Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 859: A Pleasant Surprise

Second trickled into minutes, minutes into hours and hours into days.

In the joy of watching his mana core heal, Max forgot the time completely and it was only after all the cracks healed did he take stock of time, realizing over a week had passed.

He was hungry and sleepy after cultivating tirelessly for a week. Although he wanted to ride the momentum and fill his mana core with the Fire Elemental Mana in one go, he decided against it, and climbed out of the magma.

Apart from the broken tower and somehow the beast storage bag, the magna had already destroyed all his possessions—his clothes and spatial ring.

With his spatial ring that had some food in it destroyed, he had no choice but to use his mana to alleviate his hunger.

Then he found a good place on the volcano wall, dug out a cave and fell asleep.

…

A day later, he woke up, feeling refreshed and ready for another intense cultivation session.

As he sat up, he noticed his burnt flesh and skin had already healed.

“Hm? The passive healing effect of my bloodline has been strengthened?” He murmured, pleasantly surprised.

When he used his bloodline sense in his body, he realized what was going on. In his blood, there was a trace of Fire Energy and this trace had strengthened his bloodline.

“This is…” He didn’t know what implications it had but nor was he in a rush to find out as long as it didn’t negatively affect him which it clearly did not.

So, calming his mind, he jumped into the magma and this time he went deeper than before and continued on until he could barely bear the heat.

“How wonderful!” Even though his hair turned into ashes and his skin started melting, causing him a lot of pain, Max felt happy and excited because the Fire Elemental Mana here was even denser and a bit purer.

Suddenly he paused and a thought crossed his mind, ’Since magma contains many types of toxic materials, shouldn’t the Fire Elemental Mana be contaminated and not so pure?’

This was only logical. However, since things were the other way around, it meant there was something that was causing this anomaly and whatever it was, it should be deep within the volcano.

’I’ll check it if I can. Right now, though, I should focus on cultivating.’ Thinking this, he activated his cultivation technique and began absorbing the Fire Elemental Mana.

At this moment, his core was only less than one-tenth full, but fortunately, it was all Fire Elemental Mana and was only a little less pure than what was available in the magma, so there was no real need to waste time in refining it to match magma mana’s purity.

Because Fire Elemental Mana was plenty in the magma and his cultivation technique enhanced his mana absorption and refinement speed, it only took him over ten hours to fill half his core with Fire Elemental Mana.

He wanted to continue and completely fill his core but he faced another problem.

While his union with Garima had transformed all the attributeless mana in his mana core into Fire Elemental one, his mana core itself was still made of attributeless mana. Even though it was very strong thanks to the system’s parting gift, if he completely filled it with Fire Elemental Mana of such purity, it wouldn’t be able to endure the pressure and would either fall apart or ignite into flames.

His non-existent brows furrowed tightly in concentration and in the end, he found two solutions.

First, he could slowly replace the attributeless mana with the Fire Elemental one in the mana core’s structure.

However, it would take a very long time, possibly several months and even a year or more. Even if he was willing to stay in the Four Star realm so long, he wouldn’t have access to such pure Fire Elemental Mana because this minor realm would in less than a month.

So, this idea wasn’t feasible which made him turn to the second solution which was to increase his mana control to Superior Mana Control as soon as possible and then use this Fire Element rich environment to comprehend the Fire Law.

If he managed to gain even a slight understanding of the Fire Law, it would no longer be a chore to replace his mana core structure with the Fire Elemental Mana.

However, this solution was also not without any problems.

While his mana control had become increasingly refined thanks to all the fighting in the past months and he felt he was on the cusp of reaching Superior Mana Control, he wasn’t sure he could reach it and then comprehend the Fire Law within the little time he had left in this minor realm.

’No use thinking about it too much.’ Inwardly shaking his head, he decided to go ahead with the second plan and came out of the magma.

“Let’s begin.” He muttered, closed his eyes and began pulling on mana in his core and the surrounding mana.

Shua! Shua!

As the mana headed his call and started converging around him, his eyes snapped open, astonishment, surprise, confusion and glee flickering within them.

’I have already attained Superior Mana Control?’

He took a deep breath. Though this was a pleasant surprise, he didn’t know why he suddenly achieved superior mana control.

He began thinking about what had happened.

’Unlike before, the mana I controlled wasn’t attributeless or mixed but Fire Elemental Mana. However, I have controlled Fire Elemental Mana before but I never had this level of control over it, so what changed?’

Suddenly his focus shifted to the traces of Fire Element within his bloodline and his gaze flickered, ’So, this trace of fire element in my bloodline has boosted my Fire Element Affinity to the point that controlling Fire Element has become effortless?’

Ha!

He exhaled deeply, feeling surreal.

After a while, he got his emotions under control.

Since he had already reached the Superior Mana Control stage, it was time to begin comprehending the Fire Elemental Law.

So, without wasting any time, he sat down cross-legged, closed his eyes and pushed his mana control to the limit and began sensing the presence of Fire Law around him.