Well, easier said than done. I don't even know where to start.

After experimenting around a bit, I've found out some interresting facts about mana. First of all, mana has a concept of something along the lines of "ownership". Unbound, or free mana as I've come to like calling it, is the mana that is present everywhere, not however inside of living beings.

For mana to enter a living being, a conversion like process is required in which the free mana gets bound to the living being it entered.

This means that my mother may actually have no real cultivation. All the mana curently present in her mana system comes from the free mana surrounding her naturally entering her mana "vein" system. The entered mana then moves towards her heart where the mana than enters a seperate mana "artery" system, which leads opposite the vein system, namely towards the outside. Back outside, the expelled mana slowly deteriorates back into free mana.

This however is a big problem for me. Because I am fully inside my mothers body, I don't have any direct access to free mana.

The only option I have left is to take the mana that naturally enters her and forcefully try to convert that into my own mana. This should be possible since my mother doesn't really have any control over the mana inside her system. This however is horrendously slow in comparison to natural mana aquisition.

Anyways, my plan moving forward now is to establish two things inside my heart. One thing I certainly need is something like a storage where I can store any entering mana from my vein system there for later access.

Another thing I've thought of is to build something that I would call a "mana heart". This structure would do the same thing to mana that a normal heart would do for blood, transport it through my body, and that quickly.

The only question remaining now is, how I can build something like that with my mana.

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Well I do have some Ideas for that. A useful property of bound mana seems to be that it can be influenced to emulate certain behaviour of other matter.

After experimenting a bit with the little mana I had, I found that I could "crystalize" the mana by clustering mana into orderly formations and then influencing it's behaviour to bind to each other. Since mutating the behaviour seems to be somewhat permanent for bound mana, the structure I'm forming will not require any conscious effort to upkeep.

Little by little I converted as much mana as I could out of my mothers veins and clumped it together to form a hollow spherical structure. After having achieved a satisfactory size, I started to cryztalize the whole structure. To allow for actual storage of mana, I still need something like a vent to store mana in and extract mana out the core.

With that done I can finally start constructing my mana heart. Since the heart should facilitate the intake and speed up the distribution of mana through the mana network, I built a simple two cavern design. To allow for quick usage of newly taken in mana without having to go through the core, I left a small passage connecting the two caverns. Both caverns of the mana heart were each connected to a vent in the core, allowing the heart to access my main mana storage.

With this my "quick-mana-storage-and-usage" system was completed. Through contracting the mana heart I could now quickly pump mana into my core and also quickly pump it out of the core. Perfect.

All thats left to do now is accumulate mana and continuously expand my mana core to accomodate more mana.

I just had the feeling I wouldn't spend much more time stuck here.

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In a small house at the outskirts of a seemingly thriving town a woman lied on a primitve bed with a simple hay mattress. She wore a plain dress and her long brown hair was strewn around her in an unorderly fashion. Although she carried a somewhat pained expression she still smiled at the sight of her bulging belly.

"I can feel it clearly, it's almost time." She spoke to the man standing next to her with a strained voice.

"Keep calm honey, everything will be fine. You know that." The man grabbed her slightly trembling hand and smiled at her reassuringly. Although he tried sounding as calm as possible, a sligh tremor in his voice betrayed his nervousness.

The woman suddenly let out a slightly pained moan. "I think my water just broke. I will go into labour soon."

The man just tightly held her hand and said nothing.

After 5 hours it was finally over. The baby had been born succesfully.

"He has snow white hair and looks so pale. Let's call him Noel"

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