Chapter 6 - A Basic Understanding of Magic (1/2)

“You, dinner is ready.”

Gently open the door, Sora popped her head out of the gap, the soft white hair like the first snow of winter hanging down from her shoulders.

Her voice like the hidden lotus blooming elegant in the pure white snowfield. The feeling was like cleansing Ye You’s soul.

Kasugano Sora, she less proud, more fragile. There was a little bit of development trend towards the good sister attributes.

Sora happened to hear Ye You say that he like Chinese cuisine, and recently she was studying hard. In her mind, since big brother was struggled to make money, Sora has to do what she could for the family.

It was a warm winter at the moment, and the sun was warm and hanging high in the blue sky. The air was clear, and the sky was blue.

Inside the house, the freshly fried food on the dining table was fogging upwards with white mist. Ye, You and his sister were sitting opposite each other at the dining table.

“It smells good, Sora. Your cooking skills have improved again,” Ye You smiled.

Hearing Ye You’s praise, a smile could not help but appear on Sora’s face, her little head turned towards the window, “It is that true? Just making it randomly, it would be nice if You can like it.”

You ah… Ye You kind of disappointed. By the way, he really wanted to hear Sora call him ‘Oni-chan.’

However, Sora seemed to reject that form of address, and she also hated the fact that Ye You treated her like a child.

Ye You ate his food satisfied, then asked, “Have you finished reading those books I gave you?”

‘Those books’ were the books about magic and other things that Kaguya had transmitted.

Although Sora had an extraordinary trust in Ye You, ‘magic’ or whatever, it really still was not scientific.

Nevertheless, after Ye You let Sora see ‘item transmission’ once, she read the books Ye You gave her carefully with an incredible feeling.

“Finished reading,” Sora replied, the beige sunlight rushing through the window and falling on her body.

There was a shining feeling with it. Sora was excited. To be able to access these mysteries was arguably everyone’s dream come true.

“So, what do you think?”

“Hmmm…” Sora lifted her fair chin and chanted, “It is a little hard to understand. How about you? What do you think magic is?”

Ye You ate and gently put down his chopsticks, swallowed the food in his mouth, and then said, “First of all, you need to have a basic understanding of magic.”

In most people’s impressions, ‘magic’ meant waving a staff and releasing fireballs and ice bolts. The most important aspects of cultivation were something like mental strength, magical elements, spells. Nevertheless, that was not the case. There was a more decisive factor in magic: knowledge.

Magic can be roughly regarded as the phenomenon of ‘omitting the process’ or ‘simplifying the process’ to achieve the ‘result’ directly.

Furthermore, what kind of cause-and-effect relationship ‘result’ and ‘process’ had, and how they could be omitted, requires a great deal of knowledge.

It is simultaneously gathering this knowledge together, creating ‘runes,’ using ‘special elements,’ compiling the ‘process’ into a universal structure – i.e., the ‘magic’ – and then only running the magic to trigger the ‘result.’

So-called magic was such a ‘thing that even ordinary people could understand.’

Of course, mental strength, elemental perception, the architecture of the spell, and the body’s capacity were also significant. These were also vital components that could reflect ‘talent’ and ‘gift.’

So magic was indeed the miracle that could distinguish the ‘mediocre’ from the ‘talented.’