Rapid Growth

Shaking his head out of a stupor, Hadrian looked toward the unit leader before and the old woman. And there seems to be another vortex that appeared beside the old woman.

Another flower-crowned creature appeared in front of it. It has beady eyes and a slim pale brown body. On its heads are glowing purple petals that are shaped like hearts.

Hadrian discovered it immediately. It's a popular healing type beast that specializes in healing the mind. But unlike the Moon-shadow Camelia, this magical beast isn't from Nightbourne City.

It's the wood-spirit dual attribute rare-type beast, the Heartwoods Lavender. As soon as it appeared, mana coercion seemed to press down on everyone. Like a commander on the field.

Perhaps it is a commander-rank magical beast. Aside from its age that can be told even by a glance at its body. This mana coercion is impossible to achieve unless it has gone through a lot of breakthroughs in realms.

"Resonance." The old woman murmured as her energy rises. It even surpasses the Heartwoods Lavender by leaps and bounds in mana coercion just now.

The mana coercion of the Heartwoods Lavender also rises, but not to the extent of the old woman.

Through that exchange, Hadrian immediately had an understanding of what happened. The old woman uses her talent.

Resonance, although not rare and the users can be said to be considerable, is still a powerful talent. Because it allows the person to resonate with any spiritual power and uses that power even if it's a little bit.

Couple with the Incarnation Skill and Resonance talent, this explains why the rise of energy on the old woman's part is tremendous.

"Tranquil Mind. Hearts Resolve." The old woman muttered while glancing at the Heartwoods Lavender. Receiving the order from its contractor, the magical beast began to act.

A smooth-flowing cyan energy gathers at the hands of the Heartwoods Lavender and moves towards the unconscious unit leader. After that, another pink energy emerges from its hand that also flew towards the unconscious man, the power sublimating his body.

Hadrian's brain rumbled as another piece of information appeared in his mind.

[★ Tranquil Mind (Advance Skill)

• Attributes: Spirit

• Description: Spiritual skill that allows the user to condense spiritual energy to remove any negative effects on the mind.]

[★ Hearts Resolve (Superb Skill)

• Attributes: Wood, Spirit

• Description: It strengthens one's mind to protect it from any type of hallucinations. Strengthen one's mind and body healing factors to stabilize its condition.]

These two, skills... Specifically to deal with Spiritual-type delusion base magical beasts. Hadrian fell into deep thought while watching the scene in front of him.

Seconds or maybe minutes have passed, Hadrian doesn't know. The old woman exited the incarnated state and two red vortexes appeared beside him as the Heartwoods Lavender and Moon-shadow Camelia was taken back into her beast space.

"I stabilized his mind already. I already solve his paralyzed and sensory-deprived state. But I can't fully heal him. The moonlight power I gathered is not enough, I might need more to perform another Moon Enlightenment." The old woman beside Doctor Lewis said with a solemn expression.

Hearing this, Hadrian realized one thing. That is the reason why Moon Enlightenment is only an advanced skill.

[★ Moon Enlightenment (Advance Skill)

• Attributes: Spirit, Light

• Description: Skill that allows the user to borrow the moonlight to purify negative effects on the body, mind, spirit, and even bloodline. The stronger the moonlight power gathered, the stronger the purification.]

It borrows the moonlight's power to purify. It does not directly use the moonlight's power to purify. And the stronger the moonlight power borrowed, the stronger the purification power it can exert.

Gathering moonlight power takes a lot of time, it can only be done at a certain period at night. And if the weather is a bit unstable, gathering moonlight power can be a little bit tricky.

Perhaps it can also be done by using light-type resources. But that type of resource is rare and more expensive than the four basic attributes of earth, water, wind, and fire.

After all, the light attribute is one of the rare attributes. So a basic light-type resource might amount to the equivalent of a high-level fire-type resource.

Doctor Lewis talks a bit more to the old woman before they scurry to the medical staff and work again.

They tend to the wounded and transferred the injured patients to a more stable room. And began to do their specific duty.

During that time Hadrian learned that those people are part of the Nightbourne City Allied Force. And the old woman before was one of the executives of the Nightbourne Hospital. Her name was Yesha Moonrow.

She's not from Nightbourne but is married to someone from the city. One of the master-level of Nightbourne City is Alexander Moonrow.

A lot of time flew, and Hadrian got used to his situation. It's been 3 months already after the situation at the hospital. After that, no such shocking situation appeared again.

And after his internship, he came back to Nightbourne University, where he is studying Nursery. He's a scholar here so there's no problem with expenses.

It's a relief for Hadrian that in his memories, his counterpart is aloof and recluse. So he didn't have much interaction with his schoolmates. In the eyes of other people like his peers and teachers, his a geek and a hermit.

In a few days more he will graduate from his university life and will completely enter the world of professionals.

During his stay here in this world, Hadrian prepared himself. That includes training.

Despite being a Second-level base city, Nightbourne University can be said to be luxurious, more or less. It is quite comparable to top universities globally on Earth.

For instance, their technical equipment is more advanced. When students enter the institute, they have to show their identification first.

But unlike the identification on Earth. Their identification is made of platinum black card. They are like credit cards. On the front of the card, the name and logo of the university are carved with gold tint. Their names are also written.

