Chapter 772: And So... Time Became Her Toy

The effect of the fifth one, summoning stars, could be seen just from the literal meaning, so there shouldn't be any hidden significance.

Then the only one left was the third one, the effect of controlling oneself to accelerate.

Although on the surface it seemed to just be a speed effect.

But Lan Qingyou always felt there was a problem with this.

This didn't mean she saw through something, but pure intuition.

The intuition of a researcher, a witch, and an alchemist.

Oneself... accelerating...

And it's even controlling...

Wait!

"What are you doing..."

Elisa mumbled at Lan Qingyou dissatisfiedly.

Who knew Lan Qingyou immediately turned her head to stare at her.

"I understand!"

"What?"

"I finally understand the usage of this talent effect!"

Lan Qingyou said excitedly, then directly right in front of Elisa's face, used mana to draw a simple curved symbol in the air.

To be honest, in the eyes of an alchemist like Elisa, this symbol was completely useless.

Or rather, it simply didn't conform to the definition of a symbol in "Symbology".

It wasn't a symbol, nor was it a variant symbol.

This curved symbol wasn't even a substitute for anything.

It was just something drawn simply and casually, like a child's doodle.

But that was all there was to it.

After seeing Lan Qingyou draw the symbol in the air, what Elisa saw was the scene of this symbol disappearing in the air...

"Hm!?"

Almost instantly, Elisa discovered the problem.

Although the symbol just now was drawn casually by Lan Qingyou, regardless of how it was drawn, it was drawn using mana.

However, the symbol that existed in the air the previous second disappeared the next second.

Although there was still residual mana from Lan Qingyou in the air.

But it wasn't enough to explain the reason for the symbol's disappearance.

Unless...

"From just now to the present, there was a blank period in between!"

Elisa narrowed her eyes, looking at the smiling Lan Qingyou opposite her.

"Correct."

The smiling Lan Qingyou nodded, completely not shying away from the fact that she had treated the other party as an experimental subject without even a greeting.

"So... you've figured out the effect of your talent?"

"Accurately speaking, it's just a 'situation' formed after the effect of the talent acted on my research."

Lan Qingyou shook her head and corrected the other party's statement.

"Hoho, a situation, huh? Is your situation using me for an experiment?"

Elisa grinned.

Although she didn't really mind the other party using her as an experimental subject without greeting.

But since words had reached this point, if she didn't express it a little.

Then where would her face be put?

"Of course not, it's just that using you for an experiment right now is more convenient."

"Looking at your expression, you should be very satisfied with the effect, right? For example, the time disappearing from my body or something."

"Mm."

Lan Qingyou nodded again.

Indeed.

Just as Elisa said, a portion of the time on her body had indeed disappeared.

More accurately speaking, that period of time had been stripped away by Lan Qingyou using magic.

Just now, while pondering how to use the effects of her talent, she abruptly remembered a sentence.

Didn't someone say that as long as one's speed reached the speed of light, one could travel through space and time?

Although Lan Qingyou didn't know who said it.

She didn't even know if this sentence was phrased exactly like this.

But when she thought of this sentence, she immediately applied her talent effect to herself.

During her previous research, she had discovered that if you wanted to cast time magic, first you had to touch the threshold.

Very clearly, relying on her research of that Time Magic Array, Lan Qingyou had touched it.

Alright.

After touching the threshold, one would enter the second stage: the conditions for using time magic.

Time magic seems like magic, but the biggest difference from other magic is that it has different usage states.

The same magic will have different manifestations after being used due to different states.

Time regression, time acceleration, time stop.

These are the three manifestation forms of time magic.

Just like the gears of a car.

Then how does one adjust to the 'gear' or manifestation form they want?

The answer is very simple, one just needs to find an anchor point to serve as a reference.

Just like a gear shift lever.

With that thing, whatever gear you want, you just need to gently shift it.

And the result Lan Qingyou finally thought of was using her own body to serve as this 'gear shift lever'.

After all, even the magic array was carved on her body.

There was no reason to find anything else to serve as this reference object.

Coincidentally, wouldn't controlling her own speed equal being able to accelerate or decelerate?

Then if her body and mind directly accelerated to the speed of light, wouldn't that be equivalent to possessing the prerequisite condition to cast time magic?

Coupled with the Time Magic Array carved in her body.

And so...

Time became her toy.

Whether it was time acceleration, deceleration, or pause, she could use them all.

The only shortcoming was that she wasn't very proficient at it yet.

Or rather, due to the high difficulty of casting it, it could be foreseen that she would need to spend a very long period of time in the future to be able to proficiently use this magic.

However...

Because it was a combination of talent and magic array to correctly release time magic.

That meant this kind of time magic was completely impossible for anyone else besides herself to learn...

Previously, she had even thought about using this magic as the foundational magic for the Dark Witches.

Now it seemed this idea had basically been declared bankrupt.

After all, the threshold was simply too high.

Unless those Dark Witches could find a way to accelerate both their bodies and minds to the speed of light.

Otherwise it was completely unusable.

Of course.

This was just an extreme path she had researched herself.

After all, the manifestation of her talent's tier-up effect had allowed her to find this path.

Others might be able to research other paths, right?

Anyway, the Time Magic Array was in the Curse Corridor.

How to research it, how to interpret it, completely depended on individual ideas.

It was the same logic as researching and developing magic suited for oneself.

So just two seconds after thinking of the drawbacks of this matter, Lan Qingyou tossed it to the back of her mind.

Rather than thinking about this kind of thing, it was better to do more research.

Now time magic had already been researched and developed.

The rest was just like flying: to familiarize herself with it, use it, and perfect it.

"What's wrong, spacing out again?"

"No, just thinking about how to perfect the new magic."

Lan Qingyou shook her head.

And Elisa tossed away the book in her hand.

Then she took out a snack that looked like spicy strips from the backpack next to her and pointed it at Lan Qingyou.

"A new magic huh... it's about time, isn't it? You really know how to pick a topic."

"What else, you want to try researching space magic for fun?"

Feeling unburdened because the research was concluded, Lan Qingyou jokingly smiled at Elisa.