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Chapter 5 Gathering Stars
Matthew stumbled, completely losing his balance, and under the immense force of inertia, he was like a cannonball launched by a catapult.
He lunged forward face down at the rotten, sharp-edged wooden threshold in front of him!
"No!" Kavi's scream was drowned out by the chaotic roar.
"Bang"
A dull thud that made your teeth ache.
Matthew's face, which had just been filled with arrogance, slammed heavily against the rotten, blackened corner of the threshold without any cushioning.
Under the immense impact, he clearly heard the chilling cracking sound of his jawbone breaking.
Immediately afterwards, a sharp pain mixed with the smell of rust exploded in his mouth, instantly engulfing all his nerves.
"Uh..."
A heart-wrenching scream erupted from Matthew's mouth, blood mixed with saliva and some white fragments gushing out from his wide-open mouth, splattering everywhere.
He covered his mouth tightly with both hands, curled up like a shrimp, rolled and convulsed on the floor in pain, and made low moaning sounds.
Blood gushed from between his fingers, staining his hands and shirt red. The passageway was deathly silent.
Everyone was stunned by the sudden and horrific change and the tragic scene before them.
One second the class leader was full of vigor, the next he was rolling on the ground, his face covered in blood, howling in agony.
That broken, white thing mixed with blood and saliva... was clearly half a front tooth.
Kavi scrambled to Matthew's side, his face turning deathly pale at the sight of his brother's mouth full of blood and his body convulsing in pain. He frantically tried to help him up, yet dared not touch him.
"Brother, Chief, how...how are you? Your teeth...your teeth..."
In the instant the ship violently rocked, Li Ang 'weakly' slid to the ground in the direction of the tilt, curled up in a corner of the cabin wall, and coughed violently, as if the incident had only made his already poor health worse.
He covered his chest with one hand and his face with the other, peering through his fingers at Matthew's miserable state. His heart was pounding wildly beneath his violently heaving chest.
Success! Things went even more smoothly than he had anticipated, and the narrow passage was now in complete chaos.
Matthew's heart-wrenching screams, Kavi's panicked cries, and the other reserve apprentices' horrified chatter mingled together, filling the small space.
Li Ang huddled in the corner, using his violent coughing as cover, deeply imprinting Matthew's blood-stained face, contorted with pain, into his mind.
A fleeting sense of vengeful pleasure crossed his mind, but he quickly calmed down; he couldn't stay here any longer.
Taking advantage of everyone's attention being drawn to Matthew, he braced himself against the bulkhead, pressed himself against the damp, cold wooden planks, and quietly slipped away from the edge of the crowd.
Every step was accompanied by a burning, throbbing pain in his lungs and suppressed breathing. He gritted his teeth, not daring to stop for even a moment.
Pushing open his creaking, broken wooden door, the musty smell of decay hit him again, but this time Li Ang felt a surge of security, as if he had survived a disaster, along with a deep sense of anger and resentment.
He bolted the door shut behind him, leaned against the door, and gasped for breath, his chest heaving like a broken bellows.
"Cough...cough cough..." Another violent coughing fit struck, Matthew's words from earlier now haunting his mind like a nightmare.
Although he wasn't a true member of the Carlson family, they shouldn't have mocked someone who was willing to give up his entire fortune to give them this opportunity. They even indirectly caused the death of the old Carlson's only son, the real Leon Carlson.
A flame of fighting spirit ignited in his eyes. Tonight's events were just the beginning; Matthew and Kavi, you will eventually pay the price!
For this he needs power, the power called magic.
After making up his mind, he immediately sat cross-legged on the pile of musty-smelling hay.
He used [Windwalking Canvas] again to clear the air in the room, and began to meditate, feeling the fresh air and lively wind elemental magic around him.
Clearing his mind of all distracting thoughts, he immersed himself in the world described in "The Basic Laws of Meditation".
Adjust your breathing, delve into your inner vision… visualize your spiritual core… guide your magical energy…
Thanks to the wind element magic environment created by the [Wind-Walking Canvas], which is much richer than the bottom of the cabin, the flow of magic that surged into the spiritual world this time was particularly clear.
The azure wind elemental magic, like a lively sprite, swirled and coalesced around the spiritual core he constructed with his will.
Discard distractions and focus your mind.
Li Ang's consciousness, like the finest spindle, meticulously guided these cyan magic threads, drawing them towards the core, compressing and rotating them...
Time passed in the darkness, with only his heavy breathing and occasional suppressed coughs echoing in the small space.
After an unknown amount of time, seemingly in the endless void, a faint yet incredibly stable cyan light suddenly shone forth!
Like a newly born star, it slowly rotates in the center of the spiritual world, emitting gentle yet clear fluctuations, creating a wonderful resonance with the rich wind elemental magic around it.
Success! The first magic star has been successfully condensed!
Li Ang suppressed his overwhelming joy, feeling an indescribable coolness instantly spread from his spiritual world, as if cleansing his dusty soul.
Li Ang felt his senses become clearer than ever before, and he also felt a strange affinity and control over the wind elemental magic flowing in the air.
With a thought, the blue star in his spiritual world flickered slightly, and a faint spiritual force was drawn out.
[Bound Facility: Windrunner Canvas]
[Would you like to spend 5 points of Spirit Power to upgrade? Current Spirit Power: 10/10]
"Upgrade confirmed," Li Ang silently recited in his mind.
hum!
An invisible ripple spread out from Li Ang, only to be instantly contained within the cabin.
The three canvases hanging high above the mast seemed to be covered with a faint blue light, and then disappeared without a trace, as if nothing had happened.
But Li Ang clearly sensed the change; the airflow around the canvas seemed to become more "obedient," and the efficiency of gathering wind elemental magic had also quietly increased.
Li Ang then opened the panel to confirm.
【Windy Canvas: Lv1】
[Current effect: Allows control over the gathering and dispersal of air within the ship's range, creating a wind elemental magical environment. Air gathering and dispersal ability +10%, wind elemental magical environment concentration +10%]
[Level 2 Effect: Air gathering and dispersal ability +20%, wind element magic concentration in the environment +20%]
[Upgrade Requirements: 2 Magic Stars in the Spirit World, 10 Spirit Points consumed]
Success! The first step on my path to becoming a wizard has finally been taken.