Once they learned about Li Yu's family situation, the others tacitly agreed not to bring it up again. No decent person would go out of their way to reopen someone's wounds.
The break was only ten minutes, so the bell rang again soon.
This time, a young male teacher came in from outside. Li Yu recognized him: he was a magic teacher specially hired by the school.
"My surname is Li. You can call me Teacher Li. Now, take out this book, The Origin of Magic." As soon as Teacher Li entered the classroom, he introduced himself and then got straight to the lesson.
Although the students were a little surprised, they hurriedly took out their magic books and listened attentively.
The teacher was clearly the no-nonsense, get-things-done type. In his very first lesson, he taught them how to meditate efficiently and even how to use meditation to replace sleep.
Li Yu perked up at that. Replace sleep with meditation? That sounded great, so he listened especially closely.
And Li Yu soon realized that the teacher was covering plenty of things that weren't in the books.
He was like a tireless lecturing machine, spending the whole lesson explaining various methods of meditation and ways to store magical power quickly.
He also covered things like how to refine magical power while fighting.
The forty-minute lesson was one long stream of chatter. None of the students below dared to zone out, and all they could do was jot down the parts they didn't understand.
"All right, that's it for this lesson. If you have any questions, ask next time. When the next class starts, go to the third floor yourselves." With that, Teacher Li left without another word.
As soon as he was gone, the class breathed a collective sigh of relief. One student even blurted out, "That was ridiculous... He talked way too fast!"
The pace had been so quick that they'd only half-understood most of it. They'd had to take notes frantically, afraid they might forget something.
Li Yu was probably the only one who still wanted more. He hadn't taken a single note, because he'd understood everything the teacher said.
Just as Li Yu was about to pull out his phone and watch some videos, someone suddenly poked him in the back with a pen.
Li Yu turned around to look at Kato Megumi. She opened her notebook and asked, "Li Yu, you understood everything, right?"
"What's up? Are these the parts you didn't understand?" Li Yu could tell what she wanted from the notes in her notebook.
Kato Megumi smiled like a little fox and pressed her palms together. "Hehe... Could you go over it all for me again, Li Yu? Please, classmate!"
The other students might not have understood, but Li Yu definitely had. His learning ability was terrifying.
Asking Li Yu was the best option. It would be much faster than asking the teacher.
Asuna watched Kato Megumi's move in bewilderment. She had only half-understood the lesson herself and had taken plenty of notes. And now Kato Megumi was asking Li Yu? Was that really a good idea? Or was there something special about him?
"Let me take a look. Hmm... this is pretty simple." Li Yu glanced at Kato Megumi's notebook and immediately explained the parts she didn't understand.
Seeing that Li Yu really could do it, Asuna was stunned. Was this classmate's talent somehow related to magic?
Wondering about this, Asuna pricked up her ears and listened closely to Li Yu's explanation. After all, she hadn't fully understood some of the things Kato Megumi had written down either.
Some of the other students noticed what was happening and gathered around when they saw Li Yu explaining the lesson to Kato Megumi.
Right, there was an amazing student in their class. Li Yu was good at learning just about anything.
Why not simply ask him about the parts they didn't understand? Before long, plenty of students had gathered around while Li Yu explained the lesson to Kato Megumi.
Some even asked questions of their own, and Li Yu answered those too.
In just the short break, Li Yu had explained many of the teacher's points to them.
When the bell rang, they all headed to the classroom on the third floor together.
The teacher was already waiting when they arrived. Once everyone had gathered, he said, "If there was anything you didn't understand from the last lesson, ask now and I'll explain it."
Hearing that, the students began asking about the parts they hadn't understood.
Asuna was with Kato Megumi, and she couldn't help asking, "Is Li Yu really good at studying?"
Li Yu's explanations had left a strong impression on her, so she was curious about his academic ability.
"He has a talent for learning. He can pick up anything after hearing it or seeing it once," Kato Megumi said in response, explaining Li Yu's situation.
Asuna froze when she heard that. It was a talent? And he could learn something after hearing it once? That was outrageous.
No wonder Kato Megumi had gone straight to Li Yu. Wasn't that more convenient than asking the teacher? After all, Li Yu only needed to hear something once!
She thought she understood why Yukino Yukinoshita didn't want to fight Li Yu. Maybe after fighting him, he'd learned her techniques along the way...
She also understood why Li Yu was always on his phone, looking at all those things. He was studying!
The magic teacher spent nearly half the lesson answering questions from the previous class. Then he activated the Magic Array built into the classroom.
A huge blue Magic Array appeared across the classroom floor. The teacher then said, "Next, meditate inside the Magic Array."
Li Yu lowered his gaze to the Magic Array beneath his feet. The Eye of Keigeko activated instinctively.
Information about the Magic Array flooded into Li Yu's mind. It was designed to provide assistance.
And as long as you had enough magical power, you could draw one yourself, though you'd need some magical materials.
Mercury, cinnabar, Magic Stones... Information about the materials needed to construct this kind of Magic Array flowed into Li Yu's mind.
That also helped him understand how to build one just like it.
As he sorted through the information in his mind, a strange feeling rose within him. Had he really learned it just like that?
Besides, this magic didn't require much magical power from the user. It was the kind of Position Magic that worked by setting up a location.
All you had to do was prepare the materials and draw the Magic Array, and then you could activate it.
The Magic Array's effect was simple and direct: it helped with meditation, allowing people to enter the state quickly and meditate on magic more efficiently.
To put it in more fantastical terms, this thing was a spirit-gathering array, used to aid cultivation!
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