Since the introduction of Mind Sculpting Ink, Qian Jing will become extremely focused as long as he picks up the brush, and his body and mind will adjust to the most suitable state for painting. In this state, every stroke and figure can bring a pleasant mood, and Qian Jing will no longer feel bored and tired.

"You're a natural painter, you have excellent hand control, and I haven't seen you make any mistakes in that regard. Yuna praised and pointed out the shortcomings of Qian Jing: "Your current level, it is not a big problem to use lines to create a general image, and it is very good to outline the shape and express the outline, but an object is filled." Whether you're filling it with a shadow change or a color combination, it's not hollow. And for the magic scroll, you have to fill in the 'meaning'. This requires you to plan well from the start, so you need to change your habits and not from the outline inward, but from the content outward. ”

To be more specific, taking the painter as an example, Yuna asked Qian Jing to draw the internal organs, then the skin, and finally the clothes. When used in magic drawing, the connotation of magic painting should be decided in your mind before using the technique.

"Don't worry, it's slow at first, learn from the constant correction of mistakes and rare successes, and when you form a habit, it will be good and fast. Yuna instructed and encouraged: "There are many races in the multiverse that are born to use magic, but we fortress stars are not. Everything you need for magic needs to be learned and practiced from scratch, just like a child learns to walk and sandboard. When you look back after you've worked hard, the now difficult skills lose their difficulty. ”

"You can't go a thousand miles without accumulating steps," Qian Jing replied casually, and then began to fight against the lively magical elements, concentrating on condensing them to the tip of the pen before landing in the sand pit. He often spent half a day trying to complete the simplest complete circle, and interference between figures and figures often led to the loss of previous efforts. However, Qian Jing believes that this kind of failure is a natural and inevitable occurrence, so it will not be affected by it, and only needs to learn from it.

Yuna saw that Qian Jing was gradually getting started, so she left for a while, leaving him to practice alone by the bunker. Qian Jing went from failure to failure again and again, which was all in her expectation, but she really didn't expect Qian Jing to succeed a few times. When I told my family about it, everyone showed the same surprised expressions.

"He's now able to draw shapes with water in bunkers? Are you sure he's a beginner?"

Yuna nodded. From Qian Jing's penmanship, it can be seen that he has indeed not undergone magic training, and he does not even have the most basic knowledge of magic. On Stronghold, the powerful earth elemental dominates the environment, and the immeasurable hot and dry sand will suck the water elemental dry, forming a unique local elemental restraint relationship. If you compare painting with water elements on bunkers, slate and leather, the most difficult thing is actually the bunker.

"At first, I was a little vague about it, but he was just asked to practice painting in the bunker, and he mixed in the magic skills he had just learned. Using water in the sand is something that no Stronghold with basic common sense would do. I wanted to wait for him to fail before intervening, but I didn't expect him to succeed......" Yuna let out a long sigh: "So, now I'll let him practice on his own and see where his talent can take him." ”

"So, we found a genius?" Yuna's father said after listening to the whole teaching process, thinking for a while, "I didn't expect there to be such a seed on the fortress star. Yuna, have you measured his race, can you be sure he's a Stronghold and not an alien?"

"Well, I secretly tested it while teaching, and I used all eleven methods, and I got a positive answer: he was undoubtedly a Strongholder. Yuna lowered her voice and asked, "Dad, do you think it's possible for him to complete that magic?"

"I don't know. That spell was so hard that we couldn't really understand its true difficulty until anyone had done it. The only thing we know for sure is that the higher the water elemental affinity, the more likely it is that the Stronghold will complete that magic. I'm a light blue vein, and you're better than me after you've been magically refined, but we're not as good as him. ”

"yes...... I really don't know how he creates and maintains a water elemental affinity. After Yuna finished speaking, she looked up at the sky outside, and suddenly realized that it was already night. Looking at the time again, it turned out that more than seven hours had passed since I was teaching in the house. It's strange, why don't you feel tired?

It all started with Qian Jing, and his kind of dedication and selfless concentration also affected Yuna to a certain extent. After Yuna leaves, Qian Jing is even more undisturbed, and all he has in his eyes is bunkers, lines, and mischievous magical elements. "Don't move, it's you. You ran out and were absorbed by the sand, don't you understand, stupid! It's not obedient for your good!"

