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What does being an aide entail?
Author: Arden Light
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After making a deal with Duke Walter Goldcrest William sat down in a chair in Sarah's room and released an exhausted sigh, that entire discussion he was on the edge of collapsing where he stood. He was completely drained of mana and it would take him a longer than average time to regenerate it to a normal level.

When someone is regaining mana there is almost always a small amount of mana in the body the user can use to jumpstart the absorption process of taking mana in, refining it, and storing it; however since he has zero mana it will take him days to regain it unless of course you were rich and could afford expensive tonics to make that instant.

Let's just say that neither the countess nor the duke was going to pay for him to enjoy those luxuries for free, let alone the temple giving them away for free to a guy who was only there, to begin with, to rest after mana exhaustion.

You are awake? Good for you no leave, that is what they would say if he was not associated with Sarah n
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