Elite Mages' Academy Chapter 291: Necromantic Meditation (1)

Chapter 291: Necromantic ditation (1)

It would take a couple more days for Song Junlang to co back from the New World after placing his bets there. During that period, Xiao Lin intended to focus on necromantic ditation first. His original intention of borrowing that book from the library was to break through to Black Iron-rank as soon as possible, but his plans were not affected despite reaching his goal ahead of schedule.

Xiao Lin’s interest was particularly high, especially after skimming through the book during the past few days and discovering many novel explanations of ditation which had never been ntioned in class. It was perfect for Xiao Lin because he was still in the inquisitive phase.

Speaking of that, Xiao Lin had actually been feeling quite miserable in recent days. He was both physically and ntally tired after the training hall incident happened and he woke up from his coma. He did not give it much thought then, but after all that rest, he realized that things were not as simple as it seed. While his physical strength did recover, his ntal fatigue showed little signs of improvent. It was slightly unusual, because he was previously able to recover quickly so long as he had a period of rest.

The student council president took the initiative to speak with him once more, stressing yet again that Xiao Lin had to take a few more days off. Although the baby-faced president never explained the reasons, it seed to be related to the talent that the president used on him that day. In any case, Xiao Lin could sense that the president was being kind.

During those few days, Xiao Lin could only stay in his room most of the ti, except for when he took his three daily als. Aside from browsing the forum, studying necromantic ditation was the only way for him to pass the ti.

Of course, Xiao Lin had also asked the president earlier on whether ditation would exacerbate his fatigue. To his surprise, the answer was in the negative, and the president even encouraged him to do more ditation to restore his spirit.

His first attempt at necromantic ditation was not very smooth, even though the process of entering ditation was similar to ordinary ditation. All he had to do was close his eyes, concentrate, and get rid of distracting thoughts. It was an easy process for Xiao Lin as he had already reached Black Iron-rank.

However, the similarities between ordinary ditation and necromantic ditation ended at that point. The first thing he had to do was completely sever all communication with the basic elents in the outside world. Judging from how the book elucidated it with only a few sentences, it appeared to be very easy.

In practice however, one would discover that it was the first hurdle of necromantic ditation. For people who were just getting used to ordinary ditation, sensing the basic elents was as natural as breathing oxygen every day, so imagine being told one day that they should be breathing carbon dioxide instead of oxygen. Of course, that was based on the premise that they could still survive in a certain environnt by breathing carbon dioxide, but it was still hard to get used to it.

The sa was true of ditation. Whenever Xiao Lin entered ditation, he frequently allowed himself to enter naturally into the vast galaxy filled with countless stars. That was the virtual world of ditation in his mind, with the stars representing the abundance of basic elents in the air. Ever since he entered Black Iron-rank, the stars here have increased in both number and brightness, which ant that Xiao Lin’s ability to communicate with the natural elents had been strengthened.

For the mont however, it seed that entering Black Iron-rank was actually disadvantageous for learning necromantic ditation. Since it had beco easier to perceive and therefore rely on the basic elents, it beca even more difficult to sever that connection.

Xiao Lin was unaware that necromancy’s failure to beco a mainstream course of most colonial academies did not stem from Earthlings’ prejudices against necromancers. From an objective point of view, it was very difficult for mages who had already studied ordinary elental spells to learn necromantic ditation. The difficulty of learning necromancy increased proportionally with the rank of an elental mage.

Xiao Lin began to gradually feel distressed too. It was as if a right-handed person was forced to use his left hand all of a sudden—such habits were too difficult to change. Entering the ditative state takes only a few minutes, which ant that Xiao Lin had only a few minutes to temporarily sever his communication with the elents.

It was only when he entered an empty ditation world that he could begin to sense the death energy. From that perspective, it would appear much easier for beginners, but necromancy has many limitations after all. It was also not mainstream, and by comparison, most colleges were more keen on training elental mages.

After trying his best and wasting at least a few hours, Xiao Lin finally gave up with that kind of rigid thod. The book stated that even a beginner would take about half a month to a month to master that technique. That duration would double for mages who were already able to communicate with the elents.

Xiao Lin could not possibly waste so much ti on that, so he decided to try it in another way. Since he could not directly enter an empty ditation world, he would simply enter the one with the elents before slowly eliminating the communication with those elents to achieve the sa result.

He closed his eyes and ditated. A few minutes later, he once again entered the vast galaxy full of dazzling stars. He randomly searched for the nearby stars. One of them was burning with red flas, which represented a certain fire elent in the real world. Xiao Lin’s ntal strength was gradually improving, and along with the Black Iron-rank’s influence, he could even begin to slowly distinguish the flas bouncing off those stars.

However, that was not the point of his ditation. After perceiving everything carefully, Xiao Lin began gradually cutting off communication and contact with the stars in his consciousness. It was sowhat difficult in the beginning because he had to make sure that he severed his connection with that one star only, and not the entire ditation world, or he would otherwise exit the ditation world directly. In that case, he would have to face the problem again and fall into an endless loop.

After dozens of attempts, Xiao Lin gradually learned how to cut off his communication with a certain star alone. Once the connection was interrupted, the star will instantly disappear without a trace from his perceived galaxy. The first successful attempt seed quite interesting.

However, his point of interest did not last too long. After repeating it endlessly, Xiao Lin realized the biggest drawback of such an attempt: he had only severed connection with one star out a sky full of stars, and the degree of cumbersoness was simply unimaginable.

That it was cumberso might not have been that big a deal since he could simply be patient and spend more ti on it. However, Xiao Lin soon discovered that he had no control over the number of stars in his galactic ditation world. He might be able to temporarily cut off the connection of certain stars, but after a long enough ti has passed, he would soon reconnect with those stars the next ti he ditated. He obviously could not just ditate day and night without eating or drinking all day.