I wake up after nodding off, maybe it wasn't the best idea to stay up all last night to explore the school. Looking around I see others manipulating their mana in their hands and instructions on the board. Time to catch up.
I search within myself and feel the familiar presence of my Core. Luckily, Philote had given me some understanding of how they worked, or I might have not even known I had one. I visualize the amount of remaining energy it holds as a power gauge.
Moving that energy into my hands, it forms into a red Arcane Core that rotates in my hand.
Romans 8:31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.