Chapter 4 – I Bought It Because It Was Cheap (4)

It’s worth the 3 hours invested in karma.

As I was smiling happily alone, I heard Carla’s trembling voice next to me.

“Host… Sir? What does that look like?”

Is it because her appearance has changed? She shrugged her shoulders at Carla’s voice, which eased a little.

“You know the Polymorph Potion, right? That thing that is sometimes found in dungeons.”

“… Isn’t that very expensive?”

“Do I look like someone short of money?”

“…….”

Carla, who was rolling her red eyes here and there, must have remembered her ransom, and she cautiously shook her head.

“Yeah… But won’t the poly morph potion get caught in her entrance exam… ?”

“What?”

“Hee! No, that’s not ignoring the master… When I entered the school, they said it could be a disguised admission, and I checked everything!”

Carla rolls her eyes and makes excuses by mobilizing even her hand gestures.

It’s true that she’s a little more at ease, but it seems she’s completely forgotten about her situation.

“… Let me tell you first, this is my true self. The bald head until now is a disguise.”

“Yes? Uh… Then. There. That is….”

“Say it comfortably. Because it’s frustrating to hesitate for nothing.”

“Yes! Then how old is your master!”

“20 years old. Isn’t that the right age to enter the academy?”

In fact, the exact age of this body is unknown. Because there is no resident registration card in this world.

However, at the beginning of the game, the main character’s age was always 20, the minimum age for entering the academy, and this year is the year the original work begins.

If it wasn’t for a strange setting suddenly added, I’d be 20 years old.

I almost died several times in the last 3 years, and it’s a bit absurd that it’s only an academy admission that I spent 20,000 gold each, but….

Still can’t help it.

H&A… As the name Hero and Academy suggests, the center of this world is the academy.

Considering the disaster that will come in the future, it is essential to cultivate strength in the academy, the place I know best.

“Twenty… Admission to the academy….”

Carla looking at me with her confused eyes.

According to the setting, when Karla was in her fourth year, the highest grade in the academy, her family collapsed and she became a slave.

She couldn’t help but feel complicated when she thought that someone who was 4 years younger than herself, and who wanted to enter the academy she hadn’t graduated from, was her master.

But she must not be sentimental now. Because there is still work to be done.

Mate.

I clapped lightly, and diverted Carla’s attention.

“Anyway, you know how to breathe with Lindbloom, right? Great. Let’s take off the basics before going to bed tonight.”

“Oh. Yes! Then, first of all, you have to gather mana in the air and make a ring around your heart… Oh, it should be a loop twisted into a triple helix, not just a loop. And again… Vibrate the mana that fills the whole body so that the body and the outside mana resonate….”

Surprised, Karla reflexively began to recite the essentials of the Lindbloom breathing method.

… I have no idea what you’re talking about.

In the first place, I cannot feel or absorb the mana around me on my own. Because he is incapable of responding to mana.

Of course it’s okay. There was no way he bought Carla without any countermeasures.

“Stop.”

“Suck!”

Carla, who did not explain to her my orders, covered her own mouth with her hand.

I can even feel a little uneasiness in the eyes looking at this side.

“It’s okay. It’s not like you did anything wrong or anything like that. However, isn’t there a better way to explain it with your mouth?”

“A better way… Do you mean transmission?”

“Yeah that.”

Transmission.

In the game, it was a system that allowed masters of a particular skill to learn that skill to an introductory level.

It feels the same here.

If it is a wizard, the master makes a mana core for the student, and if it is a knight, it is a form of making an aura core instead.

Of course, it only builds the core, and it is impossible to transfer energy or increase achievement.

It is up to the individual to build up mana and aura in the core and realize the true intention of the breathing method.

However, it is said that it is quite common among masters and masters because it is possible to forcibly punch the breathing method into the body and safely pass the most dangerous and complicated core creation stage.

“I… Master? In order for me to pass it on to you, you must be in a state where you have not learned any breathing techniques.”

“Yes?”

Oh, did you think I was already learning a different breathing technique?

No matter what kind of stat, the limit stat for a normal human is 30.

What… It goes up even more when it is supported by this or that characteristic or equipment, so it is said that it is the limit of pure stats.

And my magic stat is 18.

It’s just too much to be born with.

It’s not for nothing that the attribute is called Endless Mana.

The amount of magic power is also considerable, but only one breathing method can be learned unless it is a special case.

