Ow, that hurts. The meditating (sleeping) I didn't know what suddenly attacked me.
Drowsily opening my eyes, a solemn face appeared in front of me.
"Teacher Yu!!" I couldn't help but shout.
"What?" Teacher Yu just came back and is looking at me with some gruesome eyes.
"Ah, no it's nothing. I wasn't thinking of you just as you came back, Teacher Yu!"
"I told you to come here to meditate but instead you came here to sleep. My name is Yu Xuan, obey my call, come forth my servant, Light Tiger! Zhang Ling, go for a run right now."
"There's no need teacher. I've been meditating really hard lately. I was just a bit tired just now, so I took a small nap." I can't possibly tell him I was doing lying meditation, who would believe that I could practice while sleeping.
"Really? Then I'm going to examine you. Come over here."
"Oh!" I walked to Teacher Yu.
Teacher Yu took out a magic stone (A magic crystal type. Specialized for detecting and measuring a mage's magic power) for a magic appraisal from his dimensional space (A space that can store things. Only intermediate and above mages can use and the space is proportional to the mage's magic power) and gave it to me.
"Repeat after me. Hear my name, Shadow elements, obey my call, and gather in front of me!"
"Hear my name, Shadow elements, obey my call, and gather in front of me!"
Following the incantation, The shadow elements in my Upper Dantian and my internal Shadow elements energies surged towards the magic stone in the palms of my hands. The magic stone emitted a faint glow. The faint glow gradually increased. I let my internal magic power continually flow into the magic stone, knowing that the magic power has reached equilibrium with the magic power flowing from my Upper Dantian. The black smoke with a blue light emitted by the magic stone lit up the whole house, enabling one to see all the details. Unexpectedly, the stone cracked and blasted off. as it wasn't able to measure my shadow affinity.
Teacher Yu was stunned. "You really didn't slack off ah. I really didn't expect that in three months' time, your magic power has reached the level of an elementary mage. You must have meditated for at least 18 hours a day, wait, that's not right. Even 24 hours of meditation a day couldn't possibly achieve such a good effect."
On this continent, even with diligent cultivation, it takes one year from not knowing any magic to becoming an elementary mage.
"It seems you really are a genius at Shadow magic!"
"Of course I am, after all, I am extremely smart! Hahaha~~" I can't help but be proud of myself.
"What are you pleased about, this is nothing. I still need to see your future performance. What use is magic power if it's not applied properly?" Seeing how proud of myself I was, Teacher Yu immediately poured cold water on me.
Teacher Yu dismissed the light tiger so I secretly wiped my sweat. This event can be considered over; looks like I won't be having a funeral, haha. (These days I already regard lying meditation as sleeping. It's a lot more comfortable than the way I slept before.)
"It's very late now, hurry up and go home. Tomorrow you will start learning light magic too. Remember to bring that book on light magic that I gave you, you rely on only Shadow magic, okay!!."
"but, Teacher!! can I really use light magic too?? as I don't have any other magic affinity other than Shadow magic?"
"Oh! you don't have to worry about that! tomorrow you will learn light magic. now go home and try to meditate light energy as the same as shadow affinity."
"Okay, goodbye Teacher Xiu." I ran out of the classroom as fast as the wind with happiness.
Looking at the figure on my back as I'm leaving, Teacher Yu revealed a faint smile. 'This kid!! he is special.'
after going home, I tried to collect some light energy as well to learn light magic like Shadow magic.
I laid down, gathered myself, and began feeling the light element in the air. Gradually, I begin to sense the abundance of blue-colored elements in my surroundings. The elements gave me a feeling of kindness and affection, just like mother and father's embrace. Ah, so comfortable.
"You are the light element?" I asked the spiritual world.
I felt a sense of warmth surrounding me.
"Uncle and aunty light elements, how are you? My name is Zhang Ling. From now on will you play with me?"
Again there was a sense of warmth.
"Then from now on, we are friends!"
I felt the light element forming thin threads that flowed into my Upper Dantian. A surge of warm energy surrounds me. If anyone was there to witness this, they would surely see a layer of white light surrounding me. This continued for a long time, even I don't know how long. I gradually began to sense the light elements through a communication channel located in my Upper Dantian. With my whole body so warm and comfortable.
but it was weird though, I heard that Light elements are supposed to be Golden Yellow in colour. but what I sensed was Blue colour.
...
The next day,
"Morning Teacher Yu!" Because I successfully completed the task yesterday, I thought I didn't have to run today and was in a particularly good mood. So today I came early.
"Today you came early huh. Did you bring the book?"
"I brought it."
"Good, today we will begin learning Shadow magic along with light magic. first, I will teach you light magic, after that, you can practice your shadow magic to accomplish what you have learned in light magic."
A lot of intermediate and advanced magic spells are derived from elementary light spells. So learning elementary spells is very important. Today, the first magic you will learn – Light Shield."
"Light Shield?"
"Correct. After learning the basics of magic theory, you should know that elementary and intermediate light spells are basically all used for defense and recovery."
"My name is Yu Xuan, light elements obey my call, converge in front of me and block all evil!" A layer of faint, transparent light appeared in front of Teacher Yu. "Light Shield can block all elementary magic attacks. The duration of the spell is dependent on the amount of magic power infused into it. You try it now."
"My name is Zhang Ling, My friends, the mighty light elements, can you all please form a light shield!"
"That's wrong. You recited it wrong. It should be 'obey my call'. Ah, how can…."
A Blue colored Light Shield thicker than Teacher Yu's appeared in front of me, stopping the words from coming out of his mouth.
"You recited it wrong, yet the effect is greater than the effect of the proper incantation. more than that, what's with the Blue light?? How can this be?"
"I don't know. I just felt like the light elements are like my friends so I shouldn't command them and they also speak to me so I recited it this way."
Teacher Yu tried using the incantation I used but it still had the same effect as the incantation he originally used. He couldn't make heads or tails of this mystery.
In fact, it is because the light elements have already approved of me due to me respecting them more. Therefore they are more willing to help me which has caused this situation. Although Teacher Yu is a Great Mage, he is not a major in light magic nor is he recognized by the light elements. So naturally, he is unable to reach the effect of my spell.
"Good, now test the effect of your Light Shield."
"My name is Yu Xuan, gentle water, obey my call, assemble in front of me and eliminate my enemy – Water Bullet!" (When a mage reaches the rank of Great Mage, they can use any magic element as long as the spell is an elementary class spell.) The five-centimeter diameter water bullet rushed towards me. I couldn't help but close my eyes in fright. I felt the light shield I had cast vibrate once and I hadn't felt any pain. Opening my eyes, I saw that the water bullet has already disappeared.
Haha, it seems my light shield is full of power!
Teacher Xiu seeing this situation, began attacking my light shield with various elementary class spells of various elements. When the barrage started, the light shield only convulsed a bit and nothing more. However, gradually the magic consumption of the light shield overcame my magic recovery rate. Near the critical point I shouted "Teacher, teacher, I can't persist anymore. Please spare me."
Teacher Yu finally finished his magical assault.
"It seems the effect of your blue-colored light shield is pretty good. It's stronger than average. However, using the light shield also requires some technique." After that, Teacher Yu began teaching me techniques for using the light shield such as, as long as it's not an area magic attack, I can dodge as much as possible and use the light shield on attacks I can't dodge. This way, the magic consumption will be greatly reduced.
Then I created various Shadow magic along with my mysterious Blue Light magic.
Thus, I began my life of endless learning.