BXBX NOVEL Chapter 10 Mana And Aura 2
After getting out of the training grounds, I started walking to my room to rest for the day; however, at that moment, I saw a very useful thing.
There was a kid who was watering the lilies in the garden while humming a song.
"Humm, humm…"
The reason I said useful is that his body portions are almost the same as mine.
Right now, this body is 12 years old, and I have approximately 1.5 meters in height and 44 kilograms in weight.
And this is close to normal, aside from this body being a bit thin.
And the boy in front of me also liked that.
Then why am I saying this is useful?
Because he will be my disguise while leaving this mansion tomorrow.
However, to disguise myself as this guy, I first need some information about him.
With that, I activated my art.
STATUS
Name – Noah
Age – 12
Class – Gardener
Knight Rank – 0-star
Mage Rank – 0-star
Attributes – Low-Water
Just like that, the information about his stats suddenly popped off in front of me.
Hmm, it seems this guy\'s name is Noah, and he is a commoner since he doesn\'t have a surname.
However, this information is still not enough.
I need to talk to him to figure out how he talks with someone normally.
However, I can\'t do that with my normal look since that would make him scared and tense, which would result in a serious conversation.
Therefore, before approaching him, I decided to use my skill disguise.
Before activating my skill, I portrayed the face I wanted to have in my mind and activated my skill.
Right now, I have brown eyes and black hair with not-so-good facial structures, and I have commoner clothes on me.
And I think this look is enough to fool this guy, but there is still one crucial thing here right now.
It is my demeanor.
I don\'t know if there is a way to stop the traits from being active, but if there is not, then it would be pretty hard to suppress them.
My trait [Noblesse] is always active passively, and I don\'t know how to deactivate that.
\'System is there a way to deactivate t the traits.\'
I decided to ask the system.
<Host, there isn\'t any information about the traits in the system database. However, you must be able to suppress it with your own will.>
I got my answer which is a pretty vague one.
However, there is nothing that can be done here about that right now.
With that, I decided to get close to this guy and strike up a conversation.
"Hello."
I said while getting a bit closer.
"Hmm? Ah, hello."
The gardener kid said while turning his head to me.
"Is something matter?" and asked while blinking is green eyes.
"Ah, it is just I am new here and get lost while looking around. So, I wanted to ask if you can show me how to reach the kitchen from here." I said while making a shy expression.
This kind of expression would always work while talking with children or young people.
"Ahaha, don\'t worry. I would always get lost when I first began working here as well. But the kitchen is pretty far from here, you know? If you want, I can show you the way since I will be going that way too, but you need to wait for a bit for me to finish."
He said, smiling. It seems this guy was one of the cheerful types of people.
"Good, I shall wait for you- Cough, Cough, I mean, I will wait for you to finish then."
I said while coughing a bit.
I almost slipped my tongue; it seems suppressing my traits is harder than it looks.
Anyway, with that, I started talking with this guy until he finished watering all the flowers in this section.
From what I understood, this guy has pretty good relationships with everyone around here and knows most of the people.
He lives with his parents in the nearby town, and he always starts working in the morning at 6 a.m.
He said their family has always worked for the Augustride Family for generations, and they were always a gardener.
It seems this guy is pretty fond of flowers and his job.
Well, just like that, I got enough information about this guy, how he walks, how he talks, how he laughs. I learned everything about him.
And he was pretty informative himself as well, and just like that, we reached the kitchen.
"Ah, wait, my friend. I didn\'t even learn your name yet. My name is Noah. Nice to meet you."
He said while giving his hand to shake.
"Umm, my name is Liam. Nice to meet you as well, Noah."
I said, and we shook hands.
"Then, goodbye. I hope we will meet soon."
"Goody bye."
Don\'t worry. We will meet soon anyway.
With that, we separated ways, and I canceled my disguise after reaching an isolated place.
After canceling my disguise, I went to my room and decided to look at the map of this dukedom to determine the path I would be using as well as to have good environmental awareness.
I see, so the lake closest to this place is near the city of Aachen, which is the closest city to this mansion.
However, even though it is the closest city, it will take at least an hour of walking for me to reach that place.
Well, it is what it is.
After reaching that place, I can just rent a horse or something, and we will be done with that, but it will take a bit, nonetheless.
But this was within my expectations since, in the game, to reach this mansion as Arthur, we would need to ride a horse or ride a carriage, and either way, it would take at least 10 minutes to ride.
Well, with that, I decided to go to sleep since tomorrow will be very hectic for me.
Tomorrow, I woke up at 6 a.m. and took a shower first.
Normally, one would need to meditate and exercise the usage of mana in order to become a proficient mage. Still, because Callius was classless until today, he didn\'t train his mana. It was pointless for him to do so since he couldn\'t open his mana pathways.
But he got the education to become a mage before even his class is revealed by his father, Austin.
And he was able to understand the basics pretty fast, and he could even conjure some spells without using the mana inside his body.
This technique is called inscribing, and I will mention it later.
Therefore, he also learned how to mana breathe and how to meditate while concentrating on mana, albeit he hasn\'t used any mana at that time.
And since I opened my mana veins forcefully yesterday, I can practice the mana breathing technique as well as mana mediation.
With that, I started meditating after taking a shower and getting rid of the drowsiness of the morning.
Firstly, I took a lotus position as described in the game and from Callius\' memories as well.
After taking the lotus position, I closed my eyes and started imagining the mana pathways inside my body, trying to feel them.
Knowing that the mana breathing exercise is heavily reliant on one\'s knowledge of their own body, so firstly, I am trying to familiarize myself with my mana veins and nerves.
Since I increased the sensitivity of my mana nerves yesterday to better feel the mana inside my body, just on the first try, I managed to feel my mana veins.
All the mana network, as well as the feeling of my core, everything started to picture and visualize in my mind slowly.
And I kept trying to feel my veins until I deemed it enough.
And feeling the mana veins is the first step.
The second step will be feeling the mana particles in the air.
As I mentioned while I was describing my art, there are free mana particles in the air without associating anything, and they are impossible to see by normal means.
However, their being impossible to see doesn\'t mean that one is unable to sense them.
One can sense them even as a 1-star rank mage, but to do that, they need to focus on the atmosphere, and they must empty every other thought in their head.
And this is what I am trying to do as well.
After that, I started concentrating on the air and tried to feel the mana particles scattered in the air.
And my sense with 2.0 stat came in handy this time.
I could feel the mana particles around the air slowly, and their picture started to form inside my head as well.
However, this step is still harder than the first one, and it took pretty long for me to sense enough particles to breathe.
With that, I pretty much finished sensing the particles around me and moved on to the next and last step.
In this step, one needs to try to breathe the mana.
However, how can you breathe mana?
How is your mouth or your respiratory system connected to your core?
In a sense, this is the weird thing about the mana veins as well as the mana core.
One\'s mana veins are actually connected everywhere in his or her body, regardless of the organ or anything else.
And the position of the core is close to the heart but in the middle of one\'s chest.
And to breathe mana, one doesn\'t always need to use their mouth; they can use their skin as well, just like sweating.
And the process is simple.
One just needs to influence the mana by their will, and mana will come to them.
This is how Austin explained the mana breathing to Callius in the beginning.
And just like that, I started willing for mana to come to me and started focusing on my thoughts only on mana in the air.
At that moment, nothing was on my mind aside from mana.
I felt like there was nothing inside my head. I couldn\'t hear any sound or feel anything else.
<Ding! Class(Sealed) resonates with the actions of the host.>
<Ding! The host is entering the enlightenment state.>