If you look at it from the point of view of people who don't know, Qian Jing, a young man, is sitting in front of the sand pit, muttering while playing with the sand, and keeps talking to the non-existent "water friends", how strange it is. However, if you can feel the water element around you in the same way as Qian Jing, you can see a different result: the water element escapes from Qian Jing's body, and together with the scarce free elements in the environment, it forms an increasingly stable structure, and then falls on the pen and descends to the sand. As Qian Jing gradually found his senses, the ability of the water elements to resist the absorption of the sand and earth elements gradually increased.

Qian Jing put down the iron pen, put his fingers directly into the sand pit, and used the mind shaping ink to paint directly. The magical lines mixed with the mind-shaping ink were immediately filled with activity, and moved exactly according to the Qian Mirror's thoughts. Without any effort, the surrounding water elementals automatically converged, forming a solid formation like a well-trained army, and the earth elementals could no longer be destroyed.

A magic circle made of water elements finally stabilized its form and lay quietly in the middle of the bunker. It's a number zero, and it's the simplest form of magic: water locking. It was very simple to see if it was successful, Qian Jing poured some water into it, and then watched quietly.

In the field of vision of magical perception, the rings emit a faint white fluorescence, holding the water poured into it and preventing it from being absorbed by the sand. Qian Jing felt and counted the time, and the entire spell lasted for about five minutes before dissipating. The water flowed into the crevices of the sand and disappeared, and the mind-shaping ink turned into black smoke and returned to Qian Jing.

He suddenly felt a little thirsty, so he took out the legion juice to satisfy his hunger, and by the way, he took this time to sort out what he had just learned. Theoretically, this is a successful spell, and Qian Jing can now call himself a magician. But he also knew very well in his heart that in the spell just now, it was the Mind Shaping Ink that played the most important role, not his own magic sensing and control ability.

"The Mind-Sculpting Ink has really helped me a lot, greatly increasing my magic success rate. In this way, I can let the spell take shape in advance, and then observe it more intuitively and accurately, and discover ways and paths to improve. ”

Qian Jing prefers that magic is his own ability, rather than just a continuation of the ability of mind-shaping ink. As the saying goes, if you don't have a good skill, you have to put your eggs in different baskets. The mind-shaping ink is used to create matter, to produce legions of stickmen, and that's busy enough. In terms of magic, it only needs to play a supporting role.

Moreover, the Mind-Shaping Ink consumes his own strength—like a stickman. All the athletic ability and thinking ability of the stickman are borrowed from the money mirror, which limits the upper limit. If this ability is extended to a magic spell, it can be dangerous. For example, when the Mirror's elemental control is insufficient, the spell should collapse and the magic effect will be terminated, which is similar to tripping to effectively protect the caster. The function of the Mind Shaping Ink is changeable, if it takes the initiative to fill in the lack of spells, puts the completion of spells in the first place, and then starts to drain life energy, maybe Qian Jing will be sucked to death.

This kind of thing has not happened before, Qian Jing still remembers the lesson of drawing gold bars. And after using the shaping ink to help complete the "Water Locking Circle" spell just now, didn't he immediately feel very?

"Magic is fun, and the Mind Shaping Ink is even more magical, but my body is so poor that I become the shortest board in the barrel. In the future, we must pay attention to whether there is a way to enhance the overall quality of the body. By the way, you can ask Captain Chang when you go back, they may have a way!" Qian Jing tilted his neck to drain the entire bottle of legion juice, carefully felt the full pleasure in his abdomen, and burped with satisfaction. Now, he still has to focus on magic training, and the problems have to be solved one by one.

Qian Jing entered a state of concentration again, and only the sand table in front of him and the iron pen in his hand were left in his eyes and mind. During this time, he remembered that Yuna had come many times to explain to him the new magic runes, as well as how to express three-dimensional shapes with lines. He remembered that he was finally able to complete the Water Locking spell in the bunker without relying on the Mind-Shaping Ink, and the rest of the time was spent studying and practicing. It seems to have been playing for a while in the middle, but it has never gotten up.

Seven days have passed, and Qian Jing has been studying in Yuna's room, and her strong enthusiasm for learning has forced the teacher to sleep somewhere else. He relied entirely on Legion juice for his nutrition, and this miracle food produced no waste at all, and it saved him the trouble of going to the toilet. Fortunately, he was not identified by the people of Vasa Painting Academy. After all, the Soil and Water Waist Tag can camouflage the wearer, but it will not disguise what is separated from the wearer.

