After Surviving the Apocalypse, I Built a City in Another World novel Chapter 1758

Chapter 1758: Opening the Boxes (Part 2)

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[Aethra Storage (B): Stores Specific Magic of elementalists and other races and allows the user to temporarily use the same magic.

Limitations: Length of use depending on intensity of usage. Maximum of 150 aethra per use. Can contain multiple elements, but will be filled up by batch. Each batch must be consumed by the equipment in one time; once spent, regeneration time is one week.]

"!!"

"What does it mean?" she asked, though it was more of disbelief rather than incomprehension.

If she understood it right, then the holder could temporarily store other people’s elements and use other people’s powers with them.

Althea immediately sent an aether letter to her master, asking her how much force an aethra was.

It was then that they found out that it was the unit of measurement referring to elementalist powers. On average, a level 10 elementalist doing his best would give out 10 aethra accumulated points. It increased by folds every level up, especially every 10 levels.

The reason why they hadn’t heard of it before this was that it simply wasn’t a common term.

The measuring tools for them were relatively rare, and there wasn’t much use for them except for some specific assessments of individual power. Rather, it measured rare elementalists’ power, so there was less use for it to the great majority of the population.

Even in cities where elementalist were relatively common, it wasn’t used much, let alone anywhere else.

Anyway, the couple, wearing outdoor robes, headed out to the garden to experiment on it.

From their understanding, they had to use the 150 aethra to fill up the thing at one time if they wanted to maximize it. They could put less, of course, but it seemed like after the first absorption, it’d turn to ’release’ mode, so it wouldn’t store anymore until it was spent. And then there was a week’s cooldown before it could absorb anything again.

So this was approximately 15 level 10s consuming all they had, which should be sufficient with just Garan.

"I can see an interface," he told her, explaining the process to her. Next, he concentrated his powers as per instructions, specifically adding his ice elements as well as his metal elements.

The crystal glowed beautifully. It was enough to light up a room. Fortunately, they lived in a detached housing neighborhood, so they didn’t bother anyone.

Garan proceeded on inputting his power for about a minute—

[Aethra Storage is Full]

"..."

Should she be disappointed that that ended too quickly, or proud of her husband’s strength?

Anyway, she then held on to the tool, and they went to an area outside the territory to try it out.

To further sharpen her control, she even tried to make intricate things. First, it was a snowman, then a metallic sphere (which wasn’t perfect, but spherical enough), then she moved on to ice birds, and then a perfect sphere with some patterns.

Because she had a closer visualization of what was happening with the elements, she was able to grasp such control in such a short amount of time. If anyone else used this tool, it was likely they would be stuck on the first stage—simple summoning and simplified controls.

After a while, there was still a fraction of power left. She realized that there was a lot more energy than she thought. Because he filled it up in a minute, she didn’t think she could use it for so long.

Garan stood at the side, watching her splurging the power—his power—and practicing to her heart’s content. Smiling, he felt satisfied and proud.

There was also something particularly intimate about this. The power that had been in his body was now flowing through his wife, and crawling into her veins and pores.

He felt his body heating up a bit at the thought.

Then, he narrowed his eyes.

...should he forbid her from using other people’s powers?

Before he could enter that overly possessive line of thought, Althea skipped to his direction and embraced him.

"Do you like it?" he asked, wiping the beads of sweat on her forehead. She chuckled, rubbing her face on his chest.

"Only because it’s yours."