Kai continued absorbing the mana ores.
He had wasted too much time, and the professors might be coming soon.
It took him an hour to absorb a quarter from the mined pile, so he would need at least another three hours. But that entirely depends on whether flooding his Primordial Lock would be the same as progressing in rank.
Of course, Kai hoped that it wasn't.
Hours passed.
Kai sat cross-legged with his eyes closed. His focus was entirely on the state of his body, and after absorbing the one-hundred and seventieth mana ore, something clicked inside him. It's his Primordial Lock.
Just earlier, it was devouring mana like a bottomless black hole.
And now, it throbbed with a pulsating stream of energy.
One that spread across his entire body.
