St Chaos Healer

Ch 25 - A Headache

I climbed onto the stage with the rest of the candidates as soon as my name was called out. We got up on the stage and each of us stood in front of a pedestal. I picked the pedestal in the corner which will least interfere with the other candidate's crystal ball.

I took a glance at my fellow candidates just to see everyone was nervous. They were on pins and needles and some were even sweating before the test could start. I can't tell if it's nervousness or stage fright and I didn't have to care.
I just need to focus on my test. That's what matters.

The test had not yet begun as Miss Thesia was cross-checking our names.
I finally looked at the crystal ball that was in front of me.

The crystal ball looked like your ordinary glass ball with a tint of darkish purple hue. The purple hue must be something Miss Thesia manipulates with her mana to seal the power of the crystal ball. Currently, it wasn't in its original state hence why it looks ordinary.

I had read a lot about mana in depth.
Sadly there were no good books around my town but I asked my father to borrow some books. The advanced mana books are very costly, even books, in general, are not usually affordable by us commoners that often. The common folk usually just go to borrow from the town library.

But our town had a very small library and didn't even have anything related to magic or mages.
All of it had some agricultural tricks or the laws of the kingdom, etc.

But my father traveled out of town often and he gifted me the advanced magic arts book. Although it was a second-hand book and a bit worn out, it was still very useful.

That's when I came to learn about the so-called mana of this world.
The most basic form of mana is the pure mana that mages produce within their body. The mage's mana core plays a vital role in accumulating, controlling, and converting the mana. The pure form of mana can be converted to any form depending on the specific mage's attribute and spells.

To summarize in short, pure mana is the most basic energy utilized by all the mages.
Hence, why pure mana is a very good friend to every mage in this world as long as he/she has formed a mana core.

Meanwhile, those without a mana core feel an adverse rejection.
Pure mana harms those who don't have a mana core. Trying to forcefully assimilate pure mana will result in injuries and loss of organs and sometimes even death.

The reason why the pure mana reacts like this is still a mystery that scholars still haven't figured out yet.
In this trial, we are basically doing the same thing.
Letting mana do the choosing.

I would say this is a bit risky but it's the quickest and the most efficient method.

"Alright, I hope everyone's ready," asked Miss Thesia as she stood in the center, "Let's begin then."

As soon as she waved her hands the purplish tint hue disappeared and the crystal ball suddenly turned into a glowing ball of white light. Small threads of mana started wiggling from all over the crystal ball like a pack of live worms.

There was yet another kinda force between me and the crystal ball. It was like if there was some unseen forcefield trying to separate us. For some reason, my blood boiling for some reason. There was an excitement that didn't exist before the activation of the crystal ball.

I slowly stepped forward and gently stretched my arm to grab the ball.
There was a tingly feeling all over my body but it wasn't hurting me a bit.

As I stretched my hand closer to the ball the tingly feeling started to intensify. I didn't stop and that's when I came into contact with the mana threads they started avoiding. They were like trying to dodge my hand.