Chapter 124 Test
How can I describe my feelings about this breakfast?
Perhaps "sitting on pins and needles" would be a more appropriate description.
Throughout the entire breakfast, Miyuki, who had deliberately moved to the opposite seat, kept staring intently at my every move. Eventually, even Hikari, who was completely oblivious to my thoughts, noticed something was amiss and looked us up and down with a slightly curious gaze.
What just happened between you two?
Faced with the curious question, Shen Xue and I exchanged a glance and responded by shaking our heads.
"I've finished eating, now I'm going to practice my sword."
Hastily putting down her cutlery, Miyuki pushed open the door and left with her sword. Her footsteps pattered crisply and quickly on the wooden floor before disappearing from sight, leaving behind the distant clanging of swords clashing.
Hikari, who had become thoughtful again, nodded slightly and did not choose to ask any further questions.
After a quiet breakfast, Hikari took her handmade wooden brush and snacks and went to find the Pegasus herd that had been waiting for a long time, while I prepared to go back inside to kill some time.
It was nearly seven o'clock when I happened to bump into Ai An as I was walking in the corridor. She was rubbing her eyes, looking a little sleepy.
Perhaps due to his improper sleeping posture, his frizzy, milky-gray fur was sticking up haphazardly, like a silver fox hamster that had just woken up, blinking his eyes constantly. This prompted me to instinctively reach out and ruffle his fur a couple of times. The sensation was like burying myself deep within the fine fur of an animal, which startled the boy. He froze in place for a moment before finally managing to recover, politely greeting me before quickly heading towards the restaurant.
I'm a little worried that I'll be disliked or that this will cause offense.
But I figured that children's feelings come and go quickly, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
Anne Fains, who played the wildest game last night, even boasting about wanting to wage war against everyone present for three hundred rounds using card games as the main method, but losing every single time, is still not awake. Whether she's exhausted or ashamed to be seen, she's simply lying in bed.
Hikari mentioned before leaving that she would check on the other person's condition around 10 o'clock, so I don't need to worry too much. It seems better to leave these matters to the girls themselves to handle internally.
So I'm okay again?
Suddenly, I started to miss the miscellaneous books in the miniature garden. When I was bored, I could just flip through them to pass the time; if that didn't work, I could chat with Yao and see what progress she had made; and if all else failed, there were the restored medieval artifacts, which at least made the game more fun.
People get bored easily and feel restless.
After thinking it over, I realized the daylight was just right. If I didn't want to waste time sleeping, I should get down to business.
For example, take another look at your control over the elements, which you were halfway through this morning.
With a renewed sense of joy, I first went to the storage room located deep in the corridor of the hot spring cabin, opposite the hot spring, and carried the lounge chair stored there back to my room. I then added comfortable backrest and seat cushions to it, adjusted it to a comfortable position, and finally lay down again.
Perhaps warmed by body heat, the silver ring that had been removed from my arm radiated a faint warmth. After infusing it with a little magic, and with a thought, it transformed back into a pristine ring, identical to the one before, accompanied by a soft, spreading white light.
I originally planned to log in directly, but after a moment's thought, I realized that there were still some experiments to be done before that, so I slowed down what I was doing.
From what I've seen so far, the magic ring is less of a tangible substance and more of a semi-floating halo that automatically follows its owner. Like a magic circle or the essence of magic, its size and position can be changed at will, with only its color and shape varying slightly depending on the owner.
Just like the two deep blue circles that appeared on the right wrist of the Frost Tower Master on the night of the auction, with four directional diamond-shaped halos extending outwards.
Or perhaps it was Hikari's pure white magic, her mentor's silver magic, and Professor Adrian's stardust-like magic.
By simply confirming the traces, colors, or by forcibly verifying the essential attributes remaining within the magic at a higher level, one can easily distinguish the subtle differences between the target and the object.
It's like a unique identifier that everyone has.
However, if we think about it this way, as something that replicates the nature of a magic ring, could the [simulated magic ring] itself also possess certain properties similar to the real magic ring? If so, perhaps in the future we could free up our hands and not have to pay too much attention to its safety, and we could even try to apply it to combat scenarios.
We did it right away.
I tried it out, and the final conclusion is: it works.
As I slowly relaxed my grip, the white ring, placed a short distance above my knees, wobbled slightly before quickly finding its balance and hovering steadily in mid-air. When I signaled for it to flip, it spun smoothly halfway around without any hesitation, stabilizing in mid-air once more, showing no sign of falling.
The same applies to horizontal, vertical, and lateral movement.
The subsequent auxiliary tests also exceeded my expectations.
When casting the same spell, the difference between opening and closing the spell ring is almost more than half. Although this is only the difference between minor spells, and I haven't dared to use more advanced spells casually, in actual combat, even a difference of only one percent is enough to affect the change in combat power.
"No wonder my mentor keeps urging me to advance to the next rank as soon as possible... If I were to extrapolate based on my current feelings, even a mage who has only reached the initial stage of opening a magic ring would be far more powerful than those mages who have reached the end of opening a magic array, almost to the point of being invincible... But this is not something I can achieve just by wanting to."
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