‘Why do all the mages around here have to be women. I don’t think I’ve met a single male mage yet… Oh wait, I have. I just killed them because they were attacking the town.’ Silas thought, completely forgetting that Eclipse could also be a mage.
‘Ooo! Maybe I should protest or make videos online about this.’ Silas chuckled, making the girl next to him look at him weirdly.
“Do what?” Silas finally asked.
“You turned the mist into a huge water sphere. I’m in the solid topaz core, and even I can’t do that. Plus that ice too… You sure are talented. I’ve never seen anyone with the capability of creating ice before.” She said. Clearly, she thought that she was a higher core than him, and if he were, to be frank, she wasn’t wrong. She had a higher mana purity than him, an even higher mana pool than he did despite him having 4x the amount of mana.
It was just that his mana efficiency was so much better than hers. Though, he wasn’t too sure how strong his affinity was. Sure, his affinity would have probably been ranked S toward all the elements, but his affinity to mana itself was still unknown.
‘It seems like she didn’t see me doing it without saying in incantation… Maybe I should keep that a secret? I wouldn’t want anyone to connect me to my previous life. How many kids are there out there capable of doing what I am capable of?’ Silas thought to himself before shrugging at the woman.
“I work on my mana control a lot.” He replied.
“Really? But you’re so young. You look like you’ve only been awakened for a couple of years.” She pointed out.
“The trick is to work on your manual casting. Every time you cast it manually, think about how everything works. That’s how you get closer to your element.” He paused and thought for a moment before continuing.
“My master taught me everything he knew before I came here. He was truly amazing. I once saw him cast all several tier-3 spells without saying a single word.” Silas lied through his teeth with awe and revere in his voice.
“Instant casting! For tier-3 spells? That’s impossible. He’d have to be one of the best mages in the kingdom if that was the case.” The girl exclaimed with disbelief.
‘I made a good choice not telling her about instant casting.’ Silas thought while looking at her reaction.
It was definitely something amazing that most people in his village were incapable of appreciating. None of them were mages except the priest, a few healers, Diveen, Rhea, and his grandmother. Those who hadn’t been around mages much wouldn’t know the value of instant casting.
“He was the best. Hell, I hope to surpass him one day. Right now, I can use only instant cast tier-1 spells, but hopefully, I can reach tier-2 in the next few years.” Silas grinned while the girl looked at him with suspicion.
‘This should be fine, right? Tier-1 spells are extremely simple. They have only four commands, so I don’t think it’ll matter if she knows about this.’ Silas concluded before pointing his hand forward.
The rest of the team had been eavesdropping on their conversation.
They all knew many mages since 1/20 of Darkless was filled with them, which could have been considered unparalleled in other kingdoms and cities since only 1/100 people became mages, and out of those, only 1/40 became competent enough to reach past the garnet core.
As they looked from the corner of their eyes, they saw Silas instantly create a tier-1 magic circle before his the palm of his hand. Within that instant, a water ball formed before it before, compressing and shooting toward one of the trees.
Of course, Silas didn’t put much mana into it since he didn’t want to make too much noise, but it did send a point across to the rest of the team.
He was the best mage amongst them, and he didn’t even need staff to allow him to reach that spot.
“Then, how are you so strong?” One of them asked with a questioning tone.
“Light affinity?” Silas smiled while the rest of them widened their eyes.
Sure, he didn’t want to be known to people outside of Darkless, but it wouldn’t be so bad if people inside knew about it.
After all, he was going to be Judgement soon, and he wanted his infamy to reach a few corners of Darkless before he reached that stage.
“3 affinities!?” One of them shouted, making Silas and Jessica glare at him for being too loud.
“Sorry.” The man looked down in shame. Fortunately for them, it didn’t seem like there were any beasts nearby to hear his scream.
They continued walking for a few more hours. In the meantime, Silas simply cultivated.
He could feel himself nearing his next breakthrough. All he needed were a few more pushes, and he could probably reach the solid topaz core within a month or two.
“So I didn’t imagine it. My cultivation speed has definitely increased.” Silas muttered to himself, his voice being too low for anyone next to him to hear what he was saying.
Looking at the water mage next to him, Silas extended his hand and asked.
“What’s your name?”
Sure, they had been together for a few days now, but throughout that time he didn’t bother remembering any of their names, and they all knew that. He was calling everyone by their digits. Everyone but Jessica who he seemed to be the only one he remember the name of.
“Azure.” She smiled before pushing her brown her behind her ear. “Nice to officially meet you again, Game.” She giggled.
After a few more minutes of conversing, Silas looked to his right and saw Jessica’s wound. At first, he wouldn’t heal it because they didn’t know about his light affinity, and she was a little bit of a dick to him.
However, looking at it through his mystic eyes, he saw something new, something he hadn’t seen before.
He always knew that he would have some diagnostic skills to use when treating someone’s wounds because his mystic eyes were made out of life equation energy.
He had used it when his mother gave birth to Lex; however, now, there was something different about the wound he was looking at.
‘Is that… An infection?’ Silas thought before grabbing her arm and pulling her closer.
“Hey! What the fuck do you think-”
“Shut up.” Silas spoke in a commanding tone while releasing some of his killing intent.
The wound was showing up purple to his mystic eyes.
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