Over the course of a week after attaining the Spear of the Myriad Forms, I trained as much as I possibly could. I didn't want the effects of the growth potion to go to waste after all. One growth potion lasted one week so I had to use it to my fullest. That was also the beginning of my sleepless nights.

[Due to host's bad habit, a skill has been created]

[Learned: Skill - Sleepless(Rare)]

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Sleepless(Rare):

Living things need sleep? What's that? Can I eat it?

Stays energized. Requires energy in the form of food/sleep to be sustained, if not, user will fall unconscious.

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Ever since I got this skill, I found it became harder for me to sleep and I consumed a whole lot more food than usual. I can't say it was a bad thing since I was almost never tired as long as I ate an adequate amount of food. It also assisted me in training without getting too tired.

The result of the week's worth of training was Spear of the Myriad Forms raising to the second level, level 2 Air Manipulation - Piercing, and maxing Magic Circulation. Turns out that techniques after the Legendary category took a whole new level of training for them to improve.

I noticed some minute changes from switching from Swordsmanship to Spearmanship. First off, one of the Air Manipulation techniques which used to be extremely hard to pull off on the sword became much easier. That was Piercing. It may have just been that piercing was more suitable for a spear than a sword, or that I was much better at the handling of a spear. Either way, I felt it was about time I moved onto the next stage of Magic Circulation.

I decided to split my training days with days in the library since books were an extremely effective way of growing. Luckily, the library was accessible 24/7 so I could alternate my training days with my library days.

It was after dinner when I headed to the library. Now that I felt I was sufficiently strong enough, I didn't care too much for earning an abundance of merit points. It would come gradually since I had battle classes five days a week. I made sure to make it seem I was winning by fluke so not many people suspected I was overwhelmingly out of their league.

I opened the doors of the library and headed to the third floor straightaway.

I found the book I read last time I was here along with another book on how to increase capacity.

I started from where I was last time.

...

The Functions of Mana, By: Notwen Caasi

To reach Mana Circulation, you have to visualize the mana in your body flowing to every part of your body and back to the heart just like how blood flows. This is done by moving the entirety of your body's mana at once. Once you have established one circulation, it should gradually become easier for you to complete more circulations. As you complete more and more circulations around the body, a Mana Circuit specifically meant for mana will be created in your body. Once it has been completed, you have successfully entered the Mana Circulation phase. The mana will start to circulate by itself and you should gradually improve with time. You can also manually circulate your mana which improves your control faster.

...

Closing the book, I started doing as the book said. I started from where the mana is stored at, the heart. Drawing mana out from the left side, I moved it around my body. It went from my left arm all the way down to the fingertips and back. Then up the neck to the head and back down to the other arm. After, it would go down my body and to my stomach where it circled around a couple times. Then, it goes to my left leg and right leg respectively. It then makes its way back to the heart refilling it with mana.

With that, one circulation was done. It didn't seem too hard so I repeated it a couple more times.

—3 hours later—

[Ding!]

[Technique Evolution Requirements have been met]

[Mana Channeling(Common) has evolved into Mana Circulation(Rare)]

It took roughly 20 minutes for a full circulation. In total, nine circulations were needed for my Mana Circuit to be completed. I could now feel the mana in my body moving on its own and invigorating every fiber of my body.

I moved onto the next section of the book which was about mana capacity.

...

Mana Compression is the next step of further increasing your mana count as well as quality. This is similar to what happens when you breakthrough a magic realm but not necessarily the same. To start, gather all your mana at the center of the heart. You must have at least reached the level of Mana Circulation to be able to do this next part. Push the mana inwards and try your best to compress the mana. There are many ways to do this but this is the most common. Once you can sense magic particles come out of your mouth upon exhaling, you have completed one compression. As of current, the human body is known to only be able to compress mana 10 times and any further, the mana will leak out of the body.

...

I set the book on the table and closed my eyes doing as the book said.

—17 hours later—

I could sense the magic particles in my mouth so I released it and opened my eyes to hear a delightful ding.

[Ding!]

[Technique Evolution Requirements have been met]

[Magic Circulation(Common) has evolved into Mana Compression(Rare)]

BZZZ!

'What was that?'

I turned my attention to the watch.

'Oh Sh*t I missed my history class and I'm already late for the next class!!!'

Now that I knew how long it took to complete one compression, I decided to only do it during weekends.

[Gains: Mana: +10]

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Name: Daniel

Race: Human

Title: NONE

Class: Spear Master(Epic)

System: Crouching Dragon System(Legendary)

Merit Points: 3900

Life Force: 100/100(10 years)

Strength: 59

Agility: 77

Mana: 110/110

Physique: Knight Student(Expert) - Lvl.5

Magic: Mage Apprentice(Expert) - Lvl.5

Spells: Lvl.1 - Fire Manifestation, Darkness Manifestation

Techniques: Mana Compression(Rare-Lvl.1), Mana Circulation(Rare-Lvl.1), Spear of the Myriad Forms(Mythical-Lvl.2), Air Manipulation - Sweeping(Mythical-Lvl.3), Air Manipulation - Piercing(Mythical-Lvl.2), Heaven Defying: Void Severing Scripture(???), Dual Cultivation(???)

Active Skills: True Dragon Eyes(Supreme)

Passive Skills: Comprehension of the Argon Language(Common), Sleepless(Rare), Dragon's Pride(Epic), Heart of a Dragon(Epic)

Curse: Unnoticed Potential(Legendary)

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