Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 239: The First Lesson of the Bud Level

(Some content has been added at the end of Chapter 89, which is somewhat related to the content of this chapter.)
"Now that all of you have awakened your magic suits, and Xiao Jin, who has made the fastest progress, has been promoted to the Leaf level, the development of the magic suits can enter the next stage."

After lunch, in the base's underground training ground, Delphinium stood in front of a small blackboard that had been brought in at some point, and spoke to several juniors in front of her.

It happened to be the holiday, and she and the girls had such a rare period of free time, so Delphinium decided to give a sufficiently substantial lesson, thus kicking off the preparation for the assessment.

After all, the arrival of the new year also means the magical girls' qualification certification, and there are only about two months left for preparation.

Emerald has revealed the news to Delphinium that March 3rd is the specific date for this year's qualification certification.

The specific location of the examination should have been a confidential matter, but it was no secret to Emerald: the examination venue was calmly set in Runore, a city known as the capital of knowledge and home to the National Research Institute.

Delphinium was not at all surprised by this information. Rather, she was surprised that the examination hall was not in Runnore.

There is no doubt that this city is the place where Emerald's power can be infinitely magnified. In this city, except for the Queen herself, no one's words can drown out Emerald's voice. It can be said that this is her territory.

Emerald has taken such a huge risk to come and trade with me, there is no reason for me to hold the transaction in someone else's territory.

However, in this case, Delphinium was destined to not be able to wait until the end of February like most magical girls to rush to the kingdom - she had to find Emerald in advance to heal her injuries.

In addition, there is another part to her deal with Emerald. It is not just about healing, but also about the transfer of one-fourth of the rights of the Magic Academy. This process is bound to involve the interests of all parties. After comprehensive consideration, Delphinium must go to the country some time earlier.

Finally, the date for her departure from Fangting City to the country was set at February 2th.

In other words, from now on, that is, starting from January 1th, the Fangting City team will only have 5 days to continue their training in the city.

To be honest, with Xia Liangye's progress at the Kaihua level, and Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan's record of working together to repel the half-molted beast, it should be no problem for him to get a white card if he participated in the qualification certification in previous years.

Unfortunately, this year is the Queen's Year. The news brought by Aso Yuanxiang that "the assessment will be more difficult this year" made Delphinium always worried.

This is how the current scene came about. In order to maximize the combat effectiveness of the younger generations during the assessment, Delphinium decided to start from the angle of magic construction.

It is common knowledge that a magical girl's magic costume will evolve with the owner's continuous efforts. Even if the potential of each magic costume varies, they all have potential.

If you want to unleash this potential, in addition to daily fighting, you can also improve your speed through some daily exercises. Although the effect is not as good as direct combat, it is safer and has stable progress.

After writing down several common training methods and tips on the blackboard, and answering questions from several juniors, she explained many difficult points. After about half an hour, Kuei finally had a chance to stop talking, put down the chalk in her hand and said, "Okay, that's all the basic knowledge for now. To make it easier for you to understand, let's move on to the practical part. Take out your magic suits."

Basic knowledge is just a foundation. For something as personalized as magic equipment, it really depends on the individual.

There was no need to delay, so the girls present transformed themselves one after another and then took out their own magic costumes.

When Cuiqiao looked from left to right, the first thing she saw was Xia Liang's Yinli - a magic costume that looked like a dressing mirror.

This magic suit was also the first to awaken among the three, so its appearance at this time was somewhat different from when Xia Liang had just been promoted to the bud level: not only had the outer pattern become a lot more fancy, but the mirror surface also had a thin layer of spiritual light.

Progress is obvious.

This was the first impression that came to Delphinium’s mind.

In fact, the basic knowledge she mentioned before was something she had already taught to Xia Liang when he was promoted to the bud level a few months ago. However, Xia Liang had just entered the bud level at that time, so she did not explain it in too much depth and only gave a brief reminder.

The changes in Xia Liang's magic suit occurred step by step in her eyes. The addition of the dressing mirror's exterior decoration was a slow and steady process. In terms of the functionality of the magic suit, it seemed to correspond to the growth of resilience - not only could it absorb more magic power, but it could also withstand stronger attacks.

As for the spiritual light on the mirror, it seemed that it did not exist half a month ago, before Cuiqiao taught Xia Liang the technique. In other words, this thin light was the result of Xia Liang's efforts over the past half month.

After Xia Liang's explanation, Cuiqiao roughly understood the changes it represented: that is, the efficiency of mirror transmission of magic power is higher, and the loss in the transmission process is less. From this point of view, the two major functions of Xia Liang's magic suit: magic reflection and magic transmission, have undoubtedly been improved to varying degrees.

