Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1205

Chapter 1205 - Loose Ends (Part 1)

"She really doesn’t know!" Bodya blurted out.

"Well, she’s just a child, after all." Olua caressed Tista’s head as if she was a small child, irking her to no end.

"Excuse me, I’m right here. What is that I’m not aware of?"

"Mana geysers are the reason why the Council awards its most outstanding members with a territory. Other creatures can only find them by chance, whereas Awakened can see them." Olua explained.

"Mana geysers are great places to build your lab or home, providing you with an endless supply of world energy for your arrays. On top of that, mana geysers can be used to identify the location of both crystal mines and enchanted metal’s veins."

"Enchanted metals?" Tista echoed.

"Yes. Why do you think Reghia was built there?" Bodya nodded. "Over time, a powerful stream of world energy can turn any lesser metal into silver, silver into Orichalc.u.m, Orichalc.u.m into Adamant, and even Adamant into Davross.

"Silver forms close to the surface whereas the deeper you go, the stronger the geyser becomes, making it possible to find Adamant veins. Davross takes so much time to form that it’s not worth the wait, not even for Awakened.

"Adamant is always mined as it is unless it has already started to gain both black and white shades that mark the turning point into Davross."

"Can all mana geysers do that?" Tista thought about the mana geyser where Solus usually took her tower form near Lutia and wondered why Faluel didn’t pick such a spot to build her lair.

"I wish." Olua sighed. "You can’t just dump silver or crystals inside a mana geyser and wait for them to grow. Either the process is natural or it doesn’t happen."

Tista inwardly grinned at those words, thinking about Solus’s ability to grow her own crystals and wondering if she could do the same for metals.

"Yet by mining the area around a mana geyser, Awakened can check the presence of magical resources and take them away before anyone else notices. The Council scouts each area before assigning them and divides the mining operations between the Lords of each region.

"After the Council takes its share, the rest is equally divided among the Lords who can choose if to hoard the resources for themselves or sell them to found their research."

"Then how can you explain that my Awakened mentor, a Hydra, lives near a mana geyser yet she didn’t use it to build her lair?" Tista asked to make sense of Faluel’s odd choice.

"There can be two possible explanations." Bodya said.

"If the Council has located a potential crystal mine or Adamant vein, if not both like it happens in Reghia, then no one would build anything over the geyser. Mining operations require countless people working together and no one likes to have strangers coming and going from your house at all hours.

"On top of that, it would force the Lord of the region to give the passwords for their arrays to all those involved, putting their treasures at risk. The second possibility is that your master uses her lair not only as a lab but also as a house.

"Raising children over a mana geyser is dangerous. The reason why Awakened at birth are just a myth, is that even if the geyser helps the baby to Awaken, their body can’t resist such a massive flow of world energy, killing them the moment they develop a mana flow."