It’s been more than half a year since Bai Ting left the Bai family for the Magic Academy.
During this time, Bai Ling spent almost every day holed up in the Bai family’s study, because she wanted to understand everything about this world.
Over these months, she learned that this was a magical continent called “Gaia.” She also wanted to learn about “spells” in this world, since her previous life’s world had spells.
But unfortunately, there were no spells here—only magic.
Magic here was formed from the quantum in the air, and mages used their mental power to control these quantum particles, forming magic circles and magical weapons.
Magic was divided into seven levels, from highest to lowest: SS, S, A, B, C, D, E.
Magic was split into two main categories.
First: Gaia Magic (the magic humans practiced).
Second: Spirit Magic (different from Gaia Magic, it was a higher-level magic that only the spirit race could practice, since it required their unique physique—so, so far, only spirits could learn it).
Gaia Magic was further divided into two types.
One: Elemental Magic (magic quantum with various attributes, including the five elements: wind, wood, water, fire, earth).
Two: Special Elemental Magic (special elements like darkness, light, healing—healing magic could bring the dead back to life as long as the mage’s mental power was strong enough, no matter how badly you were hurt, as long as you were still breathing, a healing mage could instantly restore you to peak condition.
Healing was known as the strongest support, and while wood and the upcoming lightning element also had healing abilities, they weren’t as effective as healing magic, so it was called a “system” rather than an element.
There was also the highest-level lightning attribute—lightning was the strongest because of its destructive power.
If a mage reached S-level or higher, they could comprehend the essence of life within thunder.
Once a lightning mage understood the secret of life from thunder, they could give life to lightning.
If the thunder was reborn, it would have the same power as the mage, which was like having another fighter as strong as yourself.)
When Bai Ling first told her father she wanted to study magic in the study, Bai Mo felt both proud and a little sad.
He was proud because his daughter was growing up, had her own dreams, and wanted to protect people she cared about.
Bai Ling had told Bai Mo, “Father, I want to learn powerful magic to protect the people I want to protect.” Bai Ling didn’t want to lose anyone important to her ever again.
Bai Mo could hardly believe his ears when he heard this, because he didn’t know where Bai Ling got the idea of needing to protect anyone.
Their family had been living in seclusion on the outskirts of the Magic Beast Forest since before Bai Ling was born.
Even though it was the outskirts, few people ever came here, because even the lowest-level magic beast was much stronger than an ordinary mage of the same level, so almost no one dared to come to the Magic Beast Forest.
He didn’t know why Bai Ling said that, but Bai Mo knew she was growing up.
Still, having such a “little grown-up” at this age felt a bit strange, but Bai Mo didn’t ask too much and agreed happily.
But he was also a little sad, because Bai Ling was growing up and didn’t need his protection anymore.
Plus, the time he could spend with her was now taken up by that damned study, and Bai Mo couldn’t help but feel a little bitter about it.
Over the past half year, Bai Ling learned a lot about the Gaia continent, since she spent all her time in the study, and most of the books there were about magic—containing the experiences of previous mages, magic circles, and so on.
But when Bai Ling told her father Bai Mo that she wanted to learn about magic circles, Bai Mo warned her very seriously to be careful and not act recklessly.
If she felt even a little unwell while casting a magic circle, she had to stop immediately.
Magic circles could only be used by mages of the same level or lower.
If a mage tried to use a magic circle above their level, at best they’d suffer backlash and never be able to advance to a higher level, and at worst, they’d explode on the spot.
Bai Ling listened to her father’s advice, but she still secretly tried building magic circles a few times herself.
These advanced magic circles came easily to her, but she wasn’t surprised, because over the past half year she’d learned how to use magic.
Although it was different from the spells of her previous life, both used mental power to control things—the only difference was that the former called it “psychic power” and the latter called it “mental power.” In essence, there wasn’t much difference, just a different name.
What was called “spells” in her previous life was called “magic” here.
After realizing she could use psychic power to build magic circles, Bai Ling basically studied every book about magic circles in the study.
She didn’t have a perfect memory, but as long as she saw something and practiced it, she could remember it.
It was the same with these magic books—after reading and studying them, she could remember all the knowledge inside.
The Gaia continent didn’t just have magic circles, but also magical weapons, ranked from lowest to highest: wood → stone → iron → magic device → spirit device → holy device → mysterious device → divine device.
Every magical weapon was made by a fire element mage forging the model, then a mage inscribing a magic circle onto it.
The higher the mage’s level, the stronger the magic circle they could inscribe, and the more powerful the weapon.
The opposite was also true—lower-level mages couldn’t inscribe high-level magic circles, so they could only make low-level magical weapons.
Magical weapons could be enhanced, but enhancement was even harder than making the weapon itself.
Most people didn’t bother and just switched to a stronger or higher-level weapon.
But some people got used to their own weapons and didn’t want to change, so they’d choose to enhance them.
Usually, enhancing a weapon was very difficult, because you had to strengthen the existing magic circle or add another one, but the new circle couldn’t conflict with the old one, or the weapon would just turn into a pile of scrap metal from magical backlash.
To enhance equipment, the first requirement was the mage’s understanding of magic circles.
Only mages who had studied magic circles for a long time could hope to succeed.
The second requirement was the mage’s level.
For example, if both a high-level and a low-level mage were equally skilled with magic circles, the high-level mage’s enhancements would make the weapon stronger and more perfect than the low-level mage’s.
High-level mages had the advantage because low-level mages could only inscribe circles of their own level, not higher.
And since higher-level circles were always stronger, low-level mages were always at a disadvantage compared to high-level mages.
