RAGNA POV...
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Unfortunately, even now I still didn't truly understand how the so-called mana core phenomenon actually worked, its stages, its depth, or its limits—everything beyond the crude number of mana points displayed to me was still a complete mystery—and so the only conclusion I could reach, crude as it was, echoed clearly in my head:
'I'll just have to keep pumping natural mana into her nonstop; it should at least help her recover some of her vigor faster, even if I don't know what I'm really doing.'
As that thought settled, I glanced at my sister once more, almost out of habit, and that was when I noticed it—something blinking faintly at the edge of my vision, hovering right beside Belle's body—and the moment my eyes focused on it, my breath caught, my mind freezing for a split second as I tried to process what I was seeing.
