Descending Into A Novel-Chapter 98:Effect of Attunements

Raymond pushed his glasses up slightly.

"My topic today is on how mana influences the surroundings."

He clicked a remote, showing the first slide he prepared on the topic. In particular, showing a pie chart. With the majority of the pie chart dedicated to one thing.

"This pie chart shows the exact composition of ambient mana in the capital. But in general, this can be applied to nearly any other region with a high population density."

The majority was naturally, regular mana. Without any attunements whatsoever. Just pure, normal mana that could be used for anything.

The rest of the five percent however, consisted of different mana attunements.

The main ones being—fire, water, earth, wind.

The four elements were naturally the most common attunements. But there were also several other attunements that were very common in urban centers. That being electric, metal and light. Electric-attunement mana was used to power basically everything, metal-attunement mana made metal structures stronger and light-attunement mana helped make lights brighter.

Raymond’s original presentation was about the effects of these attunements on wildlife and flora and fauna.

But after his inspiration that day. Raymond came to realize something. Something extremely important.

That was boring!

Who cares about how air conditioning worked by converting electric-attunement mana into ice-attunement? That was so unbelievably boring! Raymond would have never done this assignment if Ellen hadn’t offered him ice cream.

Raymond couldn’t care less about it. But the rarer attunements? That was certainly interesting.

"In the ambient mana around us only 5.2% of it consists of attuned mana. But my presentation today, is about the 0.1% included in that 5.2%."

Cut to the next slide. Another pie chart showing the composition of the attuned mana. Highlighting the smallest section of said pie chart, a mere sliver compared to the others.

"These attunements, are so extremely rare yet these specific mana attunements practically keep the world alive."

Gravity-attunement, making up an unbelievably small percentage but was responsible for the gravity that kept the world held together.

Life-attunement (that Lucy had) was responsible for making sure flora and fauna thrived. It was also hypothesized that the life-attunement could create life, but humanity on Terra didn’t have mana until three hundred years ago.

Naturally, Raymond was aware that it could create life of course. The World Tree had to frequently use the life-attunement to create elves.

"But, how many of these attunements are there?"

The whole class had its attention fixed on him, as the most talented person the world had ever seen. The expectations were high, but Raymond was naturally confident in meeting all of them. Even Camila seemed intrigued by his question.

"I created a list of four different attunements. Each of which I believe are fundamental forces to the world we live in.

Click. Next slide.

"The first two are the most known attunements. Gravity and life, gravity is an invisible force that pulls any two objects together. Keeping us anchored here on the world. Gravity has always existed, but the gravity-attunement makes it do so much more."

"The gravity-attunement behaves similarly to regular gravity. When an object has a lot of gravity-attunement mana, its forces of attraction grow stronger. Usually, it’s not enough to be noticeable. Which is why, with some help from my instructor. I created a spell which passively helps to absorb only gravity-attunement mana."

He didn’t actually ask instructor Sienna. She was an SS-ranker, how could he possibly ask her for help on such a simple thing?

But it was always useful to name drop her.

"The results were as expected, the weight increased linearly as the concentration of gravity-attunement mana increased. After a certain boundary. It started to increas exponentially. But that’s not all. What if, all gravity-attunement mana was removed from an object?"

Raymond’s presentation was supposed to only be ten minutes maximum, but the part about gravity-attunement already took up five minutes on its own.

Not that Camila seemed to mind, seeing someone put so much effort into their work was amazingly refreshing. Like a cold cup of lemonade on a hot summer day.

Detailed data, no stuttering while talking, using real proven facts and logic. Truly, a perfect textbook example.

She quietly reduced the grades for every other group that went already. She wasn’t going to give any points originally, but this was just too good to not reward points.

If any of the students heard this, they might have spat blood in anger. But what was done was done.

Your fault for not trying hard enough!

Finishing up the first half of his presentation about gravity and life attunement. Raymond grinned.

If he had just stopped there, it would have been a great presentation. But he wanted more, he wanted to make history here!

