Knock, Knock.

  I woke up to the sound of knog. Is something wrong? Why is someoo wake me up? Is Alice moody again?

  Knock, Knock

  Another knobsp;

  “Lord Brian, are you awake?” I heard someone ask.

  I sat up on the bed and responded. “Yes, I’m awake.”

  The door opened and a maid stepped in. She was the ohat tried getti of bed yesterday. “Lord Brian, oh you are still in bed. Did I wake you?”

  “Yes, you did.” I told her ftly.

  “I apologize, but I came to tell you that breakfast is ready.” She said to me.

  Breakfast? Already? I must have overslept.

  “I see. Please give me a moment to ge.” I said to her as I got up from bed.

  The maid left the room to give me a ce to ge clothes.

  I opehe curtains on the window and saw that it was still raining. The thunder had stopped though. Or at least I hadn’t heard any. I did my m routine and put on my clothes. I also checked my status, but it was the same. Now, breakfast time. I’ll open my packs ter.

  “Good m Brian.” Alice said as I walked into the dining room.

  “Good m.” Christina said.

  “Good m.” I said to the two of them.

  The two of them had already begun their breakfast.

  “Sorry we began without you.” Christina said as I took my seat.

  “That’s fine.” I told her. “I’m the ohat overslept.”

  “So you actually slept that long?” Christina seemed surprised. “I thought you might, but I wasn’t sure.”

  “I guess I was more tired than I thought.” I responded.

  After a quick prayer, I began my breakfast.

  “Brian, do you have any pns for the day?” Alice asked.

  “Not really. It’s raining heavily so I think I’ll just stay inside. Perhaps some practice at some point, but other than that, no.” I answered.

  “What are you practig?” Alice kept up the questions.

  “Mana trol and telekinesis.” I told her. They are the main skills I want to level up at the moment. I think I’ll try to add some sort of close quarters bat into my routine, but not while it’s raining. I don’t think this manor has an iraining ground.

  “Telekinesis? Do you really have that skill?” Christina asked.

  … Oh yeah. Lucia told me it’s a rare skill. Well it is sidered ara’ skill. Not that I have any idea what the difference is between normal, extra and unique skills.

  I guess I should tell her yes. Then again, I could just show her.

  I focused otle spoon she had o her tea cup, and used telekinesis to lift it up.

  “Wow.” Christi out in astonishment.

  “How are you doing that?” Alice asked.

  “Telekinesis.” I answered. “It’s ara skill you use to move items like that.” I told Alice as I was moving the spoon bad forth. It felt a little easier today, but I didn’t have mana trol skill yet, when I checked my status after waking up.

  “ I learn it?” She asked.

  “I think so, but I got it when I leveled up after the wyvern i, so I don’t really know how you learn it.” I told her.

  “Brian, you shouldn’t get her hopes up.” Christina interrupted. “Alice, telekinesis is a high level skill that is usually held only by the best mages. It’s not so easy to learn.”

  “... Brian, teach me.” Alice demanded.

  “I said I don’t know how.” I told her.

  “Just teach me what you do.” She told me.

  “I guess we try that, but I really don’t uand it that well myself.” I responded.

  After breakfast, I was in the parlor with Alid Christina. They both wao know how to use telekinesis. There were a few spoons oable for us to practice with. For us, there is a spoon. Or more like five of them.

  “So how do I levitate a spoon?” Alice asked.

  “I told you, I’m not someone who should teach you this. I just focus on something I want to move.” As I said that, I used telekinesis to pick up a spoon. “And then Laura does the mana trol for it. But I don’t have the exact details on how the mana trol works.”

  “You make it sound simple.” Christina ented.

  “Well it is, but also isn’t.” I said to her as I lowered the spoon bato the table. “Even with Laura taking care of the mana trol, I still o trate to keep it going and I lose focus by something as simple as someone ing up to me and talking with me.”

  “Then, is it impossible to do?” Alice asked.

  I took on a pose that I hope tells them that I’m thinking about it.

  (Laura, what do you think?) I asked.

  (It is possible, but they must learn to trol the mana outside of their body without the use of a spell.) Laura informed me.

  … okay. Isn’t that just normal mana trol? Why is that so difficult?

  (Master, trolling mana within a mana circuit, like the ones in your body, is a lot easier than trolling mana outside a mana circuit.)

  Okay, I’m not sure I uand. Any other way of expining that?

  (... If you don’t mind me using terminology from your world Master, it would be like trying to move electricity outside of arical wire. Doing it over anything other than a minimal distance is extremely difficult.) Laura expined.

  (But lightning is a thing.) I argued.

