Demon King: Hero, don't run away!-Chapter 437 Magic Perception

Bai Jin tried to inject magic power into the magic array once again, but the magic power, which used to be readily available, now seemed to disdain her in the desert, making it impossible to gather.

"Using magic in the desert is quite difficult. The sand forms a natural magic barrier, absorbing a lot of the magic power in the air.

Only the magic beasts that can live in the desert can utilize the magic power stored in the sand at any time and place."

Pausing, Qing Shi raised his hand, focused, and activated the magic he had learned, forming a small vortex in the palm of his right hand.

As the vortex spun, a chunk of ice the size of a chicken egg soon appeared in Qing Shi’s palm,

"It is difficult, but it’s not impossible to use magic in the desert.

Desert winds are omnipresent, and the winds stir the sand, releasing the magic power stored within it.

As long as you can sense the sparse magic power in the desert, you can capture it and use it for yourself.

Miss Bai Jin, have you not undergone training in magic perception?"

Bai Jin nodded, "Magic Perception Ability is a skill necessary for learning various surveillance magic.

I don’t like to surveil others, and I currently have no plans to improve my magic perception ability..."

"The role of magic perception should not be limited to that," Qing Shi said with a smile, "I heard that high-level magicians, when using large-scale magic in battles, would compete for the magic power in the air to diminish the power of the opponent’s magic, thus gaining the upper hand.

Those with stronger Magic Perception Ability are more likely to gain initiative in such a struggle for magic power."

This was the first time Bai Jin had heard that magic perception had such a use.

That day, when Gordon was using powerful magic, Bai Jin was also weaving magic spells rapidly to try to stop Kenro, but she distinctly felt her casting speed slow down, as if the magic power in the air had been taken away.

If what Qing Shi said was true, and she could truly enhance her perception ability, she wouldn’t be so helpless.

"For those living elsewhere, magic power is like air, ubiquitous, and many lack the training in magic perception. But for us, magic perception is the cornerstone of survival, a must to be mastered."

Picking up the piece of ice with his thumb and forefinger, Qing Shi encouraged her:

"Miss Bai Jin, there’s no need to rush. I heard that the more proficient the magic, the more the ability to perceive magic power will increase.

Now, you can try not to summon the surrounding magic power, but rather to use more of your own magic power to compensate for the external magic power deficiency, which should still allow you to use magic.

However, using magic in that way will consume more mental and physical stamina."

Following Qing Shi’s advice, Bai Jin concentrated, and like adding her own magic mark to someone else’s crystal ball, filled the magic array with her own magic power. The pure white magic array formed at the tip of her magic wand burst forth with snowflakes, and the temperature around them suddenly dropped a few degrees.

Upon activating the system, Yang Yu found that Bai Jin’s physical stamina and MP consumption had indeed increased significantly, more than three times the usual consumption for using skills.

But there was a benefit—the speed of skill release had become much quicker.

Perhaps he could negotiate with Bai Jin and consider using the skill of directly injecting one’s own magic power into the magic array as a trump card.

Breathing wearily, Bai Jin sat back under the tent.

"Ice Magic is quite useful in the desert," said Qing Shi. "It can help us replenish our water and also cool us down.

However, in the desert, our natural magic recovery is extremely slow, so using magic in this way can’t last long."

Qing Shi, with Bai Jin’s magic aid, gathered vapor in the palm again, planning to make ice blocks to share with everyone to relieve the heat,

"If we really want to use magic in the desert, I suggest we should enhance our Magic Perception Ability.

In the vast desert, we never know what might happen.

Improving your Magic Perception Ability is preventative for dangers."

Yang Yu raised both hands, agreeing with Bai Jin’s suggestion to enhance her Magic Perception Ability and at the same time wanted her to learn a few Surveillance Magics,

"You don’t like Surveillance Magic, but its uses go beyond watching others, it can also be used to gather intelligence and avoid dangers for the team.

A high-level Magic Perception can also give you an advantage when facing other Magicians.

After we heal Qing Shi’s father, we still have to cross the entire desert, so there will be plenty of time. Consider this a form of cultivation."

Speaking of which, Yang Yu took out the popsicles he had prepared in advance and distributed them to everyone. Seeing this, Qing Shi stopped his spellcasting, no longer forming ice blocks, and took a popsicle from Yang Yu’s hand.

As it was a break time, Yang Yu had Qing Shi also explain the techniques for improving Magic Perception to them, and Qing Shi agreed straightforwardly.

He asked Bai Jin to close her eyes and simply release her internal Magic Power, first getting familiar with this unique force. Then, Qing Shi transferred the Magic Power he had gathered in his hand to Bai Jin, urging her to remember the feeling of external Magic Power. Following that, he had Bai Jin throw the gathered Magic Power into the air to dissipate in the wind, to sense when the Magic Power disappeared from her consciousness.

In Bai Jin’s perception, the Magic Power she threw out was like a handful of sand carried by the wind rapidly scattering, disappearing without a trace in a moment, the distance was about five meters.

Hearing Bai Jin’s description, Qing Shi felt a pang in his heart, as he remembered when he first learned with his father, he almost couldn’t sense the Magic Power as soon as it disappeared.

Through harsh training, Qing Shi was only able to sense Magic Power within a few hundred meters around him, not nearly meeting the standards of a Desert Guide.

With natural talent like Bai Jin, she would probably reach the same sensing range as him with just a few months of time.

It really showed that people’s physiques shouldn’t be all painted with the same brush.

However, people with such great talent would certainly not stay to become Desert Guides.

To help travelers out of the desert still required ordinary folks like them.

"The Magic Power in the desert is relatively sparse, making it quite convenient to practice perception," Qing Shi continued. "If it were in the outside world, because of the overabundance of Magic Power, the inability to sense exactly where the Magic Power controlled in one’s hands disappeared would hinder the training.

I will teach you how to extend your perceptual range, consider it leisure..."

Time trickled by, and Bai Jin learned many skills from Qing Shi to expand her perceptual range. As long as she persisted daily, her Magic Perception Ability would greatly improve.

But this was only limited to the desert; because of the scarcity of Magic Power in the desert, people’s perception of Magic Power became sensitive.

If they returned to the Magic-rich outside world, their perceptual range for Magic Power would diminish greatly.

It’s like dropping a woman you fancy among a crowd of unattractive women—you could spot her no matter how far; but if you dropped her among a crowd full of beautiful women, even if she was only ten meters away from you, you might not notice her.

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