Bab 290: 190 - Circle of Earth

Chapter Type: Interaction (Main)

"Master, what nonsense are you planning?" Xeng Bai asked.

"What makes you think this is anything other than serious?" Du Jing replied.

"We know you, master." said Do Meng. "You won't stop with the battery, but instead use it to power some grandiose feat of magic."

"Bah! It's time you wimps toughened up. Magic is like a muscle, you get stronger by using it."

"Like a muscle that excretes acid instead of sweat." I said. "But this section of wall here should be big enough for a level four battery."

"Wimps! Wimps and cowards, all of you!" she said.

I took a breath as they argued the merits of hard magic training versus soft. Maybe, just maybe, Du Jing had a point. But... I like living. And, I have time to learn magic the soft way.

"I'm just saying that lungs that don't expand or contract isn't a way to survive!" Xeng Dai was shouting. "Dead people don't work the magic of the living."