Rie placed the Vampire Orb at the heart of the ritual and drew out a Demonic Crystal, saturated with condensed mana—worth a small city on its own.
She bit her thumb, let her blood fall onto the crystal. No reaction. But when her blood slid down onto the Orb—it
hummed.
A low, resonating chime.
The crystal ignited with a deep red glow, and the orb pulsed, as if drinking.
The entire circle shuddered to life.
The blood runes lit up in violet-black. Rie inhaled sharply as the air thickened—the mana density in the room multiplying tenfold, then twenty. Her vision blurred. Particles of raw, unfiltered magic were now visible to the naked eye, floating like motes of starlight in a sea of shadow.
She smiled faintly.
"Perfect," she whispered.
From her ring, she drew the second demonic crystal—she buys three of them.
For her ritual two were needed. but she purchases three of them in case of any mishap.
She pressed her gloved palm to it, activating the siphon.
Immediately, the mana surged into her body.
Violent. Explosive.
Her veins lit up in black lightning. Her skin shimmered like polished obsidian. Her demonic eyes began glowing crimson. Her body screamed, but her mind stayed calm.
She was used to pain.
This much is nothing.
The demonic crystal now acted as a mana conductor, a limitless battery channeling torrents of energy directly into her soul. Her body trembled, but her black veins held.
And now—
It was time to form the core.
Rie closed her eyes and focused.
Her mana surged into her dantian, the spiritual heart within all beings. Slowly, painfully, a small speck of power began to condense—a glowing, molten dot. Denser than steel… it was quite hard to put all her mana into one point…
Sweat tickle down her temple.
It was impossible to create both core and circle at the same time because the both need full focus.
On mistake and the best that can happen is that you become a cripple unable to use mana.
The worst is death of course
But rie had a way.
The secret method.
It was a secret method of one of the martial artist clans in the human world.
It was also one of the seven great clan in the human world with long history.
In her previous life the lord of that clan was her friend and one of the heroes who fought alongside her to resist the demon king force…
In such a chaos fill era he reveals his family secret art of forming core to everyone…
It was revolutionary…
Ren remember and she was going to use it to from her core…
The idea was when you create you core seed- the small dot of condense mana.
Instead of pouring mana into it, pour all the mana in the right side of the core..
Rin pour all the mana into the right side of her core…
Her breathing was getting rough…
As her vein swell up…
But she didn't stop and keep pouring all the mana into the right side.
And then a change happens her core move…
No more like it started rolling.
This is what she wanted.
She rolled it inside her body,
Each rotation condensed it further. It devoured mana on its own, growing, forming into a tiny, stable orb—the size of a peanut, glowing dark red.
"It's rolling… perfect," she murmured.
"Now it'll absorb mana even without my will… I just need to keep feeding it."
It was now autonomous, an endless engine that would only get stronger.