Re: Love & Magic

Touma walked towards Zevien and looked at him weirdly, “Hey, are you okay? How did you fail to cast that A-rank spell?”

Zevien looked at teacher Touma and sighed as he shook his head, “I don’t know.”

Of course, he would not say that he was a defective piece now. His mana loses control after coming out of his body.

Standing up, Zevien dusted off and self-deprecatingly smiled, “I actually haven’t mastered that spell, and it was my first time using it, so I guess I failed. Anyway, can we start awakening now? I was the last one anyway.”

‘The execution and flow of his mana I sensed were perfect until it materialized and suddenly turned volatile…Strange,’ Touma thought as a glint passed through his eyes.

“Fine. It’s time that you all awaken your magic-type Labyrinths and learn your first awakening magic spell,” Touma said with a smile as he thought of testing Zevien later.

He then told all students to sit down on the grassy ground in four rows with a distance of three meters between each of them on all sides.

“Close your eyes and enter into your most focused state before triggering the awakening,” Touma said as he bumped his cane on the ground once and floated in the air in a sitting position as if he was sitting on some kind of invisible chair.

“We will hold a tiny competition later, and I will reward the top three with a tier-1 magic spell of their choice from my personal stash,” Touma said with a faint smile as he particularly looked at Zevien and thought, ‘I’ll have to observe you more to see that strange problem.’

Hearing the tier-1 spells, everyone’s eyes lit up with excitement.

“Are you for real, Touma-sensei?” Michiru asked with sparkling eyes.

“It seems that we can save some of our credits, hehe,” John said with a snicker leaving his mouth.

“One spot will go to Vernisia, but I don’t know about the other two.”

Touma slightly snapped his finger, and a powerful wind blew everywhere, “stop talking and focus now. If you fail to learn your first awakening magic spell in your first trip to your respective magic-type labyrinth, you are not participating in the competition I talked about.”

Everyone shut their mouths and focused.

The atmosphere became serene after five seconds.

Zevien was the first one to trigger his awakening as a slight magic aura exuded around him.

‘I wonder if I will awaken the same type of magic labyrinth?’ Zevien wondered before his consciousness traveled into his magic eidos body, and that magic eidos body disappeared.

Zevien opened his eyes as he found himself under a starry night beside a riverbank that had a sparkling light purple water flowing in it.

The comforting sound of a waterfall reverberated behind him as he stood up and looked around.

“This is clearly different,” Zevien uttered with wide eyes, “this is not the Infernal Parox Magic Labyrinth that I had awakened in my previous life.”

The current Zevien didn’t look like a human. He was a white-blue humanoid without wearing any clothes. There was no skin, but his internals was clearly visible. There was a sparkling orb in the middle of his chest, and 1/4th part of that orb had eccentric patterns.

Besides that orb, the whole magic eidos body was filled to the brim with mana. The mana Zevien used to weave that spell was instantly filled when he arrived here with his magic eidos body.

Naturally, there was a time limit to staying in a magic Labyrinth, and that limit depended on each person’s endurance and willpower. The longer one stays in their respective magic labyrinth, the more they gain magic power. However, their endurance and will are also strained, and when their consciousness can’t hold on anymore, their magic eidos body returns to their physical body.

People absorb mana from atmosphere or mana stones, their mana recovery and absorbing speed varies depending on their magic core’s capabilities, and after absorbing that common mana, it automatically enhances inside their body due to their magic core.

So, the magic power gained by staying in their respective magic-type labyrinths reinforces their magic core in their magic eidos body. When their magic core is enhanced, their mana becomes a bit more potent, resulting in powerful and more effective magic spells.

Still, there is much more to these magic labyrinths than simply that because people don’t own these magic labyrinths. Instead, there are native beasts here, and people who awakened the same magic labyrinths can also meet each other. However, it is known that these magic labyrinths are seemingly boundless as nobody has reached their boundaries yet.

One more thing to note is that everyone can only enter their magic labyrinth once every 30 days.

Zevien first created crude clothes on himself using mana. In the magic labyrinths, people can do that just by thinking about it. The mana he spent was also recovered instantly.

Afterward, Zevien sat down and closed his eyes to feel the power of this magic labyrinth so that he could get its information.

Five seconds later, Zevien opened his eyes and uttered with a frown, “Violet Spectrum Magic Labyrinth. Hmmm…I don’t remember having such Magic Labyrinth recorded.”

Shaking his head, now was not the time to think about it but to learn his first Awakening spell and stay as long as he could in this magic labyrinth to enhance his magic core as much as possible.

Those who have entered their magic labyrinth the first time shouldn’t move one hundred meters because the one hundred meters zone around them is like a protection zone. Outside that zone, they can be attacked by others like magic beasts or some mystical phenomena, cutting their trip short.

Zevien entered into full focus mode as he slowly inhaled and exhaled. He tried to feel the power of this magic labyrinth to learn his first Awakening magic spell.

After ten seconds, violet sparks started to gather around Zevien and began whirling around him.

Awakening magic spells are different from all other spells because they are like…innate spells. People can’t learn Awakening magic spells just because they want to. Normally, only those who awakened their magic labyrinth the first time can learn an Awakening spell, and after that, they can learn one each time their magic core upgrades.

Time passed as violet-purple sparks increased in number every minute around Zevien before a one-meter-wide whirlpool was rotating around him.

After a total of twenty minutes, the gathered sparks started to infuse into Zevien’s magic core as complicated violet-purple patterns appeared on it.

After all of the violet sparks infused inside his magic core, Zevien opened his eyes as a flash of purple appeared in his eyes for a brief second.

“Somatic Violet Four Vehemence!” Zevien muttered with a glint of excitement in his eyes because the awakening spell he learned was kind of unique, “I wonder what kind of physical manifestation it will take outside with such effects?”

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