Nora delved deep into meditation. In full swing, she began to circulate the four dragons, carefully keeping all four of them in perfect sync. As Nora began to increase the speed of the dragons past ten circulations a minute, the pain returned. Without dampening her dedication she ignored the pain and soldiered on. She slowly increased the circulation speed. The day faded into the horizons giving way to night which gave birth to a new dawn. At mid-day of the second day, Nora managed to reach the halfway point to the second stage of the Mana Circulation Realm, 15 full rotations a minute. The days an nights continued to fly by until on the seventh day of her seclusion she began to approach the fifth stage of the Mana Circulation Realm, unlike the prior four stages the fifth stage provided a qualitative difference. As Nora began to slowly creep up to 50 circulations a minute she was caught by surprise as the four dragons who had up to this point been formations of mana began to gain colourful hues. The four dragons had become identifiable, the Azure Dragon, Red Dragon, Black Dragon, and White dragon began to carry faint elemental properties. The faint colours gradually increased in brightness until a series of four sequential *Ding* noises rose Nora from her meditation
