24 Am I the fool?

After Natasha returned, life returned to normal, and Matthew felt relaxed.

He sighed inwardly at Natasha's persistence.

'This silly girl is so persistent.'

'Well, half of the one year period has already elapsed, so if I wait for another half a year, I will be free.'

He then sighed sadly.

As long as he survives for another six months, he can dissolve the teacher-student relationship and flee to another country.

With all the wealth he has accumulated during this time, he would have no problem living a wealthy life.

If his old kidneys are up to it, he might even marry two or three wives.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, there were no real mages in this world.

What's more, even if they existed, given that the very wealthy Natasha could not get in touch with them, there was no hope for him.

Natasha experienced no obstructions while refining her internal organs, everything was smooth sailing.

So after more than two months of hard training, Natasha was about to complete the refining of her organs.

Her strength at this moment half increased two or three times from the time she started.

In particular, her mana had increased in both quality and quantity.

"In three to five days, I will be able to become an apprentice mage."

Natasha said with some excitement in her voice.

"According to the teacher, when the organ refining is completed, I can start to integrate the refined skin, bones, and organs, after which, I would become an apprentice mage."

Natasha's mind was immersed in enlightenment, and she observed her body carefully, contemplating how she would integrate her refined body into one.

It sounded easy, but Natasha felt that it was not simple.

"The skin, bones, and internal organs are all part of my body, so how can they be integrated into one?"

"How can they be integrated into one? This is my body, and it is already one."

Natasha was lost in thought

"No, might be thinking in the wrong direction."

"The teacher said that everything lies in 'enlightenment' and 'intention', and not in shape."

"How to fuse and integrate? By using mana?"

"I have some vague understanding, but it's not enough."

"Well, I will wait until I have refine the internal organs to perfection, and then I will understand in detail how to fuse and integrate the parts into one. "

Natasha calmed down and continued to refine the internal organs.

Three days later, Natasha had officially finished refining her body.

Unfortunately she still had no clue on how to integrate the refined parts into one.

"I feel like it is just a matter of time…"

"It seems that I can't integrate everything together because I can't completely control myself."

Natasha vaguely felt that she was about to succeed, she just lacked the final step.

"This is the only step left, don't worry, you will get there eventually."

"What I have to do now is to relax myself and relax my state after hard training."

"Only when my mind is relaxed can I easily understand the essence of it."

Natasha started relaxing herself, spending less time training, more time taking care of chickens and vegetables, and occasionally riding her horse around.

"Why isn't this silly girl practicing hard anymore? Why does it feel like she's fooling around?"

Matthew was a bit confused, as Natasha didn't practice much in the past few days.

Instead, she seemed to be playing around casually.

"She isn't suspecting that I lied to her, right?"

Matthew felt a bit panicked.

After secretly observing her for two days, he found that except for the fact that she was not practicing as hard as before, she did everything else just as before.

Most importantly, her outward attitude towards him was still very respectful.

Since she didn't seem to doubt him, Matthew breathed out a sigh of relief and decided not to urge her to practice.

"I understand!."

On this day, Natasha suddenly had a clear understanding of how to integrate everything into one.

Her mana was circulating, from the skin to the bones to the organs, and her whole body was integrated and fused.

At this moment, her mana was no longer in a free state but it seemed to be integrated into her body.

As her mana was integrated into her body, her control over it improved tremendously.

A circulation flow of mana connecting the Skin, bones, and organs, was formed, and the mana throughout her body surged and began to leak out of her body.

During this process, her strength seemed to skyrocket.

Natasha entered a mysterious state and had already forgotten everything around her.

The mist like mana leaking out of her body became more and more intense, and it continued to condense and expand outward.

It wasn't until It had expanded almost tem meters out of her body that it started to surge, transforming and solidifying.

At a certain moment. She felt the opening of the door to becoming a mage.

She didn't know how long it took her, but she finally understood how to integrate all her refined parts into one.

Whoosh!——

Within a radius of a dozen meters with Natasha as the center, the wind was stirred up, and the air seemed to become more humid.

Sporadic hints lightning could be seen flashing within the dozen meters radius.

The moment Natasha was able to connect everything, dark clouds formed in the sky, covering the morning sun.

Within a few moments, the sound of thunder resounded across the mountain village.

Matthew who was still enjoying his beauty sleep, was woken up by the sudden thundering sounds.

"Was that the sound of thunder? Is it going to rain?"

When he walked out of the house in confusion, his eyes suddenly widened, he was stunned speechless by the first sight that fell into his eyes.

His jaw dropped involuntarily and he rubbed his eyes a few times before he could only stare wide eyed in disbelief.

Natasha was sited cross legged in the place she normally practices.

At this moment, he could see her ponytail flying in the wind behind her, and within a dozen meters of her. He could see floating rocks, flames flashing on and off, sparks of lightning, and all sorts of weird phenomena.

Even from a distance, he felt very pressured by the mere presence of Natasha.

He had a subconscious feeling that he and she were not beings of the same life level.

Seeing all of these phenomena, Matthew was stunned, and he was completely speechless.

'The methods I gave you were all fake, how is it possible to succeed by following them? Are you some kind of monster?'

Although he thought so, he didn't dare to say it out loud, who knows if Natasha had gained super hearing.

Mathew couldn't help but have a flash back to how he had decided to trick Natasha in order to get the apprenticeship gift, and how he had happily set a one year deadline.

'I thought that I could easily fool Natasha into practicing some fake things that would make her unable to attain anything… but it turns out that the fool was me this whole time?'

Matthew was so shocked that his jaw almost unhinged from his mouth.

'Natasha actually succeeded in practicing my made-up exercises? What kind of monster is this?'

'Could she be some kind of protagonist of this world or something?'

At this moment the aura around Natasha seemed to intensify, and a terrifying oppression seemed to envelop the entire village.

On the other hand, Mathew was on the verge of tears.

'I'm just a liar and I made up everything from my imagination. How the hell did you manage to do it? And now that you have mastered it, what should I do?'

'Should I keep making things up?'

'But if I am exposed, won't I easily be beaten to death by you? I don't even think I could take her punch'

Mathew: 😭

'Is this girl even human?'

At this moment, a translucent blue screen popped up in front of him with an electronic sound.

…

[Ding!

Your student has successfully become an apprentice mage by following your instructions according to the method you made up!

Reward

You attain the same realm as your student, and your strength becomes a hundred times than other people in the same realm as you!] 

…

Boom!——

At this moment, a stream of mana entered Matthew's body from seemingly nowhere, and his body radiated an oppression a hundred times stronger than that of Natasha.

Before he could get used to it, the practice process and methods of skin refining, bone refining, and organ refining emerged in his mind.

The diamond bones In his body were pure and flawless, and his mana was flowing like a stormy sea, as boundless as the ocean.

"Did my system finally appear?"

Matthew was so overjoyed at this moment, that his eyes were tearful.

What surprised him even more was the sudden power flowing in his body.