The Place Where Everything Begins

Upon arriving home, Jeremy ordered a sumptuous meal from the nearby restaurant and took a long shower waiting for the meal to be delivered.

He didn't care about his health anymore.

The time wasn't long before he wouldn't be able to eat Earth's foods any longer. There was not even 2 weeks time before the tutorial events.

After finishing everything, he did the routine meditation and went to sleep for 15 hours straight only to wake up after the time hit midday to eat another sumptuous meal of McDonial.

Right after, he picked up his Iphone X Plus and called Charlotte.

*Toot* *Toot* *Toot*

After the phone rang for 3 or so times, there was a sound of phone being picked up from the other side. Not waiting for Jeremy to speak first, Charlotte started the conversations.

"Hellooooo... Jeremy? What is it?" Came the voice of the energetic Charlotte.

"Okayyy! Anything else?"

"That's all I have to say. Bye-bye."

"What!? Wait wai..."

*Tut* *Tut* *Tut* *Tut* *Tut*

After Jeremy hang up the phone, he went straight to call his other 2 friends and told them the same thing.

Meanwhile, Charlotte who was hung up on by Jeremy was now pouting and grumbling at her phone ceaselessly.

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*Fwuuuu...*

Jeremy exhaled and thought.

'Let's do it. It was time for me to be stronger yet again... in this 'almost' mana-less world.'

Right now, Jeremy was sitting cross-legged on the floor beside his bed. At the same time, there was a bottle of light blue colored fluid placing right in front of him.

Both Jeremy and the bottle were situated on top of a strange looking and weird shaped lines inscribed on an animal's hide of which filled with strange characters then and there circling around them.

They were 2 null elemental revised arrays. One of them was used for absorbing the mana into his body, while the other one's function was to convert the mana's signature into his.

As a result of there was not enough mana particles within the air. The fluid inside the bottle would be used to complement the process of his advancement into a Journeyman Mage.

For one to become a Journeyman Mage. That person's body and mind had to be accustomed and acquainted enough with the 3 mana whirlpools within their dantians.

After that, that person had to accumulate enough mana particles inside their dantians and let those particles resided within the dantians in a dormant state.

Upon all of the above processes were done. That person would be qualified to become a Journeyman Mage.

But before that, they had to condense those mana particles, and convert those dormant mana particles into mana fluid in the three dantians at the same time.

And if they could successfully condense the droplets, they would finally become a Journeyman Mage.

The procedures above might look simple at first glance, but for a normal mage with the overall low aptitude of magic, it was like climbing the Mount Everest barehandedly.

The hardest part laid on the condensing process.

On this part, a mage had to put their highest focus on 10th stage of meditation, 'tranquillity and equanimity.

Not only that, the mage had to be much more familiarized with it more than when they entered the Apprentice Mage substage.

Of which, the mage had to enter the this stage with effortlessly stable attention, mindfulness, joy, and most importantly, tranquillity and equanimity. After that, they had to enter the deepest part of stage 10 which was 'persistence of the mental qualities'.

Only after accomplishing those actions could the 'average mage' be able to persist through more than 1 hour and a half at the least, until they could successfully condense a drop of mana fluid inside one of their dantians.

Furthermore, the mage had to do it dantian by dantian, until they finished all 3 dantians.

Just like that, the mage would finally be called a 'Journeyman Mage', one step away from a True Mage.

Now, let's talk about a general detail about a dantian and a whirlpool. First of all, imagine a CD disk of which the outer perimeter was the whirlpool revolving around itself continuously (in 3D, not 2D).

Meanwhile, at the center of which was a circular small space would be the place where the mana fluid resided in.

However, the size of a dantian in human's body was only around 1 centimeter in diameter. How was it able to host the mana fluid inside, right?

It was because every dantian had its subspace inside of which the real size was several times bigger than its actual size.

For example, when Jeremy became a Journeyman Mage, his dantians' subspaces size were around 5 centimeters in diameter (2.5 cm radius) which were more than enough to accumulate more than 4 cubic cm of mana fluid inside each one of them.

If using normal calculation formula, his dantians could contain a total of 65 mL of mana fluid in volume, but that was not the case here. In fact, it could only contain around 4 mL of mana with in a 1 cm radius at the center of the 'disk'.

As a result of the other part, which was the rest of 61 mL, it operated as a whirlpool circling around the center space of the 'disk'.

Everyone out there might be wondering that, only a single drop of mana fluid was enough to be a Journeyman Mage?

The answer was... YES.

And you should not underestimate the might of a single drop of mana fluid.

If it was utilized with appropriate means and methods. It could be used to destroy an entire house into smithereens easily.

That's the power of a wondrous thing called 'Mana'...

Right now, Jeremy was trying to use this opportunity of breaking through to absorb as much as possible of mana from the atmosphere and from the enchanted fluid bottle. This was one of the rare opportunity to not affect his foundation after all.

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*Fwuuuu...*

After several minutes later, Jeremy exhaled and opened his eyes.

"Success..."

Jeremy mumbled quietly.

For him, breaking through this time was not hard at all, unlike when he was trying to form a whirlpool inside his upper dantian. The differences in difficulty felt like heaven and earth for Jeremy.

This time he had absorbed more than 2 mL of mana fluid (40 droplets of mana) into the center of the 'disk' inside each of his dantian. That made a total of 6 mL that he had absorbed from the 50 mL bottle.

That left with only 44 mL of mana fluid inside the bottle.

Right now, he could be considered as a Mid-stage Journeyman Mage, and he was only one step away from becoming a True Mage.

Nevertheless, his combat power together with his defensive measures were definitely stronger than most Class 1 Mage from the facts that the pureness of mana was top notch.

Furthermore, to complement the pureness of his newfound mana was the endless experience and knowledge from his past life.

It could be said that, he was unrivalled against the opponent at the same realm...

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[A/N: Please read the Author's thought below. Also, you can calculate the volume of Jeremy's dantians by using the equation, V=4/3πr^3. Lemme help you with this, from the calculations, his dantians' capacity were around 65 cubic cm. For the reference of water, 1,000 cubic cm = 1 liter, and 1 cubic cm = 20 droplets of water in volume. Well, assume that mana density is equal to water density, then from now on, I will use 'mL' instead of 'cubic cm'.]