Hermione quietly listened to the friendly exchange between the two seniors.
She treated herself as nothing more than a little nobody.
Yet her eyes remained fixed on Xiao Xiao's hands without blinking, as though she only lacked a notebook to take notes.
After Jiang Yu had verbally suppressed him, Xiao Xiao simply shut up and focused on picking through the wooden box. Hermione noticed that he first selected five gemstones of different colors: a White Crystal, an emerald, an obsidian, a ruby, and a piece of topaz. Then, following the positions of the Five Elements and Five Colors, he arranged the five gems around the stone sphere.
Before the resonances between the gemstones could link together,
the Diviner shook his head and swept his hand over them, clearly dissatisfied with the Magic Array.
He then rearranged the five gems and took out five pieces of green jade from the box, setting up a new array. The five outer points of the new Magic Array corresponded to the directions of the Five Elements, while the five inner points held the green jade. It appeared to be a nested array, though Hermione's limited discernment only let her recognize the outer layer as a pentagram Magic Array.
This time, he patiently waited for the resonances between the gemstones to connect.
But he still frowned.
He shook his head.
He still did not seem satisfied.
After collecting the ten gems again, Xiao Xiao did not immediately set up another Magic Array. Instead, his fingertips drifted through the pile of gems in the wooden box as he selected and rejected them. This time, he chose more gems in more colors, and the requirements for their properties seemed even stricter. From time to time, he would lift a stone and rotate it slightly between his fingers,