Chapter: 29

Jay never paid them enough attention to be corrected.

“Imagine a mana rope flowing from the gentle river of mana, pull it into your mind, make it a part of you”

Jay began to sense the ambient mana.

‘Fuzzy’ was the only way he could describe it.

Attempting to form it into a rope, his effort was in vain.

At most, it would be like the swaying grasses on the marsh. Of course, he wouldn’t get it in the first 10 minutes, so he kept concentrating and changed his approach

“Imagine a deep well, at the bottom of the mana river, sucking in and filling up all ambient mana”

He felt the mana coalescing and moving and forming a slightly more dense spot.

“I’m doing it, yes” Jay thought

He distracted himself with his excitement and the spot became slightly less dense. He recovered his focus and imagined the bottom of the well moving into his body.

Suddenly, he felt full – not full in the stomach sense, but more like he was full of energy. Maintaining his composure, he continued to channel the ambient mana into his body.

The extra energy began to make his forehead sweat as he started to rock back and forwarth. It was an hour before he stopped. Checking his energy, he was pleased with himself; as it took great concentration to get more energy back.

Energy: 18/30

“Hmm, so about 100 pushups is equivalent to 1 energy; meditating 1 hour gives 6 energy – 1 per 10 minutes” Jay proceeded to calculate how much longer he needed to meditate to get to full energy – though he decided to only get to 29/30 energy incase some sort of accident happened; he had no clue what would happen if someone meditated while their energy was full – would they pop like a balloon?

Jay meditated for the next hour and 50 minutes.

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As Jay was meditating, another soap rat attacked – though it was easily killed by Don. Jay was able to stay in his meditation state.

[15 Exp]

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Finishing meditation, Jay was pleased with Don as he saw another corpse. “Only 2 more rats and I can level up”

Smiling, he jumped down from the log, looted the fresh corpse for another 2 fur scraps and 3 teeth, then made his way through the marsh.

Approaching another clearing, he noticed a lot of movement this time.

Crouching, he crept towards it, the clearing coming into sight.

There were 5 level 1 soap rats.

Doing some quick calculations and planning, Jay thought he could beat them – they would take out 2 quickly, leaving only 3vs2. Jay knew he could tank some damage from 2 of the rats while Don killed another, resulting in a 2vs2 which they would easily win.