Strike

As she looked at Beatrice, who currently had three Dark Arrows silently floating around herself, the tiny part of Selena who was currently standing on a notebook couldn't help but smile.

'As expected, after becoming an Official Mage, her advantages only compounded with each other,' thought Selena as she looked at Beatrice whilst thinking.

Based on Selena's estimate, right now, Beatrice's spiritual power was at least around 110 and perhaps even higher, at the same time, Beatrice reached the limit of her body quite late, causing her mana capacity increase even further.

Even though Selena wasn't really sure what Beatrice's current mana capacity was, she still knew that it should be quite respectable, after all, Beatrice had a B rank Darkness Affinity.

A moment later, the Three Dark Arrows suddenly flew through the room, causing Shockwaves to spread throughout, hitting both Beatrice and Selena, who only had a tiny bit of mana.

But even, Selena stood tall in the face of the powerful shockwaves, not being moved by them in the slightest.

"Teacher, how did I do?" asked Beatrice as she instantly stopped the three Dark Arrows midair and approached the tiny Selena, who was standing currently sitting on a table.

Hearing this, Selena faintly nodded her head.

"It seems as though you had already mastered this spell back when you were just a Mage Apprentice, but even so, your progress is very good," said Selena, causing Beatrice to smile as well, knowing that her teacher would finally get to the final, and most important part.

Seeing the look on Beatrice's face, which simply screamed that she wanted something from her, Selena let out a slight chuckle.

"Don't worry, I told you I would teach you that technique after you became an Official Mage, I'm not someone who goes against my own word," said Selena as she suddenly jumped to Beatrice's left shoulder, knocking off the obedient little ant that was sitting on it.

Even though Canty desperately wanted to continue sitting on the shoulder of her Mistress, she knew what battles, she knew how to choose her battles.

Only a moment later, Canty suddenly appeared on Beatrice's right shoulder, as she then also knocked the ant sitting on it off.

Even though the smart ant really wanted to continue sitting on the shoulder of her mistress, as she gazed at Canty, who was sitting above with a cold look in her many eyes, the ant finally relented and began retreating.

After all, even though the Ant wanted to continue sitting on the shoulder of her Mistress, she knew that if she continued fighting against Canty, she would not be able to touch that shoulder for at least a week.

With her own many eyes, the ant had seen how Canty had punished smart ants that had argued with her by stopping them from sitting on the shoulders of the Mistress.

As she considered herself the smartest of all the ants, Smart Ant Number 4, who had been in a human body for around thirty minutes, then retreated from the room.

Not caring about the intrigues and battles of these little ants, Selena then began talking with Beatrice, causing the latter to suddenly pick up the notebook and walk out of the spell testing room.

...

Three weeks later,

As she stared at the humongous giant who was gazing right at her, Beatrice, who was about the size of the Giant's eye, couldn't help but grit her teeth

"You want to take advantage of me and put me to work just because I'm small, just forget it, no matter what, I won't work for free," said Beatrice as she stared the giant before her with a look of conviction in her eyes.

No matter what the profiteer in front of her said, the Beatrice would not yield to her tactics and work for her benefits.

...

As she looked at the tiny version of herself who was sitting on a table with her guard up, Beatrice felt a headache incoming.

After finally mastering the technique that her teacher had promised to teach her, the first thing that Beatrice did was create two clones of herself, one weak and one a bit more powerful.

Of course, Beatrice did not give either clone her full memories, rather, she gave them a 'censored' version, which still made logical sense but omitted many things and secrets that Beatrice would rather not be revealed to the outside world, lest this clone escape somehow.

As she did not spend much effort in the slightest on this tiny weak clone, Beatrice did not even create a body for her, nor did she let her inhabit a body, causing her to become stuck in a state similar to the clone of Selena who had just taught her.

Sadly though, unlike that clone of her teacher, who was somewhat respectfully tied to a notebook, the human form of this clone of hers was actually a cup.

This was actually the cup that Beatrice regularly used to drink tea, in fact.

After learning how to create these 'Soul Clones', Beatrice also learned how to put them into bodies and tie them into objects.

But for some reason, this little Beatrice did not seem to appreciate the fact that she had become a cup, causing her to instantly go on strike and refuse to help Beatrice with work.

As she remembered how she used a piece of her own soul as a seed, which she then spent a huge amount of effort, mana, and special potions from her teacher to nurture this little ungrateful brat, Beatrice felt a little tear falling on her cheek.

Seeing this scene, the little Beatrice immediately let out a chuckle as she stared at her creator with disdain on her face.

"I didn't expect you to be able to put up a show like this," said the little Beatrice, when suddenly, she froze as her original self's eyes immediately became cold.

"Isn't it alright for a main body to toy with her clone a bit?" asked Beatrice as she stared at her tiny self, causing the latter to suddenly nod.

"That's good," mumbled Beatrice as several tiny chains suddenly appeared around the immaterial body of Beatrice.