Chapter: 325

“Mmh…” he didn’t respond with more than a grunt, only rolling his tongue in his cheek and squinting as he thought about what to do..

“Why can’t I sense his mana…” he thought to himself with a furrowed brow, “Usually there is some residual mana after a person makes it their own… but with him, there is none at all…”

Usually when someone activates a spell, there would be some ambient mana mixed in too.

“…Could it be due to his monster class?”

Suddenly, Viladore had an idea. He put away the red wands and pulled out something quite different.

The wand was some sort of stone. It was black, thin, and had a hoop at one end; It looked like a stone spoon with a hole in it, completely useless for soup.

Half-way down the shaft, numerous tiny bones and feathers were tied around in one spot with a single leather binding, forming a band which made Jay think it was used for some sort of dark, barbaric woodland magic.

At the very bottom was a crude-looking metal hook. “Probably used to rip out more of those tiny bones” thought Jay. He was unable to identify the bones, but guessed that they probably came from bat wings or rat legs; simply too skinny to be something like finger bones.

Viladore held it in his hand and gazed at it for a moment. It was like he was suspicious of it, but after a moment he held it out to Jay.

“Here, try this…” he looked at it mysteriously as he handed it to Jay.

Jay reached out and grabbed it, immediately analysing it.

<[Goblin Wand]>

[Taken from a goblin shaman. Often kept as trophies as they serve no purpose to humans and alike.]

“It doesn’t say spell channel though?”

“Just try it.” Viladore said bluntly.

Jay closed his eyes and began the process again – gathering mana into his hand and pushing it into the wand.

This time, it felt much different. As the mana coursed towards his hand, the wand seemed to suck it from his hand into itself. It was like the wand was magnetised, and greedily gobbled up Jay’s mana; he didn’t even need to try.

After a moment, a small black orb began to appear in the centre of the hoop.

In the middle of the wand, more feathers began to grow under the tiny bones, pushing out the old ones. The new feathers were black, while the old ones were a mix of yellow and rustic red.

Jay continued to push his mana into his hand until he felt that the wand finally stopped absorbing it.

Viladore stood idly by, but as soon as the black orb appeared his eyes widened.

Jay looked up at him, raising a brow at Viladore’s expression – who quickly changed his face back to his usual expression of detached aloofness and cleared his throat.

“It seems like you can only channel through monster wands…”

“Monster wands?”

“The spell channels that monsters use, they’re different to ours since monster mana is different also – monsters convert mana into a different form. It results in them casting spells without much effort, but they also require different tools. As you know, monsters aren’t the smartest, so their spells are more instinctive, as is their mana. Their spells are more powerful, and they never need to practice to get stronger… or at least they never think to practice.”