Chapter 2 Novice Magic Water Defense

Three days later, Chen Xin brought Ning Rongrong and Zhao Ya to a nearby Spirit Hunting Forest.

The bamboos were softly swaying, the top of the bamboo moving rhythmically with the wind.

Looking up at the setting sun, Chen Xin sighed, "Looks like we will have to camp here tonight."

Sprinkling powder to repel bugs and snakes, Chen Xin went to hunt something for dinner.

As Ning Rongrong and Zhao Ya sat around the campfire, a rustling in the bushes caught Zhao Ya's attention.

It was a wolf two meters high with earth brown fur.

"Zhao Ya." Ning Rongrong grasped the back of Zhao Ya's clothes, trembling in fear.

With a flip of her hand, a dagger appeared in Zhao Ya's hand. The dagger was 12cm long and 3cm wide. It was extremely sharp and made of special metal, cutting iron like mud.

After awakening her martial spirit, Zhao Ya noticed a tiny bit of stardust within her previously empty Spiritual World.

This stardust was extremely important to Mages; it measured the Mage's cultivation. The stardust existed within the Spiritual World of Mages, and the more that occupied the void, the stronger the power of the Mage!

As long as there was a star cluster within the Spiritual World, no matter how weak and feeble it was, it meant that the awakening was successful!

It looked like a small, blue-indigo colored star cluster. Comparing it to the rest of the Spiritual World, the cluster did not look like dust.

Red represents the Fire Element.

Green represents the Wind Element.

Brown represents the Earth Element.

Blue-Indigo represents the Water Element.

Gold represents the Light Element.

Purple represents the Lightning Element.

In fact, the awakening in the beginning was very important. If it was a Fire Element, then one could possess a certain level of combat prowess as a Primary-level Magician. That allowed future cultivation to happen much more easily.

The Primary-level Water Element skill was 'Water Defense,' and its defensive power was not as strong as the Earth Element. If one was not proficient in it, then the effects were not very clear. At the very least, that's how it worked among the Primary-rank Mages.

If one said the Fire Element was the first choice of all the common Mages, then the Lightning Element was the beautiful grace bestowed from the Heavens. The Lightning power was more tyrannical than the Fire Element. It allowed Primary-rank Magicians to possess a combat prowess that exceeded others.

The activation of Magic consisted of only three very simple steps:

Step 1 - Meditation

Step 2 - Control

Step 3 - Activation

Meditation, just as the name implied, required one to use their fullest attention to concentrate.

When a person closed their eyes, their mind constantly wandered into different scenes.

However, if one were to empty one's mind and remain in an undisturbed state, one's mind would become an empty space!

After the magic awakening, a star cluster corresponding to the Element would emerge within that empty world.

In other words, as long as Zhao Ya closed her eyes and didn't think about anything while allowing her mind to enter a dark, cosmos like space, then the star cluster of Water elements would emerge within the empty space.

The Water Element's star cluster was blue-indigo and it looked just like other cosmic dust: magnificent and aesthetically pleasing.

Within the star cluster of the Water Element was seven stars. These stars were recklessly orbiting around within that small star cluster, just like seven mischievous children, energetically running around.

For any Mage who had awakened, as long as they could cause the star cluster to appear within the empty space, and see the bright, child-like stars within the cluster, then they would have completed the Meditation step.

One could even say that this first step was unexpectedly simple. The homework assigned to the students for the first two months was this alone.

The second step of Magic Activation was also very simple.

Within the star cluster were seven lively and energetic stars that were orbiting around frantically.

Control… It meant they had to use their own thoughts to control these stars, making them stop, and placing them into a designated spot to form a Star Path.

Once they had successfully formed the Star Path, the Magic Power would be conducted through the Star Path into the Magician's body, thus becoming genuine Magic as they activate it!

The process of controlling the stars…

Well, how to put this?

It's like an advanced domino set up.

In other words, if you were to carefully place four domino bricks down, and if there was not even the slightest wobbling, then it would count as completing a small step.

If a domino brick wasn't placed properly, then it'd tip over and you'd have to start all over again!

The stars were just like that. Firstly, you would have to target a star and use your thoughts to make it stop. In the process of making them stop, you would have to concentrate all of your attention on it. Even if you experienced resistance from a star that led to a great headache, you'd still have to grit your teeth and not let it distract your focus.

Only when grinding your teeth could you centralize your focus within your mind to control them, and make them stop; only then, could you make some of the violent stars obediently follow your control.

After you were in control of one star, then you would have to split your consciousness and do the same thing in order for you to firmly control the second one.

If one were to accidentally put too much attention on the second star, and not continue to put in the same focus on the first one, then the originally obedient star would immediately orbit away. Additionally, it would also take away the second star that was in the process of being controlled, and waste the entire effort.

"Water Defense!"

The seven stars obediently arranged themselves in a Star Path and a circular barrier of water appeared around Ning Rongrong and Zhao Ya as the wolf bit down.