For being eligible of wielding that strand of mana, existed methods numbering in tens.
Beginning from that push of awakening till the employment of that gathered ethereal might, there existed numerous techniques to make the procedures easier.
Innate talents were an extremely important aspect that helped one in their awakening so did that signifying aspect respond to the atmospheric mana in likes, helping in higher and faster rate at which they gathered, purified, and accumulated mana.
The awakening is a facet that unseals an innate sense and perception to sense mana, atmospherically.
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