Chapter 12: The Blue Stone

Chapter 12 The Blue Stone

Monica on the stage didn’t care if her actions scared the children around her, she stretched out her index finger and her fingertip twisted the crystal ball as easily as if she was twisting up candy.

“Meditation. By immersing yourself through your mental power, you perceive the elements around you and pull them into your body, merging them with your own magic power. This is the most steady way to raise your magic power.”

The crystal ball spun slightly at Monica’s fingertips, and white bright arcs of electricity flashed inside every now and then.

“Meditation, too, can stabilize your mental state. If one day you can realize that you are about to lose your mind, you can try using meditation to maintain a certain degree of lucidity.”

Monica hooked her red lips and smiled slightly, as if she had thought of something interesting.

“Of course, if you can’t solve the cause of the disorder, the madness will still be mad.”

Next Monica began to instruct the new apprentice on how to enter meditation.

She had each one choose one of the meditation atlases in front of them that looked the best to them, or the one that made them the least dizzy, and look through the crystal ball in front of them.

Sol endured his discomfort and quickly turned over the atlas in his hand.

He felt dizzy looking at each one, and in the end, he could only choose a diagram that made him less uncomfortably nauseous to spread out.

It was a diagram of multiple figures walking in circles.

At the highest point of the figure was a normal adult man, and to his left was an almost identical portrait of a man, but on closer inspection the two didn’t move quite the same way.

The second man slightly bends his knees and raises his hands.

The third man looks similar, but you can already see that his hands are outstretched to the sides of his body and his knees are bent while his heels are slightly raised.

In this way each individual moves differently, like the original animation, and finally forms a walking movement change chart.

In this way Saul remembered the principle of making animation.

He followed the densely packed figures, one by one, only to realize with a jolt when he saw the inverted figure at the bottom of the pattern that the person’s appearance had, at some point, changed into an octopus monster!
This change was not sudden.

When Saul looked back again, he did not feel that there was any difference between each figure and the next, but the pattern of the figure at the bottom, again, was indeed an octopus figure.

A man walked and turned into a monster, but in the middle of it, he didn’t notice anything wrong.

It was as if the man, originally, was an octopus monster!
Saul endured his dizziness and continued to look upward counterclockwise, this time, he not only paid attention to the changes in the movements of the characters, but also paid attention to the differences in each of the drawings.

There seemed to be a change, and then there seemed to be none.

By the time he looked back at the topmost pattern, the monster, again, had become a human.

Saul finally couldn’t hold it together, his hands slammed over his eyes, and he fell backwards.

However, before he fell to the ground, a pair of hands suddenly held his back and lifted him up.

There were also cacophonous laughter from his side.

Saul’s eyes were tearing up and he couldn’t see, so he thought it was Korrie who had helped him, and only whispered “Thank you”.

“It’s nothing to laugh about. He fell to the ground because he watched the whole chart, unlike you guys, who flinch at the first sign of dizziness!”

The voice rang out, and Saul realized that it was actually Mentor Monica who had held him up.

At that moment, his eyes stopped stinging so much and he barely opened them, seeing the woman beside him in a blur.

Monica couldn’t help but smile as she looked at the teary-eyed little boy. Looking down to check the pattern Saul had chosen, a moment of surprise flashed in her eyes.

But she quickly regained her gentleness.

“Exploration is brave, but you should also pay attention to moderation. You have good mental strength, try to see if you can pass through the crystal ball and immerse yourself in it.”

“Thank you, Mentor.”

It seemed that Saul was a quick starter, and Monica actually used him as an example to guide the other newcomers.

This made quite a few newcomers old people envious.

Saul also lived up to his expectations and immersed himself straight away on his first attempt.

Entering the state of meditative immersion and then observing through the crystal ball, that diagram of a man-monster walking would not be dizzying.

An image of a character and monster floated up from the paper and reflected into Saul’s mind.

