The Novel's Extra (101-200)

Chapter 118 - What Must Be Done (1)

From the broken bracelet, the Butterfly Seedling Dust scattered down, seeping into Rachel's magic power. Rachel did not notice this silent change as she was focused on the movement of her magic power.

"Now, with your right wrist...."

To prevent her from being suspicious, I made her circulate her magic power throughout her body. From the left wrist to the right wrist, ankles, then forehead.

Soon, Rachel was covered in sweat.

"...Haa, haa."

"It's hard for everyone on their first try."

I couldn't help but laugh at myself inwardly. I was coaching someone with a 9~9.5 potential rating.

But this training shouldn't be completely meaningless. After all, it was the breathing exercise Kim Suho did every morning.

"Alright, next...."

In any case, the Butterfly Seedling Dust successfully seeped into Rachel's body. But to make the dust settle in and show its effect, Rachel needed to exercise her magic power.

"Try standing up."

Rachel stood up enthusiastically, thinking that it was time for the real thing.

"We'll set Barrier aside for now."

However, she lost her enthusiasm at my next words and tilted her head.

"Rachel-ssi, we've known each other for about 8 months now. And for a semester, we were pretty close together because of team challenges."

"Yes? Ah, yes, you're right."

"Take it with a grain of salt, but I've been watching you in battle and thinking.... Have you taken an elemental affinity test?"

"Elemental affinity?"

"Yes, I'm good at discerning talent. I guess you could say I have sharp senses. You know that I helped Chae Nayun too, right?"

Chae Nayun was a hot topic in Cube's community and several guilds.

Not only did she change from a bow to a sword, she was showing immediate results.

"Yes, I took one when I was young and the results came out positive. But how did you...."

She was looking at me, wondering how I knew.

"There's something different about your magic power. The property of your magic power changes slightly depending on the environment you're in."

This was Rachel's trait that I created.

Rachel seemed to know what I was talking about as her eyes widened.

"Ah, you're right! I've been feeling it too. As for my elemental affinity, it hasn't increased since I was 10, so I gave up on it."

That was obvious. Research on elementals was scant, and people of this world knew little about how to cultivate one's elemental affinity. Elementalists were uncommon even in the other world Kim Suho came from.

But it was different now.

The Butterfly Seedling Dust that seeped into Rachel's body would work as a pathway that would connect Rachel and elementals together.

Furthermore, I already knew the efficient training method Kim Suho and Rachel took painstaking efforts to create in the original story.

"Then let's start from the beginning. You might have used a wrong training method."

"...."

Rachel looked at me doubtfully.

I felt like I could understand what her eyes were saying. She must be annoyed that I was going on a tangent when she came to learn Barrier.