Chapter 12: The Blue Stone
Monica on the stage didn't care if her actions scared the children around her, she stretched out her index finger, and her fingertips easily twisted the crystal ball like candy.
"Meditation. Through mental immersion, you can perceive the elements around you, pull them into your body, and merge with your own magic. This is the surest way to increase your mana. ”
The crystal ball swirled slightly around Monica's fingertips, and from time to time there flashed bright white arcs of electricity inside.
"Meditation can also stabilize your mental state. If one day you realize that you are about to go insane, try to use meditation to maintain a certain level of sobriety. ”
Monica curled her red lips and smiled slightly, as if she had thought of something interesting.
"Of course, if the cause of the disorder can't be addressed, the madness will still be crazy."
Next, Monica began to instruct the new apprentice on how to enter meditation.
She asked everyone to choose a picture from the meditation atlas in front of them that seemed most pleasing to the eye, or the least dizzy, and looked through the crystal ball in front of them.
Thor endured the discomfort and quickly flipped through the atlas in his hand.
He felt dizzy when he looked at each one, and in the end he could only choose a picture that made him not too uncomfortable and disgusting.
It's a picture of multiple characters walking in circles.
At the top of the picture is a normal adult man, and on his left is an almost identical portrait of a man, but if you look closely, the movements of the two are not quite the same.
The second person bent his knees slightly and raised his hand.
The third person looked similar, but he could already see his hands stretched out at his sides, his knees bent and his heels slightly raised.
In this way, the movements of each individual are different, just like the original animation picture, and finally a walking action change diagram is formed.
This reminds Thor of the principles of animation.
He followed the dense figures, looking down one by one, but when he saw the upside-down figure at the bottom of the pattern, he suddenly noticed that this person's appearance had turned into an octopus monster at some point!
This change is not sudden.
When Thor looked back, he didn't see any difference between each picture and the next, but the figure at the bottom was indeed an octopus.
When a person walks, he becomes a monster, but in the middle of it, he doesn't notice anything wrong.
It's like a human being, originally an octopus monster!
Thor endured his dizziness and continued to look up counterclockwise, this time, not only paying attention to the changes in the characters' movements, but also paying attention to the differences in each picture.
There seems to be a change, and there doesn't seem to be.
When he looked back at the top pattern, the monster had become a human again.
Thor finally couldn't hold it anymore, covered his eyes with his hands, and fell backwards.
However, before he could fall to the ground, a pair of hands suddenly grabbed him by the back and lifted him to his feet.
There was laughter around him.
Thor had tears in his eyes, couldn't see clearly, thought it was Klee holding him, and only whispered "thank you".
"There's nothing funny about it. He fell to the ground because he had seen the whole picture, unlike you, who flinched when he was dizzy! ”
The voice sounded, and Thor realized that it was Monica's mentor who had helped him.
At this time, his eyes were no longer so stinging, and he barely opened them, and he vaguely saw the woman next to him.
Monica looked at the little boy with tears in her eyes and couldn't help but smile. Looking down at Thor's chosen pattern, a flash of surprise flashed in his eyes.
But she quickly regained her mildness.
"Exploration is brave and in moderation. You have good mental strength, try to see if you can immerse yourself in the crystal ball. ”
"Thank you, mentor."
It seems that Saul is a quick starter, and Monica actually uses him as a role model to mentor other newcomers.
This makes many newcomers and old people envious.
Thor also lived up to expectations, immersing himself directly on the first attempt.
Entering a meditative immersion state, and then looking through the crystal ball, the walking picture of the human monster will not be dizzying.
The image of a person, a monster, floated from the paper and came into Thor's mind.
Soon, everything around them became blurred, and the sound seemed to come from the distant sky.
Everything dimmed, and soon it was bright again.
Re-lighting the world of Thor is a colorful little ball of light.
Thor immediately pulled the small ball of light closest to him under Monica's guidance, leading it to melt into his eyebrows little by little.
It went very well, and the first elemental particle honestly followed Thor into his body, merging into some bubble-like existence in his mind.
Thor was so excited that he immediately began the next traction.
He didn't notice that the Monica tutor on the side suddenly frowned.
She walked away from Thor and walked around the classroom, letting the other new apprentices try meditation like Thor did.
Not all new apprentices are as immersed as Saul is, and many have not even found a suitable meditation map.
"Wear your crystal ball, it will help you isolate dangerous things and keep your meditation stable. Until you enter Level 2, I don't recommend that you get out of the crystal ball and meditate directly. ”
Monica went back to the front, going out of her way to talk about the points of meditation, but instead of instructing the others herself, as she did with Thor.
This makes some people angry, obviously a successful cheating wizard apprentice, how can he deserve the most attention from his mentor?
It's just that no one dares to really voice dissatisfaction.
The first meditation class passed quickly, and Thor didn't come back to his senses until everyone was gone.
Klee tried to call Thor up, but was interrupted by Monica.
Collee looked at Monica in bewilderment, only to see the latter smile inexplicably.
"You go out, I have something to talk to him about alone."
Klee immediately looked at Monica with a suspicious look.
Monica's face immediately sank when she was looked at like this by a little red-haired girl, but before she could get angry, Klee ran away with a smoke.
Don't forget to close the door yet.
Monica then walked back to Thor and snapped her fingers.
A string of electric sparks immediately hit Thor on the forehead.
Thor was shocked by the sudden excitement, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Monica standing in front of him with long legs.
"Mentor Monica!" He looked up and looked around, only to realize that there was no one around.
"I'm sorry, Mentor Monica, I'm leaving right away."
Thor apologized and began to pack his things.
"Elemental perception, that's what I'll talk about in the next lesson." Monica's red lips opened slightly, but her voice was cool, "Elemental perception is actually a characteristic of spiritual power. Just as everyone looks different, everyone's elemental perception is not exactly the same. ”
"It represents your sensitivity to ions of a particular property element. For example, take a piece of paper that has the properties of red, yellow, and green at the same time, and throw a handful of red, yellow, green, and blue stones on it. What colors do you think you can see? ”
Thor didn't really understand, "You mean, a piece of paper with red, yellow, and green colors?" ”
"Can you figure it out? It has three colors at the same time, not three colors. ”
Thor seemed to understand what Monica meant.
"If a piece of paper is both red and yellow and green...... The first thing I saw was the blue stone. ”
Monica nodded, "It's good that you understand." The body is like that piece of paper, the color attribute will make us insensitive to other elements, and the color you can see the most is the element that you perceive the most. The strength of our mental power also affects the number of elements we perceive. ”
After saying that, she picked up the little monster eating human skin on the ground, twisted her waist and left the classroom.
Leaving Saul with a veiled face.
"Monica-sensei, why did you suddenly tell me this?"
Thor picked up the book and the crystal ball, unable to figure it out.
In the small classroom, he walked for a long time, slowly moving forward step by step, just like his sluggish train of thought at this time.
"I can only see blue...... Only blue ...... can be seen."
As Thor's hand pressed against the classroom doorknob, he jerked his head up.
"I, when I was meditating just now, I didn't seem to see a lot of dark elemental particles!"
The muscles on his face twitched constantly, and the boy's face twisted little by little.
"I, I...... The element I perceive the most...... It's not a dark element! ”