Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 799: Law Resonance

ʼHm?ʼ

Max knitted his brows when he saw her expression.

ʼDoes she really not want to reveal our relationship?ʼ He thought,

As if realizing her reaction was a bit too much, she glanced at Max with an apologetic look on her face, ”I—Iʼm sorry, my Lord. I just feel too ashamed because you were supposed to be my… you know, but here I am…”

She bit her lip, and her eyes turned moist before she lowered her head and muttered, ”Iʼm sorry…”

Right then, she felt two strong arms wrap around her and pull her over.

”You donʼt need to apologize, and there is no need to announce our relationship to anyone until you are ready.” Max said, gently stroking her back and hair.

He then glanced at Mina, but before he could say anything, Mina said, ”Donʼt worry. I wonʼt say anything about it to anyone.”

Max nodded gratefully.

Esme calmed down after a while, but her face was red from embarrassment.

She was a high and mighty emperor mage and was supposed to be able to keep her composure even in the direst situation; however…

ʼWhy am I acting like a girl in front of him? Stupid!ʼ She scolded herself.

Max waited for her to regain her composure before he asked, ”Whatʼs the Earth Resonance? I saw you were quite shocked.”

Mina also looked at her, wanting to hear about her ability. She only knew it granted her a very high control over mana, earth element mana to be exact, and could help her cast earth element spells faster and make them stronger than they were supposed to be.

”Do you know about the five stages of law comprehension?” Esme asked,

”Not really.” Max shook his head.

Though he had heard Arivand, the demon emperor who Alton had killed on their way to the battlefield from the capital city, shout out right before his death that Alton had reached the third stage of law comprehension, he didnʼt know anything else.

Esme wasnʼt too surprised and calmly started explaining.

”As I said, there are five stages of law comprehension; however, I would only tell you about the first three.”

”The first three stages of a law comprehension are,

Whisperer of the Law,

Bender of the Law,

And,

Master of the Law.”

”At the first stage, you, the practitioner, start to become aware of your respective law. You can feel its presence all around you and control it, though to a limited extent, to suit your needs.

For example, right now if you want to cast a fire elemental spell, you need to pay attention to your mana; otherwise, it could harm your mana veins.

If you have comprehended the first stage of fire law, however, you wouldnʼt need to pay much attention to it, which would allow you to focus on other things, thereby increasing your battle power. This is just one example, as it can be used in several other ways.

Overall, the first stage increases your battle power by one-tenth.

At the second stage, your connection to your law deepens a lot more, allowing you more control over it. With that much control, you can do as its name—Bender of the Law—suggests; you can bend the law.

For example, you are fighting another fire elemental mage. Unless his law comprehension is deeper than yours, his fire element wouldnʼt be able to harm you even if you allow him to attack however he wants. Of course, you are not to take this literally because several other factors are at play in a battle, not just law comprehension.

This stage of comprehension increases your overall battle power by around three parts.

Now, at the third stage—Master of the Law—your understanding of your respective law has reached a very high level, and so has your control. It obeys you and seems to actively support you.

This stage of comprehension doubles your battle power.

Moreover, because you have become master of your element, you can easily suppress others with lower comprehension; you can even suppress people who have comprehended other elements, though the suppression isnʼt as strong on them.”

After speaking till here, she paused for a short while to let them digest the information before she continued.

”Normally, comprehending a law is very difficult. Even more than half of the kings arenʼt able to reach the first stage, and some even fail to reach superior mastery over mana, which is the prerequisite to the comprehension of a law.”

Saying this, she looked at Mina and said with a solemn expression on her face, ”However, there are some outliers—like her—who can easily comprehend the first stage, the second stage, and with some luck, sometimes even the third stage. For them, itʼs almost as easy as it is for a genius to progress through the mortal realms.”

Intense envy burned in her eyes as she said this, which sent chills down Minaʼs spine. She was almost about to apologize for being one of these outliers when Esme exhaled deeply, her shoulder slacking and a bitter smile appearing on her face.

”You see, on this unending quest to reach higher heights in cultivation, everyone—be it an ordinary person, a genius, someone with no background, or someone with an impressive background—reaches a stage, hits a roadblock, at some point where no matter what they do, they are never able to progress further.

One of the toughest roadblocks on this journey is the Law Comprehension. It stops nine thousand, nine hundred, and ninety-nine out of ten thousand kings and emperors from progressing further.

However, these outliers, their journey is so smooth that itʼs almost unfair.”

Max took in a cold breath when he heard this.

From her words, he understood that even a talentless person could increase his realm as long as he had enough resources at his disposal, but even a genius would stumble at the king and emperor realm, and if he could not comprehend the Law enough, he would be stuck in the same realm, forced to see himself watch grow old and die.

ʼI should give law comprehension more importance.ʼ He thought, deciding to train and push his mana mastery to superior mastery as soon as possible.

He then thought for a moment and asked, ”What makes people like them the outlier?”

Esme took a deep breath and said in a solemn voice,

”Law Resonance.”