Chapter 136: Learning from others?
The ladies taking care of the zombies with their guns felt a little dissatisfied by how they were asked to stop as they still thought they could continue much longer; however, after getting an order from their leader, whom almost everyone has accepted wholeheartedly now.
Because, in their minds, the most important thing for a leader is that he has to be strong and the first-hand display of this prowess has already won their hearts, and now he will just have to learn from experience as he would become a great commander like their general.
Ava ordered one of the girls to go to the security room and close the door. After a few minutes, the gate started to close while they continued firing to kill the zombies that were coming inside.
Aiden, seeing the gate close, ordered Ava to collect all the stones as quickly as possible to leave as the sunset was close, and he wanted to leave quickly. He doesn't know why he gets the feeling that after sunset, things would be more dangerous.
'I don't know if this is because I am skeptical or if there is going to be real danger, but I am not going to wait as no one has eaten since morning, so I know all of us are starving.'
He also didn't think he would get this feeling of danger out of the blue, as the main reason behind it must be his physique, so he decided to leave.
Seeing how many corpses were there, he also decided to help out a little and took his short knife strapped to his armor, moved toward a corpse, and started removing its core.
Alicia, seeing her little brother also helping them, didn't want to be the only one who sat there and relaxed, so reluctantly, she started to do the same as her brother; still, it disgusted her to take out the bloody core with her hands.
'I know I have to get used to this, but it's disgusting to cut this ugly monster's chest open and take the stone out with my hands.'
She decided to think if she could get them out without touching them with her hands, and after some time, she got an idea.
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'I can use mana to create the magic of different affinities using my talent, but why can't I just use my mana to do this small task?'
She tried to use her mana to create invisible hands that could be used to take the core out. At first, she tried, but before a transparent blue hand could be completed, it vanished from her sight as it was hard to maintain the hand, even when it used very little mana for her.
She tried many times and failed at all of them, and after 10 minutes of struggle, she finally was able to maintain the hands for some time and use them however she liked until she could take out the core.
But she didn't think it would be practical at all as it takes about half a minute to take out the core while being fully concentrated, and mana is not a problem for her as her mana recovers at quite a fast rate, taking her only 3 minutes to recover all her mana.
'Argh! I don't think this is practical at all as I can see the other girls using their hands to take out the cores much faster than me.'
However, she is not going to give up on this as she believes she can do this faster than them while using her mana, she continued and she has noticed the time for her to form the hands is decreasing as she uses them more and more.
Aiden is taking out the cores one after another. As he moves to different bodies, he can see they are not far from finally being done with them, and he has also noticed it has already been about 30 minutes, and in a few minutes, they are going to be done, so he decided to stop and wait for them to finish.
He looked around only to see his big sister also taking out the cores and was completely focused on it. He didn't think she would get used to getting her hands bloody this fast, so he didn't disturb her as she looked focused.
He can see she has made a clean cut on the chest, expecting her to use her hand and take out the cores as it is very easy to remove the cores with hands and also quicker to do.
However, after 5 seconds, he can see a transparent blue hand made out of mana created out of thin air, and that hand moves and takes out the core for her.
'I didn't think you could use magic like that, and more importantly, I think she is also not using any of her affinities.'
'While it is a little slower than using your hands, I believe if she can control more hands or use her magic faster, it would be much quicker than using hands. My big sis sure is different.'
'I will do this from now on as I can see her control over mana is quite better than before, which means she would be able to cast spells much faster.'
He now looked around at the others; he could also see Isla using her Air affinity to bring the cores out with a determined expression on her face, and the speed with which she was doing it was quite similar to Alicia, which meant she had also been practicing her magic from the start.
'I think from tomorrow onward I should tell them to use their magic while doing this, as it would definitely increase control and would be helpful in practicing their element.'
Getting fired up by seeing them, he also started to take out more cores and not wait, and this time he is going to use mana like his big sis.
He tried to use his mana for the first time and focusing on his mana inside his body, he imagined a hand made of mana appearing in front of him, and on his first try, a hand formed in front of him, which he could control using his mind while providing his mana to maintain it. It only took him 10 seconds to do this.
He found it strange as he had done this on the first try, and even much faster than others when they used mana for the first time, but he didn't complain, as it was better for him to be better than others.
'Oh! I remember the system saying before that I would be able to master the element much faster than others, so mana is also used for using elements, which means my control over mana would be better than others.'
He knew this was because of his physique, which has given him many abilities, while it may not be written on the ability list, knowing this, he is even more excited to copy others' physiques to make it complete.
'The only person I know whose status has shown physique is my Aunt May. I don't know if she would awaken her physique at the start of evolution or not, but for now, I don't think I would be able to do anything about this.'
So he focused more on collecting the cores using his new way, and after 5 minutes, they were finally done with collecting all the cores.
He has collected around a total of 29 cores, which are mostly red, with only 1 green and 4 blue. Now he can see Ava and two other women coming toward him with three different leather pouches in their hands.
And just by looking at their sizes, he could guess which one was which; what made him more excited was how much he had gotten after his first hunt as the size of pouches are not small.
So with excitement on his face, he is looking at them coming toward him.