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s successful, this hollow crystal can only be used for two to three months.”

“Hollow crystals…are expensive, right?” Anna asked again.

Dubian nodded: “Such a small piece costs one gold coin.
Even the most basic condensed circuit has only half the success rate of solidifying.
Like this,” he pointed to the three circles on the side, “You can try it a hundred times, but it might not even be possible to succeed once.”

Anna gulped.
Sure enough, being a mage was an extremely costly profession.
Without money, she couldn’t even afford her own staff.

She toughened her heart up.
It didn’t matter; she didn’t have gold, but she had a liver!* As long as she was proficient enough to cast spells by herself without borrowing a solidified circuit, wouldn’t she be able to save money?

[氪金 or gold in gaming refers to pouring money into a game.
肝 means liver, and in gaming, it’s used to refer to those who spend all night gaming (here it refers to spending a large amount of time/effort studying rather than “paying to win”)]

She guiltily glanced at the three circular magic circuits on the side, and closed her eyes.

It's okay, what if she did not have an elemental affinity? Then, there was no need to worry about not being able to afford it…….

With a wave of Dubian's hand, those two magic circuits disappeared.
He looked at Anna and said with a smile: “But this is all for the future.
You have to be at least a two-star mage before you can try to solidify magic circuits.”

Anna instantly understood.
Because the spell circuits learned during the one-star mage and apprentice stage were too simple, so if even such a simple circuit like this had to be solidified on the empty crystal, then this person really didn't have much need to continue learning spells.

“Today I will teach you the most basic method of meditation.” Dubian was originally sitting cross-legged on a rock, with his hands crossed and resting on his knees.
His head was slightly lowered and his eyes were closed.
“This is the Meditation posture.”

Anna quickly followed suit.

Dubian opened his eyes and looked at Anna's movements and said, “Your movements are very accurate.
Maintain it.”

Anna closed her eyes, and Dubian's soft voice was by her ear: “Empty all your thoughts and focus on feeling for the natural elements around us.
The light element is white; the water element is blue; the wind element is green; and the fire element is red; the earth element is yellow; the thunder element is purple; the gold element is gold; and the dark element is black.”

Anna's mind was empty, and after closing her eyes, there was a faint black light.

…But she didn't see any other colors?

Could it be that she also had a pure dark element affinity body, and could only see black?

Ana opened her eyes after trying for a while.
Dubian was looking at her.
She asked: “Those with pure dark element affinity can only feel black dark elements?”

Dubian shook his head: “No.
As long as you have elemental affinity, you can feel all natural elements, you just can't guide or use them.”