"Don't think about these things anymore, I need to train properly!"
Noelle shook her little head, composed herself, and focused her cute pink eyes on the tree trunk target ten meters away.
"Hah!" Noelle quickly condensed a Water Bullet. The launch trajectory of this Water Bullet was very straight at first, but then it veered off as if it were a guided missile, rushing toward Asta.
"Thump!" Asta expressionlessly dodged another "loving care" from Noelle. Thanks to Noelle, his training ground had been pitted and made difficult to walk on by water spheres that would fly in at unknown times.
"This little girl, besides not being able to hit the target, even mosquitoes eight hundred meters away can hardly escape!"
Asta had a dark face as he stood in a handstand, looking at a bird's nest he had originally planned to raid in a couple of days; now, it had been smashed by a Water Bullet, leaving the nest destroyed and the eggs broken. Thinking about it carefully, the old saying holds true: when there is a flower to pick, you must pick it. It seems this tsundere flower bud, Noelle, needs to be picked sooner.
"No! Still no! Why can't I control my magic at will, even though I have such powerful magic power!"
Noelle fell to her knees, unwilling to give up. This was her 251st practice session today, but the closest Water Bullet could only reach within 1 meter of the target on the tree trunk. This kind of hit rate made her equivalent to trash!
"My brothers and sisters were all able to join the Silver Eagles, but I was kicked into this worst Magic Knight Squad. Those who once ridiculed me must be laughing even more happily right now, right?"
Tears of pity welled up in Noelle's pink eyes. At this moment, she felt like she was on pins and needles, as if every time she fired a Water Bullet and missed, many people were covering their mouths and looking at her mockingly!
"I heard the little girl of the Silva family can't even control her magic power at will!" "That really is a joke for royalty!"
These acrimonious words circled around Noelle's ears like a broken record, making her extremely sensitive. But it was precisely these acrimonious words that gave her something that no other royalty possessed: perseverance!
"I refuse to be ridiculed by these people! I must let them know how capable I am!"
Noelle swept away her dejection and stood up from the muddy ground, but at this moment, she didn't even realize that her mental fluctuations were very intense. Forcing herself to cast magic now would easily lead to a situation where her magic power would go out of control!
"Twenty-nine thousand, seven hundred and eighty-five!" Asta was currently struggling to do his One-Finger Zen. His task for today was to surpass thirty thousand reps of One-Finger Zen with both his right and left thumbs!
But just as he was training meticulously, he suddenly felt a powerful surge of magic power coming his way!
"Noelle?" Asta pushed off with his single thumb, landing gracefully as if a swallow were turning. He then rose and arrived at the training ground where Noelle was. He saw that the Water Bullet Noelle was casting with both hands was uncontrollably and rapidly expanding!
"Ah?" Noelle looked at the Water Bullet she had cast in horror. Originally, each Water Bullet maintained a diameter of one meter, but now, magic power seemed to be pouring into the Water Bullet uncontrollably. Soon, the diameter of this water sphere exceeded one meter—1.5 meters, 2 meters, 3 meters!
"Gulp, gulp!" As the Water Bullet backfired on her, Noelle took a deep breath. This was the only thing she could do at this moment!
"Zzzzt!" Luck, who was leisurely reading a dirty book on the sofa, suddenly saw a bolt of lightning flash in front of his golden hair. This was a warning of the sudden appearance of powerful magic power. Yami, who was walking down the hallway planning to go back for a nap, subconsciously felt that something had appeared. He turned his face to look out the window and couldn't help but be stunned, because in the distance, a massive water sphere like a conch had appeared!
"What happened?" "What a spectacular water sphere!" "Did the newcomer's magic power go out of control?"
At this time, all the members still at the Black Bulls Headquarters instinctively left the headquarters, watching the magical water sphere in the sky that looked like a monster with various expressions.
"Such massive magic power, but if we don't do anything, the newcomer will probably drown!" Magna said worriedly.
"But if we use magic to break through the water sphere, she will basically be ruined." Yami looked at the water sphere seriously, then looked at Finral and said, "Can you use your Spatial Magic to fish her out?"
"I can't get close to magic of this level at all." Finral said with a wry smile.
"This is a headache. Asta, who can erase magic, isn't here." Yami scratched his head in distress. If absolutely necessary, he would have to choose the lesser of two evils and save Noelle's life first.
"45... 46... 47..." "You have to hang in there, Noelle. If you can overcome the magic power surge through your own perseverance, it will be infinitely beneficial to you."
Asta was currently leaning against a large tree, his fingers tapping rhythmically on the trunk; each tap represented one second passing.
The reason he wasn't in a hurry to save her was because when he arrived, he saw Noelle take a deep breath before being encased in the water sphere. The average time a normal person can hold their breath is 1 minute and 15 seconds, and based on Noelle's usual breathing rhythm, Asta deduced that Noelle could hold her breath for a maximum of 1 minute.
In other words, when the time reached the 59th second, regardless of whether Noelle could overcome the surging magic power through your own perseverance, he would take action, because this would be the final moment before Noelle faced life and death!