บท 39: Chapter 39, A Little Mana Lesson

Early in the morning, after Max finished accepting his rewards and making a quick check on his skills and his new status after leveling up.

He started to get ready to go to the university.

Although he didn't go for the past three days, and he saw that the university is useless. He still knows that he can't continue fighting, as he needs at least a few days to rest his body and especially his mind, while also taking a look in the Tome of Knowledge.

He just managed to read a few pages from the Tome of Knowledge before going to the university, and the amount of information in it is huge.

The book has the division system of Mana, the requirements a person needs to break through from level to level, and a huge number of magic spells.

Although he only found the way to the fourth realm only which is called Magus. He was a little disappointed that he couldn't find the rest, but Lena told him that the book would allow him to know the requirements when he is ready at the time.

He noticed something strange while checking the breakthrough requirement for the Acolyte stage, which is the stage after Initiate.

To break through to the next realm, the cultivator or magician, must have 100 mana in his body, and they must take the shape of a star in his heart.

Not the physical one, but correspond to it in the astral body, but when I checked my star before leaving my apartment, I noticed that I am closing on the number 100 but my star is only half filled.

That made me a little puzzled and a little nervous, so I asked Lena.

She immediately clarified all of my doubts.

Apparently, exceptional beings would be able to collect more Mana in their bodies in every stage than other beings, such a thing won't have much effect in the beginning but in the later stage when the Mana capacity of cultivators is very high, such a difference would make difference in prolonged battles.

After all, when experts fight, either the fight will end too quickly, like in one move, or will take a long period of time to the degree that the battle would turn into a battle of attrition.

Hearing her answer, I had a small doubt, which is, why doesn't it matter at the beginning?

Wouldn't having a larger Mana reserve than one's opponent make a difference in any rank?

She answered as such.

[In the beginning stages of the Mana system, cultivators would have to cultivate their astral bodies and their physical bodies using the Mana they absorb and refine in their bodies]

[And since it is considered the first few stages for them when dealing with Mana, they will have to learn how to control Mana as effectively as possible and learn how to manipulate it as it is a new sensation]

[So having more Mana in the beginning won't make any difference as that would only make it a little bit difficult to master their control over their Mana, but all people who manage to have more Mana in the beginning would manage to become terrifying figures in the future if they crossed these small hurdles]

In other words, what she wants to say is.

While having a larger Mana reserve in the early stages of cultivation can be beneficial, it is not as crucial as the ability to effectively channel and manipulate Mana, which is developed through refining the body and techniques over time. As such, the emphasis in early cultivation stages is on building a strong foundation, while in later stages, the focus is on refining and expanding upon that foundation to reach higher levels of power and mastery.

Hearing all of this I understood her point and didn't make any more fuss.

Anyway, for me the System will help collect the Mana, I only need to learn how to control it efficiently and to learn how to use magic spells, and those are things I can do in battle, so the road to the top is too foggy.

Of course, that putting aside the big hurdle called bloodline fusion, but that is for later.

Now, this is the amount of Mana and Sanguimancy energy collected in my body.

[Intelligence: 45]

[Mana Points: 90]

[Sanguimancy Points: 135]

(Note: This is after adding the passive stats coming from the passive skills of Max)

Seeing that I am close to 100 Mana points and that my star is nearly half complete, I could theorize that I will need to have 200 Mana points to be able to break through to the Acolyte stage.

As I was thinking about all of this stuff, I arrived at the university's gates without noticing.

Of course, coming here to the university didn't take much time, and I came walking without a car.

Do I have a car?

Of course.

But I love to walk as that can help me clear my mind, even before joining the university in the past, I usually walked from the main house to school in the vampire realm.

In the vampire realm, there are universities that we could attend if we wanted just like schools, but I decided to come to the human world and join the university here instead of the vampire realm.

Having large numbers of clans in the vampire realm, the 8 main houses will have to provide countless facilities and buildings for the vampire race, of course, they can study outside like Max, but not all the clans are privileged to such a thing.

Anyway, while Max was walking lost in thought, someone pumped into him from behind, if it weren't for his newly strengthened body, he would have kissed the ground with his face.

He was confused for a second as even without a strengthened body, what would make him nearly fall?

Max was talking while turning to look at the idiot who pumped into him.

"Hey, watch where you are going," said Max in an irritated tone, but when he saw who pumped into him made him swallow any other words from coming out of his mouth.

He just stared, with a stunned expression at the beauty that pumped into him.

He has seen his fair share of beauty, but this is his first time seeing someone like this.

She has golden hair and golden eyes. she has an exquisite face that seemed to be crafted by the gods, and her body's proportions were perfect in every sense from his point of view. She was also wearing a beautiful yellow dress that made her curves more prominent to the onlookers. While walking, students who are coming here are already paying attention to here.

The golden-haired beauty is Hayley, who Ava has just signed up at the university.

Hayley still doesn't understand why she has to attend university here with humans when she should be searching with her aunt for the vampire of the prophecy.

So while coming to the university, she was lost in her own thoughts thinking about a few things, and that's when she pumped into Max without noticing.

At first, she was going to apologize, but hearing the irritated tone and the disrespectful way of speaking that is directed to her, made her irritated and say something not understandable.

"Humph, you are the one who should watch his steps," Hayley uttered with a snort of annoyance.

Max woke up from his stunned state quickly but when he heard her words, he become dumbfounded.

How can he not?

After all, he was the one who was walking on his way, but then she pumped into him and then instead of apologizing, she asked him to watch his steps.

He wanted to ask her if she is right in the head, but because he has been focusing on her for a while now, a crimson screen from the system appeared before him.

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