Magic Association

Bocheng's Magic Association branch.

Because Bocheng was only a small city, its Magic Association was not particularly large. The roughly six-story building stood in the bustling center of the city.

Important-looking figures came and went. At a glance, they were all mages rarely seen in ordinary society.

Ever since entering the world of mages, it seemed that everyone around him had become a mage.

A car stopped in front of the association's entrance.

Jiang Yuan stepped out. He had specifically taken the day off to come to the Magic Association for his magic awakening.

No one knew yet that he had already reached the intermediate level.

Jiang Yuan was looking forward to what surprises today's magic awakening would bring.

Thinking back to his first awakening, he subconsciously kept muttering about Innate Dual Elements and the Dimensional Magic he had long dreamed of.

The Magic Association was open to everyone. It had a regular entrance and a mage entrance, and Jiang Yuan entered the association hall through the regular entrance closest to him.

As soon as he entered, Jiang Yuan spotted a receptionist in a Flowing Cloud White Robe some distance away and walked over to ask:

"Hello, where is magic awakening conducted?"

The receptionist looked him up and down.

Where had this rich kid come from? Rather than awaken at school, he had spent money to come to the association for it.

She took Jiang Yuan for a student undergoing his first awakening.

He was too young. Who would have thought Jiang Yuan was already an intermediate level mage?

His advancement was practically rocket-fast.

"Magic awakening, right? Follow me." The receptionist replied blandly. This was how she always treated ordinary people.

If she had seen Jiang Yuan enter through the mage entrance, she would definitely have worn a different face.

Still, no one was born obligated to greet others with a smile. Jiang Yuan saw that clearly, so he followed behind the receptionist without saying anything.

In fact, the receptionist was merely service staff and was not even a mage.

After Jiang Yuan paid the awakening fee of over a hundred thousand, the receptionist led him into a dimly lit room.

An Awakening Stone stood in the center of the room.

"Are you sure you don't want a Guidance Stone?" the receptionist asked.

"No need." Jiang Yuan shook his head.

"Alright, awaken here. Once you're done, come tell me in the hall. I hope you awaken a satisfactory magic element." After giving her instructions, the receptionist still offered the customary kind words before leaving.

Once Jiang Yuan was alone in the room, he walked up to the Awakening Stone.

He closed his eyes and slowly placed his hand on the smooth, icy Awakening Stone, silently repeating Dimensional Magic in his heart.

The smooth, icy Awakening Stone reacted immediately upon touching a human palm. Light gradually spread from its very center, like starlight shining in the dim room.

The starlight formed veins that crawled up Jiang Yuan's arm. The feeling was extremely similar to his first awakening, and Jiang Yuan could clearly sense a surge of energy within him.

Bit by bit, the energy unearthed another strange power from within his body. It flashed briefly before pouring into his spiritual space.

Within the chaotic black spiritual space, a blue nebula and a small cluster of stardust slowly rotated.

Suddenly, as though life were being conceived, the spiritual space pulsed once.

Purple lightning flashed past, and a cluster of purple stardust was born, claiming territory of its own within the vast, boundless spiritual space.

Purple.

It was the Lightning element!

A bolt of lightning flashed through Jiang Yuan's mind.

This awakening result was excellent as well.

The Lightning element remained powerful from the early stages through the later stages. Although it had far fewer variations compared to black magic and Dimensional Magic.

Still, the Lightning element was called the foremost of the elements for a reason.

He wondered how his Lightning element would compare to Mo Fan's in the future.

The moment Jiang Yuan gained the Lightning element, he began planning how he should develop it in the future.

A Heavenly Seed was indispensable.

He also had to get his hands on Divine Seal Ode.

Speaking of Mo Fan, he had already awakened the Lightning element. Could there really be no second magic element?

As he pondered this, Jiang Yuan's spiritual space pulsed again.

The Awakening Stone lit up once more.

Dazzling light bloomed, and a peculiar cluster of stardust rapidly took shape in his spiritual space.

This was...?!

Jiang Yuan froze and repeatedly confirmed the characteristics of the stardust.

It was transparent overall, but upon closer inspection, there was an almost imperceptible pale purple within the stardust.

This was the Mind element, one of the white magics!!!

It was real. It was actually real!

He truly possessed the exact same Innate Dual Elements as Mo Fan!

Jiang Yuan did not even have time to savor the surprise of awakening the Mind element. He was completely immersed in the joy of Innate Dual Elements.

That joy came quickly and faded just as quickly. Jiang Yuan involuntarily calmed down.

No, it should have been extreme rationality.

Jiang Yuan's thoughts were extraordinarily sharp at that moment, and he immediately realized what the Mind element had brought him.

"Could this be another Innate Talent?"

He had no choice but to think so.

An ordinary mage with even one Innate Talent would already be a peerless prodigy who drew everyone's attention, destined to stand out in the magic world.

Counting them one by one.

Innate Dual Elements, Water Temperature Control, Undead Soul Gathering and Fusion—those already made three.

If the Mind element came with another, that would make four.

No, Double Meditation also counted as an Innate Talent.

That made five Innate Talents in total.

Since every element seemed to have an Innate Talent, he even suspected that the Lightning element had one too. It simply had not revealed itself yet.

The more he thought about it, the more exhilarating it became.

Yet Jiang Yuan's extreme state prevented even the slightest ripple from rising in his heart. He was truly unflustered in the face of change.

He closed his eyes and tried to find the answer within the Mind element stardust, to confirm whether he had gained another Innate Talent.

"Are you done?" A voice came from outside. The receptionist pushed open the door without permission and saw Jiang Yuan with his eyes closed, assuming he had not begun awakening yet.

She immediately urged him, "Hurry up, someone else has come to awaken!"

"Sorry, I've already finished awakening. Let them come in." Jiang Yuan opened his eyes and left the room.

He had just confirmed that his Mind element possessed an Innate Talent, but before he could experience what it specifically was, he had been interrupted.

For now, he only knew that he could actively turn this rational state on and off.

Jiang Yuan turned it off now, and he immediately felt displeased with the receptionist for opening the door without permission.

Although this level of disturbance had no effect on the awakening, her actions were deeply unpleasant.

Jiang Yuan went to the hall, found a feedback form, and wrote a long complaint. At the end, he signed it with the name of the City Demon Hunting Squad.

After finishing that, he hurried home without stopping.

He needed to go back and continue experiencing his Innate Talents.

Including the Lightning element.

"He Yan, come see for yourself what this feedback form says. Couldn't you tell that he was a distinguished mage?"

"I already told you not to treat people differently. It is enough to do your own job properly. With such a terrible attitude, how am I supposed to let you continue working here?"

That evening, the hall manager held the feedback form and harshly scolded He Yan, the receptionist who had received Jiang Yuan.

"I-I... H-how could he be a member of the City Demon Hunting Squad?" After reading the feedback form, He Yan turned pale with fright.

"Enough. Starting tomorrow, go back where you came from. Don't come back again," the hall manager said flatly.

"But I..." He Yan still wanted to struggle, but her superior gave her no chance. Glowering at her, he said:

"Say another word, and I won't be letting you leave on your own!"