Malevolent Warlock: Sin Of Eternity

Chapter 87: inside the Mana Pool

"Go!!" One of the twin elders commanded and almost immediately...

—whoosh

—woosh

—woosh

The recruits in the top 10 flashed forward, and dived directly into the pool.

"Wooo" Leon felt a subtle cooling roll down his hair follicles and into his pores. The pool was cold, but not in an uncomfortable way. It felt like a refreshing bath after a long day of work.

It was brimming with mana so, of course, it had its own special feel unique to it.

(Down we go)

Leon thought to himself, then he proceeded to dive down deeper into the pool.

—woosh

The first set of people, he passed by, were the lather 30 of the top 50 recruits.

They were at layer 2. They didn’t have some sort of shelter in here, and even with the water breathing pill given to them by the twin elders. they still had to occasionally go up the pool to receive some fresh air.

(Deeper)

Leon continued swimming down, the deeper he went, the more the concentration of mana he felt. Mana was ethereal, it didn’t just exist in the air. It existed everywhere, but in this particular pool It was very much abundant.

(There they are)

To the side, Leon could see the top 20, but they were only 8, apparently the elders had deemed that ghost face, and the blade Demon were in too much of a bad state to enter the pool at the moment.

Leon had smashed ghost face’s head in and Ember had burnt the blade Demon to a crisp, and both were receiving medical care up above.

(Wow, this place is huge)

Leon thought to himself, at the top of the pool, it looked medium in size, but the deeper Leon went the more it expanded. Now what was in front of him was a water body with no bounds as far as he could see.

(It’s over there....)

Soon, Leon noticed several reefs poking out from the abssy that was this pool’s seabed. They were massive in size and were covered with the most beautiful pearls and array of colors he had ever seen. It was a unique sight to behold.

Leon then proceeds to swim toward the bottom of the reefs.

At a particular distance from Leon, Ember could be seen looking at Leon as he descended down to the bottom of the reefs. She had on her face, a look of annoyance, but not one directed at Leon.

She was annoyed at herself. Leon had shown her up again, and he did it with nothing but brute strength. Her flashy spell was nothing and fire was nothing.

(I need to get stronger)

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Inside the pool, Leon could be seen swimming in a large area devoid of anything except water.

"Hiss"

From his side, a pitch-black snake hissed at him. This was his pet Levi, he had been here for about 15 minutes, and there was no sign of creatures here. The place was just too big and he couldn’t find any.

"Hisss" Levi hissed at Leon again.

(Hm, what do you want?)

Leon looked to him and asked. Levi was unable to speak, but for some reason it seemed to understand whatever Leon said in his mind or out loud. That was how Leon used him to sneak attack ghost face.

"Hissssss"

Seeing that it had gotten Leon’s attention, Levi proceeded to swim away in a particular direction.

(Ahhh?)

Leon was shocked by this behavior. Levi was a bit of a body hug, and would not let him go no matter what. But it was taking the initiative to move now? What did that mean?

Leon didn’t have any time to think it’s through though, he only cautiously followed behind it slowly, until.....

They came upon a fish the size of a shopping cart swimming causally in the pool. For 15 minutes, Leon was not able to find a single creature. But just now Levi was able to do so.

(Is it because you’re a beast yourself, Or what?)

Leon thought to himself, the abilities of this snake eluded Leon tiil now. But he was starting to understand It little by little. For example, it seemed to be able to use negative, and life-energy. Just like Leon.

And now, it was showing a serious sensitivity to creatures. This was a good outcome for this situation.

(Let’s get to work) Leon thought before pulling out an oddly shaped eel.

Bait

In front of him was what they called a mana modified finwraith. These creatures had the capability to store life-energy and evolve, but with some meddling by the mages they were turned into mana storage cans.

They would take in large amounts of mana , store and develop them. and due to their nature, they would give birth before trying to evolve. Eventually, they would fail in their evolution and give back the mana they had developed to the pool. While creating more of their kind to recreate this vicious circle.

This was the peak of cruelty, and the price to pay for human innovations.

Leon had studied them when he found out about the tempering event, and created a well detailed plan. Even though these finwraiths were mana cans, they still contained a bulk load of life-energy.

This was Leon’s goal.

"BloodSerpent work: life devourer"

Leon activated the life devourer spell and went directly for the finwraith with his dagger. Most of them were at beginner to peak level 1 and were relatively easy for him to pick off.

At the same time, deep underneath the pool, a man shaped statue could be observed. Around it, a slow, but rhythmical beating of the heart emitted.

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