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"...Isn't it simple?"

Emery frowned, then carefully recalled her past learning experiences:

"I think it's all very simple... Lulu, you know how I became the youngest Fusion-stage mage in the history of the Federation, right? So why do you think I worked so hard to increase my magic power? It's because I already knew all the spellcasting techniques I needed to learn, and without increasing my magic power, there's no way to improve it further."

"So, sister, don't compare yourself to us! We're really stupid, okay?"

Lulu couldn't hold back any longer and rolled her eyes as she complained:

"If the skills of an apprentice mage are really as simple as you say, then why did the academy spend five years teaching us? ...By the way, how long did it take you to master all the spellcasting skills of an apprentice mage?"

"Uh……"

This time, Emery didn't say anything more; she finally realized what the problem was.

She mastered all the spellcasting techniques that an apprentice mage could learn in less than two months, and that was only because the old lich was only willing to teach her one technique a day; otherwise, it might have been even faster.

Could it be... that I'm really a genius? The kind who can treat ordinary geniuses like idiots?

Emery never denied her own excellence, but she never thought she was particularly talented. She considered herself just an ordinary genius, and that her current achievements were all due to her financial resources and hard work.

But the truth seems to be different?

To verify this, Ameliete demonstrated some spellcasting techniques that she thought were easy for geniuses to learn, but the students were all completely bewildered.

Emery continued to try to teach these skills to her students, but she failed to teach any of them, and the students and teachers just stared at each other blankly.

Emerald's teaching method was to demonstrate to the students herself, at most slowing down the casting movements and using attributes to color the magic flow to make it clearer... After that, the students would practice on their own.

The students, of course, couldn't understand it, so they asked Emerald about the parts they didn't understand. Emerald was also baffled because she couldn't understand why the students couldn't understand those questions, and therefore couldn't explain them to them.

And so, Emery suffered her first failure. She spent an entire lesson without teaching a single student a single skill, and her teaching career came to an end.

When the vice-principal learned of this, he was both amused and speechless. He then stopped letting Amelie continue teaching the students, because Amelie was indeed not suitable for teaching, at least not in magic.

So Amelie began her magical training again, attempting to establish her own conceptual understanding of necromancy.

This time, however, she changed her approach and didn't read a lot of books to absorb knowledge, because her failed teaching experience had given her an inspiration.

To verify her hypothesis, Amelie visited the most powerful archmages of the Lohid family to learn about their experiences in establishing the concept of magic.

After getting the answer she wanted, Emerald finally understood.

She seemed to understand why, even though she knew what her "conceptual perspective" was, she had never been able to truly establish it.

It's not that she's stupid, but rather that her cleverness backfired; she overthought things.

Amelie had long ago determined that her concept of necromancy was sacred.

So these days, she spends most of her time pondering what holiness is, thinking about it from different perspectives such as society and philosophy. She has read a lot of books from the Lohid Magic Academy and also read a lot of insights left by otherworldly priests.

The more Amelie saw, the more confused she became about what the sacred truly was.

But there's really no need to know so much.

For example, regarding Karent Loweard's concept of absolute freeze, Karent actually didn't understand concepts like molecular kinetic energy and absolute zero, since he hadn't studied physics. He only knew that when the smallest matter that makes up everything in the world stops moving, everything will be stilled, as if spacetime itself were frozen.

The same applies to Emerald now. She doesn't actually need to care about the objective definition of the concept of holiness in terms of truth. She only needs to believe in the holiness in her own heart.

In other words, Emerald now needs to think and feel in a different way, such as trying to think in Yulia's way.

The first step in Yulia's way of thinking is to shut down the brain.

Amelie stopped thinking, ceasing all those nonsensical thoughts about the sacred, and surrendered everything to her subconscious and instincts.

How should one perform sanctification attribute changes in necromancy?

Why think so much? Death itself is sacred.

Everything eventually dies, even gods fall, and even the world will face heat death after its entropy expands to its limit.

