"This is where you’ve been!?"
"..."
Confusedly looking to my right and left for the source of the noise, I genuinely thought I was hearing things until it sounded again.
"I’m DOWN HERE!"
Imdiately flicking my head downward, I saw a familiar figure sitting atop the tallest trees in the jungle, less than two feet away from the glass floor of the plains environnt.
Without even giving a chance to respond, she suddenly continued, yelling through the glass.
"Don’t tell you found sothing...?"
Regaining my composure, I took a deep breath and shook my head.
"Can I just relax without trying on this assignnt for a second?"
Swinging back and forth on the top of the tree, barely maintaining her balance, Mira yelled one last ti.
"WAIT THERE."
Then, she slid down the tree trunk, which was clean and grood, like a firefighter sliding down the pole in their station.
Sighing, I shook my head and stood back up, imdiately sending my ti particles to my left eye.
Imdiately, the vibrant green grass and light-yellow shine of the sun disappeared, enveloped by a dull greyness.
Everything was so plain.
Countless scattered grey and red orbs appeared around the room, sticking to walls and various hills, but I paid them no attention.
So steps away, I could see Zeke and Evangel speaking, both wearing confused faces while staring at each other.
Walking to an edge of the room so that the walls stood behind and to my side, I leaned backward and steeled my mind.
IPD
Intent, Pattern, and Detachnt.
This acronym would only be introduced near the end of the book when enlightennt and awakened people were desperately needed to defend against the demon king.
Instead of allowing students to understand each step behind elental sight themselves, like Professor Snape right now, the teachers would spoon-feed students the answer.
While this did allow them to imdiately increase their proficiency in elental sight, their long-term progress was halted as they did not truly understand the reasoning behind what they were doing.
It was like being given a formula to use, but not knowing how that formula was derived or created.
Sure, anyone could copy and paste numbers into a formula and solve the problem, but do they actually understand the reasoning behind the formula and its variables?
What if the problem has a variation where you have to slightly adjust the formula instead of just copying and pasting?
Intent.
Visualizing what you’re looking for, a big cluster of mana particles in the shape of a ball, is easy.
But, you have to understand the person behind it, in other words, Professor Snape.
What type of person was Professor Snape?
What was his motive?
In cris, this is simply understanding why the criminal committed the cri.
Did he desperately need money? Does he do it for fun? Is he targeting soone or sothing?
Professor Snape’s visible intent was, of course, to teach students how to use elental sight.
However, although he might not have even known it himself, his hidden intent of wanting soone with an influential background to win had influenced this competition.
As I kept that in mind and glanced at the particles, I took a step backward, with my back to the wall, and scanned the room.
Patterns.
Instead of singling out elental particles, look at all of them together.
Do they share anything in common?
This step is more luck-based, as there can be many different types of patterns with particles, so you just have to test and guess each one.
Not the sa color...sa size, or equal placent around the room.
At that mont, as I gazed at the hundreds of different colored particles around the room, an idea suddenly ca to mind.
Ignoring all the common red, white, blue, and brown particles, I focused on the elent particles that signified rarer elents, like yellow for electricity.
And, when I looked at all the rarer colored particles, I noticed them leading in a certain direction.
Downward, to the second floor.
The particles created a downward-facing parabola with the vertex being below the glass floor of the plains environnt.
Detachnt.
Ignore any feelings. When you are using elental sight, you are a spectator.
Soone looking in from the outside.
This entire park was sitting in my palm, the size of a soda can, and I was gazing at it.
Walking downward, I imdiatly heard two sets of footsteps rush behind while another set neared .
As I reached the halfway stair down, Mira, exhausted with her head down, ran straight past and upward to the plains environnt.
Above , I could hear Zeke yell out, "Wait," and walk backward when Mira ran into the hills.
She was also a winner of the mana gathering competition, and therefore as trustworthy and knowledgeable as I in Zeke’s eyes.
Stepping onto the second floor, a whole new arrangent of elental particles awaited , with an entirely different pattern.
However, it was...familiar.
When I had rested on the hills at the start of the competition, I had been staring downward through the glass floor, subconsciously examining the rainforest room.
After spending a minute or two trying out patterns like only rare elental particles and certain particles around taller trees, I sighed.
Detachnt.
Be a spectator.
Recalling the sight I had seen when sitting above the rainforest room and peeking down, like a spectator looking in, an image suddenly ford in my brain.
Each tree in the rainforest room represents a section in our classroom.
For example, the back three trees represented the back middle, right, and left rows.
And, in true Professor Snape style, only the particles around the front middle and right trees, where the princess and prince sat, counted.
These specific particles ford an arrow.
An arrow straight downward, to the first floor.
Not just any point on the first floor, but the covering that stood in the middle of it.
Sighing, I comforted myself by trying to imagine what would have happened if I had started on the top floor.
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