Chapter 315 – Magic Puzzle (1/2)

Although her physical injuries were completely healed, her tattered and blood-soaked sleeves spoke of the useless pain she paid.

She didn’t understand why she was sent flying, or why the elements and magic power next to Lin Xiao increased even more. Could it be that not only were her attempts futile, she even accelerated his demise?

Elena didn’t notice the miraculous changes within the barrier, neither did she hear the words that Lin Xiao quietly uttered.

“Deconstruct… open”

Lin Xiao concentrated fully and prepared to use a new technique he never tried before… deconstruction.

Magicians needed chanting and magic circles to move their magic power so that they can cast magic, that was common knowledge for magicians. Chantless instant cast was a technique that permitted a small number of magicians with a lot of magic power to skip the chanting and magic circle construction through arduous practice and their understanding and grasp of magic.

Yet, eighth-level and above magic can never be instant cast.

The massive magic power and the rampaging elements made the entire casting process difficult, the calculations were almost beyond the human limit. Even normal casting required the help of tools, not to mention instant cast.

But there was a good saying, there’s always a way, don’t underestimate human intelligence!

Over several hundred of years of magic development, there have been people that suggested improving the methods of constructing magic circles, innovating it, and these new methods were only developed fully recently by knowledgeable grand magicians and the one that finalized it was Loran Academy’s notable teacher, the famous grand magician, Woos!

A few years ago, Woos successfully finished analyzing the new method and wrote a paper and tried to spread it.

Unfortunately, although his theory was sound, it was impossible to grasp because of its difficulty, even Woos himself couldn’t put his own theory to practice and could only prove it with data.

Since Woos himself couldn’t even put it to practice, he couldn’t demonstrate that his theory worked. The result was his work being labeled as a trick to deceive people, even being refused by the magician association. Thankfully, Loran Academy’s principal had the insight and saw its worth. So he stored it with the antique books in the library as one of the most precious magic text for people to study later on.

And the person who came later was Lin Xiao.

While he was at school, Lin Xiao read through all the books, of course not missing this one.

When Lin Xiao saw the large stamped word on the cover of the book, he was captivated.

Deconstruction.

What is deconstruction? How can you use it?

“It sounds easy, but it’s quite difficult to actually do…”

When thinking about the vastly complex theory behind deconstruction, Lin Xiao couldn’t help but be in awe of Woos’s knowledge.

Who knew that sickly old man could produce such deep theory, even a genius in magic like Lin Xiao couldn’t learn it. Even after seriously studying it multiple times, he couldn’t even comprehend one percent and could only stop after repeated failures.

“But this time… I have to succeed!”

He desperately recalled every single detail, that book appeared crystal clear inside Lin Xiao’s head as the pages of dense words and complex diagrams flew by like it was being projected.

If Lin Xiao’s brain was compared to a computer, then he was undoubtedly overclocked at 200% and used his strong mental strength to quickly learn the only way to save his life and try to regain control over this raging magic power.

Elena became more and more anxious as she watch the magic barrier become thinker and denser. She wanted to try thinking of other ways to save Lin Xiao, but stopped when she took another look.

Something wasn’t right.

On the surface, it looked like the rampaging elements weren’t listening to Lin Xiao, but Elena could tell that the power was following some sort of pattern and their movements were becoming smoother, no longer like rabid dogs running all over the place, but more like carriages speeding down fixed paths.

What was going on?

Although Elena could feel the changes from outside the barrier, she couldn’t see what was happening, but someone could!

Yao Zi finally revealed a flicker of surprise in her empty eyes, like she noticed something unbelievable!

With her eyes, she could clearly see the miracle that was happening inside the barrier…

Lin Xiao couldn’t complete the complex formation in one breath, but he could do the foundation then break it and merge it into the sea of elements and then slowly call them back.

“Disassemble… shatter… reconstruction… lastly… deconstruction?”