Chapter Seventy-Three: The Tide of Magic
"The Sea of Mana is the foundation of the power of all the professions of the Broken World, and the source and final destination of the vast majority of the rest of the world's wandering magic. www.biquge.info The relative position of the Sea of Magic and Todd is not fixed, and the scholars and mages of Isaon interpret it as overlapping and intertwined star tracks, which you can now simply understand as two apples hanging from a fruit tree, because of the wind, both apples are swinging, and the distance between them is sometimes close and sometimes far, and when they are close, we call them magic tides......"
The lecture is given by Wang Del, who has a goatee, and the classroom is an ice crystal temple on the edge of the snow field.
It's Friday, and students listen to Anna Goo's first spiritual insight in the morning, eat a light meal delivered by a gargoyle at noon, and continue their basic meditation sessions in the afternoon. However, compared to Professor Anna, Wang De's deterrent power is much worse.
"No, no......" Marcus muttered quietly, "I have the impression that he is an old profiteer who sells wands, who would have thought that he would be our teacher, and now I can't take his content seriously......"
Mo Lin next to him nodded sympathetically, but this newly opened basic meditation course is a real wand and magic-related course after all, Mo Lin, who can't use magic cards, has been looking forward to this for a long time, and it sounds like the course is more serious, he is still holding a magic wand "borrowed" from Wang Del in his hand, and the top of the wand has a very peculiar green leaf, the leaf is delicate and tender, but it can't be pulled down, I don't know what kind of tree branch is made of, it is so tough.
"When the tide of magic comes, that is, when the two apples are very close, it is conceivable that the sea of magic is the most perceptible time of the year. During this time, people who have become professionals will also become more powerful, and of course, due to the influence of the magic tides, more and more manic magic will flow into Todel, and therefore the magic will become more difficult to tame. In the rare event that the magic tides last for a long time, we call them great tides, and the prophets regard them as bad omens, and in the records, Todel has experienced a total of eleven great tides......"
Wang Deer's lecture was not easy, and whenever his gaze swept over Morin, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his body, and then he looked at him playing with the jade leaf on Odaron's cane, as if he didn't take the wand seriously at all, and he couldn't wait to knock a few big bags on the young man's head.
Oh, you tap, that's the Elemental Emperor's used cane, tap, ouch, it's really distressing to me, eh?
“…… Ahem, be quiet!" He tapped his wand on the ground of the ice crystals, glared fiercely at the few students who were whispering, forced himself to turn his gaze away from Morin, and continued: "And the time of ordinary magic tides is not completely fixed, roughly in the first few weeks of each year, the constellation of the goddess of life, Villasis, is the most dazzling, which is why we started the basic meditation class this week......"
Merlin looked around, only saw Alice not far away, but there was no Thea, Tevez and others, it is estimated that the dragons have their own unique way of contacting the sea of magic, and they do not need to learn meditation like humans. He looked at Tilna again, and the two eyes of the Vess Demon Spirit were focused on Wang Deer, this was the fifth time she had studied this course, but she was still extremely serious, but her slightly trembling brows showed that her heart was not at peace at this time.
In the past few days, because of the approach of the tide of magic power, not only the Vess Demon Spirit, but all the first-year freshmen are actually a little nervous, everyone has been looking forward to cultivating magic for a long time, although most of the gifted human beings can perceive and contact the sea of magic power during the first meditation, but after all, there are still occasional examples of failure, and the teenagers are worried that they will become that unfortunate unlucky bastard. The only other thing worth mentioning is "Morin the Sleeper", because he once again "fell asleep" in the history of magic class and shouted loudly when he woke up, this resounding name once again spread throughout the academy, and even many senior seniors who had suffered from Teacher Anna would come to pay tribute to the "real warrior" during the meal, and then quietly give him a thumbs up as a sign of support and encouragement.
“…… According to the scholars of the Divine Capital, this magic tide will come on Tuesday of the following week, reach its peak on Wednesday, and last for a day or so before it begins to wane, when you will have a full day to perceive the sea of magic, and in order for you to be fully prepared, the other classes will be suspended next week, and I will tutor you all day......"
That's good news, at least one less lesson from Professor Brand, Maureen thought.
