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The first thing that caught Leon’s eyes when he opened them was a dense forest.

Leon was standing in the middle of a space densely filled with trees.

Leon closed his eyes and opened them to find himself in the middle of a forest, blankly looking around.

And soon Leon realized something strange.

It was hard to breathe.

Should I say the air is heavy?

“Huh?”

That wasn’t all.

After taking a deep breath and exhaling, I felt strangely refreshed.

I feel like my head is clearing up.

Leon soon realized that this space was very rich in mana.

Even he, who had not yet properly awakened Mana, could feel it.

Does breathing heavy air clear your mind?

There was no reason for it to come to mind unless the concentration of mana was high.

‘Did you enter the space inside the jewel?’

Leon thought he wanted to get away for a moment.

Then, in an instant, consciousness flickered, and when I opened my eyes again, I was inside the dormitory.

“Huh… … .”

A strange phenomenon sent shivers down Leon’s arms.

He moved back into the space inside the jewel and walked slowly, estimating how large the dense forest would be.

I walked in one direction for about an hour, but there was no end in sight.

I realized that I couldn’t check it by simply walking and came out of the treasure.

The number of jewels has decreased.

[39]

He was in the space inside the jewel for an hour.

‘The numbers represent the time!’

Each time you completed a quest, you were given time to use the space of the jewel.

Leon immediately began conducting various experiments with this orb.

First of all, is it simply that consciousness is being sucked into the space within the jewel?

Leon flicked the Cooper coin over his head and it went straight into the space inside the orb.

I waited inside for about 30 seconds and then came back out.

Bam-

Leon looked puzzled at the sensation of a coin landing on his head.

The intention was to flick a coin over one’s head and see if one’s body would disappear into the space within the orb, but the result was different from the intention.

Clearly Leon had been in the space within the jewel for more than 30 seconds.

But the fact that a coin fell on your head as soon as you came out meant that time was flowing differently.

Leon checked the time in reality and entered the space inside the jewel again.

And then I sat down in the middle of the forest and started practicing basic tonap techniques.

I thought I’d look at two things.

How differently time flows and how quests progress within this space.

Leon, who had been filling his surroundings with his inhalation and exhalation for an hour, opened his eyes and came out of the jewel space.

A minute had passed.

While one minute passes in reality, one hour passes in the jewel.

And the quest is… … .

-General Quests

▶ Mana Cognition Training (0/10)

Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.

It seemed that only training in reality was recognized, and that completing quests gave time to use the space within the jewel.

Well, if the training inside the jewel is acknowledged, then it is at the level of time being copied.

Leon was quite satisfied.

Just this much could increase training efficiency several times… no, several hundred times.

Just a moment ago, I was worried because I couldn’t even find a mana training room.

Leon flicked the coin over his head again and it went into the orb.

I practiced for another hour and came out.

In reality, it was at this point that one minute had passed.

Leon looked around, looking for coins that must have already fallen.

When I lifted my butt because I couldn’t see it, I found a coin lying under my butt.

Through this, I realized that my actual body was entering the jewel.

Leon, who had figured out the jewel’s abilities to some extent, began to plan his training again.

*****

Leon was sitting cross-legged on a chair in a quiet library, closing his eyes, breathing, and trying to feel his mana.

Of course, I didn’t feel anything.

It felt so overwhelming compared to meditating in the space inside a jewel.

It was natural to practice in real life to fill the training time, but it wasn’t just for that reason.

In reality, practicing cognitive training with a small amount of mana was secretly effective.

It wasn’t an effect that was felt right away, but when I practiced here feeling lost and then moved into the space inside the jewel, the feeling changed and the sensation became more distinct.

I had to feel that vague feeling of being able to grasp something but not being able to grasp it, but the important thing was that I felt like I could grasp it.

My gut told me that I would soon be able to perceive mana.

After three days of practicing both in reality and in the jewel.

Leon, who habitually pressed the reward gacha that he would spin at the end of each day’s work, jumped up from his seat when he saw the reward details that had stopped spinning.

“It’s here!!!”

▶ Acquired the three attributes (water, wind, earth) (Apply/Cancel)

Is this what it feels like to have a dopamine rush?

Although it was lower level than a being with the light and dark attributes or a being with the six attributes that could possess all six basic attributes, it could be said that being with the three attributes was also an extraordinary talent.

Since the attribute itself is considered a talent, the talent for mana itself increases.

Leon immediately pressed apply.

It’s been a while since I’ve had the pleasure of looking at the information window.

-information

▶ Name: Leon

▶ Grade: –

▶ Magic: –

▶ Attribute constitution: Three elements (water, wind, earth)

Since I haven’t awakened Mana yet, the level and magic power quality haven’t been revealed, but just looking at the attribute constitution made me laugh out loud.

‘I can now proudly say that I have the talent of a wizard, not an ordinary person!’

Leon, who had been stamping his feet in the dormitory lounge, soon entered the space inside the jewel.

