Chapter 230: Helios
The two girls spent the next few minutes comparing illusions on their tablets as Rain looked into the chamber. It smelled a bit like sweat and rust, but everything seemed intact.
A few minutes later, once they were done - and Cassie had more mana - both angels turned to Rainier.
"Ready to go?" Malz asked.
Rain let out a puff of air. "I hope so," he said, looking around at everyone.
"You’ll do fine," Cassie said, opening the box containing her other two gems and handing one to Rain.
Rain gave her a smile and picked up one orb. He turned, and stepped into the chamber, opening the holder and waiting as a tiny cascade of dust fell from it. As soon it was in place, he closed the holder and turned around, facing the door.
"See you in a few," he said, before pushing it closed.
The setup was ultimately quite simple.
As soon as he was comfortable, all Rain needed to do was circulate his mana before pushing it into the emitter. Using the mana contained in the crystal, the emitter would generate a "pressure cycle" that his body would try to absorb until its limits, after which he simply had to maintain control while slowly letting the pressure expand his soul - the container for his magic.
It was a similar technique to how he’d adapted to the middle floors of the dungeon in Norneau, but far more focused, and as he would discover, persistently painful.
Shoving aside the pain, he focused on his breathing and his mana, the back and forth against the pressure, letting just enough of it in to expand his vessel. Slowly. Slowly...