Chapter 72: Inheritance
Zephyr was sure of it. Jon had never experienced what he had in his core space, and for some reason, he felt like no one else had either. ’I need to find out how to take advantage of that space.’ Zephyr thought.
"..." Jon was lost in thought for a while, and Zephyr was content to keep silent too, also considering different possibilities. ’Aegis, have you drawn any correlations from all he’s said so far?’ Zephyr asked mentally.
Affirmative. Waiting for further clarifications to further ascertain minor points, then we can proceed to charting out the next course of action.
’Good.’ Zephyr thought. Things were looking up for him for the first time, but he didn’t want to get too excited so he wouldn’t jinx it.
"Ahh... Sorry, Zephyr. I got lost in thought for a minute there," Jon apologized.
"Yeah, I didn’t want to interrupt your train of thought," Zephyr replied.
"Where was I?" Jon asked. "Yes. Modulation" he answered by himself. "In regards to what I was saying earlier. Without proper knowledge, the mana core of every awakened defaults to using the direct connection to origin as a clutch for decoding spells where concepts and processes required for a spell are lacking," he continued his explanation. "But that usually requires a high mana node count. At least eight nodes for effectiveness. Four nodes can do the same, but to a significantly lesser degree. With two nodes, one could still try, but it would be extremely difficult to effectively offload any heavy process to the source,"
"And with a single node?" Zephyr asked.
Jon stared at him blankly, "I have no knowledge of how difficult it would be. But I am sure it is even more difficult," he shrugged. "You are the first example of this I’ve ever seen, so you tell me," he said to Zephyr.
"So, multiple nodes are required anyway," Zephyr concluded. "When do you think my next evolution will occur?" he asked.