"Who was that guy? He entered so easily." A feeble-looking disciple, who was watching from afar, commented.
"Easily? You are saying this because he was strong enough to make it seem easy, or do you have the confidence to say that you could have entered in front of so many geniuses?" A female disciple standing beside him scoffed.
"…"
The feeble-looking disciple was immediately speechless and shook his head.
On the other side, the girl who was previously talking to Max had an astonished expression.
She hadn't expected that handsome, amiable-looking guy to be so strong.
She then shook her head, and a wry smile appeared on her face when she recalled how she had thought he would be thrown out like she was.
…
As Max entered the room, he realized that all the sounds from outside were cut off, and the room was dead silent.
'The Mana here is at least five times denser and purer than the other places on the main peak. It's no wonder that training here is many times more effective.' He thought, feeling the Mana in the room.
He then looked around the room. The room was extremely simple, with only a cushion in one corner. Apart from that, there was nothing. The floor and walls had some glittering lines, which were the formation.
He had heard that with these formations protecting the room, no one under the three-star realm would be able to cause any damage here.
Crackle!
Max cracked his knuckles and smiled. 'Let's start training, shall we?'
Then without any delay, he started stretching his body.
After that, he stood still and closed his eyes.
A lot of Mana surged out from his core, and the surrounding Mana also became active. After that, his inner mana started to condense around his fist as he began to cast [Calidus Brachium] while feeling the flow of the Mana and trying to visualize its pathway.
Today, he was going to train his [Calidus Brachium] since he needed to shorten its casting time to use it more effectively.
To improve a spell, one only needed to cast it frequently. By doing that, they would get more familiar with it, and their mastery over it would rise slowly.
Although it sounded very simple, it wasn't as easy to achieve. It was because no matter what spell it was, it couldn't be cast infinitely since everyone had a limited amount of Mana. That's why the process of mastering a spell was usually done over extended periods of time.
Moreover, if the user didn't have a clear understating of how the spell works or their elemental affinity was lacking, training a spell would prove to be even more difficult.
That's why these training grounds were a very important resource you won't easily find elsewhere.
Due to Mana's high density and purity, you can replenish your Mana several times faster here and cast your spell many times more than you usually can elsewhere.
Moreover, the purer Mana in the environment was, the more efficiently your mind would work, which would help you understand the spell more.
…
After thirty seconds, the first cast of the [Calidus Brachium] was complete, and Max's fist was blazing with crimson fire that enveloped his fist and one inch of his wrist.
Huu…!
Max took a deep breath and moved toward the wall in front with his blazing fist raised.
BANG!!
A loud bang resounded in the quiet room as his fist landed on the wall. Just before the impact, the formation on the wall lit up, and all the damage was ignored.
Max took a few steps back and was surprised to see that there wasn't ever a single scratch mark on the point of impact.
Following this, he kept casting [Calidus Brachium] and attacking the wall without a break.
If it weren't for this place, he wouldn't be able to do this since each of his attacks would cause much destruction, and he would have to find new targets to hit every time.
Bang!
Bang!
…
Huu…!
After around ten minutes, Max stopped. He was a little out of breath as one-fourth of his stamina was depleted after casting his spell six times in a row.
Because he now could use more than fifteen hundred Mana in one cast, his Mana was completely exhausted just after six casts.
He then sat down on the cushion to recover his Mana.
'Since the Mana here is purer and denser, I can recover completely in around half an hour.' Max thought. Although this time was almost half than usual, he still frowned.
It only took him less than 10 minutes to completely exhaust his Mana, and now it would take three times the time to recover before he could start the second round. This means he could go for only three rounds before his time was up.
Thinking this, he waved his hand, and a few dozen crystal-like stones appeared before him.
'Fortunately, Jasmine gave me these Mana stones, or I would have to use from Belen and others' share.' He thought.
Before coming back last night, he had asked her for another bottle of 'Foundation strengthening liquid,' but she didn't have any with her so she said that she would send it to him tomorrow and because she was pretty happy, she gave him a few hundred Mana stones to train.
'Wait, I still have their share of Mana stones with me,' He suddenly remembered.
After exchanging the beast cores in the resource hall yesterday, he became busy consolidating his Mana core, and after that, with his date with Jasmine. So he completely forgot about giving them their share.
Although he went to Rima's residence, it was to give her the spell, and he didn't remember that he had yet to give them their Mana stones. Maybe he would have remembered if he had met Rima, but he didn't.
'Oh well, I will just distribute them after I'm done here.' Max shrugged and focused on replenishing his Mana.
Because of the dense Mana in the room and the Mana stones, he recovered completely in just twenty minutes and nodded in satisfaction.
After that, he resumed casting [Calidus Brachium]. After a while, he would sit down, replenish his Mana and stamina and then repeat the same cycle.
Very soon, two hours were about to be over. In these two hours, he had made some noticeable improvements.
The casting time of [Calidus Brachium] had been reduced to approximately twenty-five seconds, and the amount of Mana he could inject while casting it rose by another two hundred units, increasing its power by more than ten percent.
"Let's go now." He stood up and walked toward the door.
…
Weng~
The formation on the door dimmed slightly, instantly catching the disciples' attention waiting outside.
"It's opening!"
There was a small commotion as the disciples noticed this, but no one moved toward the door nor showed any intention to compete to enter.
They were like spectators waiting for a show to watch.
As the door showed signs of opening, everyone's gazes landed in front, where four disciples, the bulky man, and three others were standing with cold expressions.
Weng~
The door opened, and Max slowly walked out with a calm face. Noticing the bulky man and others, he smiled faintly. "You guys are welcome to enter."
"We will, but after beating you up." One of the three disciples snickered coldly. He couldn't stand Max acting like everything was normal.
"Oh!" Max looked toward the disciple who just spoke, and his gaze became sharp as he said, "How about you come and try?"
Hearing this, the disciple's expression became ugly, and he was angered but didn't say or do anything. He knew he wasn't Max's match.
If he were to use his spells, maybe there was a chance he could fight him one on one, but now that they couldn't use their Mana, there wasn't a chance.
He instinctively looked toward the bulky man. The other two also glanced at him. They knew that if the bulky man first attacked him, they would be able to beat him easily.
"Tch, cowards!" Someone among the spectators cursed, seeing their reaction.
Hearing this, all three disciples' faces fell, but they didn't attack.
After seeing Max fight for a short while before, they knew that although the three of them were able to suppress the bulky man to some extent after working together, they won't be able to do the same to Max, even though his strength was somewhat lower than the bulky man because, unlike the bulky man, Max was very agile.
Seeing their reaction, Max ignored them and looked toward the bulky man. Looking at him, his expression wasn't as casual.
The bulky man didn't attack but asked, "You aren't a strength-type mage, are you?"
Max was slightly surprised by this. Max had seen that this man was very arrogant and was easily angered, most people with these characteristics would hold grudges but he didn't seem like that.
As the bulky man asked this question, the other three disciples near them and the spectators had incredulous expressions and broke out in exclamations.
