Chapter 218: Banshee’s Wail
"Only four electives?"
Seeing Janna’s calm and composed expression despite taking six compulsory courses and four electives, Hugh Stone’s mood grew extrely complicated.
"Well, I guess that makes sense. You’re basically one of Turin’s hottest stars now. With all the money you're making, you really don't need to take on missions anymore. But with ten classes a week and opera work on weekends, do you even have ti left for ditation training?"
"Ti is like water in a sponge. Squeeze a little, and it’ll co out."
To Hugh Stone’s doubt, Janna simply gave a vague answer.
After all, for a wizard to replace sleep with ditation was a rather common practice, but during the wizard apprentice stage, it remained quite rare.
In theory, for apprentices specializing in Spirit Power, Deep ditation could restore their Spirit Power faster than sleep.
However, soone like Janna, who could enter a Deep ditation state anyti, anywhere without any aids, was still extrely rare.
Most people could only maintain a shallow ditation state and couldn’t use ditation as a substitute for sleep.
After all, many apprentices were still in their growth phase. Without the ability to enter Deep ditation, sleep was an irreplaceable part of physical developnt.
Especially for those from the Bloodline-Side who placed great emphasis on physical attributes, sustained high-intensity training demanded sufficient sleep to improve their Constitution.
"Alright then—I was originally thinking of asking you to team up for a mission. But clearly, you have no ti for missions."
After packing her study materials and bidding Hugh Stone farewell, Janna headed to the classroom to secure a seat for the afternoon's Interdiate dical Studies class.
But when she reached the classroom door, she discovered a conspicuous "Class Cancellation Notice" posted beside it. The class resumption date was marked as TBD.
"This is just like the principal’s usual way of doing things—"
The sudden cancellation forced Janna to reorganize her schedule for the day. However, without much delay, she put away her Interdiate dical Studies textbook and took the elevator out of the Magic Tower, heading straight back to her dormitory without even stopping by the cafeteria.
As the dormitory’s chanical elevator doors opened, the Door Spirit was visibly surprised to see Janna return so early.
"Miss Janna, you’re back so early today?"
"Change of plans. The afternoon class got cancelled."
Pushing open the door and entering her room, Janna let out a long sigh and removed the Wizard Hood from her head.
"Once I master the Psychology Invisibility spell, I won’t need to constantly worry about being recognized—"
As Janna’s fa grew, she realized that sotis, even if she covered her face tightly, eagle-eyed fanatics and tabloid reporters could still recognize her by her figure alone.
It wasn’t too bad inside the academy, since everyone was used to attending class together and could restrain themselves a bit.
But once Janna left the academy grounds, these constant "tails" seriously disrupted her daily outings.
In extre cases, she had to rely on the Hundred-Eyed Specter’s illusions to escape the crowds. So, to rid herself of this “nuisance,” Janna specifically exchanged with Black Cat Bell for the Psychology Invisibility spell and also gifted her the silverfish jerky she had bought in Watermarsh City.
"Gurgle gurgle—"
After removing her Wizard Robe, Janna took a chilled bottle of iced coffee from the fridge and took a sip.
She then casually prepared a whole wheat sandwich and began eating.
"The spells that are relatively suitable for to learn for now are probably just these."
After finishing a simple lunch and washing her hands, Janna sat back at her lab desk and took out all the spells she had exchanged for before the sester began.
Janna’s logic for spell selection was simple: she filtered by the conditions of Second Tier Apprentice, Plant Affinity, ntal Control Witchcraft, Sound-based category, and General type, then used the process of elimination to remove what didn’t suit her and exchanged for all the remaining ones.
A rough count showed that there were about four spells Janna could currently study: the Plant Affinity spell Thorny Spikes, the Sound-based spell Banshee’s Wail, and the General-type spells Psychology Invisibility and mory Reading.
To be honest, Janna was not particularly satisfied with either the quantity or quality of the spells.
Leaving aside Thorny Spikes, which was already used by Thornflower Sprite and thus redundant, what Janna really cared about were ntal Control Witchcraft spells. Apart from the previously exchanged ntal Charm and Soul Scream, there weren’t any other suitable ones.
In the end, Janna could only settle for a few relatively practical General-type spells and a newly released Sound-based spell, Banshee’s Wail.
This Sound-based spell was quite similar to Soul Scream. Both were area-of-effect attack skills that also forcibly interrupted enemy casting.
The difference was that Soul Scream was a soul attack, while Banshee’s Wail focused more on inflicting a negative status on the enemy.
Targets hit by Banshee’s Wail would not only have their casting interrupted, but their bodies would also be forcibly immobilized. Simultaneously, they would suffer from dizziness, nausea, and spasms—a rather useful spell.
"Its drawbacks are also pretty obvious—like Siren Chanting, it doesn’t distinguish friend from foe—"
Moreover, its counters were quite straightforward. If the enemy blocked their hearing, the spell would beco ineffective.
"But that’s not really a problem for Freya, who has a B-level Magical Voice Penetration talent."
Freya was the Sound-based female apprentice who played Orlissa in Song of the Ocean. If a spell like Banshee’s Wail was cast by Freya, the effect would be completely different from Janna’s.
After all, Janna was just cleverly using her character talent Voice of the Heavens to cast Sound-based spells. Her perception of different Hertz frequencies in the field of Mysticism definitely wasn’t as refined as that of a proper Sound-based apprentice.
Freya, for instance—even if her opponent sealed their hearing with magic, she could simply adjust her voice’s Hertz frequency slightly to effortlessly break through the magical blockade and achieve a penetrating effect.
"Let’s start with the simple ones."
Because she had been busy preparing for her second-year courses, Janna hadn’t had much ti to learn new spells.
So, taking advantage of today’s rare free ti, Janna hurriedly began studying these four spells.
Fortunately, she was already quite familiar with the spell model for Thorny Spikes, thanks to frequently watching Thornflower Sprite cast it, so learning it posed no real issue.
The sa went for the other spells. For soone like Janna, with more than 10 points in Comprehension, just grasping the basics of these spells was no challenge at all.
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