When the magical power accumulated inside her reached a certain level, her body could no longer sustain more magical power, but the total amount of power inside her had already exceeded the limit her body could actually bear.
At that point, her body would leak magical power outwards, much like a water-filled balloon being punctured.
Naturally, this was a very slow process and wouldn't drain all her magic immediately. The slow leakage of magical power would form a positive cycle with the natural absorption of magical power during daily life.
It was like a tire leaking air, but if you kept pumping it while it leaked, the tire would still inflate normally.
Subsequently, the Profound Arts of the Water God Style swordsman were executed using this naturally leaking magical power within the body.
The constant compression of magical power made the leaking magic purer.
Moreover, using this magic to cast the ultimate techniques of each Profound Art would be more potent than casting the ultimate techniques using Battle Qi.
Profound Art One: Kanryu
It utilizes magical perception to sense the opponent's breathing and center of gravity, sensing the airflow, thus reacting faster than the opponent. When Kanryu reaches mastery, one can learn the ultimate technique 'Kanryu: True Mirror,' which can transform magical power into a 'mirror surface' to reflect the opponent's killing intent and intentions, throwing the enemy into confusion from self-prediction.
Profound Art Two: Time Flow
It accelerates subjective time through magical power, reaching up to twenty times the speed. It is a very powerful skill. When Time Flow is studied deeply, one can enter the 'Yellow Millet Dream' state, gaining insights from a long period of subjective cultivation in a short time. When 'Time Flow' is mastered, one can use the ultimate technique 'Time Flow: Reverse Flow' to briefly reverse the local flow of time (such as healing one's own wounds).
Profound Art Three: Counter Current
It uses magical power to simulate the siphon phenomenon in fluid dynamics, deflecting all physical/magical attacks. Upon reaching mastery, one can learn the ultimate technique 'Counter Current: Vortex': storing and stacking the deflected attack power, finally counterattacking with vortex-shaped magical power.
Profound Art Four: Surge Flow
Magical power transforms into continuous assaults like a raging torrent of water, suitable for using offense as defense. The ultimate technique, 'Surge Flow: Thousand Waterfalls,' imitates the descent of a waterfall, with the power of each strike increasing, the final blow comparable to a mountain flood impact. Combining it with the acceleration of 'Time Flow' for charging makes the skill even more potent.
Profound Art Five: Thought Flow
It requires integrating'Sword Intent' into all things in nature, reaching the state where formlessness surpasses form. Simultaneously, all limitations of the Water God Style's five Profound Arts when cast using magical power will vanish. The side effects of using those Profound Arts with Battle Qi will also disappear.
Indeed, the Water God Style was originally cast using magical power. The side effects after using those Profound Arts were all consequences of altering the casting method from magical power to Battle Qi. Therefore, the side effects of casting with Battle Qi will not exist when casting with magical power.
The biggest side effect of casting with magical power is the consumption of magical power. If there isn't enough magical power to support it, more magical power cannot overflow, and the Profound Arts cannot be cast.
This point shouldn't be a major issue for me. My magical power reserves are probably only comparable to Rudeus's in this world.
If I compress my current magical reserves until they can be compressed no further, the magical power overflowing from my body will definitely be an astonishing figure.
However, the Water God Style using magical power presents another problem for me. Since the Profound Arts of the Water God Style are cast through the overflow of magical power, if I use too much magic and my internal magical power becomes insufficient, there won't be any magical power overflowing, and I won't be able to use the Water God Style Profound Arts.
It seems the Water God Style and magic cannot be had simultaneously!
What remains is the learning of the individual Profound Arts. This is similar to learning no-chanting magic—it seems very difficult, but in reality, it is not simple at all.
In the days that followed, I began the learning phase of magical power compression and casting the Water God Style Profound Arts with magical power.
I strongly suspect that Battle Qi is merely magical power that ordinary people cannot refine. The reason Rudeus and I cannot use Battle Qi might be that most of our magical power is stored well within our bodies and doesn't easily overflow outside.
Therefore, we don't feel Battle Qi at all.
If an ordinary person with average magical capacity naturally absorbs magical power through eating, drinking, urinating, defecating, and sleeping, because their internal magical capacity is very low, it easily overflows from the body. If they learn swordsmanship, they can utilize this overflowing magical power, or rather, Battle Qi.
People like us, with deep magical power, who absorb all the magical power we replenish daily, have no magical power overflow, and thus never generate Battle Qi.
To achieve magical power overflow, one must be like the first Generation Water God: compress their magical power until it reaches the critical threshold before it can leak out. Conversely, because the body's internal magical volume is large, the overflowing magical power will be much greater than that of ordinary people.
I have finally understood this puzzle that has troubled me for so long.
Since I needed to achieve magical power compression first, I started preparing various foods. Every day, besides physical training and the basic swordsmanship of the Water God Style, I focused on eating and sleeping as much as possible.
In the early stages, the uncompressed magical power, after the first few compressions, would cause a significant void in magical power, keeping the total amount of magic inside my body in a state of constant inability to be refilled.
There was no shortcut for this; the recovery of magical power was simply sleeping and eating. Of course, wealthy people could use magic crystals to recover magical power. But given my total magical capacity, magic crystals were like a drop in the ocean, a mere gesture. It was faster to just sleep and recover.
After half a year of continuous compression and magical power recovery, I felt that my body was finally exhibiting that sensation of magical power overflowing. This feeling was very peculiar, like I had extended numerous tentacles, which began to extend outward from my body.
If Ghislaine were to look at me with her magical eyes right now, she would probably be so frightened that her fur would stand on end, she would immediately draw her sword, and charge at me.
After the magical power compression was complete, what remained was the learning of the Water God Style Profound Arts.
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