If a magic girl wants her magic costume to continue to grow, it is definitely not enough to just work hard, but if she doesn't work hard, it will never grow. Xia Liang's magic costume has been able to undergo such a big change in just a few months, and the sweat behind it is definitely several times that of an ordinary person.

Delphinium couldn't help but nod secretly.

Xia Liang's talent is undoubtedly the best among the three magical girls. Whether it is the speed of developing abilities or the speed of learning skills, she is much ahead of Lin Xiaolu and Bai Jingxuan. Under such circumstances, she can still maintain such a level of effort, which shows her self-discipline.

“Surprising, even surprising, changes.”

After organizing her words, Delphinium concluded: "I felt as if I was witnessing the birth of a karuta."

Such a high evaluation naturally attracted the attention of the two people on the side, and also made Xia Liang's originally nervous expression relax all of a sudden.

"Eh? Really? You can't be trying to comfort me, right?"

She covered her mouth as if she couldn't believe it: "Young senior, if you say it yourself, I might believe it."

"I have no intention of being soft-hearted on such an important matter."

Delphinium raised her hand and flicked her forehead: "Just take the compliment and don't make trouble here."

"Then I'll just believe it."

Xia Liang rubbed his forehead angrily: "Then what? What should I do next?"

Delphinium couldn't help but fall into thought.

Xia Liang's question was just like that of an excellent student who finished all the exercise books given by the teacher in advance, and then asked eagerly, "What should I write next?"

What to write? Your classmates are still writing multiple-choice questions, but you are asking what to do after they have finished writing the questions.
With Xia Liang's talent, since she has mastered the method of steadily improving her magic suit ability, everything after that is just a matter of hard work, and it takes time and effort. There will always be a day when Xia Liang has the opportunity to step into the threshold of the flower level, and her magic suit will be an invincible shield and spear. The magic reflection is enough to make all non-rule-based offensive means ineffective, and the magic transmission can be combined with explosion-based spells to hit wherever you point. It can be said to be an integrated offense and defense, quite complete.

Now that we have found this direction to work towards, is there really any need to continue to add fuel to the fire?
Fortunately, she still had enough ideas about being a teacher, and she actually had some ideas about Xia Liang's next direction of effort.

For example... controlling the shape of the mirror.

Yinli is a magic suit in the form of a mirror, and its effect on magic power is just like an ordinary mirror encountering light. There are many similarities between the two.

And if we can control the shape of the mirror, can we use a convex lens or a concave lens to perform more diverse operations on magic power, focusing or scattering the magic power?
When she told Xia Liang about this idea, she only got a slightly confused look: "...scattering?"

Delphinium then remembered that her two children's school had only started learning physics last year, and the school had not had time to teach them the most basic optical knowledge.

After reaffirming the importance of basic education in her heart, and considering that these things should be the content of the exam in the next semester, Cuiqiao slowed down her tone and briefly explained the relevant knowledge. Before she finished speaking, Lin Xiaolu beside her slowly raised her hand:

"Can the direction of the magic suit's growth be controlled manually?"

“That’s what I want to say next.”

Delphinium did not show any emotion because her previous words were interrupted. Instead, she nodded in appreciation, walked back to the blackboard, and began to write and draw: "If you want to make some relatively simple changes to your magic suit, you can actually intervene actively during the training process."

"For example, if you want to make the magic suit bigger or rounder, if you can constantly strengthen this desire in battle and daily exercise and make it strong enough, the magic suit will respond to your wish."

"In fact, many magical girls have already made use of this unintentionally. After all, not everyone is satisfied with their magic costume. There will always be some thoughts mixed in, 'If my magic costume can become this or that', and this idea of ​​wanting my magic costume to become a certain way will also affect the direction of the magic costume's growth to a certain extent."

Having said that, Cuiqiao couldn't help but look at Bai Jingxuan's magic costume beside her.

A music box that is golden in color and rectangular in shape.

Tianyin, this is the name of Bai Jingxuan's magic costume, and it awakened about three months ago.

Its ability is to play different music through the resonance manipulation of magic, and to have different effects on the surrounding objects according to the differences and similarities of the music's rhythm, melody, timbre and other elements.

After three months of ability development, Bai Jingxuan has now mastered four different types of music.

In addition to the activation of limbs and magic power that she mastered at the beginning, she now also possesses two more rhythms: "inspiring fighting spirit" and "selflessness".

The former can make people affected by the music feel full of fighting spirit and high morale, and no matter how depressed they were before, they can charge forward again.

The latter can make the affected person forget himself, not be happy with things, not be sad with himself. His actions will no longer be affected by emotions, he will no longer have thoughts of anger or fear, and he may even ignore his own existence, thus entering a state of incomparable concentration.

