Chapter 26 The Draining Existence
Kailey found herself unable to move. She attempted to look around, hoping to identify the cause of her confinement, but all she could see was the witch hat in front of her. From the corner of her eye, she noticed a glowing light emanating from her skin. The light pulsed in a manner reminiscent of when it had in the white space before her soul emerged from her body. Panic set in as she feared that if her soul materialized outside of the white space, it wouldn't be safe from the natural laws of the mortal world. However, instead of her soul emerging, her mana began rapidly draining by an unknown existence within her.
When she composed herself, she felt a nauseating feeling welling up from within due to her mana rapidly draining into some unknown existence. She tried to prevent it, fearing it would have terrible consequences if left unchecked. Drawing on her expertise in mana manipulation developed over nearly two decades of constant experience. she first attempted to halt the flow of mana by forcibly blocking the areas through which mana could pass. However, this approach proved unsuccessful.
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Realizing that her initial attempt had failed, Kailey attempted a different method. This time, she tried to redirect the mana devoured by the existence, moving it out from her body and into the outside world, allowing it to spread. Unfortunately, this also failed because the voracious existence, intent on consuming the mana, prevented the mana inside Kailey's body from fleeing.
The witch hat, recovering from its sudden mental attack, observed the mana in the air being forcefully expelled by Kailey, then violently drawn back into her body. The hat was concerned that this back-and-forth movement of so much mana in the air could cause a tremendous explosion within the hut. To mitigate this, it decided to take Kailey to a safer place and use its invisible hands to encase her in a bubble to prevent the uncontrolled mana emanating from Kailey from disrupting the stable natural mana in the air.
Knowing it had no time for pretenses, the witch hat rose from the floor into the air and started flying swiftly. A pale-looking Kailey enveloped inside a reflecting bubble, followed closely behind. After a few minutes of flying through the unchanging scenery of doors, they finally reached an area that looked like a dungeon.
The hat promptly rested Kailey within one of the many chambers inside the dungeon and went inside with her. As they arrived in a secure area, the hat wasted no time carefully analyzing Kailey's physical condition to comprehend the situation. The moments seemed to stretch indefinitely as the hat delved into its examination until finally it unearthed the truth: the mana within Kailey's body was coalescing in a distinct region of her soul, gradually taking form as a completely new individual.