Episode 233 The Fireworks Begin
With his attention, the ceremony (?) began.
Ray, with a serious expression, placed his hand on the elderly man’s chest.
After sharpening the mana and examining the blood vessels as if inserting a needle, I immediately began to feel his energy and blood as if I were drawing it in my head.
‘It’s pretty detailed. You made it complicated.’
Unlike his own mana road like the Autobahn, it is a winding and narrow mana road.
However, it was not efficient to feel a considerable amount of power, but it seemed to be able to emit powerful mana.
Let’s spread the mana more widely, and we were able to quickly find out what the problem was.
‘huh?’
A small qi blood is twisted because it can’t be broken.
It seems that it touched other mana rods and got tangled up.
Unable to open his mouth, he clicked his tongue inside.
‘Ttsk tsk I tried to control mana in a hurry and ruined it.’
I’m not an inexperienced beginner, what kind of pathetic behavior is this?
He gathered mana in the palm of his hand and shot it all at once towards the mana rod of the elderly man.
Paaang-!
The two hands that touched his chest trembled and released a single energy.
However, there were many things that were twisted.
Collecting mana and releasing it, this time the elderly gurgled and ate the mana.
‘Eh?’
Embarrassed, he poured out mana again.
A considerable amount of energy was poured into him, but like someone who had starved for several days, he received and ate it.
After trying a few more times like that, Ray immediately frowned and withdrew his hand.
“Whoa…”
Hael sighed and asked with a worried face.
“Is something not going well?”
“You haven’t eaten for three years? You sucked mana like a pig? I thought you were the Orc Chief, not the Young Chief.”
“…what do you mean by that?”
“The mana rod is twisted. But it must have been twisted so badly that it caught on to the mana rod next to it and got tangled up. As the stream, which should have flowed slowly, started to overflow, it was like the bush next to it had rotted away.”
“The Mana Road is twisted!”
Her complexion turned blue and she sat down in her seat.
“The mana rod cannot be repaired… the only way is to melt it down and recreate it.”
Ray tilted his head at the despairing voice.
“Can you fix it?”
“You don’t have to push yourself. Don’t be grateful.”
With her head bowed down, she speaks with a calm expression to Hael, who seems to be meditating.
“What are you melting the mana rod for? I might die then. It’s good to release these things one by one.”
“It’s the first time in my life that I’ve heard of unraveling the tangled mana rod. Such a thing would not be possible even for a master of the science of magic. You can’t even properly handle the road you created yourself, so how can you know the road someone else created?”
“Someone else made it, but the fundamentals are the same.”
Ray pounded his chest as if telling him to trust him.
In the first place, not even any mana lords are as complex as his.
Not only is it as detailed as a well-made blood vessel, but all parts of the body are covered with mana rods, so the difficulty is about 2×2 cubes.
However, to Hael, who did not know such a fact, his words were nothing more than lies.
“There is no need to scratch and make a boil. We’ll figure out what’s left.”
“All right, just sit back and watch. It’s not even a complex mana rod that can’t be fixed.”
He was the one who even fixed Aira’s mana rod.
Even if they were tangled, there was no reason why they couldn’t unravel the qi and blood that was a little more detailed than that of an ordinary human.
When he put his hand on the old man’s chest again, even she couldn’t hold it back.
If I forcibly separated him now, the spirit chief would burst out at once and the atmosphere would become cold.
“Ugh… be careful.”
Starting from the worry-filled voice, Mana’s blow began again.
Paaang-!
Every time Ray’s arm moves, the man spits out blood.
It may be proof that the blood is working well, but from a third person’s point of view, it seems that even if it goes wrong, it goes wrong.
“Stop that. If this continues, the young chief will die…!”
Perhaps he understood the words to stop as saying to speed up, but the excitement only gradually accelerated.
Kwaaang-! Kwaaang-!
Now there is a roar like a wall breaking.
In the aftermath of the mana, the floor was already slightly off, so I was worried that no matter how I looked at it, it might not be releasing the energy, but rather bursting it.
The noise continued for several hours.
When she couldn’t hold it any longer and tried to stop her, Ray removed her palm and took a deep breath.
“Whoa… let’s get some rest.”
He tapped his shoulder and spoke, but compared to his carefree appearance, the surroundings were stained with the blood of a mature man.
However, Hael could not criticize him at all.
That’s also true, since the young chieftain’s complexion has visibly returned, unlike the first time.
“Did you really release the clumped mana rods?”
He shook his head at Hael, who asked in disbelief.
