Descent of the Legendary Archmage

After that, we arrived safely at Baengnyeong Island and moved straight to our accommodation.

“Then, I will assign your rooms first. Jin Heeyoon and Adella are Room 201. And......”

After assigning the rooms, we unpacked our luggage and ate at the restaurant.

After eating, we immediately began adaptation training to adapt to the mana concentration of Baengnyeong Island.

“As the mana concentration is high, there will be a great sense of discomfort in the process of absorbing the mana through the circle. You have to solve this before you start training in earnest.”

I looked at the juniors, Soonchan, and Adella, who were sitting in various positions and performing mana circulation.

Using God’s eyes, I directly penetrated the essence of mana.

“Kang Shinwoo and Adella don’t need to be advised. Just do it as it is.”

“I got it.”

“Okay.”

Kang Shinwoo and Adella.

Both seem to be accustomed to having a mana circulation in these high concentrated mana zones.

There was no need to give advice.

At that rate, they will be able to adapt in less than 30 minutes.

“I think Ma Jinseok needs to lower the output of the circle by about 20%.”

“......Okay, I will try.”

Ma Jinseok groaned and began to reduce the output of his mana circle.

“Jin Heeyoon is completely opposite. Your output of the circle has been lowered too much. Adjust the output of the circle to be about 15% higher than the current state, and about 30% lower than the usual.”

“......I always feel this, but our leader Shin talks like it is very easy.”

If we inject more fuel into the engine than we need, it will only break down.

As the concentration of mana increases, the output of the mana circle must be adjusted to match the absorption amount of mana.

Otherwise, not only does the magic output decrease, but also the consumption of mental power increases.

In particular, if magic is used as usual in these high concentration mana zones, in the worst case, there may be a boom.

“Kang Hyungman needs to increase the number of cycles. I see a lot of your immature aspects in many ways.”

“Okay.......”

“Min Taesik is really good at this. Please continue in that state.”

“Okay.”

Just as each person has different habits, each mana circle is different.

I gave only the necessary advice for each situation.

“That’s good. Try lowering your output by about 5%. It will be much more comfortable.”

“You are in a posture that doesn’t fit your body type. At that rate, the efficiency is low. Like this.......Yes. It’s more comfortable, right? Try that from now on.”

There was a lot of advice that could be somewhat rude, but the juniors didn’t seem to mind.

This may be because trust in me has been built up quite a bit.

“I will try.”

“This posture is definitely more comfortable.”

The juniors actively accepted my words and continued their mana circulations.

“Great. Then, this is the end of the first adaptation training.”

About an hour has passed. The first mana adaptation training was over.

“......Ugh. I’m dying.”

Jin Heeyoon immediately laid back.

“Leader Shin, the training was too....... Wasn’t it too hard? How did we......circulate mana for an hour......?”

She exhales roughly and looks at me with resentment.

Also, how sweaty she was, the sweat poured down her forehead like rain, and the training suit became wet, so she looks like a drowned rat.

It was like a person who exhausted all her physical strength from a long sprint.

The same was true of the other juniors.

Everyone is struggling like an exhausted person.

“Adella, get some water for the juniors.”

“Okay.”

Adella was fine.

As if she was a genius, she finished adapting in 20 minutes.

There was no reason to have a hard time because she had quit the mana circulation and taken a rest.

“Hey, this is water.”

“Feed me.......”

Jin Heeyoon gasped and whined.

“Okay, what?”

Adella was taken aback.

Looking at Adella, Jin Heeyoon laughed as if she was happy.

“I’m kidding. You’re surprised. Cute.”

Jin Heeyoon lifted her body, sat down, and was handed a water bottle from Adella.

And she gulped it down.

It was a cheerful bottoms up.

“Phew. Now I’m getting better.”

She made a series of exclamations with a face that she felt refreshed.

“Have some water.”

“Thank you.”

“Thank you.”

Adella politely handed the water bottles to the juniors one by one.

On the other side, I also handed the water bottles to them one by one.

When they all get some breathing with hydration.

I drew everyone’s attention by clapping.

“Did everyone get something?”

“Well, roughly.”

Jin Heeyoon answered as a representative.

The other juniors nodded their heads and affirmed.

“Do you have any more questions?”

“I don’t have one.”

“Me neither.”

There seems to be nothing else they want to ask.

“Then from now on, each of us should proceed with adaptation training according to your own tempo.”

“Train autonomously?”

“Yes.”

I have already given all my advice.

Now there’s nothing I can do to help with this training.

There is no difference between self-training and my coaching.

“What are you going to do while we are training autonomously?”

“What am I going to do?”

I sat down smiling.

“I also need to do adaptation training.”

I need to be fully adapted to this concentration before taking a potion.

That way, the intake efficiency of the portion can be maximized.

“......Aha.”

Jin Heeyoon nodded with a face saying, ‘I didn’t know that.’

“I forgot. But, Leader Shin said it is also his first time in Baengnyeong Island.......”

“Yes, it is my first time.”

The juniors were buzzing.

“The advice was so perfect that I thought he was a local instructor who had already adapted.”

“I agree with that. He was like a ghost. I didn’t even know I had this bad habit.”

“I know. I’ve never heard such perfect advice before.”

The juniors complimented me one by one.

It was a bit of a shame.

But those words also mean that their trust in me have been built.

It made me feel good.

‘The concentration of mana is much higher than I thought.’

The concentration of mana in Baengnyeong Island was higher than I expected.

I heard that the concentration of mana had recently begun to increase, but I didn’t know it would become this high.

It is so great.

It feels like something is filling inside of me.

I feel so good.

‘How would it feel to wear my master’s robe and drink the blessing of mana?’

