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"sit down."
She pointed to the desk on one side of the bedroom and motioned for Lanqi to go to the chair.
She sat on the other side of the long table, on the edge of her bed.
"Next, I will make the most basic first-level magic semi-finished cards. I will teach you the general principle of the spell. You only need to complete a very simple step, and then I will complete it. The final completion deviation can show your compatibility with this type of magic."
As Talia spoke, she picked up some card-making tools and started working.
"Well, then, what if I mess up the card?"
Lanqi seemed to have been looking around the room for firefighting tools.
If Talia's bedroom was blown up, Lanqi didn't know what the consequences would be. Besides, there was a shop downstairs, so he had to consider others.
"Try it."
Talia raised her head and stared at Lanqi, her eyes as bright as the cold moon.
Lanqi only felt a chill in his heart and back. This time Talia was serious.
"...I won't blow up the card."
Lanqi assured confidently, and even tightened his grip on the card-making tool.
Although Talia looked harsher than ever, Lanci always upheld the traditional virtue of respecting the elderly, and he would only treat the centuries-old lady with kind words.
Talia then ignored him for a while and focused on the preparations at hand.
This is how the demons treat their apprentices. Since she is teaching, she will teach seriously.
Although Talia did not have much experience as a teacher, she felt that since Lanqi was a human-turned-demon, it should not be wrong to teach him in this way.
She had been watching Lanqi making cards since he first tried making cards. She naturally knew where Lanqi's problems lay and how to train him, a talented person, to become an excellent card maker.
The biggest problem of this rich boy is——
Apart from the fact that he had an unusual talent for detonating magic cards, his previous card-making state had been too loose and abnormal.
Although the non-nervous mentality when making cards is something that most card makers would envy, if Lanqi maintains this state forever, he will fall into another misunderstanding - being too Buddhist and having a long-term low success rate.
In Talia's opinion, [Challenge Goal] and [Card Making Technology] are the main factors affecting [Card Making Status]. If the challenge goal is too high, the card maker will lack control over himself and the magic cards, and will feel anxious or frustrated. On the contrary, if the challenge goal is too low, the card maker will feel bored and lose interest, and even card making will become too casual.
The best card-making state of [Full Immersion] mainly occurs when the challenge goal and card-making technology are balanced.
Since Lanci always likes to be in a stress-free state where skills and talents are more important than challenges, this indirectly leads to him not caring about the explosion of cards.
So Talia has to start training Ranchi in the way of the demons - if he doesn't do well, he will die, or even transcend death, in order to pressure Ranchi's card-making state to a balanced level.
Talia showed Lanqi the first semi-finished magic card of the [Spirit] element she had made.
"I have already engraved the most basic mind-affecting magic structure for you. You need to embed an additional spell in the formation. This spell can be understood as a supplement or magic power identification, so as to increase the directionality or identify the enemy or friend."
While teaching Lanci, Talia demonstrated in front of him how to complete it.
"This card is for demonstration purposes only. All the following cards will be left to you to complete."
Lanci nodded solemnly.
Talia's gentle and patient explanation was based on the premise that he would absolutely complete the instructions and orders.
If anything went wrong later, he estimated that he would be really finished.
Simultaneously.
Lanqi also gradually realized the true meaning of the demon teaching method that he had not been able to fully understand in the Demon Academy before.
Using extremely high pressure to stimulate students' potential between life and death.
If he needs to guide other students in his own school or other schools in the future, he can probably put it to good use.
Lanqi was convinced that his role as principal had become even more complete.
Next.
The room became silent.
They no longer communicated with each other, but just focused on the work at hand, each doing their own work, but when they passed the cards to each other, they had a tacit understanding.
When people concentrate on one thing, they will forget the surrounding environment and time, and gain higher satisfaction, pleasure and experience.
Talia occasionally looked at Lanqi and was sure that Lanqi's card-making status had changed from before.
It seems that I will have to keep an eye on him more during his teaching in the future.
……
The sky outside the room was changing subtly.
The originally bright sky in the early morning had been covered with a faint orange-red color, and the clouds looked like lit torches under the setting sun.
The color of the sky gradually changed from azure to violet, and then to deep crimson blue.
The sun slowly sank on the horizon and finally disappeared below the horizon, leaving behind a twilight.
They were making cards until dark.
And now in Talia's room.
Accompanied by the sound of gentle breathing.
