Chapter 8: Chapter 8: Mana purification
Chapter 8
After a while, the bell rang, signaling the start of the learning process.
A middle-aged woman, Ms. Sri, entered the classroom. As the homeroom teacher, she seemed satisfied with her students. Although Class C, which she led, was the last of three elite classes among the twelve, the students' talent this time was slightly better than in previous years.
This made Ms. Sri look at the students with even more satisfaction. However, when her gaze shifted to a young boy, she felt a little melancholic. She was afraid that the boy would be heartbroken or blame her for saying bad things.
In their country, the saying "words are prayers" is still a deeply held belief. People believe that the words of teachers and parents are powerful prayers, so many still hope for good words from them.
Now, after her words had come true, and the boy had awakened a Virtual Resonance in the form of a bed that was considered bad, Ms. Sri felt guilty.
As a teacher, she knew that the two types of students who are most remembered are the best and the worst. But in her opinion, there are no bad children, only naughty children who need guidance.
Raka, a naughty child who didn't make people annoyed or angry, was a slightly special figure. Ms. Sri liked students like Raka, who weren't as stiff as the smart kids, but also weren't as annoying as the bad kids.
Moreover, Raka was smart, but sometimes too confident, which made him often do stupid things. His physical fitness was ranked above average, even among the elite classes.
Looking at various factors, it was clear that Raka was a potential figure, so Ms. Sri paid a lot of attention to him. She knew that Raka wanted to be a swordsman, which was why she was so afraid to enter the classroom today.
However, seeing Raka's face, which looked ordinary and without any disgust or resentment blaming her, Ms. Sri immediately sighed in relief.
"It seems this kid has grown up a little..." she thought to herself, slightly satisfied.
However, despite that, Ms. Sri was still worried. She thought to take better care of Raka in certain matters, such as explaining things to him and providing additional support. She even thought about opening a small stove for him.
After resolving her many worries in a short time, Ms. Sri began the teaching process.
Meanwhile, Raka, aware of the strange look from his teacher, felt confused. But soon he no longer cared and followed the rhythm of Ms. Sri's learning.
"Alright, children, now we're going to talk about the source of energy that humans mostly use to perform magic..."
"A few days ago, you all awakened Virtual Resonance. What is called Virtual Resonance is a manifestation of the energy of the soul and body based on the wavelength of objects that exist in the virtual tower."
"Through Virtual Resonance, humans better understand the virtual tower and things related to it."
"Now we're going to talk about how to move virtual resonance."
"There are various ways that can be used to move Virtual Resonance."
"There are various ways to generate electricity, such as using a generator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy."
"This mechanical energy can be generated from various sources, including burning fuels such as kerosene, diesel, alcohol, or even nuclear. Different electric generators can be distinguished based on their conversion efficiency, the type of energy used, size, power, and the type of current produced."
"Well, like generating electricity, there are also various ways to move Virtual Resonance. The most common is to use Virtual Mana, or more often called Mana. Others are more common, such as Life Force, but it's a little less liked because it's more wasteful to use it in moving Virtual Resonance."
"In short, Virtual Mana is a combination of Resonance Force and Life Force.
"Resonance Force is the energy that comes from Virtual Resonance. Meanwhile, Life Force is a combination of physical energy and soul energy that exists in the human body."
"These three energies are combined into one and produce what is called Mana. The amount and quality of mana are usually determined by factors related to these three things."
"So if you want the quality and quantity of mana to be above average, you all have to train your physical body, soul, and your virtual resonance..."
"Now, let's all adjust our sitting positions correctly and follow Ms. Sri's instructions to purify your Mana."
With this, everyone started to adjust their positions, including the good children and the not-so-good ones.
Raka, seeing this, hastily followed. He now realized that maybe the Oberon group at that time used their Life Force to move virtual resonance.
Because before the awakening, humans wouldn't have Mana.
If you think about it, there must be some people who have good families and trained earlier than ordinary people, so the gap between those people and ordinary people is already different, even from the starting point.
Raka wasn't too pessimistic about things like that and focused on following his teacher's words.
As Raka closed his eyes, he could immediately realize what is called soul energy. This might have happened because he had experienced various soul conflicts last night.
Raka, knowing this, immediately became happy and continued to feel physical energy.
Whether it was because his soul was too big or what, Raka very easily found what is called physical energy.
