Chapter 44: Mages
As soon as the blob sensed the golden fog, it suddenly flew toward it before beginning to devour it at a rapid speed.
Because of the relatively small size of the golden fog, it was then soon devoured by the large black blob, leaving the blob looking at the black fog.
But just as the blob was about to begin traveling toward the black fog, a pair of confused black eyes suddenly emerged from it, now staring at the blob.
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Looking at the room, which did not have any resentment left in it, Beatrice felt some despair in her heart.
"Why was I so stupid when I lost control ?" asked Beatrice, as she looked at the floor.
In the period of time, she had accidentally let go, Beatrice had completely ignored all restraints, absorbing resentment without any care in the world, and right now, all of that resentment was probably about to cause her death.
Suddenly, contrary to her expectations, all of Beatrice's exhaustion disappeared, and a few moments later, black smoke began emerging out of her mouth, before dissipating into the walls of the room only a few moments later.
Seeing what had just happened, Beatrice couldn't help but fall into deep thought,
'What the hell did just happen?' thought Beatrice as more and more confusion could be seen on her face.
Contrary to all of her expectations, nothing bad seemed to have happened to her, furthermore, the light spell that she had been targeted with was also removed, causing more and more doubt to appear on her face.
'Should ask Mr. Errol to verify what had happened?' thought Beatrice for a few moments, before once again deciding not to tell anyone what had happened to her.
It was not that Beatrice did not trust her teacher, but she would rather not disclose what had happened to her to anyone else.
After thinking about what had happened for a few more moments, Beatrice let out a helpless sigh before sitting cross-legged on her bed, and began refining mana.
"Since nothing bad has happened up until now, it looks like I'm at least somewhat alright," thought Beatrice as elemental energy from around her began floating towards her, before beginning to be transformed into mana.
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Looking at his mistress, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, William's hand slightly shook, as the laughter he had heard yesterday continued echoing inside of his mind.
But after staring at Beatrice for around thirty minutes, and seeing that his mistress seemed to be the same as before, William took in a deep breath, finally relaxing as the shaking of his hand stopped.
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After this very exciting day, life seemed to return to normal for Beatrice, refining mana, practicing her spells, conducting experiments, and occasionally going to lessons, slowly but surely enriching her knowledge.
At the same time, no other signs of being afflicted by light spells appeared on Beatrice, having seemingly been annihilated by the Torment Spell.
Days, and then months continued to pass for Beatrice without anything major happening, only occasionally, she would go on missions, so as to increase the amounts of elemental stones she had in reserve.
Three months later,
Looking at the monthly one hundred spiritual stones in her hands, Beatrice couldn't help but smile.
Without any hesitation, Beatrice took out forty of them before placing them in a pouch, preparing to put them towards her savings.
As she thought about her saving Beatrice's mouth couldn't help but unconsciously curl up, over these past three months Beatrice had saved over one hundred elemental stones from her missions, never mind the one hundred and twenty she obtained from her monthly subsidy.
Because of this, Beatrice's savings reached a total of five hundred and eighty elemental stones, an extremely large amount for a Mage Apprentice.
Thinking about this, Beatrice couldn't help but look at a certain item that was being displayed on the counter.
'Elixir of Darkness, Five Hundred Elemental stones,'
Of course, Beatrice only took a single look at the Elixir before turning away her head, not even letting the thought of buying such a thing enter her mind.
As the name implied, this Elixir is extremely useful to Dark Elemental Mage apprentices, allowing them to increase their mana at an extremely fast speed, but sadly, for Beatrice, this was not attractive at all, as mana was not a true bottleneck for her.
In these past three months, Beatrice's mana continued increasing at a steady pace, surpassing forty points of mana only a week ago.
Although this speed may seem slow, if Beatrice continued this pace, or even slowed down somewhat, she would reach the limit of the human body, which was around seventy points of mana in only one or two years.
After this limit though, lay the true bottleneck which could cause even the most steadfast mages to fall into doubt and march on harshly.
To become a true Mage, an apprentice must fully transform their body from that of a mere human and into something else entirely.
Even though it seemed as though someone with a vast understanding of biology, like Beatrice, would have a large advantage in this process, this was not the case.
As consciously transforming your own body in this way was utterly impossible, as such, all of the work had to left to pure instinct and the Apprentice's understanding of their element.
Because diferent apprentices may have different understandings of their elements, their future forms may be completely different, only having one thing in common, still being made of flesh and blood.
Although True Mages were massively more powerful than apprentices and could resist spells with their bare bodies, unlike the nearly all-powerful Archmages, they were still creatures of flesh and blood and could be killed with conventional means, if those means were powerful enough.
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Feeling the Dark Mana simply refuse to enter her body any longer, Anne took in a deep breath.
"At least this happened later than I expected," mumbled Anne, knowing exactly how bad her talent was.
Suddenly, Anne took out the Elixir of Darkness she had bought some time ago, back when Beatrice had just entered the academy and drank it.
Merely a moment after that, an extremely potent torrent of Dark Mana suddenly rushed through Anne's body.
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