Lanqi was already lying on the table, soundly asleep, his face as unsuspecting as a baby's.
Perhaps it was because he was too focused, or because Talia put too much pressure on him that made him dare not relax, he did not even realize that he had reached his limit. After completing the last card and handing it to Talia, he lowered his head until he fell asleep on the table.
Talia looked at the stack of magic cards on the table, which were also the test results.
In addition to the [Spirit] magic, the [Healing] magic is also relatively superior. Among all the elemental magic, only [Light] is barely okay, but it is not particularly outstanding.
As for the other small types of magic, their compatibility was generally not optimistic, just like the [Curse] and [Poison] that Talia had originally seen at a glance.
However, there is only one magic card engraved with a colorless rune mark, shining brightly and standing out from the crowd.
This is proof of excellent compatibility.
After Talia tested all the types of magic that could be classified, she did find the only one that was extremely compatible with Ranchi.
Talia picked up the card with a complicated look on her face.
"Why is this guy most suited to [Seal] magic..."
She looked at Lanqi's natural sleeping face and felt that his level of novice skills would be greatly improved after the registered card maker examination.
Chapter 93 Talia's Change of View on Ranchi
As the dusk deepened, the world outside the window began to be swallowed up by the night. Stars began to twinkle in the night sky of Ikerit. The full moon was hung high in the sky, emitting soft light. The street lights gradually lit up, illuminating the night of the royal capital.
Until the light on the bedroom window glass slowly disappeared, as if the whole world had fallen into a dream.
Seeing that Lanqi fell asleep due to exhaustion of mana, Talia knew that she couldn't wake him up in a short time even if she wanted to, so she simply left him at the table.
After completing the duties she had promised to Lanqi, she finally took out the [Shadow World Recording Program].
She had long wanted to watch it as soon as possible.
She even felt this was more important than going out for dinner.
In fact, in addition to the contents of the shadow world recorded in it, Talia was more concerned about the half-demon girl with silver hair and amber eyes who participated in the challenge with Ranchi.
She took out a magic projector that she had modified from the bottom shelf of the bedside table, put the [Shadow World Recording Program] into it, turned down the volume to a minimum that would not wake Lanqi up, and then went to turn off the lights in the room.
Then the image began to be projected onto the dark wall facing the bed.
The room was completely filled with darkness, and the only source of light was the quietly running magic projector.
Talia sat on the bed and watched silently, her hands hugging her knees as if she was watching a movie late at night.
The dim light and shadow of the picture reflected on her face was bright or dark, changing rapidly, and the voices of Lanqi and Hyperion in the video of the film world echoed in the room.
Talia gradually immersed herself in the story, as if isolated from the world, staring at the figure of the girl in the picture, as if she was missing her closest demon.
"Ifatia, is she your daughter..."
After an unknown amount of time, Talia murmured to herself, making an almost undetectable sound.
Although they don't look exactly alike, their hair and eye colors are very similar.
The day before yesterday, I watched the live broadcast of the second half of Shadow World. Until the end, when Taliyah witnessed the cultists shouting that the Duke's daughter was half-demon, she began to deeply suspect that this Duke's daughter might really be her sister's daughter.
If she could see Hyperion in person, Talia might be able to sense whether there was really a blood connection between them.
However, Talia was not in a good position to approach the Duke's daughter who was at the center of the storm in a crowded place.
Talia just felt that the more she looked at it, the more similar it looked.
Maybe I'll have to find a way to ask Lanqi to bring this duchess to meet me in private later.
Thinking of this, Talia also saw on the screen how Lanqi treated the demons in a ruthless and brutal manner in the demon examination room.
Gradually she frowned.
Although she had been with Lanqi for a long time, she gradually became familiar with him.
But it is also at this moment that she will seem to wake up and feel more strongly the hatred and rejection between humans and demons.
After all, it is impossible for humans to coexist peacefully with demons.
The reason why Lanqi can get along so well with her and continue to trade with her is only because he doesn't know that he is a great demon.
The day he finds out the truth, he will surely look at me with malicious intent.
in the projection screen.
Lanci and Hyperion had just left the demon examination room and were following the demon students in the corridor.
Hyperion seemed to hesitate for a long time while running, and finally lowered her voice to ask Lanqi tentatively:
"Lanqi, what do you think of demons?"
Lanqi was slightly stunned after hearing this, and then replied:
"They can live a long time. Even if they are several hundred years old, they still look like a young girl."
"...!"