Atticus's Odyssey: Reincarnated Into A Playground novel Chapter 617

617 Step Out

Atticus was seated in the middle of a small cavern illuminated softly by patches of bioluminescent fungi, atop a rocky platform. The whole space was silent, leaving Atticus to absorb the mana in the air with fervor.

'The mana in the air is massive,' he thought.

'Massive' was simply one of the many words he could use to describe what he was feeling. To him, it was as though he was moving through a dense foliage of mana, it was so thick that it felt present.

'If they placed my one-year-old self here, I would have awakened in a few hours,' he mused.

It was just that plentiful. However, Atticus was more focused on something else: his rank!

Back at Eldoralth, Atticus was always faced with challenges when it came to continuously absorbing mana and increasing his rank.

Aside from the fact that the mana in the air was sparse and the increased density provided by the advanced training room couldn't hold a candle to the chasm's, Atticus could feel one other quality: it was insanely pure.

For an individual to advance in rank, they had to absorb mana into their mana core and allow their body to adapt to it.

This makes it so that a person couldn't absorb too much mana too fast. The amount of mana an individual could absorb before resting was dependent on one's talent.

This was one of the major reasons transcendent talents always had faster growth speeds than others. However, Atticus's talent was mythical. This allowed him to have an even greater absorption time than any other.

But spending just a few hours in this chasm, Atticus had discovered another major factor that added to the reason he was always being forced to stop absorbing mana: its quality.

Compared to this mana, Eldoralth's mana appeared filled with impurities that hindered and delayed the body's ability to adapt. But this mana was pure. There was nothing like that here.

As he absorbed the mana, Atticus could feel his body adapting in real-time. He didn't feel any need to stop anytime soon, nor did he feel any strain.

Atticus was beyond elated.

'I could spend the rest of the year here!' he thought excitedly.

If he could go back in time, Atticus would tell Magnus not to place that mark on him again! This was the perfect place to train and grow; he could only imagine what rank he could reach should he train here for a year.

Atticus kept on absorbing mana without showing any signs of stopping. Without moving a single inch, six hours passed in the blink of an eye.

However, Atticus soon encountered a major problem.

'What the hell…' he thought, feeling a wave of exhaustion wash over him.

He felt exhausted! No, his body was so tired and low in energy! It was as though he had been fighting for months without resting. Every movement required major effort to make.

It didn't take him long to figure out the reason, and when he did, he couldn't help but curse out.

'Of course there's a limitation,' he realized.