7: Chapter 7: Possessed by a Genius, I Gradually Understand Everything!

Su Bai carried three books thicker than bricks back to his dormitory.

The so-called dormitory.

According to the configuration standards of the Jinghai Card Creator Academy, it was actually an independent two-story building.

This was the biggest difference between the Card Creator Academy and ordinary universities—every officially registered Card Creator apprentice must have an independent living and working space.

It wasn't because the school had too much money to spend, but because the craft of card creation itself came with extremely high risks.

A single wrong stroke in a magic circuit could lead to a small-scale magical rampage, a mistake in material proportions could produce toxic gases, and an unstable spatial formation could directly blow up half the room.

Letting students create cards in a collective dormitory was no different from locking a group of lunatics holding flammable and explosive materials in the same cage.

So the school provided each student with a building; the first floor was the living area, and the second floor was the meditation room and reference room.

But what was truly important was the part underground.

An underground card creation laboratory!

Su Bai pushed open the door, walked through the entryway, and went straight to the basement.

The three magic-sealing boxes bought from the black market were carefully held in his arms, while the three master-level textbooks were tucked under his armpits.

He walked through the living room, opened the heavy alloy door at the end of the corridor, and walked down the stairs step by step.

The stairs were narrow. The walls on both sides were embedded with magic-shielding runes uniformly installed by the school, emitting a faint, eerie green light.

The purpose of the runes was to isolate the magical fluctuations inside the laboratory, preventing students from disturbing other apprentices next door during the card creation process, or worse, being disturbed by the failure fluctuations of other apprentices.

Walking to the end of the stairs, an alloy door that required magic signature verification blocked his path. Su Bai placed his palm on the sensor area, and the lock made a crisp click as it opened.

The lights in the underground laboratory turned on automatically.

This was a space of about forty square meters. In the center was a card creation table polished from a single piece of obsidian, the surface smooth as a mirror.

On the shelves along the four walls were scattered some basic materials; these were all cheap goods, like basic spiritual ink, blank parchment, and carving knives, etc., all of which were used in card creation.

However, although these things were laid out before him, the fact was that Su Bai couldn't understand them at all.

But that didn't matter, he had a cheat!

He placed the three master-level textbooks on the card creation table and set the magic-sealing boxes aside.

Then he sat down. Silence lasted for a few seconds. The system's notification sound rang deep in his brain.

[Host detected contact with high-level theoretical textbooks]

[Concept Analysis Module enabled]

[Analysis target—Non-linear Spatial Geometry and Morphological Topological Evolution]

[Estimated analysis time: 1 hour 23 minutes]

[Start?]

This is what he had been waiting for, though it seemed a bit long. Su Bai silently recited two words in his heart.

"Start."

The next second, his pupils suddenly contracted.

It wasn't that the text on the book had changed. Nor was it that some 3D projection had suddenly jumped out from between the pages. The change occurred inside his brain—or rather, at the underlying level of his cognition.

Those dense, obscure formulas and rune topology diagrams, which the original owner's knowledge base couldn't understand even a single line of, were being dismantled by some external force.

This feeling was very strange.

Su Bai had once experienced hellish cramming sessions during finals week on Earth.

Back then, he would open his advanced mathematics textbook, recognize every symbol, but when combined, they were like some ancient incantation that he couldn't absorb no matter how he read it.

His brain would automatically surrender at the fifth line of formulas, shifting his attention to the more relaxing content on his phone screen.

But now it was different.

Now when he looked at these formulas, it felt like someone had unblocked a pipe that had been clogged in his brain.

No.

Not "unblocked".

It was "poured in"!

The system didn't care at all if Su Bai could keep up; it just broke down, categorized, compressed, and packaged the entire book's content, then branded it directly into his neural network with a nearly violent efficiency.

The derivation process of every theorem, the physical meaning of every formula, the magical flow of every rune node—all were dismantled into the most basic logical units and reassembled in his long-term memory area.

One and a half hours later.

Su Bai understood the entire content of Non-linear Spatial Geometry and Morphological Topological Evolution.

He opened his eyes, his expression somewhat excited and thrilled, and also a bit subtle.

Because he suddenly realized one thing—this textbook, which was regarded as a heavenly book by all first-rank Card Creator apprentices, its core theory could actually be summarized in one sentence:

"Space is a piece of paper that can be kneaded at will."

It's just that what you need is not your hands, but sufficiently precise magical manipulation.

Of course, the most important thing was...

He felt that he was gradually understanding everything!

"Holy crap!"

Su Bai couldn't help but look at his hands in shock, "Is this what having knowledge feels like?"

It was truly amazing!

How was he a muggle before? This world actually had such wonderful knowledge!

And what's shocking is, in the system's view, this is actually basic knowledge?

I really want to know what the knowledge that follows is like...

Su Bai hadn't finished marveling for long before the system's notification sound rang again.

[《Non-linear Spatial Geometry》 analysis complete. Convert to current card project?]

"Convert."

[Conversion starting.]

What happened next made Su Bai completely confirm one thing—the way this damn system thought was not on the same dimension as normal humans.

The system began to force the high-level spatial geometry theory that had just been analyzed to adapt to the card creation logic of "Kyubey and Magical Girl".

The adaptation results are as follows:

《Non-linear Spatial Geometry》 → Space Folding and Morphological Topological Technology.

Core application—

"How to compress an adult male weighing two hundred jin, 1.8 meters tall, and covered in flab into a petite pink Magical Girl dress within 0.1 seconds, without damaging his skeletal structure, muscle tissue, and nervous system.

