A week passed. This very small, confined space has become Sarah’s new home. A new home that she has been growing sick of. No decorations. No fresh air. Nothing colorful in sight. But most importantly, no new research materials. Sarah was sure mountains of new insights sat just beyond that one, clear, antimagic barrier. Still, this time wasn’t wasted. By now, Sarah’s physical injuries have healed. However, despite meditating daily, her magical injuries persisted.
Another week passed. By now, it was clear her injury would not heal without external assistance. Still, she was not willing to give up. Sarah wracked her mind, like she had done for the past two weeks, for a solution. Finally, a radical thought emerged. What if she attempted to cast her teleportation spell anyways? Yes, she would suffer a backlash. Yes, there are many dangers, but, if she succeeded, the casting of the spell might just be able to restore her internal mana to equilibrium. With no other options to continue forward, Sarah decided to give it a try.
Reaching her mind inward, she felt her disorganized, chaotic internal mana. She forcibly tried to call upon it to rise. She could feel it condensing from her extremities. As it squirmed and twisted unnaturally, Sarah coughed up a mouthful of blood, but it was working. She started silently casting her spell.
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Pain, deep agonizing pain began to envelop her, but still, she persisted. The spell was almost ready. But right at the moment of casting, POP. Her mana began to scatter and rage out of control. Her hopes of casting her spell ruined. The mana would not settle down again within her body. With her life on the line, Sarah took the only action she could think of and pushed the mana down, down below her heart, below her waist, into her right leg.
BOOM
Her right leg exploded. Sarah screamed out in pain. Her right leg, from just below her knee, was gone. Blood scattered everywhere. Worse, she was bleeding out at an alarming rate. In too much pain to think, Sarah responded instinctually, willing her mana to heal her. Although she didn’t realize it at the time, with her unruly mana gone, what little mana remained fell back into sync, back into equilibrium. However, that was short lived as her body used the last of her mana to seal her lower leg and stop the bleeding. With that, Sarah fell unconscious.