Mana and Evening Walk

After waking up from the nap, I looked at the time, it was around afternoon.

And now as I was feeling refreshed, I thought to try meditating to increase my mana stat.

So I got in the lotus position because it's pretty common in those Cultivation novels.

I have never done meditation and didn't know the proper way to do that but I kept focusing on my breadth and also tried to feel if there is something around me.

After a few minutes, I got a feeling as if there were miniscule particles around me that I never felt before, maybe due to unlocking my mana stat I can feel them now, so I inhaled them and after that, I tried to direct them in my body.

I didn't know where to accumulate them, so I tried to direct these particles to make them flow in every part of my body so that they can properly flow through them.

I have read a few cultivation novels, and in them, mana or chi that they use can also strengthen the body.

If I can do that maybe my other stats will also get a boost from it.

And maybe my skill, like 'telekinesis' will use mana from now on rather than using my stamina as fuel.

And if that happens then it will be very useful, because if I lose my stamina in a fight because of using my skills then my loss is inevitable.

After flowing it through all my body parts I heard a ding sound, but I didn't see what it was and kept meditating.

Around two hours later I opened my eyes.

I looked around and observed my surroundings, but after I focused, there was a change in my vision now.

The colors looked more saturated in my vision right now, the bright looked brighter, and the dark looked darker.

After observing the changes I remembered the ding sound and looked at what it was.

[New skill unlocked: Mana Manipulation (E)]

[Mana Manipulation (E): The host can manipulate the mana around and inside his body to a certain degree.]

I looked at the new skill and its description, which was pretty simple.

Guess the way I did the meditation was right, and through which I got this skill.

After that, I looked at my mana stat which was previously '0'.

[Mana: 5]

After seeing that it was increased I thought to use 'Telekinesis' again.

I looked around and found a book placed on the table, I willed it to come towards me slowly, as I remembered what happened with the bottle before.

It started floating and came towards me slowly, after that I tried it on a few more objects.

After trying it on around 5 objects I looked at my mana stat because I know that it has decreased, as I was not feeling tired now as much as before.

[Mana: 3]

Yes, so my assumptions were right and now my skill consumes my mana rather than my stamina.

After that, I thought about something and walked toward the garden and saw a few birds there.

I already tried it on non-living objects, now I should try it on a few living beings.

Because I don't know when I will have to use it on a living being.

I intended for one of the birds to come toward me, and after that, it started to come toward me but as it was struggling, so halfway through coming towards me it broke free from my skill.

After it broke away I suddenly felt the world around me spin as I crouched on the ground, I looked toward my mana stat while being dizzy.

[Mana: 0 (Status: Mana Exhaustion)]

[Mana Exhaustion: A state in which the host's mana is completely depleted and the host will feel dizzy]

I looked at my mana stat and status effect and understood clearly what happened to me just now.

'I guess it's too much for me to use my skill on a living being, with my current stats.'

I thought and headed towards my room again, but this time I didn't take a nap and just meditated for 10 minutes and my mana stat was back to normal.

I think my priority should be to increase my mana stat right now.

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In the evening, I was about to go out for a walk but didn't expect to run into them.

"Hello Aki-kun."

"Hello Akimitsu-kun."

Said the two cute girls in front of me.

"Hello Kanade-san, Subaru-san, what are you doing here?", I greeted them,

"Well, we are going to the park to play, where are you going aki-kun?", Kanade asked.

"I was just taking a walk around the neighborhood."

I said and it was the truth, and this neighborhood in which I live is basically for rich people.

It has parks as well as places to walk around and there was also a lake some distance away.

"Why don't you join us to play at the park?" Asked kanade.

"Well, I am not going that way right now," I said because I was planning to test my power near the lake.

"Please come with us Aki-kun" Kanade insisted, while looking at me with puppy eyes.

And looking at those puppy eyes makes me think of moeha as she also does this when she wants something from me.

Guess kanade is getting better at manipulating people.

After a few moments, I let out a sigh and smiled.

"Ok let's go to the park to play."

After hearing me agree with her kanade smiled joyfully and hugged my arms.

And after that we headed towards the park, and behind, I heard a sigh and while looking back I saw Subaru also start walking towards us, maybe she is tired of seeing her lady behaving like that.

After playing in the park with Kanade and Subaru for a while it started getting late and the sun was also about to set.

There were very few people left at the park right now.

As I was about to ask them to go home now, Kanade came towards me and started pulling me towards the back gate of the park.

I asked, "What happened? why are you pulling me so suddenly like that?"

"It's just that I wanted to show you something", replied kanade.

After we got to the gate area there were flowers around the boundary of the walls of the park and kanade went towards the flower area and picked up something and came toward me.

She put something on my head, and it was a crown made up of flowers.

"What is this?", I asked.

"Well duh, it's a flower crown I made myself", replied kanade while raising her non-existent chest high.

"But why did you make this?", I asked again.

"Ahh...why do you have so many questions, just accept it and say thank you...hump!!"

Kanade said as she puffed her cheeks like a squirrel.

I poked at them as I started patting her head and said.

"Thank you for the gift."

Her eyes were in a crescent shape after hearing me say thanks and was enjoying her head pat.

Screech...

Suddenly there was a sound of a vehicle stopping, I looked in that direction and saw a black van stopping there, and suddenly few men came out of it and came towards our direction.

I got a bad feeling and was about to run with kanade but then one of the men suddenly caught Kanade and made her inhale something which made her lose consciousness in a few moments.

As I was about to fight, another two men came towards me and caught my both arms and made me inhale the same gas as well which made my vision blurry, and just like that I also lost consciousness.