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Finally, with a thud, he collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Chapter Seven: The Dragon God - The Merciless Sun
When Lu Li woke up, the familiar scenery was before him again.
"woke up.".
A voice sounded from the side.
"President."
Sitting on the bed next to him was Makarov.
"Huh? What... happened to me?"
"Your previous move consumed too much of your magic power, leaving you completely depleted. For us mages, magic power is our life force. You must never use that move again. If you accidentally develop magic deficiency, you will never be able to use magic again, and in severe cases, it could even be life-threatening."
Lu Li couldn't help but feel a little scared after hearing Makarov's words. He had finally been reborn and could still learn magic. If he could no longer use magic, he would go crazy.
He had also seen the term "magic deficiency" in that magic book, which emphasized this point.
The source of magic is like a well. If you draw from it little by little, it can be said to be inexhaustible. However, if you destroy the well and forcibly extract magic power, then the well may eventually dry up prematurely.
Lu Li nodded seriously: "I understand, President."
Makarov nodded in satisfaction when he saw that Lu Li listened to his advice.
"Although you possess unparalleled magical talent, magic is not something that can be mastered overnight. The road ahead is long, so take it slow."
Lu Li nodded.
Then Lu Li followed Makarov to the guild dormitory, where the monthly rent was 10 J.
Lu Li is currently penniless and can only owe money for now. Fortunately, the guild dormitory offers preferential treatment to younger guild members, and the guild itself does as well. Now, accommodation and meals can be paid on a bill, and he can pay it back slowly when he has money from his job in the future.
Given a mage's earning power, as long as they aren't particularly lazy, their monthly salary is at least 20 J, which is equivalent to about 12000 RMB.
This is the most ordinary mage in the guild, while an S-rank mage in the guild would be rewarded with at least 800 million J for completing an S-rank mission, which is equivalent to 50 RMB.
However, most S-rank missions are life-threatening, and even S-rank mages are generally unwilling to accept them.
Even the less desirable hunting missions can yield anywhere from 20 to 200 J.
If you do several of these jobs a month, your monthly income can exceed 20 RMB.
Being a mage is a high-risk job, and the more dangerous the job, the higher the reward.
Lu Li stared at the ceiling of his dormitory, feeling both excited and fearful. He was excited because he had transmigrated to the Fairy Tail world and could learn all sorts of magic.
His fear was that this was just his dying fantasy, a pipe dream, and all of it was just wishful thinking before he died.
Whenever he opened his eyes again, he would either be back in the white room of the hospital or in endless darkness, which filled him with fear and panic.
Unable to sleep, Lu Li sat up. He saw the full-length mirror by the door and suddenly realized that he had never seen what he looked like since he came to this world.
Lu Li quickly walked to the mirror.
A very handsome face appeared in the mirror, with silver-white hair, azure eyes like the sky, fair and jade-like skin, and a cute face. He looked somewhat like Gojo Satoru, an anime character he had seen before.
"This is me?!"
Lu Li was somewhat incredulous; this was just too handsome.
If he had this face in his past life, he would never have to worry about food or clothing for the rest of his life.
He was very satisfied with his image in the world.
After all, he still needs to date girls in the future, and how can he do that without a handsome face?
Lu Li carefully admired his own face, and the more he looked at it, the more obsessed he became.
However, in this world, being handsome alone is not very useful. The Azure Pegasus Guild is full of handsome men and beautiful women, but they are still a bunch of small fry. In this world, strength is the most important thing.
Giving up using that magic? Giving up is absolutely out of the question.
He went through so much trouble to create such powerful magic, how could he possibly give it up?
While the world of Fairy Tail is full of joy, the hidden dangers beneath that joy are immense.
Those dark guilds: the Gates of the Underworld, the Alvarez Empire, the Black Dragon Acnologia, and the Five Divine Dragons.
The Five Dragons Saga is the Hundred Years' Quest Saga, which can be seen as a sequel to Fairy Tail. The continent that existed before has always been real, but it has never been described. The Hundred Years' Quest Saga completes this description.
These are all crises that Fairy Tail will face in the future, so he naturally needs to make adequate preparations to deal with them.
Makarov saved him, and he joined Fairy Tail. From now on, he would be a member of Fairy Tail, and he would not allow anyone to harm Fairy Tail, no matter who it was. Lu Li secretly made up his mind.
Then, Lu Li thought of today's magic. Although the magic had been created, it was not perfect enough. In battle, who would give you such a long time to charge up? In that time, you might have been killed ten or eight times over. The casting time had to be shortened. So Lu Li began to think.
[You are satisfied with the power of today's magic, but you are not satisfied with the casting speed, so you decide to improve it. You think that instead of compressing it from the beginning, it would be better to compress it directly.]
[If we set up eighteen magic circles from the beginning, and simply kept pouring in magic power and releasing flames to charge them, wouldn't it be possible to form the magic circle directly?]
This saves most of the time required for compression.
[Your comprehension is extraordinary; you have created a new magic. Please name it!]
Lu Li slowly opened his eyes. In his mind, it was as if he had gone through a real process of creating new magic. He went through the process of deducing it again and again in his brain and finally successfully created the magic.
"Let's call him 'Dragon God - The Merciless Sun'."
[The new magic spell "Dragon God - Merciless Sun" has been successfully named!]
When he used this move today, the first thing that came to his mind was Escanor, one of the Seven Deadly Sins, the sin of pride.
The opponent, too, used a merciless sun to evaporate the lake, leaving an unforgettable impression.
