I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 332
Chapter 332: Magic, Love, Time
The first time Xiao Mo taught me this “Möbius Circle,” I didn’t quite manage to remember it completely.
Even when I concentrated in elf mode, using my strongest focus and memory to remember the key runes and roughly understand the specific meanings of the crucial steps, I still wasn’t completely confident that I could perform this magic formation on my own.
To say nothing of anything else, just the method of controlling this “Möbius Circle” was enough to give me a headache.
“There’s a few cameras ahead that might catch this area, be sure to avoid them.”
“There’s a busy area 200 meters ahead, lots of people, it’s best to go around.”
“Nuo’er, can you elevate the height a bit more?”
“……”
As Xiao Mo said, the “Möbius Circle” is “adaptive.”
This means that the kind of person, the type of talent, and the mood used to control it will all result in different outcomes.
For novice mages, if it’s their first time using this magic, it will generally reflect some of the mage’s own attributes.
For example, a fire attribute mage, or someone who has been in contact with flames since childhood and has a fiery personality, might create a carrier magic formation that looks like a ball of fire or has a reddish hue the first time they use the “Möbius Circle.”
Even those from other worlds who have been in contact with magic for thousands or tens of thousands of years do not have a detailed explanation for what specific personality and talent can generate what kind of Möbius Circle.
It’s not like mathematical or physical theorems, where one plus one equals one, or gravity equals mass times the gravitational constant. The input and output of this magic, if explained in mathematical terms, are like you input 1+1, and it might come out as 2.1 or 1.991, but it generally hovers around the number 2.
Xiao Mo said the same principle applies to the Möbius Circle. It’s not that a mage with a fire attribute talent will definitely create a flame magic formation. It’s just that most fire attribute mages produce a formation that is fiery red and contains flames.
“Some scholars have studied this and concluded that the key factor is a person’s soul. However, many people disagree because the existence of the soul has yet to be proven.”
Lying on my lap, Xiao Mo gazed at the starry sky above us and said, “Now I can confirm that souls do exist, and they indeed reflect on this magic formation.”
“Are you referring to this clover-shaped magic?”
I lowered my head slightly, controlling the magic formation as we moved through the air, and asked curiously, “Is my soul… similar to natural magic?”
“Water, life, nature, and… the forest.”
Under the moonlight, Xiao Mo spoke softly, “Everything is still the same as it was before.”
At this moment, our position was me sitting near the edge of the magic formation with my legs stretched out, and Xiao Mo lying face-up on my lap.
There was no other way, this magic formation was really small and not perfectly circular but shaped like a clover.
The four leaves, semi-transparent and green, extended in four directions. The only places to sit were where the leaves joined, so Xiao Mo and I had to sit cross-legged.
Of course, there was another way to sit: both of us could have our legs dangling outside, sitting back-to-back on opposite large leaves.
Although it’s called a four-leaf clover, if you look closely, its shape doesn’t quite resemble a clover but more like a flower.
Theoretically, this formation I summoned could carry four people, each sitting back-to-back.
“Is my soul related to life and nature?”
Under the moonlight, hearing Xiao Mo’s explanation, I felt incredulous. “Before meeting you, I seemed to be just an ordinary… unremarkable person here.”
“After your soul left, it wandered in a chaotic realm for tens of millions of years before eventually ending up in this unremarkable world, becoming an unremarkable ordinary person.”
Yin Xiamo turned to me and said, “I am your witness, Nuo’er, you are not ordinary.”
“I really feel like I’m very ordinary.”
I shook my head. “At least that’s been the case so far.”
“It’s the same old topic. Maybe before you became a hero, your soul came from the dawn of creation, perhaps you were a god, like a goddess of life or nature.”
“Past lives and even earlier lives? Isn’t this just…”
I couldn’t help but laugh, “Infinite nesting dolls.”
“Anyway, I can’t prove Nuo’er’s past lives, nor can I prove they don’t exist, so I reserve my opinion.”
Yin Xiamo sat up, leaped into the air, and then “whoosh,” landed on one of the clover leaves.
“You’ve been using this thing for a few minutes now, how does it feel?”
“Very… very uncomfortable!”
The sudden jolt almost made me lose my balance. After steadying the magic formation, I curiously asked, “Is this thing a common magic in the other world, something everyone has? Do people usually fly around in the sky?”
Originally, I thought operating this magic formation would be very complicated, requiring considerations of altitude and control over its forward and backward movements. I had no idea how to operate it. However, once I actually summoned it, I realized it’s like adding a new “organ” to my body.
It’s similar to how humans don’t have tails and can’t imagine how to move one. But if we suddenly grew a tail one day, we would be able to move it intuitively. That’s roughly how it feels.
Now, this magic formation I’ve summoned feels like a part of my body. I can freely control its ascent, descent, forward movement, and rotation. Controlling it consumes the “energy” in my body that Xiao Mo mentioned earlier, which should be my mana.
