Mana Stones Research Paper

Shortly before dusk, a wagon of mana stones was pulled up to the front of Arminius’ new house. Residents of Laurentius Village were astonished at how quickly Arminius built his house, and Arminius shooed away anyone who asked for assistance gathering the materials for their own houses. He blamed a lack of mana, which was lie.
After receiving the mana stones, Arminius levitated them to the second floor of his house and thanked Heiko, who personally delivered them. They were only transported a few dozen feet from the House of Laurentius, but sending of core member of the family - rather than a subordinate - was a show of cordiality.
Before Heiko left, Arminius examined his arcane core with his mana sense. Then, he plucked a mana stone from the
The mana inside the remaining stones gradually trickled down until they only had three days worth.
In total, the forty-nine mana stones had three hundred and fifty-eight days worth of mana inside them. In one month, Arminius would get more mana stones from the House of Laurentius, and then he’d be able to advance to a rank 5 magicians.
To store the mana stones, Arminius fused them into one stone and placed it in the corner of the room. Since the physical size of the mana stone didn’t have anything to do with how much mana it contained, the forty-nine mana stones effortlessly compacted into a single stone with the same amount of combined mana.
After finishing with his mana stones, Arminius ascended the stairs to his tower. He went to the very top of it, then sat down and began mana channeling. His vortex encompassed the entire village and then for several hundred more feet. His mana sense only had half the
The number of rank 1 magicians in the village numbered less than five, and there were no rank 2 magicians. Two of the magicians were Theodoor and Fenna, one was Arminius’ created subordinate, and two were unaffiliated with the House of Laurentius.
Arminius wouldn’t need to do very much work to take control of the village from the House of Laurentius, but he didn’t want to make too many people reliant on him. He could imagine turning a third of the villagers - the ones with zero rank arcane cores - into magicians, but he didn’t want to make that thought a