Every time he took the basic card use course, while the other students practiced using magic cards, the boy could only stare at him with envy, let alone cast magic, so far he hadn't even made a spark. Marcus could already use the Light Card to release three steady clouds of light in the air at once, Emino could use the Phantom Card to mimic Barron's roar, and even Barron had learned to use a Resistance Card to slightly increase his defenses - the magic bounced off several snowflakes that would have landed on him.
Only Morin will not do anything.
I have searched through all the books that I can read, and all the teachers who can ask have asked, but I still can't find the problem, so anxious that every time the boy goes to the library, he can't help but go to those magical libraries - he wants to learn the kind of magic that relies on gestures and spells, but he can't open those high-level magic books, so he can only let Xiao Hei put two levitation techniques to comfort and comfort himself, and relieve his hunger.
After Xiao Hei ate the card of the Mirror Shadow Technique and woke up, he couldn't release the Mirror Shadow Technique with all his strength (the firelight turned green), and only made a few vague black illusions, which made the little vampire feel distressed, after all, if he took the second-order card and sold it, he could exchange it for a hundred gold coins back.
“…… Only when you come into contact with the sea of magic can you continue to absorb magic power, and you can really embark on the path of a professional, of course, even if you fail, you don't have to be too sad, you can try again next year. You've already learned how to use psychic powers in the Psychic Perception class, and now we'll learn how to use a wand and feel the magic that is spreading around us by enhancing your perception by resonating with the wand's spirit......"
Hearing the word "professional", all the students came to their senses, and Macas, who was still laughing at Wang De's gray-white goatee, also puffed up his chest and began to listen carefully.
“…… Grab your wands, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and try to feel the slightest changes around you...... Remember, free magic is not as physical as free elements, they have their own color, but they don't reflect brilliance, they are all around you, but not in the usual sense of the word, you forget your eyes, you forget the habits you have formed since childhood, you forget the ice crystal temple, you forget the space you are in, and you spread your perception into the distance......"
I have to say that although Wang Del's image in the students' impression is not good, the course is explained quite well, and under his guidance, at the end of the course, all the students have crossed that layer of obstacles and successfully found the mysterious wandering magic around them.
“…… Yes, it's good, because of the cold, the mana itself fluctuates relatively flatly, and it's harder to spot, but you've all succeeded. You may wonder why you should practice here, because once you feel the magic, the gentle trajectory of the waves is easier to track, which will be the content of the next lesson. Wang Del stroked his goatee and praised: "It is worthy of being a student who can enter Iluvita, it really makes me miss my youth......
As he spoke, he stood in the center of the teacher with an intoxicated expression, and his eyes began to glisten with the former brilliance.
"Professor Wang Del......?" Seeing that he began to be in a daze, Tilna couldn't help but remind.
The gray-bearded old man didn't react, still intoxicated.
Alice, who had blond hair on the side, had lived in the academy since she was a child, and obviously knew him better, so she couldn't help but roll her eyes when she saw this, and then took out her money bag and shook it a few times.
Wang Del was excited, his eyes instantly focused on Alice's money bag, and he was stunned for a moment.
“…… Aha? Where did you just go?"
……
At the end of the lesson, Wang Del brought a stack of books out of nowhere and handed out a book to each student - "A Thousand Things You Must Know When Touching the Sea of Magic", although the book is not thick, but as the title says, students are required to be able to memorize it word for word by next Wednesday.
So all the new students, except for a few such as Maureen and Tierna, were desperately competing with the books, and everywhere they went, there was a sound of recitation or reading aloud in their ears. Even the book was enchanted: after the student had stayed up all night and had finally succeeded in memorizing it, the last blank page of the book showed a sketch of the author, who was an old profiteer selling wands, and the signature, Wang Deer, a professor of nature and life at the Iluvita School of Magic, and even an advertisement: "Wang Deer's wand, since the year 579 of the Quaternary Age, has made only the best wands." ”
On Sunday night, many of the common rooms could see the bloodshot freshmen with their eyes in their eyes, and after finally successfully reciting them, they looked up to the sky and laughed, and then after staring at the last page of the book in their hands for a long time, they fell to the ground with a bang, and were sent back to the dormitory by the seniors with sympathy and understanding.
