My Bothersome Life 38 Learning How To Control Mana

"Well, I think you're putting way too much mana into your visualizations Rika." Luke replied.

"I used to be like that when I was born, but I was told that you have to pour in a small fraction of mana that what you actually visualize in order to get the result that you want." Luke said while holding a small ball of fire in his hand.

Listening to what Luke has just told me, I poured in a tiny bit of mana to fuel a small ball of fire onto my hand. When the ball of fire was on my hand, it resembled a very tall bonfire with a small base rather than the small ball of fire that Luke was holding in his hand.

It was better than the day before, but there was still something really strange about this 'small ball of fire'. I quickly erased the large ball of fire in my hand as I sighed.

"Since your mana is very large, try putting only a drop of your mana instead of pouring your mana into your visualization." Luke suggested.

So I put only a drop of my mana to produce a ball of fire and I finally succeeded! A small ball of fire that was about the size of Luke's was on my hand! Wow. Luke was actually useful for once.

I quickly erased the fireball to create another one to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Sure enough, it wasn't! I hugged Luke in thanks and let him return to the library while I practiced until it was time to go to bed.

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It was Monday today.

During this past week, Luke wasn't dragging me to his extra study sessions because he knew how hard I was practicing in order to control my mana for the exam.

I was getting better and better at controlling my mana, as Daniel started to move on from the mana control cla.s.ses as I was improving.

Today was the day of the exam as this would be an nice opportunity to earn some points! After smoothly finis.h.i.+ng the theoretical part of the exams after absorbing all those books, we moved on to the practical part of the exam.

As usual, I aced the physical education part with Luke as we were having a flying race resembling track and field from my past life.

Now it was time for the mana control exam. The exam was relatively simple. I had to pour in enough mana to make sure it produced a wanted number on the machine.

Daniel called out, "Five thousand".

So I imagined putting only five drops of mana into the machine. The machine showed a number of nine thousand. Well close enough!

"Well done! You didn't break the machine this time, so I'm going to specially reward you 50 000 points for your first success." Daniel said proudly.

When all the exams came to a close, the results came out on the monitor. Strangely and very oddly, everyone almost fainted in surprise of the results.

The monitor displayed:

Helena and Alex: 25 000 points

Rika and Luke: 400 000 points

Mich.e.l.le and Allan: 19 000 points

Luke looked utterly surprised this time as well. Although I did admit that I wouldn't have been able to get those results without absorbing all those books.

The reason why the other pairs received low amount of points was because Luke and I got first place for every single subject. This was how the point system was extremely bias towards the already wealthy students with the most points. Sigh.

I did feel sorry for Ellen and Sh.e.l.ly, but I guessed I could buy them food as they have done for me previously. Now let's move to a better room with actual beds inside them!