With my current mana, flying in the sky with Xiao Mo for about half an hour shouldn’t be a problem, as long as we maintain this speed. If we go faster, the energy will deplete much quicker.
“Not really. Generally, only mages of master level or above can use it. Dolly and Yueyue are not yet old enough to learn this.”
Xiao Mo jumped onto the leaf in front of my feet, grabbed my ankles, and made me spread my legs apart before sitting on that leaf herself.
“Nuo’er, you are special.”
“But I feel like this magic formation is a bit too powerful. Even a novice like me can summon it and use it so easily…”
“Truly powerful mages can summon this and fly at speeds several times the speed of sound, crashing directly into mountains and causing them to collapse. It’s like an F1 race car on a track. Nuo’er, what you have here is at best a child’s toy car. Kids sit in it, making buzzing noises, feeling like they are the best race car driver in the world.”
The girl in front of me turned around. “But… I really like this childlike innocence of yours, Nuo’er.”
How did this end up being about “childlike innocence” again!
I puffed up my cheeks. “Can I still use it in the future?”
“Of course.”
Yin Xiamo seemed quite calm. “Eat on time, rest on time, and once you’ve eaten enough to restore some mana, you can use it. With your current mana consumption, it shouldn’t be a problem to summon the Möbius Circle.”
“What if I forget the sequence or write the runes incorrectly?” I asked tentatively. “Will something terrible happen?”
“Yes.”
“Don’t give such an unsettling answer so matter-of-factly!”
“If a grand mage misuses magic, it certainly can.”
Yin Xiamo finally laughed, probably enjoying my panicked expression.
“But Nuo’er, you have almost no destructive power. At most, if you draw the runes wrong, you’ll grow cat ears or have a few mushrooms pop up around you.”
That’s getting scarier…
“Are there scholars in the other world who specialize in this kind of research?”
“Lots of them, they’re almost everywhere. Comparable to scientists here, but the scientists in this world work very hard, and not everyone has the means to become one. Magic scholars are much more common. What do you think people in the other world do every day?”
The girl spoke in a “you silly thing” tone. “They don’t make gourmet food, they don’t develop technology, and there’s little culture or art because everyone’s busy researching magic and fighting wars.”
“Magic is always in high demand. If a scholar discovers a new type of magic, it’s like winning the lottery here. The royal family will heavily reward the scholar, and even if it’s not a groundbreaking super magic, even if it’s just turning a ‘small flame’ into a ‘medium flame,’ they would earn more wealth than they could spend in a lifetime.”
So that’s why the mage who made the floating magic “Möbius Circle” public is so highly respected?
“Hasn’t magic existed for tens of thousands of years?”
“Since ancient times, the Elves, Dragons, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of years ago, magic has existed. But due to the randomness and uncertainty of magic, it’s a path with no definitive conclusion.”
I paused for a moment. “I… don’t quite understand.”
“Let me explain with some principles from here.”
Xiao Mo thought for a bit. “It’s like I mentioned earlier, Earth’s gravity has a formula. Scientists discovered this phenomenon, conducted various experiments, and figured out the gravity formula, which doesn’t change. A kilogram of steel weighs a kilogram on the scale, and a kilogram of cotton also weighs a kilogram. But in our world, it’s different. A kilogram of cotton might weigh 0.98 kilograms or sometimes 1.01 kilograms on the scale.”
“Mages developed the ‘small fireball’ spell, which can be cast by following the ‘fireball’ runes. Theoretically, if you find the word for ‘big’ in the runes, you should be able to cast a ‘big fireball,’ right? But using the ‘big fireball’ runes doesn’t always produce a big fireball.”
“Sometimes, it creates a bunch of torches that set you on fire, and sometimes it even conjures a pool of lava. The random variables are terrifying. Even the Dragon race, with their thousands of years of age, can’t fully understand any branch of magic.”
With this explanation, I think I understand.
It’s similar to the concept in many science fiction novels. People can only understand the general method of using magic but can’t determine the specific parameters.
“We’re almost at the city center.”
Chatting with Xiao Mo while watching the map on my phone, we arrived near a small square in the central district about half an hour later.
“Nuo’er.”
At that moment, Xiao Mo suddenly called my name.
I turned my head. “Hmm?”
Xiao Mo pointed to the Möbius Circle beneath us. “Dismiss it.”
“Do I need to go down to turn it off?”
“No, do it right here.”
I hesitated for a moment but followed Xiao Mo’s instructions.
The next second, the magic formation vanished, and I plummeted thousands of meters from the sky—
“Darling, I’m coming!”
As I fell, Xiao Mo used some special magic, teleporting in front of me and holding me tightly in her arms.
In the falling world, I felt my lips being sealed.
“I’ve always wanted to kiss Nuo’er like this.”
Xiao Mo’s gentle voice came to my ears.
“Today, my wish came true, my little princess.”
“……”
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