Chapter 19 – Not Completely Acting (1/2)
The selection test officially ended and no one was hurt.
Lin Xiao successfully got the qualification to participate in the actual drill and conveniently got another super strong ability —— perception.
Although her power was sealed, but her instinct and innate gift as a demon king were still there. Her super strong perception ability could clearly see the flow of magic in the human body, it could also perceive anyone hiding in the surroundings. Apparently, it can even detect magic beasts, it really is quite a convenient and practical ability.
After all, she’s the demon king. If she didn’t even have this much power, how could she confront humanity? Lin Xiao thought deeply.
“The humanoid self-propelled magic detection radar” – Elena, I choose you!
Leaving the academy, Lin Xiao and Elena walked side by side. His old house was in a remote area of the suburbs, so you had to walk a while to get there.
The sky was turning dark, the vendors in the stalls were starting to pack their bags and preparing to leave. The pedestrians on the road also sped up their pace in order to get home before dark and have dinner with their families. Elena followed Lin Xiao through the city. In order to observe the daily life of human beings at a close distance, she looked left and right. Although she still looked indifferent, but she wasn’t as proud and unreasonable anymore, she seemed very interested.
“Ah! No!” While walking, Lin Xiao suddenly stopped and slapped his head. “Elena, you can perceive the flow of magic, right?”
“Correct.”
“But why didn’t you warn me when Rosie threw a fireball at me? You must have already felt it, right?”
At that time, Rosie threw a fireball at Lin Xiao, at the same time Elena withdrew two steps. It was this inconspicuous “two steps” that allowed her to perfectly escape the aftermath of the explosion, but Lin Xiao was forced onto the ground by the impact —— this was no coincidence!
Elena did not answer, rather she looked away.
“Hey, look at my eyes!”
“I did feel it.” Elena spoke of other topics. “The slave contract only stipulates that slaves can’t harm the owner, it doesn’t stipulate that the slaves has to protect the owner?”
“So you’re admitting it? Tsk, what a disobedient maid…” Lin Xiao steeled his face and seemed to be planning to impose some punishment on Elena.
“Even if I didn’t remind you, what would happen?” This time, Elena did not back down, but sneered, “You didn’t even need my warning, right?”
“What are you saying? If not for Rosie’s improper control, I would’ve been hit by the fireball!”
“Nonsense!” Elena disdainfully grinned. “Stop lying, you can deceive them all, but you can’t deceive me.”
“A Lie?” Noticing his pretense was seen through, Lin Xiao scratched his head awkwardly and weakened his tone. “When Rosie threw the fireball over, I really was shocked.”
“But, you didn’t worry about being hit by the fireball!” Elena stopped and looked at Lin Xiao’s eyes seriously. “Although that girl has a low magic level, her magic control is not weak. The fireball didn’t explode midway because she lost control of the magic, but because you did something!”
“Oh… you actually saw it?”
“I wasn’t looking carefully.” Elena frowned and recalled the scene at the time.
When Lin Xiao was about to be hit by the fireball, she heard a crisp “snap” sound and then she realized that it was Lin Xiao who snapped his fingers!
“In the last moment, you snapped your fingers, then a tiny fireball shot out from your fingertips, hit Rosie’s fireball and the spells collided, which caused an explosion. Am I wrong?”
In just a blink of an eye, Lin Xiao thought up of the most effective response —— to use the same spell to offset Rosie’s fireball. Speed, reaction, precision… a seemingly simple operation, yet actually exceedingly difficult!
Other than Elena who has a strong perception, no one else there noticed Lin Xiao’s trick. Perhaps teacher Woos could have noticed, but at that time, Woos’s attention was not on him, and his eyes were blocked by the crowd, so he didn’t have a clue.
“As expected of the humanoid self-propelled magic detection radar, awesome!”
Like he wanted to show she was correct, as Lin Xiao was talking, he snapped his fingers in front of Elena.
There was no “magic chanting” and no “circuit composition”. In an instant, a small fireball appeared out of thin air and shot out from his fingertips into the sky, it was especially dazzling under the dusky sunset. The children in the nearby houses thought that they were shooting fireworks and opened the windows and curiously looked out.
“I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want my clothes to be burned, so I could only use a little trick.”
When Lin Xiao spoke, there was no hint of arrogance and boastfulness. But Elena was so surprised that she widened her eyes and stared at the small firework that flew into the night sky.
“Chantless Instant Magic!?” It was like she saw something extremely terrifying.
If Lin Xiao’s gift of breaking through the fourth-level at the age of 15 was not enough to surprise the Eighty-ninth Demon King, then the strength Lin Xiao just displayed already made it impossible for Elena to remain calm.
“Chantless Instant Magic” was an advanced technique for releasing magic. It could omit the stage of “magic chant” and “circuit composition”. Just as Lin Xiao just did, you don’t need to shout the name of magic, or form a bright magic circle, you can easily release a spell with a simple snap of the fingers.
“Chantless Instant Magic” has a strong practical significance! It allowed a magician to release magic at the fastest speed in any situation, which multiplied the magician’s ability to survive. More importantly, the instant magic that omitted the “magic chant” and “circuit composition” was able to be concealed!
In a battle, instant magic without warning was the most crucial trump card. It could turn the tide of the battle in the blink of an eye and turn defeat into victory!
According to Elena, only advanced magicians that were sixth-level and higher could master the chantless instant magic technique and very few excellent fifth-level magicians can barely do it, but she has never heard of any human being able to master this skill at the fourth level, not to mention that Lin Xiao was only 15 years old this year…
Although currently, Lin Xiao was only throwing out a small firework, what about in the future?
Twenty years later… No, maybe only ten years, Lin Xiao can become humanity’s number one magician!
“Elena, what’s wrong?” Seeing the other side not responding, Lin Xiao asked with a smile. “Are you thinking that for the future of the demon race, you should get rid of me before I grow up?”
“…” Elena didn’t dare answer.
Because, she did have that kind of thought earlier. With Lin Xiao’s talent, he will definitely become a hero in the near future and he would become the enemy that the demons wont want to face. For her own people, if Elena killed him now…