Chapter 96: Brash Young Man [Golden Ticket Bonus]
Theron had expected Dean Thistle to give him something after he brought up Burne’s snub. But this wasn’t what he expected, and he also knew he would be a fool to think that there was nothing wrong with the technique at all.
What the Thistle Patriarch didn’t realize, though, was that Theron would figure it out instantaneously.
For a long while now, Theron had been building up a solid foundation of Water Mancy comprehension. It wasn’t just that his cultivation technique was the simplest, but even his chosen Mana skills were slowly built on top of one another.
In fact, while others were chasing after power Echoes, Theron had actually planned to get one of the easiest Echoes to claim, coming from an Imbued Beast that was known for being difficult to catch and yet having no combat power.
If not for the twist of fate that was the Verdant Bloomstone, he would have easily continued down that route.
Since he was a youth, Theron had come to understand that his cultivation would never be predicated on raw power. Water Mancers didn’t have enough of it.
He would never be able to draw a [Water Scythe] as sharp as a good blade in a Flex Mancer’s hand, nor would he be able to form a shield of water as solid as an Earth Mancer’s, and certainly not a Metal Mancer, nor would he be able to cast illusions as well as Spirit Mancers, nor heal himself as well as a pill or a Light Mancer could.
What he would be the best at was control. He needed to lean into it, and he needed to ensure that it was his greatest strength… and Mana Control was downstream from Mana comprehension.
The better he understood his Element, the better he would be able to control it.