Chapter 81 Mentor Mei Haihai
A cleric from the Enforcement Bureau, dressed in a red robe, led a group of people in different directions.
Mingzhao was still a little uneasy. Her mentor sounded to be of high status and should be quite capable.
She cannot let her guard down, or her true identity will be discovered.
She now understood why the death rate in the Legendary Magic Awakening dungeon was so high.
Maintaining her disguise while undergoing intensive magical training, her road ahead is still long.
The other teams quickly found their mentors, except for Mingzhao.
The red-clad enforcer led Mingzhao a long way, seemingly circling the entire Sea God Temple.
When Mingzhao saw light again, he found himself in a cave on the edge of a cliff.
The cave was small, and the furniture was very simple, but it was kept very tidy.
The officer in red escorted her there and then left.
It was less like leaving and more like teleportation, as if there was something terrifying in the cave.
Mingzhao had many guesses about her mentor, but seeing her in person still felt somewhat unexpected.
An elderly longbrow penguin moved a small stool and sat by the cave, watching the waves crash against the rocks outside.
She was very old; her eyebrows had drooped and their color had changed from yellow to pure white.
Magical creatures in the ocean have long lifespans. Principal Canglan, for example, although he looks quite old, moves and speaks without any hindrance, giving the impression that he could live for a very long time.
Her mentor, however, was different; her age was a kind of aged frailty, giving the impression that she would soon pass away.
When her supervisor saw her, he didn't react in any particular way and started talking to her naturally.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Mei Haihai. My magic attributes are light and water, and I later awakened space and wood attributes."
"You've heard them say that I rarely take on students and won't teach you as patiently as those experienced mentors."
"I can only teach you as much as I know; whether you can understand it or not is up to you."
Mei Haihai has four attributes, and each attribute's magic level increases by one awakening opportunity with each rank advancement.
For mages like them who have awakened multiple elements, there is no such thing as being able to awaken a new element every time they advance in rank.
Instead, they need both systems to awaken to the same level before they can have another chance to awaken.
This means that while mages who initially possess dual elemental attributes have a higher potential, they require more time and resources to develop compared to ordinary mages.
Mei Haihai, who had already awakened two elements at the beginning, awakened two more.
This means that her water and light magic have both been upgraded to advanced levels.
Advanced may seem like only two levels higher than beginner, but the difference between them is significant.
If the beginner level only involves casting small fireballs and water jets to slightly assist in the battle...
That advanced level is the ability to move mountains and fill seas; it's practically a human-shaped natural disaster.
Mingzhao knew this because she had personally witnessed the power of a high-level mage in her previous life.
In their past life, the last national-level challenge that Rabbit Kingdom participated in was against Eagle Kingdom.
Logically speaking, the number of survivors in the Rabbit Kingdom was five times that of the Eagle Kingdom, and everyone was full of confidence when they entered the instance.
Unexpectedly, the Eagle Kingdom mobilized the entire nation to cultivate ten high-level mages.
A single powerful healing spell can completely restore severely injured and downed players to full health.
A single massive tsunami could reduce the entire base that the Rabbit Kingdom has painstakingly built to ruins.
Under overwhelming pressure, the Rabbit Kingdom was defeated with almost no chance of fighting back.
Looking at the elderly long-browed penguin in front of her, Mingzhao could hardly imagine that she possessed such power.
Moreover, when introducing her own attributes, Mei Haihai's tone was so calm, as if she were just introducing an ordinary job.
Mei Haihai completely ignored the shocked and admiring expression on Mingzhao's face.
"I can teach you the spells I know for both light and water magic. As for lightning magic, I can give you the corresponding books. These are all very simple."
"What we need to do most right now is learn how to use the silence spell."
"For most mages, the silence spell is only cast when they are familiar enough with a spell and have mastered the circuit required to cast it, so that they can cast it without verbal guidance."
"But for you, you must build the corresponding circuit silently from the very beginning. Without verbal guidance, this process is a hundred times more difficult."
"But it's not like there's no way out."
"Water Shield!"
Mei Haihai said softly, and runes lit up from her hand, the water curtain hitting the cave wall directly.
The water shield's circuitry was printed directly onto the wall.
Mingzhao was completely shocked. She had studied magic in her previous life and knew that to do something like this, one would need to precisely control the magical power far exceeding that required for basic magic in order to leave such a mark.
Mei Haihai accomplished it with just a casual wave of her hand.
"Start today and try to arrange the elemental forces in your body into this circuit along this pattern."
"As for how to control and absorb elemental power, that should be very simple for you. Just read these two books."
As she spoke, Mei Haihai tossed the two volumes of "Introduction to Ocean Magic" in front of Mingzhao.
Both books were published by the Sea God Magic School, and there's nothing particularly special about them.
It looks old, but the broken parts have been carefully taped back together.
Mei Haihai raised his hand a few more times and engraved several commonly used circuits of the water and light systems on both sides of the cliff.
"You can practice here first. Someone will bring you food every day, and I will come over every night to answer your questions."
After saying that, Mei Haihai jumped down from the cave entrance.
Looking down, she was seen disappearing instantly into the seawater below.
Mingzhao couldn't help but feel ashamed, no wonder Mei Haihai hadn't taken on any students for so many years.
If this were truly a marine resident child student, with her completely self-taught method, she would definitely have to be reported to the school.
However, this was exactly what Mingzhao wanted.
It's important to understand that, compared to improving her magic, her most crucial task was to prevent her identity as a land dweller from being discovered.
Hiding here alone allows her to practice magic without constantly being on guard against revealing her identity.
While Mei Haihai was there, Mingzhao tried her best not to show it, but she was in a state of high tension the whole time.
Only after everyone had left could she finally relax completely.
Mingzhao opened the "Introduction to Ocean Magic" and glanced at it casually.
The introduction to ocean magic is similar to the introduction to alchemy; both involve sensing the surrounding elements and making them your own.
However, the meditation process for magic is more detailed. It requires condensing an elemental core from a whole element and then completing the corresponding circuit to achieve magic.
Mingzhao had already practiced sensing the elements for some time, and her next step was to condense an elemental core under her control.
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