Chapter 309 – Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder (1/2)

Yao Zi shook her head with uncertainty and rejected the idea.

“Magic circle? No, you just have to remember how I cast it, remember the flow of magic power and try imitating it!” Lin Xiao patted Yao Zi’s shoulder with confidence and took some distance from her. They both faced a large area of grassland and prepared for the experiment.

“Lin Xiao, are you sure she can do it?”

Elena stood next to him and quietly asked.

Although there were precedents, but Elena couldn’t understand how Yao Zi could have an imitation ability. If she could learn magic just by seeing it once, wouldn’t that be too much of a fantasy?

“Elena, let me ask you something. What exactly is magic?”

“Um… I guess controlling the magic power in the environment and changing its form for achieving things like attacking and defending?”

“That’s right, magic is essentially controlling and changing magic power, any magic is like that… if I remember correctly, Yao Zi can see the flow of magic that other people can’t see… right?”

“Yes.” Elena nodded.

So far that was the only useful things that Yao Zi’s wizard’s bloodline exhibited. Lin Xiao dubbed it as the wizard’s pupils.

Magic power was something intangible, normal people had no way of observing it, they could only meditate to perceive its existence, even the Demon King Elena could only rely on her magic power radar to perceive it. But Yao Zi was different, her eyes could actually see the physical movement of the magic power.

With her eyes, she could see through the nature of magic, so in her case, she can skip all the other unnecessary steps and directly imitate the magic power.

“I’m starting!”

Lin Xiao raised one hand and signaled Yao Zi to get ready. Then he extended the hand forward and started casting with the grassland as his target.

“Fourth-level magic… wind blade!”

The light green magic collected on his palms and slowly rotated in midair. Lin Xiao was purposely slowing the speed of the magic circle formation so that Yao Zi could clearly see it. Yao Zi was also cooperative and seriously stared at Lin Xiao’s hand like an obedient student receiving guidance from her teacher, afraid of missing a single detail.

Soon the circle disappeared and a translucent wind blade shot forward with a whoosh.

The wind blade shot forward cutting through all the weeds and cut a sharp path like someone used a sharp sword there.

“Did you get it?”

Yao Zi nodded.

“Okay, then give it a try!”

“O-okay… wind blade!”

Yao Zi copied what Lin Xiao did and started casting. First was the chant, then the circle, then…

“Uh, I think it was like this… no wait, it might have been like that… this should be… ah!”

Yao Zi was still frantically trying to remember Lin Xiao’s movements, then when she got distracted, the circle exploded with a bang and startled herself.

“Uh… you idiot, who told you to copy my movements?”

“Eh? D-didn’t you want me to imitate you?”

“Fool, I told you to imitate my magic, not my movements!” Lin Xiao painfully shook his head, “Forget the circle, forget the chant, just focus on controlling the magic power, reproduce the process!”

“Reproduce… the process?”

Yao Zi muttered to herself then stared at her hands in a daze.

“I still don’t get why you believe in her so much. Not using circles or chanting, that’s just instant cast magic… how could she grasp that?” Elena poked Lin Xiao’s back and asked.

“Everything lies in research… how would I know the answer if I don’t try?”

“Oh, so you tricked her here to this desolate location to teach her hands on?”

“Hands on? Uh… wouldn’t that be sexual harassment?” Lin Xiao turned and noticed that Elena’s attitude was strange, her eyes were even colder than usual, like he did something wrong to make her angry.