Chapter 362: The prerequisite of becoming a cupid is having a pair of wings
People said visualization was good for learning, so that was what I did.
I tried to visualize mana in the way people visualized atomic particles. All this while, I had been looking at it too abstractly, looking at the environment like I was looking at a painting. Perhaps because at the start, I saw this world as a novel. And when we looked at things too broadly, it was hard to focus.
But now, rather than looking at the whole picture, I tried to look at the centerpiece. Rather than feeling the whole mana, I tried to focus on the tip that led the whole flow, imagining them as those atomic particles and trying to lead them inside my body by moving those particles. A concentrated effort rather than relying on my druid genetic instinct.
By following the movement of a certain part keenly, I kept my mind busy enough from wandering around, even as the characteristic of mana was knocking on my mind palace persistently.
But for that, I needed to make sure I was in a deep concentration state first--which was why I started the whole lesson by practicing the new breathing exercise as a warm-up.
Once my mind entered a focus state that I built up as a habit for the past ten days, I immediately moved toward the next step; absorbing the mana.
The thing about the air was the difficulty; the way the mana was scattered everywhere. Catching millions and trillions of particles scattering in the sky was like trying to catch confetti with a bare hand; not impossible, just hard and tiring.
Thanks to Amarein’s last lesson, I managed to narrow my spreading consciousness--the room where the confetti was sprayed--to a single lane in front of me. I guided the visualized particles into my body, and made the other particles follow the one I guided inside.
In other words, rather than catching those particles by hand, I sucked them with a vacuum cleaner.
It was easier now because I only had to guide and absorb the mana contained in a designated area. And I worked, worked hard to keep my focus on those particles of mana. And just like the breathing exercise, I did not let my body process the mana automatically. I guided and followed them throughout my mana circuits and mana core.
It was exhausting.