Chapter 7: Spatial Magic

  Thanks to Xiāo teacher's "hands-on" guidance, my magic level has made a qualitative leap in half a year. In the devil training, I can already withstand the attack of two devils for about 2 hours. Every morning when I arrive at school, it's defense, defense, and more defense until I'm exhausted. Then Xiāo teacher lets me meditate to recover my magic power, and in the afternoon, he continues to bombard me with magic.

  In the past six months, I've only been learning defensive magic of the light system. I always feel that Teacher Xiu has a sadistic streak and I'm just a poor little sandbag being bullied by him every day.

  As I arrived at the classroom door, I first cast a light shield spell on myself, and then added a reflective prism spell on the outside of the light shield (the prism spell is one of my favorite spells that I've learned during this period, it's a reflective defense spell that I'm very familiar with). Carefully controlling the two spells, I pushed open the door. Now I'm even afraid to enter the classroom every day, as soon as I step in, it's always chaotic and explosive, often leaving me covered in dust and dirt. So now I usually cast defensive spells on myself before entering the classroom.

  "Good morning, Teacher Xiu."

  A beam of light shot towards me, and I hastily shifted my body to the side, using the slanted surface of the prism mirror to deflect the beam. Why use the slanted surface? Because although the prism mirror can reflect magic back at the opponent, it consumes a lot of magical energy from me. Using the slanted surface greatly reduces the impact area of the opponent's magic and is very effective. Now, my control over these basic spells has become quite strong. Usually, I combine the light shield and prism mirror into a new type of shield that's about the size of a washbasin, which I hold in my left hand. I call it the Prism Shield. Although it's not full-range defense, the dense concentration of light elements greatly enhances its defensive power, and it can also reflect magic, making it very useful. Even when Teacher Xiu used a mid-level spell in single-point form to attack me, she couldn't break through my Prism Shield in a short amount of time.

  "It's reflected quite quickly! Let's temporarily wrap up our defense magic, from today on we'll start learning space magic, this is my teacher's major magic, I hope you can learn it well."

  "Wow, space magic! It's great, I can escape now. From now on, I don't have to be afraid of this stinky old man. This time, I'll learn it well, and when he bullies me, I'll use a space magic to go home, heh heh. (Is it that simple?)"

  Here is the translation:

  "First, I'll tell you about the basic principles of space magic. Space magic is divided into movement magic and attack magic. Movement magic mainly relies on technique, but the level of magical power determines the distance you can transfer, while spiritual power determines the accuracy of the transfer. Generally speaking, the shorter the distance, the stronger the positional accuracy. The specific operation method for moving space magic is to use one's own spiritual power to lock onto the place you want to go, and then drive the magical power through a simple incantation to transmit your body there. It can be divided into short-distance instant movement, long-distance instant movement, and large-scale long-distance instant movement.

  Short-distance instant movement is generally more practical, mainly used for dodging enemy attacks. Long-distance instant movement and large-scale long-distance instant movement are rarely used, mainly because they require a high level of spiritual power, with low accuracy, possibly deviating from the target by several hundred kilometers. Moreover, large-scale long-distance instant movement also requires the support of a magic array to be achieved."

  "Teacher, teacher, so what you said about using long-distance instant magic to return from the capital to supervise my studies was a lie?"

  Accidentally saying too much, Xiū teacher's face showed an awkward expression. "You'd better study magic properly and don't ask so many questions. Today we'll start learning short-distance instant movement magic. With the support of a great magician's magical power and spiritual power, this magic can reach anywhere you want to go within 500 meters."

  As she spoke, Teacher Xiu suddenly disappeared from my sight, and then I was tapped on the back, it turned out that Teacher Xiu had instantly teleported to behind me, wow, so amazing!

  "Teacher, why didn't I hear you recite the incantation?"

  "This is what I'm going to tell you next, the incantation for short-distance instant movement is very short, just one word. As long as you control your magic well and think of where you want to go in your mind, just silently recite that word."

  "What character is this."

  "Run"

  "That's it."

  "Give it a try."

  Good

  I focused my mind and set my target at the corner of the classroom, silently chanting "go." I felt a sudden whoosh and found myself in a different place.

  How empty it is underfoot, ah, plop. The transmission was loud and clear, all the way to the water pool outside the classroom.

  I crawled out of the pool, spat out water, what's wrong with this, the error is too big. I went back to the classroom. Teacher Xiu saw my disheveled appearance and a smile appeared on her serious face.

  "You know how much mental strength is required for instant magic, right? When transmitting, the mind must be focused, and a little carelessness may make a big difference. Practice well here today, try to achieve what you want to transmit without any deviation."

  "Yes, Teacher Xiu."

  Watching Teacher Xiu leave, I sat on the ground with a thud. It's still better than those days before, at least I won't have to suffer from devil training anymore. For my "safety first" (running away business), I must practice well. I made up my mind secretly in my heart.

  "Go." I set the transmission distance at 3 meters in front of me. Ah, nice, it was a success this time too.

  "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go." "Go."

  I kept practicing short-distance instant movement until my magic couldn't support it anymore.

  The effect is pretty good, I've become more and more skilled, within the 30 square meters of this room, I can basically think about where to go and get there. Yes. No more practice, rest, tomorrow give old devil a surprise, thinking and thinking, I gradually fell into a state of meditation (sleep).

  From that day on, I started practicing short-distance instant movement every day. I thought the devil training of escaping had not left me yet, and I was still being abused for an hour every morning before practicing short-distance instant movement. Gradually expanding the range of movement from 30 meters to 50 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters... After a year of hard work, I can already reach the limit of short-distance instant movement, and I can move freely within a range of 500 meters with very high accuracy.

  "Longbow, come with me to a new training ground."

  I followed Teacher Xiu to the backyard of the college, and saw that the entire 300-square-meter backyard was installed with 5-meter-high wooden frames, and each frame had very thick ropes tied up big hemp sacks.

  "Teacher, what are these for?"

  "I told you to practice short-range teleportation, didn't I? Watch closely." Teacher Xiu pushed down over 100 sacks from the high shelves in the entire venue, and all the sacks were swaying back and forth, stuck together. "Take a good look," he said, as he teleported into the sack array and continued to teleport within it, never touching any of the sacks. After a minute, Teacher Xiu reappeared outside the array.

  "You go now, from now on you will practice in the sandbag array, I'll let Guang Hu help you push the sandbags."

  "Spare my life, teacher."

  "Don't worry, it's okay, the teacher's recovery magic is still pretty good. If you want, we can swap the sack for an iron ball instead."

  "It's still good to be a sandbag, it's good to be a sandbag." After hearing such a terrifying phrase, I didn't dare to complain anymore and immediately dove into the formation. I flashed, I flashed, but before three flashes, I was swept out by the sandbag and died in pain. Teacher Xiu immediately used a primary recovery spell on me and pushed me back into the formation again. I kept flashing, flashing, but was repeatedly knocked flying. My young body was ruthlessly ravaged by the devil.

  What's even stranger is that I'm enduring inhuman torture every day, yet my body is getting stronger and stronger. Coach Xiu told me that only by eating bitter suffering can one become a superior person, and the only way to survive is to protect oneself first, and the best way to do so is to run. (This coincides with my inner thoughts.)

  Every week, I study magical knowledge on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and practice the sack array on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The difficulty of the sack array has also been increasing gradually as my abilities improve. (As for the so-called difficulty, it's nothing much, just Teacher Xiu giving me a mid-level magic spell from all directions - something like Thunder Fall.)

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