  (Lightning is untrolled. You o keep the mana under your trol to be able to use telekinesis.) Laura said.

  (So it is impossible?)

  (Of course not. Master do it, so it is possible. It simply takes a high amount of skill.)

  … Fine. I’ll take that as the answer.

  I looked back up at the two.

  “Laura said it is possible if you learn to trol the mana outside of your body. Without using a spell.” I told them what I heard from Laura.

  “But how do I do that?” Alice asked.

  “I really don’t know. Laura just does it.” I told them.

  “But then how I learn it?” Alice asked.

  “I don’t kn… “ I was about to say, but something that Laura said repeated in my head.

  ‘It would be like trying to move electricity outside of arical wire. Doing it over anything other than a minimal distance is extremely difficult.’

  Wouldn’t that mean that a minimal distance might work? And if you learn to do it for a small distance, you move up the distance from there.

  I think we should at least try.

  “Brian?” Alice looked at me. I did id sentence.

  “I just got an idea. Do you want to try it out?” I asked.

  “Yes!” She immediately responded. “What should I do?”

  “I think we should start a mana loop, like the one you do with your teacher.” I told her.

  “Sure, but how will that help?” She asked.

  “Let’s just start with that. I’ll tell you the rest as we get to it.”

  I took Alice’s hands into my own and with the help of Laura, our mana began to swirl bad forth. Alice’s mana was nid smooth. pared to the almost tar like mana of Dark Sage, hers was smooth and flowed well. Like paring thid thin oils. Perhaps the mana of Dark Sage is so viscous is because he is much more powerful and just has thicker mana as a result.

  “So now what?” Alice asked.

  “Noill slightly bring our hands apart and try to keep the loop going.” I told her. Teically it should work. I think.

  “But that won’t work.” Alice said as I moved my right hand slightly away from her left.

  The way we had our loop setup was that we would send a pulse of mana from ht hands into the receivers left. As I removed my right hand, I was the oo send the mana pulse without direct tact.

  “... it worked.” Alice said as she sent the pulse bae.

  “Yeah, it did.” I said as I tihe loop. Without actually toug Alice with my right hand. My left was still grasped by her right.

  “But how?”

  “I just did it.” Or perhaps Laura did. I’m holy not sure.

  “Then I do it?” Alice wondered.

  “Well you try. That’s the fastest way to find out.” I told her. “But don’t move your hand too far. I think the lohe distahe harder it is.” If the electricity example is to be believed.

  “Then I’ll try.” Alice said as she moved her right hand. With my hand being face-up oable and hers being on top of it, it was all on Alice to trol the distance. I just o have my hand still to receive the mana pulse.

  I felt the tingle of maer my left hand. It was a lot weaker than it was when we were toug, but it still came through. I let it flow through my body a it back to Alice.

  “Did I do it?” She asked as she got the pulse back.

  “Yes, but you lost a lot of it iransfer. I think you should bring your hand closer to mine.” I told her.

  “I could just put more power to it.” She argued.

  “A mana loop doesn’t need more power though.” I argued. Other than the initial mana I put in the loop, I haven’t added any. At least I think so.

  (I have had to add some to it. The transfer is not perfect, but the amount is minimal enough that Master ’t feel it.) Laura told me.

  “How you do that?” Alice asked as she stopped the loop. “I o stantly put more mana into it.”

  “I bme Laura. She is too good.” I responded.

  “I want system support as well.” Alice muttered.

  “Perhaps you will get one if you practiough. The system might see you as worthy of the system support if you mao take down a behemoth.” I joked.

  “The’s tinue.” Alice said as she restarted the loop agaiook each other's hands for the start, but then again took some distance as we got the loop going.

  “Madam, there is a messenger from the guild.” A maid informed Christina.

  “I see. I’ll go meet them.” Christina said as she left for the front door.

  The guild? As in the adventurer’s guild. Wonder what they want.

  Well, if it’s something important I’m sure Christina will tell me.

  “Brian.” Christina called for me as she came back. “I need you to e with me to the guild.”

  Wonder why?

  But I didn’t o wonder for long.

  Mission: Save the Baron’s groupInformation: The group lead by Baron Wat was attacked by thunder sprites on their way to Alewatch. Find them ahem back to town.Goal: Bring the group to town. Reward: Opes Rise of Destiny and Fmiernity.Open Repri Dark Revetion Volume 1.Daily ‘Pack tokens’ increase by 2. If over half of the group dies, the mission is sidered a failure and no reward will be given. If no a is taken to help them, no reward will be given.“Yeah,” I said as I cut off the loop I was keeping with Alice. “We’d better get going.”