Chapter 53: Elental Affinity
After one and a half hours of fierce sword fighting, Xiao Lin had to pay a hefty price after his entire body was covered with wounds from Cheng Ming’s sword. The cost of treatnt was 50 redemption points and he still felt exhausted, even after his injuries were successfully healed. The healing in the training hall was only effective for physical injuries; they did not eliminate inner fatigue. Nevertheless, he gained a lot during that period too.
His Basic Swordsmanship was finally upgraded to LV3, his strength had also risen by one point, and he even gained a pleasant surprise. Xiao Lin received a prompt from the Central Computer, stating that he had successfully mastered Basic Blocking LV1 after repeatedly resisting attacks that surpassed his own power.
Basic Blocking allowed one to use weapons and block the enemy’s attacks. The effect was to reduce damage or even avoid damage, making it a defensive skill.
Those who were earlier reveling in Xiao Lin’s rough treatnt twitched their lips. From the looks of shock and speechlessness throughout the hall, Xiao Lin ascertained that he was probably the only one who had mastered Basic Blocking.
In the Central Computer’s explanation, Xiao Lin had successfully resisted attacks that were beyond his own strength. In other words, the strength gap was the main factor, because the gap between other student pairs was not as large as that of his and Cheng Ming’s.
In fact, there were only a few tis whereby Xiao Lin managed to really successfully block Cheng Ming’s attacks. After all, the difference in their strength was too much, and their Basic Swordsmanship was also separated by one level. Most of the ti, his sword would either be knocked to the ground or he would suffer a physical injury.
Xiao Lin therefore felt that the learning efficiency his SS-level talent provided played a more critical role, allowing him to master Basic Blocking in such a short amount of ti.
“Do you want to continue?” Cheng Ming asked.
“I’m a bit tired. I think I’ll head to Basic ditation now,” Xiao Lin said as he rubbed his wrist and smiled. The joints in his wrist were still sore and numb, which made it inconvenient for him to continue practicing swordsmanship. The pressure from training with Cheng Ming was greater than he expected.
After leaving the swordsmanship training hall, Xiao Lin walked directly to the ditation hall in Zone B. Just after turning a corner, he saw Cheng Na in a black leather jacket leaning against the wall, narrowing her eyes at him.
Xiao Lin’s face betrayed his shock. He was willing to bet that the woman never actually left the area and was actually observing the training hall in secret. If anyone continued to use wooden swords for training, she would definitely kick that person out of the training hall forever.
“You’re going to Li iling?” Tutor Cheng Na asked nonchalantly.
Xiao Lin was blank for a mont.
Cheng Na had to rephrase her sentence again. “You’re going to the ditation room?”
Only then did Xiao Lin rember that Li iling was the na of the Lolita who taught ditation. He then nodded in response to the question.
Cheng Na’s expression soured slightly. “Do you know Song Junlang. Head of the logistics departnt? ”
“I guess you could say that,” Xiao Lin smiled bitterly and thumbed his nose. He already had a guess as to what the T-rex was going to say.
“I was supposed to ban you from my classroom last week, but then a lot of people called ...and I also received a strongly-worded notification from the student union. In the future, you can choose to co to my classes, or not to. No one will interfere with you again...” Cheng Na did not continue further. A proud person like her would probably think it an insult, and a touch of anger appeared on her flawlessly fair face.
After a while, Cheng Na continued, but in a more indifferent voice. “I hate useless and unproductive people. You can pull so strings with your connections and slack off, but I swear that people like you will be forced to return to Earth after your freshman year ends. Of course, it might also be possible that your lifespan will be exhausted during the monthly exam. Dawn Academy is a place to realize your true strength, and I don’t care who the hell you are. It makes no difference if you’re a rich kid from Earth, so you’d better behave yourself!”
“This is a misunderstanding, I was helping Departnt Head Song complete unprecedented scientific research, so he was... Uh, okay.” Xiao Lin could not even when sullenly noticed Cheng Na turn to leave, allowing him only a glimpse of her slim back. Never in his life did he expect to be regarded as a rich kid, and he was unsure whether to laugh or cry after what happened.
Song Junlang promised Xiao Lin to help him coordinate his course schedule so he would not be too tired from rushing here and there because of his absenteeism. He did that in order to free up so ti for Xiao Lin, thus enabling the latter to head over to the logistics departnt and assist in the food therapy experints. It also gave Xiao Lin—who wanted to cultivate both magic and martial arts—a legitimate reason to attend all his courses. Otherwise he would not be able to afford the punishnt that ca with skipping classes.
In all honesty, he had no idea what Departnt Head Song did, but in short, Xiao Lin had gotten the opportunity. He could choose the courses he wanted to go to in the afternoon without hesitating anymore. If a woman as fierce as Cheng Na could not even vent her rage, he believed that the other teachers would not object either.
That was exactly what happened when he went to Li iling’s ditation room. The sharp-tongued Lolita rely stared at Xiao Lin with an unwelco gaze. Unfortunately for her, gazes did not kill. Under everyone’s puzzled expressions, Xiao Lin calmly chose to sit down in the corner, next to Gu Xiaoyue.
On that day, the students were not left to their own devices to ditate. Like how Cheng Na taught them basic sword moves that morning, if none of the teachers actually taught anything substantial, the academy might as well let the students study by themselves. It would have been much more convenient that way too
“There are four basic elents in the world: water, fire, wind, and earth. I’ve already ntioned these in the last class, and you’ve all entered your ditative state too... So, the topic I’m about to talk to today will be elental affinity!”
As she said that, Xiao Lin made a point to observe the entire ditation room. At least half the students buried their heads in sha, evidently because they had not entered a ditative state yet. Only half of the people actually succeeded after a week, but Li iling did not seem too keen on holding back those who were successful.
The course went on still and the Lolita gave everyone a detailed explanation about the definition of elental affinity; it had many properties, such as the speed of casting spells and the spells’ power. Everyone’s elental affinity was different. When first entering a ditative state, the elents in that ditative realm were all jumbled up. In the future however, they had to distinguish each elent during the ditation process.
Xiao Lin paid close attention. Compared to pure lee training, he actually preferred the mysticism associated with mysterious spell courses. Whenever he played online gas, he usually also chose the mage characters.
At the end of the lesson, Li iling gave them so ti to practice their ditation again.
Xiao Lin was already at LV1 Basic ditation. His intelligence value had also increased by one point. He soon entered a ditative state monts after sitting cross-legged.
ditation was a wonderful state to be in. He was practically free from all his worries, but it could be better described as entering a new microcosm–one that had an abundance of elental particles.
A person’s mind was still very clear during the ditative state. Xiao Lin imdiately noticed a long, dark river where the elents were in a fuzzy and ssy heap. Countless elents were bound tightly together to form a faint cluster of light, drifting around in a haphazard rhythm.
The elents he felt during the initial ditation were clear and definite, but a simple bit of critical thinking allowed Xiao Lin to understand why. He had replicated the LV10 Basic ditation skill from Wu Qin, and LV10 also happened to be the highest level for Basic ditation.
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