After hearing his response, the reaction of the Demon King was quite indifferent; he simply stated,
"I'm not interested in your promotion sentints, but since you've found a way to improve, just keep it up."
Seeing that no hidden task notification popped up, Yiye Zhiqu felt slightly disappointed but still respectfully replied,
"I will heed Your teachings!"
Luo Yan nodded and casually said,
"If there's nothing else, you may leave now."
Luo Yan had only made a polite remark, but he didn't expect the player in front of him to actually have sothing to trouble him with.
"There is…" Yiye Zhiqu nodded hurriedly, afraid that Lord Demon King would refuse, and spoke rapidly, "I want to learn magic from You!"
"Learn magic?" Luo Yan slightly raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "Wouldn't you consider changing your race first?"
Yiye Zhiqu shook his head.
"I haven't yet found a suitable target. Moreover, I've grown accustod to the traits of skeleton soldiers; rather than adapting to a different system, I'd prefer to master my current profession to the extre before considering others… Or is it that skeletons cannot learn magic?"
"That's not necessarily true." Luo Yan pondered for a mont and continued, "Although spells make casting simpler, and magic wands can speed up the transmission of magic power and reduce the loss of casting, it can still be done without these two items... Just like this."
As he spoke, Luo Yan spread open his right palm, and with the focus of his thought, a ping-pong ball-sized fla appeared in his palm.
"This is the power of the elents."
Yiye Zhiqu stared dumbfounded at the fla, the soul fire in his skull flickering brightly.
"How is this done?!"
Luo Yan continued,
"Elental magic fundantally stems from the imagination of objective things; it's not easy to explain specifically, you need to feel it with your heart... My suggestion is, you could start with ditation, such as imagining a fla in your mind."
Not daring to miss a word, Yiye Zhiqu carefully noted down his words.
"Is imagination all it takes?"
"Of course not, does learning ABCD an you've learned English? It's actually the sa principle." Luo Yan smiled faintly.
Although it was odd to hear the word "English" coming from a ga character, it was rely an improper analogy.
Yiye Zhiqu was not the type to overthink things.
Luo Yan had so expectations for this guy—being good at figuring out rules, he might be able to think along his own lines and uncover sothing.
"... The most basic spell as I demonstrated to you, is like the ABCD letters; as for more advanced spells, they involve using these abstract elents to spell out abstract words, and then linking these abstract words into sentences."
As he spoke, Luo Yan extinguished the fireball in his hand, drew a magic wand from behind, and while chanting a spell, pointed towards a wall in the distance.
A tongue of fire burst forth from the tip of his wand, like a flexible python, rushing towards the nearby stone wall.
Sparks burst on the wall!
Players nearby couldn't help but applaud.
Luo Yan put away the magic wand in his hand, turned to face the ticulously listening Yiye Zhiqu, and succinctly said,
"Fire Snake Skill, a Bronze-level spell, is released like this. Similarly, there are others like imagining water flowing into a spearhead, imagining earth transforming into a wall, and imagining a deceased life standing up again... Essentially, magic is a technology that materializes human spirit."
Yiye Zhiqu pondered for a long ti and said with a wry smile,
"It sounds sowhat difficult to comprehend."
Luo Yan nodded.
"Of course, after all, magic is such a 'troubleso thing'."
The reason Yiye Zhiqu felt it difficult was also related to his teaching thod.
Most magic apprentices at the beginning start by learning from the part of Magic History, which is essentially the doctrines of the Elental Ancient Gods at the end of the First Epoch.
Moreover, in the first practical class, the instructor or professor would emphasize the devotion to the Elental Spirits.
This devotion is different from that to the Demon God or Saint Sis; it's a kind more akin to devotion to history and to one's own heart.
Initially, magic apprentices start with extended spells using lengthy prayers to summon a fireball, until they can skillfully manipulate the fireball in their hands without needing to chant, which is considered a rudintary understanding.
Upon knowing that heartfelt devotion is not the only path to wielding Extraordinary Power, Luo Yan wanted to see if players could skip the self-indoctrinating prayers and instead use the spirit to directly drive Extraordinary Power to summon fireballs.
Though it ant magic would be harder to learn, once they successfully entered the gateway, it would greatly benefit their future growth.
Watching Yiye Zhiqu deep in thought, Luo Yan continued,
"If you find it troubleso, you could also choose another path. The reason I don't recomnd my servants learn magic is that this technique can't be mastered overnight."
That was a challenge.
He knew this guy wouldn't give up so easily but would continue to explore along the direction he had pointed out.
In this way, he might also glean so genuinely useful experience from the official forum of "Calamity OL."
Having sent away the thoughtful Yiye Zhiqu, Luo Yan was about to attend to his own matters, when he saw a commotion at the entrance of the maze.
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