Chapter 232 Mana Core Refining

"Mom," He shouted in panic, the arrogant smile had vanished as a nervous expression appeared on his face.

"Yes, your mom. Now tell me, what is it that you are being so arrogant about," The woman asked coldly.

"Yes… ma'am.. No mom," Adrian stammered as he recounted the whole explanation to his mother.

After doing so, he felt quite proud of himself and was ready for some compliments from his mother's side when her stern voice sounded,

"You fool!" she shouted at him, "You are just like your father. Do you have an idea of what happened? Didn't you tell me already that the wolf had sensed you but let you be and you ask me to believe that they might have discussed their plans, knowing that you were already there," She reprimanded him.

As he listened to his mother's words, Adrian's face changed as he went pale. His pupils constricted as anger finally took hold of him and he screamed,

"Bastards! To think that they would fool me in such a way. I won't let them get off such easily,"

"Fool! Shut up and listen to me," Adrian was cut down as his mother shouted again. A small portal opened up as a fierce clap resounded in the room.

Adrian finally quietened down with a fresh handprint on his cheek, "Now, listen to me," His mother said as she directed him.

"Okay, so that's what you need to do. Understood?" She asked.

"Yes, mom," He replied solemnly. His cheek still hurt and he even felt a little dizzy from the force of the slap. After all, his mother was an expert in the Celestial Realm and even her seemingly weak slap was enough to shake him completely.

While Adrian took orders from his mother,

In a room far away from his, Ray and the rest sat besides a small box as they heard the whole conversation.

Previously, when they were leaving his room; Ray had slipped a small bug into Noah's clothes and when Adrian detached from Noah's shadow, the bug attached itself to Adrian. Hence, this led to Ray and the others listening to the whole conversation.

"So they want to bring the dean down, but why?" Tim asked, perplexed over why the Blakes were trying to bring down the dean. After all, in Tim's eyes, there was no one other than the dean who was more suitable for the job.

"There can be a lot of reasons. So we can't say anything about it. However, we at least know much more about Adrian and also know that his mother is a big shot as well," Ray spoke. Then, turning to Aliya; he asked,

"Aliya, being in a big family yourself, do the female members have any sort of position or influence? Like, your mother; does she have influence comparable to your father or even half of it?" Ray's question was very strange and rather vague.

Taking some time to think, Aliya replied according to what she understood,

"Well, my mother does have some influence but that is because she is the wife of the current patriarch. As for the other female members, they do have influence but are rather low-key as females of our family orient themselves away from family matters," Aliya replied honestly. For her, this wasn't sensitive information about her family, so she was rather easygoing in answering Ray.

"Hmm…" Ray scratched his chin as he started thinking.

"Hey Ray, I know you must have a reason for asking all this but could you please tell us what you are thinking," Sirius said.

"Well, I am thinking that since the females don't have much influence, then why is Adrian's mother planning something this bold? You all know that the dean has sufficient backing from the military itself and that the dean himself is strong enough to deter most people. So what I feel is that there is something greater going on behind the scenes and that someone even stronger than the Blakes is using them to get what they want,"

"Hmm… that sure can be problematic," Sirius agreed with Ray as he lay down besides Ray and started thinking over everything.

"Well, we will get to know more of it later. There is still a lot of stuff to do. Let's just observe Adrian for now and see what happens. Until then, let's just concentrate on our work," Ray spoke. He thought about everything for a few minutes and knowing that he couldn't get to the bottom of the situation right now, he decided to think over it later on.

"Okay," Everyone nodded as they went out.

"Emma and Elina, please wait," Ray said.

"Yes?" Emma and Elina turned around as they asked.

"Well, I have a job for you both," Ray said as he took out a map from his spatial storage. Spreading the map over the table in front of him, Ray called them both and said,

"This is a map for the infirmary. Over here are the food storage houses while that is the kitchen. This is the medical supply room and these are the operation rooms. Also, these are the lounges and that is the common area," Ray pointed at various spots on the map and then turned to Emma as he added,

"Emma, Your job is to use your system and sense the whole infirmary and check if there is someplace over here that doesn't match with the map. Also, I have another request. If you could, then could you please do a check and scan all the people present in the infirmary? This way, we will be able to know everyone present. Also, I want to assign you and Elina a role," As he said this, he turned serious and spoke,

"I know that it will be hard but I want you both to work together and choose talented and ambitious students and form a team. The students should have a good potential and will to get stronger. As for their initial strength, I don't care. Just make sure that their abilities or affinities aren't too common,"

"One more thing. I want you both to form two more teams. However, these aren't fighting teams and are helper teams. For these teams, choose those who can't fight or aren't strong enough but still want to work for themselves and have the drive to reach higher. Make two teams and assign these students to the kitchen and supply management," Ray said and then stopped. Pondering over for a moment, he added,

"As for their work. Don't make them do anything now and only assign them. I will tell you when to make them start working and how," After saying that, he let both of them go.

The door was closed and only Ray was left in the room. Ray sighed as he thought to himself,

"I am so busy these days that it's almost impossible to meditate and refine my mana core. Thankfully, my body can allow me to refine the core twice as fast as normal people,"

Then, he breathed in slowly as his whole body stabilized. His heart rate dropped as his blood flowed slowly. He felt the surroundings banish as the vision of his core appeared in his mind.

He saw the mana core revolve slowly while small light particles passing through it. Within the mana core were various dark spots as they formed a thick layer within.

These were the purified that interfered with the mana conductivity and efficiency of the mana core. Right now, what Ray was doing was using the mana and bloodline energy to flood the mana core and then slowly push out these impurities.

As for why he did not dare do so immediately if he did so; the mana core would be ruptured and thus damaged and Ray would not be able to advance further until he decided to destroy the mana core and then build a new one from scratch.

However, doing so would be disastrous as well as not only would he lose a good amount of his strength but would also degrade back to Mortal Realm. Also, the worst consequence would be the damage to his internal body as the process was said to be so deadly that if even a tiny mistake happened, it could kill Ray or even cripple him for life.

That's why he was so patient with this and decided to do so very slowly and carefully.

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