Without a doubt, Anastasia is a woman of action.
After making a suggestion, she immediately began teaching magic.
She placed some magic crystals, each the size of a pinky fingernail, in front of Fia before explaining the principles of magic.
“The essence of magic is to use one’s own mana to manipulate the elements in the environment, allowing them to be controlled and shaped as desired.
For example, the ‘Spirit Fire’ that Your Highness excels at is a product of mana combined with fire elements.
Incantations and magic wands serve as mediums to resonate mana with elements and tools to accelerate communication with them.”
“Generally speaking, without chanting an incantation or using a magic wand, a magic caster cannot use magic.
However, if someone has a high affinity with elements, they can cast magic without incantations or a wand.
This is the ‘Chantless Magic’ you used this morning.
Using fifth-tier magic without chanting is something only you can do in the entire Elf Kingdom.”
That wasn’t fifth-tier magic; it was just ordinary ‘Spirit Fire.’ Fia wanted to explain, but even if she did, Anastasia wouldn’t believe her, so she gave up trying.
In Anastasia’s understanding, a mere first-tier ‘Spirit Fire’ could at most form a fireball the size of a human head, not wipe out Holy Kingdom soldiers in an instant.
It’s as natural as a kindergarten child not being able to outrun a world sprint champion.
Anastasia, unaware of Fia’s thoughts, continued her explanation.
The sunset’s glow through the window painted Anastasia’s golden hair a golden-red hue.
“To become a magic caster, the first difficulty is being unable to perceive mana, and the second is failing to resonate mana with elements to produce magic.
For the second issue, providing some low-level magic crystals and countless attempts can gradually lead to understanding.
But the first problem can only be solved by the caster’s own insight.”
Anastasia lowered her head, looking at Fia with a hint of expectation.
“Since Your Highness can use ‘Calamity Red Lotus’ without chanting, you must have overcome these two difficulties, right?”
“Uh.” Fia was stunned.
Although she could use magic and knew what mana was, she had never felt the elements.
“What are elements?”
“…Huh?” Anastasia raised an eyebrow.
Although she probably didn’t mean it, Fia felt like Anastasia was treating her like an idiot.
“Since Your Highness can use ‘Calamity Red Lotus,’ you should have already communicated with the elements.
Only by communicating with the omnipresent elements in the air can you release magic.”
“But I really haven’t felt anything called elements.
All magic is just a thought away from being cast.”
Whether it’s ‘Spirit Fire’ or ‘Orbital Beacon Bombardment,’ she only needs to focus her attention to cast it.
The difference is that if she uses more attention and selects a distant target, the magic is ‘Orbital Beacon Bombardment.’ If she uses less attention, it’s ‘Spirit Fire.’
“Strange.” Anastasia frowned, picking up a small blue crystal from the table.
“Your Highness, try injecting mana into this crystal.”
“Magic crystal? Detonate it indoors?” Since the Elf Princess carried similar items, Fia specifically found a description of them in the “Witch’s Secret History.” It’s a tool called a magic crystal.
Magic scholars can use their knowledge to seal pre-set magic into the crystal.
When needed, people can inject mana into the crystal to release the magic stored inside.
The advantages of magic crystals are obvious.
Since the magic is pre-sealed, they consume less mana and don’t require chanting.
If you have a lot of magic crystals, you’re practically a walking magic turret.
But the drawbacks of magic crystals are also apparent.
First, due to low production and high practicality, magic crystals are extremely expensive, not something an ordinary family can afford.
Secondly, limited by production techniques, even the same magic’s power is always lower when released from a magic crystal compared to when a caster uses it directly.
Take Fia’s ‘Spirit Fire’ as an example.
Normally, it should be the size of a human head, but when released from a magic crystal, it might only be half to two-thirds of that size.
However, even a fireball the size of a fist is very dangerous to use indoors.
Anastasia crossed her arms confidently.
“No problem.
This magic crystal contains ‘Wind Blade.’ At this level of magic, I can shatter it with a mere gesture.
The simplest way to feel various elements is to use magic crystals to directly contact them.”
“Well… okay.”
Taking a deep breath, Fia, like before, focused her attention inward, found the thing called mana, and then pushed it into the blue crystal in her hand.
Bang.
With a slight popping sound, the crystal turned to powder, and correspondingly, a wind blade the length of an adult’s index finger flew straight at Anastasia.
As she said, Anastasia merely raised her hand and crushed the wind blade.
“How about it? Can Your Highness feel the resonance between mana and the wind element?”
“Rather than feeling resonance, it’s more like…” Fia’s expression became extremely subtle.
“I seem to have learned the magic called ‘Wind Blade’?”
The moment the magic crystal shattered, Fia felt an extremely slight sense of disorientation.
Then, like an AI simulation, the process of mana forming a wind blade appeared in her mind.
When she came to, the ‘Wind Blade’ magic was already like ‘Spirit Fire,’ ready to be used with just a thought.
Even though Fia hadn’t actually used ‘Wind Blade,’ she had that intuition.
It’s like AI computation.
Wait a minute, could it be the effect of ‘Super Computation’? If it’s true, doesn’t that mean she can instantly master any magic just by using a magic crystal once? In that case, the effect of ‘Super Computation’ is no less than ‘Orbital Beacon Bombardment.’ If ‘Nanomachine Body’ ensures her immortality, then ‘Super Computation’ gives her nearly infinite possibilities.
How would those who painstakingly learned ‘Wind Blade’ feel?
Sure enough, Anastasia’s eyes widened.
“You learned it? Just like that? But you still can’t feel the elements?”
No, Anastasia, I know it’s unbelievable, but I’m serious.
Knock, knock, knock.
Just as the thought emerged, there was a knock on the door behind Fia, and Anastasia instantly tensed up, her eyes becoming particularly alert, as if facing a great enemy.
It was Claire.
“Isn’t it about time to stop? It’s dinner time.” Seeing Anastasia’s tense demeanor, Claire smiled wryly.
“I bought some food on the way back.
I can bring dinner to you here.”
“No need.
Your Highness, please enjoy dinner with Lady Claire.
I’ll try to contact Kirill.
He knows more about magic and might be able to explain the anomaly happening to you.
My apologies, Lady Claire.”
With that, Anastasia brushed past Claire and left directly.
It’s probably not that she dislikes Claire, but rather she’s not used to the curse on Claire.
Fia thought.
Although she couldn’t feel what fear was supposed to be like, judging from people’s reactions to Claire, Anastasia’s actions were definitely out of necessity.
Maybe just sitting next to Claire would make Anastasia too nervous to eat.
“Looks like it’s just the two of us.”
With a beautiful face full of bitterness, Claire smiled wryly, shaking the bamboo basket in her hand.
