Chapter 339: A Good Strategy, but I’d Like to Make a Few Changes

The white-haired girl blushed as she tucked the basic meditation-technique chip issued by the school into its case. “Take a look at this first.”

“I won’t share my perspective this time. Try it yourself, then we’ll see. Don’t go and cause another mess.”

“Mm.”

After inserting the chip into the interface, Vivi sat on the edge of the bed, waiting nervously.

A few minutes later, Lin Guang’s voice sounded in her mind again.

“Hmm…”

“What is it?”

“Is this… what you practice normally?”

Her voice was as gentle and pleasant as ever, but Vivi could still hear a trace of helplessness and astonishment in it.

What the hell? I could understand the helplessness, but what are you astonished about?!

Does it really have to be that bad?

Vivi couldn’t help asking, “Is it really that lousy?”

“This is the best I could get. Fourth Middle School is a pretty impressive public school for magical girls, and this meditation technique is worth at least two thousand!”

“Do you really think I’m some young lady born with a silver spoon in her mouth?”

“I can work with it. I didn’t say it was no good.”

Lin Guang spoke calmly. “But I’d like to make a few changes.”

“Changes?”

The white-haired girl blinked. “Can you just change a meditation technique like that? What if something goes wrong and I go mad from practicing it?”

“Just because other people can’t change it doesn’t mean I can’t.”

Lin Guang gave her an even, unruffled instruction. “Take out the potions. Drink three bottles in one go.”

“…!”

Vivi’s pupils contracted.

What did three bottles of E-grade magic potion mean?

Normally, Adaptability Potions and magic potions were taken in a one-to-one ratio… And in the past, one bottle had been enough to last her two or three days.

Her magic power had increased, and her capacity had grown a little too. But if she dared drink three bottles of E-grade magic potion all at once, she’d probably wake up tomorrow in agony from head to toe, unless she failed to absorb it.

But if Teresa said so…

I’m doing it!!

The next moment, Vivi gritted her teeth, fished three newly purchased bottles of yellow potion out of her bag, pulled out the stoppers, and tipped them back one after another.

The immense medicinal power exploded in her stomach and began seeping outward.

“Ugh!”

Magic power roared and swelled through her body, and pain surged up from her nerve endings.

She clenched her teeth, ready to bear it.

That was how she had always done things. She was used to pain, used to shouldering everything alone.

But…

The next moment, Vivi suddenly froze.

The pain that had filled her body passed over her like a gentle breeze. She felt something very tender suddenly envelop her soul.

It was warm and soft, with a sweet fragrance that put her at ease and made her want to lose herself in it.

It was like the embrace she sometimes imagined in her dreams, one she had never known in real life.

“Mm…”

Within that embrace, the white-haired girl slowly closed her eyes.

………

She had no idea how much time had passed.

“…!!”

The white-haired girl came to on the hard bed. She looked at the familiar ceiling, then at the time in the upper-right corner of her glasses.

Three hours had passed in an instant.

“What hap—”

Vivi’s eyes suddenly widened, her orange-yellow irises registering that something was different.

The whole world felt different.

At that moment, magic light far more profound and brilliant than before shimmered in Vivi’s eyes.

Along with it came a smoothness throughout her body unlike anything she had ever experienced, a feeling impossible to describe with simple words.

The flow of her magic power, the pulse of the newly awakened spell core in her soul, and the ripples of magic stirred by the resonance between her body and soul were all reflected in her senses with perfect clarity.

It was as if her magic power had completely melted into every corner of her body. It flowed through her flesh and soul without the slightest obstruction, moving with her thoughts and scattering orange-yellow light that illuminated the darkness within.

Vivi instinctively raised her hand and watched orange-yellow light glow at her fingertips.

There was no deliberate effort at all. The magic power simply answered her thoughts.

Was this the basic meditation technique she had given Teresa?

But now, she didn’t even need to consciously maintain her state. It was like something natural, innate. Her magic power had begun circulating on its own, just like breathing.

It was instinct.

And…

Vivi felt the abundant, surging magic power within her and was completely stunned.

She was stronger again… She might even have reached level five!

How could her absorption rate be this high? She had only just reached level four yesterday!

She had advanced again after just three bottles of E-grade magic potion?!

By her original estimate, even if she learned the meditation technique, she’d be lucky to reach level five after drinking seven or eight bottles!

And that would take at least half a month!

The white-haired girl remained dazed for a long time, repeatedly coaxing the magic light to appear in her hand, as though she had opened her eyes to a whole new world for the first time.

She spent a full five minutes savoring how freely she could use her magic, how it followed her consciousness and did whatever she wished. Only then did she turn to the pink-haired girl beside her. She stammered as she spoke.

“W-w-what… what kind of meditation technique is this?”

If Vivi actually believed this was the basic meditation technique issued by the school, she’d have to be out of her mind.

“I adjusted the meditation technique to suit magical girls.”

The pink-haired girl sitting beside her spoke softly. “Given your current magic level, the foundation of this technique, and my current condition, this is basically the best I can do.”

She tilted her head. “Overall, its effectiveness has increased by about thirty-five times. I can only say it’s barely adequate.”

“But it does have its advantages. Its framework is highly flexible, so you can improve it yourself based on how it feels. That won’t get in the way of your little ideas.”

She casually offered another assessment. “Also, the quality of these potions is decent. They don’t contain any unnecessary prohibited ingredients, and the impurities are within safe limits. I went ahead and metabolized them with your magic power.”

“What are you even saying?!”

Vivi felt like her jaw was about to dislocate.

This wasn’t even a pleasant surprise anymore.

She was starting to wonder if she was still asleep.

What did she mean, adjusted it to suit magical girls?

Three hours? Thirty-five times?! Barely adequate?! Metabolized the impurities with magic power?!

Did she think this was some shoddy game where you could just cheat whenever you wanted?!

She’d turned a bicycle into a magical flying car!

Under Vivi’s gaze, the pink-haired girl tilted her head slightly, looking somewhat confused. “What’s wrong?”

In fact, none of this seemed strange to Lin Guang.

She had far too much experience with this.

The paths magic power followed, all its different variations and methods of control, had been a subject she’d studied ever since the beginning of her previous trial, back when she couldn’t even transform.

How many magical girls in this world had been blown up by their own transformations more than ten times, learning from each failure?

And that was before all the life-and-death trials that followed, the improvements granted by the Sacred Tree’s blessings, her meticulous experience controlling magic power, and her perspective as the Witch King…

Besides, this body had originally belonged to a magical girl.

Teresa herself had her own transformation and Soul Gem. Even her spell was a form of control and micro-management honed to the pinnacle in its own way.

It was only natural that she could change the technique this much.