SSS-Ranked Skill in a New Filthy World

Chapter 244 244 Mana Efficiency [Part 2]

"Wait, so if it isn't taught in the academy, how do experienced mages waste little mana? Do they understand it with time?""I'm glad you asked. Take walking for example...when you're little, you start by lying down, but then as you grow, you begin to crawl and slowly stand with the help of objects, but then you start to walk... Currently, do you have a problem walking? You simply stand up and walk. Were you taught?"

"Not really"

"It's almost the same thing, as time goes on, you simply waste little mana, call it experience, but the more you cast spells, the more experience you gain, and slowly eliminate wastes, but you can't completely stop it, unless you learn mana efficiency."

"How do I learn it?" Roman spoke, a smile forming on his face. This was exactly what he wanted, a way to utilize what he had, and with this he could cast powerful spells while slowly increasing his mana pool.

Evelyn looked back at him, "Currently you're not even that good with mana control so learning mana efficiency is out of the question, but the thing with mana control, we can fix it quite easily"

"But first I'll tell you about mana efficiency so maybe you can grasp the concept of both at once. If you can increase your efficiency from your current stage to around ninety percent, you've almost doubled the number of spells you can cast without increasing your mana capacity"

"I'm ready" Roman spoke with a little gleam in his eyes.

"Alright then, I want you to try to conjure the magic circle for casting a fireball, but don't cast the spell, just conjure, stop and then do it again, for 100 times to start" Evelyn spoke.

"A hundred!!"

"Yes, and I'll be watching you. This isn't necessarily to improve your efficiency, but rather to improve your mana control, and I'll tell you to stop when I see an improvement" Evelyn spoke and walked towards the barrier, then she placed her hands on it and the barrier shattered.

The moment the barrier shattered Roman could see the look on the face of Evelyn's second in command, like she wasn't expecting it to happen.

"Just tell me to bring it down, you don't have to destroy it" She pouted as she turned around and walked away.

"You should sit, it's going to be a long night"

Roman stretched his hand and conjured the magic circle for a fireball, and just before it was completed, he dismissed it, and tried again, again, and again.

After only about twenty attempts, sweat beads had already formed on his forehead, even with the cold night breeze he was still sweating because the action, even though it didn't consume mana, was still tiring.

Roman turned to his side and Evelyn wasn't even paying any attention to him, her eyes were fixed on the beautiful night sky.

He continued, conjuring, stopping and trying again, and again...and Roman was able to get to the fiftieth attempt before stopping. He was panting heavily and for some reason he could feel his mana slipping away.

'Show me just my stats, system'

[Mana: 1370/1515]

[Strength: 120]

[Agility: 170]

[Stamina: 200]

[Vitality: 172]

[Spell power: 1180]

[Charm: 1200]

'I knew it, just conjuring the magic circle is draining my mana, I've used up almost 150 without casting a spell, so this is where mana efficiency comes in'

'But how do I stop it from leaking, I'm controlling my mana pretty well I think. How much improvement is Evelyn planning to see? This is probably a simple problem, I just have to find the key to unlock it'

Roman closed his eyes this time, and continued conjuring magic circles. He felt nothing, it didn't look like his mana was leaking while casting, but he knew it was.

Mana was an invisible force, he could sense it. If he infused mana in his eyes he could see mana, but when he began this training, he infused mana in his eyes and he still couldn't see any leak.

'I'm thinking too hard about this, I just need to...wait a minute, mana leaks the moment I try to cast a spell, the moment it leaves my body, in just maybe a fraction of a second I lose more than half of the mana infused'

The next moment a memory flashed in his head from when he was little and playing with a garden hose, this was almost the same thing, he just had to figure out how to change his settings.

'A garden hose has different settings, but right now it feels like my mana is in mist mode, instead of concentrating in a single point, the moment I infuse mana, some of it escapes, but if I can switch to stream mode concentrating my mana in a single spot, I can eliminate waste'

'Now the problem is how do I do that? Since Evelyn says it's intuitive, I just have to keep practicing till I get it'

Roman continued with training, conjuring magic circles and now that it looked like he was getting somewhere with training, he was a little more enthusiastic.

Evelyn noticed this but still didn't comment on his performance, it looked like he was improving but it was natural, after all Roman had never done something like this before, when he trained with Victoria, she mainly taught him how to fight because of the upcoming tournament.

Roman finally completed the initial one hundred magic circle, he was still wasting mana and nothing he tried seemed to work, but he wasn't that concerned, since he was just starting training after all.

"That's a hundred" Roman spoke as he rest his back on the wall.

"Good, now do another hundred, you know what... Continue practicing till morning, I'm sure by then your mana control would be better than this" Evelyn spoke and Roman turned towards her.

"What... You're the one striving to get better, if I tell you how hard I trained, considering the fact that I'm a genius, you'll need to train twice as hard to get to my level"

And truly if Evelyn was on Victoria's level or even stronger than Victoria there was no doubt she's a genius, Roman couldn't argue with that, but he also couldn't keep this up till morning.