47 Magic Meditation 2 (1/2)
Ms. Lim lightly coughed, before regaining the normal tone of her voice, and said to Xander,
”T-That's great! Ehem! However! Remember that now you have officially stepped into the ranks of Master magicians, time is of the essence! The spells you create on your own need enough time to be perfected!” Ms. Lim finished off, acting like senior giving pointers to a junior, to save some face for herself and for the class.
Xander, of course, not wanting to make things more awkward for Ms. Lim after her inquiries were diverted, nodded vigorously, taking everything to 'heart', hehe. She didn't even realize that he was already a Master-9 magician! Xander didn't bother talking in class since he already knew the syllabus; he just focused on playing his games on his smartwatch quietly while Ms. Lim began to teach the rest of the class.
Ms. Lim headed to the front of the room and opened up the hologram projector.
”Let's begin the introduction to Magic meditation. My first question to all of you is what is Magic meditation for you guys? Be honest.” Ms. Lim looked around the class, looking at different people, and some of the students raised their hands up and directly answered.
”I think it's a test whether you could stop yourself from falling asleep and gaining benefits from it.”
”Hehe, I think it's just a mystified way of absorbing the elements around us. Isn't it just deep meditation?”
”I think it's more than deep meditation. I think it allows you to comprehend the elements more sensitively and accurately.”
”Those aren't wrong answers, but still a bit far from the answer I was looking for. Mr. Cloverfield, for you, what is Magic meditation?” Ms. Lim redirected the question to Xander, who then looked up from his watch and saw the class watching him attentively. Xander rolled his eyes inside, before pausing the game and then acting all serious and dignified.
When the girls saw this, they couldn't help think that Xander was looking cute by acting very seriously. Even Valerie just rolled her eyes when she saw him do this. Maryann and Carly, who at this point were now fans of Xander, listened attentively.
”By textbook definition, Magic meditation involves 3 things: Deep meditation, which upon reaching Mundane-9, one is able to do; Magic energy cycling and production from Elemental energy absorbed, and Comprehension of the Elements. In one sentence, Magic meditation is the use of deep meditation to stimulate one's magic cycling and improve one's comprehension of the elements.”
”By my definition, I think Magic meditation is really just reaching the most balanced state of your mind, body, and soul, allowing you to be in tune with the ordered system of the universe, which creates a feedback loop, benefiting your body in the process.” Xander then added his own thoughts, which he thinks accurately described the purpose of Magic Meditation. He then returned to playing with his smartwatch, his resuming his game.
Ms. Lim was quite surprised by Xander's answer. Even the students were also contemplating between the two definitions and felt like they understood more with the second definition than that of the textbook version. Ms. Lim, creating a mental note for later, nodded in response to Xander's answer, and continued the discussion.
”The two definitions are correct. Magic meditation involves deep meditation, the cycling of magic energy and elements in one's body, and comprehension of the elements. Specifically, your primary elements. By the continuous absorption of elements, conversion of elements to magic energy, and comprehension of the elements being converted, your body and life essence is refined, as well as your Magic seeds, and self-made Magic Circles.” She paused for a while, showing another hologram of how supposedly, Magic meditation works in the human body.
First and foremost, the elements enter through the openings of the body, being sent into the bloodstream, cycling all over the body. As it cycles, its properties transform from elemental particle to elemental energy to that of magic energy, slowly being absorbed and released by the cells, tissues, and organs of the body. Magic energy increases in small amounts, and as time is continuously sped up, the more cycles are done, and the accumulated Magic energy increases in the human body. After a day of cycling, the volume of Magic energy in the body was 2-3 times it was originally. It was then distributed to the magic seeds of the caster, showing a visible increase of the magic seed's size, but can be clear to the viewers it has not undergone compression before.
”As you can see in the hologram video, Magic meditation speeds up magic training. If we weren't doing this, it might be when we are already old and frail can we have a breakthrough or our foundations would be quite pitiful. To understand this, I'll give an analogy: Enzymes function to enhance the reaction and catalyzation of proteins. with enzymes directing the movements of proteins, it would take more than several centuries or even thousands of years to complete a single reaction. The process of magic cultivation is the protein, and the enzyme is the act of Magic Meditation.” Ms. Lim continued and saw that the previously confused faces of students were clearing up one by one. She inwardly nodded before she continued discussing the important aspect of Magic cultivation: cultivation skills.
