AFTER SEARCHING AROUND FOR an hour, Wrik and company found an abandoned building. There's not much to note about it—the building might have been quite majestic in the past, but currently, all that remains was the ground floor while the ceiling was not completely in decent shape. The pleasant aspect of this place was that there were not many monsters here. While they were searching, they did find some goblins, but nothing else.
And the best thing that happened to Wrik was that his headache diminished as the night progressed. Though there's still a thin strain there, it was negligible.
They found a rather enormous hall to spend the night; it was in a decent shape compared to the other infrastructure. The emerald-eyed girl brought out a small square-shaped blue-light lamp from her accessories. Surprisingly, there's no heat emitting from the lamp, and the blue light lamp was not that sharp, but it was more than enough to show them the hall. There was nothing much in the hall, just some broken furniture and waste.
"This should be enough for today. We have the food and water that would last four or five days," Miss—the emerald-eyed girl spoke out looking at the two of them. "You two set up some traps around the buildings, while I make this place a bit more respectable."
Davin compiled without any complaint and Wrik didn't have any complaints against it either. They got busy setting up a few basic traps around the hall, though it might not be able to kill the monsters, but it was enough to alert them. It took a good three fourth of an hour to set those.
After setting up the traps, when they came back into the room, Miss was still cleaning the room. Well, in all this time she did make it utterly unrecognisable from once a wreck of a lodging. If they had any furniture, it wouldn't be any worse than any third rate inn. The cleaning continued, though most of the part was unnecessary, she was determined to do that. She was even using her mana in the process.
"Now it looks a little more residential than before," she commented, nodding as she looked around the hall. Her face was in sweats. She spent a good amount of effort cleaning.
'Of course, it looks more residential. You freaking use your magical power to clean even the damn ceiling.' Wrik mused inside. Then he coughed a bit to draw their attention. "We should talk a little about our future steps now."
Miss nodded and said, "There are some problems with this region, there was not much monster present here, maybe something fishy going on out there."
"Yes, there's something eerie about this place but it's too early to conclude." Davin chimed in the conversation as well.
"First, I want to ask the two of you a few things," Miss continued on a more important topic. She looked at him and asked. "What's your plan for the Trial?"
"Well," Wrik shied away a bit, then told her straight. "It would not be bad to ace it." That was his purpose here, but he didn't know much about the process—what needed to be achieved, what's the criteria here. All he knew was that he had to stay alive.
His words made Davin quite embarrassed but Miss who was listening to his words nodded before replying, "As we know little about the trial, our first goal should be collecting information about our surroundings and making sure to find necessary things like food, water or a place for living first.
"After making sure of basic needs, we should start hunting and try to find others. For starters, let's skip resting for tonight and get a better understanding of mana. I was told the usage of Maha mana would be easier after the awakening."
"There's three of us here," Wrik approved. "One should be enough for the night watch. Let's take it in turn for night watch, three hours each should be enough." Both of them didn't disagree with his opinion so he carried on, "So you two start with the practice while I guard first."
Davin seemed to disapprove of Wrik's volunteering, but nodded. He sat cross-legged and started meditation.
'I should apologise now,' Wrik thought, looking at the slender figure in the dim blue light. He wetted his lips when he heard her, saying.
"What?" Miss asked out. "If you want to apologise, rest it. You should've more things on your plate."
Wrik couldn't comprehend if she's saying that out of contempt or she understood his difficulty. But, he didn't ask; he knew better than to ask when what. So, he lied. "Well, I was about to thank you. . ."
"For what?" She asked. "Wrik Everknight?"
"For starters, looking after me while I was unconscious," he said hesitantly. "And now, understanding about my circumstance, I truly didn't have any time to spare. . ."
"I can guess," a rather apathetic voice sounded out from her mouth. "Well, I'm beginning my meditation. Stay alert and guard well. If you detect something, don't hesitate to wake me up."
She sat cross-legged in a meditative position while he stayed alert. Miss was quite proficient in using mana, while Davin was the same as him, barely having introduced to Maha mana in the trial.
He was quite surprised at first to see that she already learnt mana sense and discharge. Maybe she could manipulate mana even before the trial.
He had read about the basics of mana control in the notes Lucas sent. The elementary mana control starts with mana sense, in this process, one perceives the mana or Maha mana around the surroundings and within the body.
The next step was a bit complicated, in this step one was able to flow mana from the body to outside according to one's will. This step was called Mana discharge, and it was the fundamental of all the art of Mahasaying.
There were few other phases in Mana manipulations that he didn't know much about. There were other high-level applications like Branding, Destruct, Intent or Concentration.
As he stayed alert the whole time, the two of them meditated. He was glad that his head didn't hurt anymore. Wrik turned his attention towards Davin to notice his figure was now soaking in sweat just by trying to sense mana. Drops of sweat were dripping from his forehead. Davin was able to stay in that mediating state for about half an hour before giving up.
Soon, the three hours were up. The emerald-eyed girl was still meditating, while Davin didn't have enough mental power to concentrate on meditation. Davin gladly took the charge of the ward, as Wrik took his very first step in Mahasaying.
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For those that don't know, MAHA means Enormous, Mighty, Holy and Ancient.
The magic system of the series is quite broad, it would only be an info dump if I start to discuss them. So, I'll let my characters discover them as the story progresses.
— Thank you.
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