Chapter 396: 393. Sophia and Fanil Growing Up
The Mind Mentor turned into a cloud of smoke and fled from the center of the vast array, without even leaving behind a single "Just you wait" or "I'll be back." He had already been squeezed dry until only the strength of a junior mage remained. In fact, if Sophia and Fanil had not been worried that Lily might be affected, he would have been wrung completely dry long ago.
"What a pity. He just withdrew like that. I thought he could provide magic power without limit." Sophia's voice appeared in the space. Of the 200 magic patterns, only 50 could be confirmed as usable, and amid her constant testing, an entirely new magic-pattern proposal had also been born: the Axis Magic Pattern. That meant integrating multiple magic patterns onto several main arrays running vertically or horizontally, producing a stacking effect.
"My Lord was right. Magic patterns and music really are very similar. Music can be split into syllables, timbre, and rhythm, while magic can be split into something similar. If I could have an infinitely long dream time and sufficient magic power, I could dismantle every magic pattern completely, then recombine them all together."
"You really do dream beautifully. If His Majesty hadn't made a special array core for you and sent me to prop up the dream for you, you still think you could test magic patterns here?" Another voice appeared in the dream. It was the Fox Girl Fanil.
The sky gradually darkened. In the center of the array that had once trapped the mentor, a human form appeared. Sophia turned from illusion to reality within the array, leaving a magic pattern in her hand. "I didn't expect this array core could actually be used like this. Is this