If you want to learn a different breathing method, you have to blow away all the mana accumulated in the existing breathing method.

So, from Karla’s point of view, she naturally assumed that I had learned something, and she had no choice but to be puzzled.

Of course, it’s all an illusion.

“It’s okay, this is just natural magic, so don’t worry about it.”

“Yes? This is birth magic… ?”

“You’re not suspicious this time, are you?”

“Oh no! I’ve never doubted the Master! But this is really….”

Unable to speak, Carla’s mouth is open.

She giggled at the sight, took off her top, and stuck out her back.

Slave engravings basically have a function that prevents slaves from harming their masters, but….

Just in case you don’t know, it’d be nice to give an order.

“Isn’t there anything more? Now, [Tell me the Lintbloom breathing method safely.]”

“Uh… Yes!”

Carla hesitated for a moment, but she quickly put her hand on my back with a determined voice.

A soft yet warm touch.

Shoot-

But after a while, cold energy starts pouring from that warmth.

“Kuk!”

A strange feeling, as if someone had turned on cold water inside the body.

Karla’s mana spread from her back, like ripples spreading across a lake, calmly but surely filling my body.

Filling the center of her body, filling her extremities such as her fingertips and toes, but avoiding only her head, the mana filling up.

How much time had passed since Karla began to infuse her own mana into her body.

At some point, instead of trying to inject Karla’s mana, she started to bounce off.

It means that my body is full of Karla’s mana.

The moment I tremble without knowing it, as if her shoulders were dipped in cold water.

Uh-

Karla’s mana, which filled her whole body, began to vibrate rapidly.

Like hummingbird wings… Or like a hammered tuning fork.

Ugh-

The vibration got worse and worse, and now it started to resonate with my body.

Ung-ung-

Something imprinted on the heart, on the diaphragm, and on each cell.

Little by little, my breathing began to follow certain rules, and my heartbeat also began to fit into a regular cycle.

The cold air, which must have filled the whole body except for the head, gradually contracted and soon began to draw a small twisted circle around the heart.

And let the small circles come together to complete one ring.

Pounding.

The rings of breathing, heartbeat, and mana were connected as one.

At the same time, a line of mana extending from the center of the chest.

The cold line started going around every nook and cranny of my body without even giving me time to adapt. Like blood vessels.

Is this the mana circuit? Then the ring on the heart is probably a mana core.

Using my body as a drawing paper, the mana circuit that used to draw complex shapes completed a picture by returning to the core.

That moment.

“Huup!”

A freshness that fills the entire body and an inexplicable sense of exhilaration.

I surrendered to this and repeated inhalation and exhalation as instinct led me.

Ugh….

It’s weaker than when Karla moves directly, but instead, the mana that moves according to my will.

Until now, it felt like simple cold air, but now every particle feels like a living creature.

By calming it down, it passes through the core of the heart and induces it to pass through the tortuous mana circuit.

Slowly but steadily. I kept repeating it one step at a time.

That’s how the gear goes around the mana circuit, and the moment it returns to the core.

I could feel it instinctively.

That the mana that Karla had injected became mine.

“Ha….”

As she let out her breath, which she had been holding back for a while, a notification sounded as if she had been waiting for it.

Tring!

【You have learned how to breathe the mana of a genius who suffered from insensitivity to mana.】

【Fulfill your special experience!】

【Negative attribute, ‘Inability to respond to mana (S)’ will disappear.]

Okay! This is it!

The reason why the inability to respond to mana disappears when you learn the Lint Bloom mana breathing method is simple.

Because the Lindelheight family’s ancestor, who was born with an inability to respond to mana, created the breathing method to cure his constitution.

Originally, it was a breathing method obtained in the form of a skill book by defeating the mid-boss Karla.

If Carla herself is in a normal state, wouldn’t she just have to learn it?

After calming her ever-fluttering heart, she quietly muttered to herself for final confirmation.

‘Status window.’

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Name: Yandel
Title: The Lost Stranger

Basic ability

Strength: 11
Duration: 10
Agility: 12
Feats: 14
Magic power: 18

Characteristic

Endless Mana (A)
Element Affinity (B)
Excellent memory (B)
Crude Weaponry (E)
Lindbloom Mana Core (C)

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“Oh oh….”

The inability to respond to mana has definitely disappeared.

… And the use of Kara decreased by one.

All that remains is the knowledge of magic.

I wonder if it’s just that body that has never been used.