The First Legendary Beast Master novel Chapter 31

Chapter 31: Stress Induced Learning

They managed to study smoothly until mid-afternoon, when they were both too hungry for more research, and they headed down for an early dinner.

"I should practice my stamina training and then meditate for the evening to improve my mana, but can I come visit again?" Dana asked with a gentle smile.

"I would love to have you over anytime." Karl agreed.

Studying was much more pleasant with her around, and she knew the strangest things. It was good to have a friend here at the Academy, and the more that he learned about the way that Mages advanced, the more ideas Karl got about how he could expand his own skills.

Meditation sounded like it might be worth something as a technique. The crystal ball in the train car said that it could look into his beast space, so there should be some connection between that and the method to improve it. If everything was driven by the monster inside, it would be totally contrary to the other elites, whose whole goal was self strengthening in some way.

[What do you think, Hawk? Is meditation the way to improve the space you're in?] Karl asked.

[Dunno. But if it can be bigger, with trees, and mice, that would be good. Don't forget the mice.]

Karl was not about to put mice in the space alive, as he was worried it would bond them to him, and he would end up with a tortured Earth Mouse as a companion, right until Hawk killed it. That would be unfortunate, to say the least.

So, when he returned to the garden after lunch, he lay down in the hammock in the shade of the pair of coconut trees, and closed his eyes to focus on the beast space.

At first, nothing seemed to happen as he tried to envision a pine tree for Hawk to rest in. The space was just there and empty, but Karl could feel that it had the potential to be more, he just didn't know how.

The next thing he tried was focusing energy into the space, like when he wanted to use [Rend]. Adding energy while meditating might improve the space somehow, the energy had to go somewhere. Or so he assumed. _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

It felt like that was doing something, but even after an hour, the changes weren't visible.

[It feels better in here. Keep doing that.] Hawk encouraged.

That led to Karl channelling energy and meditating on the image of the tree that he wanted to create for Hawk to live in.

During hour two, there was a sprig of a tree growing from the ground near the nest, a single pine branch in the darkness. It really was working, just not instantly as he had hoped.

At the end of the night, the tree was almost as tall as he was, but Karl was feeling refreshed and empowered, as if the improvement had granted him some extra energy. That would be easy enough to test, today was a class day again, and his first lesson was in skill control with the mages.