Magic of Restraint

"A Yan, keep it up, godma will stay in the new house you built tonight."

Flamme gave a thumbs-up gesture of encouragement and hard work, smiling as she left to fetch the boiled herbs and prepare to administer the medicine to Frieren.

"Ah? Oh, okay."

Li Yan gave a brief response, blankly gazing at the small wooden villa before him, then back at the small wooden house, and in the end could only continue building the bed.

Heaven and earth were vast, but right now godma was the greatest; he dared not talk back, or he would get beaten.

At night, Frieren lived in the small wooden house, and Li Yan gazed at godma sleeping silently beside him; at this moment she was still hugging him while sleeping, even though he was clearly no longer a child.

Depending on the soft layout, Li Yan could only silently enter dreamland.

As time slowly passed, Frieren's injuries had completely recovered, and Flamme began formally teaching her to learn magic. As a senior martial brother, Li Yan followed along as well, under Flamme's fine-sounding excuse: "Reviewing the old and learning the new."

"Flamme."

Frieren called out softly.

Flamme looked at Frieren calmly, "Call me Master."

"The demons took everything away from me. I hate the demons to the core, and I want to wipe them all out."

Frieren followed closely behind Flamme's footsteps, speaking in a flat tone.

Flamme did not look back, just silently walking forward, replying indifferently, "We are the same."

Frieren lowered her head as she followed, continuing, "But... I like magic, and I want to keep learning magic."

Flamme walked in front, stroked Li Yan's head, and chuckled, "I like it too. Not just me, A Yan likes it a lot as well."

"So despicable villains who toy with magic—just the two of us are enough."

Li Yan puffed out his little cheeks with an unhappy expression; he always felt Flamme treated him like a child, even though he was already quite big.

Along the way, Flamme and Frieren chatted very congenially, and even Li Yan felt the two of them were a match made in heaven.

Arriving at the clearing, Flamme instructed Frieren to release and control her external Mana to below one-tenth.

Frieren looked at Li Yan, gazing at the minimal Mana fluctuations on Li Yan's body, and as if she understood something, she began controlling her body to release Mana fluctuations.

"It's very simple, clearly, any elf can do it."

Frieren looked at the Mana fluctuations of her own body, and said so.

Li Yan bit his lower lip slightly; he had spent quite a while learning this trick, and always felt he was being belittled.

Seeing that Frieren had grasped the basics, Flamme also began teaching the subsequent Mana control.

"Maintain the Mana-restrained state while conducting basic training, so as to increase the total base Mana."

Frieren listened attentively, doing as Flamme instructed. Every step was executed exceptionally perfectly, as if it were a simple math problem.

"If you maintain it for too long, it gets a little tiring."

Frieren looked at her own hands. She could sense the Mana fluctuations in her body growing smaller; although controlling these Mana fluctuations was very simple, maintaining them continuously like this was somewhat tiring.

"How long does this need to be maintained?"

Frieren raised her head to ask.

A cunning smile appeared on Flamme's face as she pointed at Li Yan, who stood quietly watching to the side, "Like your senior martial brother, maintain it for a lifetime. You must use your entire life to deceive the demons."

Li Yan nodded silently. The next second, the level 10 Mana radiating around his body suddenly surged; the Mana of around level 10 instantly climbed, and only slowly stopped when it reached a Mana intensity of around level 38.

Though his total Mana was not as strong as the Mana radiating from Frieren's body, it was still a Mana intensity not to be underestimated.

If the current Li Yan and Frieren were to engage in a life-or-death battle, Li Yan had quite a bit of certainty that he could kill Frieren, solely because the combination of magic and the holy sword was an existence mortals could not imagine.

He had been researching Space Magic recently; this was a realm ordinary mages could never successfully research, and even Flamme did not hold high hopes for it.

Yet he always felt he had an affinity for Space Magic, and understood the knowledge of Space Magic very thoroughly; he even felt he was born for learning Space Magic.

Watching Li Yan calmly finish releasing his Mana and then calmly pull it back in, Frieren could not help but feel a wave of shock. She had deep personal experience of constantly maintaining and controlling the release of a portion of her body's Mana; maintaining it for a moment was barely manageable, but if it were kept up constantly, that pressure would perhaps increase exponentially.

"Isn't it tiring to do it to this extent, Senior Martial Brother Li Yan?"

Frieren asked. Clearly, there was a huge gap in Mana between them, yet she found it exceptionally strenuous to control, whereas Li Yan looked completely relaxed and natural.

A smile appeared at the corner of Li Yan's mouth. Being looked at with curious eyes by Junior Sister Frieren, an extra trace of pride welled up in his heart, and he spoke indifferently, "Tidying is naturally tiring, but with long-term control, practice makes perfect, making it as natural as breathing. Would you feel that breathing is very tiring?"

Frieren nodded her little head thoughtfully, and began continuously maintaining the Magic of Restraint.

With the preliminary learning complete, Flamme nodded in satisfaction and began instructing Li Yan with various suggestions regarding Space Magic. Frieren, meanwhile, continuously maintained the Magic of Restraint—sometimes sitting, sometimes lying down, and even occasionally standing on one leg like a golden rooster.

Watching Frieren get used to the Magic of Restraint in various postures, Li Yan could not help covering his mouth and laughing aloud, only to receive a loving critical hit from Flamme on the grounds of disrespecting his junior sister's spirit of exploring magic.

Li Yan had nothing to say in defense. Watching Frieren's clumsy attempts, he could only sit in place and observe; he wanted to see what other tricks Frieren had when learning the Magic of Restraint.

After trying out all sorts of postures, Frieren finally knelt and sat on the ground to relax, clearly somewhat exhausted.

A smile appeared at the corner of Flamme's mouth. She thoroughly understood Frieren's attempts at various postures, which amounted to nothing more than worrying whether she would be able to grasp and control her Mana fluctuations while in those different positions.

One had to know that during battle, Mana fluctuations were even harder to suppress, and the intense movements of a battle were not as relaxed and comfortable as this.

"Frieren, use the Magic of Restraint to spar with A Yan. Only battle is the best opportunity to spur you on to master the Magic of Restraint."

Flamme said with a smile. Taking in Frieren was not only due to her foster son's request, but even more so out of pity for a genius, as well as the thought that when the future arrived, her foster son would have a reliable pillar of support behind him.

"Please go easy on me, Junior Sister."

Li Yan unleashed around level 10 Mana, his gaze locked straight onto Frieren. Frieren was seen looking at Li Yan with a normal expression, the Mana outside her body also suppressed to around level 10, presenting the appearance of a delicate, frail, and cute elf maiden.