Rebirth in the Magic Continent

5. Performances

The hall suddenly filled with an ethereal mist, which gradually thickened and then refracted so many beautiful multicolored rays of light. Then a circle of milky-white light appeared under the feet of everyone standing here, casting a curtain of light around them.

This strange change immediately attracted the attention of almost everyone present.

Inari didn't pay attention to this, her sight was firmly fixed on the large round platform in front of her that was also separated by a curtain of light. She hadn't missed the appearance of the custom-made magical robes of the legendary court wizard, appearing in such a way as to be a basic space magic.

The special black magical robes were almost still the same as Inari remembered them from five years ago, but all black-robed wizards had blurred faces in memories that belonged to children five years ago. This time Inari did get a good look at the face of this court wizard, who was not wearing a hat, a young man with a handsome face and an uninviting aura around him.

Silver-white hair color with light gray pupils, in which could not see any emotions, just gazed at a few seconds, even if there is no eye-to-eye, Inari can not help but move away from the gaze.

Inari could feel the seemingly oppressive feeling around the magician, not too comfortable, so she obediently dropped her gaze on the girl holding the sleeve of the black robe.

With golden yellow hair that shone like the sun, and a pair of special eyes with different pupils, coupled with features that looked as if they had been carefully carved and polished by the Creator, at a glance, her entire person appeared holy and mysterious.

Like everyone else present, Inari's gaze was fixed on this young girl.

In her five-year-old memories, Maria still only possessed a pair of sapphire-like eyes, but five years later, those eyes had turned into blue and green alien pupils.

Jerry, who was at his side, showed great excitement as he passed through the curtain of light that was wrapped around him and came over to Inari's side, grasping Inari's wrist, “Oh... This is the goddess I was telling you about earlier!”

Jerry squeezed Inari's wrist a little painfully, and once again a string of compliments spilled out of his mouth, completely overwhelmed by Maria's beauty.

Hissing, Inari freed her hand and pushed Jerry, who had squeezed into her light screen, back to his original position.

As a result of Jerry's backsliding, Inari snapped out of it, shifted her gaze away from Maria's eyes, and not-so-self-consciously took hold of the black gemstone brooch she had pinned to her chest after carefully comparing and replacing it before she set out, secretly glad that she hadn't really gotten in over her head and hung it full of shiny jewelry and frills to make a splash.

There was no way she was going to stand out with her appearance and clothing in an occasion where Maria was the central focus.

Somewhat depressed, Inari silently surveyed the milky-white curtains of light that everyone in the room possessed that enveloped them, and in an attempt to divert her mood, began to make wild guesses about the thing; the curtains of light that appeared around everyone in the room with their appearances of space magic, with their strange special effects in general, might just be some kind of basic light magic that rendered the atmosphere?

It was inconclusive, but the mixture of thoughts in her head eased Inari's uncomfortable mood.

......

The magic extravaganza held by the church today was actually nothing special, not even as meaningful as some adventurers' lectures.

With full expectations, Inari did not wait for even a simple self-introduction from that court magician.

This eighth level Grand Magician, he just stood guard on one side of the large round dais, his face flat without uttering a word.

The opening greetings were also carried out by the magic apprentice Maria, the holy maiden thanked each and every member of the crowd present with elegant and noble court etiquette.

She introduced herself briefly and modestly, not highlighting her noble status in particular, only saying that she was a tiny magic apprentice who was fortunate enough to be recognized by the court magician...

Then, the simple pleasantries ended, and the opening of this event was a demonstration of the transformation of the application of five-system magic by the magic apprentice Maria.

A five-system magician was a rare status, and even though the current Maria was just a magic apprentice, everyone was attracted by the beautiful title of Maria's five-system magician and admired her basic magic that was not yet mature enough.

Inari looked at it for a while, and then began to uncomfortably fasten her brooch, Maria's magic is gorgeous but not practical, Inari completely failed to pick up any techniques or other information from it, it's not as good as the magic books she reads.

