Early morning when mark woke up and went down to check on Austin and he was expecting Austin to complain and shout at him. But unlike his expectations Austin behaved politely he was so humble that it felt more uncomfortable for Mark. Austin didn’t find any ideas to take revenge. Anything physical would me too much he needed something to annoy Mark but Mark was a mage what could work against him? The morning training went as normal and Austin’s body could endure a cycle without fainting . Mark also decided to act as nothing happened ignoring what happened. He gave him some more pointers on mana circulation and information on next stages of core.“The exercise you are doing from monster core is only for making your core more powerful and stable. To get your core to next stage you have to follow 3 steps when your core is saturated full of energy. First build a spherical wall around your core big as possible and as strong as possible average size is twice radius of your original core. Second you have to break your core and make the large sphere your new core wall sturdy and strong then collect mana in it again without saturating the energy. After few days when your new core is stable you have to compress it to previous size and hold till it changes colour and you will have reached the next stage. Breaking the walls and building them again helps to increase the mana capacity our core is able to hold surpassing natural mana limit its also why mages have more mana than others. If you stop in middle you will have very horrible backlash from becoming a cripple to becoming a corps so don’t haunt me when you decide to test the backlash again.”The fake smile Austin had been maintaining cracked little. But the information was valuable so he noted it in his mind without bickering while Gathering as much as he could.“But what if people fail and the core breaks? I don’t think other profession will have same control as mages.”“ when a core shatters the person will be a cripple for some time till his core forms again starting from red. All progress he made will be gone energy will rapidly disappear from body and core turning him back into normal person if lucky and Permanente cripple with destroyed mana pathway due to mana over load if he is unlucky but the person won’t die. As for other profession they have different process to change core ranks which they protect and share among themselves. Learn about them later on focus on yourself now.” After explanation there was new goal for Austin now to increase his core rank. Rest of the day was boring as always in the world without internet and games what can a normal shopkeeper do? Count fly’s and kill them one by one. That was exactly what Austin was doing he didn’t have anything to do the cores mana circulation was already done and he couldn’t repeat it if he didn’t want backlash. Mana stacking was just waste of time with so little mana around him, his body was very lazy even to sit straight and mind unable to remain focused. Books? He has been reading them for weeks now. He can’t go anywhere not talk with anyone, he cannot sleep nor eat. ‘ even prison in old world was better than this. I will really go insane at this rate, I should have bought some books even if it costs little silver and will be useless after I read it once.. why didn’t I buy it? Maybe that greedy psycho is affecting my pure soul as well.’Finally an idea sprout in his head, ‘lets play with mana.’ He slowly began to control his mana gathering it in his hands a mass of blue gas was ready for experiment. He stretched and compressed the mana but it was leaking around so he decided to compress it into thread and connected the thread circulating mana inside it. Strangely it seemed fun he began making a ball from light blue mana threads spinning shaping a sphere. ‘Oh what was is called.. a rasengan is it? Why am I so creative? ’ Austin smiled widely feeling happy copying something he saw ages ago. He gathered more mana and went to centre of the shop with the thought of trying it on the floor ‘it would be easy to repair the floor compared to walls.’Austin thought it would be hard to push the mass of energy in to the floor. Shouting out the name seemed to childish but because of excitement he couldn’t control himself from screaming “ Ha ...” Nothing happened. All the collected mana dissipated without leaving a mark and his hand hit the floor loudly. He was dazed processing what happened and suddenly got beet red at his childishness and cursed at himself. “FUCK you...” but at the exact time some customers came in. Looking at him in weird position there was silence for few seconds and both party silently stared at each others familiar faces unsure how to react.“This is were you were you fucking rat.” “ Hello Tom, Larry and Dem long time no see, those cloths look nice. ”said Austin with smile. A vein popped up in toms forehead and he charged in but before he could do any thing huge pressure suppressed everyone. “Kid don’t play around in my store play outside far from my shop, out all of you. And Austin I need detailed explanation about why you screamed suddenly and if I don’t find a good explanation I will feed you all failed products of my alchemy. ”Austin was confused ‘why was this already mad man so mad at him for?’ He soon found out when he saw wet colourful cloths and hands of Mark. ‘He must have spilled the potion he was working on.’ Austin gulped the pressure was removed and every one came out of store one by one.Austin wanted to experiment some more with new found trick but he had to solve current problem first. “sigh.. how do I deal with the mad man now? No one comes when I am bored but every Tom, Dick, Harry comes in exactly when I find something to do.....at least the imitation of rasengan looked cool.” Austin was lost in his own thoughts suddenly he felt gazes from the front staring daggers at him.“ Oh did I say that out loud? Sorry I was not speaking about you guys...I mean I was but ..sigh why am I even explaining it?”