Implode: The Completionist Chronicles Book Eight by Dakota Krout

Author:Dakota Krout [Krout, Dakota]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mountaindale Press

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

You have benefited greatly from training under a Grandmaster!

Mana Manipulation has reached Student IX!

“You are already a Journeyman in Coalescence? You got there before you did so with Mana Manipulation?” For some reason, this seemed to intrigue the Dwarf greatly. “That is backward from nearly anyone else I have ever had the pleasure of discussing this skill with. Typically, that means you would have been using a large amount of power and not overly concerning yourself with its efficiency or functionality. Seeing what you have built… that does make sense. How have you been progressing since reaching that tier?”

“Not at all,” Joe told her straightforwardly, if somewhat sheepishly. “I can't seem to find anything that the skill counts as training with it, either.”

“A common complaint. Also, it is the answer to some of the issues that I have seen with your skills.” The Grandmaster reached out and tapped him on the forehead, right in the center of the golden eye tattoo. “Remember how I mentioned that your recent spell was ‘loud’? How do you think you could make it less so?”

“That would be… Mana Manipulation, would it not? Keeping it contained within the pathways that the spell is supposed to be using, and not allowing overflow?” Joe felt that this was the correct answer, even though it seemed like she was trying to get him to say that it was coalescence. He just could not fathom how it would fit.

“It is, in part.” Power swirled up from her hands, and he could see that she was directly altering the ambient mana to create a small illusion. “Imagine that the power flowing within you is like a river, and every time you are using a spell, it is equated to a flood.”

The illusion sent its water splashing over the boundaries and onto dry land, destroying tiny homes and drowning several people that had been within them. He could practically hear their screams as they were sucked underwater. “Do you need to make it so dark?”

“There are always consequences for failing to use power correctly.” There was unmistakable steel in Snow’s tone, so Joe decided to stop complaining and just listen. “You will also remember it better this way.”

New objects appeared in the illusion, large barriers that rose up along the riverbanks. Before he could start to question her, the Grandmaster continued to narrate softly. “Mana Manipulation can guide what is there, to a point. It can direct mana, it can keep mana within the channels as best as possible… but what happens when the flood is no longer contained within the scope it once was? In our example, that means a spell that has increased a tier in power.”

“It floods again? It goes right over the barriers that used to contain it?” Joe had an idea of where she was going with this, but he wanted to know instead of simply guessing.

“Indeed it does.” The image shifted to demonstrate the principle, and once more, tiny houses—these ones grander than the first—were washed away.

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