The Core's Self-Ascension

Magic Paper sheets fluttered through the air.

Layer upon layer, they looked incredibly chaotic.

But in Lan Qingyou's eyes, they weren't.

Chaotic, yes. They were chaotic.

But within that chaos was something else.

The attempts to draw magic arrays on those fluttering sheets, layered together in all that disorder, had actually let Lan Qingyou see something different.

Then she thought of the "Full Map" she had drawn earlier.

Although the symbols did seem to be arranged according to the basic principles of magic arrays,

with only a few exceptions, most of them seemed to have one "error" or another...

The moment she realized this, Lan Qingyou immediately turned her Broom around and flew back to the Alchemy Workshop. She dug the Full Map out from among the Magic Paper sheets and examined it carefully.

"Just as I thought... The mistakes are tiny, but most of the symbols are positioned incorrectly."

"Wait!"

"They're not positioned incorrectly..."

After confirming that there were indeed subtle errors, Lan Qingyou was delighted.

After all, she'd found another possible breakthrough.

But when she examined the map more closely, she discovered that although the symbols were indeed wrong, not in the way she'd imagined.

So Lan Qingyou immediately took out her notebook and started writing and drawing, page after page.

At last...

Lan Qingyou flung her hand out and slapped the notebook onto the ground.

"Damn it! What kind of deranged lunatic made this magic array? Let me find out who you are, and I'll cut your damn head off!"

Lan Qingyou cursed furiously after tossing the notebook aside.

She couldn't help it.

She had every reason to curse.

Or rather, if she didn't let off some steam, Lan Qingyou felt like she might suffer internal injuries from holding it all in.

All that writing and drawing