Chapter 51: Dopamine

This time, the pressure around me was far greater than before.

The particles in the air that had vibrated before now seemed to collide with each other.

Surprisingly, there were no sparks.

When I was evolving my core, the colliding of the mana particles in the air had caused sparks to erupt, resulting in a massive fire.

Maybe it was Arthur’s own control.

He was increasing the stress on the particles of mana suspended in the air, while at the same time ensuring that too much friction wasn’t created between them.

And seeing that…

I was jealous.

Only a little bit.

I knew with time I would be able to reach the same level of control. Still, I felt a dull ache in my chest.

Haa…

I was getting distracted.

I waited for Arthur to keep increasing the pressure on these monsters.

All the monsters around me had their tongues out of their mouths, gasping for air.

They couldn’t breathe. Let alone mana flow—even the flow of blood in their vessels was restricted.

With every passing second, I could see the changes in their bodies.

The skin of each of these monsters began to swell up from the lack of blood flow.

As for the mana in their bodies, it was being suppressed to a large extent.

Without being able to regulate their mana, just supporting the normal processes in their bodies might have become difficult for them.

Arthur looked in my direction.

I nodded.

Huu…

I took a deep breath and released my mana pressure again.

This time, the effect was visible.

Spurt!

The nearest monster to me had its neck crushed, with rivers of blood flowing out.

As for how I was able to do that—the credit goes to Arthur.

Not only was he applying pressure on the monsters to nearly kill them, but he was also concentrating his pressure on the more delicate parts of their bodies.

Not only delicate, but the only parts I could cut with my own mana control.

The mana essence from the dead monster began to flow into my body.

Haa.

It felt good.

No matter what, I just couldn’t get used to this feeling—the intense spike of dopamine along with the euphoria derived from it.

But I still had work to do. Moving towards the egg, I gently touched it with the palm of my right hand.

As the foreign mana essence from the monster got mixed with my blood, I immediately willed it to enter the egg through my right hand.

There was resistance. A strong one.

I could easily stop the mana essence from entering my body, but diverting its path once it entered my blood proved to be more difficult than I had imagined.

But I persisted.

My mana core tried its best to attract the essence in its own direction. I tried to suppress it.

But…

It was revolting!

Huh?!

Did my mana core have its own consciousness?

No, that wasn’t quite right. My core was reacting on its instincts to grow stronger.

But it had to be stopped.

I willed more of my control over the core, and…

I somehow managed to suppress it. At the end of the day, it was my own core—something that was a part of me.

I didn’t stop.

The foreign mana essence had now nearly mixed with my blood. Its mana signature had become identical to mine, but not completely.

Just enough for me to will it towards the egg.

Under my control, the mana essence flowed from my hand into the surface of the egg.

It crashed against the egg’s hard surface.

It didn’t immediately enter, but continued to create friction against the shell.

That was something I had seen coming.

Alfred too had warned me before leaving Lonatu’s HQ. He did say that the egg would first try to repel the essence, as it would be vastly different from its own mana signature.

But…

I had to keep supplying essence to the shell.

With each passing moment, I could feel the resistance of the egg weakening.

Well, it wasn’t being weakened, but more like the egg knew what it needed the most in its current state.

It’s like when you are hungry—you can’t avoid eating the food before you.

You might try to resist the temptation at first, but your hunger would quickly surpass your will.

The same thing was currently happening with the egg.

The friction faced by my mana essence began to reduce, and…

The egg began to actively absorb the essence that I was transferring—

Or more rightly to say, I was feeding it.

Ugh…

A brief pain passed through my body.

I had underestimated the situation even after overestimating it.

The rate at which the mana essence was drained from my body was unlike anything I had predicted.

Within a second, about ninety percent of the essence absorbed from the monster was drained from my blood, with the pace increasing even further.

Well… it wasn’t like I was sitting idle.

I had been controlling my mana pressure to kill the monsters around me.

Their essence was being absorbed into my body and sent to the egg at the same time.

The cycle had been established, but…

The speed at which the egg was draining the essence in my body was increasing with each second.

More…

I increased my own pace of killing the monsters.

Arthur, seeing the urgency in my actions, understood the assignment. He increased his pressure again.

But there was a limit to the pressure Arthur could increase without accidentally killing the monsters.

Now the entire burden fell on my shoulders. I willed more of my mana to end the lives of the beasts around me.

Spurt!

Spurt!

Spurt!

Spurt!…

With every heartbeat, another life was extinguished.

Blood began to soak the ground below, dyeing my surroundings in a darker shade of red.

It was a carnage.

The smell of the dead began to overwhelm my senses.

But at the same time…

Hehhehhee~

Beautiful!

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