Chapter 54: 053 “Perception” and “Operation
Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Shane’s expression suddenly turned a bit sheepish.
It wasn’t because he felt guilty for not meeting the learning conditions.
Quite the opposite, Shane felt that he had more than fulfilled the conditions.
Raise a melee weapon skill to Level 5 or above?
Shane’s Two-Handed Sword was already at Level 10.
Magic Power must meet the standard?
Although he didn’t know exactly what the standard was, every time Shane leveled up, his abilities grew to the maximum. He also possessed the Magic Guide skill, which significantly improved his Magic Power and magical abilities; this skill was also at Level 10. If this still didn’t meet the standard, Shane wouldn’t believe it.
Therefore, in terms of learning conditions, Shane undoubtedly met them, even exceeded them.
However, for those uninformed, Shane was still just a Level 10 newbie adventurer, who hadn’t acquired a single skill, and didn’t seem capable of meeting the conditions to learn the Magical Sword.
Because of this, when Tielle previously expressed her willingness to teach him the Magical Sword, everyone in Vivian’s Team was surprised, weren’t they?
If Shane admitted here that he met the learning conditions, it would be akin to telling Tielle that he had actually been hiding information about his skills.
(No, maybe Tielle has already noticed something.)
Shane suddenly realized.
After all, Tielle had agreed to Shane’s request to learn the Magical Sword without hesitation.
If Tielle thought Shane couldn’t meet the conditions to learn the Magical Sword, would she have agreed so readily?
(This girl must have noticed something unusual about me, right?)
Shane stared at Tielle, speechless.
Tielle didn’t urge Shane to answer and just waited quietly.
After a while, Shane relaxed his shoulders first.
“What should I do next?”
That statement was self-explanatory.
Naturally, Tielle understood and, after a moment of silence, responded.
“Since you’ve met the learning conditions, let’s start from the basic steps,” Tielle said. “Can you feel the presence of Magic Power?”
“I suppose I can?” Shane felt relieved that Tielle didn’t pry further and uncertainly replied, “It’s that ominous aura you feel during battles with demons, right?”
“You could say that.” Tielle neither denied nor confirmed but said, “Generally speaking, Magic Power isn’t easily perceived. Unless one learns the Magic Perception skill, most people can only detect Magic Power as waves, breaths, atmospheres, or similar phenomena.”
It’s the same principle as sound waves.
Those who learn the Magic Perception skill are like people holding a sound wave detector, capable of clearly perceiving the existence of sound waves, even seeing them through the device.
Normally, people cannot detect sound waves and can only hear sounds within the range of human auditory perception, not directly perceiving the existence of sound waves.
Magic Power is , usually not directly perceived by people. Only those with sharp senses can detect its presence in other ways, but to directly sense and perceive Magic Power, one must learn the Magic Perception skill.
By learning this skill, one can directly perceive and even see Magic Power.
It becomes quite useful.
Take Shane, for example. Even though he had acquired the Enemy Detection skill, allowing him to detect hostile presences, he couldn’t sense those without hostility. This meant that even though he could detect danger, if someone was monitoring or stalking him, he couldn’t detect it. Furthermore, he couldn’t perceive others who had no direct connection with him, like a radar detecting people and their movements around him.
Of course, demons were an exception. Since they always harbored hostility toward humans, they would attack as soon as they saw one. Thus, those with the Enemy Detection skill could always and everywhere perceive the existence of demons within the skill’s range.
Based on this characteristic, Enemy Detection has many applications.
For instance, if someone wanted to infiltrate a heavily guarded facility, Enemy Detection could detect all patrolling personnel, guards, and even the army’s positions, as they would harbor hostility toward any intruder. Thus, when one stands as an intruder, they can use Enemy Detection for perception.
Because of this, individuals such as thieves, spies, and adventurers occasionally learn the Enemy Detection skill. It’s a fairly useful skill.
But Enemy Detection ultimately targets hostility, not life signs, so it cannot perceive the movements of any existence at any time.
However, Magic Perception was different. It focused on perceiving Magic Power, even directly seeing it. Unless the other party’s Magic Power was extremely low or too far away, it was detectable. As skill levels increased, perception became sharper, and the range grew larger, similar to Enemy Detection.
However, in one situation, anyone could clearly perceive Magic Power’s presence.
“That is, the Magic Power flowing within one’s own body,” Tielle said. “When the Magic Power in your body grows to a certain level, anyone can feel its flow.”
Tielle raised her head and gazed at Shane.
“Now, concentrate your attention and focus on yourself, perceive your own Magic Power.”
Hearing this, Shane nodded and closed his eyes.
His consciousness dove into his body.
His heartbeat seemed unusually clear.
Shane focused all his attention and “searched” for Magic Power within himself.
Shane spoke with his eyes closed.
In his mind, he could sense streams of Magic Power flowing within him.
It felt as if he could see “air currents” or “water streams” flowing inside himself.
In the past, Shane had felt Magic Power within his body, but never as clearly as now.
Previously, Shane couldn’t say he was perceiving Magic Power. He was merely following the techniques for using skills, naturally allowing Magic Power to activate as the skill was used.
“Skill acquired—Magic Perception—learn?”
The just-mentioned skill, Shane effortlessly earned the qualification to learn.
Before Shane could react, Tielle’s voice reached his ears.
“Focus your spirit more, concentrate deep within your body, use your consciousness to guide Magic Power, and release it.”
“Remember, don’t release Magic Power with the feeling of using a skill. That way, Magic Power will follow that skill’s activation method naturally, and you won’t be able to control it, rendering it meaningless.”
“You need to manipulate Magic Power with your own feeling, first mobilize it little by little, then gather it in the hand holding the weapon and release it. Note, don’t release it all at once, it will disperse; let Magic Power flow through your arm into the weapon and gather within it.”
Listening to the instructions, Shane, who at some point drew the broad blade sword from his waist, followed Tielle’s guidance, manipulating the Magic Power within him.
“Skill acquired—Magic Manipulation—learn?”
Shane immediately obtained the new skill.