"Youkai are born out of human fear, carry a power full of negative emotions, and are good at destroying rather than repairing. And the divine power comes from the awe of human beings, the same as the demon power, from the human being, the difference is from the good thoughts, very good at dealing with it, and the destructive power is far less than the demon power. ”

"And the spiritual power that humans in Gensokyo make good use of is a degraded version of divine power, which is inferior to divine power in any aspect, but the threshold is low. And these two forces are incompatible with each other, monsters will die if they practice divine power, gods will die if they use demonic power, and human beings will learn which side any one will transform towards, but because of innate reasons, they will never reach the end. ”

"But there is a force that is independent of these two systems, and that's what I'm talking about."

"Magic!"

Alice spat out these two words heavily, and opinions that aggregate personal opinions are more interesting than objective and unbiased opinions. Alice's speech immediately attracted **Temple and Marisa Heart, but no one noticed Reizen's desire to speak.

Alice took a sip of black tea and continued.

"Magic is not a product of this world, it is said to flow from a place called the Demon Realm, I haven't been there, it's hard to explain, I only learned from the book that that place is a world of its own, attached to this world but has a lot of independence, it can be seen as a fantasy town strengthened in various aspects."

"There's a very singular power, and all species use magic. Whenever a creature from the demon world comes to the world, or uses it or dies in battle, there is magic power left, and over time, magic power has become a major power system in this world. Speaking of threshold magic power is lower than the spiritual power root, both monsters and humans can learn it, and the power of the other world will not react with the power of this world. ”

"In the same word, I would choose - mysterious."

"Mysterious?" Marisa not only exhaled, but **Temple didn't care that she interrupted Alice's words, there was a little more information in that paragraph, and if you analyze it carefully, you may be able to get a lot of useful information.

"Yes, it's mysterious. Fire magic summons fire elements, and water magic summons water elements, but what the elements are has been debated for many years without an answer. In the end, we can only prevaricate the past with such a strange explanation that can only be understood but not spoken. “

Indeed, magic is completely inexplicable in science, water is fine, the chemical formula H2O, water magic can be understood as the convergence of water molecules free in the atmosphere. Fire is completely inexplicable, although people often compare water and fire, but fire is actually just a phenomenon of light and heat, and how can the phenomenon come from the elements?

"So I'm not going to teach you theoretical things, because I don't know much about it myself, and the more you delve into it, the easier it is to get into a dead end, and I want to teach you how to absorb magic."

Alice stretched out her index finger and pointed at the hand of the ** temple, and an indescribable force drilled into the body of the ** temple from the outside.

How so?

Neither gentle nor cold, it is too apt to describe it as mysterious, deep and mysterious.

Then Alice let go of her fingers and stretched out her entire palm, and the magic power converged again, gathering all kinds of magic elements in the room at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the density was so high that the elements of different attributes showed different colors.

"This ......" Marisa was also shocked by Alice's hand, although she could do it herself, but the only consequence of the rough operation technique was probably that everyone was bombarded with magic in the sky.

Although the boundaries of the elements are still blurred, the color discrimination is still very high, and the magic control of Alice alone is invincible in the same age, if you exclude a certain theoretical purple magician who is still reading a book.

The magic is absorbing, and the body of the temple gradually remembers this feeling, even if Alice keeps decreasing the concentration, it can be absorbed.

In the end, Alice adjusted the concentration of the mana in the room to the same as the outside world, and even so, the temple body was absorbing the magic on its own.

"Very nice magic affinity."

The temperament is very good, and the speed and variety of the temple absorption are simply appalling, better than Alice back then, and Alice was known as the best genius in a hundred years.

I'm so envious, I really want to make him a doll......

Phew, what am I thinking, **Temple has helped me so much, the idea is so undeserved. Getting a bad thought out of her head, Alice talked to the ** temple about the key matters of absorption.

"**Temple, please remember that magic is always a product of the other world, so our body does not produce magic on its own. Therefore, the absorption of magic must be in a place with magic power, and those who meditate in a place without magic power to obtain it are just forcibly extracted the residual magic power from all over the body, and the sequelae of this is to reduce their elemental affinity, and eventually lead to never being able to use magic. ”

Temple nodded, there is nothing more painful for a person accustomed to magic than the loss of magic, and this pain even transcends death.

