Proper Mage

It had only taken a few seconds but it felt like an eternity.

He watched as the skill improvement scroll forcefully shattered his solid mana core and then using all of the mana in his body as well as the mana from outside of his body began to shape the shards of his mana core into something different.

A mana core is shaped like a sphere, they tend to be blue in color based on what he had heard from his allies when they sold monster carcasses.

Apparently there are even different shades of blue that the players had begun to use to refer to the core's quality.

He was watching as his core was reformed into this a gem, it was a strange crystalline thing that had no real color which made it possible to see the elemental mana that his core had been infused with before.

Black and red mana swirled within the core like an angry cloud.

When the process was done he decided to check was his core could now do.

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