try. Let's go down to the training room just to be safe." Blake stood up, and all the girls followed suit. They quickly arrived at the training room desert area.

They formed a dome shell around them, and Blake sat in the middle while the girls sat to the side a little ways away under a barrier Lillai setup. Lillia sat behind Blake with her hands on his back and readied herself for anything.

Blake closed his eyes. The thing about mana pools is that you can feel them. You have a sense that they were there and how much mana you have, but you can not see them. So first, he had to figure out how to picture his mana pool.

He could feel a warm sensation on his back from Lillia's palms. He could feel the hot air around him inside the dome that was slowly cooling off. He could feel his lungs expanding and shrinking with every breath he took. He sought lower into his body where his mana pool was located and felt the warm sensation of his mana pool. This was a normal feeling. He could feel he was just above halfway now. But still far from his third evolution, even after so much mana use over the past few months.

Blake tried to picture the mana in his body as a still pond without a single ripple. He tried to picture pulling a drop of that pond up from that same mana pool. First, try nothing… second try nothing. Hours passed, and he continued to try to pull out just a single drop. He wanted to start small and work his way up, but he never thought it would be so hard to take just a single drop of mana out of his mana pool. It was different than moving mana through his body as normal. This he could do easily in any quantity but to keep it within the organ that housed his mana pool was another story. He did not want it to go anywhere. Normally when moving mana through the body, you pull it from your mana pool, and it would go to the places you designate, but once it was pulled from the mana pool, it needed a destination other than the organ the mana pool resided in.

"This is not as easy as I thought…." Blake frowned as he leaned back into Lillia's embrace to take a small break and think.

"Issues?" Lillia asked as she gently caressed his head. Running her fingers through his blonde hair.

"Mmm… I can't seem to grab a drop of mana from my mana pool and keep it in place just above the mana pool itself." Blake replied.

"Blake, you have to remember while you have an extra organ for mana, it's more of like a space that is invisible inside that organ. You can't think of it as the organ that holds the mana because, in truth, it is only there to help allow the mana to flow through your system when you use it. To do what you are thinking, you have to picture it as a space and not an organ. Picture the mana staying within the space within you and not being released at all." Lillia was not speaking a theory, she was also trying to help Blake as much as possible and was trying to pull mana out of her own mana pool without it going anywhere, and after a few tries, she did. But she also only thought of the space her mana pool was in and not the organ that moves it through the body. Blake was the opposite.

"Ah! I did not think like that. I guess you already accomplished this, didn't you?" Blake looked up at Lillia, who quickly turned her head. He chuckled and poked her nose before saying. "Don't condense it. Leave it to me. I need you to help me if anything goes wrong."

Lillia nodded and kissed Blake's forehead. Blake once more sat up and began working on trying to take a drop of mana out of his mana pool.

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