It is difficult to discern the specific age of an Elf from their appearance alone.
For example.
The two guys in my own Familia look young, but they are actually old geezers in their seventies or eighties.
As for Her Highness Riveria...
Ahem.
So, seeing the Elf women sitting obediently at the long tables in front of her, looking like well-behaved students one by one, made Heith feel a bit ridiculous.
There might even be some old folks hundreds of years old in there!
There was no noise, no clamor.
The room was quite quiet. All the Elves were fully focused, looking at Lefiya with serious expressions.
As an Elf maiden who was only in her teens—no, by Elven standards, she was likely still considered a child who hadn't grown up yet.
But even so, everyone was extremely attentive at this moment.
The reason was simple.
Not only because Lefiya was invited by Riveria, but also because Elves respected the Royalty very, very much. This was almost a part of their racial tradition, and the reason why, despite there being no powerful adventurers in the Alf Royal Forest, even Gods did not dare to ignore the rules and intrude.
Once the Royalty is offended, the Elves of the entire world will become their enemy; this is no joke.
And more importantly.
Lefiya was now a First-Class Adventurer.
Level 5. In the current City, she was already a powerful adventurer capable of holding her own. In terms of strength, all the Elves present were far less capable than Lefiya. This fact was enough to persuade them, as adventurers, to earnestly be "good students."
"Ahem..."
Coughing lightly, the Elf maiden was obviously still a bit unaccustomed to this.
Yesterday, when Riveria came to explain this matter to her, she was still a bit baffled, thinking, Come to be a teacher for the Loki Familia's Mage unit?
?
Me?
After confirming that Her Royal Highness was not joking, although Lefiya was somewhat reserved, she accepted the request.
Not only because she had frequently run over to learn the techniques of [Concurrent Chanting] and [Great Tree Heart] before, so this could be considered a form of repayment.
Also, Lefiya wanted to learn Riveria's Magic.
The other party was willing to teach her.
However, only the third stage of Attack Magic, which was also Her Royal Highness's strongest "Ultimate Skill"—[Verse · Windheim]—was off-limits.
That was the emerald-colored giant light wave that had instantly annihilated a "BOSS" that was at least Level 7 in front of Isagi and Ryuu.
It wasn't that Riveria wanted to keep it to herself, but that she couldn't teach it.
Lefiya's Magic stats were insufficient.
Moreover, the "Magic" consumption required by the spell itself was something even Riveria herself couldn't sustain. That was why, after unleashing it, the staff in her hand, embedded with nine top-tier Magic Stones, would shatter.
The reason was simple: the amount of Magic Power drawn at once was too massive, causing even the Magic Stones themselves to be unable to withstand it, eventually leading to destruction.
When listening to Riveria's explanation before, Lefiya was a bit frightened.
One had to know that a single one of those Magic Stones cost at least tens of millions to over a hundred million Valis, and there was a demand but no supply—it wasn't something you could buy just because you wanted to.
How was this any "Strongest Magic"? It was completely "Pay-to-Win Magic"!
(That was how Isagi described it at the time!)
Can't afford it, can't afford it. Excuse me.
The economic situation of the Astrea Familia was indeed okay right now, but it couldn't support playing like that.
In reality.
As Elven Royalty, Riveria actually couldn't quite handle that kind of expense either, so the last time she used that Magic was already during the [Great Feud] several years ago.
And there was no necessity.
If one simply needed the "Strongest Single-Target Attack Magic," the upgraded Lefiya could already achieve it.
This made it necessary to mention the new Skill she had obtained.
"I believe that the essence of magic is the soul."
The Elf maiden, only in her teens, stood on the stage speaking with fervor and assurance. After adapting to her initial awkwardness, she appeared quite confident at this moment.
This was originally Lefiya's strong point.
Being a social butterfly was just like this.
Moreover, the Elf maiden's own powerful and incredibly precise ability to use mental force to control Magic had long since made all the Elves present, including Riveria, feel admiration.
