Chapter 13: Chatper 13 – The Grind

"Don't get too excited and go overboard with it. You should take it slow. Let your body adjust to the increasing mana and its power first." Akriel voiced in a careful manner.

"I understand." Then without any other word, Noy quickly got to training. He ran for many hours to increase his stamina, swung his sword thousands of times, and practiced trying to manipulate his mana properly.

As he kept on practicing his various skills, his body slowly grew accustomed to having more mana than ever before. As a result, soon after a few months, the amount of mana he had started to rise rapidly. Sometime later, his mana pool was completely filled with his own mana and he felt something growing inside him.

"What is this?" Noy questioned himself.

Intrigued, Akriel looked closer at Noy and said, "Congratulations! You seem to have formed your mana core. It is way earlier than any other human. I think that mana liquid helped you speed through the process."

"What's a mana core? Since I thought I would be a swordmaster like my father, I didn't delve into the mage's aspect." Noy curiously asked.

"Mana core is the essence of all the mage. The spell that you cast becomes more powerful the higher level your mana core is. You should also be able to perform spells that the normal elements doesn't cover. Think about the elements that you learned from the book that I gave you. What are those elements?"

" I think I had learned earth, wind, water, fire, and light from the book."

Akriel explained in detail, "So, those are the normal elements that everyone can learn as long as they have mana. However, there are other ones like psychic, dark, holy, time, and space that you can only learn if you have a mana core.

The level of mana core goes like this:

White → Silver → Blue → Green → Yellow → Red → Purple

White is the beginning level where everyone starts whereas Purple is the highest human can reach. But there are also stages beyond the purple level. You will know it when you get to that level.

Each level is divided into 5 stages:

Initial stage → Formation stage → Genesis stage → Origination stage → Core stage

Initial stage is where you are right now. After going through other stages, it will enter the core stage which will then solidify the color and you will get white color. Then the process repeats if you want to get higher levels."

"Woahh!!!" Noy jumped with excitement.

"Like I said earlier no need to get too excited right now. It is extremely difficult to reach higher levels, especially the red and purple ones. Since you also have swordsmanship, you should focus both on swordsmanship and magic. Do you know the stages of Swordsmanship?"

"Yes. I have learned about it. If I remember correctly, it's like this:

Novice → Savant → Superior → Master → Grandmaster → Swordmaster "

"Correct! very few have managed to go to the level of swordmaster. So you should take it slow since you are learning both."

"Yes! Thank you" Noy bowed his head.

With that, he went on to carry on with his training.

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1 year passed by, Noy had advanced to the origination stage of blue color and superior swordsmanship.

All this time he trained inside the room on his own with the time-to-time guidance of Akriel. His body became a little taller.

He wanted to get experience with his new mana core and swordsmanship and grow with such experience. Thus, he decided to go out to fight the monsters outside the room and absorb their mana to advance to higher stages.

"I'll be off then. I'll return when I think I am strong enough to fight that two guardians that you talked about." Noy bowed to say farewell and ventured out to grind the monsters for mana.

Now that he was 12 years old, he had become a little more mature.

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Another year passed. Noy had reached the core stage of green color but his swordsmanship was still at a superior level. He felt like his growth had started to slow down tremendously. Even after absorbing the mana of the monsters he killed, the progress of his mana growth was terribly slow.

However, he didn't give up and kept grinding monsters.

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Three years went on like that. Noy had become 16 years old now but he couldn't keep exact track of the time. His hair grew to the length of his waist and he became more taller. He had no choice but to tie his hair back for now.

He progressed to the genesis stage of yellow color. This showed how much slow his progress became. His swordsmanship almost stuck to the superior level all these years and only showed a little hint of it advancing to master level. He also learned space magic where he learned to teleport to a short distance. This was extremely helpful in fighting monsters. Another magic he learned was dark magic but he had only grasped a part of it, he didn't fully understand its implementation or how to activate it.

Noy didn't realize it, but his determination was slowly waning away after fighting monsters nonstop.

"Huff... hufff... How many years has it been? Maybe 3?  or maybe 4 years? I don't know."

He was fighting a group of large centipedes and mercilessly slaughtering them. All these monsters that he defeated were nothing but a source of mana for his growth to him.

All this fighting tired him up. So, he went up to this darker wall overshadowed by a tall tree.

"I should rest for a while." Noy went up to lean and sit against it when suddenly he just passed right through the wall.

He fell on his back, "Huh? This looks familiar." Then he had a flashback about the place where he escaped from wolves at first. This place almost had the same eerie silent feeling to that place but this time there was a visibly large tree with fruits growing along its branches.

He had no idea how he passed through the wall earlier but he was happy arriving at this hidden room because a huge amount of mana was coming out from the fruits. It seemed like he had stumbled upon a treasure of heaven.

Noy happily went to grab the fruit when a huge sword swung towards him.

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