Chapter 512 – Mana Breaks Ten Thousand

Chapter 512 – Mana Breaks Ten Thousand

“All of them?”

Vasida, who had been slumped over lying flat, bolted upright in shock.

Sylph had been gently tapping Bi’er’s little head, but suddenly pressed down too hard with her finger and sent Bi’er tumbling over.

Lilith seemed as though she had been frozen solid by a freezing spell.

At that moment, all of their minds were trying to recall just how many magic books Senior Dayla had sent over.

The answer was: far too many!

Though there wasn’t a single rare spell among them, there were plenty of Elemental Magic books! Especially magic from the five fundamental elemental branches.

Mage magic books were also quite different from Witch ones.

A Witch’s magic book could contain several spells in a single volume, covering everything from the principles of spellcasting to techniques and use cases, all explained clearly.

But a mage’s magic book dedicated one volume to spell structure, another to magical principles, and yet another to magical applications — sometimes even more than that. The more advanced the magic, the more supplementary learning materials there were.

To truly master any given spell thoroughly, one needed to read at least three books.

And now Mo Lan was saying she had learned them all.

It had been a long time since graduation that any of them had felt this scalp-tingling sensation.

Mo Lan was grinding again!

“Stop the carriage!” Mo Lan suddenly said. “My mana has increased again! You all keep going — I need to go level up!”

As soon as she finished speaking, Mo Lan cast an invisibility spell on herself, then used Teleportation to transport herself out of the carriage.

The next moment, she had flipped onto her broomstick with its invisibility shield activated and was flying deep into the wheat fields.

After reaching high altitude deep within the fields, Mo Lan switched her broomstick to flying carpet mode and hovered in place.

Not even two minutes later, another Dawn Society trial participant signed the membership contract, and 6 Mana was deposited into her account.

The moment her total mana broke through ten thousand, Mo Lan felt a certain resistance.

A sliver of the mana within her body was being suppressed.

At the same time, she felt a certain pull.

Mo Lan followed the pull and raised her eyes skyward.

A massive vortex was slowly rotating in the sky.

Though it existed in this sky, it also did not exist solely in this sky.

It was filled with a special kind of energy — it seemed like mana, yet also seemed to be more than just mana.

Mo Lan immediately understood what it was.

Only the Well of the Sky would perpetually hang in the skies of Valen, within reach of anyone who had surpassed the Peak level, yet utterly imperceptible to those who had not.

By following this pull, she could ascend into the Well of the Sky and travel to other worlds.

And Earth was one of those other worlds.

Mo Lan gazed at the Well of the Sky, her heart full of longing, yet she never answered that pulling force.

Journeys to other worlds were measured in years at minimum, and there were plenty of cases where someone left for over a hundred years.

Senior Witches who had been to the Well of the Sky all said that danger and opportunity coexisted there. It was best to reach the pinnacle of both mana rank and magic level in Valen before venturing in.

Otherwise, the path of exploring other worlds would be incredibly difficult from the very start.

One might even never return.

Though she didn’t know all the details, Mo Lan had no intention of taking the risk.

She was still young, and her highest magic level — Witch Elemental Magic — had only just reached Peak level.

The pinnacle of both mana rank and magic level in Valen was the perfected Peak level, on the verge of breaking through to Beyond Peak. Mo Lan’s mana rank had reached the minimum requirement for entering the Well of the Sky, but her magic level still had a considerable gap to close.

Without sufficient magic level, the spells she cast would never truly achieve Beyond Peak effects.

Many Witches even believed that the most prudent decision was to wait until one could no longer gain even the slightest breakthrough in Valen before heading to the Well of the Sky.

Applied to Mo Lan, that would mean the Dawn Society’s members spanning all of Valen, every spellcaster on the continent having become a contractor of her Sorceress Magic, and having learned the signature magic of every major race in Valen — only then would she have truly squeezed every last drop of value from Valen, with no choice but to go to the Well of the Sky for new knowledge and new breakthroughs.

Mo Lan didn’t plan to wait that long, but at the very minimum, she would wait until her Witch Magic levels had all reached perfected Peak, on the verge of breaking through to Beyond Peak.

Only then would she possess the full combat power of a Beyond Peak Witch at her strongest.

“Just a little longer…”

Mo Lan withdrew her gaze and temporarily ignored the pulling force.

Valen’s world consciousness did not force every Peak-level powerhouse to immediately proceed to the Well of the Sky.

It simply meant that while in Valen, one could never unleash magic exceeding Peak level.

Even one’s own magical energy would be subject to certain restrictions.

The resistance she had felt during her breakthrough just now was precisely Valen’s limitation.

Mo Lan checked her Status Card.

【Rank: Beyond Peak level (First Rank)】

【Mana: 9802/10001 Mana】

With her total mana breaking ten thousand, her mana rank had become First Rank.

But she could feel that it was now impossible to mobilize all of her mana at once.

Mo Lan used her Energy Storage Card and tried to restore her mana to full, only to discover that while her mana was indeed fully restored, it had been split into two parts.

On her Status Card, it displayed as:

【Mana: 9999 (2) / 10001 Mana】

Two Mana had been suppressed, behaving like sluggish psychic power, refusing to respond to her commands.

But the moment she used even a small amount of mana, a corresponding amount of sluggish mana would become active again.

In short, the maximum amount of mana she could have ready to mobilize at any given moment was 9,999.

Any mana exceeding 9,999 was suppressed.

This was said to be a restriction imposed by Valen’s world consciousness to protect the world itself.

Magical energy exceeding this threshold could potentially cause irreversible damage to the world.

The world didn’t necessarily need intelligent beings, but intelligent beings absolutely needed the world.

The world consciousness, born from the existence of intelligent beings, would always stand on the side of those beings — but it would also protect the world that those beings depended upon for survival.

It was precisely because of this restriction that as long as one’s mana and magic levels both reached perfected Peak, it didn’t matter how many Ranks above Peak one’s opponent was — it essentially came down to a contest of endurance and the ability to apply magic.

Because the level of magical energy everyone could actually unleash was capped at the same amount.

The only exception was the Fireworks Witch’s Fireworks Magic.

It could amplify energy damage, unrestricted even by magic level limitations. It could channel all of one’s mana into Fireworks Magic at once and maximize the damage output.

With the same amount of mana, Fireworks Magic could deal the greatest possible damage — and when both sides expended the same mana, no other magic could withstand it.

That was why Fireworks Magic could intimidate other races into never daring to provoke Sorceresses and Witches.

At Mo Lan’s current mana level, relying on Fireworks Magic, she could essentially defeat any member of any race in Valen in a one-on-one fight.