When I opened my eyes in a daze, I didn't feel as sharp pain as I imagined, but was surrounded by the laziness that comes from a good night's sleep.

How long has it been since the last time I felt this way?

Yu Dongshui relaxed happily and sat up with a yawn.

Even though the bottom is covered with hot dirt, he enjoys it more than a normal bed.

Enjoy this rare comfort.

I vaguely remember that I seemed to be practicing magic desperately last moment, why did I suddenly collapse?

Before I had time to think about it, the familiar voice I heard these days revealed the answer.

"How's the rest of the little friend? If you practice too much, it will be counterproductive. ”

It was the old man, the mysterious figure whose name he didn't even know now, but who had been helping him.

Remember that every time you wake up after overusing your mana, the pain doesn't go away completely, why is it different this time?

Could it be that this old man still has the ability to eliminate the oppression of magical power?

After a pause for a long time, the old man who had listened to Yu Dongshui, who had not spoken, spoke again: "If it weren't for the old man coming back in time, I'm afraid that Xiaoyou's body would really collapse." ”

Sure enough, he applied a healing method to himself.

Yu Dongshui realized that he hadn't said a word since he woke up, and felt that this was disrespectful to the old man, so he said: "Thank you senior, you saved me again." ”

"Don't be too anxious about everything, this is the teaching of those who have come before. ”

The old man saw that the other party was just talking about it, not to mention that he hadn't mentioned the convergence point in the future, so he sighed and said:

"It seems that it is necessary to explain the theoretical knowledge about magic and magic to Xiaoyou. ”

"Really!" Yu Dongshui became inexplicably excited after hearing this.

He originally thought that after teaching himself so much, the old man would put himself out of the way and never say anything more.

I didn't expect that the old man was still interested in teaching himself theoretical knowledge about magic and magic.

The importance of this knowledge was evident from the very first few days, and just by analyzing the innate magic that he had not understood for a long time, he had created such a variety of effective attacks.

This time, I'm going to talk about the theory of magic and magic, which can be understood as the ability to analyze the enemy's magic on his own after learning it.

Not only can you grasp the opportunity in battle, but you can also find the opponent's weakness before you can kill it with one hit.

"It's just to teach the little friend how to steadily improve his magic level, and the old man is not yet proficient in this kind of thing. ”

The old man saw the young man's thoughts clearly at a glance, and poured cold water on it in advance.

When Yu Dongshui heard this, he only showed a fleeting expression of disappointment, and soon returned to the state of listening carefully.

Even if you can't master the abyss of magic, it's rare to be able to effectively improve your magic level, right?

After a few days of independent exploration, Yu Dongshui knew that it was not easy to learn and master magic.

Although I want to become stronger on my own, it is also beneficial to listen to professional methods once in a while.

"If the predecessors weren't proficient enough in the study of magic, then everyone in this world is still only at the level of babies, right?"

"That's right. The old man unexpectedly did not deny it, but nodded thoughtfully.

What the hell? Is this an endorsement of the obvious sycophant remark just now? Is there really no one in this world who can enter the eyes of the old man?

"Alas, forget it, the memories are almost there, first of all, declare in advance, the old method is also learned, not necessarily very accurate. ”

The old man stopped thinking for a short time and moved the topic to the point that Yu Dongshui had been waiting for for a long time.

"Seniors don't have to worry too much, even if they say yes. ”

It shows that there are still more powerful beings in this world than him.

However, there is another possibility, which is what Yu Dongshui had guessed before.

There is no one in the [present] world who can compare with the old man, but in the [before] world there are people who can teach the old man.

And this character doesn't need to think about it, he is the enlightener of the Emperor of Eternal Life, and he is considered to be the great magician of his previous life.

In other words, the old man saves himself and continues to enlighten, also because of the great magician?

Maybe it's because of the experience of contact with the great magician that you can identify yourself as the reincarnation of the great magician.

At this time, Yu Dongshui decided to suppress this idea first, and then ask the old man alone later.

"First of all, to be clear, magic is······ Ahem, some guy left those beings for life to transform the world. ”

When the old man spoke his first words, he seemed very disgusted and resistant.

Or maybe you just don't want to show the truth behind it?

This first sentence is very vague, but the meaning of the intention is still out - the existence of transforming the world.

As for the previous [certain guy] and [those lives], Yu Dongshui guessed that it should be the Great Magician and the Emperor of Eternal Life and other magical races and the like.

"If you want to use magic proficiently, you must first overcome three major difficulties, and it is because of the existence of these difficulties that there are few magicians in the world. ”

The old man said, glancing at Yu Dongshui, who was listening carefully.

Hey, what am I doing? Anyway, besides me, there are magicians in this world, you and the gods, right?

"The first hurdle is the magic container. ”

Yu Dongshui sighed in his heart, damn it, a term that he didn't know the meaning of at all appeared!

Of course, the old man also knew that it was extremely unfriendly to Dongshui, a magic idiot, to talk about it directly, so he would explain it later.