While everyone was attracted by Maria's beautiful display of five types of magic, Inari, who was a bit bored, quietly set her eyes on the young man with silver hair and gray pupils. Her mind high speed flashed back to the plot about that dreamy big heroine novel, Maria's magic initiation tutor, the name of which was...Dai Li.

Inari stared intently at the silent and deliberately lowered presence of the great magical mentor, looking up the plot she could still remember in her mind, hoping to turn up a hint of what was going on.

After all, it was just an emotionally-oriented heroine's book, and there weren't many details depicted from the perspective of the heroine who appeared in this remote town during her early childhood, except for a brief mention of Maria being given a “Kandra Magic Notebook” by a mysterious person, who had borrowed the hand of the priest of the church, after a display of her “talent” in this remote church. After a display of her “talents” in this remote church, she is given the “Kandra's Magic Notebook” by a mysterious person in the hands of the priest of the church, as well as the eye of a “Dark Horse Knight” who will appear in the first academy of Esther in the future.

The really interesting plot point is that Derek, who was Maria's magic teacher and one of the few close contacts of Maria before she entered the academy, has taken on a humble disciple in this remote chapel for personal reasons. This caused Maria to be haunted for a while by the fact that her initiation teacher had come to this town to return favors under the guise of taking her on an adventure.

Inari had a basic understanding of the situation of the children who appeared in the church today, but regarding the apprentice that this magician was about to take on, there was really no clue as to the candidate.

The information about the identity of the apprenticeship belonging to the wizard Daley is almost entirely occupied by Maria, Daley has taken other apprentices, just basically not depicted in the book.

Because after Maria obtained the “Condra Magic Notes”, court magician Dai Li was dispatched by the palace to explore the matter of magic dragon activity in the Udder Mountain Range outside of the Esteemed Empire, and since then, Dai Li has lost track of his activities. Maria's family then hired her second family magic tutor before entering the Ested Academy - a nature elf who hides his identity and adventures.

......

The great wizard, Yomo, was not interested in the activities of the church in this small place, and his emptied vision was not set on anything in particular.

Inari struggled to make a half-dozen observations, and could merely only conclude that he had landed most of the focus of his vision on the top of this church.

Ignoring Maria, who was still displaying, beautifully, a five-system basic magic on the large round dais, Inari also shifted her sight to the top with the conclusion she had reached.

Above the church's great hall was a glazed-colored top cover made of transparent magic stone, and on the cover was also carved the figure of an indistinctly-faced human figure holding a magic staff.

The huge magic stone in the center of the finely carved magic staff just covered the face of the figure, which was an image belonging to the creator god of the Empire's first faith.

The curtain of milky white light that enveloped it was not completely closed, there was no cover above it, and while looking at the rest of the world through the curtain of light that enveloped one's self would not cause any vignetting, one could be aware that one's vision was being filtered by something.

Before Maria began her magical demonstration, she also gave a brief explanation of these milky white curtains of light. This was a simple blessing spell - a type of light magic - that was approved for use by the church after she had made a special request to the church, and bathing in holy light gave luck and health buffs, a simplified and improved version of the blessing spells that priests often used on individuals.

Maria didn't analyze the casting conditions of this wide range blessing spell in detail, but merely mentioned that she had obtained the right to use the church's special magical props, and that injecting a certain amount of magic power into the special magical props would trigger this wide range blessing spell, and that the amount of magic power would determine the amount of time that this blessing would exist.

Well, so it seems that having stored a large amount of magic power beforehand, Maria is now able to perform her five magic systems personal show with ease, which is undoubtedly another indication of the difference that exists between magical geniuses and other mortals.

Inari didn't want to experience the world's disparity so deeply. She had only one purpose now, and that was to get the attention of this court wizard present and then seek a chance to be exposed to magical detection again.

