Although Troy thought it would be better without dark element affinity, Luoxi clearly didn't think so.

She gripped the magic stone tightly, refusing to let go. Her turquoise pupils shrank with tension, and a layer of dense sweat gradually seeped out on her pale forehead, glistening in the dim light of the wall lamp.

"Put it down," Troy said sympathetically, "if you keep trying, your hand will be cut."

This black magic stone wasn't smoothly cut; who knows where the griffin had chiseled it from. Every edge was sharp.

"Don't disturb her," Luo Wei held out her hand to stop Troy, her gaze falling on Luoxi's hand, "Didn't you hear it?"

"Hear what?" Troy was puzzled.

"The sound of the stone cracking."

Just as she finished speaking, with a "crack," the stone in Luoxi's hand shattered into several pieces.

She opened her fingers, and the broken pieces lay in her bloodied palm. The jet-black, shiny magic stone seemed to be covered with a layer of dust, losing its original luster.

"My lady, I succeeded."

The little girl's voice was hoarse and unpleasant, like a saw being dragged back and forth on glass.

"Yes, I saw it."

Luo Wei gently lifted her thin little hand, picking out the stone fragments from her palm and removing the shards embedded in her flesh: "Luoxi, you're a one-in-a-million genius."

"I did something wrong. I crushed your magic stone," Luoxi said with her sore, painful throat, tears welling up in her eyes.

"Indeed, this shouldn't have been done," Luo Wei lifted her chin, making her look at herself, "but Luoxi, your mistake doesn't lie here."

"The magic stone can be broken in any way, but when it breaks, it shouldn't pierce your palm."

"Take care of your body, that's my order to you."

Luoxi turned her numb eyes, hot tears falling from the corners.

Troy stood by, dumbfounded.

"What does this mean?"

"How did the magic stone break?"

He had never seen such a scene in his twenty-plus years of life.

How could a nine-year-old girl have such strength!

Magic stones are the hardest things in the world. As long as the magic elements inside haven't been depleted, they can't be destroyed.

He had once tried to chop a magic stone with a sword and almost had his nose sliced off by the rebounding blade. But now, a thin and weak little girl had crushed it with just a squeeze of her hand. How was this possible?

Troy stared at Luoxi with clear yet foolish forest-green eyes, horrified.

Could this child be the legendary stone spirit, a magical fairy that specializes in gnawing stones?

"Oh, Troy, you're so stupid," Roman couldn't bear to watch anymore, "Didn't you hear what Luoxi said? She succeeded!"

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"Luoxi is like me, she also has magical talent!"

Troy's pupils shook: "How, how could she have it, the magic stone didn't light up."

Roman didn't understand why it didn't light up either, but he thought with his clever little brain: "The white stone emits white light, the red stone emits red light, so the black stone must emit black light!"

"Is there such a thing as black light?" Troy was in a daze.

Roman nodded confidently: "There is, we just can't see it because it's too black!"

Luo Wei had just finished bandaging Luoxi's hand when she heard this conversation between the two. For a moment, she didn't know how to react.

One dares to say, and the other dares to believe.

As for Troy, though strong in combat, he was truly foolish.

Even believing the words of a seven-year-old child.

Fearing that Troy might really be led astray by childish words, Luo Wei quickly spoke up: "Troy, have you ever seen a dark element magic stone emit light?"

Troy shook his head: "No, only dark system mages can use dark element magic stones, but dark system mages are extremely rare. I've never encountered one."

"Then why do you think it would emit light?"

"But other magic stones all emit light..."

"Just because other magic stones emit light doesn't mean dark element magic stones will." In the knowledge system Luo Wei had learned, there was no such thing as black light in the world, because the essence of black is the absence of light.

If you mix the three primary colors of light evenly, the colors will cancel each other out, resulting in white light.

If you overlay the three primary colors evenly, you get black, but black belongs to the achromatic system.

In other words, black is a state of colorlessness and lightlessness. As long as this world still follows some physical laws, black light cannot exist.

"Black stones won't emit light unless their blackness is impure, only then can they release colored light waves." Luo Wei picked up a dusty piece of the broken magic stone, "Can you sense if there's any magic element left in this stone?"

Troy's eyes revealed a hint of helplessness: "I can't sense it. I don't have affinity with the dark element."

Luo Wei paused, then put down the fragment nonchalantly: "I can't sense it either."

She had previously wanted to figure out the composition of holy water and had gone to the library to research. Although she didn't find any information about holy water, she did come across some explanations about magic elements.

People in this world believe that magic elements are seven types of energy decomposed from the body of the Creator God after His fall. These seven types of energy constitute all natural phenomena in the world.

This is a typical naive materialist view. Although it's wrong, it does have some reference value.

From this perspective, the existence of magic becomes easy to understand.

Because humans are transformed from the Creator God's blood, and these seven types of energy are decomposed from the Creator God's body, people with strong souls can utilize these energies to obtain magic through a series of rituals.

In principle, the stronger a person's soul, the more magic elements they can have affinity with. Therefore, almost all mages can have affinity with wind, fire, water, earth, and lightning elements, though they may have different levels of affinity for different elements.

Light and dark elements are exceptions.

Light represents the righteous gods led by the sun and moon deities, while darkness represents the fallen evil gods. Only those favored by these two types of gods will have affinity with the corresponding elements.

Light and dark elements are incompatible. Those with light element affinity will absolutely not have dark element affinity, and those with dark element affinity will not have light element affinity.

When Luo Wei picked up the black magic stone earlier, she did feel the energy dissipating from it, which means she has affinity with the dark element.

Fortunately, dark element magic stones don't emit light, otherwise, wouldn't people be able to test her with certainty using this thing?

Luo Wei put away the remaining magic stones and looked at Troy: "How is Luoxi's talent?"

Troy fell silent. He didn't know whether to be shocked that Luoxi also had magical talent, or that Luoxi was actually a pure dark element affinity holder.

Or perhaps he was shocked that both children Luo Wei had picked up had magical talent, and coincidentally, one had light affinity and the other dark affinity.

This probability event, rarer than the sun colliding with the moon, had just happened right before his eyes.

"What's wrong? Do you also discriminate against dark system mages like those people?" Luo Wei's face darkened.

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