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My eyes are red. Mhm… that's not good. I should rest after this. But the night yielded results, a test that would work, an experiment contrived with nothing but the genius of my mind. 

I rubbed at the side of my eye, careful to never touch the actual eye nor even the eyelid.

It hurt and forced me to blink hundreds of times in mere seconds. But I could not sleep, not now. I was so close to a breakthrough. It had been what, ten hours, maybe more. And in all of that time I had not eaten, nor had I taken a break. I run through experiment after experiment on mana. 

On blood and even just plants. Each and every one of them ended up in abject failure. But that was only on the surface as with every experiment I got closer and closer to my ultimate goal.

It brought me to a… recent innovation. It was made very, very recently. As in the past few days. An artificial leyline.