While she held that low, predatory stance, a swirling vortex of energy swirled around the blade until the entire length of the steel was coated in a layer of brilliant blue mana.
"This, as I'm sure you know, is mana coating."
Kurt felt his throat go dry. The mana was far denser than the shroud he had managed to produce on his wooden daggers. It perfectly enshrouded the entire blade with no wasted energy.
'It's so… refined.'
"It isn't something just anyone can do," Diana continued, fixing her gaze squarely on him.
"What we are both doing is essentially taking the mana that flows through our own bodies and forcing it to take a physical, external form. The entire world operates on mana; it's in the air, the water, the stones and anything that's considered alive.
Yet, people cannot control it in its purest essence. It's like trying to grab smoke with your bare hands.