And after it passes the scanning system of the school, other information will be shown. Like the name, course, major, address, and contact number. And it will appear in a holographic form. As if from a futuristic civilization.

As for their training facilities, there is no need to say more. There are twenty of them and only one can be as huge as a football field.

The training field wall was made of top-notch quality metal. It can withstand commander-rank attacks at most. The field are barren. There is also a light-attribute enchantment placed on each training field.

When training himself at one of the training fields at the University, Hadrian studied his space-time talent. He learns to teleport for a short distance. The mana it required is a lot. He estimated it might be five percent of his mana.

As for traveling long distances, perhaps it can also be done, but it might require more mana like half of it. He had not tried it yet.

But lucky for Hadrian, when he traverses here, his other aspects improve such as endurance and physical fitness as if he grows up all of a sudden. His mana is also thrice of that as the same level as him in the First Realm. It can be equivalent to the Second Realm.

And another thing he discovered is he can accelerate the growth of his mana oasis. He only tries it on a whim because after all, according to a study, a mana oasis is a space within our mind full of magical energy. And the beast space is a sub-space made from a mana oasis and consciousness.

And his talent is space-time power that alters the course of space and time, so why not accelerate his growth? After a third try, Hadrian discovered he can. So his mana now can be equivalent to that of a Third Realm. Take note that he's only a First Realm.

He can break through Second Realm now, but he still holds himself back. After all, he still wants to build the foundation. One had to know that his counterpart have only awakened just a year ago in the third year of his life at the university, wherein his peers have awakened before entering college and now at the Second Realm.

And unlike other people that meditate to improve their realm. Hadrian doesn't need to do that. All he had to was use his talent to accelerate his mana oasis and simulate his growth to improve his realm.

And another one he tried is materializing the Space-time power itself in the outside world. When Hadrian did it, the effect can be said tremendous. The field has been trembling, the gravity has distorted, oxygen plummeted and any movement can be restricted.

Although Hadrian isn't affected by these effects, the aftermath of this is huge for him. He almost uses every drop of his mana and the burden on his body is draining. His body has been numb for a couple of days and he had to take a rest because of that.

Hadrian also discovered when he did that, was that he was fast, as his reaction speed has become faster. But Hadrian knows that it was only the time inside the space field that has decelerated.

After that training, he went to the school clinic and got a huge gain. Because he got healing skills. Not one but two!

[ ★ Resurgence (Intermediate Skill)

• Attributes: Spirit

• Description: A skill that allows the user to replenish energy and vitality.]

[ ★ Rapid Recovery (Advance Skill)

• Attributes: Wood, Spirit

• Description: A skill that allows the user to stimulate one's vitality to rapidly recover the drained energy and injury.]

These were the skills of an uncommon-type beast, Mending Heart Calendula of dual-attributes wood and spirit. It's a plant life beast that has three skills. It's popular among those who have healing-related talents to use as a first beast.

Aside from its three skills, the basic skill of Curing Wounds, the intermediate skill of Resurgence, and the advanced skill of Rapid Recovery. It's also because of its evolution form, the Healing Hearts Calendula.

With a delighted feeling, Hadrian proceeded to record the skill Resurgence and Rapid Recovery for his future beast. Although he won't pick a healing-type beast as his first contract, he will have it in the future.

As for Curing Wounds, Hadrian didn't record that. Aside from tending minor wounds, it doesn't have any effects.

The Resurgence on the other hand can replenish energy and vitality which can be said to be functional on and off the field.

And Rapid Recovery can simulate one's healing factors to accelerate healing wounds. It can achieve a similar effect to Curing Wounds when trained to the extreme.

And another thing was he also had to limit the skills he record. Because after studying his talent a bit more, he discovered that there are only ten pages in the Skill Archive right now. The pages can only increase after breaking through.

So even though the future of his beast is immeasurable because of the function of Skill Archive of the Tome of Beast Taming, he had to take it slowly.

During his time also here, Hadrian looked up to every site and commercial to see if there is any beast that suit his taste using a phone.

Speaking of the phone, their technologies here are extraordinary. Holograms are normal features of any gadget. So the video calls here are futuristic.

Those gadgets will not even fall if you hold them out. They will continue to stay in the air as if defying physical laws.

Cars, buses, motorcycles,s and any other transportation are flying like a spaceship. The normal train here can be said to be equal to Earth's Japan's best train.

That aside, as for how he can buy a beast, his counterpart has been saving a considerable amount of money. One had to know that being a beast tamer can be costly.

And the savings he had can only amount to an uncommon-type beast, and if he was lucky the cheapest exotic-type beast. Beast type ranges from Common, Uncommon, Exotic, Rare, Noble, Ancient, Legendary, and Mythical. From the weakest to strongest.

So there's no need to even think about a rare-type beast, much less a noble-type beast. Even if he has money, it isn't recommended to contract that superior race-type beast if an individual has only awakened.

After all, apart from the difference in the quality of mana the contractor and the beast have that might burden their body, those beasts also have quite the character. Some are even prideful and ferocious and might be indifferent to their contractors.

That aside, Hadrian looked up to some beast. And he found some here in Nightbourne City.

That's where he was about to go right now. The Nightfall Breeding Center. It is Nightbourne's local breeding house.