Time Twister

Maybe, at this stage, the number of concentric circles were already to the point that there is no more s.p.a.ce in the middle, resulting the formation of a dot? Maybe, the 81st cla.s.s magic circle refers to magic returning to origin, of its essence as a spell? After all, the ever-transforming runic writing seemed to showcase this idea, where one is at the point of multiple possibilities.

Doesn"t that mean, every magical spell I have, as long as it is within the control of s.p.a.ce-time elements, it would easily be optimized to the 81st-cla.s.s magic circle? But my pseudo spells aren"t 81st-cla.s.s magic circles, however. Could I refine them as I improve my comprehension of s.p.a.ce-time, before merging all my magic circles in the Legendary stage?

As Xander continued to entertain this idea, Ms. Lim continued on to discuss the structure of magic circles, as well as the runic writings engraved on these circles.

"I have mentioned earlier that one needs to continuously increase their understanding of their selected pseudo-magic circles to ensure greater chances of creating higher-cla.s.s magic circles upon reaching Master cla.s.s. To do this, one needs 2 things: Talent and a creative mind. Another way magicians do to increase their understanding of the magic circles is through reading the runic writing in their circles." At this point, Ms. Lim"s voice suddenly turned grave.

"The runic writing varies per person per spell, and usually, the stronger the spell, the more complex and more dangerous this method would be."

A girl that sat beside Xander raised her hand, and asked,

"Why would reading runic writing be dangerous? Aren"t they formed by our own influence and power?"

"Trisha, you are partially correct to say that the runic writing has our influence (our life force) and power (our primary element). However, you need to ask: Did you make the spell? You didn"t make the spell, as you merely copied it from another source and edited it a bit, but the unedited parts remain there."

"The danger of reading and meditating upon these runic writings is shown through the manifestation of power. Since it is within your mind, it can create powerful, realistic illusions that immerses you to some truths about the magic circle; if one isn"t careful, one can fall into deviation in magic cultivation and become psychotic magicians, or even have magic backfire, making you a cripple if you survive."

"If you do survive the illusion, or break the illusion, it is guaranteed that you would increase comprehension at least 10%. We"ll discuss more about meditation later on in cla.s.s."

"Now you may be wondering that besides the fact you need to use your comprehension of 9 spells to make your magic circle, what else is its function? Why take the risk of meditating upon the runic writing? The answer is that once you create your founding magic circle in the Master cla.s.s, the succeeding levels will require you to create magic spells that you get from combining at least 2 of your 9 pseudo-magic circles."

"You may think this is similar to what you initially did to get to Master cla.s.s, but it is not. What you used before is comprehension of the pseudo-magic circles to create a new magic circle, but the new magic circle isn"t necessarily a combination of all 9 pseudo-magic circles. To advance to Master-2, you need one spell that combines at least 2 pseudo-magic circles. To advance to Master-3, one needs to combine 3-pseudo magic circles, and so on, until reaching Master-9, requiring them to combine all 9 pseudo-magic circles."

Ms.Lim paused for a bit and asked the cla.s.s,

"But first, how do you combine two separate pseudo-magic circles? This is done through completely understanding at least one facet of the two magic circles! Of course, this only increases the chance of successfully combining them. The more facets you understand about a magic circle, the higher the chances become. This is why I mentioned again and again that the spells you select for your magical seeds must be complementary or at least in the same element/supporting element/non-conflicting element, and at the same time, you need to have a high level of comprehension, if not perfect."

Ms. Lim showed another projection, this time, there were 5 magic seeds, and based on the color and shape, each had a different element.

"This is where the problems of having more than 3 primary elements appear. Beyond 3 primary elements, the permutation of elemental affinities become near incalculable, making it a challenge to see whether the 4, 5, 6, etc. elemental magic circle will be formed correctly. However, this can also be a blessing; what if your 4, 5, 6, etc. primary elements were coincidentally complementary to one another, or non-conflicting? What you have, my dear students, would be a person who is considered Heaven"s child. As long as they manage to reach Master-9, it is even possible for them to challenge the weakest of the legendary magicians."

At this point, multiple mathematical formulations appeared in the projection, covering multiple aspects of a magic circle and the corresponding spell, showing the estimated calculations for 4, 5, and 6 primary elements which showed an exponential trend. The students were also becoming a bit dizzy just trying to read and understand it. Xander had already snapped out of his thoughts and saw the numbers, and couldn"t help but nod in agreement. Afterall, he had also calculated the permutations with the help of his tutor, Helena and his father"s friends and collegues.

"The real challenge is when you reach Master-9, and are preparing for breaking through to Legendary Cla.s.s. Since this isn"t part of the course, and will be taught in Advanced Magic course, I"ll just give you guys an idea about it: Unity." She gave the cla.s.s a crafty smile, while some of the students were confused about what she just said about Legendary cla.s.s.

Ms. Lim continued to discuss on miscellaneous matters that Xander had already known from reading the books for this course. Time quickly pa.s.sed by. 15 minutes before the end of the cla.s.s, Ms. Lim announced them that the school has set a cultivation requirement that the members of the advanced track program must achieve: By the end of the semester, they should be higher than their original cultivation by 2 levels.

Currently, Xander was Elite-8, and he could modify the magical fluctuations he released with the help of [Absolute Defense]; at the moment, he showed a cultivation level of Elite-2 when he was finishing up the forms and requirements earlier today.

