Niedern nodded and said, "Good. The fact that you can still laugh means your pressure is still too low."
Suye was torn between laughter and tears. "Teacher, you misunderstood. I've successfully inscribed the Magic Array Diagram. I'm lucky, and I'm good at bluffing."
Niedern's brow furrowed slightly, but in the next instant, he fixed his eyes on Suye.
"Really." Suye was utterly sincere.
Niedern actually took a deep breath, forcing down the shock in his heart.
Soon, Niedern regained his composure and nodded. "Just like you mobilized your magic power earlier, mobilize the Magic Array Diagram, then connect it to the Magic Ox Rope I gave you. As long as it can move, it means your Magic Array Diagram succeeded."
Suye placed the Magic Ox Rope on the blanket, then took a deep breath.
In the next instant, a scene surfaced in his mind. That Magic Tree Leaf suddenly grew enormous, as if it were as large as a planet. Then blue liquid flowed into the Magic Array Diagram on the leaf.
The diagram was like a river and sea, while magic power was like flowing water.
After magic power flowed along the fixed route throughout the Magic Array Diagram, the entire diagram suddenly burst into dazzling light.
A powerful column of white light shot into the sky, breaking out of the Magic Tower and reaching the highest point of the Mental Power world.
The scene seemed to unfold slowly, but in reality, it took only a little over two seconds.
Suye felt heat surge at his brow, more than a hundred times stronger than the previous flow of heat.
Acting on instinct, Suye raised his right hand and pointed his index finger at the Magic Ox Rope.
An astonishing scene appeared. The Magic Ox Rope slowly rose as if it had come alive, taking the shape of a long snake.
Seeing this, Suye was overwhelmed by an indescribable feeling. He had never expected that he could truly control the rope, that he had genuinely mastered magic!
Suye then continued moving his right index finger. The entire Magic Ox Rope moved exactly according to his gestures, like an obedient Magic Servant, vivid and lifelike.
"Remarkable."
Suye instinctively entered a state of awareness, focusing on sensing the condition of his body and observing the changes in the Magic Ox Rope with his eyes. It was an ability he had gradually mastered after meditating for a long time.
Seeing this, Niedern sighed softly. "I never expected you to be an idiot at studying and a genius at meditation."
The Magic Ox Rope fell with a smack.
Suye turned to Niedern and said, "Teacher, you can't be like Horton!"
At that moment, Niedern suddenly opened the Magic Book and began reading a Magic Letter.
Suye waited quietly.
After quite some time, Niedern stared at Suye.
Suye's whole body prickled, because he sensed wariness and suspicion in Niedern's gaze.
He was a Gold Mage, after all.
"Teacher... what's wrong?" Suye deliberately exaggerated the panic in his heart.
"Your present and your past are too different. If you hadn't entered Plato Academy safely and passed beneath the Sea Demon Fountain, where you were examined with absolute thoroughness, I would even suspect that you had been possessed." Niedern spoke.
Suye let out a long sigh. "Starting on the seventh day after my parents died, I knew I was different."
Niedern said sympathetically, "I understand. Throughout history, there have been too many people whose talents were suddenly awakened after suffering a great shock. Take Heracles, for example. After suddenly going mad and accidentally killing his teacher, his strength increased dramatically. Then he accidentally killed his wife and son, and accidentally killed his friend. Now he can already be called the Hero King. Unfortunately, everyone suspects him. Some even believe he's a 'Friend-Killing Maniac,' but every mage can guess that he was cursed."
"Who cursed him?" Suye asked, pretending not to care.
Niedern shook his head. "We suspect it was at least a Demigod. It might have been someone from Greece, or it might have been someone from another nation."
"I see." Suye had not expected the Greeks to be unaware of the truth behind Heracles' curse. It seemed that the waters of the World of Gods ran deeper than he had imagined.
Suye suddenly had a thought.
"On the first day, I met Lawrence. On the second day, I met Horton. Could I have been cursed too? Probably not. Surely today and tomorrow will go smoothly!"
The thought flashed through Suye's mind and vanished.
Niedern looked at Suye. "I truly never expected you to possess such outstanding magical talent. We all misjudged you. Still, this can only benefit you and Plato Academy. Back then, the Four Geniuses of the Academy overwhelmed all of Greece, even the entire world. But in recent years, the Aristocratic Academy has produced genius after genius, and even several magical prodigies, placing enormous pressure on the academy. In these past few years, Plato Academy has fallen behind. The academy's future rests on all of you."
"Teacher, I'm still an apprentice." Suye was helpless.
"Yes, you're still too young. Forget that for now. Your control over the Magic Rope just now was excellent, proving that your Mental Power is extremely strong. You can already use this spell directly. Now, you need to learn how to use incantations. Try using the Magic Rope to attack me. As long as you can bind me, you'll have mastered this spell."
As he retreated, Niedern continued, "Although you can control the Magic Rope, you need to unleash all your magic power in an instant, and that requires the power of an incantation. Spell Study is a discipline completely independent of every language. Neither its pronunciation nor its meaning can be understood directly. It can only be read through Mental Power. Therefore, to others, magical incantations sound like gibberish. Only after mastering them can you understand them. You haven't studied Spell Study yet, but I can teach it to you through magic and let you understand it in a short time. However, after you return, you'll need to memorize and study it constantly, or you'll soon forget it."
Suye stared intently at Niedern's lips, concentrating completely on both sight and sound.
"Skenny!" Niedern said.
Suye suddenly froze, because the flow of time before his eyes seemed to change. Niedern seemed to be roaring the word out syllable by syllable.
In ordinary language, this incantation clearly should have had five syllables, but in the incantation, it had only three sounds. Moreover, each sound seemed perfectly normal when he heard it, but once it entered his mind, it automatically transformed into a complete sentence.
For a moment, Suye could not fully understand the meanings of the three sentences. He could only vaguely sense that the incantation seemed to consist of three parts, involving commanding mysterious power, controlling mysterious power, and finally unleashing mysterious power.
In the end, Suye vaguely realized that Skenny could be translated as "magic-infused rope," or abbreviated as "Magic Rope."
The flow of time before his eyes returned to normal.
"Did you understand?" Niedern asked.
"Half-understood. It's all fuzzy." Suye replied.
"Pronunciation."
"Skenni!" Suye said.
"Wrong. Again! Skenny..."
After learning it dozens of times, Niedern finally nodded in satisfaction. "Not bad. Now try looking."
"Okay!"
Suye watched Niedern slowly retreat, excitement flashing in his eyes.
He was about to use magic to launch an attack for the first time.
But Suye realized that he was too excited, so he instinctively tapped his right index finger and thumb together twice, took a deep breath, stretched his shoulders, and relaxed his body.
Niedern could not help giving a slight nod, approval showing in his eyes.
Suye took another deep breath, suddenly pointed at Niedern, and shouted softly, "Skenny."
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