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"What's this?"
"A present. I made it. Ah, Ignis and Insanis helped too."
On Glacier's outstretched palm, held out towards Davian, was a round piece of ice. About the size of a large candy.
"Try eating it. I'm not sure if it'll work, but it's got a lot of mana in it."
"Mana?"
Davian picked up the ice.
A cold chill ran through his fingertips, but it wasn't unbearable.
Ting.
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[Item: Ice Heart of the Gray Witch]
—Rarity: ★★★★★
—The mana within the Ice Heart of the Gray Witch has been gathered and re-frozen using the spirit's method.
—Contains 6,000K Mana Points.
—Only half, 3,000K, can be absorbed. The rest dissipates back into nature.
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"W-What is this..."
"How is it? Davian. Do you feel anything?"
Davian nodded.
To be honest, he didn't really feel anything, but he could see something clearly in front of him.
The numbers written in the notification window.
'Only half can be absorbed... but that's 3 million points?'
When the unit changed to K in the first grade, the thousands unit was omitted.
3,000K is 3 million points.
The mana Davian had gathered in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd playthroughs combined was 300,000, and the mana he had absorbed through the Archmage's heart was 2 million.
"Ice Heart of the Gray Witch? Did you go to the Northern Ice Lands?"
Glacier tilted her head.
"How did you know it was made from the Gray Witch's heart?"
'Oops.'
Glacier hadn't mentioned the origin of this piece of ice yet.
'No need to panic.'
Davian had experienced situations like this hundreds of times.
"Ah, I could feel the energy I felt from the Gray Witch."
Davian had become so natural at smoothing over these kinds of situations that it was like breathing.
"Really? Amazing, Davian. But I didn't go to the Northern Ice Lands, the Gray Witch came to me."
Davian nodded.
'Was the city's Level 2 alert because of the Gray Witch?'
As one question was resolved, another arose.
"But doesn't the Gray Witch not have a heart? That's why she can't use her full power. That's why I was able to catch her when I was a freshman, I thought."
"I guess she found it. She had her heart with her."
This time, he was a little surprised.
"The Gray Witch regained her heart?"
"I guess so."
"Then she should have been able to use all of her original power?"
"I guess? But Ignis and Insanis were taking her down pretty easily."
Davian chuckled.
'Looking at the fact that she came all the way here, she must have been trying to get revenge on me.'
Unfortunately for her, Davian's house had three beings residing in it who could be called the strongest in the world.
'If she had come straight to the academy, there might have been a big fight.'
The Gray Witch without a heart was caught by freshman Davian.
But if she had regained her ice heart, things would be different.
The Gray Witch.
Originally an excellent human wizard, she found a way to become even stronger after a long period of research.
That was to become a witch and forcefully store natural mana in an ice heart.
Eventually, the wizard chose to give up being human and was reborn as the Gray Witch.
After freezing her own heart with powerful ice magic.
She absorbed natural mana into her ice heart for hundreds of years in a reflective state.
The severe cold of the ice heart prevented the natural mana that had entered from flowing out again.
In this way, she repeated the process of absorbing and trapping mana for hundreds of years, accumulating mana that the status window called 6,000K. 6 million mana.
Strictly speaking in human terms, somewhere between surpassing 10-star and heading towards 11-star.
However, the Gray Witch could not pour all of the mana she had accumulated into magic.
Most of the mana was used to maintain the ice heart and connect the ice heart to her body.
Although she did not gain as much power as she had initially expected, she was stronger than any wizard who had ever existed, and she even gained an immortal body.
However, people who were concerned about her strength formed the so-called 'Witch Hunt', and after a fierce battle, the Gray Witch was eventually deprived of her heart.
The humans buried it deep in the central desert area to prevent the Gray Witch from finding it due to the cold emanating from the ice heart.
After that, the Gray Witch went to the Northern Ice Lands and called herself the ruler of the Northern Ice Lands.
However, despite the grand name, the Northern Ice Lands were essentially a large prison for the Gray Witch.
Gulp.
Davian put the ice chunk in his mouth and swallowed it.
He felt the cold candy going down his esophagus.
Thump.
Glacier opened her palm and placed it on Davian's chest.
Somewhere around where the candy was going down his esophagus.
"I'll melt it for you now."
Shaaa.
Glacier's energy penetrated into Davian's body through her palm.
As she slowly melted the frozen candy.
"Ugh!"
It wasn't pain, but a sensation that Davian had never felt before erupted inside his body.
Fwaaah!
A tremendous amount of mana poured out from Davian's body.
The mana that erupted was quickly absorbed into nature.
Startled, Glacier waved her hand in the air.
"Oh? Oh. The precious mana is all leaking out. This isn't good."
In the process, some of the mana was unable to escape Davian's body and was absorbed into his heart and dantian.
Glacier bent down and brought her face close to Davian's solar plexus and heart.
"Oh, it's being absorbed!"
After a while.
Ting.
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The item 'Ice Heart of the Gray Witch' has been absorbed.
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[Mana Points: 3,841K]
—Internal Force: 4,410K
—External Force: 442K
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Glacier, who had disappeared for a long time, returned.
