After satisfying his hunger and thirst, Kevin burped and declared, "Alright, time to start training!"
With that, he sat cross-legged in a manner reminiscent of Taoist cultivation, palms facing upwards towards the sky, which made Bella both amused and helpless.
Meditation didn't actually require such a posture, but since Kevin was comfortable with it, she didn't say anything.
Kevin closed his eyes and murmured, "Relax... relax..."
Gradually, his breathing became steady and deep. Bella could sense that the speed at which magical particles were flowing into Kevin's body had increased.
She was slightly surprised: "He entered meditation so quickly?!"
Meditation and cultivation might sound easy, but in reality, they were not.
Most people, when meditating, first needed to sense the magical energy between heaven and earth, then guide it into their bodies for circulation and refinement before integrating it into themselves.
Although the system had spared him the process of guidance and refinement, sensing magical energy was something Kevin had to do on his own.
It usually took people quite a while to sense magical energy, at least a month, or even several months. Those with poor aptitude might take years, or perhaps never sense magical energy at all.
Unlike Kevin, who was able to meditate in less than a minute after closing his eyes.
Even the most talented individuals in this world would take several hours or even days to sense magical energy.
But after her surprise, Bella felt it was only natural.
After all, he was chosen by the world, he couldn't be anything less than extraordinary, could he?
In this way, Kevin began to absorb the surrounding magical energy, and the speed of absorption became faster and faster. His body was like a whirlpool, madly drawing in magical particles.
He seemed to enter a state of self-forgetfulness, losing all sense of time.
When Kevin opened his eyes, it was already the next morning.
"Did I train for so long?" Kevin looked at the gradually brightening Ray outside, surprised.
He thought he had only trained for a short while.
Surprised and a little frightened at the same time.
During his training, he had no perception of his surroundings; if a magical beast had approached, it could have taken his life in an instant.
Fortunately, Catherine was there, her magical fluctuations making magical beasts feel danger and keeping them at bay.
He stood up, looking at his body with delight.
After training and sitting cross-legged for a whole night, he didn't feel any soreness; instead, he felt more energetic and comfortable than ever before.
Well, too comfortable, I need to hurry up and take a leak.
After returning from relieving himself, Kevin carefully felt the changes within his body.
He could sense a force flowing within him, which must be magical energy.
This force could be controlled at his will, moving as he wished. He opened his hand, and immediately, a faint light appeared on his palm, a manifestation of condensed magical energy.
"Wow..." Kevin exclaimed, excitedly saying, "Now I'm a mage, right?"
Bella, with her arms crossed, said, "You're far from it!"
"Most people in this world can do this; you've only just touched the threshold of magic. You can only be considered a mage when you can actually cast a first-order spell."
"Casting spells..." Kevin scratched his head.
Indeed, he had magical energy, but it seemed to only make a part of his body glow, which didn't seem very useful.
Well, it was useful, for example, he didn't have to worry about wetting his feet at night.
Hehe... Ahem!
It seems I must learn magic.
How to learn it?
According to Bella, as long as someone casts magic, he can analyze it, and once the analysis is complete, he can master that magic. So, he needs to find someone to learn from stealthily.
Thus, his gaze fell on Catherine, who was still unconscious.
He sighed.
She hadn't woken up yet, and there was no one around; it seemed he could only wait.
However, he didn't get discouraged: "First, find something to eat!"
So he went back into the woods to find some edible plants, then caught some stone crabs in the river, and even managed to catch a fish.
[Shooting Egg Fish: A female fish that, when in danger, will shoot out its unfertilized eggs to distract predators. It is a creature without magic, with delicious and edible meat. The male of this fish is called...]
"Stop! There's something off about this fish!" Kevin looked at the catfish-like Shi Luan fish with some disdain, but despite his distaste, he knew he had to eat it.
As for the rest, there was nothing. Perhaps due to the magical fluctuations emitted by Catherine, he saw no beasts or magical creatures around, so his current food sources were the edible plants in the woods and the river delicacies.
He didn't dare to go further away.
According to Bella, although he now had magic, his rank was only the lowest order, and the magic's function was merely to emit light and slightly enhance his physical constitution, with no other uses. Encountering even a first-order magical beast would be troublesome.
Kevin returned to the cave contentedly, cooked a pot of soup with mushrooms and wild vegetables he picked in the woods mixed with river delicacies. He first fed soup to Catherine, and as he fed her, he said, "Drinking so much soup, will she need to urinate?"
"Will she wet her pants?"
Bella: "..."
Your focus is quite strange!
"You don't have to worry about that. The magic within a mage's body will eliminate food waste, so the more powerful the mage, the less need for excretion."
"Eating without defecating? That's too霸道!" Kevin exclaimed.
Bella: "..."
After feeding Catherine, Kevin also filled his stomach with Gurgle, and then Kevin began to practice again.
He wanted to reach the first order as soon as possible. Once he reached the first order, his magic could condense into magic bullets, and he would have some self-protection ability.
And with Kevin's practice speed, in the afternoon, his whole body flashed, and then he opened his eyes.
"Great, first order!" Kevin swung a fist, excitedly said.
Then he opened his hand, and his palm emitted a faint light, and then a marble-sized white light ball condensed in his hand.
"Go, Kamehameha!" Kevin posed a silly posture arrogantly, and then the magic bullet in his hand flew forward at a moderate speed, then landed on the rock wall, and burst with a pop, like setting off a firecracker, leaving a little white mark on the rock wall.
"Hey, it's so weak." Kevin scratched his head.
Bella said, "Of course it's weak, you're only at the first order now. When you reach the Saint-level, a magic bullet condensed with all your magic power can destroy a city of 100,000 people!"
"So powerful?" Kevin was surprised.
"Of course, but the magic bullet is just the most basic use of magic power. Magic is truly powerful. With the same amount of magic power, the power of magic is several times to several tens or even hundreds of times that of a magic bullet!"
"But there are advantages to magic bullets, they don't require chanting, guiding, or drawing magic arrays, just condensing magic power is enough, it's very simple."
"So in mage battles, magic bullets are also a very effective means of attack."
"Regular attacks, I understand." Kevin nodded.
For Kevin's direct and simple understanding, Bella was somewhat helpless, but his understanding was indeed correct.