Troublesome

A few moments later, after taking another good look at the Academy mages, Beatrice, who did not have any plans to get involved with them, retreated back into her home.

...

In just a few moments, Beatrice passed through the defenses on the first floor and arrived at one of her two labs, which was located on the Second Floor, before suddenly snapping her fingers.

Merely a few moments after that, a young boy suddenly floated in front of Beatrice, causing a faint smile to appear on her face.

As she looked at the sixth child with space affinity that she had discovered, who was currently floating in front of her, unconscious, Beatrice couldn't help but fall into thought.

With how rare space mages were, although Beatrice did not have any need for one, the Official Mage was still very much tempted, as such, she silently hid one of the Six potential mages that she had discovered, and only gave 5 to Selena.

Right now though, Beatrice had to deal with the aftermath of her actions, and think about what she wanted to do with the little guy.

Right now Beatrice unfortunately did not have any mediation technique suited for Space Mages, making it very unlikely that the little guy would be able to become a Mage Apprentice in a short amount of time.

"It's not worth it for me to go to the Magic Continent and try to obtain a suitable meditation technique, so this little guy is probably more suitable to becoming an experimental subject..." mumbled Beatrice, feeling a tinge of pain in her heart at the thought of wasting such a precious talent.

But even so, Beatrice even if she completely wasted the potential of this little guy, Beatrice was completely unwilling to hand him over to Selena.

A moment later, Beatrice decided on what to do, causing the little boy to suddenly float over to an operation table, followed by Beatrice, who now had a pitch black scalpel in one of her hands.

The moment the black scalpel appeared in Beatrice's hand, the little boy, who had been completely still up until now, suddenly began moving in his sleep, causing Beatrice to let out a faint sigh

'His spiritual power also seems a bit high, but it's a pity he's a space mage...' thought Beatrice as she approached the boy, who was still unconscious but was currently moving, trying to escape the restraints that had just appeared around his body.

"Don't worry little guy, big sister will take care of you, just sleep peacefully," said Beatrice, lightly whispering into the ear of the little boy.

Although the little boy's spiritual power was quite high, in front of Beatrice, who was an Official Mage, the little boy couldn't resist in the slightest.

A moment later, Beatrice's scalpel started cutting through the flesh of the little boy, but even so, the latter did not move in the slightest, having been pacified by Beatrice.

...

As she looked at her mistress, who was currently sowing the flesh of a young boy back together, Antonia, who had just entered the laboratory a few moments ago couldn't help but fall silent.

It only took around 5 minutes for Beatrice to finish dealing with the little boy and fully heal him back to normal.

In the end, the only traces and evidence that Beatrice had done something to the little boy were a few small scars that were left after Beatrice healed him, but even those would disappear with time, leaving truly no trace that Beatrice was involved with him.

After making sure that the little boy was completely fine, Beatrice suddenly stretched out her finger and tapped him in the forehead, causing a frown to appear on his small face.

A few moments after that, the eyes of the little boy opened, causing a confused look to appear on his face as he stared at Beatrice.

"Elder Sister, what did you do to me?" asked the little boy, causing Beatrice to faintly smile before snapping her fingers and beginning to alter the memories of the little boy.

...

A while later,

"So, what do you have to report?" asked Beatrice as she turned her attention away from the little boy, who was currently unconscious, and onto Antonia, who was standing in front of her.

"It seems as though those 'Academy Mages' have arrived at the Island, Colony Number 4 has discovered traces of them," said Antonia, causing Beatrice to lightly shake her head.

"Don't worry, I've already discovered that, order the other colonies to be a bit more Low-Key in the following months, them being discovered by them could prove quite disastr-," said Beatrice as she suddenly froze in place.

A moment later, Beatrice suddenly disappeared.

...

As he walked through the forest, a rather suspicious look couldn't help but appear on Dfeeb's face.

"Ants shouldn't stray very far away from the colony, so it should be nearby..." mumbled Dfeeb as he turned his attention to the rather large ant in his hand, which he had discovered had actually been spying on him.

A moment later, Dfeeb suddenly froze, as he suddenly felt a hand land on top of his head.

Before the mage apprentice could do anything, another hand suddenly touched his own hand, and took the dead ant from it.

A moment later, Dfeeb lost consciousness.

...

As she looked at the unconscious mage apprentice in front of her, as well as at the dead little ant in her hand, Beatrice couldn't help but let out a faint sigh.

Although Beatrice could alter the memories of the apprentice in front of her without any difficulty, there was a large chance that such obvious memory manipulation would be discovered by other academy mages, making the situation a somewhat complicated.

A moment later, after some thought, Beatrice suddenly took out a little object out of her robes and spoke into it.

"Elder Sister Selena, I need to claim the reward from my mission," said Beatrice as she sent a bit of her mana into the object.