Making Friends Isn't That Hard After All

[New substance detected... Meat stew..]

[Energy particles detected...]

[Converting nutrients into energy...]

While Magna wolfed down the still-steaming stew, he started getting system messages, along with a feeling of the energy inside him rising.

He even stopped eating halfway through, since it was genuinely strange to feel his energy climbing this much.

So far, the ordinary meals he ate hadn't been giving him much energy at all. He only noticed visible gains from his daily regeneration and from the mana-rich food Celeste gifted him from time to time.

But gaining energy from this food was indeed strange, as if he were eating a meal made from mana-rich ingredients.

Looking oddly at the food in his bowl, there was no golden light in the soup, the meat, or the vegetables at all, meaning none of it actually contained mana.