After Claude casually scolded Benjamin for a few more words, the dinner was over and Benjamin returned to his room.
What happened at the dinner table was just a small episode for him and would not have much impact on his life. Therefore, he didn't care. After closing the door, he lay down on his bed and entered the consciousness space.
It feels like I haven't practiced magic for a long time.
In the space of consciousness, in darkness, two identical triangular characters were more than twenty meters apart, suspended in mid-air, each shining with a dazzling blue light.
Benjamin was actually quite pleasantly surprised when he first formed the character of Ice Breaking Technique.
Before that, he had been worried that after the second character appeared, the strength of the two characters would be so different that one of them would become useless. Fortunately, new characters appeared, dispelling Benjamin's doubts.
The two characters are like reflections of each other in a mirror, with exactly the same intensity.
After thinking about it, Benjamin decided to name them "Rune Water" and "Rune Ice" in order to facilitate the distinction. He also wanted to use more cool ways to call it "Rune·Water" and "Rune·Ice", but the system complained that it was too vague, so he had to give up.
The naming was over, and Benjamin began a new experiment.
He began to meditate, mobilizing the water elements and letting them gather towards the rune water. Soon, the water element came into contact with the rune water, and the rune water shone slightly, absorbing the water element as usual.
However, at the same time, the rune ice more than twenty meters away also lit up at this moment.
Seeing this, Benjamin nodded thoughtfully.
Sure enough! After checking the strength of the two triangle characters again, he confirmed his guess.
Even though the two characters are so far apart now, Benjamin knows that the connection between them is as close as a person and himself in parallel time and space. When he asked Rune Water to absorb the water element, the water element was split in two in an instant and absorbed by Rune Water and Rune Ice.
Interesting.
Could it be... related to the pure blue world he entered before
If that's the case, it's probably not something he can figure out now.
Benjamin is in a good mood. Although his understanding of magic characters is still at the introductory stage, he does not feel impatient. I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. For this kind of thing, I still have to take it one step at a time and take my time.
For example, right now, there is something waiting for him to do.
It's time for him to condense the third magic rune.
Thinking of this, he no longer hesitated, chanted a spell, summoned a small water ball, and let it float in mid-air. Then, as before, he summoned the water elements towards the water ball.
However, the water polo did not make a soft "ding" sound like last time.
With a "bang" sound, the water balloon exploded.
Benjamin was a little confused. He wiped the water on his face, opened his eyes, and looked at the empty space in his hands. He could feel that the water elements that had just been gathered were quickly dispersed at this moment.
what's the situation
Does this thing even fail
There was no word "give up" in Benjamin's dictionary, so he immediately summoned another water ball and directed the water elements to start gathering again...
Bang!
Benjamin shook his hand vigorously and wiped his wet hair. Two water balloons exploded, almost drenching him to the core.
Still failed.
If it was just a failure, he could still think it was just an accident. But after two failures, Benjamin knew very well that there must be some reason for this.
He didn't feel discouraged, but felt a little excited, and the blazing fire of curiosity was once again aroused - he was worried about not being able to find an angle to study the magic characters!
After thinking about it, Benjamin changed his approach this time. He used the Ice Breaking Technique to summon a clear ice crystal. This time, he used ice crystals as the core to try to gather the water element.
Because he had learned from the past, he deliberately stayed away from the ice crystal before the experiment began to prevent it from exploding and causing damage. Although he in the conscious space was not the real him, what if he would still be injured? He didn't dare to take any chances.
The water element quickly comes into contact with the ice crystals.
Bang!
Benjamin shook his head helplessly, feeling a little lucky that he could hide far away.
But he soon fell into deep thought.
Neither water polo nor ice crystals work. So what is the problem? The "Introduction to Divine Art" clearly states that by opening a prayer space, three Seals of Holy Light can be condensed. Divine magic and magic are essentially the same. Divine magic is actually holy light magic. This theory should also be valid here.
Why did he have problems when he was condensing the third magic character
Is it because of the core condensation method he invented
Thinking of this, Benjamin started his fourth attempt. This time, he no longer summoned anything as a core, but condensed water elements out of thin air, trying to compress them together.
Bang!
Benjamin was speechless as he felt the water elements dispersed again.
Damn it, sister, you obviously have nothing, why are you so stupid
Now he was at his wits end. In "Introduction to Divine Art", there is not much introduction to this cultivation method, and there is no mention of difficulties encountered when condensing the third character. Therefore, faced with this situation, he didn't know what to do.
Sure enough, being non-mainstream is not that easy.
Benjamin now feels like he has worked so hard to download a game, only to open it and see: "Application error, the memory cannot be read. To terminate the program, please click OK." In the past, he could check it online. Check for some patches or something, but now, where can he download the patch for the consciousness space
What to do
After thinking about it, Benjamin suddenly thought of what he had just discovered.
The two existing triangle characters, Rune Water and Rune Ice, are completely synchronized. If another magic character is added, then there must be an extremely close connection between the three.
He failed to condense new runes. Could it be because of these two triangular characters
Benjamin finally had some ideas.
Either the two existing runes are not strong enough to support the establishment of a connection with the third rune; or the connection between the two runes is too close, instinctively rejecting the addition of a "third party"...
"Why bother? They play well one-on-one. If you insist on letting them have a threesome, why would they be willing?" The system suddenly popped up and said in an extremely vulgar manner.
"… goodbye."
The system seemed to get excited, just like a perverted nerd seeing Futa, and continued: "Don't think so, you know, triangle is the most stable shape!"
“…”
Benjamin sighed.
He dared to swear to God that he had never stored anything of similar size in the system's hard drive.
The system's disease is really getting worse.
etc!
… triangle
Suddenly, an idea flashed in Benjamin's mind.
He looked at the two existing magic characters again. The shape of the character is an equilateral triangle with a gap. He had previously thought about whether this would have any meaning, but after so long, there was no result. So he put the issue aside for the time being.
However, now, Benjamin suddenly felt that this third magic character must be related to this triangle.
The problem is not with these two runes, but with the location of the third rune!
Maybe... Only by forming an equilateral triangle with those two characters can the close connection between the characters be supported.
Thinking of this, Benjamin suddenly became excited.
Just as he said, he asked the system to measure the distance between the two magic characters, and then he came to a place where the distance between the two magic characters was equal.
After precise positioning by the system, he summoned a water ball at this point.
The water ball floats in the air, and together with the two magic characters, as three vertices, it forms an unusually regular equilateral triangle.
Then, Benjamin guided the scattered water elements around him to gather towards the water ball.
The long-lost sound—ding!
He looked at the water ball that began to spontaneously absorb the water element, and it was like seeing the speed of the Thunderbolt floating window finally becoming 2MB after a day and night of 0KB. At that moment, he was almost moved to tears.