The Girl Who Hacked The Magic System
Chapter 121 - Yesn’t

Chapter 121: Chapter 121 - Yesn’t

"I understand what you’re talking about, but the elements are still a thing, Aurea."

I have just finished the explanation of my reasoning to Lovelace, but she isn’t very convinced about it.

"First, when you look at the mana core of a person, it has the colors of some elements, and those elements end up being the ones that the person has more affinity with."

"Well, I suppose so... no, you’re right. That indeed happens. But maybe that’s just the way magic is coded."

"Yeah, but then there are the elemental beings, like dragons and myself. I’m a being of pure Dark Element that just happens to assume a human form."

"But what is your true form, Lovelace? Is it the human form? Or the scorpion? Or another form? What is your true self?"

"..."

"What does it even mean to be an elemental being, Lovelace?"

"I... I don’t know."

"So you admit that the expression doesn’t make sense."

"No, that’s not it. I know that it means something. I just don’t know what that something is. I can feel the deepness of the resonance between my being and the element. I can feel it burning inside of me, the way it guides my being."

"You can feel it?"

"Yes. Can’t you feel the lightning element inside or around you?"

"Not really..."

"Hm... I’ve never asked other people about it before. Could it be that other people can’t feel their elements?"

"Most people don’t feel elements directly, and I’m pretty sure I can’t."

"Then maybe that’s one meaning of being an elemental creature. It’s like I’m attuned to the Dark element and its energies. I can feel it inside me and all around me."

Lovelace stops as if a sudden realization has come to her mind.

"And there’s the hunger. The insatiable hunger from before, the one I can only quell, even today, because of the mana you feed me. Because one of the aspects of destruction is consumption."

"So the element of an elemental being also impacts its behavior?"

"I believe so, yes."

"Hm..."

I put my hand on my chin, thinking about what she said.

The theory of elements as being mere abstract concepts for the coding of magic works if we only consider the human world.

When we factor in elemental beings, a contradiction is inserted. It becomes harder to deny concrete existence to them with that argument.

Especially because, to those people, it would be akin to denying their very being.

"This feels like a wave-particle situation."

"Wave-particle situation?"

"Yes. You’ve watched some of the physics videos on my memory, right? I was very fond of some youtube videos explaining quantum mechanics."

"Oh, right. The thing about light behaving as a wave or as a particle depending on the measuring instrument?"

"Exactly. Are elements an abstract concept for the coding or magic, or are they concrete things? Yesn’t."

"Well, if thinking about magic in terms of Earth’s physics makes it easier for you to come up with those amazing new ideas like spatial magic, I’m all for it."

"Hehehe. I’m a genius, I know."

"Yes, you are, but please don’t believe too much in that."

Ahhhh, Lovelace, I love you. Please never cease to be yourself.

We stay like that, just looking at each other and smiling, for some time. Sadly, we are soon interrupted by a knock on the door.

"Good morning, you two. Already working this early?"

Yeah, the sun rose just a few minutes ago, and we are already at my studio in my mothers’ mansion.

"Yes... I wanted to show Lovelace some of the conclusions of my research."

"But you can’t work properly without having breakfast first, can you? Come, I prepared pancakes today."

"Yay, pancakes!"

:::

A few moments later, we are at the dining room, and Levinna has joined us.

"Tell me one thing, Aurea. How do you plan to go to the Barrens, find Yaci’s tribe, and come back before the end of the summer break?"

"Hehehe. I was expecting you to ask me that question. Look at this."

I open a small gate in the air that leads to a spot right at the side of her plate, then I put my hand through the gate and snatch a bit of her pancake before pulling the hand back. Then I eat the bit.

"Why is your pancake more delicious than mine? Oh, it’s because I stole it."

Everyone knows that stolen food tastes better, after all.

Lily and Levy are with expressions of shock on their faces, and even Lovelace is a bit troubled by the display, even though I’ve explained the concept to her earlier.

"This is a little thing I named ’Spatial Magic.’"

"This is amazing, Aurea!"

"I never imagined that something like that could be possible!"

"You explained the theory to me earlier, but seeing it in action is another thing altogether."

Heheheheh. Yes, praise me more.

"But... how? What element are you using?"

"This magic can’t be made by using elements, Mom Levy. It follows a completely distinct logic that I can explain to you later. It isn’t all-powerful, though. But what matters at the present is that I can go directly to the exact location of Yaci with just a step."

"You can make it so big that a person can travel through it?"

"Yes. I haven’t tested the upper limit yet, though. So I don’t know how many people I could safely transport with one of those."

"This can revolutionize warfare. With this you could deploy platoons behind enemy lines and keep a steady supply line and also a safe escape route."

"Exactly, Mom Lily. It will be our trump card in the upcoming war, so it should be our best-kept secret."

"Of course!"

I have two years before graduating, and the feeling shared by both the king and my mother is that the uprising of the Blessed faction will begin around that time.

That means two years to train our soldiers in the systemless magic. Including the beastkin.

I’m so eager to begin that training...