Chapter 60: Preparations
"Imagine Leor's ability as 010101 in different patterns, what you need to do is just replace the Zeros with 2, or 1, or anything other than zero, it's simple!" Johan yelled, his mouth right next to Kirin's ears, making Kirin flinch with the roughness of voice.
But she didn't dare retaliate, just sighing, and trying to channel her mana again. She thought she could just do basic training while bullying Johan—her favourite pastime, but now she was the one getting bullied.
Thwack!
Johan instantly slapped Kirin's hand, she was overextending mana again. 'Oh my god, why can't she be more like Sebastian? He mastered it literally in a single day.' Johan took a deep breath, hitting her on her back this time.
"Johan." Sebastian walked closer to Johan, his voice respectful as he was able to call Johan instead of master naturally now, but it still sounded very awkward, and forced.
Johan smiled softly, tightening his grip around Kirin's hair as she gave a half-crying, half-begging-for-mercy look to Sebastian. "What is it?" he asked.
"I called Orihime as you asked, she said she will be here in an hour. Needs some spells, a wand, and the seals you asked Velmire for, while she is also reworking her armour. What should be done for now? You still haven't told us the plan..." Sebastian groaned, his voice tired from all the spell training he had done, and from teaching Johan most of his spells.
Melodis suddenly intervened, his voice sharp, "Kirin! We can't leave until you fully master 'Defuse'. Acier, Juline, Theo, and everybody else will have to wait longer just because of you... do you wish for that?" Melodis believed that Kirin was getting too distracted by her thoughts to be able to master the spell.
For mages at Kirin's level, they only needed a single explanation and the codes to make it work. Even though Defuse was more complicated than an average Stage 0 spell, Johan had provided a very detailed explanation about it. Melodis had only needed one look to master it, and even Sebastian just a day. Kirin had been failing for the last three days.