Chapter 46 - How Does a High Elf Reproduce?

  It's been two weeks since we started training with Kinue while Professor Adrih reading. She has a peculiar way of teag us. It seems like she's not paying attention, but she really is. Even while looking at the pages, that woman tell if we are stimuting our mana els correctly.

  Even though I learned Aura in my past life, it's different in this world. In my world, Aura was an armor that flowed outside the warrior's body, while mana flows ihe mage's body.

  No problem... if I want to master something, I do it!

  The professor evaluated us with her eyes, she took off her monocle and stared at us with that Special Eye while pg her hand on our abdomen as we let the mana flow through our els. She told us that the secret was in reading the position of the mana and the root. If she read the root of the mana el with the positiohe root is fixed, she could tell how the mana works in someone's body.

  Through this analysis, she could identify our mana categories. However, we had already mao use our mana in an advanced way and even transformed it into our element. Professor Adrihna only o identify our dominant mana category. When she discovered our Primary and Sedary categories, she began to give us specifia circution training.

  The mana o circute through our el and the through our mana root.

  I had the primary category as Transmitter and the sedary category as Emitter, which means I have a greater advantage in close bat with the thunder element and also unch le attacks.

  I don't eveo tell you hoy I was to find out that I am a primary category Transmitter and use my element on my body. When I start to uand how mana works to physically strengthen myself, I will put into practie of what I know about Aura and bee a Mana General.

  Chloe's primary category was Emitter and her sedary category was Ihe professor reassured her whe upset, thinking she couldn't create golems, by saying she could, but it wouldn't be as easy for her. The secret y in the Gem and its energy level, as it wouldn't matter if Chloe's primary mana category was Invoker if she couldn't manage and trol her mana.

  The Gem is a pearl of energy that denses and gees heat. This heat is actually mana in its pure form; it's from this Gem in our soul that mana is produced for our body.

  Unfortunately, the professor was only going to teach us the basiagitrodu, as we would o learn at the Academy in Apsalon. That pce was ae institution, and she gave us the mission to evolve em and power on our own. This was our first test to prepare for when we reached Apsalon. Professor Adrihna was essentially going to teach us to fish, and it would be our job to catch the fish, as she put it.

  Speaking of which, I started practig by throwing my thunder into a ke with fish. It proved to be much more useful for catg fish than using a water mage, although I used up all my mana in the process and my aunt said it was risky as I could harm other species of fish and even damage hidden eggs.

  After we learo move the mana through our bodies effitly with our mana category, we had the editate with them to stimute em while being evaluated.

  I wao practice with Kinue because I was very curious about the demi-human kingdom, but it seems Chloe's curiosity was greater, and she didn't let me train with Kinue or be aloh her. I didn't uand why.

  I hope she tells me ter what she discovered about the other kingdom.

  “You’re losing focus. Stay focused,” my teacher said while reading.

  “How you tell I’m losing focus, teacher? Is your eye really that good?”

  She sighed.

  “I told you to call me Adrihna. Callieacher’ makes me sound old.”

  “But aren’t you old? You’re almost 200 years old.”

  Adrihna hit me on the head with her book.

  “I am young and vibrant. High Elves stop aging before they hit 30, so I’ll keep this appearail I die.”

  Really? I used to be like that too.

  “Does that affeind? For retionships and stuff, since you’re older in a young body?” I asked, curious since I had my own dilemmas.

  Adrihna scratched her and seemed to ponder.

  “I’ve hought about that kind of thing. I have no i in romantic retionships. But you have a good line of thought. For me, my mind remains the same as when I was 28 and will stay that way until I die.”

  “So, you’ll die without ever liking someone?” I asked.

  She seemed to think.

  “High Elves don’t have the cept of ‘liking’ someo’s very rare for a High Elf to ‘love’ someone. So, when I said that beauty means nothing to us, I was serious. It doesn’t matter because we don’t care about finding someone as a romantic partner. When a High Elf surpasses the barrier of love, they begin to feel other emotions, but that is rare and almost never happens. I t on one hand the number of times I’ve heard of a High Elf falling in love, and I won’t even use all my fingers. In fact, I won't even use one finger…”

  My teacher went back to reading her book, but now I had more questions than before.

  “If your species doesn’t love easily… how were you born? How do you ‘multiply’?”

  “My parents just agreed to ‘reproduce,’ and my brother and I were born. It’s an effit and simple process that every High Elf goes through at least on their life. My mother was even happy to have had twins, so she didn’t o reproduce again. Generally, it’s reehat a High Elf have one child, but a woman in her position should have at least two children since my father is a Duke and needs more than one heir by our tradition.”

  Okay, that was a lot of information. I kind retted asking, but now I was even more curious.

  “So how do you marry? Sihere’s no love?”

  “In that case, a study of personality and profession is doo see which elf is the best match. All High Elves are nobility, so they usually choose someone who will be a good match for work and family union. It’s not different fred marriages that some human nobility gh. As for how they ‘reproduce’… I’m not sure I should expin that to you. But you uand the cept; it’s only done on a lifetime to produ heir. That’s the calcution. While lower nobility High Elves need one heir, higher nobility wo. Since we live a long time, there’s no need for stant reprodu. al pleasures e only from humaions. If a High Elf hasn’t awakeheir emotions, then for us, the intimate act is just a waste of time. You get what I mean…”

  She doesn’t even blush talking about this stuff? They really don’t feel maions…

  I went back to stimuting my Gem, passing mana through it and making it flow through the mana els. To stimute the Gem, we o use our mana els to the fullest, knowing every part of it and learning to manage mana ption. Evolving the Gem is more practical and es with time. When you feel it ging grades, you trate on the energy to try to grasp that small thread and try to pull it.