There is absolutely no need to sanctify or alter the attributes of the power of death. Pure and objective death itself is already one of the most sacred phenomena, the truth of the endless void, and an indispensable part of the healthy cycle of resources in any world.

...What I've been pursuing has always existed.

Amelie's brain started working again.

She finally understood why she couldn't find her way forward: she had already reached the finish line.

She already had a concept, but she hadn't realized it yet, so naturally she couldn't build a new one.

"I think I know what to do..."

Stretching and with a satisfied expression, Amelie didn't even put on shoes, but walked out of the room slowly, her black stockings treading the ground.

This is a small courtyard in the living area of ​​the Lohid Magic Academy. The environment is quite serene. The flowers are still so fragrant, the sunshine is still so bright, and the birds are chirping and flying around. But in Amelie's eyes, it is a little different.

"Um~~~~"

Amelie stretched again, then lifted her foot, letting her toes touch the grass through her black stockings.

!

In an instant, without any magical fluctuations, the once vibrant green grass and flowers near Amelie's toes withered and fell, meeting their death.

The nearby birds seemed to sense the danger and flapped their wings to try to escape, but they fell as soon as they took flight. They died of natural causes, with no signs of injury.

Many insects hidden in the grass and trees, mice living in burrows beneath the grass, mycelium growing at the roots of trees, and even various microorganisms that can only be seen under a microscope, all lost their lives forever in this instant, a natural death.

It's not just about life.

The wind that blew towards Emerald vanished without a trace, leaving not even air behind.

The sunlight shining on Amelie did not undergo any reflection or refraction, and the heat did not change at all.

Everything that came into contact with Amelie's existence was subjected to an equal death at this moment, for death is sacred.

The only one that didn't die was...

"Magic?"

Sensing the lingering magic around her, Emerald nodded gently again:

"I see. Magic itself is the greatest miracle. As long as there is enough magic, even the most basic rules can be resisted and rewritten... Therefore, a being that can transform its entire body into magic is almost like an omniscient and omnipotent god in the current world to mortals."

"Then... how about this?"

Amélie muttered to herself as she lifted her second foot, placing it beside the first foot that had caused everything around it to die naturally.

There was still no magic at work, but everything around them changed in an instant.

The withered grass and trees straightened up again, regaining their tender green color and fragrance.

The bird, which had turned to skeletal remains, regained its flesh and blood, flapped its wings and flew away. Instead of fleeing, it hopped onto Emerald's shoulder and nuzzled her face affectionately.

The same was true of everything else; all the changes that occurred when Emeryte took her first step were restored as soon as her second foot landed.

Death is sacred and inviolable; all things come to an end at death, and only the miracles brought by magic can reverse everything.

"I think... I really understand now."

Emerald stretched for the third time, her smile becoming even more satisfied.

Her efforts over the past few days have finally paid off. Her magic power hasn't increased much, but if she were to fight Machira one-on-one now, she would win without any strategy.

"...What has she realized?"

The old Lohid fellows who had been secretly observing Amelie's cultivation were now all looking at each other in disbelief, some even dumbfounded.

"I do not know."

After a long while, Karent, the leader, murmured a bitter laugh:

"But what she just did, if we broaden the scope to the entire world, isn't it exactly what those priests in other worlds love to talk about: the destruction and creation of the world by gods?"

"This...good heavens, good heavens..."

The other old man then tugged hard at his beard:

"This little girl is truly remarkable. I was genuinely curious about what the changes in the divine attributes of magic would look like, which is why I never held back when she asked me questions... But I really didn't expect her to be able to cultivate magic in the direction of divinity."

"Hmm... If that's the case, then the gods worshipped by those otherworldly priests are very likely magic practitioners who, after mastering the divine attributes of magic, cultivated to the ultimate third stage or even the legendary fourth stage?"

Another old guy offered his opinion, which was accepted by most people. After that, everyone was amazed that Emery was really a cheat code – she was only in her early twenties, yet she was already able to pave the way for a group of people who were hundreds of years old.

"Luckily, Ellie also has Lohid blood in her veins, so she's also one of our descendants. Otherwise, I'd really be a little afraid of her..."

