Chapter 160: There's no way

Chapter 160: There's no way

So, a person would think that my passive would fully take care of my mana, right? Its description goes like this: Mana-Fortified Resilience (Rare) - The user's resilience strengthens with their current mana reserves, boosting resistance to physical strain, and also enhancing resistance to various energies.The roots of this story extend from novell bìn origin.

What a bunch of crap!

The passive most likely doesn't negate the effect of too high mana fully, it might be because it's of too low rarity. Sure, it helps a lot, and when I cycle my mana as Lissthaniel showed me, I don't even have to waste [Focus] on holding it back.

As always, I blame the system and send a rude message to BenDover in the Community. He seems to be getting used to it and answers just as rudely. The guy doesn't know how petty I am.

I'm able to wait years for the right chance so it doesn't matter if the Community Tournament happens only every 4 years like the Olympic games or once per year. I will wait and then... huhu.

But dealing with my increased mana also reminds me of my other passive that is helping me with it. Mana Flow (rare), the passive I got from my Mana Channeler class together with the active skill [Mana Surge].

At the start, I was quite happy with it but as more time passed, I start feeling quite disappointed. The class needs a serious upgrade to be viable. Lately, I almost do not use Surge as I can do something similar on my own and the passive doesn't even feel that strong anymore.

Plus, I didn't even get a sniff of a sub-class. As I told Tess before, I think the sub-class is something we get after reaching the 4th floor. As for an upgrade or new Primary class, I think we will get it at level 150. That's when we will turn from one question mark to two question marks. Isn't that quite cool?

We also have already moved beyond the wall and our camp is a beautiful grassy field with white trees that have golden leaves. The stream of water nearby is the reason we keep staying here. People continue to bathe in it daily and we drink water to the point our bellies are bulging.

The only time we leave is to hunt some sparrows. The past few days were peaceful. We continue to keep a watch all the time, but there is not a single monster here after we killed the undead ones so we take it easy and restore our powers before we get ready to move beyond the blue wall that is ahead of us.

“You are thinking again? You should be paying more attention to your surroundings,” Tess says, but I can hear in her voice that she doesn't mean it that much.

“That's why you are here. But anyway, how is it going?”

“You would have known if you didn't spend most of your time somewhere beyond the white wall,” Tess pokes me slightly, “But it's going pretty well. Sophie is trusting me a bit more now, Maya still listens to me,” she pauses, “that also reminds me that you could give Maya a few pointers with [Focus] and [Armament]”

“I don't think she would like it.”

“I can talk her into it, don't worry. Lately, she is quite cooperative so I don't think it would be a bad idea to help her a bit if you are willing to.”

I continue to look down at the grassy green fields. We are both sitting on a skyscraper-like tall white wall, our legs dangling from the edge. The view is beautiful. A stunning, almost fable-like area down there creates a sharp contrast with the permanently cloudy weather and the ruined city behind the wall.

To answer Tess's question, I just nod. It shouldn't be too annoying to spend a few hours helping Maya out. I trust that Tess knows what she is doing and I need to help once in a while since she is dealing with this annoying stuff.

“Hadwin is also quite cooperative, he helps me a lot and he is good at dealing with Kim, Aaron, and Dennis. You could give him some pointers as well,” Tess says carefully.

“Oi, I'm already helping Kim and Lily and you added Maya to that. Just tell Kim to shoot rocks at Hadwin and tell Hadwin to defend with his [Strengthening]. But tell him to only use it at places where the rocks are going to hit him and not on his entire body. Or you can keep throwing him off the wall until he is able to strengthen himself enough to not get any wounds.”

What am I, a teacher? I can observe them a bit more and help them when I want to learn their skills or something, but right now I'm too busy with Lissthaniel, my mana, preparing for another construct. I barely even hunt.

Savant -If you wanted to act as if you were dead, you should have told Grumpy to keep her mouth shut.

Oh, dang it, Lily.

Savant -So how did you like Beyond's first trial?

Noname -What happened? Aren't you friendlier right now? Will you ask something from me in the next message?

Savant - As if. I just think if we start talking here a bit more, the third guy will join. I think he's one of the 13. Well, now, 10 people that didn't use the community up until now.

Noname -Or he/she is someone that started in Beyond the same way we started Hell.

Savant -Even you should know how impossible that is.

Noname - This would be an interesting thought.

Savant -You wanted to say scary.

Noname - Yes, yes.

After a few more messages, I close the window and think about what I said, then just shake my head. There's no way someone started in Beyond.

Then, while sitting and leaning against the tree, I look at the remaining members of group 4 who stand in a circle, all of them looking down at the fleshy, and in my opinion, quite a gross item on the ground.

Yep, I just took Lissandra from her home, the dusty floor of a nearly ruined house, and let her touch some grass. I also introduced her to the others, so no one can complain that I left a thousands-of-year-old grandma in a house alone and without any company.

“Are these finger bones?”

“I see some veins, and this looks like a fingernail?”

“...so disgusting.”

“Take it away...”

“Isabella, can you burn...”

Hadwin splits from the group and stops in front of me, and I look up at him, still leaning against the tree while sitting on the ground. It's quite nice.

“Nathaniel, what the fuck,” the older man says.