Not by a long shot

"Alright. Seems like you really are still growing. That means we can fill you up with abilities, before you turn useless!" Thanks. Great motivational words from someone who takes the teacher role. "Next comes the opposite. You will make a barrier. Once you can do both, you can train making and destroying them on will. Just tell the void what you want. Usually it is really hard to form it like you desire it, but as a voidling, you might actually be better at this, because you don't have any skill yourself." Could she just shut up? Was she even realizing how she was insulting him?

But John was not yet done with learning from her, so he decided to bear it. For now. He was getting more eager to stuff her mouth with his dick by the second, though. Focussing on his mana bar was getting easier. However, just demanding 'form a barrier' didn't work. Obviously. She already said, for everyone but voidlings, this is a hard task. And since he lied about being one... Wait, did he really lie? He was a lot like what she described as a voidling, wasn't he?

He gained his power from a source he couldn't possibly wrap his mind around. He gained skills that activated on his will, not on him knowing how to do them. If it wasn't a skill he already had, he had to use the mana for it directly. Fuck. That probably also meant he was limited like those voidlings. At some point, he would stop gaining new skills. Maybe once the page in his character sheet was full. He instinctively wanted to open the sheet and look how many slots were still free, but what if Henrietta could see that? No, better don't risk it. But if he was, then why was this not going by easy?

Suddenly Henriettas phone rang and she answered it. He couldn't see what she was talking about, because she had made another barrier just around herself. He could tell, because again he could see the area around it, even from the outside now. Henrietta herself was standing perfectly still, not even moving her lips. Or maybe she did slightly, not enough to form words though.

"I am sorry, John." She suddenly turned to him and spoke normally. When did she break the barrier? This was going fast. "I have to go. I promise to come back tomorrow afternoon, to teach you some more. I advise you to not try to gain some more abilities from the void. The amount you can hold is limited, and I am afraid you would just fill yourself with those, who you think you may need, but don't really do." Well, too late for that. Not that he had much to say about what would become a skill and what wouldn't.

Before he could say anything to her time of return, her leaving or basically anything, she already was gone. Not in a cloud of smoke or anything magical, but simply walked away, as he could still see her leaving in a slight jog. He was left alone, filled with usefull information.

There was no way, he would not test this out plentiful, no matter what she said.