"What is a magic circuit?" Primis touched her lips, tilting her head in curiosity.
"Let's say that, you need to create a fire." Foel casted a spell that let her reconstruct an artificial torch. She then approached Primis and crouched, stabbing the small torch on the ground. "To create a fire, you need to have oxygen and fuel. After that, an ignition is needed to spark life onto this torch.
"Mana is like a fuel, akin to this torch head that is covered with flammable substances, oxygen refers to the available material in the surrounding, and the ignition represents the magic circuit."
A blue fire burned brightly under the shadow of those two petite critters. The fire was reflected on Primis' pupils, enticing her to do the same, if not bigger than the one that had been casted by the tanomobi.
"Wooaa! Aunty Foel! There is a small flicker of runic arrangements in the air on the tip of your finger when the fire starts, is that what you mean by magic circuit?"
"Kekeke, indeed. What I've casted is a 'spell', a series of magic circuits that works for one time activation and implementation utility." Foel took out a blank paper from her spatial storage. "As for what this magic circuit truly is, it's a series of 'gates' made by 'meaning' of any kind of language—even the made up one as long as the caster was conscious of what they had engraved.
"It's then arranged by a special property that only those who could perceive mana and gather them into their Athenaeum. This material is called the 'conductor'."
Foel then taught Primis to draw a certain basic 'gate'. After that, she taught her how to connect it and created a 'pathway' of numerous 'gates'. Connecting the pathway ends onto each other had turned them into working command feedback.
A mana circuit had been carved.
"Magic Circuit? Isn't it called Mana Circuit?" Tuli approached.
"Prolonged junction of time had been turning every cultivation term into a bombastic amount of variation from region to region. Basically, they are the same heh."
Magic Circuit or Mana Circuit, both of them are the same thing. In the beginning, it was called mana circuit but as the time went round and round the world, the term was altered and was mostly mispronounced as magic circuit because of the unforeseen Mandela effect.
This happened a lot for other things such as how people tend to use the word 'array' instead of 'formation', even though 'array' was meant to refer to a sequence of gates made from cultivated runic symbols used by the Primordials.
and the worst one happened to 'athenaeum' as it had been transformed into 'miniature realm' and 'mana sea' as far as the new generation messed up with the term made by their ancestors.
Primis was a fast learner. It was only a few minutes and she had memorized more than ten fundamental mana circuits while also starting to create her own interpretation.
"This is fun!" Primis took a prone position on the ground, wagging her legs with her hand on the pen that she used to scribble numerous circuits that were instructed by Foel.
"Next one is the 'timer' and 'looping' gates, these two were mostly needed in formation creation."
"... I remembered that it took me six months to learn mana circuits because of how complicated it was, and here I'm seeing a child who had just made her breakthrough, managed to recreate more than twenty mana circuits faster than Madam Foel feasting on her snack—OUCH!"
One mana circuit didn't really do anything, only by being connected and circulated with one or more circuits then it could be activated.
The practical was finished. Foel then connected her and Primis' forehead with each other to channel their consciousness strings. By connecting her own to Primis' strings, Foel could perform an example that could be perceived by the Ourarian.
Only by utilizing the marked mana that came from someone's miniature realm, a cultivator could channel the existence of their own mana into a metaphysical material that could interact and harness the mana. This material was referred to as the 'conductor'.
Conductors had an alchemical and catalytic property that was able to manifest the magic circuit onto their intended programming by using mana as their fuel.
Hence why a person without access to their Athenaeum couldn't create this special material necessary for creating mana circuits.
Ten minutes had passed. After the repetition of the conductor's creation, Primis was able to create one on her own.
With precise mathematics and spell assimilation, Primis conjured a floating fire that always stayed in position a few centimeters above her finger tip.
"Fiyaaa!" Primis showcased the fixed burning plasma, opening her other unused arm.
"Fiyaaaaa!" Tuli followed Primis' gesture, and both of them soon giggled together afterwards.
With more guidance from the two senior cultivators, Primis had reached the level of intermediate mana assimilation knowledge such as multiple elemental layers, velocity and acceleration trait augmentation, alchemical material condensing, etc. All of those without needing a stabilizer from a catalyst!
The only thing that's keeping her from leaping onto an expert mana control was her own lacking mana depository. Primis might need to cultivate her way up to the Golden Orb before doing anything crazy.
Primis had only been within the Mana Gathering Phase for a short amount of time in contrast to most people who had practiced their spell after months of tears and drenched sweat.
The successful infinity-fourstrings mana shape breakthrough had helped her to create the very same strong mana shape again and again without any issues with less concentration as if it was in her veins.
As for mana gathering, the position that a cultivator used would determine their compatibility with their main mana shape conversion. Most people prefer Lotus Position but Primis preferred to convert her mana while standing up
The next thing they did was hold Primis' hands tight from each side. Foel at the left, and Tuli on the right. Both of them then slowly ascended into the air, trying to stimulate the feeling and practical reference for the flying spell that Primis wanted to emulate.
"Woah!" Mouth wide open, Primis' eyes sparkled even though this wasn't her first time getting brought by hands into the air. "I think I got it!"
"Kekeke, try constructing the 'floating' spell that we taught you."
Primis successfully assimilated the floating spell that was made out of rather more complex than the usual spell. Using the concept of a gyroscope to accommodate her whole body, the spell core position was centered on every end of the limbs to promote stability.
The repulsion then got erected from determining the gravity. The feeling was too foreign for her so it didn't immediately give her the ability to gracefully soar in the sky.
"I'm flying! I think!"
"You definitely aren't flying yet." Tuli smirked. "If Madam Foel and I let you go, you would immediately reshape your whole stability axis and then accelerate into the ground!"
"If she did accelerate into the ground, you will experience the same thing with thrice the speed." Foel chuckled, letting her amusement pass through her emotionless face once in a while.
Both of them descend again and let Primis follow her own training regime of getting used to being a living gyroscope. The Ourarian took her time step by step to raise her floating height centimeters by centimeters.
'I can stably fly upward into the sky!'
Primis was able to float a few meters and maintain her position for a few min before getting exhausted. The hardest part was to move in the air, flying straight forward or maneuvering to shift direction was harder than it seemed.
Every attempt in wafting horizontally resulted in a sharp diagonal crash onto the ground.
"You can do it, Primis!"
"We're rooting for you~"
With a determined face, she remembered the giant Calamity she saw soaring in the sky, flapping its enormous wings. Instead of focusing on the gravitational repellant force, she mustered all of her strength on flapping her hands like bird wings as fast and hard as she could.
It resulted in an awkward flying motion. Tuli was trying her best to hold her laughter after seeing Primis' funny face.
Foel couldn't help but let it all unfold, it was her first time seeing a sweet summer child this pure and hot in terms of summer determination.
Both of them were grinning like an idiot while Primis struggled to maintain her floating momentum.
The Ouroboros had finally finished her scheming session with Cyanotype. Feeling carefree with everything that she had prepared to bestow an Occult Seed to her beloved wife, she began to stretch her perception to detect her family whereabouts.
Seeing the three of them in the vast garden of the small mansion, MF descended down, only to see a hellspawn and tanomobi grinning and chuckling while her first child was flapping her hands and crashing constantly.
'Huwaa! What did they do to my child!?'