“Hey, hey, hey!”
Before Luo Lin could react, the girl dragged him into the study, under the shocked gazes of the numerous palace knights and maids.
Slam
The moment the door closed, Luo Lin saw Alice holding her hands over her heaving bosom beneath her gown, the swell rising and falling.
“Oh my, our Young Master Lorin was just stunned by the sight of a beautiful girl, wasn’t he?”
Alice had noticed his stiffness and awkwardness the entire way. Her light cherry-colored eyes narrowed slightly, and the force in her hands unconsciously increased, though she deliberately avoided actually pinching Luo Lin’s skin.
Her slender fingers practically left five indents in the fabric of his coat, and her tone carried a hint of sourness.
“Put the pastries down.”
Alice huffed in annoyance, let go, and turned to look at the elf-like girl who had come in with them and whom Alice had invited to sit down.
“This is Lucia. She’s also an examinee for Sera Academy this year. She’s very knowledgeable about awakening magical power and has helped many people who were said to have no magic to awaken it.”
Saying this, Alice turned back to Luo Lin, her tone still firm. “So I specially invited her here to help you check whether your body can still awaken magic.
I didn’t expect you two to run into each other today!” Then she gently pushed Luo Lin forward.
Then, softening her tone.
“Miss Lucia, I apologize for what you just witnessed. Our Luo Lin is a bit slow; he didn’t mean to offend you earlier.”
On the guest sofa, Lucia stood up gracefully.
Her figure was lithe and elegant, with a natural poise and refinement. If Alice was a dignified and noble peony, she was more like an elegant and serene orchid—each beautiful in her own way.
“Your Highness, you misunderstand. Young Master Lorin was protecting me just now. Your childhood friend is quite the gentleman~”
The quick-witted Lucia immediately saw through Her Highness the Princess’s protectiveness. Though she seemed sharp-tongued on the surface, her actions were consistently looking out for her childhood friend.
“Young Master Lorin, thank you for speaking up for me earlier.” Lucia lifted her skirt slightly and gave a graceful curtsy. Her melodious voice carried a hint of girlish playfulness and composure.
“I’m just an ordinary commoner. It’s only by Her Highness’s favor that I’ve come to check on Young Master Lorin’s magical condition.”
An ordinary commoner girl. Luo Lin stood frozen, hearing those modest words, his Adam’s apple bobbing violently.
‘Oh yes, oh yes. You’re so ordinary—just your average All-Element Affinity prodigy,’ Luo Lin screamed internally. ‘Wait, wasn’t this their first meeting? So in my past life, I was basically your matchmaker?’
Watching Luo Lin stand rooted to the spot, his face full of dazed stupor.
Pfft.
Lucia smiled, a playful grin blooming on her beautiful face.
She had assumed that the notorious, infamous, and disreputable young master everyone talked about must be a hideous villain.
But meeting him today, not only had he stood up for her, but his dazed look right now was actually kind of endearing—a cute blockhead.
“Young Master Lorin is quite a witty person,” Lucia said with a gentle smile.
“Really?”
Luo Lin scratched his head. His wildly pounding heart immediately calmed, and he even felt a bit smug inside, and somehow less afraid of Lucia.
‘See! I knew it! My emotional intelligence is pretty high! Why did so many girls call me a blockhead in my past life? Where am I wooden? After reading so many romance novels, I’m at least a Casanova level!’
“Then, Young Master Lorin, let’s begin.”
Lucia turned and walked over to the desk. As she moved gracefully, the long, slender legs wrapped in black stockings beneath her plaid skirt peeked in and out of view.
She quickly took out a row of magical stones in different colors from a small leather storage pouch at her waist and laid them out in a line.
“These are high-grade elemental stones mined from various high-magic areas. I’ll use them to try to penetrate from high concentration to low concentration, guiding the slumbering magic within your body.” Once she got down to business, her smile disappeared and she became serious.
She picked up the first wind-element magic stone, which glowed with a faint cyan light, and handed it to Luo Lin. “Please hold it tightly. I will guide you and slowly bring magic into your body to stimulate your magical talent.”
Luo Lin reached out and took the stone. In that instant, Lucia’s pale, cool fingertips brushed lightly across his palm.
Lucia quietly stepped half a step back and slowly closed her dazzling golden phoenix eyes.
As she softly chanted a spell, the air in the study began to resonate strangely.
An incredibly pure flow of magic slowly emanated from Lucia’s body. Cyan-colored wind elements swirled around the room, blowing her platinum hair and black skirt.
Her pale fingertips lit up with a blinding cyan glow, turning into streams of magical energy that precisely and continuously poured into the guiding stone in Luo Lin’s palm.
“Close your eyes and empty your mind.” Lucia’s voice echoed in his ears like an orchid in a quiet valley. “Feel the flowing wind…”
Luo Lin followed her instructions. He squeezed his eyes shut, even forcing his eyelids tight, trying to sense what they called “magic.” As a transmigrator who had come to this magical continent and witnessed the wonders of magic, even though he claimed not to care, of course he wanted to obtain cool magic—very, very much—because it was simply too awesome.
Coming to a world of magic but being unable to use magic was like eating dumplings without vinegar.
However, full of anticipation, Luo Lin waited.
A quarter of an hour.
Half an hour.
The wind-element magic stone in Luo Lin’s hand, which had been glowing brilliantly, gradually dimmed over time.
Lucia raised an eyebrow, a flicker of confusion crossing her beautiful face.
She switched to a blue water-element magic stone and again poured an even greater surge of water-element magic into it.
Still, no reaction.
“It’s okay, Young Master Lorin.” Lucia opened her eyes, her tone gentle and reassuring. “Everyone’s magical affinity is different. Many people succeed only after several attempts. Let’s take it slow.”
Then,
Earth element, light element, lightning element…
One after another, she tried five or six high-grade magic stones.
A fine sheen of sweat appeared on Lucia’s smooth forehead. The amount of magic she was pouring in grew larger and larger. The study became so saturated with magic that the air itself felt thick.
On the side, Alice clenched her fists tightly in anxiety, her light cherry-colored eyes filled with worry. Was there really no hope at all?
Ever since she learned that Luo Lin was a non-magical person, the Grand Duke Morsat and she had taken turns finding people, even going so far as to pay a great price to invite a Saint Domain Expert. But no matter what method they tried, it was all useless.
Just like now—those high-grade elemental magic stones brimming with vast magic, once held in his hand, no matter how much magic Lucia forcibly poured in, it vanished like a clay ox sinking into the sea, disappearing without a trace, not even stirring a ripple.
Those priceless gems lay in his hand, deader than the most ordinary pebbles on the roadside.
In the end, total failure.