Magic meditation is a very important practice for mages.
In battles between mages, whether magic battles or physical combat, magic power is needed.
During close combat, externally released magic power can form a layer of magic shield to defend against enemy attacks.
It can be understood as similar to releasing internal energy to protect the body, using powerful energy to protect oneself.
This is the simplest usage, which can be used without learning any complex defensive magic.
It's just a bit less efficient and wastes magic power, suitable for mages with abundant magic power and great strength.
For example, Marco, Laxus, Erza, and Natsu - they are all geniuses with very abundant magic power since childhood.
The reason Laxus is so powerful is not because of that "Dragon Slayer Lacrima".
That lacrima only gave him the opportunity to display his talent.
His magic power itself is terrifying, even to the point that his body can't bear it.
Natsu seems about the same.
"Dragon Slayer Magic" is clearly not the key to why he is stronger than his peers.
There's also Erza, who can be more powerful than those using strong magic just by using a basic 'Requip Magic'.
This is talent, this is stats.
There are no ordinary or weak magics, only ordinary or weak mages.
No matter how powerful a magic is, without talent and sufficient stats, one can't even use it.
The world of magic is just that cruel.
Of course, although the amount of magic power is largely determined by talent, training afterwards can also increase the amount of magic power.
This is a gradual process that requires extremely strong concentration and definitely cannot show results in a short time.
Using magic meditation, on one hand squeezes the body's potential to expand the pool, on the other hand draws magic from the outside world to fill "magic source", also to expand the pool.
"Hum!"
As the magic power circulated continuously, Marco carefully felt the magic source in his body that was like a galactic vortex.
Tiny blue magic particles flowed into it, slowly expanding it.
This solid feeling of getting stronger bit by bit was most reassuring.
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In the study room, Levy watched Natsu writing furiously while secretly glancing at Marco sitting quietly cross-legged to the side.
Levy's magic talent wasn't considered too outstanding, at least compared to the top kids in the guild like Marco and the others.
But even so, she could clearly feel the magic fluctuations from Marco's direction.
In Levy's perception, Marco's body was like a vortex with huge suction, greedily absorbing the surrounding magic power.
The magic in the air that couldn't be seen with the naked eye seemed to materialize, being swallowed into Marco's body.
'Marco is so amazing!'
Levy couldn't help but envy this.
Although she was considered talented compared to most mages and most people her age, her talent really wasn't that impressive in the Fairy Tail guild, because everyone was so outstanding.
Fortunately, Levy was diligent enough and had Solid Script Magic that suited her, allowing her to establish a foothold in the Fairy Tail guild.
Levy believed that diligence could make up for lack of talent and that different professions had their own specialties.
Her research on magic theory was very good and at a young age, she already had extensive theoretical knowledge.
'If I start meditating now, I probably wouldn't be able to absorb even a bit of external magic power...'
Looking at Marco, Levy thought silently.
Among the younger generation in the Fairy Tail guild, Marco was undoubtedly the best, the true king of the children.
These orphans in the guild all grew up following Marco.
Earlier, Laxus also used to play with everyone, but as he entered puberty and became more concerned about outsider opinions, he gradually grew distant from everyone, slowly changing from a gentle big brother to a cold, cool guy.
When Laxus was still the gentle big brother, the other children were either very young or hadn't come to the guild yet.
So for most children, Marco was the true gentle big brother, the one who radiated light.
"I'm done writing!"
Just as Levy was constantly stealing glances at Marco, Natsu suddenly shouted loudly, startling Levy.
"Huh? Where's Marco?"
Looking up and seeing Levy, Natsu was stunned for a moment.
He had been so focused just now that he didn't notice the person supervising him had changed.
Or rather, this was the normal state for this single-threaded organism.
"Marco is meditating. I'll check it."
Levy breathed a sigh of relief.
Natsu clearly hadn't noticed that she had been distracted the whole time.
So she took Natsu's workbook with a serious face.
"Ummm~~~"
Looking at the scribbles in the book, Levy was immediately covered in black lines.
For a literary girl like her to look at this kind of writing was really mental torture.
"I'll do it, Levy. Thank you for your trouble."
As Levy was frowning and checking, Marco's voice sounded behind her.
He reached out his hand, gesturing for Levy to give him Natsu's workbook.
"Ah? Marco, you finished meditating?"
Levy made an "ah" sound and quickly handed over the workbook.
The girl was flustered inside.
Marco shouldn't have noticed that she had been secretly looking at him earlier, right?
Although it wasn't really anything, she would still feel a bit embarrassed if he knew.
"Yeah, I was disturbed by this little guy."
Marco smiled and rubbed Levy's hair.
He noticed that this girl seemed to have quite a lot of hair.
"I didn't mean to..."
Natsu first mumbled softly, then started urging him.
He wanted Marco to check his work quickly and let him leave the study room soon.
In this room full of nerd atmosphere, he felt very uncomfortable.
He wanted to go outside and sweat right away!
"Can you read these characters?"
After taking Natsu's workbook, Marco glanced at it, then directly threw it back to Natsu.
He couldn't understand a single word anyway.
"Of course I can!"
Natsu picked up the workbook and started reading word by word, looking quite convincing.
This made Marco and Levy show suspicious expressions.
This guy could really understand it?
"Alright then."
After Natsu finished reading, Marco made a "tsk" sound and finally announced that Natsu had passed the check.
But he still didn't let Natsu off, grabbing him back as he was about to run out.
"As agreed, it's meditation time next."
Grabbing Natsu by the back of his collar, Marco directly and forcefully pressed him down to sit on the floor.
This little guy was too lively, like he had endless energy.
He was really hard to handle.
"Meditation..."
"But I don't need to! Marco, I just need to eat fire directly to get stronger!"
Pressed down to sit, Natsu's butt seemed to have grown nails, constantly moving around.
He didn't want to do boring meditation.
Compared to meditation, he preferred physical training.