Soon, everything around them became blurred, and the voices seemed to come from the distant sky.

Everything dimmed and soon brightened again.

What re-lighted Sol’s world was a small, colorful ball of light.

Sol immediately tugged at the closest little ball of light under Monica’s guidance, guiding it to melt a little into his brow. Very smoothly, the first elemental particle honestly followed Saul into his body and fused into a certain bubble-like existence within his mind.

Thor was so excited that he immediately began the next tug.

He, however, did not notice that Mentor Monica’s scowl on the side suddenly frowned.

She left from Saul’s side and walked around the classroom, allowing all the other new apprentices to try meditating like Saul.

Not all of the new apprentices were able to immerse themselves straight away like Saul, and many of them hadn’t even found a suitable meditation chart yet.

“Take your crystal balls with you, it will help isolate you from dangerous things and keep your meditations stable. I don’t recommend that you detach your crystal ball and meditate directly until you’re at level two.”

Monica returned to the front of the line, relentlessly talking about the points to note for meditation, but not instructing the others herself as she had instructed Saul.

This caused some people to feel resentful in their hearts, how did a sorcerer apprentice who had obviously cheated successfully deserve to receive the most attention from their mentor?

It was just that no one dared to actually voice their discontent.

The first meditation class passed quickly, and Saul didn’t return to his senses until everyone had left.

Korrie was about to tell Saul to get up, but was interrupted by Monica.

Korrie looked at Monica in confusion, only to see the latter give an inexplicable smile.

“Go out, I have something to say to him alone.”

Immediately, Kagome shot Monica a suspicious look once more.

Being sized up like this by a little red-haired girl, Monica’s face immediately sank, but before she could get angry, Korie ran off in a huff.

Not forgetting to close the gate.

Only then did Monica walk back to Saul’s side, reaching out and snapping her fingers.

A string of electric sparks immediately hit Saul’s forehead.

Saul was startled back to his senses by this sudden stimulus, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Monica’s long legs standing in front of him.

“Mentor Monica!” He looked up and around, only to realize that no one was around anymore.

“Sorry, Mentor Monica, I’ll leave right away.”

Saul apologized profusely and began to gather his things.

“Elemental Perception, this was supposed to be something I would only cover in the next class.” Monica’s red lips slightly opened, but her voice was cool, “Elemental perception power, is actually a characteristic of spiritual power. Just like how everyone looks different, everyone’s elemental perception isn’t exactly the same.”

“It represents your sensitivity to elemental ions of specific attributes. For example, take a piece of paper that has the attributes of red, yellow, and green at the same time, and then throw a handful of stones that are red, yellow, green, and blue respectively on it. What colors do you think you can see?”

Saul didn’t really understand, “You mean, a piece of paper that has the colors red yellow and green?”

“Can you figure it out? It’s three tri-color attributes at the same time, not three colors painted on it.”

Saul seemed to understand what Monica meant.

“If a piece of paper that is both red and yellow and green …… then the first thing I see is a blue stone.”

Monica nodded, “It’s good that you understand. The body is like that piece of paper, the color attribute will make us insensitive to other elements, the color you can see the most is the element you perceive the most. The strength of our mental power will likewise affect the number of elements we perceive.”

After saying that, she picked up the little monster on the ground that was eating human skin and left the classroom with a twist.

Leaving behind a bewildered Saul.

“Ms. Monica, why are you suddenly telling me this?”

Sol picked up the book and the crystal ball, wondering.

The not-so-large classroom took him a long time to walk, one slow step at a time, just like his stagnant thoughts at the moment.

“Can only see blue …… can only see blue ……”

Saul’s head snapped up as his hand pressed against the classroom doorknob.

“I-I didn’t seem to see many dark elemental particles when I just meditated!”

The muscles in his face continued to twitch, and the teenager’s face twisted up a little.

“I, I …… the element with the strongest perception …… is not the dark element!”

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(End of chapter)