This wasn’t part of any plan or whatever, Raymond just wanted to do it!

"Finally, the last two attunements. They get mentioned quite a lot, but their existence has never been proven."

Next slide once again. This time one singular word in bold for everyone to see clearly.

SPACETIME

Camila leaned forward slightly, her posture straightening upwards.

Raymond could see his classmates all paying more attention now. Zachary, Thomas, Noelle and the others, their eyes locked in on him.

"Spacetime. The fundamental fabric of our reality. The intrinsic weave between space and time. Where the dimensions of space and time are linked together. The stage for all physical events."

Once again, although the system may have referred to his mana attunement as dimension. Raymond wholly felt that the term space was much more suitable. The term dimension likely only came from the fact that Raymond could use it to dimension hop. But otherwise, it was literally just space.

"Space. The where, I exist in this space. I can go up, down, left, right, back and forth. The positioning of everything is determined by space. But the space-attunement mana has never ever been discovered."

He paused, giving the classroom some time to think before continuing.

"Time. The when, the past, the present, and the future. All events that has and ever will occur lie within one of these three. Time causes change in the world. Just like the space, time-attunement mana has never been discovered ever."

"Until today of course."

Silence.

"Raymond. Do you understand what you are currently saying?"

Their teacher was the first to speak up, naturally. She asked Raymond whether or not he understood the gravity of his words. This wasn’t just some elementary level stuff, this was enough to alter the history and science of Terra permanently.

"Of course. I have the proof to back up my claims after all."

"...continue."

Even Camila was intrigued, motioning for him to continue.

"We know that space and time have always been fundamentally connected as spacetime. But why have we never ever managed to discover mana in either attunements? Mana always, always develops an attunement once reaching a certain level influenced by its surroundings. I refuse to believe that it does not exist, I believe it is far more likely to think that we have never discovered it instead."

He clicked onto the next slide. Showcasing a singular rift in the air. Pulsing in a purple colour.

"I’ll start with space. The first thing that came to my mind was naturally the several spatial magic and Arts that already exist. Teleport, warp, spatial storages, enclosed spaces. The best method to attract a certain type of mana is to use spells that attract said mana, that or absorb extremely large amounts of mana and then filter it out."

That was the reason why many battlefields were nigh unlivable, despite the party of heroes being active fifty plus years ago. Many historic places where clashes between extreme high level powers were impossible to live in. Eternal Night Plains was the region where Caspian of the party of heroes and the Harbinger of Dark Days fought. Even till this day, the region remained perpetually in darkness. The black clouds littered with a few holes left behind by Caspian during their battle. The entire plains was probably the most darkness-attuned mana dense place on Terra.

"In order to attract space-attuned mana. I found a small realm, barely the size of our class hall right now. The method is a bit crude, but I continuously sent in several objects with engravings to absorb and store as much mana as possible."

Raymond still needed to make a plausible reason for how he managed to discover both mana attunements after all. This was his best idea that he could think of, and it was theoretically feasible as well. But how could crossing between realms possibly be an easy feat?

Crossing between realms on Terra was like a mini version of Raymond crossing between Earth and Erde. Raymond may have been an Archmage, but he still had to cast several spells just to even survive the crossing!

"These engravings were designed to filter out any common attunements, leaving only the most unusual and rare ones. After this, I was left with several hundred different mana attunements which I slowly filtered out. Until I was left with only the ones that had been unidentified."

There was still loads of different unidentified attunements out there, it also got very confusing since some attunements might be the same as others. Just in a different flavour.

"With some help from my instructor, who cast a spatial spell of the 6th circle. It was powerful enough to cause three of the mana attunements to be attracted to said spell. From there. It was quite easy."

He could feel Camila’s scrutinizing gaze on him. Ready to dissect his methods and logic. Although he could fully understand why.

Stuff like this should have been announced at conferences, coming from the mouths of humanity’s most brilliant minds. Not from some teenager still in the academy!