The Spellbook was a welcome change of pace from the gruesome reality. It made him feel like a student again, which reminded him of just how much the world changed every moment that he read through it but it also let him remember how mundane it was. That wasn’t necessarily a bad thing and he even missed it, in a way.
But it was in the distant past now.
So much had happened and he couldn’t imagine himself being content with his old life. However, there was one thing that he would give everything he had to have back —and that was Clara. Still, she was dead now and he could only push forward. Necromancy came into his mind but Sean pushed it aside instantly.
She wouldn’t want that.
And he wouldn’t want that.
If he brought her back due to his selfish desires, he’d be infringing on things that he should not infringe on —that being the gap between life and death.
But then again, did that even matter anymore? Necromancy was a thing, artifacts that could bring the dead to life apparently existed, and even technology if his memory served him right.
It was a steep hill, however, one that he didn’t feel was worth walking down.
His eyes scanned the screen, or rather, it was his consciousness that did that. It was like reading. You took a certain part of whatever you were reading and you absorbed that information by processing it. When you weren’t using your eyes, it became far too apparent that what you were looking at didn’t need to be your actual center of focus.
You could be reading something written on the ground despite looking straight forward. It was the difference between ‘looking’ and ‘seeing’. ‘Looking’ meant directing the eyes somewhere while ‘Seeing’ meant perceiving it. Looking and Seeing were disjointed for Sean now as he started to see things without using his eyes, both thanks to the System’s screens and Mana Sight.
And the first thing that he started reading when he pulled out the book again was the topic of Mana Circuits. He loved how the System made everything easier and the fact that even applied to books and textbooks. It was like how some applications could give you a short and brief description of a word if you clicked twice on it.
So he pressed on the words ‘Mana Circuit’ —it was so easy, too. He did that mentally. It was like seeing it but just a bit different. It was akin to seeing three doors and choosing one of them. He simply made up his mind and then the System responded in kind, showing him a separate screen that overlapped with the larger screen that contained the textbook itself.
As for the textbook itself, it was a simple dark blue screen. Sean couldn’t change the color, sadly, but thankfully it was a color and tone that he didn’t necessarily hate but didn’t necessarily like either. It didn’t get in the way of reading whatever was on it, which was in white.
Amidst the darkness that was his closed eyes, it was perfectly visible and he would have it no other way.
Mana Circuits
Mana Circuits are the vessels of Mana that every living being has. Some may be atrophied due to a complete and utter lack of usage but they are still present in every living being. Some non-living objects may also have Mana Circuits [refer to 96. Core Physiology and the Elsworth Configuration]. These circuits may be seen by the Mana Sight Skill and all aspiring mages are suggested to create and/or morph masses of them called Configurations.