Chapter 203: Mana Around the Heart (2)
James knew that when the last refining took place, there was a sacred monster like Noah, who could be considered the magic himself. In the previous refining time, he knew that there was a titan like Chronos and a man who was considered one of the upper gods.
In the first refining stage, he knew that he was fighting with Ariel in forming the magic ring of fire in the arena, and everything had to go well in this direction.
After all, many, many people had stood by to help him in each refining process.
This time he was the only one.
The last thing he wanted was to be the only one, but he had to get it done, after all, he had already begun to form the magic ring and, to put it simply, to form the outline of the ring, or by the other name the circle, around his heart.
The refining process had to begin.
James tried to deeply feel the magic, the gathered mana, within his body and succeeded. After feeling the mana, he slowly began to place this mana inside the draft of the magic circle he had created.
Since this circle was larger than the first four circles created, this mana placement would take longer than necessary.
This was already the process called refining. James didn't have to pay so much attention because he had powerful beings with him when he refined before. But now he had to make every move well.
With each piece he added to the new magic ring, his body underwent a profound change.
It would be fair to say that the ring was almost full as the mana slowly began to run out.
After almost half an hour of in-depth processing, James found that the ring was full, the mana-created outline filled with mana once again.
With that, the creation of the magic ring was complete.
James suddenly opened his eyes and began to breathe deeply, he felt his heart suddenly start to burn and he grabbed his chest again.
He was pushing and trying to stay awake as the pain he heard in a hoarse voice overpowered him. After a short time, he was able to understand what this pain was caused by.
The magic ring seemed to be choosing an element for itself.
"So that's how the elements are refined beforehand." James thought, despite all the pain he felt.
As the minutes chased each other, James managed to last twenty minutes without fainting with the pain he felt, and then he opened his eyes.
Nemesis had sent a message [How are you? Did it go well? Did you make it?] When James saw this message, he smiled and silenced by showing a hand gesture in the air that would mean yes.
James's 5th magic circle or magic circle as wizards generally called it, had been successfully formed.
He couldn't wait to see what element his magic circle was filled with this time, and when he closed his eyes and entered a state of deep meditation, he saw the fifth circle around his heart and then stood in amazement.
"Is that...colour maroon?"
James' gaze locked on the ring with these thoughts.
The ring was of course larger than the other four rings, it had a crimson colour that shifted to brown, the colour maroon, but James could tell which element had been added to the ring without even having to focus on the power of the ring.
He opened his eyes suddenly, scratched his head and then questioned, "Am I going to be a fucking vampire?" It was quite normal for anyone watching him not to realise what he was talking about, after all, none of them could see James' rings.
[What element is engraved?]
When James saw this curious message from Zeus, he shook his head and then said, "Blood...The element that was added to my 5th Magic Ring is blood."
When James uttered these words, everyone watching him stopped just like him, it would be normal to say that no one had a word to say. Everyone was looking at each other and thinking that maybe everyone had misunderstood what James had said.
Nemesis had sent a message [Did you say blood?] and James, seeing this, had shaken his head and then mocked himself by saying, "I think I've taken my first step towards vampirism."
There was only one main reason why everyone was surprised by this element. Vampires were one of the holiest races in the tower, and it would be fair to say that they were one of the most special.
The first reason was that each and every vampire was incredibly beautiful, like the elves who were close to perfect beauty. The second reason was that even if their intelligence was average, it was incredibly difficult to kill a vampire of average age, after all, they were beings whose limbs could be regenerated as soon as they were severed.
The last reason why they were special was the blood element. The blood element could only be used by vampires in the entire tower without any restrictions. This was also the reason why all vampires were magic users, from the weakest to the strongest could only use blood magic due to their magic and their nature.
Rumour had it that even if their mana rings were not blood element, their bodies were filled with arcane magic-based runes, so they had something as valuable as having their circles refined with blood element.
This meant that James could not use the blood elemental with complete freedom, without restriction.
This was more than a little confusing.
The vampires, who were very proud of themselves and incredibly egotistical, were already hostile to James because of what had happened in the arena, and they were not going to be happy that he had the blood element.
James didn't even know what to do, so he tried to come to himself without even being happy, knowing that the refined magic ring could not be changed.
There was only one thing he knew:
"Blood" would have to be split.