Transmigrated as the Novel's Final Boss-Chapter 83:Groupings [3]

"This is where you’ve been!?"

"..."

Confusedly looking to my right and left for the source of the noise, I genuinely thought I was hearing things until it sounded again.

"I’m DOWN HERE!"

Immediately flicking my head downward, I saw a familiar figure sitting atop the tallest trees in the jungle, less than two feet away from the glass floor of the plains environment.

Without even giving me a chance to respond, she suddenly continued, yelling through the glass.

"Don’t tell me you found something...?"

Regaining my composure, I took a deep breath and shook my head.

"Can I just relax without trying on this assignment for a second?"

Swinging back and forth on the top of the tree, barely maintaining her balance, Mira yelled one last time.

"WAIT THERE."

Then, she slid down the tree trunk, which was clean and groomed, like a firefighter sliding down the pole in their station.

Sighing, I shook my head and stood back up, immediately sending my time particles to my left eye.

Immediately, the vibrant green grass and light-yellow shine of the sun disappeared, enveloped by a dull greyness.

Everything was so plain.

Countless scattered grey and red orbs appeared around the room, sticking to walls and various hills, but I paid them no attention.

Some steps away, I could see Zeke and Evangel speaking, both wearing confused faces while staring at each other.

Walking to an edge of the room so that the walls stood behind me and to my side, I leaned backward and steeled my mind.

IPD

Intent, Pattern, and Detachment.

This acronym would only be introduced near the end of the book when enlightenment and awakened people were desperately needed to defend against the demon king.

Instead of allowing students to understand each step behind elemental sight themselves, like Professor Snape right now, the teachers would spoon-feed students the answer.

While this did allow them to immediately increase their proficiency in elemental sight, their long-term progress was halted as they did not truly understand the reasoning behind what they were doing.

It was like being given a formula to use, but not knowing how that formula was derived or created.

Sure, anyone could copy and paste numbers into a formula and solve the problem, but do they actually understand the reasoning behind the formula and its variables?

What if the problem has a variation where you have to slightly adjust the formula instead of just copying and pasting?

Intent.

Visualizing what you’re looking for, a big cluster of mana particles in the shape of a ball, is easy.

But, you have to understand the person behind it, in other words, Professor Snape.

What type of person was Professor Snape?

What was his motive?

In crimes, this is simply understanding why the criminal committed the crime.

Did he desperately need money? Does he do it for fun? Is he targeting someone or something?

Professor Snape’s visible intent was, of course, to teach students how to use elemental sight.

However, although he might not have even known it himself, his hidden intent of wanting someone with an influential background to win had influenced this competition.

As I kept that in mind and glanced at the particles, I took a step backward, with my back to the wall, and scanned the room.

Patterns.

Instead of singling out elemental particles, look at all of them together.

Do they share anything in common?

This step is more luck-based, as there can be many different types of patterns with particles, so you just have to test and guess each one.

Not the same color...same size, or equal placement around the room.

At that moment, as I gazed at the hundreds of different colored particles around the room, an idea suddenly came to mind.

Ignoring all the common red, white, blue, and brown particles, I focused on the element particles that signified rarer elements, like yellow for electricity.

And, when I looked at all the rarer colored particles, I noticed them leading in a certain direction.

Downward, to the second floor.

The particles created a downward-facing parabola with the vertex being below the glass floor of the plains environment.

Detachment.

Ignore any feelings. When you are using elemental sight, you are a spectator.

Someone looking in from the outside.

This entire park was sitting in my palm, the size of a soda can, and I was gazing at it.

Walking downward, I immediatly heard two sets of footsteps rush behind me while another set neared me.

As I reached the halfway stair down, Mira, exhausted with her head down, ran straight past me and upward to the plains environment.

Above me, I could hear Zeke yell out, "Wait," and walk backward when Mira ran into the hills.

She was also a winner of the mana gathering competition, and therefore as trustworthy and knowledgeable as I in Zeke’s eyes.

Stepping onto the second floor, a whole new arrangement of elemental particles awaited me, with an entirely different pattern.

However, it was...familiar.

When I had rested on the hills at the start of the competition, I had been staring downward through the glass floor, subconsciously examining the rainforest room. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

After spending a minute or two trying out patterns like only rare elemental particles and certain particles around taller trees, I sighed.

Detachment.

Be a spectator.

Recalling the sight I had seen when sitting above the rainforest room and peeking down, like a spectator looking in, an image suddenly formed in my brain.

Each tree in the rainforest room represents a section in our classroom.

For example, the back three trees represented the back middle, right, and left rows.

And, in true Professor Snape style, only the particles around the front middle and right trees, where the princess and prince sat, counted.

These specific particles formed an arrow.

An arrow straight downward, to the first floor.

Not just any point on the first floor, but the covering that stood in the middle of it.

Sighing, I comforted myself by trying to imagine what would have happened if I had started on the top floor.