Chapter 535 – You Are Useless

Everyone has a different affinity to magic, and higher didn’t mean better, and lower didn’t mean worse. People who had higher affinity could raise their magic power through meditation faster which was undoubtedly an advantage, but if their affinity was too high, they would be unable to gather magic power.

A magic vessel referred to people with excessively high magic affinity. As a human, one would naturally eliminate external energy, including magic power, but some people can’t. People with exceedingly high affinity for magic wouldn’t reject magic power at all and would treat it like a part of their body so that they wouldn’t be able to keep it.

“So… I have a magic vessel? Impossible!”

“Why not? Although it’s rare, it’s not as rare as your sister’s. It’s just a probability of one in ten thousand, it’s pretty high, but most people don’t realize it.”

Because the third apostle needed a magic vessel, he had quite a bit of knowledge of it.

In theory, people with a magic vessel couldn’t keep magic power so they can’t become a magician, so they were no different from normal people, so who knows if it was because they didn’t know magic, or because they couldn’t gather magic power? That’s why it was so hard for the third apostle to find someone like that. That’s why when he saw Lin Tian, he had to bring him back!

“N-nonsense! You monster, don’t take me for an idiot!”

Lin Tian still didn’t believe him and thought about it and then retorted with evidence.

“But… I’m a fifth-level magician! I can keep magic power! So that’s enough to prove I’m not… bastard, how are you going to argue against that!?”

“Haha! You really are an idiot, have you not noticed after all this time? Let me ask you, did you already reach the fifth-level last year?”

“Y-yes, so what?”

“Have you been stuck at the fifth-level all this time without any improvement?”

“Eh? H-how did you know?”

“Haha, it looks like I’m right… then let me ask you, since you think you reached the fifth-level so quickly through your own efforts, then why are you stuck?”

“I-I don’t know… Do you know?”

“Hmph, of course! Because your magic power doesn’t belong to you, but was given to you by your sister!”

“What? Impossible, how could that… my sister gave me my magic power? No! I don’t believe you!”

Lin Tian muttered to himself and wanted to retort, but when he started recalling the strange details in his life, he realized that the third apostle may be right!

“Hehe, it seems like you realize it. Think about it, why are you and your sister coincidentally both stuck at the same place? Have you never wondered why you both progressed at the same rate?”

“I…”

Yes, he was right, one thing that confused him was that he always progressed at the same rate as his sister, he always never understood how his lazy and dumb sister could always keep up with him, but then he found out it was because of her wizard’s bloodline. But then came the question, if that was the case, she should be far ahead of him, so why were they both at the same level?

“The reason is simple, you can’t hold magic power and all of it was given to you by your sister!”

“N-no way! Impossible!”

But he couldn’t change reality no matter how much he screamed. It turns out that all of his effort was futile, he was useless!

Levels meant nothing to people with the wizard’s bloodline since they didn’t use their own magic. But Yao Zi was different, before she knew about it, she continued to practice with her brother, so at the same time, his magic vessel came into use. Whenever Yao Zi leveled up, she would gather a terrifying amount of magic power and Lin Tian would be affected along with her and shared her magic power.

To draw an analogy, Yao Zi was like a powerful magnet that attracted a huge amount of metal and Lin Tian was useless and couldn’t attract any, but he was a furnace! He could smelt however much metal Yao Zi attracted! Although he discarded most of it, he could still accumulate bits over time.

“So now you understand why you’re stuck, right? It’s simple because your sister stopped meditating last year and she stopped leveling up, so you also stopped.”

“N-no, I-I don’t believe it… impossible… I’m useless? … How could that be!!!” Lin Tian clenched his fists and smashed them against the ground.

“Get angry! Cry out! You can do anything to release your pain! But no matter how much you pound the ground and injure yourself, what can you change? Hey, Lin Tian, come with me! In this world, only I know your talent, and only I can help you thoroughly realize your talent and give you power, and rebirth you!”

Lin Tian clenched his teeth and thought in silence and it seemed like he came to a decision when they heard a familiar voice!

“Yao Zi! Lin Tian!”