The Ancient One dismissed the Sword of Vishanti in her hand and looked at Lucian. "You can try the most basic spell first."
Lucian wasted no words and slipped the brass Sling Ring onto the index and middle fingers of his left hand.
The band fitted snugly against the bases of his fingers, faintly giving him a strange sense of guidance.
The Ancient One stood beside him, softened her voice, and began to guide him:
"Mastering the Sling Ring is the foundation of all mystic training at Kamar-Taj. It is an auxiliary key that allows us to travel freely between reality and the multiverse."
"Clear your mind of distractions. Focus your mind."
"You don't need to force control over space. You only need to focus and imagine. Picture your destination clearly in the depths of your mind. Look beyond the snowy mountains and courtyard before you, and imagine every detail of that place."
The Ancient One's voice carried a strange rhythm. "The clearer the image in your mind, the more stable the coordinates in reality, and the faster the portal will take shape."
The process sounded mystical, but to Lucian, the principle was actually quite simple.
It was nothing more than using a powerful consciousness to navigate and pinpoint a location, the Sling Ring as a signal amplifier, and spatial energy borrowed from an Alternate Dimension to forcibly tear open a passage.
For an ordinary apprentice, just reaching the stage of "clearing the mind and visualizing clearly" might take months or even years of arduous meditation.
But that mental barrier simply did not exist for Lucian.
His Psychic Power was already terrifyingly strong. After integrating several top-tier abilities and even using the Mind Stone multiple times, he could precisely target locations hundreds or thousands of kilometers away without even needing