After the summer vacation, autumn arrived, and the emerald-green trees on campus gradually turned yellow, fell, and withered.
Just like the spirits of all students at the start of school, they were languid.
A week had passed since school started. Fang Wuwei had already adapted, but the other students weren't as adaptable as him. To this day, they still seemed listless and dispirited, as if suffering from kidney deficiency.
A week had also passed since the Ikenouchi Maki Family visited. During this week, Fang Wuwei taught Ikenouchi Maki Ripple and set up a series of body-building plans for her to first improve her physical fitness.
As for the Gale Sword Technique that Ikenouchi Maki had always wanted to learn, Fang Wuwei could only say that Ripple was the weakest and easiest to master transcendent power he possessed at the present.
Fang Wuwei had also been continuously researching several magic books secretly passed down by the Ikenouchi Family, and he discovered that these things were simply treasures.
These somewhat old magic books contained knowledge including, but not limited to, basic offensive and defensive magic, various life magic, item enchantment techniques, a series of magic circle knowledge, and the most precious fundamental magic knowledge. A large amount of wonderful knowledge poured into his mind—profound transcendent knowledge. Moreover, there were none of the inexplicable, self-aggrandizing, chuunibyou-like sentences he found in the dark scripture he read before; it was all solid information. He had never enjoyed learning so much.
Ikenouchi Maki was very diligent; her daily training never slacked, she grasped knowledge quickly, and she was very resilient. Fang Wuwei had not yet fully digested the knowledge obtained from those magic books. He had previously tried to use the magic recorded inside, but without exception, he failed. He needed to figure out why. At the same time, Ikenouchi Maki's parents had already begun processing transfer procedures, preparing to transfer Ikenouchi Maki to Ginkgo Private High School, where Fang Wuwei was currently attending.
Everything seemed to be getting better, except for...
"Hey, Yuta, what's going on between you and Rikka lately?"
Looking at Yuta, who was slumped on his desk, looking dejected, Fang Wuwei put down the magic book in his hand and looked at Yuta, annoyed.
From the start of school until the present, he hadn't even seen the two of them speak. Even in the association, the two never spent time alone. As soon as they were together, Rikka would immediately run away, as if she didn't want to be with Yuta for even a second.
"I remember you said before that Rikka stayed at your house for a night... Masaka!"
"You scoundrel!! I didn't do anything!!"
Yuta immediately stood up; he was very concerned about matters concerning his reputation. He got up and punched Fang Wuwei.
But he quickly became depressed again. He was also very concerned about this issue... Why did Rikka ignore him when he clearly didn't do anything?
Even when they returned to the association and sat together, Rikka would always avoid looking at Yuta, and even tried to keep Yuta out of her sight as much as possible.
It was... a bit unnatural, and the blush on her face never faded.
"Hey, hey... Oriental Student, did you notice?"
"Hmm... there's definitely a problem..."
Nibutani and Fang Wuwei sat aside, staring intently at Rikka and Yuta, pondering the issues between them in the present.
One was a gossip queen who loved relationship drama, and the other was a die-hard fan of their ship, wishing Yuta and Rikka would get into bed and make a baby right now. Thus, at this moment, Nibutani and Fang Wuwei reached an absolute consensus, historically known as the first collaboration of the Yuta-Rikka CP Alliance.
They shook hands tacitly to show friendliness, and the two began to observe how to break the deadlock. These two people, Yuta, a slow-witted blockhead, and Rikka, a chuunibyou who didn't understand love and was a bit dense, needed an external force to break through their relationship in the present...
"I say... Oriental, they're stuck in the present. There needs to be an external force to break this... Are you listening to me?"
"Hmm... I'm actively thinking in the present..."
Fang Wuwei kept looking at his phone, somewhat perfunctorily. It was an email from Ikenouchi Maki. She had already arrived at Fang Wuwei's home and began her daily practice, just informing him.
"External force... does a love rival count?"
"A love rival?! Whose love rival?!"
"Besides Rikka, someone else likes Yuta."
"Eh?! Who is it, who is it! Tell me quickly!"
"Alright, I have to go. I have things to do."
"Hey, wait!"
Ignoring Nibutani, who was full of excitement beside him, Fang Wuwei stood up, grabbed his school bag, and left. He not only had to teach his apprentice but also had to research magic books. He was very busy every day, but also more fulfilled than ever before.
This was just a glimpse of their daily lives. Time slowly began to move forward, and Fang Wuwei's research into magic gradually matured.
First of all, almost all the magic in the magic books was useless.
The principle of these magic spells was "borrowing the violent Magic Power in the air and the Magician's soul energy to merge with the spell formula, thereby releasing the magic." This method of mobilizing atmospheric Magic Power was vastly different from the skills he usually used. His skills were released using his own Magic Power, which meant that the Ikenouchi Family's magic was completely unusable in places without Magic Power.
However, Magic Power existed in this world. Connecting this to the phrase "violent Magic Power" in the book, Fang Wuwei thought of the Special Point from before. How violent was the Magic Power that erupted from that Special Point?
So, he went to the small clearing where the Special Point was located and conducted magic experiments at the right time, but it ended in failure.
He was a bit troubled. He had found many magic spells he liked in this magic book, as well as enchantment techniques and magic circles—how useful those would be!
But unwilling to give up, he chose to search for other information.
What information?
... The dark scripture written by a Magician over 500 years old.
What was even more absurd was that he actually found a solution.
According to the dark scripture, because the Magic Power total and level in this world are lower than in the inner world, the Magic Power in the atmosphere is controlled by the Elves that exist in the air and use Magic Power as their life source. Therefore, only a great Elf Magician like me can hear the whispers of the Elves and thus... This part is useless.
In short, to use magic in this world, one needs to gain the favor of the Elves. These two sentences were written by Morisummer for dozens of lines.
To gain the favor of the Elves, one needs to embrace all things in the world with love, accept everything in the world with one's heart, and cleanse oneself of sin. After fulfilling these conditions, only those favored by heaven and earth can hear the whispers of the Elves.
These conditions were too strict.
But Fang Wuwei decided to try combining the knowledge from the dark scripture and the magic books...
"Benevolent, lovely, beautiful Elves, I have cleansed myself of sin, and with the purest and most primitive appearance, I request to hear your whispers..."
Fang Wuwei activated his Magic Power Perception to the fullest and chanted this incantation from the dark scripture, requesting the Elves' favor. Soon, he perceived that the unusually active Magic Power in the atmosphere, which he had sensed before, began to rapidly gather around him, swirling around him.
He seemed to hear giggling beside his ears... These were probably the Elves.
Next, he opened the Ikenouchi Family's secret magic book and began to chant the magic spells within.
"Clear water, please favor me, transform into sharp spikes, pierce my enemies!"
This was the low-level magic Water Spike. As soon as he finished speaking, he immediately sensed that the Elves swirling around him began to emit more Magic Power. His body also unconsciously began to emit spiritual power. His spiritual power merged with the Magic Power emitted by those Elves, inexplicably forming some incredibly clear water, turning into Water Spikes that floated around Fang Wuwei.
Looking at the Water Spikes floating beside him, Fang Wuwei silently closed the dark scripture in his hand.
Morisummer... you are truly too powerful. Calling you a chuunibyou really doesn't do you justice...