Universal Power System

Since Magnus had granted Mako the flexibility to come and train with him at any time, he was able to create lots of time for his other special class, Mana Training.

Similar to her other students Rose was very patient and thorough with her lectures as he brought Mako up to speed with the other students who were all mostly special class cadets taking extra lessons to make more progress towards this very difficult and hard-to-grasp concept.

However, Mako was the first cadet to surprise Rose with his speed of learning and progression as within a few weeks of concentration, meditation, and determination the prompt that Mako was waiting for appeared in front of his eyes.

*Ding!*

[User has understood the basic understandings of Mana]

[A new tab has been unlocked in the system Interface labeled "Mana Understanding"]

[The Mana Skill Tree is now available]

[...]

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Thanks to the system and his Energy ability, Mako already had a grasp on how to sense different auras and energies and all he had to do was to fine-tune its accuracy within his body and learn to do it by himself without the system's or an ability's help.

It was a bit challenging at first, but he started on the area which he could already somewhat sense which was the mana highways inside his body.

By concentrating and focusing all his will on observing the faint mana highways inside his body, eventually, they started to become more opaque and visible.

Once Mako had perfected his sense to be able to sense and observe the thousands of mana highways inside his body, the next step was to try and observe the mana that was flowing through them.

This was awfully difficult for Mako; he spent almost 2 weeks trying to figure it out.

Eventually Rose gave him a hint in the form of an unusual assignment which was to stop his mana training midway and to start observing the auras of his abilities.

He was a bit confused at first; however, he trusted his teacher and began exploring the multiple aura bubbles inside his body.

He noticed how each bubble expanded and contracted within his core which was his abdomen area like small beating hearts and whenever he cast an ability, he noticed the corresponding aura bubble light up and release a portion of its aura to the mana highways which then traveled to body part meant to release the ability.

Mako didn't really have any hardships in this assignment as he pretty much could clearly observe this process from the very beginning, but Rose continued to nudge him to keep going in the same direction.

Still not understanding the reason for his teacher's insistence, Mako continued to just trust her words and continued concentrating.

Finally, one day something amazing clicked in Mako's head.

As he was continuously re-activating his abilities to observe the aura bubbles inside his core light up and release a small portion of the aura, he began to think about what caused those bubbles to light up in the first place.

As he began to investigate further into his idea, he made another shocking discovery which was that there was a small delay in between when Mako used his will to command the ability bubble inside his body to activate and move depending on the skill being cast.

Was it really his will that the aura bubbles responded to or something else?

If it was the command of his will that made the aura bubbles activate and react, there shouldn't have been a delay at all, and the effect should have been instant but instead that was not the case.

Mako found this very intriguing and began to pour all his focus on the short moment between him activating his ability and the aura bubble reacting.

It was incredibly hard and Mako wasn't making any progress but he was sure that he was definitely on to something so he kept trying.

All those meditation and concentration sessions were really adding up and were good natural exercises that boosted a person's perception and mentality.

Since Mako could now level up his attributes naturally by training, Rose's lessons gave him another bonus which was his increase in Perception and Mentality level.

However, the training alone wasn't as efficient as Mako was used to in the past as even after 3 and a half weeks of constant training, he had only gained 5 points of Perception and 7 points of Mentality.

After his impatience and frustration reached his peak Mako decided to use some of the

Attribute points that he still had reserved for in case of emergencies.

'Add 120 attribute points to Perception,' Mako ordered the system.

[120 Attribute points have been added to Perception]

[User's perception is now at 67]

He watched as a large chunk of his attribute points disappeared and that cooling sensation that he hadn't felt in quite some time appeared on his head.

[Profile]

[User: Mako Grey]

[Health: 500/500] [********--] (+1)

[Energy: 3440/7000] [-

[EXP: 1500/100,000]

--] (+1)

[Account: 350 Bronze Tier Coins, 25 Silver Tier Coins, 2 Gold Tier Coins] * (+1)

[Level 15]

[Strength: 55 (+60) ] × [****- - - - - -] (+1) 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

[Agility: 54 (+35) ] [*****- - -

-] (+1)

[Perception: 67(+20)] [*-

[Intelligence: 52] & [*****- ---] (+1)

-----] (+1)

Mentality: 57] × [-

------] (+1)

[Stamina: 56 (+30) ] = [*********-] (+1)

[Charisma: 20] × [----------] (+1)

[Fortitude: 54 (+20)] ? [★★★-

[Attribute Points: 100]

-] (+1)

Mako instantly felt a huge boost to his senses. Every time he used his Attribute points to directly upgrade his perception by a couple of points instantly, he would feel this immense pleasure as he would be capable of sensing a lot more information making it feel like his senses were previously dulled and he was finally able to sense everything freely.

With his improved sensing abilities, Mako concentrated once again at his core to try and observe what actually caused the ability bubble to activate and after a couple of days, he

finally saw it.

Before when he observed the ability bubbles inside his core, he would only be able to see the tiny aura bubbles moving around randomly within his confined core, but now he was finally able to see that the bubbles weren't moving around randomly but rather they were in orbit.

As Mako's eyes focused on the very center of his core, he was finally able to lift the veil and uncover the mystery.

He was finally able to see that there was another bubble located at the very center of his core and much larger than any of his ability bubbles. This bubble was filled with chaotic purplish- pink energy that radiated in pulses as it maintained order and control within his core.

"This is... mana..." Mako said as he came to the realization.

It was MANA! Pure mana!

Mako had 7000 energy points displayed in his profile and that was just a fancy measurement of the amount of mana Mako was able to store and use inside his body.

Mako was never able to understand where all this energy was stored inside of him as he was never able to sense it, that was until now.

It was honestly the most beautiful thing Mako had ever seen. He observed as every single mana highway inside his body was connected to his mana core which pulsed like a beating

heart of pure energy.

The small bubbles of aura all orbit around the giant core like planets orbiting the sun, locked

in place by the authority of the core.

Mako activated his fire ability and this time he was clearly able to see the mana core begin to pulse more rapidly and send some mana directly into his fire ability bubble which then began to glow and release the aura to his mana highways.

Mako could now observe the complete process inside his body, and being left speechless would be an understatement.

As soon as Mako was able to observe the entire process and understand it, a number of

notifications popped in front of his eyes.

*Ding!*

[User has understood the basic understandings of Mana]

[A new tab has been unlocked in the system Interface labeled "Mana Understanding"]

[The Mana Skill Tree is now available]

[User has gained a massive understanding of different energies and has sparked the Energy

ability to grow]

[The Energy Manipulation Ability has been upgraded to Level 3]

[Ability: Energy Manipulation (Level 3)]

[An advanced ability that combines the auras of Fire Element and Lightning Element to

provide the user with the power to manipulate energy. Fire and Lightning both are at the core, two different types of energies. By overlapping that understanding of how to manipulate energy, the user has gained a basic understanding of how to manipulate all

types of energy in general.]

[Perception +30]

[Stamina +15]

[User has unlocked new skill set: Basic Ionic Weapons Set] =

[User has unlocked new skill: Energy Healing]

[User has unlocked new skill: Overcharge] =

[The Skill Energy Sensing has levelled up] =

[The Skill Energy Stream has levelled up]

Mako was absolutely blown away by the number of notifications that popped up in front of his

eyes and the insane information they contained. He wasted no time reading and understanding all the new boosts he had received.