After announcing this, Ms. Lim then began to introduce the building"s facilities. Xander didn"t bother listening as he had explored the facilities already and already got a general gist of them.

"Alright, if there are no more questions, you guys are dismissed and free to do their own thing. See you all tomorrow." Ms. Lim left the building and everyone began clearing their desks and dispersing.

Xander talked to a few of the students he had gotten close to for a few minutes before heading out to his next cla.s.s, Elemental Control. The cla.s.s was held in the wide building just behind his first cla.s.sroom. As he exited the building, he heard someone calling his name.

"Hey! Xander, wait up!" Faykes shouted, moving quickly towards him. Xander raised his eyebrow in confusion and decided to continue heading to the wide building.

"Sheesh, Xander slow down a bit!" Faykes groaned, trying to catch up to Xander. He was inwardly surprised, since he was already using wind and water magic to boost his speed, he should have easily caught up with Xander, or at least decreased the distance between the two of them.

This got Faykes to be pumped up; He continued pouring magic into his body, boosting his speed and control. In a few seconds, he finally decreased the distance by half, but no matter how much he poured in, he could not decrease the distance anymore.

Looking behind, Xander suddenly grinned and moved faster, and to anyone observing, it seemed that he was just moving the same pace. However, if one was actually attempting to follow him, they would notice that the distance between the two of them was continuously widening.

Seeing this, Faykes almost wanted to curse; after all, he could not even detect a hint of magic in the body of Xander; how was he able to move faster than him?? This simple "game" continued for a few minutes until Xander reached the wide building where the Elemental Control cla.s.s would be held. Annoyingly, the entrance of the building was on the opposite side of the first building, so he had to move around the wide building to get to the entrance.

"Whoever designed such a building should just go die," Xander mumbled. He immediately stopped by the entrance and scanned his watch on the door. He was granted access and the door automatically opened.

At this point, a problem occurred. Faykes didn"t initially notice that he was already by the building entrance, so he wasn"t able to slow down properly. He began decreasing the magic input on his body and shouted at Xander, "Make way! I can"t stop!!"

Xander looked at him like he was an idiot. He knew the protocols of the school buildings here. He immediately entered the building and door closed immediately. Seeing the closed door, Faykes knew he was going to be in a lot of pain and braced himself for impact and closed his eyes.

However, before he reached the door of the building, a beeping sound alarmed, and instantly, a beam struck him.

At that point, Faykes" thoughts were in a mess. Why didn"t it hurt? Am I dead? Wait, why am I not moving? s.h.i.t, are my bones broken?

After a few seconds, he tried to open his eyes, but he couldn"t do so; however, he could hear that the beeping sound had subsided.

After a few minutes, there were two people that appeared beside Faykes, one of which, a man, muttered,

"d.a.m.n it, it"s just the first day and there are two incidences happening in the advanced track cla.s.s?"

His partner, a long-haired woman, just giggled and looked at the recordings of the building. As she was scrolling to the time frame where the event occurred, something caught her eye.

"Oh? This seems interesting. Brian, look at this." She gestured her collegue Brian closer and showed him the video.

"What is it Amelia? ...Ah? So the defense protocol was activated accidentally. So this kid here was just chasing the other student, huh?" Brian said, before his shouting once again.

"WAIT! How was he able to move like that?? I can actually sense elemental nomological properties in his movements? What element is this? Air? No, it doesn"t seem flighty or even elegant. Earth? It"s not it as well since there"s no hint of st.u.r.diness in his movements... Could it be? No, that"s impossible." Brian muttered. Upon hearing this, Amelia couldn"t help but be surprised.

"Nomological properties were detected? Are you sure, Brian? From the looks of the kid, he looked like 7 or 8 years old. We know that elemental nomological properties only appear when that person has grasped a key aspect of an element. Are you saying this kid managed to do something Mythic magicians have been attempting to do to breakthrough to the next cla.s.s?"

Brian snapped out of stupor and responded earnestly, "No, I"m sure of it, it has the trace of elemental nomological properties. I can"t confirm right now whether the element I"m thinking of is what the kid has."

"What do you think it is?" Amelia asked, curious how a kid could elicit such a fervent response from Brian, who was known as ice-cold in the university.

Brian shook his head, and began furiously typing on his watch; the video recordings from the nearby buildings were also played. He deleted the video recordings from the buildings" monitoring system databank and set the level of confidentiality to 9 stars, the second highest level. Even Amelia wouldn"t have any access to the videos.

Using his authority, he changed the coding of the monitoring system: Upon detecting the kid in the video, it would automatically be set to 9 stars confidentiality level and sent to the main database of the university, before being deleted in the monitoring system.

"Amelia, do not breathe a word out of this incident to anyone, except to the Dean and the Vice-Dean if they ask. This is a cla.s.sified 9-star confidential information. Also, if I"m not mistaken, you are going to teach the Elemental Control cla.s.s this semester, correct? Make sure to take note of the kid." Brian looked at Amelia solemnly, and Amelia had realized the gravity of the situation and nodded in response.

"What about the kid outside?"

"That kid? Just let him thaw before the cla.s.s starts. You know that the gel released by the defense system is formulated based on the elements of the opposing party, making sure it counters/hinders their ability. Since that kid showed water and wind elements, probably the gel mixture this time is based on ice and earth elements; just use a fire element nearby to slowly melt the structure."

Brian waved his hand, not caring about this matter anymore. His attention was caught by something else: Xander.

Xander, who was busy exploring the wide building, didn"t have any idea of what had happened outside the building.