Looking away from all the boring kingdoms and dynasties, my heavenly eyes land on the middle of the world map, where lies a place called “The Devil Lands.” Hmm, quite ominous, probably the place those hero schmucks are supposed to go to do their thing. Well, whatever.
Satisfied by all the knowledge, my esteemed self goes back to researching more about magic.
More time passes, and I continue to train my mana. Eventually, after one more month, I can sense the entirety of my soul's head portion.
Although something is odd, when I sense my soul’s face, I don’t see its disheveled beauty. Instead, I see my actual beautiful, gorgeous, great face, the one I had before that wretched wizard gave me those scars. And although that is tremendous news, I don’t understand why it hasn’t morphed into my current face. Souls constantly imitate the physical body.
Although sensing closer, it did change, but much more slowly than normal. The skin is looking a smidge rougher than it did originally, but that’s it. Hmm, the only thing I can chalk this up to, other than the universe finally recognizing my graceful face, is the special ability or something I got from being brought to this world.
I still haven't figured out what the ability is though. I know it has something to do with souls. Me breaking out of the mind control and now my soul being more resistant to changes proves that it’s something about being resistant to magic or something. Although maybe this won't be all good. If my soul is resistant to change, the second step of becoming a wizard will be much harder to accomplish. Well, whatever, I can’t do much about that now.
The next day I do the routine, except when soul class ends I approach the teacher.
“Ms. Rose, I can completely sense my soul’s head area now. I want to begin the second step.”
“Oh, you’re quite early, Mr. Jeldard. You’ve been working hard as always, I see. Although I hope you aren't lying. If you go into the second step too early, it might have some bad effects.”
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“No, Ms. I am ready.”
“Very well then, I will be ready for you tomorrow after class. I’m too busy today.”
“All right, Ms. Rose.”
The next day after meeting, she takes me to a weird chamber. There is a single bed and a chair and nothing else.
It seems a bit odd, so I ask, “Umm, what is this place, Ms. Rose?”
“This is the room you will start your second step in. There are enchantments on this room, so the mana in here is mostly natural mana. So if you make your soul, it won’t be ripped apart by the atmospheric mana.”
“I will be sitting here and giving you constant instructions, and step in if something goes wrong, so don’t be worried.”
She gives me a weird brush-looking item, only without the bristles.
“This is a soul carver. It’s used for precise mana breach opening. You will use it on your soul's spinal cord. Now lie down.”
I lie down, face down, on the bed, and she sits down on the only chair in the room.
“Put on your ring,” she says, and I do so. I immediately start sensing my great and wonderful soul.
“Now, put the soul carver somewhere around here,” she says while touching the middle section of my neck. If this weren’t a delicate situation, I would have broken the disgusting finger she touched me with, but alas.
I put the soul carver where she showed me and waited for her instructions. “Ok, now slowly push down and pierce the soul’s brain stem.”, I do as she says, and before the soul carver even touches me, I sense something touch my soul. Ah, the soul carver has some sort of invisible mana blade or something, how neat.
I push down further, and I can sense the tip going through a vertebra and touch the spinal cord.
I cut through the spinal cord, and I wait for instructions. “All right now carefully pull the soul carver out.” I slowly and masterfully take out the soul carver's blade out of my soul, without damaging anything.
“Now, you have to make the mana breach permanent. As you should know, this is done by reinforcing the breach with imprinted mana, so the soul doesn’t naturally recognize it as a mana breach. This will be the hardest step out of all.”
I start to focus my great attention and start manipulating the imprinted mana pumping through my mana vanes. I slowly but surely start using imprinted mana to shape the mana breach so the electrical information in my soul's spinal cord can pass through the mana breach and reach my physical brain.