1 month after the duel.
My SP hit zero even as I added more pictures of a very naked posing Samael. That happened a lot after I got into magic. Nearly everything that involved magic was expensive if I wanted to gain anything in a timely fashion. There was a reason why most wizards were greybeards.
Samael gave me an unimpressed look as I dug through a pile of bones. Books of all kinds, chiseling hand tools, and battery-powered grinders littered my worktable. A small rotating engine rested in the room, blasting out tiny blue particles as it sucked in necromantic energies.
"I don't see why you want to learn magic when you already have qi," Samael said.
That woman had just begun shopping online with one of my newly bought tablets. She had taken an interest in buying things just to buy them. Now she couldn't.
What she said made sense. I was already over my head and drowning in learning years' worth of cultivation knowledge in weeks. My god light techniques were finally making some progress, and I managed to blast a pinecone with a narrow light beam. However, more esoteric skills like Light's Speed or Photon Burst were beyond me. Until I managed the basics, those buffs would be beyond me. Knowing that, I still went ahead and bought a mana core kit, several books on necromancy, and a negative energy filter.
"The experts say the best way to get into magic is to get a familiar. And the best familiars are made by hand. Its best for those familiars made by your own hands are either golems or necromantic constructs. I can fit my familiarity with nearly infinite energy with a necromantic filter-based core. Our familiar bond will also give me a leg up on the competition." I said.
"Darling, we aren't saying you shouldn't get into magic; we would like to get into it as well, but you have a lot on your plate," Elorael said.
"50% of those who don't get into magic early never take it on as their main weapon. If I don't get into it now, it will only ever be weaker than my qi." I said.
"It looks like a small skull avatar. The ministers will spread rumors that you are a skull tribe spy." Samael said.
I nodded my head. The ministers needed to die sooner than later. I would add it to my schedule and ask Temael to collect more information about them. Plans to build a drone with a phosphorus charge hooked up to it came to mind. Some C4 to blow up wherever they meet to come up with their dastardly plans wouldn't be a bad idea either. A Bluetooth camera to spy on them would help out as well.
"Are you really going to kill them instead of giving up on this?" Elorael asked.
The smirking dark-skinned islander elf clearly didn't mind a little murder of officials. But Samael looked much less convinced.
"If you fail, there will be a civil war, and if you succeed, my mother will no longer be poisoned. She will take one look at your projects and throw you out of the tribe. If she doesn't, her surviving supporters are most likely on the side of the ministers; if you don't get them all, they will turn my mother against you." Samael said.
The beautiful ivory-skinned elf's ears turned pink as my gaze fell over her. She had become quite the sub after we made it official. But, while she gave me blowjobs all the time along with Elorael, she didn't like it when I sucked her. Instead, she was the type that loved a good hair-pulling pounding.
I shook those thoughts away and returned my attention to the slowly awakening magic engine. It was a tool used in worlds where mana didn't occur naturally. A phenomenon called magic saturation allowed those around dense manacules or mana molecules to absorb mana into their bodies. This could be hastened ironically through breathing techniques.
Constant prevented me from adapting to a new breathing technique, so I had to find a workaround.
Magic and qi were two different sources of energy tied together. Qi might as well be lifeforce, and it grew stronger by eating qi-rich food and training. Even if there was no more qi to cultivate in the air, I could raise my qi with training. That's how I grew strong so quickly. Not only did I eat qi-rich foods, cultivate in a qi-rich environment, but I also trained to encourage my qi to grow.
Magic was the energy of the mind. It could be improved with a breathing technique in mana-dense environments, eating mana-rich food, and studying magic. But, of course, I was a mage, and what did mages do best?
They cheated. So, cheating should be second nature to someone like me, so I focused on my work.
Using qi-rich bones, I could create a powerful vessel that should be more than capable of handling a mana engine. Unfortunately, what I was doing hadn't been tried in a system user's infancy before. I was nothing but a newborn squirming in the cradle compared to the old vampires, ancient mages, and immortals. Most would save their SP and purchase a powerful breathing technique and slowly adapt their bodies to the pure mana of a perpetual mana engine. Unfortunately, a breathing technique wasn't an option. So, I could only craft a familiar and make a familiar bond.
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