Mind

Silence, although Beatrice could refine mana even under the effects of sound, she still very much preferred to do so in silence.

Suddenly, though, Beatrice, who was peacefully refining mana, suddenly noticed something, causing her expression to faintly change.

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For the past few hours, Beatrice has been sitting down cross-legged, silently refining mana without changing her expression in the slightest.

Now, though, Beatrice opened her eyes, which had a new light in them, and stared looked around her room with a cautious look on her face.

After a few moments, the cautious look on Beatrice's face disappeared, as she had made sure that there was nobody inside the room with her.

"What in the world was that?" mumbled Beatrice as she touched the back of her neck, still feeling a chill traveling through her spine.

Even though Beatrice was not sure what it was, she was completely sure of one thing, there was something, or someone inside this room with her just now, she was sure of that.

A fraction of a moment later, Beatrice, who had just finished refining mana, got up from the bed and began carefully looking around her room.

In only a few moments, Beatrice was able to silently check the entire room and make sure that there was nobody inside of it.

Even so, this did not make Beatrice calm down in the slightest, in fact, it was the opposite, the more evidence Beatrice found of the fact that there was nobody inside the room with her.

But even so, Beatrice was completely sure that this was in fact, not the case, that there was someone in here, with her, furthermore, although she could not understand it, Beatrice was pretty sure that she had heard that person speak.

Although she could not understand the words that person was saying, Beatrice was completely certain that they were addressed to her.

Without any warning, Beatrice suddenly looked behind her, moving her head for only an instant.

The more she stared at the eerily silent, empty room behind her, the more Beatrice felt as though things became more and more wrong.

...

Looking at Beatrice, who was sitting on a chair with bloodshot eyes, Selena couldn't help but deeply frown as she looked at her apprentice.

"Did you hear anything else?" asked Selena as she approached Beatrice, causing the latter to shake her head.

"I didn't hear or see anything, but, I'm sure, it's still there," said Beatrice as she looked at her teacher, causing the latter to fall into thought.

Upon hearing what her apprentice had said, as well as the complete certainty in her words, Selena couldn't help but fall into thought.

"Is that so, then come with me, I want to test your mana and spiritual power," said Selena, causing Beatrice to hesitate for a few moments before sitting up from the chair.

...

As she looked at the two numbers which were being shown by the large metal machine in front of her, Selena felt her eyes pop out of her head.

Mana : 60.05423...

Spiritual Power : 70.02

The first number, which represented Beatrice's mana, did not surprise Selena, but the second number almost caused her jaw to fall down to the floor.

'Spiritual power over seventy? How is that possible?' thought Selena as she looked at Beatrice in utter shock.

Most mages knew that the limit of mana that the human body could bear, as well as the peak for the Mage Apprentice Realm ranger from 70 to 75 mana.

As spiritual power is much more difficult to train than mana, by the time most mages reach the peak in terms of mana, they should have at least 25 to 30 spiritual power.

To become an Official Mage, alongside the other strict requirements, Spiritual Power also limited many mages, as they had to have at least 35 to progress.

But after becoming an official, the Spiritual Power of that mage would rise to around 70-75, the average for newly ascended Official Mages.

'70.02, it seems as though she has just reached this level, could the reason for her problem be this fact?' thought Selena as she looked at her disciple with a frown on her face.

Although Selena had not encountered this problem before, she could believe that having spiritual power that was too high could in fact pose some problems.

If not for the fact that she still had some issues she needed to figure out with the Flying City, Selena would have loved to research what was happening to her apprentice.

"I think I have a certain idea of what is happening to you, wait here for a few moments," said Selena before suddenly walking out of the room.

As she was hurrying to not waste time, Selena quickly entered deeper and deeper into the underground Mage Tower.

After passing by a Herb Farm, Selena reached one of the deepest floor of the Tower, where her Human Farm lay.

As she did not have any need for any experimental subjects at the moment, Selena passed by the human farm and walked straight into a certain storage room, one hidden deep underground.

...

Looking at the over fifty elixir bottles floating behind her teacher, Beatrice couldn't help but feel surprised.

"Based on what I have seen, the issue you are currently facing is that your Spiritual Power is too high compared to the rest of your power, as I don't think suppressing the growth of your spiritual power is a good thing, the only thing I can do is try to help you become more powerful in a hurry," said Selena as she looked at her apprentice.

"As I knew that you would be stuck at the barrier between Mage Apprentice and Official Mage for quite a bit, I wanted you to not rush refining your mana, that's why I didn't give you any potions or elixirs to help with that, but now, that can be considered a bit of a mistake," mumbled Selena as over fifty elixirs of darkness floated over towards Beatrice.

"As long as you take at most one of these potions every day, with your spiritual power, you shouldn't experience any side effects, with them, you should be able to rush to become a peak Mage Apprentice," said Selena as a surprised Beatrice watched her.

"As for becoming an Official Mage, I can't help you with that, you are on your own in that front."