She had tried both types of Cadence Delphinium, and both were double-edged swords. The former could boost morale, but if the effect was too strong, it would make people more reckless in battle, and increase the consumption of magic and physical strength; the latter could make people focus, but if the effect was too strong, it would make people forget themselves and completely ignore the dangers in battle, turning a blind eye to the enemy's attacks and often being hurt without knowing it.

In other words, these rhythms can be auxiliary props to strengthen friendly forces, or they can be magical weapons that drive enemies to self-destruction.

However, these are not Delphinium's current focus.

What she was paying attention to was the base that had appeared at some point under Bai Jingxuan's music box magic costume. The initial form of Tianyin's magic costume was just a music box, without any external accessories, but now it had a base that was about ten centimeters long and about the same thickness as the magic wand, connected to the bottom of the box.

It is also this base that is standing upright in mid-air, supporting the music box.

Delphinium felt her eyelid twitch.

As she said before, some ideas of the magic girl about her magic costume will interfere with the growth path of the magic costume to a certain extent. And the extra support of Bai Jingxuan's magic costume, without a doubt, should have nothing to do with the growth path of the magic costume itself, and is completely a reflection of her personal wishes.

——It is inconvenient to smash the crippled beasts with both hands holding a rectangular box, so I want to add a handle to the box.

Cuiqiao felt as if she could hear Bai Jingxuan's inner thoughts during the battle.

Yes, the current Tianyin looks more like a hammer than a music box.

The edge of the box had taken on a strange dark green color, changing from smooth to sharp, giving off a dangerous vibe. This strange dark green color also stained the originally golden box body, with patches here and there on the box. If it were a different color, people would probably think it was blood.

Cuique couldn't help but purse her lips, and for a moment she didn't know how to evaluate the magic suit in front of her. She raised her eyes and met Bai Jingxuan's gaze, and saw Bai Jingxuan looking at her with eyes full of expectation and pride, like a puppy who thought he had done a good thing and was waiting for praise.

To be fair, the current state of this magic suit is indeed worthy of Delphinium's recognition.

After all, what she just said, "Magical girls can use their own will to interfere with the growth direction of the magic costume", has been actually reflected in this magic costume.

Even if the growth direction after this intervention is quite unreliable.

The question is, if she now affirms Bai Jingxuan's approach, what if this child continues to go all the way down this path? The next time she sees this magic suit, will it really be a hammer?

But if I deny the other party's efforts here, or even criticize them in front of other teammates, will it hurt the child's self-esteem?

No one knows what is going on in Delphinium's heart.

On the contrary, Lin Xiaolu looked at Bai Jingxuan's magic suit from the side, then squatted down and took two steps closer to this side, looking at the "dark green bloodstains" on the magic suit for a while, and suddenly raised her head and said:
"Speaking of which, Bai Jingxuan, what was that claw-like transformed form of yours a few days ago?"

The training ground suddenly fell into deathly silence.

Leaving aside Bai Jingxuan, the person being questioned, the other two people, whether it was Cui Que who had a conflicted look on her face just now, or Xia Liang who originally looked like he was having fun, were looking at Lin Xiaolu with somewhat inexplicable eyes.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?" Lin Xiaolu blinked and asked belatedly.

“…You.”

Finally, Xia Liang spoke helplessly: "I won't talk about the way you pick a topic. It's okay to bring up something irrelevant at this time. Don't you think it's too late to ask this question?"

"Sister Xiaolu."

Bai Jingxuan also looked a little aggrieved: "You clearly told me before that you would ask me when you came back, and I waited for you for several days."

"Ah ha ha……"

A strong sense of guilt made Lin Xiaolu look away.

In fact, it’s not that Lin Xiaolu is so forgetful, but because so many things happened that night and the information density was so high that Bai Jingxuan’s problems became trivial in comparison.

At that time, when Lin Xiaolu just returned to the base, she actually still remembered this incident in her heart, but after the fight with Cuiqiao, she forgot about everything else for a while.

After that, when she woke up, Lin Xiaolu's mind was a mess of things that happened the night before. The thing she remembered most clearly was that she had the "right to act like a spoiled child" with Cuique, so she followed behind Cuique like a follower every day, and had to compete with Bai Jingxuan for position from time to time. She was lucky enough to be nice to Bai Jingxuan, so how could she possibly show concern for her "enemy"?
As a result, the conversation that was originally scheduled on the battlefield was delayed until several days later.

What Lin Xiaolu didn't expect was that Bai Jingxuan herself had not forgotten about this matter.

