Reborn as an Extra

Academy's Examination hall

Sitting on the allocated seat Rio was now looking at his question paper for the exam on the mana systematics. This is the most important subject out of all the subjects students study in this academy. If you score well enough in this exam you could consider yourself to have completed half the requirements for passing the exams.

(Don't Skip these questions I am answering your questions too in this one.)

Ques 1. What is the difference between the way a mage type, non-combat type, and a warrior type awakener's usage of mana?

'Hmm… the first question is already quite difficult, for normal students, this might be a nightmare of a test for real. But as I have been an excellent student in my past life, I have learned most of the things that I need to answer these exams, so it's easy for me..' (Rio)

Rio picked up his mana-imbued pen provided by the teachers along with the answer sheet and started to write the answer on it.

Mage:

A mage generally uses mana by storing it around a major organ like the heart, brain, dantian, etc. in the form of mana rings, the quantity and quality of mana rings determine the upper limit of your mana.

(Generally, the heart is used for this purpose since it is the most efficient out of all. There's one more hidden way to store and enhance the mana of a mage but that's a secret for another time.)

When a new mage awakens the first ring of mana is already created by the awakening automatically but later more rings of denser mana could be created by the awakener using simple meditation and increasing his mana by absorbing it from the surrounding.

When you exhaust your mana ring fully and meditate or rest to fill it again then the next time the mana ring would have denser mana, this is also the reason why most mages exhaust their mana on a daily basis so that they can have denser and stronger mana next time.

Non-combat type:

Non-combat type individuals like healers, buffers, blacksmiths, etc. All store mana in their dantian, but they don't have mana rings and the mana is directly stored inside of the dantian. Most of them store mana this way because non-combat type individuals don't generally have much mana and mostly use the outside mana for casting their skills and carryout-heals.

This is also the main reason they can't fight, they don't have sufficient amounts of mana with them and have to gather the surrounding mana to cast skills like- heal, forge, buff, etc.

Warrior type:

Warrior-type individuals don't use a specific organ to store their mana and their mana is directly stored throughout their whole body and circulates through the pumping of blood.

Most people use it this way because if not stored this way then the most basic skill of warrior-type individuals 'Body strengthening' which covers and strengthens the whole of the body with mana wouldn't be activated if there's no mana present in the whole body.

Also, the storing of mana in the whole body passively strengthens the whole body of the warrior, since mana is everywhere inside the warrior's body, it strengthens the physique of the warrior by nourishing it with mana passively all the time.

Ques. 2 why can't mages store mana like a Warrior?

'This one is easy too…' (Rio)

Mages have to use huge amounts of mana to cast their spells, they have to create magic circles in a matter of seconds and make the structure of the spell as fast as possible, so they need to store mana all together and as densely as possible, so that it can flow through the medium to the outside as fast and efficiently as possible. (Here medium refers to the magic wands and other similar artifacts)

If the mages store the mana like a warrior the density of their mana would be very low because the mana would be too spread and less in density all over the body and this will cause the flow of mana to be very slow and inefficient. Making a simple and easy spell 'Fireball' to be cast very slowly and even if it would be cast, the firepower would be very meager.

Ques 3. How do races other than humans store mana in their bodies?

'Easy…' (Rio)

Most races other than humans condense mana into a mana core and store all of their mana in their core. The mana core is present in them since birth, although very small. The stronger an individual the more bigger and condensed their mana core would be.

(Here other races refers to - Elves, demons, vampire, goblin, etc. except divine races like the phoenix, dragons, etc.)

They use mana by deriving it out of the mana core, but unlike the humans, they can never fully empty their mana otherwise the mana core which provides mana as energy to the body of the individual would totally disappear and that individual will become crippled after all the mana core can grow back out of nowhere, it appears only once when you are born.

(Of course, if you swallow the mana core of some other individual you still have a small probability of regenerating it.)

Ques 4. Define the mana characteristics of humans that are better than other races.

'Too Easy…' (Rio)

The human body's strongest mana characteristics are its high level of adaptability, its fast growth ability, and the ability to ascend its physique towards higher realms with increasing ranks.

The huge number of humans due to their fast reproduction has given rise to the biggest civilization in this world. Every other race has less population than humans, in this world.

Although an individual human might not be strong like a dragon or a demon, might not be agile as an Elf, might not be as shrewd as a goblin, might not have the insane strength of Orc and ogres, might not have the natural born physique of a beat person, but you could find all these aspects in balanced amounts in every human.

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Academy's dungeon activity monitoring room:

"Ms. Anna the dungeon we have selected for the students to carry out their combat exam seems to have a bit of abnormality in it… look!" (Observer 1)

Anna looked at the monitor screen which was displaying the activity of the boss monster of the dungeon, she noticed the monster seemed to be extremely agitated for some reason and was staring at a certain area constantly, even though it could be seen that there was literally nothing there.

(In the last exam there was no such thing as direct monitoring but this time the academy will be observing the students using the Nano camera bots functioning on small mana cores.)

"Why is that monster behaving so strangely, that's very unusual… send two assistant teachers to check out the place and find out what's going on there…" (Anna)

(An assistant teacher is a person who is still in rank A, There are only four full-time teachers in the academy and all four of them are S rankers. Including Anna and Jin)

"Okay!" (Observer 1)

'I just hope nothing goes wrong at this time, even the principal is not in the academy right now, if something goes wrong all the teachers would be blamed for it…' (Anna)

'Actually, the principal might even expel me this time since I have already been unable to fulfill my duty during Roult island trip, I must ensure not to get dragged in trouble this time…' (Anna)

A concerned look appeared on Anna's face but she waited for the assistant teachers to come back with their reports about the situation.

After an hour both the assistant teachers returned:

"Ms. Anna, according to our observation the monster is perhaps just going through its aggressive phase and there seems to be no abnormality at all…" (Assistant teacher 1)

"The only thing we observed to be different is that there seem to be very small spatial ripples in that area, but since many dungeons are generally unstable, to begin with, this is not much of a problem in my opinion…" (Assistant teacher 2)

"Well you are right, let's just hope nothing goes wrong while the students are inside the dungeon…" (Anna)

What Anna didn't know was that one such simple and small spatial ripple would be enough to cause severe damage, but since no one could know the future, there is no other way out of this.

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Author's Note:

All right I have answered the questions you guys asked in the early chapters, although I didn't do it in the bonus chapter I suppose having them this way might be a bit better than putting them in between a bonus chapter containing Lia.

As for the bonus, chapter let's do it after I complete releasing the chapters of this event, after all, we need to make you guys feel that chapter deeply.

Question of the day:

What are the huge mistakes you did with just a small overlooking?

(Tell only if you are comfortable with sharing your sadness with others…)

Mine- Personally I have done many, I don't even remember all of them, one of them was that I once forgot to bring a particular subject's notebook in my school days, and that day, my teacher gave me the scolding of the year. But thanks to that, I never forgot my things after that. '(OwO)'