Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 83

Quietly reading a beginner's guide to how to use magic, I read through the introductory chapter, followed by instructions on how to start using mana.

It told me, using overly flowery language, to just get used to the feeling of mana flowing through your body, with your hair glowing, meaning you're doing it right, since different people apparently have different sensations when they are using their mana.

Doing what it told me, my black hair glowed, but so did my eyes, which I didn't see anywhere in the instructions.

Feeling a warm sensation coursing through my body and my strength increasing, I followed the next set of instructions, which was to maintain it as long as I could to figure out my limit, since it says people also have different outputs and capacities.

On average, most people should last around 5 minutes, but... I could barely last for one.

Feeling like I was about to pass out from holding my breath for too long, I stopped flowing mana through my body, and I took several long, exhaustive breaths to regain a bit of my stamina. I can't believe that it was that short. That is... honestly disappointing.

Flipping the pages in the chapter to see if I could tell if my output or mana reserve was the problem, it just says to practice it over and over again to steady your mana by controlling the flow of mana throughout your body, which apparently is really difficult for most people.

For me, controlling my own flow of mana came naturally because it was similar to Ori energy in my past life, with some differences, and I could steady my mana without any fluctuations.

So going to the last page of the chapter, hoping that it could tell if I had an output or capacity problem, it instead just says to repeat the steps it told me earlier until I run out of mana, telling me not to continue any further to the other chapter because the rest of the chapter is for a specific element and I would need a bare minimum amount of control for my mana since it would be dangerous if a novice started learning spells.

Since I have, as you say, complete control over my mana, where there aren't any fluctuations in my mana flowing through my body, I should do what the first chapter instructs me because, other than mana control, it also says that exhausting my mana will increase my capacity, which I desperately need to do.

Taking a deep breath, my hair started glowing, and my eyes turned blue. I was going to try something to help me recover my mana pool.

Mana natures, or something Boras had mentioned, said that I had two, one being to enhance things and the other to absorb things in my surroundings, both coincidentally or not, being the same as my aias in my past life.

With that in mind, with what little mana I have left, and remembering my fight with Boras and how mana flowed through my body, I concentrated it. My body grew hot, like there was a fire burning within me, and I felt my strength grow, but it didn't hurt at all compared to the first time I did it.

Keeping my output as low as possible, down to the absolute minimum, I then remember how Athrun sent out static electricity in the air to find people. I did that, but instead, I made a field around me, with just enough mana to keep it self-sustaining.

Feeling a tingling sensation on my skin and the mana in the air being absorbed into me, I felt my mana pool being replenished. With it gradually being refilled, I also put more mana in the field of static electricity around me, expanding it further, increasing how much I could absorb the mana in the air.

In about half an hour, I could feel that my mana pool was full. So, trying to expand my mana pool again, I actually try to use my mana nature, testing out its limits.