“Not all. At best, that’s all I’ve been able to do. Even if this pig-like mana rod didn’t keep sucking up mana, I could have finished it long ago…” He
glared at him as if he were looking at his enemies, but it was rather admirable that he wanted to stroke his head.
“If you need anything, just tell me. I will do my best to save you.”
“Ah, then prepare a dry and nutritious porridge that you can easily eat. If it’s not dry, beef jerky would be fine.”
At his words, Hael hurriedly let go of his words at the common entrance.
While getting the things she asked for, he drank a sip of the magically created water from his hand and went straight to work.
This time, place your hands on your stomach and chest one by one and start generating mana. With a
bizarre
resonant sound, the mature man’s body shakes again.
A drop of sweat trickled down Ray’s face, which seemed like he wouldn’t get tired no matter what he did.
* * *
A day has passed since I started fixing the mana rod.
He staggered and said, pouring all his energy into catching up his energy and blood without a sigh of sleep.
“Ugh… I’m dying… Do you have anything to eat?”
Looking at the fatigue in his eyes, Hael quickly ordered the jerky.
“Good work. Is it over now?”
When asked with full of anticipation, he shook his head slightly.
“It’s still a long way off, as I said at the beginning. It will take at least three days.”
Even if it was a small distortion of the Mana Road, because it was him, it could be finished in about 3 days.
Had it been someone else, it would have been unthinkable, so Hael readily agreed with a nod of his head.
“I see. From now on, don’t ask me any more.”
Without replying to her words, he crammed the jerky into his mouth.
He swallowed it without chewing it a few times and immediately placed his palm on the side of the chieftain’s abdomen and neck.
As soon as the mana flowed in, his mana swirled around the body of the young chief more easily than before.
‘Still enduring… It’s a bigger mana load than I thought.’
Even with this level of shock, the mana rod was so hard that he could only endure it, and his blood didn’t open.
This speed is the result of adjusting it and releasing it little by little.
Ray decided to let go of his impatience.
If you show impatience here, the risk will only increase.
Anyway, since I had roughly memorized the location of the Mana Road, there wouldn’t be a single mistake.
He gradually reduced the amount of mana he poured out.
* * *
“Why doesn’t it come out like this?”
“Maybe something is going on?”
The elders were not alone in their worries.
The health of the chieftain had been entrusted to the saint, but it was not good to just watch.
After the condition lasted for a day, an impatient elder rose from his seat.
“I couldn’t stand to watch it. Let me go and see.”
Elder Hael’s words bothered him, but how could he leave the young chief’s weakness alone?
Entering the common entrance, he pretended to know Hael.
“I was worried, so I came to check on you for a while. How is the young chief?”
It wasn’t a very welcome look since there was a message from Ray not to come in, but she obediently answered the elder’s words.
“The saint said that the mana rod is in a tangled state.”
“What!”
Ray’s complexion turned quite dark at the loud voice that reverberated through his cavity.
Hael, who noticed him, frowned and scolded him.
“Speak quietly.”
“To entrust a young bastard like that to the chieftain! Besides, the mana rod is tangled up? If it’s such a serious matter, it’s not natural for the elders to go through a meeting! I haven’t seen it that way, but even if I don’t think about it, I don’t have much, Elder Hael!”
“Even though he looks like that, he is a very knowledgeable child with mana. At least more than us.”
She didn’t believe it at first, but now she feels his power to some extent.
However, unlike her, it seems that he still believes in the saint.
Before Hael had time to stop, the elder strode forward and pushed Ray’s back.
“Get out of the way! The elders will take the chieftain!”
Because of that, Ray, who was still, vomited raw blood.
“Cool!”
Even while sweating like rain, he did not take his hands off the middle-aged man’s abdomen.
Hael screamed and stopped him.
“What are you doing! Get out of here right now!”
“I can’t accept that tyranny anymore! You are insane to dare to touch the mana rod!”
“I will rule it out even by force!”
As she draws the sword from her waist, the elder raises the sword opposite him.
“I can’t stand by! You are crazy!”
As the Aura Blade rises, the surrounding mana is pushed out.
The two clashed their swords without saying who came first
.
When a roaring noise made it impossible to believe that metal collided with metal, Ray and the young chief vomited blood at the same time as if in response.
As a result, Hael and the elder sighed.
“Huh!”
“Yo Young Chief!”
They hurriedly stopped their sword fighting.
Moving mana along the original mana road is a delicate task.
It was not his own mana rod, but someone else’s tangled mana rod, so how much concentration should he have?
The clash between the two auras was short-lived, but it had a huge impact on Ray.
Blood trickled down from his eyes.