Yuna's family wanted to see what kind of potential Qian Jing had, and at the same time, they also wanted to earn the remaining 35,000 stone elemental coins as soon as possible. They admired Qian Jing's ability to sit in front of the sand table to the end, and they were also amazed by the speed of his progress. Obviously, Qian Jing is indeed a beginner, and he is very clumsy when it comes to getting started with anything. But it didn't take long for him to find the right way to reach the level of "learning" without detours.

The remaining steps are "mastery", "mastery" and "mastery", which is entirely an accumulation of time. It took Qian Jing a full seven days to push open the door of the magic and step into it with two feet, and there was a walking stick made of mind-shaping ink to help him go further. Yuna's family also came to a similar conclusion, and they were also worried that Qian Jing would completely collapse physically and mentally if she continued like this. So they took away the pen and poured a cup of cold water over his head.

"You're out of school. Yuna put the cup down and said, "You have learned all the basic techniques, and you know how to learn the advanced techniques, and the next thing you have to do is to go back and rest, recover and keep practicing." Come back to me when you find a problem and I'll answer it for you. You don't need to spend your time with me at all. ”

Qian Jing wiped the water from his face with his hand, and asked with some puzzlement: "Go back?" But when he tried to stand up, he found that the lower half of his body was completely paralyzed from sitting for a long time. As a result, the blood began to flow faster, and every blood vessel, especially the capillaries, began to itch and mix with the soreness of the muscles, forming an indescribable strange sensation.

Qian Jing rolled around on the ground, constantly making strange screams of "oops, yaa, yaa......", and Yuna laughed when she saw this. "Don't move, I'll use a spell to relieve you, and you'll be fine right away, lie down straight! ”

"A few days, not that long, I think it's only an all-nighter and half a day at most. ”

"It's been seven days. Yuna said, "You don't have any experience learning magic before, so you have too much common sense to make up. Magical meditation fully mobilizes the power of the spirit, and the flow of time in the external world will fade. You may spend a day thinking only one thought, or you can complete hundreds or thousands of ideas in an instant. So, you have to use a timer to circumvent this situation until you are able to fully grasp the external situation while meditating. ”

"It's really seven days, it's over! It's over! I haven't been back for so long!" Qian Jing jumped up from the ground, staggered a few steps and barely stood still. He held on to the wall and beat his legs hard, and in a moment he had to rely on them to transport himself back! When he saw Laisha, he had to apologize and change his two-day vacation into seven days without paying attention, and the problem of absenteeism was too serious! He must win Raisa's forgiveness, and he must keep his position as a salesman at the White Flag grocery store.

"I'm going to have to get out of here, oh there's still money left. Qian Jing looked left and right, and poured out the stone element coin under Yuna's guidance. "Do you need to count it? I'm pretty sure this big pile of coins is the right number. ”

"There's no need to count, your ability to pour money out of a bag is amazing, and you can't go wrong at all. Yuna took out five thick leather books and handed them to Qian Jing: "I see that you already have two picture books, and these five are the remaining parts of a complete set of picture books." The fourth and fifth records are written in the fourth and fifth books, which are not passed on, and as long as you complete the previous studies, they will not bother you. ”

"Thank you. I'll practice based on what the book says. Qian Jing knew that it was impossible for him to stay on the Fortress Star for a long time, and if there was a problem in the future, it would not be easy to come to the Fortress Star again, either with the consent of the store manager Raisa, or the permission of a level 3 salesperson, the passage of the identification room would be opened. And to come here, you need to spend Destiny Coins, which also requires hard work to accumulate. Therefore, he knew that these books were a guarantee for his continued study in the future, and they needed to be paid special attention.

"You are a good student with a lot of potential, and you must continue to study. Yuna said as she pulled out a palm-sized sheet of metal, rough on one side and smooth on the other, mixed with gold and silver. "I'll give you something before you leave, it's this spell measuring board. Whenever you feel like you're making progress in your magic, draw spells on top of it with the water element. If you really draw it correctly, it will glow golden. It's designed to check your progress and keep you safe during spell tests. ”

"Oh, that's great, thank you, teacher. Qian Jing took the spell measuring board, but he always felt that he had seen this thing somewhere before, but he just couldn't remember it.