Karent sighed, then suddenly a strange smile appeared on his face:

"It seems we need to get Flora to work harder. Little Ellie has such great talent that we can't let it go to waste. We must leave behind more offspring."

Yes, yes!

The old folks instantly perked up at the mention of having their descendants produce even better offspring, and began to chatter amongst themselves. Before long, they were even discussing what to name Flora's fifth child with Emerald.

On the other hand, having finally completed her "conceptual view" of magic, Emerald was naturally in a very good mood and began to wander around the academy.

If she saw a pretty female student, she would go up and tease her, easily making the female students blush and even feel weak in the knees, before disappearing with a smile.

She would also suddenly appear when Lulu and her harem were having a secret rendezvous, startling them all, and then, as their older sister, tell them which dating poses were incorrect and needed improvement.

In short, Emery, for once, regained the liveliness and mischief that a young person should have, and played pranks for two days, leaving behind many legends throughout the magic academy.

"...Perhaps, I could try that out too?"

That day, while wandering around the magic academy, Emerald encountered a bullying incident and suddenly had a new idea.

The bullying incident was quite ordinary; it was just that a student from an ordinary background finally mustered up the courage to confess his feelings to a pretty female classmate, and instead of being rejected outright, he received a rather ambiguous response.

But the pretty female classmate was someone a wealthy young man had long coveted. Upon receiving the news, the wealthy young man, along with his henchmen, ambushed the commoner student and gave him a severe beating.

When Emerald accidentally saw them, the commoner students were already bruised and battered, and how could those who participated in the bullying possibly have noticed Emerald?

Emerald, in a good mood due to her increased strength and in a playful state, mischievously manipulated an invisible ribbon to reach out and connect to the soul of the commoner student who had been beaten to the ground, just like a data cable, and then marked that soul.

Then, Emerald deliberately imitated the AI's tone of voice, making her voice appear directly in the mind of the commoner student:

"Suitable host found... Binding in progress... Congratulations, host, the Life Reversal System has been successfully bound."

"...Huh? A system?"

That ordinary student wasn't a time traveler; he was completely clueless about the existence of the system.

Emerald ignored him, suppressing a laugh, and continued to speak in the voice of an AI:

"We have detected that the host is being bullied. This system was created specifically for this purpose. Please shout 'Sign in!' to receive your newbie gift pack, and then fight back against the bullies!"

"..."

The beaten-up civilian student was still bewildered, completely unable to comprehend the existence of the system.

But shouting "Sign in!" seemed to give him the power to retaliate, and he heard it nonetheless.

"Check-in!"

Realizing that he might be crippled if he continued to be beaten, the ordinary student shouted without hesitation, startling the people beating him, who thought his head had been damaged.

"Check-in successful. Your newbie gift pack has been delivered. Please check it."

Amelie continued to reply in the commoner student's mind using the AI's voice, then rummaged through her storage space and used magic to send a self-defense magical artifact she had used many years ago to the commoner student without anyone noticing.

The magical device resembled a bottle of press-and-spray women's perfume, from a well-known luxury brand.

"...Women's products? They smell so good..."

The commoner student was stunned for a moment after receiving the magical device, but seeing the tycoon's son and his henchmen rushing over to beat him up like fierce demons, he didn't hesitate to press the perfume bottle and spray it at them.

"what!!!!"

Screams quickly echoed through the academy. The once arrogant rich kid and his henchmen were now all rolling on the ground, scratching their bodies in obvious pain.

The ordinary student was left standing there, looking completely bewildered.

Hahaha!

Emerald, who had successfully pulled off the prank, clutched her stomach and chuckled to herself for a while before becoming thoughtful again.

In the novels I read in my previous life, many protagonists had a system that helped them grow from humble beginnings to the top.

Could those systems just be pranks played by truly powerful individuals, like what Emerald is doing now?

Chapter 291 The Sacred Miracle

"System..."

After the prank was over, Emerald drifted away, but she didn't immediately put it out of her mind. Instead, she sat on a deck chair in her yard and began to ponder it.