Elite Mages’ Academy (Web Novel)

Chapter 454: First Attempt At Compressing Elements

The first week of the new semester passed quickly. The complicated classes under the new curriculum led to a lot of students complaining, especially since cultural classes, like history and foreign languages, had turned even dryer than before. The other courses had also begun to feel different.

Be it magic classes or physical ones, the professors started to pass on large amounts of basic skills. Even more spells and even more sword techniques led to the students swimming in them.

Xiao Lin was an exception. Other than the compulsory cultural classes, he had used his freedom to choose his classes to avoid all other combat-based courses other than elemental sword aura.

After the first class, the old professor no longer provided him with more direction, but after listening to the professor and constantly working on his necromantic meditation, he got more and more excited. That was why before he mastered elemental sword aura, he did not plan on attending other courses.

In truth, the improvement was faster than he anticipated, his necromantic meditation had improved from LV1 a week ago to LV3–two levels in a week. When the old man asked him about his progress, the old man’s mouth opened so wide an egg could be stuffed inside.

As his familiarity with necromantic meditation increased, it caused the professor to increase his advancement as well. That was why, during the first weekend, Xiao Lin could finally try condensing the elements.

The venue was still in his dorm, since necromantic meditation was not something that required a dedicated room to increase its effectiveness; all that was needed was the black knight’s death energy.

At the end of death lay rebirth.

Those words were basically the foundation of elemental compression, but it was no simple task to actually do it. Xiao Lin went into Miracle as usual before entering the meditative world. As his basic attributes increased, the amount of time he could maintain Miracle did as well. Even so, he could only meditate for twenty minutes at most before needing to rest, so every opportunity was very valuable.

After a week of necromantic meditation, his meditative universe now had countless grey meteorites alongside the flaming or frozen stars. Those meteorites floated between the stars, small yet containing large amounts of energy. They were the representation of death energy.

Based on what the professor had taught, Xiao Lin had used all his time attempting to master and establish a mental connection with death energy. It was actually very hard because he needed to be familiar and even adept at communicating with both the elements and death energy. It was something that necromancers and elemental mages struggled to do.

However, Xiao Lin was lucky. He used his own special method to enter necromantic meditation, which was why he could perceive both the elements and death energy. The death energy was also provided by the black knight. As its former owner, even if the black knight had already surpassed Xiao Lin in skill, there were still fetters of a mental connection between the two. The connection was weak, but it was a great help to Xiao Lin in perceiving death energy.

Xiao Lin had already prepared the time and place; now, it was time for the first attempt.

Following the professor’s instructions, Xiao Lin first started with one orb of death energy. When establishing a mental connection, he could already give that orb basic commands. He carefully commanded the orb to leave the vicinity of the black knight. To the black knight, who had vast amounts of death energy, the orb was just one small part of a million, and was not worth mentioning.

Following that, Xiao Lin started to apply constant pressure on the orb. Thanks to Miracle converting his attributes into Intelligence, his full mental strength gathered on the thing the size of a microorganism. It was a force that was hard to imagine.

The meteorite that represented death energy started to expand; it was trying to absorb Xiao Lin’s mental energy, but not even a second had passed when the meteorite started to rapidly collapse like a ball with a puncture. The speed was shocking, and in the blink of an eye, the meteorite turned into fragments in Xiao Lin’s meditative world.

After leaving the black knight’s body, the orb of death energy actually did not have much time to live. Even if Xiao Lin had not done anything, the lone orb would merely have survived for a little while in the academy’s isolated space.

The decay of the death energy was just the start. As it perished, Xiao Lin’s full attention had been on it. He had observed traces of energy that came out of the fragments in that brief moment. It was extremely weak, and if he did not pay special attention to it, he would have missed it. However, with the professor’s special methods, and under the special environment of necromantic meditation, Xiao Lin still felt it. He was mildly shocked; the professor’s theories were constantly being proven right.

If it were to be explained by Earth’s physics, it could be called the law of conservation of energy. Even if Earth followed different laws, Planet Norma had very similar environments to Earth. The two worlds actually shared a lot of laws, and the professor had found the best way to use this particular law.

The perishing of death energy would just cause the energy to disappear from the world. The new energy that Xiao Lin grasped was similar to natural elemental energy. They were also similar in size to the stars in the meditative world. However, the difference was that they did not have burning flames or flowing waters.

According to the professor, they were newly born elements, and had yet to take up a trait from nature. They were newborn, which was the start of everything. Of course, the process was short in reality, possibly not even taking the blink of an eye or the time it took to take a breath to complete. When new elements were born, the natural environment would give them one of the four basic traits.

Xiao Lin did not have time to admire it or be surprised. He needed to use that small window to perform true elemental compression. True elemental compression was done when the element was reborn; that was the defining point of the professor’s theory.

The energy that came out of the orb of death energy had turned into numerous smaller starting stars. Xiao Lin used his special mental strength to force those elements to collide.

True compression was simple and violent. In such a short time, there was actually no way to try out other methods.

Boom!

As the two stars collided, Xiao Lin felt a shocking explosion being produced. The sudden impact threw him out of the meditative world, and he immediately opened his eyes to look at his surroundings.

The black knight still stood quietly in the room. There was no explosion, no impact. The shocking amounts of energy produced by the two orbs colliding in the microscopic world remained there.