Magical Cat

Elaine was startled, but quickly came to her senses.

She turned her head to look at her shoulder and found that Li En was staring at her seriously.

"So what if that big oaf jumped the gun?"

"With my help, you absolutely won't lose!"

Li En called himself "this great master" in a childish voice, which made Elaine laugh.

"What are you laughing at?"

"If you don't believe me, try casting a spell right now, and I guarantee you'll immediately overtake that big oaf!"

Elaine smiled and nodded, knowing that Li En was encouraging her.

Seeing that Weber and other noble children had already grasped the content of the lesson, Elaine's mood inevitably fluctuated, but she quickly suppressed it.

From the moment she entered the magic academy, she was very clear that she was not there to compete with these wealthy and powerful classmates.

All Elaine wants is to learn magic and become a magician.

In this way, the lives of the whole family will improve, and everyone will no longer have to work so hard.

Elaine stopped thinking about it and focused on chanting the incantation to cast the elemental ball magic.

Elaine was already very skilled at this magic, and with Li En assisting her, she completed it in one go.

Li En was completely familiar with this rhythm game-like magic-assisted gameplay, and easily replaced the effect of the magic wand.

However, the subsequent condensation of spells left him somewhat at a loss.

"Eleanor, do you know anything about spell condensation?" Li En asked using his demonic thoughts.

Elaine nodded and responded with magic in return: "The casting process needs to be repeated to compress more magic into this spell. The difficulty will increase with each repetition."

Upon hearing this, Li En looked surprised.

If it were just a matter of repetition, he could probably continue to assist Elaine in the same way.

Li En glanced at Webber and the others, his face showing displeasure.

These guys had practiced spellcasting in advance, and now they were casting spells with their bare hands and practicing on target, giving him no chance to observe the wand and imitate it.

Fortunately, only a minority like Webber can afford a private tutor; many other students are still using their wands to get a feel for the game and experimenting with spell condensation.

If things don't go smoothly later, Li En can go and observe these people instead.

He wrapped his tail around Elaine's neck so that he could better feel the flow of magic within her.

Next, Elaine began experimenting with spell condensation.

While maintaining the shape of the elemental sphere, Elaine continued to infuse it with magic power, following the previous spellcasting process.

This time, the rhythm of magic is clearly different.

If we use a rhythm game as an analogy, the increased speed of the cursor movement in the middle significantly shortens the window of opportunity that Li En needs to seize.

Li En dared not be careless and focused all his attention on assisting Elaine.

At every crucial moment of assistance, as long as Li En channeled magic, Elaine's magic would respond, suddenly surging and making the guided elements active for a moment.

Li En silently reciprocated by using rhythm games to assess the effectiveness of her assistance.

Perfect, perfect, excellent, perfect, excellent, good...

With repeated use, the elemental sphere began to turn red, and the magic at its edges showed signs of flame-like activity.

However, the window of opportunity for magical assistance is getting shorter and shorter, making it increasingly difficult for Li En to react.

Just then, the elemental sphere, which had undergone three repetitions, suddenly burst into flames and transformed into a continuously burning fireball.

With the fireball stabilized, Elaine and Li En both felt a sense of relief.

Maintaining this state requires only a small amount of magic power, which is as easy as breathing compared to the previous spell condensation.

The man and the cat stared blankly at the fireball, their expressions puzzled.

"Did it work?"

Li En asked somewhat uncertainly.

Before Elaine could answer him, someone exclaimed in surprise.

"Damn, is that right?"

Someone noticed that Elaine had successfully cast a fireball and blurted out a question. Due to their shock, their voices were off-key and sounded quite comical.

Such language would be considered quite vulgar in aristocratic etiquette.

Doing this in the classroom is a violation of school rules.

Everyone wanted to see who was so reckless, but they ended up seeing a classmate who looked blank and desperate.

Then, following his gaze, everyone else adopted the same expression.

"Are you kidding me? Can an ordinary person even afford a private trainer?"

"Even selling her whole family wouldn't cover a fraction of the cost..."

"They must have been practicing secretly!"

"Isn't she afraid of blowing herself up? A civilian is just a civilian; her life is truly worthless!"

Several students, carrying wands and still searching for the feeling of condensing magic, gritted their teeth in frustration.

Everyone's attention was drawn to the commotion, and they all stopped their magic.

Weber's face showed obvious panic.

Safina adjusted her glasses and scrutinized Elaine intently.

Barbara, who hadn't paid much attention to Elaine before, now showed surprise, followed by suspicion, her eyes darting back and forth between Elaine and Teacher Melina.

"No, learning new magic without proper precautions is against school rules!"

"Teacher, teacher, I want to report this!"

Someone remembered the school rules and immediately started shouting at the top of their lungs.

"I'll report it too, let's file a joint report!" Weber chimed in, seizing the opportunity.

He didn't know why, but he always felt that this was the right choice.

What should have been a proper practical lesson quickly turned into chaos.

"quiet!"

Melina gave a soft shout and snapped her fingers.

With a soft "plop," dense raindrops began to fall from the sky.

The rain came quickly and went quickly.

In the blink of an eye, the training field was filled with many drenched chickens.

These drenched students were clearly not the ones who had been making a scene earlier; the rest of the quiet students were completely dry and untouched by the rain.

Upon seeing this, Li En couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

These high-level mages are truly skilled; they can summon wind and rain with the mere lift of a hand.

The students, soaked to the bone by the cold rain, were forced to calm down and shut their mouths.

At this moment, Melina first glanced at Elaine, who was still completely bewildered, before solemnly addressing everyone: "What you are seeing now is Elaine's first attempt at spell condensation. Although it is uncommon, she has indeed succeeded."

These words caused an uproar in the room.

This caused an even bigger stir than when Melina announced the criteria for excellence.

Even Barbara and the others, who had never taken Elaine seriously, looked grim.

Such talent already makes him one of the most outstanding geniuses in the academy.

It is extremely rare for a commoner to have such magical talent; how can one not be astonished?

Melina glanced silently at Li En on Elaine's shoulder, keeping a serious expression on her face and suppressing the excitement in her heart.

"As for violating school rules, that's absolutely impossible!"

Melina decisively shut up those who still wanted to question her.

"Within the academy's grounds, no student can escape magical oversight."

Do you really think your student cards are just for swiping as meal cards?

It will automatically record all the magic you have learned and cast.

Therefore, before reporting someone next time, be sure to carefully read and understand the school rules.

Melina issued a verbal warning.

Melina was fully aware of their motives for suddenly reporting Elaine.

This was all the same old stuff she experienced when she was in school, and it didn't have any special meaning to it.

But it was precisely because her memories were stirred that Melina's state of mind was somewhat turbulent.