IWUAaDNW: Exploit 4.6

More startling was the effect buying that 100 mana upgrade had on the surface. A wave of pure white light scattered across the ground, centered around my entrance, and every one of the locals it encountered reacted in surprise. Those of the group who were older reacted with smiles and grins.

“Oh, that brings me back!” an old woman said before sharing cackles with her friend.

The wave stopped about fifty yards past the wall, fading out into the ground, but the effect remained notable afterward; the villagers were a bit louder, a bit happier. Those toiling in the field did so with a bit more pep in their motions, like a pleasant breeze had just broken a sweltering day. The other animals in the grass patch were not exempt, either; I spotted a pair of those four-winged sparrows taking off in an unprompted air show; one of the Brahms raised its head to the sky to release loud joyful moos.

If living beings here worked on mana, and spending the mana I had accumulated released a burst of pure mana, then I’d basically done the equivalent of injecting them all with caffeine.

“What was that?!” Maryll asked while running out of the library tent, then her alarm turned into glee when she saw that nothing was on fire. “Did you do that, Taylor? Can you do it again? That was so cool!”

Karjn poked her head out of the communication tent. “Was that a mana burst?”

Ulfric nodded with a grunt. “A small one, yeah.”

“What’s a mana burst?” Maryll asked.

“Something dungeons do when they make big, sudden changes,” he replied.