I AM A MAGE BUT WITH MILF SYSTEM

Chapter 838: Magic session with Clara

Clara’s jaw tightened. She remained rigid beneath his palms, the heat of his skin burning hers.

“This is already more contact than I agreed to,” she said.

“I know,” Julian replied. His thumbs shifted slightly and settled more firmly on her shoulders. “But the method requires direct contact. If I stay in front of you, you will only watch my face and try to read my expressions. From here, you can focus on the sensation itself.”

He paused for a moment before continuing.

“Breathe. If you remain this tense, the mana will resist you.”

Clara closed her eyes for a brief moment, forcing air in through her nose and out through her mouth. The first breath was shallow. The second was deeper. She did not fully relax, but the tense lock in her shoulders eased by a fraction.

Julian felt the change beneath his hands.

“That’s better,” he murmured. “Stay like this. Do not fight the first wave when it comes. Just let it move.”

His palms remained steady on her shoulders. The room was quiet except for the soft sound of her breathing and the distant life of the castle beyond the door.

Julian’s voice came again.

“I am going to begin now.”

Clara kept her eyes open at first, staring straight ahead at the far wall of the room. She had agreed to this demonstration. She would not flinch from it now.

A thin thread of mana left Julian’s palms.

It was so light at first that she almost missed it. The sensation began as a faint warmth against the skin of her shoulders, then slipped deeper, past muscle and bone, seeking the pathways that carried her own mana.

Clara’s breath startled. Her back straightened instinctively. Every trained instinct she possessed told her to reject the foreign energy, to push it out before it could take root. Yet the moment the first drop of his mana touched her meridians, something unexpected happened.

It did not clash.

Instead it moved with an almost pure intention, sliding along the walls of her vessels as if it already knew the shape of them. Clara’s fingers tightened on the arms of the chair. A soft, involuntary sound escaped her throat before she could stop it.

So pure.

In all her years of cultivation she had handled many types of mana. She had absorbed energy from magic veins, refined potions, and even shared limited exchanges with her husband during dual cultivation sessions in their youth.

However, none of it had ever felt like this. Julian’s mana carried a clarity that made ordinary power seem cloudy by comparison. It was heavy yet gentle, potent yet refined, as if every impurity had been burned away long before it ever reached her body.

Her vessels reacted before her mind could catch up.

The pathways that had grown accustomed to her own aged, mature energy suddenly stirred. They opened wider of their own accord, welcoming the new current. Clara felt a subtle ache bloom along her shoulders and down her spine. But it was not of pain but of hunger. Her meridians were asking for more. The realization startled her. She had not given them permission. They simply wanted it.

Julian spoke again and this time his voice was near her ear.

“Do not resist the first wave.”

She tried. Her breathing slowed by her sheer willpower.

The initial thread of his mana continued its exploration, mapping the major channels that ran from her shoulders toward her core. Wherever it passed, a soft heat lingered. Clara’s earlier stiffness began to ease against her will and the muscles beneath his hands loosened fraction by fraction.

Then he sent more.

The thin thread thickened into a steady stream. What had been a tentative probe became a continuous flow.

Mmhhh…

Clara’s eyes fluttered. A soft gasp left her lips as the increased volume filled the upper pathways more completely. The sensation was no longer subtle. It was insistent, occupying space inside her body as if it had the will of its own. Her core, which had remained dormant at first, gave a single responsive pulse, as if acknowledging the visitor.

More.

The word formed in her mind without her consent. Her vessels were no longer merely accepting the foreign mana. They were drawing it inward, pulling gently along the current he provided.

Clara’s cheeks warmed. She could feel the flush rising along her neck. This was supposed to be a demonstration. It was not supposed to feel this natural, or this welcome.

Julian adjusted his grip slightly, his thumbs now pressing more strongly into the tense muscle of her neck. The contact seemed to open the channels further. The stream of his mana widened again, becoming something closer to a river. It poured steadily from his palms into her body, filling the meridians with a rich, golden-red warmth that spread downward in slow waves.

Clara’s breathing grew uneven.

She could track the path of the river as it moved. From her shoulders it divided, one branch sliding down each arm while the main current continued along her spine. Secondary streams branched outward, exploring the finer pathways that fed her organs and limbs. Every place the mana touched lit with a clean, humming vitality. Her skin prickled. A soft tremor ran through her thighs. She pressed her knees together without thinking.

“Your body is accepting it well,” Julian murmured. “Most people fight the first true flow. You are allowing it.”

Clara wanted to answer. She wanted to tell him that she was not allowing anything and that her body was simply reacting on its own.

But… the words would not form.

Another pulse of his mana rolled through her, deeper this time, and a low sound escaped her before she could swallow it. The river had reached the outer edges of her core.

Her own mana stirred in response.

At first it only moved aside to make room for the denser current. Then, almost tentatively, a portion of her energy rose to meet his.

The two forces touched.

Clara expected resistance or fight. Instead they blended at the edges… her mature power mixing with the startling purity of his.