"Vrrm!"
As soon as he spoke the Fishing Horn, Han Su's mental sea was instantly activated. An inexhaustible-seeming surge of Mental Power poured into the Mechanical Fragment. His eyes widened as he watched the pointer struggle to move toward a higher number.
And this time, it moved a great deal. Right before his eyes, it was about to jump from its current "5" to the higher number, "6."
But at that very moment, his Mental Power suddenly ran out. Han Su's mind went blank, and his hand dropped.
"The battery's drained..."
Han Su slowly closed his eyes. He didn't think or move. After a long while, he regained a little strength and opened them again.
When he looked, the Mechanical Fragment's pointer was still between "five" and "six." It had moved, but not by much.
He slowly considered it and reached a conclusion. "Mental Power can indeed affect the pointer, but this Mechanical Fragment seems to require an abnormally vast amount of Mental Power before it can be influenced."
"After I recited the Fishing Horn, my Mental Activity reached the required level, but my Mental Power didn't. Or rather, the Mental Power in just one battery wasn't enough, so its effect on the pointer was limited."
"One battery represents ten years of my life, and yet its effect on this thing is so negligible?"
"These fragmented years of my life let me recover my strength by changing batteries when I'm facing danger, but they also leave my power discontinuous and insufficient. Maybe things would've gone better just now if I'd been able to maintain a continuous flow of Mental Power?"
"..."
He had vaguely sensed the key issue: the pointer didn't move through simple increments.
It wasn't as though he could feed in a little Mental Power and make it