"Then that's what I'm going to focus on, the use of magic."

"The first is condensation, bringing together the magic in one's own body into one point, like this." Alice's fingers were glowing, a pale yellow glow, faint but presence.

"The second is to let it out, imagine the magic as a thread and throw it out. Let me demonstrate. ”

The pale yellow highlights are stretched into extremely thin threads that glide flexibly over Alice's hand, and finally attach to the apple on the table, wrapping it around and giving it to Marisa.

"Then there's the difficulty, the change in the nature of the magic. The nature of the magic condensed is related to what you think in your heart, and the more you understand that nature, the closer you get to it, such as the stickiness used to control the puppet, and the need to firmly attach the thread used to control the puppet. You can't make it fall off in daily use or in battle, so I deliberately studied the viscosity of no less than 100 substances. ”

"It's amazing." Marisa had never heard such a professional analysis, and felt more and more wise about the decision to study magic with Alice.

"But Xiao Ai, you don't seem to use a thread to operate the puppet?" Marisa's nickname for Alice makes the girl almost cry out with joy, but she still holds back her feelings, after all, a lady is the only way to perfection.

"Because that brings us to the last point, isolation. Hide your own magical aura, reduce its sense of existence, eliminate light and shadow, block sound effects, and cultivate this point to a high depth, you can have a silent effect. Alice reversed the operation, strengthening the presence of the magic line in her hand, and gradually Marisa and **Temple saw the terrifying number of lines, and it was not as easy to manipulate the puppet as people imagined, and often a puppet was controlled by dozens of lines.

"I thought Xiao Ai didn't have to manipulate the puppet."

"No, if I really reach the realm of self-discipline puppets, I will be one step closer to the ultimate proposition of my magic 'perfection', but unfortunately I have been standing still since more than ten years ago." Now even to the point of studying the man's body, Alice seems to have an extraordinary dedication to the search for perfection.

Finally, in Alice's afternoon-long lectures and hands-on teaching, the temple has completely learned the basics of magic, and the next time is to study it on her own.

After seeing off the ** Temple and Reizen of the Eternal Pavilion, Alice took a long breath.

Alice Margot Royd, a mysterious witch whose origins she doesn't even know herself, is the only one who accompanies her, the magic book she always holds in her hand but never opens it in front of others.

In a society that places a strong emphasis on bloodlines and inheritance, it's impossible to receive good instruction with such an unclear origin, so Alice and Marisa are not too much to be taught.

No, it's even less than Marisa's unreliable master.

Alice almost all of her magical research was done by herself, and she experienced life and death several times in the early days, so she knew the danger of magical research that she was so excited about Marisa's actions, after all, she would not have been able to complete the research of puppet magic without the protection of that magic book.

The knowledge she just talked about is her own summary, her personal point of view, which is extremely strong, has a practical basis and no theoretical basis, and if you think about it carefully, it is all flawed.

Here Alice would like to thank the owner of Korindo, Rinnosuke, who seems to have a lot of experience in treating people's misfits, so she recommends that Alice read more comic books from the outside world, so that she can talk to people who also have this hobby.

Although Alice had never gone to the witch of the Red Devil Pavilion to talk about this content, thanks to reading the content, she was able to come up with a relatively complete system for using magic.

Thanks to the author's signature and the system in "Full-Time Hunter", which was painted as a rich thief, Alice was inspired a lot, otherwise she would have been disgraced in front of Marisa today.

"Alice, come here, I smell the best mushrooms, believe me, this time it won't be poisonous."

Let's not talk about the taste of normal mushrooms, just because you eat mushrooms all year round, ordinary mushrooms can't poison you.

Alice, who completely ignored this, was still happy that Marisa had called her over, and today might really be her lucky day, and her relationship with Marisa had progressed so much at once.

Alice had been withdrawn and cold before she met Marisa, but that sunny smile shot directly into Alice's heart, and if you had to use one word to describe Alice's feelings for Marisa, it would probably only be love.

"Marisa is waiting for me, I'm coming."

That night, Alice and Marisa had a candlelit dinner together, and were poisoned in a state of extreme happiness.

"Little love, little love."

"What's wrong with you, why are you foaming at the mouth!"

"Reizen is coming back, Alice has been poisoned by mushrooms......"