"The so-called magic container is a basic container that can store and release magic power with a living individual as the basic unit. Only by having a mana container can you provide the required mana for magic. ”

"Generally speaking, mana vessels are things called souls. This magic container, while common, is not easy to open. It will only be opened when there is professional teaching and guidance, or when there is an unavoidable opportunity. At the same time, the amount of mana that the soul can store also slowly increases with use, but it is not excluded that some lucky people have a lot of mana space at the beginning. ”

The old man glanced at Yu Dongshui, who was a little blindfolded, again.

Watch me do it······ Uh, I think it's me, right?

Listening to what the old man said, the initial situation in Viscount Keto's house was the phenomenon of soul opening. And so far, he has not lacked magic because he is one of the lucky ones.

"But that's just the first level. Even if some people can get a lot of magic power in the awakened soul, it can be said that they can't use it up at all, but they will also get stuck in the second level. ”

"The second level is the physical body's ability to withstand magic. For the average person, magic is a double-edged sword. Until a critical value is reached, it is a highly beneficial tonic. And once this threshold is exceeded, it becomes a painful poison. ”

"For the average human being, the maximum capacity does not exceed ten standard units. Ordinary mages who have been trained can reach more than 100 times this value. And the limits of what a top-notch magician can achieve are even more immeasurable. As far as the strongest person he has seen in front of the old decay is concerned, it can reach more than 100,000 standard units. ”

The old man looked directly at Yu Dongshui this time, and after a pause, he said, "According to the old eyesight, Xiaoyou has reached the standard of an ordinary magician. How to say it, it is quite unexpected to reach this height in two months, but it is very surprising that it does not reach this level of training method like Xiaoyou, which is about to die every three or five days. The premise is that he dies violently before he does. ”

"This ······ Are you praising me?" Yu Dongshui scratched his head at a loss.

"It's just a warning that Xiaoyou can't work so hard in the future, if you train like Xiaoyou did before, your body will collapse in less than three days. ”

This is not a joke, Yu Dongshui, who came over under the oppression of several magic powers, personally felt the threat of death.

I can only say that it is a great fate that I can live until now.

"This will be the place where the old man focuses on guiding the little friend, of course, this is only the second difficulty, and there is the third one. However, this difficulty is really an innate advantage, which is far greater than the acquired effort. ”

"Only a small percentage of humans can possess an effective innate magic circuit, and the quality of the innate magic circuit can also be high or low. However, in the eyes of real magicians, talent magic is only a shortcut that can lead newcomers to touch and feel magic, so that they can quickly grasp those abstract magical theories. And people who are born without innate magic often have to put in dozens of times the effort, and the results are destined to be not as good as those obtained with innate magic. ”

A real magician?

Yu Dongshui understood what the old man meant, that is, it was difficult for people without innate magic to touch the mystery of magic, while those with innate magic were relatively easy.

But what does it mean that "a true magician thinks that gifted magic is just a shortcut to feeling magic"?

In Dongshui's memory, only the Great Mage and the Emperor of Eternal Life can transcend the dependence of innate magic, and the rest, even the gods and the Origin Demon Clan, rely on innate magic to perform magic.

Could there be any other unknown figure who could use other magic like those two men?

No, the old man in front of him is the proof, a monster that can use many kinds of magic.

Listening to the tone of this sentence, it seems that the great magician has cultivated more than one person who can use a variety of magic?

Yu Dongshui couldn't help but wonder if the Demon Hunting Association had also mistaken a role like the old man for the reincarnation of a great magician in the previous years.

Inexplicably, there is a kind of unhappiness in carrying the blame.

"Of course, even people like Xiaoyou who have not awakened the spirit seat can't figure it out, and others are also confused. Not to mention the decay of the knowledge of building the magic circuit, as for improving the quality of the magic circuit, as long as you practice a little more, it will be no problem to achieve a higher degree of fit. ”

"Senpai!"

Yu Dongshui finally couldn't help but speak: "Can I take the liberty of asking a question from my seniors?"

The old man's brow under the black hood seemed to be furrowed, but the voice that came out was still kind: "Of course it's okay." ”

"I want to make sure that my predecessors are from this era?"

The question is more tactful, but the meaning expressed is very clear.

The reincarnation of the Grand Magician believed that this mysterious black-robed old man was not a product of an era when magic was close to legend.

"Why do you say this?" the old man did not answer immediately, but asked Yu Dongshui why he said this.

"With an unimaginable understanding of magic, a sense of disagreement with this era and this world, no matter what point of view, the predecessor is not a simple character. ”

"Beyond imagination?" the old man chuckled.

He wouldn't tell Yu Dongshui, this basic common sense of magic can be said that even the people in the mountains and fields will use it as a relatively high-end talking point to chat after dinner.

But strictly speaking-

"Well, since the old man agreed to answer Xiaoyou's question, he naturally told the truth. It is true that old decay is not a person of this era, not in every sense of the word. ”