7. MANA

After I left that place, I went straight to my room. Even though I knew it was all a reality I again did a reality check. And then I realized that my reality is already shifting from the reality I have been living in in the past eighteen years. Even though she said that all my mana will be sealed, I can still feel strange in my body.

I feel totally different from just this morning. My body feels lighter, and my sight is clear. If I were to tell anyone how I am and how I am feeling now, they would think that I am telling the story of a certain wall crawling superhero. But it is not an exaggeration to say that now I can see so much more clearly that I can read the words inside a dictionary placed at the opposite end of the room from where I am standing; which is easily around 40 meters very easily. So, this is what my body offers after unlocking mana ha. Even though I want to check what else I can do and to what extent I feel so exhausted that I don't even want to take another step forward. Tomorrow is Sunday so I can sleep how much I want to. But Mam said that she will start my training tomorrow and be ready for anything that may happen. To be honest those words terrify me to death. But I can't do anything about it so I might as well any hell she through at me and learn what she tells me to my absolute best. But I don't know if my BEST would even come close to what the bare minimum, she is expecting from me. But let's not think about it for now.

After when I went to sleep last night, I slept like a dead man. And I had the most peaceful and wonderful sleep of my life. When I woke up from my sleep, I was looking at Ameyaa Mam

"Ah, now I even started dreaming about her hah... yesterday must have been more hard for me than I had thought. I should wakeup soon otherwise this crazy dream may even come true"

"Is looking at my face early in the morning that surprising."

"Huh!... So, this is not a dream then. No, good morning mam. How has it been since you came here?"

"First of all, this is not morning. Its afternoon and I came here two hours ago."

"Two hours! Then you should have woken me up. Why did you not do anything Mam"

"As you've said before, your body and mind were too much tired yesterday. So, I wanted you to rest well before starting your training and I was just looking at my son while he was resting. Why? Am I not allowed to."

"No, no mam it's not like that. I was just so surprised by looking at you early in the morning so suddenly. That is all"

"I told you to call me mom. And get ready, we need to start your training"

Damn I really do have the worst timing and bad luck. But her personality shift is surprising even now. I need to get ready soon. I don't know what to think. The dream of every otaku, using magic is coming true to me. But I don't know if I have to be happy about it or be restless that I don't know what she will do to me. Either way, it's not like I can do something about this. For now, I just need to listen to what she has to say and figure out if she has any goals or plans for me.

"What took you so long? What were you doing all this time?"

"Sorry Mam, I just take long to have my bath"

"Hmm... I will give you some time to call me mom. But don't forget it is not simply my wish. You need to call me mom for our plan to work. I hope you realize that. Now then shall we go"

"Yes, mo...m"

Suddenly a rotating circle of water formed in front of us. It was like seeing a swirl pool from the sky but here it was facing us.

"Go inside"

"Excuse me? Go where?"

"What do you mean where to go inside it? Get into the water"

"What! No, I don't want to. I can't even swim and do you expect me to enter into water which stand straight while swirling which is totally out of common sense"

"Come on, don't be scared. Here let's go into it together then"

Man, I am scared of entering that swirl pool. I can't swim so of course I am afraid. But I need to do this. While I was thinking, I suddenly got pulled by her into the swirl pool. I closed my eyes as hard as I could because of the fear. Shit I can feel water all around me.

"You can open your eyes now. We are here."

That's true I can't feel water anymore. I could only feel water for a brief moment. But there is still something here. I can feel it feels like water, but it is as light as air. I never sensed anything like this. When I opened my eyes, I was in a place where water was everywhere. There were waterfalls and rivers flowing continuously. Water was even in the sky moving like a river on its own. but there were clouds in the sky, and they were huge and dense. For a moment I thought I was in heaven or something. I have never seen scenery as beautiful as that in my life. Mainly the water and the sky; I never saw the sky with thick clouds like them.

"Are you there, Hello?"

"Ah yes. Sorry, I was just mesmerized by the scenery I just saw. What is this place?"

"It's a different dimension. I bought us here so that I can train you. You don't need to know about this place just yet. So, let's start training"

"Ah, yes... mo...m"

Ah man I don't know what to worry about anymore. Wheather I

Should feel shy about calling her mom or to wonder about this place or about my training. But let's worry about everything else later and concentrate on training first.

"To start our training, I will release your seal on the headband and let me know if you can feel anything different about this place. I noticed that you could feel what I am talking about already but just slightly. But after removing the seal you should be able to feel it more clearly in this place."

She then released the seal by touching my forehead and the headband reappeared again. And now I can feel my body change even more. And not only that. I can feel something strange flow through my body. It's surprising that I can feel the flow inside my body. It's almost terrifying but more than that I can feel the presence of similar substance in the air now. Although it resembles water in state and air in flow. It's so thick that I feel like I'm suffocating.

"Kah... it's like I am in water while being to breathe and the pressure is too high that it's making me feel like suffocating"

"That's good, you can feel it clearly now. That energy in the air and your body is mana. You are feeling pressured because you are exposed to a very concentrated mana in this region. You are not able to withstand its pressure now but please relax and try to breathe in calmly. The suffocation and pressure you are feeling is all in your head."

Yes, I need to calm down. Even I can tell that what I am feeling now is just my imagination. But how do I do that? How can I calm myself down?

"Clear your head and stabilize your breathing. I will stabilize the mana in your body, and you need to harmonize your mana with the mana outside by absorbing the mana through air and converting it into your own"

I can feel her hands on my back and her mana flowing into my body and I can't sense the end of her mana. I can tell that her mana is far greater than this whore region. I need to breathe calmly. Yes, the mana Is entering my body and I can feel it mixing with my own. But it's not mixing that well.

"Everyone has their own unique mana. And the mana in the environment is different from everyones as well. To be exact it is the mix of every frequency so we need a method to mix the raw mana into your mana and stabilize. Now I will show you a technique to do it. Even though it is difficult and slow it is the most reliable one so keep attention to what i am doing "

She started to mix my mana and natural mana with her own mana. She was twisting and rotating the mana in a circular way. Yes I can feel it. Even though it is just a little, natural mana mixed in with my mana.

But the twisted circle of mana is slowly moving though. Ah, it hurts while it's moving.

"Mam the circle is moving and it hurts."

{chakra means a circle in sanskrit. and it is related to human body}

"I know. The twisting circle I am creating is called chakra and this method is also called chakra. There are seven chakras in one's body. And the one I am forming rightnow is searching for the right chakra in your body to open and stabilize there. And the process may be painful and the order of your chakras forming also tells us the things you are most suitable with. So be patient and endure it."

That's what you say but i feel like my whole body is being ripped by that chakra. I don't know how much longer I can endure this. And why is it moving upward when it started at the center of my body? Ah… I can feel it almost in my eyes and it's hurting like hell. She didn't joke around when said she would put me through hell in training.