Especially at the one minute at noon, the opponent will become the embodiment of invincibility, whose name is
—'I am the only one who reigns supreme in heaven and on earth.'
He also wanted that kind of domineering aura.
Chapter Eight: The Second Source of Magic
"The next problem is magic."
This is my first time learning magic, and I have absolutely no experience.
He didn't want something like what happened at noon today to happen again. On the one hand, he didn't want his magic power to be depleted and he would suffer from magic deficiency. On the other hand, he didn't want to be unable to do anything after casting a spell and be at the mercy of others.
The best way to achieve this is to increase your magic power.
He remembered that during the Grand Magic Games arc, Ultear activated a second magic source for Natsu and the others, which was like a backup battery.
It's not usually needed, but when activated, it can instantly and greatly amplify magic power.
However, no one has discovered this source of magic yet.
Lu Li began to think about how to activate the second magic source.
[You begin to sense the source of magic within your body. You start using your magic to probe it, and soon you discover a magic container in the very center of your chest that is very similar to the source of magic, except that the magic is in an inactive state.]
"found it!"
Lu Li opened his eyes, which shone brightly. He hadn't expected to find the location of the second magic source so quickly.
"The problem now is how to activate this magical source."
Lu Li closed his eyes again and began to think.
[You begin to ponder how to activate the magic source. In the anime, Ultear activated it using the arc of time. You decide to stimulate it with magic power, gathering a surge of magic power to strike the second magic source.]
"Ugh!"
Lu Li opened his mouth and let out a scream, his body convulsing and trembling involuntarily.
Lu Li gritted his teeth and curled up on the bed, taking a while to recover.
"It hurts...it hurts so much!"
That blow really hurt him; the intense pain almost made him scream his lungs out. Luckily, he managed to hold it in, otherwise he would have woken up everyone in the dorm.
He finally understood why Natsu and the others screamed so miserably when they activated their second magic source—it was just too painful.
"But it's alright, I can totally endure it."
The pain he experienced when he was diagnosed with a terminal illness was almost constant, so this pain was nothing compared to that.
What is a little pain compared to becoming stronger?
Lu Li took out a towel and stuffed it into his mouth, continuing to gather magic power to stimulate the second magic source.
"woo woo woo woo!"
Lu Li was in excruciating pain, his face contorted in agony, his head covered in sweat, his body twisting and convulsing. After recovering, he continued.
This was repeated more than a hundred times.
Lu Li felt the second magic source being opened, and a surge of magic power emanated from it, flowing throughout his body.
[Your comprehension is extraordinary; you have successfully unlocked your second source of magic!]
Lu Li threw the towel in his mouth aside and gasped for breath.
If I hadn't experienced being tormented by a terminal illness in my past life, I definitely wouldn't have been able to persevere.
Fortunately, he succeeded. Feeling the magic flowing through his body, Lu Li was filled with joy.
After resting, Lu Li carefully sensed that the second magic source was much smaller than the first magic source, with a capacity of only about one-tenth of the first magic source.
From a purely magical perspective, an increase of one-tenth is nothing.
However, the significance of the second magic source is not simply to increase magic capacity by one-tenth.
When a mage's magic power is depleted, the magic source will automatically absorb magic power from the air and transform it into the mage's own magic power.
With only one source of magic, the recovery speed will be relatively slow, while with two sources of magic, the recovery speed will double.
If it's during battle, double recovery means something that anyone who's played the game knows.
In Honor of Kings, this is equivalent to starting with a Holy Grail, which is practically a godsend for a mana-intensive mage.
"The next step is to consider how to increase the upper limit of magic power."
In the world of Fairy Tail, the magic books state that magic power increases with age and continuous practice.
Once your magic is depleted, you can only wait patiently for the magic source to replenish it.
In Lu Li's view, that method was no different from exercising muscles in the gym and resting when you get tired.
It is true that the maximum magic power can be increased, but the speed at which it is increased is too slow.
In Western fantasy novels, magicians have a method to enhance their magical power called 'meditation'.
Magicians enhance their magical power through meditation, and can use meditation to accelerate the recovery of their magical power when it is depleted.
Lu Li closed his eyes again and began to think about how to create a meditation method.
[Your brain begins to think, and the first thing that comes to mind is rotation. By making the magical source rotate, like a vortex, it absorbs external magical energy, thus rapidly absorbing the magical energy in the air.]
[You have begun constructing the spell. You have successfully activated the magic source, and the magic in the air is being rapidly absorbed by your magic source.]
[Your comprehension is extraordinary; you have successfully created a meditation method. Please name it!]
"Let's call it the 'Dragon God Meditation Method'."
[The "Dragon God Meditation Method" has been successfully named!]
Lu Li began to circulate the "Dragon God Meditation Technique." A large amount of magic power was attracted by Lu Li's two magic sources, and in a short while, Lu Li's consumed magic power was fully restored.
"Wow, that's fast! The speed at which a single magic source actively replenishes mana is at least ten times that of passive replenishment, so the replenishment speed of two magic sources is twenty times faster!"
Chapter Nine Dimensional Chat Group
Lu Li was also shocked by the ability of the meditation method he had created. With a recovery speed of twenty times, if he had only cast a low-level spell like Fireball, his mana would probably have been fully restored as soon as he finished casting it.
In that case, wouldn't I be able to cast fireballs indefinitely?
Of course, even if you can cast fireball infinitely, it's not very useful, but it's still quite intimidating.
Putting aside other things, even if I can't cast two consecutive "Dragon God - Merciless Sun" spells, I still have the magic to cast two consecutive "Dragon God - Great Flame Emperor" spells.