Bai Jingxuan had already prepared for the situation. With the help of Cuique, she had prepared the corresponding speech and recited it several times in private, waiting for Lin Xiaolu to come and ask. In the end, she recited the words but she didn't come.

She waited for one day, two days, and even after Xia Liang had secretly confirmed it with her, Lin Xiaolu still had no intention of asking about this topic.

In addition, Lin Xiaolu has been following Cuiqiao around these days, and would give her a cold look from time to time, making Bai Jingxuan wonder if she had some opinion about her.

But I didn't expect that things would end up like this.

However, no matter how awkward the matter was, an explanation was still needed, and Bai Jingxuan finally confessed part of her own affairs.

He confessed that he was the sacrificed son of Black Cinder Dawn, that he fought with Black Cinder Dawn that day in the spring by the lake, and that he possessed the magical power of residual beasts, but he concealed the identity of his parents at the instruction of Delphinium.

Although some very important information has been hidden, it is enough to explain why Bai Jingxuan is like this now.

As for why she concealed the identity of Bai Jingxuan's parents, it was only because she hoped that her daughter and Xia Liang would still think of Bai Jingxuan as a "person" rather than "something" created by humans.

In her opinion, unwaveringly shaping Bai Jingxuan's perception of herself as a "human being" is the most important part of protecting Bai Jingxuan.

Delphinium still hasn't forgotten that day, that moment in spring by the lake, when the girl stood among the pile of corpses and called out to her with a hollow voice.

That was Bai Jingxuan, but there was no doubt that it was not exactly the Bai Jingxuan of today.

Bai Jingxuan has memories of herself at that time, but what she remembers is quite distorted. What she remembers is not a bloody feast of brutal killing of Black Dawn; but a kingly story of awakening strength in adversity, defeating the bad guys, and ultimately saving everyone.

If possible, Cuiqiao hoped that Bai Jingxuan would never become like that again. Therefore, with her help in modifying this story, it gradually converged with the experience in Bai Jingxuan's distorted memory.

——"Ah, so you are also a shifter, but the direction of your shift is towards the remnant beast?"

Lin Xiaolu suddenly realized.

This was the story she heard.

After mastering the magic contamination, Lin Xiaolu had naturally understood the knowledge related to the Displacer. She did feel a little surprised that Bai Jingxuan was a Displacer, but not that surprised.

After all, if she herself was a shifter, why couldn't others be shifters too?
Rather, after learning that Bai Jingxuan could also transfer magic power, her first reaction was not how special Bai Jingxuan was to herself, but...

"When did you shift?"

She couldn't help but look at Xia Liang and asked.

"...I am not a Shifter, so I am really not worthy of you, Miss Shifter."

Even though Xia Liang had a good temper, he felt his eyelids twitch when he heard such provocative words. It took him a long time to suppress his urge to hit Lin Xiaolu's face directly: "It's a one in a million deal. How can I, an ordinary Leaf-level magical girl who will only reach Bud-level in a few months, get a chance to do it?"

"Uh." Xia Liang's words made Lin Xiaolu couldn't help but curl her lips. Now it was her turn to be disgusted.

The two of them stared at each other with a tense atmosphere until Delphinium realized something was wrong and walked directly into the center of their sight, cutting off the space for them to look at each other.

"Let's get back to the magic suit."

She interrupted the class content that had completely gone off topic with her words: "Come, Bo Xue, let me tell you how your magic suit should continue to grow."

During that period of time just now, she had already figured out how to save Bai Jingxuan's magic costume which had gone completely astray.

There is no doubt that the base under this music box is absolutely unacceptable.

She had no doubt that as long as she left this base behind, when the qualification certification test came, Bai Jingxuan would be able to take out a hammer in front of everyone.

However, if Bai Jingxuan is asked to give up close combat and this support is removed, it will not only be a blow to her self-confidence, but also a distortion of her fighting style.

In this case, there is only one final solution left - separate the music box and the base. The music box continues to be used as an auxiliary tool in battle, while the base can choose some other images and differentiate more functions.

As for whether this base will become a hammer again due to Bai Jingxuan's recklessness in the future, Cuique has no control over it.

Just like that, after analyzing Bai Jingxuan's magic outfit for a long time, from the structure to the flow of magic power to the frequency of magic power, he customized a training plan for her to gradually separate the music box and the base. Cuiqiao felt that her mouth was smoking from talking, and finally ended her teaching to Bai Jingxuan.

Then, there was only one student left on the scene who had not been analyzed by Delphinium.

Cuiqiao looked at Lin Xiaolu standing aside, only to see that she was holding her head high and proudly extending the white scepter in her hand.

This is the magic suit, Wang Yao, which Lin Xiaolu had just awakened a few days ago and can be said to be not even warm yet.

(End of this chapter)