Chapter 63—Lightning Magic Rune
"Elder, all my power and strength have been reset, but my Will stat hasn’t. Why?" Sli#47 asked doubtfully.
"It’s because Will is linked to the strength of the soul, not the physical body... but ti‑rewinding powers should normally weaken your soul as well....since it’s past," Elder Sli explained patiently.
Then, with a grin, he glanced at Young Sli. "It seems your trait is not an ordinary one."
’My soul remains the sa across loops... so my Will stays the sa...’ Sli#47 mused, feeling joy that at least one of his stats would be carried over every ti. He didn’t realize yet that this would turn out to be a weakness, not a blessing.
He glanced at the trough in the farm and Wob!—bounced toward it. ’
So weak,’ he thought, feeling how slow his leap was and how powerless his body felt.
He couldn’t even jump higher than a ter now.
He placed his tiny palms on one end of the trough and—"Iron Body! Ahhh!"—pushed with all his might, pouring aura into his skill.
Gzz!
The trough shifted bit by bit, but after moving barely an inch, his vision began to darken.
’Damn... I forgot I’m on low battery...’ He clicked his tongue in annoyance.
Elder Sli just watched, silently doubtful of his actions.
Young Sli shook himself and muttered, "I need to take my ti and push it slowly."
’There should be around thirty to forty crystals in that crate...’ he estimated. He hadn’t counted them separately, so he didn’t know the exact number.
He explained the situation to Elder Sli, and they agreed to push the trough aside, dig out a crater in the ground, and drag the crate up.
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In the combat training area...
"Elder, I want you to teach lightning magic," Young Sli pressed, determined.
He wanted to aim for becoming a Lightning Sli in this loop and clicked his tongue imdiately as he rembered it wasn’t that simple, ’I need Lightning Magic Rune Mastery to reach Tier One... That will take so many loops...’
But he was determined to try out the lightning sli.
"Can you sense and control your mana?" Elder Sli asked, "We are starting from the basics."
"Yes, I can," Sli#47 nodded.
"Fireball!" He cast a human baby‑fist‑sized Fireball to prove it.
"Good," Elder Sli wobbled with approval. "Let us begin with a basic lightning spell: Lightning Ball."
He cast the spell.
A light‑purple magic rune flashed in front of his tiny palm, and a small, few‑inch-sized orb of condensed light‑purple lightning manifested.
ZZZ!
He hurled it at the wooden fence—Bam!—leaving a dark, scorched spot where it landed.
"Go ahead," he said, turning toward Young Sli.
"I need a lightning magic rune first," Sli#47 said, his tone serious.
"Oh... looks like you know the fundantals of magic," Elder Sli said, with a slight smile. "First, you control mana. Next, you acquire runes—basic runes like fire, water, lightning, and so on. Third is visualization, and finally, fourth is spell chanting."
He gave a short explanation. "If any one of those is missing, casting magic turns into embarrassnt."
Young Sli’s eyes twitched. ’Here he goes again... It feels like I’m back at school.’ Elder Sli’s image overlapped with his old math teacher in his mind.
"Fine... Lightning," Elder Sli said, noticing Sli#47’s expression.
A light‑purple magic rune flashed on his tiny palm, and from it a ray of lightning burst out—ZZZ!
He simplified the process. "Close your eyes. Visualize the rune I just cast, and imagine lightning coming out from it."
Young Sli nodded, took a deep breath, and cast, "Lightning!"
He visualized the rune’s shape exactly as he had seen it on Elder Sli’s palm, then imagined a condensed thread of lightning erging from it.
He channeled mana to his palm, and a light‑purple magic rune flashed there in the sa shape as Elder Sli’s lightning rune.
From within it, a ray of lightning shot forth—ZZZ!
[ Ding! You have acquired the Lightning Magic Rune Mastery! ]
[ —Masteries—
—Lightning Magic Rune Mastery {Tier 0}—
—Proficiency: 1/100 ]
He grinned at the shimring panel in front of his eyes. In this life, the best monts were the pop‑ups of new power.
"Good. Now we can begin," Elder Sli announced and cast, "Lightning Ball."
A human baby‑fist‑sized ball of lightning manifested as he did so.
He then explained the principles behind Lightning Ball: condensing lightning into an orb, maintaining its shape, and what could go wrong if the visualization didn’t match and broke mid‑cast.
’Let’s try...’ Sli#47 thought. He wanted to do sothing different. "Lightning Ball!"
He cast the spell as usual—but instead of visualizing a ball, he visualized a chain.
The light‑purple magic rune flared on his palm like always, but just as the spell was about to manifest, cracks spread across the rune, and it shattered into dust.
A sharp jolt tore through his entire body. "Ouch, that hurts," he winced.
Elder Sli, who had been watching closely, wobbled his body in disapproval, "I told you not to visualize randomly. You’re not the first to try sothing different."
"Others have tried it?" Young Sli exclaid, then face-pald. "Right... Magic has existed for so long in this world... Magic researchers must have tried things way crazier than ."
Elder Sli grinned. "Oh, they have. Let explain the basic logic. A rune is linked to its elent—the lightning rune to lightning, the fire rune to fire, and so on. If you noticed, not just the color but the rune shapes are different."
"While we chant the spell na, the rune connects to our visualization and helps manifest the spell, while also boosting its power. If the spell na doesn’t match the visualization, the rune cracks and disperses instantly."
"It also strengthens the spell?" Sli#47 asked, as he’d just felt it was normal for casting.
Saying spell nas out loud during battle felt like broadcasting his moves to enemies. As for aura skills, he’d noticed that shouting nas out loud gave a slight strength boost.
"Yes, it does. Your voice affects your energy reserves. Casting a spell out loud empowers it; this is why even after learning chantless magic, many go for chanting magic in frontal battle," Elder sli explained.
He continued with an eye closed, "And even shouting aura skill nas gives them a bit more force. The voice makes aura and mana move faster and hit harder."
"Yes...I noticed it," Young sli nodded.
Old Sli took a deep glance and said in a cold tone, "This was just a basic spell, so it didn’t hurt you much. But if you try sothing like that with high‑level spells, it could kill you."
"Let’s us..."
End of the Chapter.
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