Unconsciously, Raka united the two energies of soul and physical until he successfully formed Life Force energy.
Raka, seeing this, was a little stunned. But after a while, he didn't care too much, thinking that this happened by chance.
Along with the fast rhythm of Ms. Sri's teachings, Raka continued to feel what is called resonance energy and again, unconsciously united it with Life Force.
Just like that, in less than five minutes, Raka had completely succeeded in combining the three energies into the form of Virtual Mana.
Raka, seeing this, was stunned once again, he was so engrossed in playing around with the three that he forgot what was happening.
When Raka felt the blue energy in his body, he realized that he had truly purified Mana.
With this, Raka was confused and wanted to ask his teacher something. But for some reason, his subconscious told him to stay quiet and not show off like the naive boy before.
However, Raka's rational consciousness also thought to ask, afraid that he was doing something wrong.
Just when Raka was confused, Ms. Sri, who had made Raka someone she had to pay attention to, saw his confusion.
With this, Raka was immediately reprimanded.
"Hey Raka, focus and don't be distracted. The faster you purify Mana, the higher your potential in the future."
Raka, hearing this, hastily appeared "focused" and pretended to do something.
Ms. Sri, seeing this, nodded in agreement, and continued to repeat things related to it to make it easier for her students to purify Mana quickly.
After about an hour, several whispers could be heard.
"Good Gabriel, you've purified Mana this fast, you deserve to be a genius!"
Gabriel, hearing this, nodded but wasn't too happy because only he knew that he had purified mana since the day of the Virtual Resonance awakening, and only now had he truly purified mana.
Moreover, the food and medicine he had consumed were supposed to make him purify Mana this fast, if all those things had been done and he was still purifying mana slowly, it meant his talent was really bad.
Suddenly, a group of people became noisy, chatting about how talented Gabriel was, the group of women stared at Gabriel with admiration as if Gabriel was a prince sent from heaven for them. Meanwhile, there were also some boys who sneered in dislike and so on.
But Gabriel himself was still calm and didn't care, he even acted as if what he did was ordinary.
"Alright, alright, all of you be quiet. Let's continue the purification process. Don't think about playing around because this is all that will determine your future."
With this, the classroom became quiet and some people returned to focus on purifying. But it was clear that after this incident, the students became a little disturbed and more difficult to focus.
Ms. Sri, seeing this, could only shake her head helplessly because, from year to year, this was her routine.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to everyone, Raka was shrinking as if trying to avoid being noticed by people.
Because he was a little scared because Gabriel, who was much slower than him, was so praised by people.
This made Raka both proud and worried. Was he that good? Or was there something wrong with his process, or was he misinterpreting something else as Mana energy?
With this, Raka could only worry alone because he was afraid of making some people anxious.
However, after Raka carefully listened to Ms. Sri's explanation over and over, he was sure that the energy he purified was truly Mana energy. But what still confused him was why he purified it so fast.
Not getting an answer, Raka could only forget it for the time being.
After that, the bell rang and Ms. Sri's class was over. The teaching was continued by another teacher and the teaching process continued until evening.
"Kring!"
The bell rang, signaling the time to go home.
A group of naughty children immediately became happy and hurriedly packed up. Raka and his group also packed up and prepared to go home.
After joking around for a while, Raka's group finally separated at the school gate.
Agung, seeing Raka's departure, always felt strange. Agung was actually the most sensitive person in their group. He could see that Raka seemed strange.
On the outside, Raka was as careless as usual, but according to Agung, there was something that had changed about Raka. Agung didn't know whether the change was good or bad for his friend.
When Agung was lost in thought, Ethan asked him.
"What's wrong, Gung?"
Agung, hearing this, immediately came to his senses and shook his head.
Ethan, who had asked, no longer cared about Agung and instead looked at the figures of women who were passing by.
Agung, seeing this, could only shake his head helplessly with a wry smile.
On the way, Raka moved with authority, not as cheerful as he was before.
Raka kept walking until he reached a familiar alley, Raka, seeing this, couldn't help but feel a little melancholic.
Now Raka was not at all afraid whether Tedy and Oberon's group would come and bother him, he was just remembering how naive he was back then.
As if Raka's courage was answered by God, a group of young men seemed interested in looking in his direction.
Tedy and Oberon's group were there and they wouldn't let Raka go easily.