Startled by the sudden noise beside him, Lis jerked, and his hair stood on end.
The magic model he was constructing in his hands almost failed to maintain its structure, and Lis hurriedly reorganized his control over the magic elements to stabilize the nearly out-of-control magic model and then slowly dissipated it.
Luckily, Lis now possessed elemental control that was quite outstanding, already on par with a typical Gold-level Mage. Otherwise, he would have certainly witnessed an explosion on the spot given such a fright.
"Not bad, your elemental control is quite outstanding already,"
the same voice sounded again from beside him, causing Lis to take a deep breath before turning to look.
A young man dressed in a black mage robe stood behind him, smiling kindly at him.
Although this young man was just standing there ordinarily, in Lis's eyes, he seemed like the center of the entire world.