Chapter 194
Alice’s new plan was simple. She knew for a fact that the System was somehow helping people create artificial magic seeds. She couldn’t imagine any other way that Class Seeds could have plausibly come into existence. Furthermore, unless she was seriously misinformed about the rarity of materials, there was no freaking way the System used them for class seeds. Not only had Alice seen zero evidence of core materials being used, and it made no logistical sense at all. The System had a workaround.
After using this idea to develop stabilization mana and failing, Alice had also realized that ‘stabilization’ mana alone wasn’t enough. Compressing the mana seemed to help… but it didn’t seem to resolve the fundamental issue she was running into. The mana needed something to keep it structured. Otherwise, the whole thing fell apart, like a puff of air blown away by the wind.
Stabilization mana didn’t work. Compressing that mana also didn’t fix the problem, at least not completely. So how did the System create Class seeds?
Alice was hoping that it used ‘class mana’ as a binding agent. That would make class seeds a bit different from her original ‘image’ of how they worked… but Alice could at least imagine how it might fit together. Alice had set out to repair the System, or find a replacement for it, before everyone on this planet died. While Alice had mostly been working towards ‘repair’ so far, she had no problem finding a different solution. As long as it worked, and helped people, that was good enough.
“What do you need me to do?” Jonathan asked, as he laid down on the table Alice had prepared for him..
“Just lay down. Oh, and could you give me {Patient’s Consent}?” asked Alice, after a moment of thought.
“Of course. If you need to send mana into my body for the purpose of this experiment, you can do so, provided that you believe it is likely to work and unlikely to endanger my life. I’m sturdy, but I’d still prefer some amount of caution,” said Jonathan.
“Thank you,” said Alice, as she saw the rainbow mana for {Patient’s Consent} light. Then, she got to work.
She started out by trying to drill a bit of mana into Jonathan’s chest. Her first idea was just to try mixing a bit of stabilization mana together with the unbound [Fisherman] mana that was stuck floating around Jonathan’s body. Once she saw how stabilization mana and [Fisherman] mana interacted with each other, she would have a better idea how to proceed further.