Chapter: 322

“Surely not…”

“How far is limb growth?”

“Appendage growth 71% complete.”

“Good.. keep it up.” Viladore said with a smile as he stood up from his desk. He really didn’t want to leave, but Sullivan had ordered him to specifically teach Jay and he simply couldn’t refuse.

After all, it was Sullivan who allowed Viladore to do his experiments without much oversight. Sullivan would only have a problem if there was property damage or injury.

No one except Sullivan knew that Viladore was conducting dangerous research here, and Viladore wished to keep it that way, lest he be hunted down.

Viladore went into the lobby, finding Jay. He was in quite a hurry because he wanted to get back to his desk to keep analysing his cube.

“Jay? Let’s go.” he gestured to the hallway.

Jay promptly got up with a nod., deciding not to say anything as it seemed like Viladore seemed quite flustered today.

“Is he annoyed with me?” Jay could only wonder. “Maybe he was mad that I didn’t show up yesterday?”

Jay could only guess, already assuming it was his fault; a mix of insecurity and narcissism.

He decided he would try to learn from Viladore as quickly as he could today as perhaps it would improve his teachers mood.

They entered the training yard at the back of the compound, and a new set of target-rocks had replaced the old ones.

“Have a seat.” Viladore said as he began to float cross-legged.

“I’m busy so I’ll try and make this quick. Two lessons today – detect and medium channelling.”

Viladore checked his notebook before putting them back into his pocket.“Medium channelling is similar to spell channelling, so we will leave that till last. First up is mana sense.”

He looked at Jay with a bored expression, clearly not wanting to be here.

“Mana sense is not sensing mana, but it’s using mana to sense other things. It’s quite easy to do but requires concentration to keep it active – though if you train hard and persevere at it, you will be able to keep it active, even while you sleep.”

He continued “Think of it like another sense.”

“This seems useful,” Jay thought, slowly nodding as he listened more attentively.

“First, I will increase the ambient mana here.” he said.

Suddenly the mana in the air was dense. To Jay it felt like a small pressure was applied to his mind, though it was a good feeling; like wearing a thick hood on a cold day.

“Now try to funnel your mana into your mind and outwards, and use that to feel the ambient mana.”

Jay did as he instructed and soon he felt it, a strange feeling like there was water around him; he could tell where it was and where it was flowing.

It was like a small sphere of water that he could sense, though it didn’t go too far from him. The water-feeling extended about two meters away from him.