The Story of Dhanvanthri

twenty-one

Escorting Request
("Fucking finally" - probably Dhanvanthri)

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"I'm annoyed." Lucas popped into his room to declare, making Dhanvanthri pour him an obligatory cup of tea before focusing back on the book he was reading. When Lucas directed an expectant gaze towards Dhanvanthri, the prince set down his reading material to look at his friend.

"...What am I supposed to do about it?" Dhanvanthri asked.

Lucas bit into a biscuit that was laying around on the table, "It's your sister that made me annoyed, you should do something about it."

Dhanvanthri sighed, "In the first place, what did she do that annoyed you?"

"Don't know?" Lucas bit into another biscuit. "Something about her being happy makes me annoyed."

"You don't seem annoyed when she was laughing yesterday," Dhanvanthri said pointedly. "In fact, you had a smile on your face. Why don't you elaborate more on why you think you're annoyed that my sister is happy?"

"She's happy with someone else?" Lucas mumbled.

Dhanvanthri stilled, "Lucas, are you jealous?"

"No!" Lucas sat up straight, turning his widened eyes to Dhanvanthri. "Why would I be jealous of the princess?"

"I never said you were jealous of my little sister, you might be jealous of the person she was happy with," Dhanvanthri grimaced. He didn't want to think about the wizard potentially having a crush on his little sister, thank you very much. No matter what, seeing someone realising a potential crush on your sibling was weird and awkward.

"What happened to your snake?" Lucas asked, changing the topic as if Dhanvanthri was someone easily swayed. Pining a mocking gaze on him, the prince merely hummed before replying, "It disappeared one day."

"I guess your mana is stable now," Lucas narrowed his eyes.

"So, were you jealous of whoever my sister was with?" Dhanvanthri smiled. However, his smile took on a shaper and colder feeling, mimicking a predator eyeing its prey in the wild. "In the first place, how exactly did my sister meet someone you would be jealous of? She is technically confined inside the castle."

"Okay, I need to go," Lucas stood up and disappeared. Dhanvanthri sneered at his careless attempt of avoiding the situation, mildly annoyed at being disturbed by something as insignificant as crushes. Huffing, he picked up the book on Time Magic: Alignment by Algar Totem and continued his reading.

- Reversed Time Magic (refer to chapter 34, section 43) is classified as curse magic. Reversed Time Magic is not to be confused with time rewinding magic. Reversed Time Magic consumes things that will occur naturally over time. Theoretically speaking, erosion is something that occurs through time due to the sun. Using Reversed Time Magic on erosions will consume the energy drawn from the sun to fuel as mana.

Dhanvanthri frowned. The people in this world was still quite backwards, they don't even have telephones for one. While at the same time, due to magic, their advancement is all over the place. Erosion, while consumed energy from sunlight, is not the only energy source. Gravity, the rotation of the Earth, chemical reactions, and even organic activity must be taken into account.

If this theory on Reversed Time Magic was correct and we can convert natural energy into Mana, then Dhanvanthri could potentially solve the mana problem people could have. In fact, wouldn't solar energy, when applied with this kind of magic, be able to store mana that can be used? Dhanvanthri shifted when his thoughts paused on that, what about mana influx? Since reverse time magic can convert natural energy into mana, can we do the opposite?