Chapter 54: Successfully Casting Magic

Seeing the joy on Louise’s face, Melorin could not help but feel genuinely happy as well.

In this warm and gentle atmosphere, Servia suddenly turned her teaching staff toward Melorin, her voice rising sharply with unquestionable authority.

“Melorin.
Stand up and answer me.
What is the proof process of higher magic polarity symmetry?”

“Ah?”

Caught completely off guard, Melorin was jolted awake from her happiness.

This question struck like a bolt of lightning, utterly different from what Louise had just answered.

One was basic, the other profound—completely different levels altogether.

She snapped her head up and stared at Servia on the podium in shock, her eyes filled with disbelief.

Immediately, a sense of grievance from being treated differently welled up inside her.

Her gaze seemed to silently accuse her.

“Servia, what is going on here.
You were so gentle and gave Louise such an easy question.
Why is mine suddenly something difficult enough to stump a professor?”

Servia completely ignored Melorin’s resentful little look.

She pushed up her glasses, the sharp gaze behind the lenses like a blade, and questioned her sternly.

“Melorin, were you not paying attention in class.
Such a simple question, and you still can’t answer it.
It seems I’ve been far too lenient with you in class.”

She deliberately paused, a faint mischievous smile curling at the corner of her lips.

“I really should punish you.”

The moment Melorin heard the word “punish,” her heart tightened, and a familiar sense of fear surged up.

But in the next second, she recalled the clear knowledge she had just absorbed.

She really had understood it all.

That confidence made her straighten her back at once.

Just as she was about to defend herself and say, “I understood it, it’s just that the question is too difficult,” Servia had already cut in, the mischievous smile on her face becoming even more obvious.

“Melorin,” Servia said with a light laugh, tapping the floor with her staff.

“Come forward and demonstrate this proof process on the spot, using a simple magic array to illustrate the principle of polarity symmetry.”

“Demonstrate?”

Melorin’s heart skipped a beat.

Seeing Melorin’s confident expression, Servia quickly came up with a countermeasure, thinking to herself.

“Let’s see if I don’t deal with you properly this time.
You think you understood it.
Then use it.
Whether this body of yours can even use magic is another matter entirely.”

Hearing this, Melorin couldn’t help shrinking her neck slightly, unease rising in her heart.

“Demonstrate it myself…
But can this modified succubus body of mine really use magic.
What exactly did the Demon King do to me?”

But things had already come to this.

In front of Louise, she absolutely could not show weakness before Servia.

She took a deep breath, suppressed all her doubts, and could only steel herself and step forward.

Louise, sitting to the side, saw that Melorin was going up to demonstrate, and her small face instantly turned pale.

She thought to herself.

“Can Master really succeed.
This is advanced magic.
Even I can tell how difficult that question is.
If she fails, will Master be punished?”

Her heart twisted into a knot.

Yet seeing Melorin’s firm back as she walked forward, she didn’t dare say anything.

Melorin walked up to the podium, feeling Servia’s scrutinizing gaze and Louise’s worried stare.

She turned back toward her little maid, forced a confident smile, raised her hand, and gently patted Louise’s head.

In a soft voice, she said, “Don’t worry, Louise.
I will definitely succeed.”

Louise looked up at her master’s gentle smile, and the worry in her heart eased a little.

She nodded vigorously and returned a radiant smile, cheering her on with all her strength.

“Don’t worry, Master.
I believe in you.
You can definitely do it.”

Melorin walked to Servia’s side, and the air between them seemed to freeze.

Servia looked at her, eyes filled with playful anticipation, a smile of assured victory lifting her lips.

“Please begin your performance, Melorin.”

Seeing Servia’s smug expression, the competitive fire in Melorin’s heart was completely ignited.

She clenched her teeth and said slowly, word by word.

“Servia, I will definitely shock you.”

“Shock me?”

Servia laughed softly and lifted her chin elegantly.

“Then I’ll be looking forward to it.”

Melorin said no more.

She closed her eyes, focused all her attention, and began carefully weaving the complex magic circuits within her body according to the knowledge she had just constructed in her mind.

To her surprise, those circuits actually began to take shape.

A faint yet real stream of magic power was awakened from deep within her body, like a trickling brook, slowly flowing along the circuits.

“It really works.”

Melorin was overjoyed, almost jumping in place.

“Morgana, did you see that.
Looks like you can’t control me at all.
I’ll show you what I can really do.”

She opened her eyes and looked at Servia, confidence she hadn’t felt in a long time shining in her gaze.

She raised her hand, palm upward, as magic power gathered and spun in her hand, the light growing brighter and brighter.

Holding her breath, she began drawing the complex magic array that symbolized polarity symmetry in midair.

Seeing this, Servia could not help but be shocked.

After all, she had only just explained this knowledge moments ago.

Even she hadn’t expected Melorin to understand it so quickly and put it into practice.

Watching the glowing patterns gradually take shape in the air, Servia couldn’t help but marvel inwardly.

“My goodness…
Is this what a genius looks like?”

At that moment, something went wrong.

Melorin suddenly felt the once-clear knowledge in her mind begin to blur and distort, like a stirred-up surface of water.

At the same time, the magic power she had just awakened inside her suddenly became wild and chaotic, like an unbridled horse.

Even more terrifying was that all the magic power stopped responding to her commands.

Instead, as if answering some supreme summons, it surged madly toward a hidden mark deeply branded below her lower abdomen.

“No… this is bad.”

Sensing the strange trajectory of the magic, Melorin panicked and tried to stop it with her will.

But her consciousness seemed separated by an invisible wall, completely unable to reach the out-of-control torrent.

“If this continues, my fate will be utterly miserable.”

Melorin instantly understood.

That mark was the Demon King’s shackle.

Once forcibly activated, what awaited her would be total, inhuman pleasure and the collapse of her mind.

She could not control the surging magic within her at all.

It felt as if this body no longer belonged to her, but was being remotely manipulated by another will.

“Servia.”

Melorin suddenly lunged toward Servia beside her, using all her strength to grab her arm.

Her face was filled with pain, cold sweat pouring down, her voice trembling.

“Please, Servia, help me.
I’m in so much pain.”

Seeing Melorin instantly change from confident to utterly miserable, on the verge of collapse, Servia was stunned in place.

But she reacted quickly.

She immediately sensed that the flow of magic within Melorin was extremely abnormal.

This was not a spell failure, but a forced internal energy eruption.

“What’s going on.
Why is the magic completely out of control.”

Servia cried out in alarm as she released her own magic power, trying to enter Melorin’s body and guide the rampaging energy.

However, her magic felt as though it had struck an indestructible wall.

The magic within Melorin seemed to be governed by a higher-tier power, completely unaffected by her guidance, continuing to gather and compress toward that mark without hesitation.

Suddenly, Melorin’s consciousness was struck by an unprecedented torrent.

She wanted to scream, but no sound came out.

She wanted to resist, but couldn’t even move a finger.

The magic sealed within the mark finally reached its peak and erupted violently.

“Ah—”

She could only gasp for air, using the last of her strength to clutch at Servia’s chest, her voice shattered and despairing.

“Servia… help me.
I really don’t want to…”

Before she could finish, the stimulation that had built to its limit finally shattered the last barrier.

Servia fumbled as she caught the light, trembling body, staring at Melorin’s vacant expression and disheveled clothes, utterly at a loss.

“Melorin.
Melorin.
Wake up.”

Louise, sitting at the stone table, watched her once radiant master turn into this state in an instant.

Her mind went completely blank.

She had no idea what had happened, and could only stare dumbly, tears welling up in her eyes.