The implementation methods include but are not limited to: performing a 720-degree topological distortion on the user's three-dimensional spatial coordinates, compressing and folding the volume while retaining physical mass.

At the same time, using morphological topological technology to temporarily reconstruct the user's body proportions so that it meets the aesthetic standards of a Magical Girl in the transformation state—slender limbs, narrowed waistline, and softened facial contours."

Su Bai was silent for three seconds.

"...Good grief. The act of forcibly shoving a grown man into a little pink dress actually hides such hardcore spatial topology.

When I watched the anime, I just thought the visuals were fancy; it turns out the principle behind it is 720-degree spatial coordinate distortion?"

He complained, but he complained.

The movements of his hands didn't stop.

He opened the second book.

High-Dimensional Weapon Structure and Material Collapse Analysis.

[Estimated analysis time: 1 hour 12 minutes.]

[Start?]

"Start."

One hour later. Bloodshot eyes began to appear in Su Bai's eyes, but he was abnormally excited.

The core theory of 《High-Dimensional Weapon Structure》 was also fully absorbed by him, and the adaptation result given by the system was even more outrageous—

《High-Dimensional Weapon Structure》 → Absolute Armor and Cost Replacement.

Core application—

"How to let a human who has transformed into a Magical Girl maintain combat effectiveness without physical protection?

The answer is to completely strip the user's soul from the body and compress it into a 'soul gem' encrypted with multiple high-dimensional structures.

The body after stripping loses the constraints of pain nerves and can perform any degree of overloaded actions without physiological shock.

And the soul gem itself possesses a high-dimensional bulletproof mechanism—any attack lower than rank X cannot reach the soul core protected by the high-dimensional structure. (X depends on the rank of the core material)"

"Simply put, it's stuffing your soul into a stone harder than a diamond. Then your body can be used however you want—breaking hands and feet won't hurt, since the soul isn't in there anyway. As for how to completely strip out the soul and compress it back in—that is the synergistic effect of high-dimensional Space Folding and material collapse."

Su Bai touched his chest.

Through his skin and ribs, he could feel his heart beating.

"In other words, after a Magical Girl transforms, this thing stops beating?"

He imagined the scene.

A Magical Girl wearing a pink fluffy dress, swatted away by a monster, her body rolling on the ground seven or eight times, three ribs broken, her arm twisted into an angle that a normal human body could not achieve.

Then she stood up.

Expressionless.

Continued to fight.

Hiss... A natural combat weapon!

And the appearance is still very cute.

"...Magical Girl is gradually becoming a horror movie."

A somewhat abnormal arc tugged at the corner of Su Bai's mouth.

Then he opened the third book.

《Micro-Spiritual Particle Transition and Superconducting Magic Fluid Theory》.

[Estimated analysis time: 1 hour 48 minutes.]

[Start?]

"Start."

Soon.

The conversion results for the third book had just come out—

《Micro-Spiritual Particle Transition》 → Energy Conservation Reversal.

Core application—

"The source of a Magical Girl's destructive power is essentially a kind of spiritual-magical reverse conversion that violates the classical law of conservation of energy.

Specifically, it is to convert negative emotions such as 'extreme shame' and 'despair' generated by the user in the transformation state into controllable high-purity magic power through an 'emotional energy converter', thereby forming magic.

If one cannot use magic, it can be condensed into a simple magic light cannon (Generally speaking, only the lowest-level Magical Girls will only use light cannons, while compatible Magical Girls will give birth to their own magic, and the magic depends on the wish.)"

"The intensity of emotion is directly proportional to the destructive equivalent. If an adult male fights in public wearing a pink lace fluffy dress, the shame generated is approximately equivalent to burning three thousand tons of standard coal per second. Converted into a magic light cannon, it is enough to destroy a twenty-story building."

[Note: This version of the Magical Girl is a specific version; after the Magical Girl dies, she will not transform into a Witch. Correspondingly, the upper limit of this Magical Girl will be fixed within a certain rank, and will never and absolutely will not produce existences such as the 'Law of Cycles'.]

Su Bai put down the notebook, looked at the last line of notes, and couldn't help but nod.

Kyubey comes from Magical Girl Madoka Magica》, but that is a horror movie.

The Magical Girls inside, after they die, turn into an existence called a Witch; the strength of this Witch is positively correlated with the strength of the Magical Girl before she died. Simply put, the more powerful the Magical Girl was before she died, the more awesome the Witch she turns into. If this effect were brought over, the whole world might be polluted by this thing.

But precisely because of such a perverted cost, the strength of a Magical Girl is also unimaginable. The Law of Cycles, which is the conceptual existence that the protagonist Madoka eventually becomes, seems to be able to reach a cosmic or even multiverse-level deity. If this thing were to appear, the whole world would be finished.

As for other effects...

"Kyubey... was this thing designed for men from the beginning, right?"

Su Bai felt this thing getting more and more awkward.

However, he was very excited!

Three master-level theories.

Just four or five hours of work.

All absorbed.

All converted!

All adapted to the card creation logic of that pink lace fluffy dress Armament Card!

It was already early morning, but Su Bai felt his mind was clearer than ever, with the knowledge of the whole world in his grasp.

"It's time to create cards!"

Saying this, Su Bai prepared to open the three magic-sealing boxes. Regardless, he would finish the first phase of card creation first; at the very least, he had to give Lin Xiao an answer in three days.

But just at this moment...

Buzz—

His phone vibrated.

"Three-Person Card-Making Mutual Aid Group" group chat.

Lin Xiao: It's early morning, everyone, shall we exchange card creation insights? @everyone.