Hans and Lara poured their mana into Tornium. 

Ziing! 

Tornium let out its characteristically wild cry, and like a person on the verge of collapsing from dehydration gulping down water, it sucked in their mana. It then massively amplified the mana and, guided by their will, transferred it to Nowem’s body.

Kuruk! Nowem’s body wiggled. With his powers as a mythical beast, he slowly converted the rushing current of mana. Normally, a person couldn’t accept and store another person’s mana nor use it according to their own will. If that was possible, people wouldn’t place much importance on the amount of mana a person was naturally endowed with, and this same rule applied to a mythical beast like Nowem. Yet, at the very least, Nowem could change the mana that entered his body into earth mana and expel it from his body.

Like that, Nowem sent the mana with earth properties into Snoc, whom he was leaning his face against. Though the property of the mana had changed to one he was familiar with, Snoc also couldn’t control another person’s mana. Snoc could control Nowem’s mana as the person in a contract with the mythical beast, but...