As soon as she returned, she defeated Legion Commander Obillio, ending the Demon Wave quest.
Now, she gave him a candy containing 3,000 mana points as a gift.
"Thank you, Glacier."
"Do you think some of it was absorbed?"
"Yeah. About half?"
"Wow! Half of the mana the Gray Witch had?"
Davian nodded.
"That's still quite a bit, I guess."
It's not just "quite a bit."
After the battle with the Emperor, he realized the importance of external force, which he had relatively neglected.
Of course, the Emperor didn't train his external force separately to get that kind of body, but in any case, the Emperor's unbelievable defense was a shock to Davian.
'A body that can block an ice sword. If I distribute all these points to external force, could I have a body like that too?'
But he couldn't rashly distribute all the mana points he had just obtained to external force.
'Slowly, carefully.'
He could distribute them easily even during battle, so there was no rush.
Above all, Davian had never experienced the quest after the Demon Wave before.
Whether the Demon King would be the final boss, the Emperor would be the boss, or someone else would appear, he didn't know.
Point distribution should always be done carefully.
Insanis, who had finished the construction of the mansion's outer wall, returned home, and Ignis also returned to the Alsace Forest mansion.
"I'll go too, Davian. Call me anytime you're bored."
Glacier also left, saying that she had been away from the Spirit Realm for too long.
With the end of the Demon Wave, a peaceful daily life returned for the first time in a while.
Davian spent his time taking major classes, practicing swordsmanship with Bonita Fortis, and visiting Ignis in the Alsace Forest to practice creating dragon flames.
In this way, the second semester of his junior year passed.
Final exams no longer held any meaning for Davian.
What professor could evaluate a student who possessed both the best internal force and mana in the continent?
He participated in the exams, but Davian's grades were no longer included in the class rankings.
All the professors recognized that Davian was beyond the level of the academy.
Bonita Fortis was the top student in the swordsmanship department.
Latia Meridiem was the top student in the four-element magic specialization in the magic department, and also the top student in the entire magic department.
Liber Specula was the top student in the mental magic specialization in the magic department.
Luna Pueri was the top student in the healing magic specialization in the magic department.
There were as many as four top students in the Davian Family.
In this way, his junior year, which had the super-sized quest of the Demon Wave, ended.
He had now become a senior in his fourth year.
This was the time when they began to be treated as full-fledged seniors at Elton Academy, which was a seven-year program.
Professor Stella Cloud of the Swordsmanship Department, Professor Medium Frill of the Healing Magic major of the Magic Department, and Professor Liliana Rachel of the Mental Magic major remained in charge of the 4th grade.
The only professor associated with Davian and the Davian Family who had changed was Cirims Andrian, who was in charge of the four-element magic.
Cirims Andrian, the head of the magic department, would once again be in charge of the freshmen and gifted classes, as he had done in most years.
A professor with magnifying glasses of various sizes hanging all over his upper body stood on the podium of the 4th grade magic department common class lecture room.
"Nice to meet you. I am Omar Vichir, and I will be in charge of the 4th grade magic department common theory class."
Omar Vichir raised his index finger.
After concentrating with a disgusted look for a long time.
Pyush.
He succeeded in creating a small spark.
Not flame magic, not a flame, but a spark.
The kind of spark that is created by rubbing dry wood vigorously.
"As you can see, this is all the magic I can do."
The students tilted their heads.
"I barely managed to complete this after 20 years."
What on earth was he talking about?
A spark was the magic that a magic department professor at Elton Academy completed after 20 years.
The murmuring in the classroom grew louder and louder.
"It seems like the professor is making jokes that are going too far..."
"To make such a boring joke from the first day of class."
But Davian was a person he had seen in the previous playthrough.
A professor who was also in charge of the 4th grade magic department common theory class in the 3rd playthrough.
Omar Vichir.
A magician with mana affinity at the level of an ordinary person.
In fact, it was embarrassing to even call him a magician.
The spark creation magic demonstration he just showed on the podium was not created by Professor Omar Vichir's sense of humor.
'That's really all he had.'
Even Davian couldn't believe it in the last playthrough.
But after experiencing it for a year, he realized that that was really all he had.
Somehow, he was a person who proudly had his name on the Magic Association's list.
"I have a Magic Association membership card, but in fact, I'm not a magician. My mana affinity is terrible. It's a single digit."
Single digit.
Among the students sitting here, there were two people with mana affinity in the three digits.
Davian and Latia.
Besides them, most of them had mana affinity in the mid-to-high two digits.
But the professor himself said that he had single-digit mana affinity.
"The reason I was able to enter the Magic Association was thanks to my fierce passion. A fierce passion for magical theory. Perhaps there are not many magicians on the entire continent who know more about magical theory and history than I do."
Only then did a few students nod their heads.
Professor Omar Vichir was not a magician.
He was closer to a scholar.
"Thanks to that, I was able to get a prestigious professorship at Elton Academy, and I have been teaching the 4th grade magic department theory class in this lecture room for 10 years."
Professor Omar Vichir looked around at the students.
"In our class, we will learn not only about magic theory, but also about the various histories related to our continent. Okay, first of all. Who can briefly explain the Cathedral?"
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