The Demon Queen's Disciple
Chapter 19 - Mana Flow

'Kreeeek!'

Lucius opened the door of his room slowly. Immediately, he changed his clothes with a thin black t-shirt.

A smile never faded from his face after eating with his friends. Because just now, it is probably the most comfortable experience during the start of living in Arcanum City.

'You happy?' carmilla asked as well in a tone that sounded so happy.

"of course. L'm.... Absolutely not expecting to live this comfortable life here."

'good. Then you know what to do to protect your little happiness, right?' ask Carmilla again. This time, with a slightly more serious intonation.

"Yes, I know."

In order to protect his current life, Lucius would inevitably have to become even stronger.

Moreover, after He made quite a number of enemies in this academy. Starting from the Goldencrest family, to his followers like the Emberheart family.

They certainly would not just be silent about the humiliation. A humiliation where class C can be defeated by class F which is considered a failed class.

'Lend your body.' Carmilla said briefly before taking control of the young man's body.

Carmilla immediately sat cross-legged in the middle of the floor of this room.

After preparing for a while, Carmilla immediately projected the image of the magic circle around Lucius' body.

The magic circle was quite complicated and had a bright light blue color. The size itself is quite large with a diameter of 3 meters.

The intricate ancient letters seemed to be constantly revolving around the magic circle.

Among them, there are magic lines that resemble a channel. It starts from Lucius' left side before twisting and re-uniting, leading right into Lucius' body from the right side.

"A little more" Carmilla said.

'Swuuusshhh!!!'

This time, her magic projection created a hexagon that was slightly larger than the previous magic circle.

Slowly, from the hexagon line it began to rise and form a wall. Surrounding Lucius' body completely. Including at the top.

'What is this?' lucius asked curiously after seeing himself as if confined within this hexagon-shaped magic prison.

"Where Flow. A magic training technique I learned from humans. Some high-level nobles have this technique in various variations. But I refined it to the limit." Carmilla explained at length as she continued to prepare this intricate magic formation.

'Where's Flow? Magic training? Is this all for practice?' lucius asked in confusion.

"Seeing the current state of the world, even lower middle class nobles like your friends are unaware of the existence of this kind of magic training.

Meanwhile, high-ranking nobles like Emberheart had it. Naturally, since this was the most efficient method of magic training so it was no surprise that they were hiding each other." Carmilla replied.

'How did you know about that?'

"Looking at the difference in the amount of Mana they were was obvious." Carmilla replied briefly.

Even in the academy, the professors did not mention a single shred of this magic practice at all.

Perhaps due to pressure from high-level nobles or the royal family, they were forced not to teach this secret technique.

'So.... What exactly is the function of this magic formation?' lucius asked back to the main topic.

"Before I answer, I want to ask you. How to train the capacity of Mana?"

'uh? Of course, by continuously using magic, right? That's the only way that one's Mana capacity can increase Lucius replied confidently.

"really so. But, what are the disadvantages of such an exercise?" carmilla asked again, now with a nearly perfect magic formation.

'The weakness.... If done frequently, you might not have any Mana left to deal with emergency situations. Also, it can make fainting or lose control when it drains too much Mana.'

Carmilla was seen smiling with satisfaction after hearing Lucius' reply.

'Eh?!'

Lucius was surprised not to play after hearing the question.

Using magic to attack, defend, heal, or enhance one's abilities was a thing that was already quite natural to hear.

But using magic to recover Where is everyone else?

'Depending on its use, isn't such magic too powerful?' asked Lucius in a panic.

Lucius imagined what if a powerful magician fought on the battlefield, then another hundred magicians worked in the back line just to recover the magician's Mana.

If that is possible, the balance of a battle can change by 180 degrees.

"That's right. Too powerful. Even if only a tenth of the Mana used was received by his target, it was still too powerful. Then, what if you use it for yourself?" ask Carmilla again.

'Eh?! But what's the point of giving Mana to yourself joints....'

Before finishing his sentence, Lucius realized the potential of such magic.

Recalling from Carmilla's previous questions, Lucius was able to see the answer quickly.

'Ji-if such magic really exists.... You can train Mana capacity much faster than anyone else.' Lucius continued after fixing his answer.

In order to increase Mana capacity, the magician simply continuously drained his Mana. Just like a runner who is able to increase his stamina just by continuing to exercise.

And because one's Mana is always limited, training to increase Mana capacity can only reach 80% to 95% of the potential.

But if Which one was used to increase Mana's capacity, it came back partially? And it can be reused, also to restore self Mana?

As Carmilla watched her surroundings to reveal the magic formation she had created, Lucius immediately understood.

That the magic formation that was being refined by Carmilla earlier, was a magic formation to recover self-mana.

"Take a good look at how I do it, and remember carefully what your body is feeling" Carmilla said before beginning the use of this magic.

'Swwuuuussshhh!!!'

A stream of Mana with a dark yellow color began to appear from Lucius' left hand. It spread slowly in the magic groove next to it.

A portion of the Mana stream was visibly evaporated, but it was trapped in a space sealed by the previous hexagon shield magic.

Little by little, the yellow Mana flow started to circle around this magic circle and finally returned to Lucius' body through his right hand. Returns most of the Mana it uses.

"In this version of my magic formation, you can recover about 80% of the Mana used. Depends on how well you control it." explains Carmilla.

Lucius thought that 80% was not a really great number. Given how complicated and difficult it was to set up this magic formation.

Without realizing, that this magic formation belonging to Carmilla was far more perfect compared to any magic formation in the history of mankind.

Where currently, the best Mana magic formation in Arathor kingdom was only able to restore 25% of the Mana used alone.

Of course, Lucius who did not question it also never got the truth. Because until now, Lucius still considers Carmilla as an ordinary demon figure.

"You gotit? Now it's your turn. I'm tired of having to keep doing it for you." Carmilla said before returning control of the body to Lucius.

"I think I understand." Lucius replied with a big smile on his face.

It's just....

'Stupid! Take out Mana slowly! If it's like this too much will evaporate!' carmilla shouted in annoyance.

"eeh?! L-like this?!" it was Lucius who changed his method slightly. But it was precisely increasing the speed of his Mana expenditure.

'I'm asking you to slow it down! Not speeding up the flow!'

And finally, Carmilla had to restart from 0. Starting from teaching Lucius how to control the flow of Mana.