Chapter 29: Honing Control
At that moment, as he completely exhausted his aura, he began to sense nearby blue particles being drawn into his aura core.
[You have fully depleted your aura. Ambient aura in the air absorbed. Capacity increased by +5 aura.]
[Energy:
Aura (Dirarnia World) F- Tier 0/100 → 105
Mana (Dirarnia World) F- Tier 100/100]
'So, to grow my aura core, I'll need to absorb the aura from the air. That's kind of a problem—how will I continue to grow my core after leaving this world? There won't be any aura or mana in the air to absorb. Hmm, I'll think about it more once I'm at the Academy and have a better understanding of how this world and its power system work!'
'At least it doesn't seem like regenerating my aura requires absorbing the surrounding aura. It's already gone up by 1 in the past few minutes while I was lost in thought. That's a relief because if I could only regenerate aura in an aura-saturated place, it would've been a serious issue.'
'Anyway, I got sidetracked, but I've actually made really good progress. At first, it took nearly a full minute to move my aura from my core to one of my hands. By the end of an hour of training, though, I've managed to reduce that time to around 20–25 seconds.'
'Even better, I found a way to increase my energy capacity while training my control, so I'm killing two birds with one stone. But while I was lucky to find a method to grow my capacity, I still haven't figured out how to increase its potency. I suppose that might require either upgrading the tier of my energy or increasing my Spirit stat.'
After finishing his thoughts, he began training his control with mana while allowing his aura to recover. Controlling different types of energy felt distinct, but there were enough similarities that he could start his control exercises at around 35-40 seconds, rather than one full minute.
He managed to train for an hour and fifteen minutes before his mana was completely depleted, which increased his capacity by another five points.