Chapter 817 Chapter 816: Downtime (1)
"Alright, well I'll get some teams drawn up; Mary, stay with me and give me an idea on the strengths and weaknesses of your people. I'll call the rest of you back over in an hour or so. Until then, go do whatever. Just remain nearby and otherwise ready to work at a moments notice, so no mysterious disappearances! Got that?"
Satanya glared at Jahi and I as she said that, with Jahi lifted her head from my shoulder to smirk as she said "Sure, sure..." while I just shrugged, not giving the red skinned woman a definitive answer.
Snorting, she just decided to ignore us and get to work, looking down at the maps before grabbing a new piece of paper and jotting some things down, talking to Mary in a quiet voice.
"So what are we going to do?" You'll discover the inception of this content at n0v@lbin★
Looking at Jahi, I reached up to pat her cheek as I said "I'm going to be meditating for a bit, figure out how to tap into that new mana some. So... I'm going to need quiet and peace."
Pouting, Jahi just looked over at Anput and Leone next, before her pout deepened as I added "And try not to be a disturbance, Jahi. Surely you can find a corner to train in, or perhaps there's a library in the city somewhere? Just... don't be a nuisance."
"I would NEVER be a nuisance! Hmph... Fine! I'll take a walk around the city, get an idea on just what state it is in. Leone, want to come with?"
When that was all done, the Jackalkin first engraved a Fire Ritual Circle into the bottom of the furnace and ignited it, after which she shoveled some of the coal she brought into the furnace to fuel the flames even more, allowing her to focus on her forging instead of keeping the flames going.
After that, she picked up an ingot and got to work, placing it into the flames and organizing her workspace whilst I placed a barrier of wind around her to keep the sound from leaking out, drawing even more attention to this corner as the humans muttered to one another curiously.
We both ignored them, and I took a seat just outside of the dome and pulled out one of my notebooks, beginning to go over what I knew about my incredibly brief ability to utilize Lust Mana and try to figure out a way to regain that ability, even if it was in a limited capacity.
To start, I took a moment to recall the talk between Cali and I, going over the words she spoke and the potential clues laced within each one, jotting down the obvious and working my way into the nuance.
What was immediately crystal clear was that where my Ice Magic was entirely logic driven and based in cold, hard equations, interactions and reactions, truths and falsities, the realm of Lust Magic was entirely driven by emotions and desire.
There was no runes to give shape to this type of mana, no sequences or combinations to take the raw product and create something new; with it, you took the mana directly and molded it to your will, something that seemed so foreign to me now that I had been so engrossed and accustomed to the current system of magic I found myself in.
Rune Magic and Incantations were both similar branches of magic in the sense that they took the mana and funneled it into a vessel - runes and words respectively - to give them shape and purpose.
The runes for a healing spell, the words 'heal', 'cure', 'mend' and more both gave meaning to the mana, and that meaning was set in stone; no matter what, those spells would heal someone, though the strength of the spell depended on the mana.
I couldn't recall ever once seeing Cali truly utilize any runes in her displays, instead just waving her hand and willing her mana to do something that she herself desired; that was the initial clue I had been given, and it was there that I had to start as I began to write whatever came to mind in my notebook.