Chapter 12.5 - Explanation Corner: Evealora

Just a little explanation on Evealoras and mana. :)

Evealora plants are believed to grow only in highly dense zones of mana. Normal people would feel nauseous when exposed to too much mana for a certain time. The feeling is similar to that of being in a desert under the blazing sun. So being exposed to a high mana concentration  zone could kill a normal person. Thus, magicians are normally sent out to collect these Evealora plants.

The Evealoras that grew from Abram’s corpse are small in comparison to those that grow inside dense mana zones. It’s like comparing a certain plant that grows splendidly in a tropical climate and the same plant growing in a colder one. But even so, the effects would be the same if following a certain ratio, meaning it would be more of quantity per weight over quality of material.

With this, the woman discovered that Evealoras could grow outside dense mana zones and could thrive even on lower mana concentration zones but it would take a longer time for it to mature and flower. Now the question of where they can grow from remain. She also discovered that Evealoras would not even sprout if planted on normal soil. She tested injecting mana onto the soil but the amount that leaks is much too great. There needs to be a container or a circuit that lets the mana continuously flow without leaking as much. Then she had remembered how necromancers manipulate mana

Necromancers don’t inject majority of their mana into once living inanimate objects and control it from there. It would be physically and mentally taxing on the caster just controlling two human corpses, if that is the case. Every living creature has mana in them, even plants. When they die, the mana no longer circulates and becomes stagnant. It’s like blood flowing through veins and arteries and when the heart stops beating, the blood no longer has a means of circulating around the body. The amount stored up in their bodies slowly dissipate and the time it takes to completely rid a body from mana is dependent on the internal concentration. The denser a creature’s mana is, the longer it takes for it to be completely mana-free. So, necromancers inject a very small amount of their mana into corpses and acts as a pseudo heart. Since the corpse has the necromancer’s mana in it, he is able to control it freely.

The difference of injecting mana into a corpse and controlling it directly and injecting a small amount of mana and manipulating the flow is great. The analogy goes like this. The former is like role play in a theatre. The necromancer (actor) projects his thoughts on the corpse and becomes the character. The latter is similar to a puppet show where you manipulate a puppet (corpse) by pulling strings (commands or orders). The necromancer also injects a piece of his own conscience into the corpse, so the former would require more concentration than the latter.