Will it be hard? Or do I feel satisfied?

‘I’m looking forward to it and also I’m nervous.......’

I slowly closed my eyes thinking about it.

“......It’s amazing.”

“Do you see the atmosphere around him?”

“Wow.......”

The voices of the juniors are gradually disappearing.

A complete silence.

In a world where nothing is felt, I felt only mana.

‘Nice to meet you.’

‘Let’s play!’

Feeling the will of the mana to talk to me, I circulated the Infinity Circle.

A circle of Deliberation.

A circle of Resonance.

A circle of Interference.

The mana circulated to the position surrounding the three circles.

As if to carve out a new untidy wild path.

Relaxed and passionate.

The mana in my body followed a new path.

‘With this much mana concentration, I can weave the circle of Expansion unconditionally within 5 nights and 6 days.’

The mana concentration on Baengnyeong Island was very satisfactory.

* * *

That night.

After finishing all training schedules.

I was searching near the accommodation.

Maybe there is one around here.

The goal is to find the vein.

In natural mana concentrated areas, such as Baengnyeong Island, there are places where mana is concentrated, and these places are called a ‘vein.’

This vein is characterized by a mana concentration of about 5% higher than other places.

In order to maximize the effect of the potion, it is necessary to find this vein, sit on it, and perform mana circulation.

“I found it.”

After a total of about an hour of searching, I succeeded in finding the vein.

A land in which a gentle mana is fluctuating.

Less than half space.

‘Let’s see.’

I touched the vein and felt mana properly. Certainly, it is 5.3% higher than other places.

‘It’s not far from the accommodation, the concentration is good, and everything is good.’

Perfect.

I immediately took out my master’s robe, put it on, and sat down on the vein.

And I took out a bottle of the Blessing of mana from the side bag and drank it.

“......Yuck.”

I couldn’t say it tasted good. It was fishy, bitter and disgusting.

It was the worst I have ever had.

It was the worst.

“Ugh......”

I closed my eyes, desperately forgetting the remnants of the disgusting taste that still lingered in my mouth.

Remove thoughts and concentrate the mind.

Pounding!

My heart was thumping.

The blessing of mana began to work.

Buzzzzzz—!

Three Infinity Circles reacted at the same time.

Is it because I took the blessing of mana? It circulated at a tremendous speed.

‘......Oh.’

As expected, a good medicine tastes bitter.

The effect is enormous as it tastes the worst.

The amount of mana absorbed in my body is incomparable to before.

If it was the level of sucking mana with a straw before, now it feels like sucking mana with a vacuum cleaner.

The difference is so wide.

Buzzzzzz—!

It sounded like a motor running violently.

It was the sound of my circle circulating at an indescribable speed and causing friction between manas.

“......Ugh!”

For a moment, there was a pain that seemed to break the whole body.

A startling pain.

I almost lost my mind for a moment.

‘......Let’s focus.’

Absorbing a lot of mana is not good.

Too much is as bad as too little. If I absorb too much mana, it becomes poison.

If I absorb this much mana, there is an extremely high possibility that side effects will occur along with overload.

If I don’t keep my head on straight and don’t control mana, there is a possibility of a mana boom.

Don’t let my guard down for a second.

A moment’s carelessness can result in death.

I have to concentrate if I don’t want to be.

‘An hour ahead.’

The blessing of mana’s effect lasts 1 hour.

In the meantime, I have to absorb and control as much mana as I can to make a way for the circle of Expansion to circulate.

‘At least 20% must be completed.’

The Blessing of mana, a potion made with the help of Mimir, is a total of 5 bottles.

20% of each bottle must be completed to make sure that the circle of Expansion is woven.

“Phew......”

I took a deep breath and circulated mana.

Dozens of times more mana than I usually absorb hit my body like angry waves.

‘Good. I’m getting used to it.’

Just as I can surf when I get used to the angry waves.

My body is getting used to the huge absorption of mana.

‘Now, if I just keep this state......’

Just when my mana circulation was within full stability.

An extraordinary event happened.

“......!”

The amount of mana absorbed into my body suddenly increased significantly.

I was stunned by the unexpected torrent of mana.

‘Wh-why is there a flood all of a sudden......?’

An indescribable amount of mana is flooding in the vein.

If it seemed to absorb mana with a vacuum cleaner a little while ago, now each pore is a small black hole and it feels like sucking mana.

“Ugh!”

This is not the level of an angry wave.

Tsunami, it is a mega tsunami.

A level of disaster that humans cannot conquer weighed on my body.

The indescribable pain weighed on my whole body.

‘There is no way it can give off this much mana even if it is a vein......!’

It was not an understandable amount of mana.

I even thought that all the mana in the world were focused on me.

“Ugh!”

It was as if mana was holding my brain and shaking it.

For a moment, my mind went blank.

“Ugh!”

I almost lost my mind, but the terrible pain awakened my mind.

That’s a relief. If I had lost my mind, I would have been killed by a mana zoom.

I didn’t expect to appreciate this terrible pain.

‘Calm down. Be focused. If I make a mistake, I will go straight to death.’

I wanted to take off my master’s robe or get out of this area, but now I cannot move even one finger.

All I can do is endure.

Buzzzzzz-!

I desperately circulated mana.

I endured and struggled to control mana.

‘Hold on. Hold on somehow......!’

I couldn’t think of anything other than the thought that I should get over this situation safely.

I couldn't afford it.

Buz buz buzzzz—!

I could hear the Infinity Circle resonating between the mana’s frictional sounds that filled the surroundings.

BUZZZ—!

It is a little different from the resonating sound of the three circles that I have heard so many times.

The harmonized resonance sound, as if it were wrapped in something and became one, rang clear.