“I should just activate it?”

“Yeah, do it as many times as you can.”

“Okay, boss.”

Bernir and Roland were standing outside in the backyard. Agni was in the background chasing his own tail while the two were performing some tests.

While holding a meter-long iron tube Bernir started to insert mana into it. This tube had a couple of mana stones attached to them and they lit up the moment the runic components were activated.

“Hm?”

Bernir could feel that a quick burst of high pressure was released from this tube but nothing besides that. The initial activation made his hand jerk due to the blowback. He looked at Roland as if he was wondering if this was all.

“Continue.”

Roland replied while watching his assistant activate this metal tube six times before reaching towards his forehead.

“Six times before the first headache?”

“Yes Boss, ouch this stings, I don’t know how you do it.”

Bernir started to rub his template as a similar sensation of when a person ate ice cream too fast washed over him. He wasn’t sure why Roland gave him this tube but he figured he would disclose the information soon.

“Good… now…”

Roland took the tube back and inserted something into it before giving it back to his assistant. Bernir peeked inside but couldn’t really make out what his boss placed in there.

“Okay, now point it at the dummy and activate it again.”

After getting a low-grade mana potion Bernir looked at a straw dummy that he had made a day before. Roland ordered him to fashion one made from wood for testing some new items. The dummy looked more like a scarecrow as Bernir didn’t really have any experience in making ones before.

“Sure, activating now!”

He held it out with two hands this time around and also gripped it harder as he was now used to the knockback. The moment he activated this tube again he could see a round marble shooting out of it and going in the general direction of the straw dummy.

The moment this large marble connected with the dummy a small explosion occurred. This caused Bernir to jump back and fall onto his butt while Roland just observed it while standing next to him.

“Hm, not bad… but I think you need some aiming practice…”

One side of the dummy had been blown away by this explosion. Roland was just testing a new weapon that he intended to give to his assistant. Bernir had a meager mana pool which