So much so that in Monday's class, all the students looked at Wang Del's eyes full of resentment, and Wang Del actually turned a blind eye and calmly praised everyone for completing the task ahead of schedule, and then waved his hand, and actually took back the textbook in the hands of the students: "Anyway, you all memorized it, it's useless to keep it, I'll take it back and recast the magic again, and I can continue to use it for next year's students......"
"Don't look at me so resentfully, save money on teaching......"
"Eh, I think I missed my mouth......
It's just that the students soon lost the mood to try to ignite Wang Del's goatee with their gaze, and they began to practice tracking the trajectory of the magic fluctuations, which was much more difficult than the previous course, and those discrete magic powers seemed to move around as if they would teleport, leaving an irregular chaotic trajectory that they couldn't perceive at all.
Is this still a relatively flat fluctuation?
Until the end of class, few students succeeded, and everyone was extremely exhausted and left the classroom in frustration.
"Don't be discouraged, there is still one day of practice tomorrow...... Wang Del encouraged him with high morale.
Seeing that everyone was ignoring him anymore, he walked over to Morin, who was packing up his things, and said in a low voice, "Didn't you smell a little white flower when you were in Sororumi last summer?"
Merlin nodded warily, not knowing what the professor was trying to do.
"You see, I've just been collecting interesting plants recently, although your small white three-petaled flower is ordinary, but I feel that it is related to me, and it is still not there, why don't you give it to me for collection?" Wang Del looked at Mo Lin with a childish expression.
The boy's face darkened, and he remembered that in the wand shop he wanted to buy the musket that his grandfather had left for him, and turned around and left without saying a word.
"Eh, don't go, or I'll exchange a hundred gold coins with you, oh no, a thousand gold coins, pure Gessok gold coins!"
"You said the Star of Electric Pea, but when I got better, I thought it was useless to keep it, so I ate it!" Morin waved his hand nonchalantly and followed the footsteps of Barron and the others out of the Ice Palace.
"Eat...... Eaten, eaten??" Leaving Wang De to stand in place with a stunned face, it took a long time to react.
"No, he knows the name of the Star of Electric Pea, how can he eat it......"
……
Maybe practice makes perfect, or maybe it was a good night's sleep, in short, in the next day's class, most of the students quickly succeeded in chasing the trajectory of the magic fluctuations, and the rest of the people also completed the task before the end of class after trying hard, and the atmosphere was a lot more relaxed for a while, and they had a little more confidence in tomorrow's meditation.
Just after dinner, Maureen and Marcus were passing by a common room when they heard a very discordant voice from a group of people.
"It's open, it's open, whether Tilna, the Vesdemonic Spirit, can successfully contact the sea of magic this year, at present, most of the people are negative, and the odds are one to one and five!"
He and Marcus angrily squeezed into the crowd and found that the person talking was Senior Bob, who had come to watch Barron do the math before, and remembered that he had also opened a bet with someone he didn't know.
"Hey, senior, you're too much!" Morin said to the brown-haired boy who was a head taller than him, Tilna was already very nervous, and he still did such a thing, what if Tilna knew. What made the teenager even more dissatisfied was that so many seniors and seniors next to him still looked like they were going to bet, and there was not even a person who stood up to say a word, all of them were so bad.
"Ha, it's a member of Tilna's group!" Bob said with a smile, "Well, do you think Tilna will succeed this year, do you want to bet?"
Without waiting for the young man to speak, he continued: "Actually, I am personally more optimistic about her, after all, she is the leader of the team this year, so she must have some confidence, how about it?"
Morin and Marcas on the side were about to explode, and the boy clenched his fists and wanted to rush forward, but he was surprised to find that he couldn't move under the casual gaze of these seniors.
"Y-you, let me go!" called Morin.
Seeing that the two teenagers were really angry, Bob also said a little more seriously: "Actually, maybe this kind of behavior is really bad for ordinary people, but for us, us professionals, it's just a small joke at best." Although you have not yet come into contact with the Sea of Magic and have not taken the oath of professionalism, since you have come to this school, you must have been told by your elders that the path of a professional is full of dangers, and that it is not that kind of happy and peaceful life. ”
The people on the other side also nodded approvingly: "If you can't even endure such a thing, and your mood will be affected, how can you go far on the road of a professional." ”
Before his words fell, a soft and calm voice sounded from outside the crowd: "I can succeed if I press myself, five hundred gold coins." ”
It was Tilna's voice.