"Good morning, Hilia, may the glory of God shine upon us both."
Just stepping out of the dormitory building, a voice came from beside them. Hilia and Rose looked over and saw a young boy about the same age as Hilia.
He conjured a rose in his hand and handed it over, "This flower is for you; you are more beautiful than the rose."
"Thank you, but I'm sorry, the High Priest told me not to accept things from others casually. I can't take this flower."
"If you don't want it, then forget it; it doesn't cost much anyway." The boy casually threw the rose into the grass beside him.
Hilia frowned, walked over, picked up the rose from the grass, and handed it back to the boy, "Mier, please don't litter."
To her surprise, the boy named Mier showed a look of delight, "Oh, Hilia, you're actually going to give it to me..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Hilia had already tossed the rose into the nearby trash bin.
"No, I gave this rose to the trash can."
She turned and walked towards the school cafeteria.
"Hey, hey Hilia, don't go, I can change my name to Trash Can!"
Hilia quickened her pace, even starting to jog.
Inside her mind, Rose watched in awe, "This student's thinking is quite unique."
"He's a nutcase; he comes to disturb my studies every day, very annoying." Hilia pursed her lips, "I suspect he's a spy sent by other candidates."
"Hilia!" Another call came, but this time it was a female voice.
Hilia looked up and saw a girl panting heavily, running over, "Wait for me, Hilia."
"Anarce, good morning."
"Good morning, huff, huff, Hilia, you're really fit."
"You're just too frail, Anarce. As a mage, a good physique is necessary."
"Really? But I saw on the Star Spirit Network that everyone says mages have poor physical fitness and exercise doesn't help?"
"That's just a stereotype. Poor fitness is relative to professions like Sword Masters and Fist Masters who use magic power to train their bodies. Don't completely skip exercise."
"Oh, oh, I see," Anarce nodded in sudden understanding, not really paying attention.
"Anarce is like me, from a remote area, but her situation is much worse. I have school funding, she doesn't, relying entirely on her own earnings to learn." Hilia thought to Rose.
Rose just made a sound of agreement and didn't say anything.
Hilia didn't mind, followed Anarce into the cafeteria, they had breakfast together, and then went to class.
"Morning is the time when meditation is most effective, easiest to communicate with nature and elements to absorb magic power. Now, students, start meditating, the duration is two hours."
The first class was meditation, and the mentor directly instructed the students to close their eyes and feel nature.
Others Rose only observed briefly and didn't continue; he focused his attention on Hilia.
Because he found that Hilia had fallen asleep.
Sleeping is different from meditating. Meditation can replace part of sleep but not all of it, and in a tired state, it's hard to enter a meditative state, with a 90% probability of entering sleep, meditating in dreams.
Just as Rose was pondering whether to wake Hilia, the mentor had already arrived beside her.
Pa!
The ruler hit Hilia's hand.
"Focus your mind and clear your brain."
Hilia quickly sat up straight, trying to enter a meditative state, until the mentor turned his back to her, she then secretly yawned.
"So sleepy... I should have gone to bed early last night..."
"I'll teach you a method to meditate while sleeping," Rose said.
"Meditate while sleeping?" Hilia's drowsiness immediately diminished; she pretended to meditate while asking, "Lord God, please teach me this meditation method!"
When there's something, it's 'Lord God'; when there's nothing, it's 'Lord Evil God'.
Rose chuckled, "You need to, during meditation, think of yourself as entering a sleep state; when communicating with elements, you need to make the elements believe you are sleeping but are actually meditating, communicating with them... Simply put, you have to make the magic elements unable to tell whether you're asleep or meditating, let them think you are meditating while you sleep in a specific way, communicate with you. Remember, here is the operating method and spiritual pulse frequency..."
This sleep meditation skill belongs to a passive skill in the game; any passive skill, Rose grabbed them all.
Hilia strove to remember the trick Rose mentioned, began to calm her mind, use the meditative state to communicate with nature and elements, after which conveyed to the elements that she was in a sleep spiritual fluctuation, making the originally active elements slowly quiet, but the meditation spiritual fluctuation was telling the elements she wasn't asleep, this sleeping or not situation was like Schrödinger's cat, soon making the elements enter a state of confusion.
If the elements could speak, they would probably curse: Are you communicating with me or not?
After making the elements enter such a state, Hilia used another spiritual fluctuation Rose taught to communicate with the elements, then tried to bring this fluctuation into sleep.
And then...
She fell asleep.
Snore... Snore... Snore...
"Is she really that sleepy?" Rose shook his head.
The young people these days, daring to be sleepy after only four hours of sleep.
He didn't intend to wake Hilia, after all, staying up late last night was partly his fault.
The reason for being so sleepy was not just due to lack of sleep, but also because of excessive spiritual power consumption.
"Let me help you a bit."
Rose's consciousness projected into Hilia's spiritual space, totally capable of guiding Hilia's spiritual power to make specific pulse fluctuations.
Especially since Hilia was asleep and couldn't resist.
Directly guided her spiritual power to learn the passive meditation spiritual fluctuation, so when she woke up, she could master this passive technique faster.
In reality, the meditation class mentor came in front of Hilia again.
He held the ruler, frowning.
"What's going on? Sleeping again? Class slackness is not the behavior expected of a Holy Daughter candidate."
Sleeping once could be said to be distraction, sleeping twice was an attitude problem.
A strong approach is necessary!
The ruler lifted, ready to strike down.
But the mentor suddenly paused.
Wait a minute, this feeling seems like she's communicating with elements?
Hilia wasn't asleep?
As a meditation class mentor, Nelson was very clear whether students were sleeping or meditating.
Those who wanted to pretend to meditate by closing their eyes and sleep during meditation class, he could promptly arrive, deliver a sincere ruler.
Based on usual experience and perception, Hilia indeed seemed asleep, he ought to deliver the ruler.
However, the elements around her were very active, proving she was indeed meditating.
The active frequency was a little different from conventional meditation, but everyone's meditation habits vary, this difference was normal.
To hit? Or not to hit?
As Nelson hesitated, a voice came from the side.
"Teacher, please don't disturb Hilia; she's a bit tired, and fell asleep. If you want to punish, direct it at me."
Nelson looked up, showing a grim smile.
"Hilia is fine. But you, Mier, distracting others during meditation, follow me out."
Mier's face turned pale, didn't react before being dragged out of the meditation classroom by Nelson holding his collar.