Chapter 38: GrowthTrue to her words, Zephyr had gotten him everything he demanded in a week. Not only that, she had even fought for him and got him a hundred and fifty hours of allocation in the mana chamber, along with an intermediate mana elixir, and an IOU detailing the whole transaction.Pine Blackstone himself had presented it to him and even asked Ember to reach out to him if he faced any difficulty. Ember didn't take his polite talk seriously, though there were some merits to the advice he had given him on skills or how to use the mana chamber. According to him, he should alternate between the higher and lower chambers, as gaining too many breaths of mana in a short while might be detrimental to his foundation.Well, he seemed delighted with the result his daughter got from the trial, so much so that he brought cakes and pastries to their home, though Ember still had no clue who Hope was, what class she had gotten, or if she even existed. Lord Pine only said it was a prestigious Knight class, and the girl had already gone for training with her grandfather to prepare for her admission test.After the whole thing was done and dusted, everything seemed to return to normalcy. Ember could finally practise in peace, though he had to admit the sparring sessions with those older kids had been quite refreshing and good for skill gains. Maybe he would go find them when he was bored.For now, though, he was fully committed to his mana training.The Silver Grade Mana Chamber was much smaller in comparison. Apart from that, it resembled the same monotony as the copper grade one. Only four people were allowed inside at once, with dozens of ascendants alternating every three hours.All that hardly mattered to him once he got inside and breathed in the richness of the mana. Pure mana was invisible, but he could feel it against his skin. Its density permeated throughout the chamber, high enough that it almost stifled him. (...)