And immediately he sat cross-legged.

Inhale, paying attention to the breath entering your body, following the flow of air swirling through your body without missing it.

Leon, who had been concentrating on his breathing for a while, opened his eyes.

‘It’s definitely different.’

The feeling of awakening made Leon concentrate even more.

I continued practicing like that for another six hours.

I didn’t realize it right away, but now I’m sure it really is coming.

Leon emerged from the space within the jewel.

The time written on the jewel is 43.

I used it for 6 hours every day.

At first, I was thinking of pouring in all the time I had saved, 10 hours a day, but I saved it for a time when I would be more efficient.

I slept in reality.

Sleeping inside the jewel is better for time efficiency, but the space inside the jewel is so overwhelmingly efficient in terms of mana that it’s a waste of time to spend sleeping.

“Oh, right.”

I was so focused on the rewards that I didn’t check properly, but there were changes in the quest window.

-General Quests

▶ Mana Cognition Training (0/10)

-Breakthrough Quest

▶ Mana Awakening (In progress)

The regular quests remain the same, but new breakthrough quests have been created.

The content really told me that I didn’t have much time left to realize Mana.

Leon decided to change the reward too.

There are still many better constitutions left, but I thought it was time to look into other rewards.

Leon chose the elixir.

If something useless comes out of the constitution, it should be thrown away, but no matter how bad the elixir is, the fact that it is an elixir itself will not change, so it seemed like it would be of some help to him who was still at the level of walking.

I hesitated for a moment with the magic book, but decided that the magic book wasn’t urgent yet.

A low-level magic that can be handled by the Trinity?

He could just fill it out in the magic library where he works.

Although it was an old-fashioned magic that had been pushed out by modern magic, it was useful enough at a point in time when mana was first realized.

Of course, in order to see the books in the magic library, you had to get permission from the old man who was the director.

He returned to his dorm room and went to sleep, but the next morning, as soon as he got to work, he looked for the old man.

When I knocked on the door, he opened it right away and came out.

He never let Leon into his room.

“What’s going on?”

“I came to see you because I needed permission.”

A look of doubt appeared on the old man’s face.

Leon had not made any requests for several days.

Asking permission out of the blue felt out of the blue.

“Can I read the magic books in the magic library? Of course, I mean the magic books on the first floor. I won’t even go to the second floor.”

“… .”

The old man, who had been staring intently at Leon, soon smiled kindly.

“I guess you were bored because you had nothing to do.”

“Ah… Yes.”

The old man stroked his chin for a moment and then said

“I’ll let you see it if you give me just one request. I’m willing to give you some public points too. What do you think?”

“What kind of request is it?”

Leon asked cautiously.

“I thought you’d accept right away, but you’re a cautious guy. Hmm… It’s too grand to call it a request, but it’s more like an errand. If you go out the main entrance and go a little to the left, you’ll come across a mountain managed by Widia. There, you can dig up a few of the herbs I mentioned. It’s a safe area, so you can do it too.”

After researching the information about the mountain, Leon, who was contemplating whether to accept, calmed down his thoughts.

Being so cautious wasn’t going to help him right now.

You might get criticized for being unnecessarily cautious.

“Okay, I understand. Please write it down so I can dig it up. How long do you need to dig it all up?”

“You can get these right at the entrance, so it should take two days. Oh, and of course, you know that this is something you have to do after work, right?”

Leon nodded, knowing that much, and the old man went back into the room, telling him to wait a moment.

After about five minutes, the old man came out and handed Leon a piece of paper.

The paper contained the names of several herbs and brief drawings.

“These are the ingredients for making elixirs, so be careful to dig them up one by one, from the roots to the leaves.”

Leon, who received the paper, thought that it would definitely be safe if it was a mountain that managed the herbs for making elixirs.

“I will keep that in mind.”

Leon turned around to return to his original position.

Then, the old man’s eyes, which were watching Leon return, calmly settled down.

The corners of his lips, which had been raised gently, had now become stiff.

At that moment.

Leon turned back again.

I was going crazy thinking that wherever there were herbs to make elixirs, they would need some kind of old man’s ID.

The old man’s face quickly returned to its original state.

Leon looked at the old man’s face for a moment.

But he didn’t look at me for long and opened his mouth calmly.

“I think you need a certificate.”

“… … I will give you the certificate.”

“Okay.”

Leon turned around again.

The old man went into the room without paying any more attention to her back.

***

After work, Leon, who had been practicing mana awareness for two hours, came out of his room around the time the dormitory staff returned.

I planned to reduce my sleeping hours for two days and gather herbs.

After receiving the request, I briefly regretted it, thinking that it would take quite a bit of time over the course of two days.

But that thought quickly subsided.

If the Old Magic Library could not be used, Leon would have to change the compensation system he had planned, and above all… … .

A good idea occurred to me.

A space with a high concentration of mana within the jewel.

What if we grew herbs here?