Chapter 26: 18 – Let The Game Begin

“Ezmee!” Amara’s cheerful voice echoed in her chambers.

“Get off me you impudent mortal!!” Ezme exclaimed as she tried to shrug Amara off.

Amara smiled, hugging Ezme tightly as she was holding smoothies in each hand. “Make me!” 

“Insufferable! Do you want a smoothie or not?” Ezme glared at Amara.

“I doo. Tsk. Alright, I’ll let you go just this once.” Amara let go with a wide grin on her face. Ezme held out one of the smoothies as she turned away.

“Impudent mortal.” Ezme muttered, but couldn’t hide the curve of her lips. “You seem to be in a good mood.” 

“Sophelia came by as I was training Farsight. And I realized something.” Amara smiled.

“Sophelia?” Ezme asked and seemed a little upset. As if she was pouting.

Amara thought and suddenly smiled wider. “Are you jealous?”

“Insolence! What do I have to be jealous about!” Ezme exclaimed.

“Because you couldn’t make me feel good like she did.” Amara winked.

“Seal that impudent mouth before I do it for you!” Ezme shouted.

Amara grinned. “Promise?”

“You…” Ezme sighed. “Insufferable.”

Amara thought she’d teased Ezme enough. “Hey, do you know anything about how mana and di-”

Amara began as she suddenly felt like she got electrified and became unable to move a finger. Looking at Ezme, she saw that the angel wasn’t moving at all - looking up at her with clear eyes and a curious look and a bit rosy cheeks, but stood still as a statue. 

[Do not speak of forbidden knowledge to anyone.](God)

Tom? Peeping again I see. How am I supposed to ask Ezme for advice on it then? Asshole!

Amara remained paralyzed for several seconds before whatever was holding her let go. As she could move again, her heart galloped as it began beating rapidly to pump the adrenaline through her veins. 

Jeez. If I can’t talk about it, you could have warned me, Sophelia.

...Why didn’t she warn me?

“Hmm? Why did you stop?” Ezme asked as she cocked her head.

“Oh. Erm…” (Amara)

“As expected of a mortal, can’t even hold a thought long enough to express it.” Ezme grinned evilly. “Typical. You were saying something about mana.”

Amara paused as she thought. “I need to find out about mana. Especially how to get it.”

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“Hmm. You’re going to need a basic understanding of mana before we begin. Explaining is a bit troublesome. Hmm. You said before that mana felt like pressure. Or do you have other ways to describe it? Or how you imagine it?” (Ezme)

They sat on the observation deck cross legged as Ezme began advising Amara.

“I don’t know. Maybe I imagined it as gas that floated around before I went to Teyrin, but it seemed to be sort of everywhere. In the ground too.” Amara shrugged.

“Yes! That’s good! Gas! I like that.” Ezme beamed. “What do gases gather around?”

Amara frowned. “I don’t know? It just floats around?”

Ezme shook her head. “Think bigger. Much bigger scale. You know the theories of physics from your world? What’s that guy called again who came up with a new theory during your last century...”

Amara raised an eyebrow. “You mean Einstein?”

“Yes! Think about gases on the scale of Einstein.” Ezme smiled.

Gases on the scale of Einstein? We’re not talking about farts are we? I feel like we’re being rude to Einstein now.

Alright, I guess Einstein is most well known for his revised laws of gravity. About how mass bends spacetime. 

“You mean gas gathering around mass?”  Amara asked.

“Very good! Now, for this analogy, mana is gas.” Ezme smiled and tilted her head as she looked at Amara.

When I was on Teyrin the mana gathered to me without doing anything.

“And mass is people?” (Amara)

“Nice!” Ezme exclaimed. 

“Now then, to succeed with what you wish, I propose you create a new skill for no other purpose than getting mana. Theoretically you could use Realm Gate. But it’s also designed to let things of physical nature pass through. You just want to get magical energy.” Ezme continued.

“Alright.” (Amara)

“Furthermore, I suggest getting a skill to see mana. Otherwise you might not see if it works or not.” (Ezme)

Amara used Farsight to look at Teyrin. As her eyes began stinging, she collected divine power into her eyes again - this time for a different purpose. She imagined seeing colourful particles everywhere on Teyrin as she made her attempt.

[Ding!]

As the bell rang in her head, everything in Teyrin suddenly looked like someone had put blue-shaded glasses in front of her eyes. Or as if Teyrin was covered in a blue fog that didn’t disrupt sight.