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Before today's trip to the church, Inari, in addition to getting herself well-groomed, tried out the extra experience of cultivation that she remembered after her sanity had cleared. She easily restored the method of internalizing her meridians and sea of consciousness.

After Inari examined her body according to her memory, she didn't know whether she should be frustrated or thankful, but she realized that she still had perfectly reproduced her previous life's wasted five spirit root physique, and in her sea of consciousness, Inari saw the weak, pitiful, and dimly glowing spirit root seed.

Only compared to the spiritual root that had been cultivated and sprouted under the thin spiritual qi in her previous life, in this world where not even a trace of spiritual qi existed, Inari only saw a seed that was about to die at any time, so shriveled up that it had approximately gone into a dormant state, rooted in her sea of consciousness.

Fortunately, Inari's previous life was also just a wasted cultivator who could only enter the Qi Practicing Stage by taking an alternative path and reading books from the Bolan Group, after discovering that some of the skills of the Immortal Cultivation System were still functioning properly in this magical world as well, Inari finally sighed with relief, and the Divine Consciousness Feats that she had diligently cultivated in the past, as well as the Body Refinement Techniques that she had compiled from the past flipping through the books of the Hidden Feats, still had the possibility of practicing them in a sustainable way.

Combining her experience from her previous life as well as her reading of introductory books on magic in this world, Inari felt that the magic system of this world should be able to be accommodated with the immortal cultivation system of her previous life.

She had spiritual roots, but this world didn't have aura, instead it was filled with all kinds of magical elements ...... Perhaps, by coming into contact with the magical bonding stone one more time, she would be able to find a way to use the magical elements in place of aura.

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Inari couldn't accurately guess the mood of the great magician, but it was obvious that she didn't get the green eyes of this great magician by virtue of today's dress, and the great magician's thoughts had all been let loose above.

Even though Inari was well-dressed and had her own superior appearance, she could be considered a standout amongst today's pile of children... However, she could not be compared to today's guest of honor, Maria.

After all, it was a teaching event organized by the only church in this small border town due to the rare visit of a distinguished guest, so naturally, it couldn't just be a demonstration of magic by a magic apprentice.

This was an opportunity for the church to show its prestige, so the church generously granted special magic props that could cast blessing spells over a wide area to decorate the facade, but the most important thing was the magic demonstration of the court magician, as well as a short period of time for exchanging questions.

Inari shifted her attention to the earth magic demonstration on the round platform, according to the order of the five systems, this should be the last item, Maria on the round platform lowly chanted a spell, the round platform raised dust, you can vaguely see some condensation of small particles, gray and almost drowned half of the body of Maria, but did not stick to her special magic robes.

Inari found it boring to watch, she listened carefully to the incantation, Maria sang it like a beautiful music, but, according to the basic magic books Inari had studied, the incantation of the earth system's entry level “Earth Evocation” still hid a few key syllables, which was a common problem that most magicians had This is a common problem that most magicians have--hiding their clumsiness.

In addition, this level of magic was also half as good as the “Falling Earth” that she had performed in her previous life when she was at the Qi Practicing Stage of that weakling, so she was now considered to be on the same level as this Heavenly Favors heroine Maria... Thinking of this, Inari couldn't help but proudly tilt the corners of her mouth a little bit.

Shaking her head, one of Inari's wrists was caught again by Jerry on the side, “Lily! Wizard's magic robes can be really nice, you don't even have to worry about getting dirty after having them.”

Hmph, the erudite* Inari, who had gained sixteen more years of experience in one night, calmly pushed the childish little companion's hand away once again.

However, anyone who tested for magical talent could receive magical robes engraved with simple cleaning and defense magic formations as a gift from the Wizard Association. This kind of thing, not rare at all, her locked space still had the precious robes of a sixth level magician left behind by her mother, Fushil ...... although for the time being, she couldn't take it out of her blood.

“Later, when I become a wizard, I can give you a few pieces if you want them.” Inari raised her head slightly and made a promise with a bit of pride.