”Now, a vital component of Magic meditation that makes it efficient for magic cultivation would be the use of cultivation skills. So, what are cultivation skills? These are basically skills that allow one to reach deep meditation easily and connect into the element particles around them, allowing them to absorb them faster. Although when you were in the Mundane class, you could absorb the elements and generate your own magic energy, it isn't as fast as using a cultivation skill in junction with Magic meditation.”
”At the same time, it gives the cultivators better affinity to their respective elements, as long as their cultivation method matches their primary elements improving their comprehension of the elements at all classes, and understanding of the representations at the Legendary and Mythic class. More functions will be explained at the Advanced Magic Training class you will be taking. For now, this is enough for the class.” Ms. Lim said, stopping herself from describing the remaining benefits of cultivation skills. After all, you need to learn to walk before one can run.
She then continued, ”Now, for limitations. First, a person can only use 1 cultivation skill at a time, and second, they can start the use of cultivation skills only at Elite-6 class. Why do you think so?” Ms. Lim asked the class, and some of the students were frowning before Carly raised her hand to answer.
”Ma'am, I think it's because of the strain of the cultivation skill to our body. Maybe, by Elite-6 we have sufficient Magic energy that can be channeled by the skill? At the same time, the limitation of 1 cultivation skill, I think it's to avoid conflict between circulation pathways.” Carly said with a pensive face.
”That's correct, Ms. Bernault. We are limited to 1 cultivation skill at a time, and if you want to change to another one, you need to cycle for at least 1080 cycles to completely remove the traces of the old cultivation skill. This is because cultivation skills are eventually pathways for the elemental particles, energy, and Magic energy to traverse inside the human body. If you cultivated supplementary skills, it is still going to result in the same thing: a conflict between the two types of pathways.” Ms. Lim nodded at Carly's answer, before continuing the discussion.
”Now, cultivation skills are not created equal. There are ranks differentiating their effects and quality. Ranks are divided from Low, Med, High, and Perfect. There is one more known rank, which is called Transcendental, but usually, only people with fortuitous encounters or those that are highly valued by their ancient clans can have a chance of using them.”
”The higher the rank, the more complex it is, but the better its effects would be. At the same time, the less specific to an element it is, the better it is in the latter stages.
Low - 0.25x increase in effects (affinity, comprehension, understanding, fusion, and generation)
Med - 0.5x increase in effects (affinity, comprehension, understanding, fusion, and generation)
High - 1x increase in effects (affinity, comprehension, understanding, fusion, and generation)
Perfect - 2x increase in effects (affinity, comprehension, understanding, fusion, and generation)
There are, of course, higher classifications, but for now, let's make do with this, as most cultivation skills available publicly would reach this quality of standard.” Ms. Lim then changed the hologram projection, showing ten different virtual bodies, each one undergoing Magic meditation, but there distinct differences in each of them. Each one was on a box with a label of ”I, II, III...X”.
”Now, another classification is done, which is based on the specificity of the cultivation technique, labeled from Class I to Class X.
Class I - Perfectly Broad; around 100%. Focused on attaining the best state for magic meditation, to generally understand everything about the Universe and the Elements, their intricacies, their relationships with one another, not just focused on one element.
Class II - Very Broad; around 90%. Focused on attaining the best state for magic meditation, to generally understand everything about the Universe and the Elements, their intricacies, their relationships with one another, but still contains traces of element-focused training and pathways, understanding a specific element/s.
Class III - Broad; around 80%. Focused on reaching a good state for magic meditation, to generally understand everything about the Universe and the Elements, their intricacies, their relationships with one another, while including a few element-focused trainings and pathways merged into the state of magic meditation, understanding a specific element/s.
Class IV - Quite Broad; around 70%. Trying to reach a good state of magic meditation, to generally understand everything about the Universe and the Elements, their intricacies, their relationships with one another, but contains several element-focused trainings and pathways merged into the state of magic meditation, understanding a specific element/s.
Class V - Nearly Broad and Specific; around 60%. Attempting to broach into the generalities, intricacies, and relationships of everything, but the remaining focused on a specific element/s.
Class VI - Nearly Specific; around 60% focused on a specific element/s, the rest focused on understanding general principles.
Class VII - Quite Specific; around 70% focused on specific element/s.
Class VIII - Specific; around 80%.
Class IX - Very Specific; around 90%.
Class X - Perfectly Specific; around 100%. Focuses on completely comprehending and understanding a specific element/s.”
Ms. Lim said, finishing describing everything in under 2 minutes.
Someone asked a question, and a question Xander was also itching to find out: Can you create your own cultivation skill?
Ms. Lim looked a bit unsure and was hesitating for a bit before answering.