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.
...
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.
...
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.
...
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.
...
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.
Looking at the mission that was being described in the document, Beatrice couldn't help but fall into thought.
'Destroy the Fairnon family, Greding city, Maeniel Kingdom, two hundred elemental stones,'
At first, Beatrice wasn't very interested in this mission but upon noticing the number of elemental stones being given as a reward, her eyes couldn't help but flash with some greed.
Suddenly, she picked up the document before flipping to the second page and taking a closer look at the information given about this so-called 'Fairnon family', as well as the ones who had given the mission in the first place.
And as she continued reading, Beatrice couldn't help but smile.
Right now, the Fairnon family is the most powerful family in Greding city, but this was not originally the case, as before them, the strongest family was the Solovan family.
The reason for the Solovan Family's strength was a single person, a mage, Andrick Solovan, but half a year ago, this mage had gone missing, with no trace of him being found.
As such, without his protection, the other families, which were previously suppressed by the Solovan family quickly began eating up their strength and influence, with the Fairnon family taking the lead.
But seemingly unbeknownst to the other families, a single member of the Solovan family survived, and somehow managed to place a mission with the remaining elemental stones from his family.
'I should go fast, otherwise I might miss out on this mission,' thought Beatrice before hurriedly going to her room and beginning to prepare.
"We are going on a trip to the Maeniel Kingdom, prepare everything necessary," said Beatrice as she picked up some things from under her bed.
"Understood mistress," said William, nodding before hurrying on his way, beginning to prepare.
Unlike most of her other missions, this time, Beatrice was in quite as hurry, as merely an hour after learning of the mission, she was already out of the Shadow Monastery.
'With such an attractive and easy mission, there are probably a lot of mages that want to take it,' thought Beatrice as she suddenly turned to William before taking a majority of the bags from him and putting them on her back.
"Let's hurry, we need to be there as fast as possible," said Beatrice as she suddenly sped up her speed.
Thankfully, because Beatrice took some weight of William, he could barely keep up with her speed.
...
Eleven hours later,
Looking at the relatively large city in front of her, Beatrice couldn't help but smile, before turning to William.
"Go find an Inn to rest while I'm gone," said Beatrice as she suddenly threw her bags to William, before disappearing a moment later.
Now without his mistress, William then entered the city through the front gate, before beginning to search for an Inn.
...
Looking at the Royal Knight that was standing guard at the door of a room, Laith Keys couldn't help but turn to one his companions, Saena Windheart.
"I understand," said Saena as she suddenly stared at the knight before mumbling something inaudible.
Suddenly, and without any sound, the Royal Knight that was guarding the door suddenly began melting, becoming a weird liquid only a few moments later.
"This spell really is a convenient way to deal with non-mages," mumbled Radyn Dragonbane, because of the fact that he had not yet learned the Dark Corruption spell, it would have taken him much more effect and mana to kill a Royal Knight.
"Let's go," said Laith Keys, seeing that the knight was taken care of, before jumping from the ceiling merely a moment later, being followed by his two companions.
Laith Keys then approached the door, noticing a large metal lock being placed on it, causing a smile to appear on his face.
Suddenly, Laith stretched out his hand towards the lock, touching it with his fingers.
Dark Mana then emerged out of Laith's fingers before flowing into the lock, and merely a moment later, a quiet 'click' was then heard from the lock, as it was easily opened.
Laith then opened the door to the room without a sound, before staring at the couple sleeping in the bed.
Merely a moment later, the couple then died, as Laith used a crystal to capture the scene of their deaths.
"Let's go," said Laith Keys as the three of them walked out of the room, when suddenly, Saena Windheart launched a dark bolt toward a corner of the corridor.
As soon, as that happened, both Dark Bolts then appeared in front of Laith Keys and Radyn Dragonbane, but unlike Saena, they did not launch them, not seeing any enemy in sight.
Suddenly, a female figure with a hood over her head jumped out of the shadows, dodging the Dark Bolt that was thrown her way.
The moment Laith Keys saw the face of the figure, a frown appeared on her face.
"Beatrice Agnes, how about the four of us go on our separate ways and pretend we didn't meet each other," said Laith as he stared at Beatrice with a wary expression on his face.
Unbeknownst to Beatrice, she had already accrued quite a reputation among the new students of the Shadow Monastery.
Seeing the cautiousness and even some fear in the eyes of the three, Beatrice suddenly threw out everything she had just wanted to do.
"How will you guys the two hundred elemental stones in three, I think that fifty per person is much more reasonable, isn't it?" asked Beatrice as a Dark Bolt suddenly appeared in front of her.
But compared to the Dark Bolt's of the three, the one Beatrice created looked quite different, and just as Laith Keys was about to answer, Beatrice's dark bolt moved, but not towards the three, rather to the left, as a sonic boom erupted inside of the room.
"Yes, that's a much better way, sister Beatrice, we wouldn't want a conflict to arise between the three of us because of elemental stones," said Saena Windheart as she looked at Beatrice, who right now was searching through the robe of a dead Mage Apprentice, whose head was pierced by her Dark Bolt.
Hearing that, a smile appeared on Beatrice's face.
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