Volume 3 - CH 7

The stone carving skill that Torque taught him was the way to do it with a wand. Now, Almark does not have a wand in his hand.

But even if he had a wand, he would not know how to use magic with it. It would be fine as it is.

He could use his finger tips as a wand. He could imagine that the magic would go from his fingertips to the backside of the stone.

Almark bent down in front of the stone.

Yilmaz looks at Almark with a furrowed brow.

(Watch ,teacher . The results of my training .)

Almark thought.

Thanks to the meditation he has been doing, he thought, he can now do stone carving .

Almark gently touched the surface of the stone with his right index finger.

Feeling the cool touch of the stone, he closes his eyes.

(Good.)

(Here, I will knead the magic. Meditation.)

He breathes in and focuses his concentration.

He slowly recall Torque's words.

“Close your eyes and breathe deeply."

"Feel the magic inside your body."

As he remembers each of these words, he gradually swells the magical power in his body.

(Imagine strongly that you are gathering the magic power to the tip of the wand.)

(Concentrate the magic power that has flowed to a single point.)

(Feel your own magic power gathering at the tip of your finger.)

(Then, while exhaling sharply, imagine the magic power penetrating through to the back side of the stone. ......)

(The power to break the stone is gathered in my fingertips.)

(Good.)

Almark was convinced of success.

All that was left was to apply it.

But just then.

Suddenly, Almark's meditation was interrupted by a noise.

The noise could have been described as intuition.

(Wait, my gut is telling me.)

(Is this really what I need to do?)

(Is it really okay to just activate the magic?)

Almark wondered why he felt such anxiety after all this time.

Was it because he had failed last time that he was afraid to use magic? Did his resolve sway at the last minute?

(You decided to do it . To repay Wendy's kindness, I'm going to ......)

Almark remembered Wendy's face.

Wendy was always so kind to him. She had encouraged Almark earlier, even though he was about to take the exam.

(What did Wendy say?)

"Don't worry. Believe in what you've achieved so far."

(Yes, that's what Wendy said.)

(What I have achieved so far, )

(Believe in what you have achieved.)

Wendy's words flashed through his mind like a flash of lightning. At that moment, Almark felt as if the fog inside his head instantly lifted.

The identity of the ominous intuition he had felt earlier took concrete form in Almark's mind.

At the same time, the words that other classmates had said to him before the exam flashed through his mind one after another.

“Keep a clear head, Almark,'

“You're the one who needs to be nervous . You think you can do something?"

"you know teacher always says. what you see is not that important."

Everyone had different words, but they were all going in the same direction.

(Everyone had already given me the answer. I was the only one who didn't understand. The answer was already inside me.)

Almark opened his eyes.

He gently removed his finger from the stone.

He kneels down in front of the stone and slowly sits down on the floor.

His eyes meet Yilmaz's, who looks at him suspiciously.

Almark gave a small nod and closed his eyes again.

( Teacher said, to show what I archived in class. He didn't say anything about what to do with the stone.)  

(What is my achievement in this class?)

(It's ...... this, meditation.)

Almark feels his mind released from its tension and becomes clear and refreshed.

(I will do what I can do now.)

Almark concentrated and formulated the magic in his body.

Carefully, carefully, he remembered all the advice he had been given by teacher and did exactly as he had been taught

(I felt the quality of the magic in my body increase and become clearer to the extent that I could tell.)

This is meditation, Almark thought to himself in amazement. He had never concentrated to this degree before. He had already forgotten that this was an exam.

Okay, enough ," said teacher.

His voice brought him back to reality , and he finally opened his eyes, remembering that this was an exam.

T/N We    had reached chapter  50  and overcame 10000 views point  . I  wanna thanks you for that . i hope you wil continue reading  that series in the future despite my rough translations  .