Chapter 92 – Three Days as the Lich’s Disciple
After the long conversation about the gods, the world, the atmosphere between us gradually lightened. Although my mind was still wrestling with all the new information, I didn’t forget the main reason I came to this place.
I took a deep breath and stood up from the wooden chair that had grown warm from sitting too long. "Then let’s return to my original intention. I didn’t come here just to chat... I came to train in magic."
The lich gave a thin smile or at least, that’s the expression I could interpret from his stiff skeletal face. He stood up and waved his hand, making an old wooden table slide away, opening an empty space in the center of the room.
"Good. Let’s start from the basics," he said, his tone turning serious. "Even though your mana is vast, your control of it... is a mess."
I frowned. "A mess?"
"Yes. Like pouring water into a cup using a bucket. Sloppy, inefficient, and wasteful."
I went silent. I had to admit, he wasn’t wrong. Even though my system provided detailed information on the amount of mana used per spell, in practice, I often released far more than necessary whether due to emotion, pressure, or just lack of focus.
The lich snapped his fingers, and a soft purple glow appeared in the air. "Control your mana. Feel its flow like you feel blood coursing through your body. Don’t just focus on the result of the spell understand the process."
The first day was spent entirely on honing basic control. Repetitive movements, magic meditation, and small experiments channeling mana into various objects all of it helped me feel the texture and density of mana in its different forms.
To me, this wasn’t ordinary training. It felt like learning to write with my left hand: awkward at first, strange, but gradually more natural. And somehow, my body adapted quickly. In one full day, I was already able to control my mana with precision. Not perfectly, but enough to make the lich look impressed, though he didn’t say it outright.
"You learn fast... just as I expected," he said while sitting with his arms crossed. "That’s enough for today. Tomorrow, we move to more dangerous territory."