Chapter 5: Lara's Ability

Five minutes later, Wang Bo arrived at the hall with a mana potion.

"Drink it." Wang Bo handed the mana potion to Lara.

Lara took the mana potion without hesitation and drank it all in one gulp, then asked, "What is this?"

Wang Bo said, "To release magic, you must have mana. What you just drank is a mana potion, which can generate mana in your body. Now tell me, how do you feel?"

"I... I feel very hot in my body."

"Don't worry, that's normal. It means mana is being generated in your body." Wang Bo comforted her.

Lara understood, but as mana was generated, her body temperature rose higher and higher, quickly exceeding forty-two degrees, climbing to fifty degrees, and even over sixty degrees.

But even so, aside from a dry mouth and throat, Lara didn't feel much discomfort.

Wang Bo casually summoned a ball of ice water and poured it over her head. The water, which should have been piercingly cold, instead made Lara moan with pleasure. "More, a little more," she said excitedly.

Wang Bo shook his head and summoned another ball of ice water to cool Lara down.

After a while, Lara's body temperature returned to normal. Wang Bo cast a cleaning spell, effortlessly removing all the moisture and dirt from Lara's body.

Lara touched her dry clothes. "Magic is so amazing."

Wang Bo said slowly, "Magic is far more amazing than you can imagine. Now that you have mana in your body, today we will start with the basic course: mana control. Only those who can control the mana in their body as easily as moving their fingers can learn and cast magic."

Lara nodded and said, "Chris, sorry for the trouble."

Wang Bo smiled slightly and began to instruct Lara on how to meditate and how to control the mana in her body.

On this point, Wang Bo had previously instructed Miyamizu Mitsuha, so he was quite familiar with the process.

And Lara was not a fake shrine maiden like Miyamizu Mitsuha; she often went on adventures and had encountered mystical powers more than once or twice. More importantly, to keep her mind pure, Lara had also learned meditation.

In fact, besides meditation, Lara had also dabbled in fencing, martial arts, firearms, horseback riding, archery, and diving.

She was even proficient in skills like wilderness survival, foraging for food, finding herbs, repairing machinery, and flying planes or driving cars. Otherwise, she wouldn't have survived danger time and again.

And all these abilities proved one thing.

Lara was a genius.

After all, she was only in her twenties; if she weren't a genius, she couldn't have mastered so much knowledge.

Therefore, under Wang Bo's guidance, Lara quickly learned to control the mana in her body, a progress far exceeding that of Wang Bo's other student... Miyamizu Mitsuha.

To put it bluntly, the two were not on the same level at all.

From day to night, Lara's control over mana could be said to be proficient.

Wang Bo tried to have Lara use mana to strengthen her body, a very basic knowledge and a very simple technique, not even counting as magic.

Lara lived up to expectations; after a few attempts, she mastered the technique.

After strengthening her right arm with mana, she punched toward the wall.

Thud!

Lara's fist punched straight through the wall.

"How do you feel?" Wang Bo asked.

Laura pulled her arm out and punched again, once more breaking through the wall. She said slowly, "It feels like hitting a thin plywood board. This is the effect of magic enhancement—it's amazing."

"My God."

Suddenly, an exclamation came from behind. Laura spun around and saw Bryce staring in horror at the hole in the wall. "It's only been a day since I last saw you, Laura. How did you suddenly become a super soldier?"

Laura smiled and said boastfully, "This is the mysterious power I've mastered."

"Mysterious power?" Bryce asked curiously. "What mysterious power?"

Laura glanced at Wang Bo and said, "You'll have to ask Chris about that."

"Chris?" Bryce turned his head to look at Wang Bo.

Wang Bo smiled and said, "Alright, enough of that. It's dinner time now. Let's go eat."

Seeing that Wang Bo was unwilling to talk, Bryce shifted his gaze back to Laura.

Laura shrugged and made an expression of helplessness. After all, she was already very happy that Wang Bo was willing to teach her magic. She couldn't order Wang Bo to teach magic to Bryce just because she was his employer.

That wouldn't be fair.

"Alright, alright, if you won't say, then forget it." Seeing that neither of them was willing to talk, Bryce didn't press the issue. After all, he was just a tech geek; even if he had mysterious powers, he wouldn't know how to use them.

For him, it didn't matter whether he had it or not.

"I'm a bit hungry anyway."

"Then let's eat."

Tonight's dinner wasn't prepared by Wang Bo, but by Xiao Bai, and it wasn't made using the gourmet tablecloth; it was actually cooked properly using culinary skills.

To be honest, Wang Bo was quite surprised when he learned this.

He really hadn't expected that Xiao Bai would learn to cook.

And she had learned quite well.

At the dinner table, everyone was enjoying the meal. Xiao Qing couldn't help asking, "How did your training go today?"

Laura said, "I feel like I could take on a hundred men right now."

Bryce nodded in agreement. "With the strength you just showed, taking down enemies one punch at a time is no problem."

Xiao Qing said, "So can we go on an adventure now?"

Ever since hearing Laura's adventure stories, Xiao Qing had become quite fascinated with the subject. When watching movies before, she had also seen some adventure films, like The Mummy, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

In fact, Xiao Qing had even watched Tomb Raider.

Laura didn't pour cold water on Xiao Qing's idea. Instead, she said, "My father's notes do record some very interesting places. I'll organize them tonight, and maybe we can set off soon."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Qing couldn't help saying, "We have to go to the most, most, most dangerous place."

Laura didn't argue. She looked at Xiao Qing, then at Xiao Bai, and finally shifted her gaze to Wang Bo. She said thoughtfully, "Maybe we should indeed go to a very interesting place."

Bryce quickly said, "Don't forget me. I'm willing to go to dangerous places too, but only if you protect me. I don't have the protection of mysterious powers."

Thus, after everyone agreed, the matter was settled.