Magic Trait: [None].
At first, Arcana was a bit dazed; didn’t a magic trait of [None] just mean she didn’t have one?
Without a magic trait, wouldn’t she just be a mediocre witch without any special characteristics?
However, Starshine had long expected her daughter to overthink things and immediately began explaining the knowledge regarding magic traits to Arcana.
After learning that the trait [None] didn’t signify being mediocre or useless, Arcana breathed a sigh of relief.
So that’s what [None] meant.
Versatile, omnipotent, all-encompassing—it simply meant a lack of specific bias.
So that’s the idea!
If that’s the case, it’s actually quite good!
It meant that as long as she was interested in any magic, she could learn it without any reservations—she could learn whatever she wanted.
There would be no situations where she couldn’t learn something because her magic trait conflicted with the magic she wanted to study.
To be honest, though, she felt that what she had just experienced wasn’t so much an awakening of a magic trait…
As it was a test.
By stimulating her own Witch Genes to produce a faint trace of mana, her magic trait was determined.
Perhaps the witch who originally came up with the name thought the word ‘Awakening’ sounded better, more imposing, and more impressive?
“Alright!
Now that your magic trait is determined, next, Mama will guide you to resonate and contract with your first star!”
“But before that, I need to give Rui Rui Baby a proper introduction to our Fanxing Family’s Stellar Magic and history!”
Next was Mother Starshine’s little science popularization segment.
The Fanxing Family was a First-class Witch Family within the Witch Empire.
First-class meant that the family was one of the strongest witch families in the Witch Empire.
At the same time, it also meant that the family had made enormous sacrifices and paid a great price for the empire’s prosperity.
The Fanxing Family was a family that had performed countless great deeds for the previous Witch Emperor during her territorial expansions.
And this was related to the magic that the Fanxing Family studied and passed down.
Stellar Magic.
A special magic that obtains blessings and enhancements by resonating with the stars in the universe.
During the period of outward expansion under the leadership of the previous Witch Emperor…
The Witch Empire, because of its formidable strength and terrifying capacity for war, was fearfully called a ‘natural disaster’ by many surrounding civilizations.
At that time, the Empire was the enemy of the vast majority of civilizations in the The Galaxy / Milky Way.
The late Emperor dismissed the situation with disdain, leading her armies to annex and annihilate numerous hostile civilizations.
During that time, the Fanxing Family played an extremely important role.
Guarding the home, and preventing back-door raids.
With the late Emperor campaigning abroad, if the home base were attacked, it was difficult to send reinforcements back immediately.
But it was the existence of the Fanxing Family that allowed the late Emperor to fight bravely on the front lines without any worries about the rear.
Stars that have resonated with a witch of the Fanxing Family can connect their own perception with the witch’s consciousness.
This is one of the blessings the stars give to their contractors: the ability to perceive the star’s environment and its own state.
It allows the witch to have a deeper cognition and understanding of the power given by the star, thereby mastering it more proficiently.
And it was this perception that enabled a large number of witches from the Fanxing Family to construct a massive perceptual barrier by contracting stars in the star systems surrounding the Empire’s border territories.
Any fleet or organism appearing near a contracted star could not escape the witches’ perception.
Because of this, the Witches of the Stars staying behind at the home base were subjected to assassination attempts and attacks by all forces that loathed the Empire.
Even though the family’s witches were strong enough themselves, under the endless and diverse assassination attempts from numerous civilizations…
By the time the late Emperor completed her great work of territorial expansion, the Fanxing Family had fallen from its former prosperity of several thousand members to the predicament of having fewer than a hundred members.
Furthermore, after the war ended, hostile civilizations continued to carry out high-frequency assassinations and suicide attacks against the Fanxing Family.
In the end, the entire Fanxing Family had to migrate to the Empire’s capital, the Witch Star, to live under the protection of the Imperial Family.
This is why Starshine’s mother, the current head of the Fanxing Family, has been constantly adopting children and raising them to be transformed into witches.
Mother Starshine was the first witch child in the family born through natural pregnancy.
She was also the 39th daughter of the family head.
After the family history lesson came the lesson on Stellar Magic.
In reality, there are only three spells in total in Stellar Magic.
The first spell involves recording and engraving one’s own spirit and soul as magic, and then transforming it into a special ‘wave’ that is broadcast outward.
This ‘wave’ cannot be captured or identified by any existing instruments or magic, but it can be identified and captured by the stars in the universe.
The second spell is the contract magic used to bond with the stars.
After broadcasting the ‘wave’ engraved with one’s spirit and soul characteristics through the first spell, if a star likes you, it will resonate with you as a response.
The response will contain specific ‘information’ about the resonating star; by targeting this information and using the contract magic, one can achieve a Resonance Contract with the star.
Once the contract is complete, as a witch resonating with a star, one will receive the star’s blessing.
This blessing could be an enhancement of a specific aspect, multiple aspects, or a comprehensive physical enhancement.
It could be an enhancement of mana, mental power, or soul.
It could also be a special passive that boosts elusive attributes like luck, fortune, or destiny.
And the third spell is the one most commonly used by the Witches of the Stars.
Its name is…
“Help me…
Mr.
Star?”
Arcana’s mouth twitched slightly, her expression full of embarrassment.
Is…
is this the right name for the spell?
“Yes, how is it?
Isn’t the name of this magic very intuitive and concise?”
Mother Starshine gave a playful wink with her right eye and said in a mysterious tone, “When you encounter an opponent or enemy you can’t beat…”
“You just need to shout at your contracted star.”
“Help me!
Mr.
Star!”
“No star can ignore a cute girl’s plea for help, you know!
♪”
“Especially for Little Witches like you who are newly born and have the magic trait [None]!”
Mama!
Please stop talking!
Seriously, stop talking!
At this moment, Arcana’s inner composure had completely collapsed!
Why did your description, Mama, make the stars sound like some kind of perverted older sisters who specifically target newborn Little Witches like her!
“Now then, let’s go ahead and resonate to contract your first star!”
Arcana calmed her strange inner emotions and asked what she should do.
“It’s very simple, just cooperate with Mama.”
Starshine let go of her hand, condensed mana at her fingertip, and drew the first Resonance Array of Stellar Magic in mid-air.
“Next, Mama will use mana to engrave your spirit and soul characteristics into the array and broadcast them.”
“Wait for a brief moment, and a star will respond to you.”
“Then, Mama will teach you step-by-step how to draw the Contract Array to finalize the contract!”
The outer layer of the array Starshine drew was very complex; the sheer number of patterns and lines made Arcana’s head spin.
She couldn’t help but worry if this was really a spell she could learn.
It looked so complicated—never mind drawing it, just memorizing it would be difficult, wouldn’t it?
However, the inner layer of the array was unexpectedly simple.
It was a type of flowery script unlike any language in Arcana’s Remembrance.
“Mama, what kind of writing is this?”
“It’s the Language of the Stars~”
Starshine tilted her head.
“You’ll learn it once you enter university.”
“The Language of the Stars is a very important and mandatory part of Witch Astrology.
Even if you don’t choose it as an elective, it’s something all witches must learn and be tested on.”
“Just like the mathematics you studied in school before, it’s a compulsory subject!”
At that moment, Starshine suddenly remembered something and gave her daughter a mischievous grin.
“Oh right!
After entering university, mathematics is still a compulsory subject too~”
“To learn magic well, mathematics is very important.”
Arcana remained expressionless; she could only say it was as expected.
Even after transmigrating to another world, mathematics was still a compulsory university subject.