Chapter 63: Hit me then, teacher (2/2)

“Haha, I’m really still as popular as I used to be.”

“… I really don’t know if you’re truly narcissistic or if you just playing the part.” Ciaran came together with him in the infirmary, and now she gave him a fierce stare. “Let’s go.”

“Alright. You’re more familiar with him anyway. I’ll play your attendant so I don’t leave a bad impression behind.”

Ayrin heard footsteps just when he was the middle of watching the ceiling, bored stiff. He saw Ciaran push the door open and come inside, and immediately shouted “Teacher Ciaran” in a happy voice. Then he observed Liszt with a little curiosity when he saw him come behind Ciaran, and couldn’t resist asking, “Teacher Ciaran, which teacher is he now, he looks very powerful.”

“Don’t mind him.” Ciaran came in front of Ayrin. Before she had time to speak again, Aryin actually said with impatience, “Teacher Ciaran, you came at the right time. I was just going to look for you. I noticed the arcane particles inside my arcane gate seemed to have disappeared. But in the fight against Rogrid, I seem to remember that my arcane particles increased at the very end. This sensation is too strange.”

“Do you want to know the real reason?” Liszt said with a smile.

Ciaran suddenly whipped her head around, right when she was just thinking how to answer. She stared ferociously at him, thinking, you said you were going to act like an attendant, and now you’re snatching the limelight.

Liszt shrugged his shoulders as if he read her mind, telling her in a soft voice, “I just want to make things simpler.”

“Teacher, you know the reason?” Ayrin was excited all of a sudden. “Of course I want to know the real reason.”

“Then, are you ready for a little test? It might be a little painful,” Liszt said with a smile.

Ayrin blinked, but he became even more excited soon after. “Of course I’m ready!”

“Bang!”

As soon as his voice rose, before he even had time to react, his body suddenly sprang up from the bed in a twisted posture, lightning fizzling all around him.

Liszt lazily took back a hand radiating lightning and arcane particles.

“Ah!”

Ayrin’s pained shout came out only now.

“You…” Ciaran looked at Liszt, at a total loss for words.

“Doesn’t matter, it’ll stretch his muscles and improve his blood circulation, it’ll make him recover faster instead.” Liszt winked at her and asked of an Ayrin whose hair still stood erect and whose body still trembled, “Try to feel now, did the arcane particles in your arcane gate increase or decrease?”

Ayrin’s pain vanished all at once.

“Increase!” He shouted out this word with a blank face one second later, then he abruptly came back to his senses. He grabbed Liszt’s hand and shook it for all he was worth. “Teacher! Teacher! Why is it like this, why do I feel like the arcane particles increased by a lot?”

“So it’s like that?” Liszt smiled faintly. A waft of dazzling arcane particles rushed out of his hand and charged against Ayrin’s hands. “Did your arcane particles increase again? Compared to last time?”

“It increased again a little!”

Ayrin immediately felt that there were some additional brightly flashing things inside the arcane gate, but of course it couldn’t be compared to the earlier sensation of countless arcane particles densely dotted together appearing inside, so he immediately shouted, “It’s just that it seems very few particles appeared! Not as many as last time.”

“It seems like senior Plum’s and my guess is really correct.”

“Huu.” Liszt breathed out a long mouthful of air and turned around to look at the thoroughly-shocked Ciaran, saying, “His body really absorbs arcane particles passively… So, his body will only accept many arcane particles when arcane power and arcane particles combine together to land a powerful attack on him. When I let my arcane particles directly rush at him, his body didn’t accept many of them on the contrary.”

“How can such a bloodline talent exist.” Ciaran’s mind was a little blank, momentarily losing some of her ability to think.

“Teacher!” Ayrin was already dead excited at this moment. “What passive absorption? I don’t think I really understand, can you explain it in simple terms?”

“To put it simply, it’s a natural talent of your bloodline, causing your body to be just like a sponge. It’s able to absorb someone else’s arcane particles and store them inside your arcane gate. That’s the reason why there are arcane particles inside you even when you haven’t reached the level to condense arcane particles yet.” Liszt looked at Ayrin and said, “When someone else hits you, your body will absorb some arcane particles.”

“Absorb arcane particles from others?” Ayrin was thoroughly struck dumb. Even he knew that this was something that didn’t make sense.

“Yes, so you’re the prince of taking hits.” Liszt couldn’t resist a chuckle. “The fiercer they beat you up, the more arcane particles you can absorb instead. Also, judging from your performance last time, you can even use these arcane particles. That’s why, even if you can’t condense arcane particles yet, as long as you save up enough arcane particles in your arcane gate, you can use arcane skills all the same.”

“What?” Dumbfounded was written large across Ayrin’s face. “Then as long as I get hit a lot… I will save up even more arcane particles?”

“That’s the theory…”

“Teacher, please hit me then!”

“Er… We’re not in such a hurry right?”