In his dormitory room, Noah was absorbing mana from the core once again.
It had been more than a week since he first started using monster cores to absorb mana.
Sweat dripped down his face from hours of meditation. His snow-white hair clung to his forehead, damp and heavy. His white t-shirt stuck to his skin.
He sat cross-legged with his hands resting on his knees and his back straight, breathing heavily from the effort of meditating for so long.
He had not gone to training today.
He was too close to let anything interrupt it.
For the past week he had been completely focused. The moment classes ended each day, he would head straight to the training hall.
Stretching first, then weapon practice, working through both his bow and blade arts until his arms were sore. After that he would sit down and absorb mana from the cores, cycling it through his body late into the night.
