CH 337

While everyone was consoling Archer who was still in shock, discussing Yao Zi’s impressive feat and how incredible the wizard’s bloodline was. No one even noticed that she was called away by Lin Xiao for a lecture.

Other than Elena and ShenDai Ying that were there, the only outsider left was Abra.

He stood silently to the side and even purposely stepped back a bit so that he could listen to what Lin Xiao was unsatisfied with and why he was rebuking her.

“Yao Zi, why did you purposely scare Archer earlier?”

“No, I-I didn’t… I just didn’t want to destroy the buildings so I could only choose that spot… I didn’t do it on purpose!”

She clearly did well yet she was lectured by Lin Xiao, no matter how good of a temper she had, she still felt wronged and pouted.

“No choice?” Lin Xiao furrowed his brows and looked at the collapsed dirt to the distance and patiently explained, “Yao Zi, you accumulated a lot of magic, so yours would be much larger scale than Archer’s. It was enough to cover the entire street and in order to not damage the buildings on the two sides, so you placed the formation in the center of the street and almost injured Archer, right?”

“Un, so you can tell… actually I knew that Archer was in a safe place. There’s a lot of space in the center so as long as he doesn’t run around he definitely wouldn’t get hurt, so I…” Yao Zi feebly replied.

Lin Xiao clearly knew of her considerations so why was he so angry?

“Sigh, Yao Zi, you still don’t get it.” Lin Xiao sighed and asked in an incredulous manner, “Yao Zi, could it be that you don’t know you can alter the magic’s form?”

“Eh? What do you mean?”

Yao Zi blinked, not understanding what Lin Xiao meant.

“Let me ask you, the rock burst formation has a total of six pillars spread evenly across the corners of a hexagon, right?”

“Right.”

“Because the hexagon was too big, you cast it in the center of the street, right?”

“Yes.”

“Then have you thought about flattening and elongating the shape?”

“Eh?”

Yao Zi heard something she couldn’t believe.

A magic’s set shape could be altered?

“The reason it’s a hexagon is to properly make use of the full power, but right now you’re not using it against an enemy, so you can change the shape. You can narrow it and even change it to an oval and avoid Archer… have you not considered that?”

“No…” Yao Zi honestly responded.

That choice didn’t even exist to Yao Zi, let alone her considering it. It was like Lin Xiao’s words awakened her to a whole new world.

“My god, don’t tell me…”

When Lin Xiao saw Yao Zi’s surprised expression, he realized that she was just simply dumb and not purposely talking back. So he let go of his stern attitude and patiently explained.

Actually, he should have realized a long time ago.

When he was experimenting with her he should have noticed her weak control of magic. At that time he was only focused on testing her limits and didn’t realize this fatal weak point of the wizard’s bloodline.

Although she can gather an enormous amount of magic power from the atmosphere, that power wasn’t hers in the end.

That power still makes others revere it, but when that power surpasses what the individual can control, then it can become the enemy…

Yao Zi could use external magic power and skip steps to directly cast powerful spells, the strength was that it didn’t depend on her own magic power, but at the same time, there was a weakness, manipulation.

Magic power and magic were different concepts, one was an intangible concept, the other was tangible. Yao Zi’s power could help her with the first, but not the second, which required precise magic control.

“Yao Zi, listen up,, you can freely adjust the placements of the pillars. You can also adjust other magics in similar ways, try it next time, you just have to mentally manipulate it when gathering magic power…”

And so, Lin Xiao dragged Yao Zi over and began explaining the most fundamental and simple knowledge. Yet that was already a lot for Yao Zi,

So it turns out that magic could be freely manipulated?

“I really can’t figure you guys out…”

Elena shook her head as she watched Yao Zi listen attentively to Lin Xiao who was patiently teaching her and had complex feelings.

Actually, Elena already knew about the weakness of her power, she just never bothered mentioning it since it had nothing to do with her. But she also didn’t think it was as serious of a problem until Lin Xiao especially pointed it out.

Elena suddenly felt that Yao Zi was nothing special.

Compared to Yao Zi, Lin Xiao was clearly much stronger.

As for magic power, Lin Xiao had robust magic power and was high level, and Yao Zi had unlimited power, so it looked like she had a leg up, but was that really the case?

As for magic control, Lin Xiao could do complex tricks, and Yao Zi couldn’t even do the most basic of adjustments.

As for magic knowledge, Lin Xiao stayed in the Loran Academy library all the time and had memorized all kinds of magic theories by heart and even managed to learn the latest magic theory deconstruction. While Yao Zi didn’t even know the basics and just relied on her talent to get by and was gradually learning thanks to Lin Xiao.

Elena made a wry smile. These two, in a certain sense, were the perfect master-disciple pair.

Perhaps the only one that could be Yao Zi’s teacher was Lin Xiao, no one else was qualified.

And the only one worthy of being personally taught by Lin Xiao was Yao Zi.

While the master and disciple were having their magic lesson, Elena and ShenDai Ying were standing to the side and acting as his helper, while Abra had cold sweats.

Their conversation was too terrifying that even Abra was stupefied.

Why was this youth called Lin Xiao able to guide Yao Zi?

Could it be…

“Sigh, as expected of the wizard’s bloodline.”

At that time a familiar voice interrupted Abra’s train of thought.

He looked up and saw Archer coming over with the others while muttering nonstop.

“It’s no match, really, she’s too strong. I painstakingly practiced for ten years and was finally able to grasp the essence of that magic, but this little girl was able to use it on her first try and it was even stronger than mine… sigh, what is this.”

Archer spoke while hanging his head and was clearly depressed. Seeing that, the others quickly comforted him.

“Archer, you don’t need to be so down, we’re just normal people after all and she’s a genius chosen by the goddess so how can we compare?”

“That’s right, you’re not going to get anywhere by comparing yourself to her! Not just you, perhaps even the genius Caesar can’t compare? Look at him, he’s still levelheaded, so you have to learn more from these youngsters. Although Caesar is still younger, he’s more mature.”

“Sigh, you guys are right…”

With everyone’s consolations, Archer’s mood finally stabilized a bit. He slowly walked back to Abra and sighed.

“Abra, she already proved her strength, I’m no match… so let her join. With her, we will surely succeed.” Archer spoke listlessly and it felt like he instantly lost a lot of hair.

“Hm, joining the team, huh…” Abra gently responded and was clearly a bit absent-minded.

“Hm? Abra, what’s wrong?”

Everyone was stunned when they saw Abra’s manner.

Yao Zi already proved herself and everyone already agreed to her joining, so why was he still acting so vague?

“Cough, don’t be so impatient… as for joining the team I still have to think about it.”

“What?”

Everyone was surprised when they heard him.

“Abra, is there something wrong with you? We already agreed before that she could join if she could prove herself, so how can you go back on your word?”

“That’s right and she’s so strong, so with her, we can surely chase the demonic beasts away! what are you hesitating for?”

Faced with their questions, Abra waved his hands to get them to quiet down. Then he fell silent and made a decision.

“I still have to discuss this matter over with them.”

He ignored everyone else’s doubts and chased them all out. Then he took Lin Tian, Yao Zi, Lin Xiao, and the others back into the small room.

“Uncle, what do you want?”

“Now that it’s just us left, I’ll keep it short.”

Abra closed the door and spoke quietly.

“There’s no problem with letting Lin Tian and Yao Zi join, but I have a request.”

“What request?”

“Lin Xiao, please join us!”

“Wait… what?”