[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world":3,"chapter-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-61":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","My Life In A Fantasy, Women-Dominated World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1829225,2434,"Chapter 61: Mana Trance","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-61",61,"\u003Cp>\"Cough!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I win! Cough up the money, bitch!\" Jaq cheered the moment I coughed at my first puff, buckling at the strong taste of the greens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt tears run up into my eyes, as I felt the smoke mixing with my blooding and rushing across my body like a virus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If I focused on its trail, it appeared like a huge circuit that was interconnected throughout my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something that I had noticed every time I activated my skill, but when activating skill, the mana rushed quickly and disappeared just as fast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t get any moment to examine this circuit throughout my body earlier, but as smoke rushed into my veins, I felt myself getting a little light headed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Told ya, one puff and he down.\" Jaq was scoffing, mumbling in Claire’s close proximity to irritate her even more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fuck off, I will send the money later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jaq took out her phone, opening the calendar app, \"Later when? I will mark the date, if you don’t mind.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Jaq...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hush, Clay. Threaten me 2 weeks later~\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won’t need to. Keep this up and 2 weeks will be the amount of your total lifespan left.\" Claire hissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So scary~~\" Jaq teased back without a tint of fear, but I didn’t have the focus to worry about the two of them anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt my heartbeats rush faster, and I could hear their voices in slow motion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if I had gotten a superpower, but it was anything but that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Aaron, look at me,\" Eva suddenly said beside me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was sitting next to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Huh?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When did she get so close?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I glanced at her as she squinted into my eyes, \"Yep. Red.\" she stated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That was the expected result, he doesn’t have the tolerance for it like us.\" Claire nodded calmly, \"But it doesn’t matter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her voice became softer, slower and sweeter, \"Love, do you feel the mana and smoke in your veins or something like that?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was getting hard to focus onto her words, all the while keeping the track of rushing smoke, but I did it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I nodded to her words, struggling to keep myself upright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s good. Try channeling your mana in the same way, this time intentionally?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hwo?\" I fumbled on my tongue, coughing again, \"How?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Give a firm thought to your brain. Feel a pull from your inner strength. Order the mana like you order your skill, but don’t turn on the skill. You need to simply channel the mana, not manifest it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time the answerer’s voice changed, but it didn’t matter to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I applied what I heard, reaching to my brain and ordering it to release mana in my veins, but the order failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing happened, and thus I changed the order.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I asked it to start channeling the mana, and this time, it worked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very subtle and quite frankly, a very small amount of energy began to circulate in my veins along with the rushing cloud of smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, not the actual smoke was traveling in my veins. It was how my brain projected it. A cloud of smoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And behind it, I imagined a bright shimmering cloud of blue energy, trailing after it as if it was a race between the two of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounding noises and sounds merged into the background, my head felt empty and swirling with everything blending together perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The walls that should have been stationary began to shuffle back and forth, the floor appeared to be shaking and my heart felt on steroids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was beating so loud and fast that I thought I may die from a heart attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And if that wasn’t enough, throughout my body, I could feel cold sweat pouring out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Close your eyes and focus on mapping out the mana pathways, Aaron.\" someone said, \"Take a small puff if it feels like the smoke is getting too thin to follow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On a reflex, the joint was brought to my lips, taking a small breath as I coughed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eyes close.\" Someone else remarked, and I shut my eyes close, my ears ringing so much that surroundings felt warped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was sitting straight, yet I felt like my whole body was wobbling wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite that, the small shimmering ball of energy kept following the smoke at a moderate pace, they were making a long loop across my whole body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In between a loop, I felt someone take something from my fingers, but I was in no condition to open my eyes and check.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even their chatter sounded like an incoherent background noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, I ignored it. I let them take whatever I was holding, as they left me alone after that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Loop after loop, the mana was retracing the paths and the smoke was fading away, getting smaller and smaller until my mana didn’t need to follow it for guidance anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to stop actively ordering it to keep channeling and yet, it stayed in the motion, flowing in the veins constantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I had the feeling that it would stay in motion until I ordered it to stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something like the law of inertia on Earth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Welcome back to the realm of living, Aaron Cross~\" Eva’s teasing voice drifted into my ears as I finally opened my eyes after god knows how long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Somehow, I was laying on the bed now, head on a pillow and a comfy blanket covering me cozily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Claire sat with her back pressed against the headboard of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes were closed in a meditative posture, similar to the postures of Jaq, Katie and Lia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seems only me and Eva were not in meditation now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"W-What just happened?\" I asked with a faint shiver running down my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just had a few small puffs... and this was how I ended up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh, there’s good news and bad news. What do you want to hear first?\" Eva winked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bad first.\" I shrugged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You were out for nearly 3 hours, we have already smoked like 3-4 more joints after that. But in hindsight, it was probably the passive smoking that caused your trance to last so long.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could only blink in confusion and speechlessness, sighing, \"And good news?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You learnt how to channel your mana. You were in a trance for 3 whole hours!\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1058,"2026-06-09T06:09:27.150Z",1,"novelbin.me","e56ed60e9d8d486e8bb3f54030a639ea0131c12c4528cedc868714d3c63ff0ea","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-62","my-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-chapter-60",213,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmy-life-in-a-fantasy-women-dominated-world-cover.jpg"]