Schrodinger's Step

Drakarion stood before the Anomaly of Misfortune and Fortune. Their only task was to contain the Anomaly so that it didn't harm the other students. 

Seeing that the Anomaly wasn't moving though, Drakarion and the others weren't inclined to make a move either. 

Why unnecessarily engage an Anomaly which was staying quiet?

Apparently Rodrick didn't follow the teachings as he went ahead and awakened the Hand of Destruction just as they were having a silent standoff with the Anomaly of Misfortune and Fortune.

Drakarion had his entire attention on the humanoid Anomaly before him while Paulina was on the lookout on the battlefield. 

She was making sure no one would interfere in this, unnecessarily provoking the Anomaly which was standing still all this time.

Unfortunately none of them had much information about the Anomaly other than the basics. 

It was Eryndor who had gotten the detailed information, and he only shared the essence of what was important.

Similar to how Paulina was on the lookout so that no one butted into their area, Valentina was scanning through the situation on the bottom of the pit.

She was looking for any signs of misfortune appearing on the battlefield which were out of place or stood out ominously.

It was so that they could initiate an attack and engage with the Anomaly if the misfortune appearing on the battlefield were deadly. 

If they attracted its attention, there would be less of a chance that it would deploy misfortune on other circles of conflict.

"This is bad."

Paulina whispered.

Her gaze was locked onto the Hand of Destruction which was multiplying rapidly, while its size continued diminishing. It might start attacking anytime soon.

And since the mini-anomalies attacked indiscriminately, there was a high chance that it might attack the Anomaly of Misfortune and Fortune. 

If that happened, it would be difficult to say if it would still continue standing passively like now.

Just in time, she was also able to witness Eryndor finish his talks with professor Melissa. 

He just needs to find the anomaly containment box now.

Very soon, Eryndor had the box in hand as he made a run towards them.

Midway though, her eyes shot upwards towards the fluctuation of energy.

Her senses weren't wrong.

A lot of mini-anomalies had spread out all over the pit and were glowing like fireflies.

A second later, numerous motes of light began raining down. 

The four of them were the weakest existences on the battlefield if they counted purely in terms of stages of the power system.

Valentina was at the first stage of Beast Seeker realm, which was the first level of the Beast Taming power system.

Paulina was at the first stage of Mana Novice realm, while Eryndor was at the second stage of Qi Gathering realm.

In comparison, Drakarion hadn't even set foot on the Martial Arts power system, having only sensed Internal Energy and was able to manipulate it.

Since it hadn't been long since they began treading their power systems, none of them had practiced any defensive art or spell. 

Eryndor gritted his teeth, mobilizing his Qi to cover the upper portion of his body. 

It was not that he didn't want to cover his entire body but he simply didn't have enough Qi.

Paulina employed the spell model she demonstrated to them a while ago. 

She had later told them what she had decided to name the technique.

It was 'Schrodinger's Step'.

Her spell model might not be effective against higher realms since their energies would be stronger.

It was because the basis of her spell model was the Mana she used.

If the opponent was in a higher realm, it meant they had a stronger energy which could influence the surroundings more than her own Mana of the first stage of the first realm.

It would result in her spell model being disabled no matter how high the principles of Quantum Physics she employed in it.

Nevertheless, it was still enough to defend against the mini-anomalies though, because even its main body Hand of Destruction was only at the peak of the Latent realm, the first realm of anomalies. 

It stood to reason that the destructive capability of mini-anomalies would only be worse, which Paulina could easily defend against given that her Schrodinger's Step was near uncontested in the first level.

Valentina and Drakarion both covered their upper bodies with Internal Energy, because similar to Eryndor, they didn't have enough Internal energy.

A moment later the motes of light rained down on them.

Eryndor's Qi film flickered as the specks of light touched it, but it continued holding on.

For the rest of his body though, when the particles of light touched his skin, a burning sensation shot through his mind.

It felt as if the motes of light were searing themselves on his skin, except that they weren't. It was much worse, his skin burned thoroughly, overloading the pain receptors beneath them before moving on to the muscles.

But he also immediately felt a cooling sensation as the wound began closing up at speed visible to the naked eye.

Eryndor was inwardly shocked at how fast his Passive Regeneration was working. 

A keener observation revealed to Eryndor that the dots of light in his surroundings had dimmed by a small margin.

This observation couldn't have been more shocking to Eryndor who thought he knew everything about his Passive Regeneration.

So the energy which Passive Regeneration absorbs from the environment to heal my body isn't just from the ownerless, free energy in the surroundings but also from the energy of attacks themselves.

Eryndor didn't know if his Passive Regeneration could only absorb from weaker attacks or could steal energy from stronger attacks as well. When he thought of experimenting though, his mouth twitched.

I would have to injure myself to test this out. Jeez, Passive Regeneration is literally a pain of an ability.

Nevertheless, Eryndor soon steeled his heart. He had already decided suffering was inevitable on the path to greatness. 

When he finally reached his team, his attention was caught by multiple Paulinas who didn't have a single scratch on them.

As expected, her Schrodinger's Step could easily deal with it.

When he turned to Drakarion and Valentina though, their injuries were lesser than he expected.

Just as he was forming a guess in his mind, the sound of Rodrick shouting was heard by everyone, as if to confirm his speculation.

"Arghhh! You assholes!"