Chapter 189
As the group rode forward, Alice went back to working on her mana gem. Her image of a fully functioning mana gem was nearly complete, and by her estimation, it would only take three or four hours before she totally finished it. Now that there was nothing else to do, Alice was eager to get to work.
The next three and a half hours were spent in a daze, as she worked on the image of a mana gem contained inside of her mind. But once it was completed, Alice grinned. She had spent several days working on this image, and she was excited now that it was finally done. It was time to see what distinguished a broken mana gem from a working one!
The first thing Alice noticed upon comparing the two images was that the working mana gem had incorporated her Alice mana in a rather odd way.
Alice had already known that the mana gem in her brain was somehow intrinsically linked to Achievements. After all, every single one of her Achievements seemed to be stored in her mana gem, and using her Achievement to fix her mana gem had immediately restored all of her Achievements from working at 50% efficiency to 100%.
It was also already obvious that a working mana gem did something with ‘person’ mana, the strange type of mana that appeared after someone reached level 75. After all, Alice mana had appeared inside of her body around that time, and had only disappeared completely once she used her Achievement to ‘fix’ her mana gem. After that, the mana gem had absorbed all of her Alice mana, and as far as she could tell, it had then disappeared completely from her body.
However, the working mana gem hadn’t just absorbed all of the Alice mana, nor had it simply tossed her Alice mana into a new facet of the mana gem, the way Alice had expected. Now that she could see all of the intricate details of her Alice mana via {Magic Modelling}, she could see several details that she had missed the first time she had looked into her fixed mana gem.
Instead, it seemed almost like the Alice mana was core to the mana gem itself. It was as if there was now a resplendent little glowing core of mana in the center of her mana gem, as tiny as a star in the night sky, but dimly glowing as the rest of the mana gem orbited it.
Alice frowned.
The Alice mana in this image was very, very tiny. Without the ability to zoom in that {Magic Modelling} had, Alice would have had a very hard time seeing in. In fact, if she tried to use her regular types of vision and Perks to investigate her own mana gem, she still had a hard time seeing the Alice-mana core in her mana gem. However, it was clear as day when she zoomed in enough using {Magic Modelling}.