With the Christmas holiday approaching, the usual winter break could be spent studying in the school library, but not going home for Christmas was unthinkable.
Bella was making the most of her time, summarizing and organizing her learning achievements.
Unlike the spells she initially grasped through inspiration and contemplation, she had made substantial progress on the path of mysticism by studying a large number of ancient texts.
In one semester plus most of the vacation, she reorganized her spell system, categorizing all spells into nine levels based on their power, energy cost, and difficulty.
To protect against mind reading, mind control, and various negative emotional intrusions, she had a permanent psychic shield, a level seven spell in her classification, which she mastered after her psychic awakening.
Invisibility was classified as a level two spell, while charms and ice beams were the most basic, classified as level one spells.
During this period, she developed several new psychic spells.
These included a ‘Telepathy’ spell to transmit sound within a kilometer radius, fixed in a psychic form.
Another was ‘Empathy’, to discern others’ emotions and judge friend or foe.
She also created ‘Float’, to levitate on water, and a level one spell she named ‘Clarity’, which helped her perfectly record a piece of text or image in her mind, even if she didn’t understand it.
Currently stored in her mind was an image of a forbidden magic array used by the Wen family father and son. Without understanding its principle, replicating it exactly would be difficult, so she used psychic power to copy the image in her mind to draw it when needed.
Before leaving school, she felt her mental world, due to long-term training and external praise, had undergone a qualitative change caused by quantitative accumulation.
The scope of her mind lake expanded, and the psychic liquid seeped into deeper, broader levels of her mind. It was an incredible experience, beyond words, as a brilliant flash of insight emerged from her heart. She realized she had leveled up!
Externally, this manifested in her automatically comprehending a strong, representative psychic spell—a powerful mental attack method mastered by many psychic creatures: Mind Shock!
She had just comprehended this psychic spell, and by her calculations, it was a level three spell. Currently, it could shock a single enemy, causing mental collapse. Even strong-willed, well-trained warriors would be dazed for a long time.
The technique was simple and brutal: a psychic energy blast within the mental range to penetrate the enemy’s mind.
Future development would involve expanding from single-target to area attacks.
The drawback of this spell was that the target must be a sentient being with thoughts and a soul. Using Mind Shock on a rock would be useless.
Mind Shock was much stronger than Ice Beam. Bella estimated it could easily kill ordinary people, so it had to be used cautiously.
“Heather, is dinner ready? I’m hungry,” Bella called out as she kicked off her shoes and headed straight to the kitchen. Usually, Heather would have dinner ready by this time.
Heather’s cooking skills were excellent. After eating her meals for three months, Bella had increased the ‘partnership fee’ from $500 to $800.
Despite her negative economic growth, the ability to return to the dorm and enjoy a variety of delicious meat dishes after intense mental labor made the expenditure worthwhile!
Heather’s financial situation was poor. Whenever Bella handed over the money, Heather’s husky-like blue eyes would show joy and excitement. Often, Bella felt Heather wasn’t here to study but to cook and work part-time.
Bella’s expenses exceeded her income, with her bank balance decreasing daily. But look at Heather! She managed to earn back her high accommodation fees with her skills!
“Huh? You!” As she entered the kitchen, she saw the burly, scruffy-faced 006 sitting in a chair, looking very haggard.
Bella paused, clearly startled.
“You recognize me, right? I can tell by your expression. You control those mysterious powers, don’t you? I need your help, desperately. I need to find my daughter. Please, you must help me!”
006’s words were clever, first acknowledging the truth to break Bella’s mental defenses, then humbly pleading, trying to make her feel a sense of control and vanity.
Unfortunately, ordinary psychological tricks had no effect on her.
Bella washed her hands and picked up an apple from the table, taking a bite.
She scrutinized 006, realizing the memory block she and Shaw had created was broken. Was it by a higher-level ghost?
She sensed 006’s emotions—agitation, fear, helplessness, and anger—all negative.
This man looked upright but was actually very injured!
His right leg was a bit lame—was it bitten by a dog? His body showed abnormal trembling, his face had a bluish tint—heart attack? Myocardial ischemia? There was a large bump on the back of his head—what hit him?
“Where’s my roommate?” she asked.
“Out shopping, I think. I didn’t see her.”
Bella discerned that he was probably telling the truth.
With Christmas approaching, she didn’t want to go out rescuing people at this time.
People die every day in America, and even God can’t save them all, let alone her. She’d help those right in front of her, but traveling across the country from California to West Virginia to save someone? That’s too far.
She gently refused, “I suggest you see a doctor first. Your health is in bad shape.”
“No!” 006 refused without hesitation. “I can hold on. These injuries are nothing to me!”
His agitation made his leg give out. His heart, already weakened by the ‘healer’, failed, causing dizziness. He slumped from the chair, his calf twitching, unable to stand.
“Spit!” Bella spat out the apple skin. What’s this? Coming to her dorm to play dead? She had just stated a fact, was that enough to get him this worked up?
She hadn’t developed healing spells yet, but after studying many religious texts, she had some medical knowledge.
She couldn’t let this guy die in her dorm. Bella pressed her index and middle fingers together, gently touching his heart, calming the increasingly erratic heartbeat.
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