This Is How You Pick a Fight

Through the palm gripping the handle, I could feel the measuring device drawing mana away.

Was it like the machine's mana and mine were being exchanged?

Of course, the mana I released was circulating and returning to me, but the suction was far stronger than I'd expected.

But it wasn't remotely unbearable. If anything, it felt almost light.

‘Should I get serious?’

I opened the floodgate of my own mana near my heart a little wider.

—Fwoooooosh!!

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