Chapter 51: Special meanings, protection (1/2)
Chapter 51: Special meanings, protection
“Soul Contract – Spirit Touch!”
Ciaran threw a glance at Ayrin’s excited shout. Her left hand suddenly shot out and pointed between Ayrin’s eyebrows.
The instant her sudden finger made contact with Ayrin’s skin, a dazzling dot of arcane particles lit up, then turned into a bright dot of flame colored dark red, penetrating between Ayrin’s eyebrows.
A faint pain stabbed between Ayrin’s eyebrows, but clear pictures seemed to suddenly appear inside Ayrin’s mind, all of them pictures of Ciaran’s motions earlier when she used her skills.
“What’s this about?”
He suddenly made a fuss and shouted, “Teacher teacher, how did you make so many clear pictures appear in my mind?”
“The theory behind this arcane skill is to use arcane power to stimulate the neurons in your eyes and brain, to leave a particularly deep impression of the scenes you saw just now. The effect will probably last for a couple dozen days. This arcane skill can be used for learning, but it’s originally used by elite arcane masters during missions, so they can remember some things better.” Ciaran looked at Ayrin, “There are many kinds of arcane skills. Some arcane skills only pursue pure destructive power, some arcane skills can affect someone’s mind. Some special lights, smells, and some little stimulations from arcane power can influence someone’s neurons and senses. That’s why arcane masters at high-level or above have all sorts of varied ways to fight, many of them hard to imagine. No matter their level, no arcane master can guarantee they can safely escape with their lives during a mission.”
Ayrin nodded repeatedly. Merely judging from the opponents he’d seen so far, they all had their own different ways of battling, to say nothing about those high-level, elite arcane masters.
He understood a little at this moment why so many didn’t go the battlemaster route and become an arcane battlemaster revered by the people. In comparison, these arcane masters didn’t need to execute missions and didn’t need to go to dangerous areas. They didn’t receive much attention and couldn’t obtain more respect, but at least their lives were safer.
After nodding nonstop, Ayrin actually showed his staunch loyalty, not forgetting Moss beside him. He immediately asked Ciaran, “Teacher, you might as well do it for Moss too?”
Only, the Moss who was a little jealous and envious of him didn’t have much hope for himself as soon as he saw Ciaran’s expression.
Ciaran shook her head, sure enough, explaining, “His giant bloodline doesn’t suit my arcane skills. Inappropriate arcane skills will only distract your attention, they aren’t beneficial for the development of an arcane master. A more suitable teacher will naturally guide him in due time.”
“Ok.” Ayrin continued excitedly with another question, looking full of vigor: “Then next I just have to follow the pictures teacher left behind, and exercise by myself?”
“That’s right.” Ciaran copied Ayrin’s style and brandished her fist. “Do your best, brave warrior. With your learning ability, twenty days will be enough for you to learn these two things. When the time comes, you’ll know if you can truly condense arcane particles, or if some special reason produced the illusion you opened your first arcane gate.”
Watching Ciaran once again sit on the edge of the roof on this low building, Ayrin hesitated a little, but still couldn’t resist asking, “Teacher Ciaran, can I ask you another question?”
“What question?”
“Why do you always wear this red scarf?” Ayrin looked at Ciaran. The reason why he asked this question was because this red scarf seemed particularly bright in these pictures inside his mind.
“Ah, this…” Ciaran cast her vision to the skies far away. She faintly said, “You could say it’s something with a special meaning. In someone’s life, you’re bound to end up finding something with a special meaning for you, or something you need to protect.”
“I understand now.”
Moss thought at first Ayrin would definitely be curious enough to get to the bottom of the matter, because he could also hear from Ciaran’s words there was definitely an uncommon story behind this red scarf. However, Ayrin merely nodded his head, then looked at the infirmary on the opposite side of Ciaran. “Teacher, you’re always around this infirmary, do you also need to protect the people inside?”
“You could say that.” Ciaran smiled. “Our Holy Dawn Academy’s medical department is very skilled even in the entire kingdom, so other places will often send powerful arcane masters here when they can’t heal them. To say protection… In fact, all of us arcane masters of Eiche have one ultimate mission, that is to protect our kingdom. The arcane masters sent here all became like this because of battles during their missions. All of them are people most worthy of respect in our kingdom of Eiche, our most valuable assets. Staying here and protecting them also means I’m accomplishing my mission to protect this nation, probably.”
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In a quiet sick ward, Chris was slowly doing sets of stretches.
She did them very slowly. After laying for a long time on the sickbed, her every muscle seemed to have turned completely stiff. Every movement she did now seemed to be trying to stretch the muscles and knead the stiffness out of them. There was some pain in this process, and she also needed to be extremely cautious, else she could become injured again at the slightest carelessness, disrupting her recovery.