My 100th Rebirth a day before the Apocalypse novel Chapter 536

"It’s simple," 008 explained.

"You just need to cultivate while holding the feather pen, focusing on it until it feels like an extension of your own body. When that happens, the pen will respond to your will more naturally."

"Was it that simple?" Kisha asked again as she stared at the feather pen in her hands.

"Yes, host," 008 added thoughtfully.

"You just need to let the item adjust to your mana. You’re accustomed to using your spiritual energy, but you haven’t really practiced channeling mana much."

"It’s natural that you feel unfamiliar with it. Because of that, your mana flow was awkward, and the item could sense your hesitation, which made it resist you."

Kisha nodded slowly, finally understanding. What 008 said made sense, and she realized that her lack of familiarity with mana was the true source of the issue.

Kisha carefully stored the table back into her inventory before resuming her cultivation.

This time, instead of focusing primarily on her spiritual energy, she shifted her attention toward her mana.

Though she still cultivated both, her focus was now on the mana, feeling its subtle flow throughout her body, its currents gently swirling around her heart.

As she directed the mana toward the Phoenix Feather Pen, she felt it tremble in her hand, responding to the energy she sent through it.

It took Kisha three hours of steadily channeling her mana through her body and into the Phoenix Feather Pen to become familiar with its flow.

When the pen finally felt more responsive and the resistance faded, she stopped her cultivation.

Taking the table out from her inventory, she resumed her practice of inscribing.

This time, with a smoother connection to the pen, Kisha felt more confident as she traced the scriptures onto the magical parchment.

As 008 had suggested, she could now sense the difference in her control, and her movements felt more fluid and purposeful.

This time, the contract’s inscription was much easier to read than before.

While the writing still wasn’t flawless, the outcome was a success.

The first contract she managed to complete worked as intended.

Though it couldn’t compare to the powerful slave contract she had purchased from the system, which could bind ten individuals at once, Kisha was satisfied with her progress.

Her contract could bind just one person, and while the restrictions weren’t as harsh as those in the system-purchased contract, it was still effective.

For her first attempt, Kisha felt it was a solid achievement.

It wasn’t until Kisha learned inscribing that she fully understood the contract she had signed with Aston and the others.

She realized that it was written in the same way as a standard contract from her world, with one key difference: the repercussions for breaking the contract were clearly outlined.

The consequences for betraying Party A were explicitly stated, detailing the suffering they would endure if they violated the agreement. This newfound understanding made her see just how serious the terms were.

With this newfound understanding, Kisha wrote her first contract in the same format, though, as a beginner, she couldn’t impose severe punishments for breaking it just yet.

The best she could do was include a mild consequence: "The party who breaks the contract will suffer severe hair loss, lose a tooth, and have one finger broken."

Her beginner status limited her ability to enforce harsher penalties, such as those that could result in a person’s death, so she had to settle for these less severe but still significant repercussions.

As Kisha’s proficiency in inscribing grew, so would the strength and severity of the punishments she could impose in the contracts.

Each contract an inscriber created drew from their own mana, power, and mastery, so the more skilled they became, the more potent the contract would be.