[Forcibly using mental force to change the nature of Magic, turning it into a "brand new" Magic.]
Lefiya could do such a thing with ease.
She thought it was no big deal.
It wasn't until she saw her compatriots before her trying to control their own Magic by imitating her, only to realize that it wasn't like that at all.
The sounds of magical explosions rose one after another. Although they only mobilized the minimum amount of Magic, the resulting booms had already made the Elves, who were originally dressed very appropriately, become quite disheveled.
At this moment.
Golden lightning snakes wrapped around Lefiya's arms.
That was [Dio Thyrsos], originally learned from Filvis, and also the Magic she first received from a compatriot.
She hadn't expected that the other party would be a "Creature."
Lefiya lowered her eyes slightly. After the Artificial Labyrinth incident ended, her whereabouts were unknown. It was unknown whether she had been swept up and fallen into the Deep Floors. The situation at the time was too chaotic, making it impossible for anyone to know.
Shaking her head, the maiden snapped back to reality and continued to focus on explaining the control of "mental force."
Now.
The electric current in her hands tangled, quickly moving from her arm to the magic wand in her hand. It was simply like the "Enchantment" Magic of Ais and Ryuu.
In fact, the essence of this Magic was very simple.
It was to launch a very rapid electric current from the tip of the weapon or magic wand to attack the monster.
Because it was a Super-Short Chant Magic and was very fast, the former Filvis used this Magic for surprise attacks and secondary strikes while engaging in close combat.
This point was somewhat similar to Ryuu-senpai's [Luminous Wind]; those deep green light orbs surrounding her body also achieved a similar effect.
And now, the lightning snakes slowly gathered at the tip of Lefiya's magic wand.
The originally scattered electric currents reconverged into a small lightning ball—originally, this weak-powered Super-Short Chant Magic would have ended here.
In any case.
There was a limit to the Magic Power that a short chant could inject. Under such circumstances, no matter how the form of the Magic changed, what it could do was limited.
However, the lightning ball at this moment instantly expanded!
"!!!"
All the Elves present opened their eyes wide in disbelief as they watched the scene before them.
Including Riveria.
Experts watch the doorway. In the eyes of the Mages, it was fundamentally impossible to strengthen the power of Magic that had already finished chanting, unless—
[Skill].
A brand-new ability Lefiya obtained after upgrading to Level 5.
It was also the concrete manifestation of her sentence just now.
[The essence of magic is the soul.] Or rather, the [Falna] bestowed by the Gods would excavate certain things deep within the soul, thereby creating countless "possibilities."
Because the soul is unique.
Everyone is one of a kind, and thus the [Magic] and [Skills] they can obtain are strange and varied.
Their experiences, pasts, thoughts, and reflections would all become a part of it.
Lefiya used to be a very simple girl, simple to the point that, apart from the "Summoning Magic · [Elf Ring]" which could be called a BUG, she basically had no Skills worth praising.
The Skill [Fairy Canon] obtained when upgrading to Level 3 had the effect of strengthening the effect of Magic.
The Skill [Double Canon] obtained when upgrading to Level 4 allowed maintaining the Magic Circle of the previous Magic, and on that basis, chanting the Magic again, doubling its Magical power once more.
A standard, textbook turret.
Simple and crude to a certain extreme, appearing to fit the maiden's somewhat single-threaded, stubborn, and one-track-minded personality.
But this time.
After upgrading to Level 5, having used mental force to manipulate Magic for a long time, constantly refining her "operations," and thereby deriving countless imagined possibilities, it finally bore fruit here. It allowed Lefiya to obtain a Skill that could be said to be very technical, but could also be said to be as "simple and crude" as always.
[Curtain Rises].
* Trigger at will.
* Maintains the Magic Circle of the previous Magic.
* Can continuously inject "Non-Attribute" Magic Power into the previous Magic.
Wrapped under the golden electric current was the constantly expanding azure Magic Power transforming into a giant sphere. Its surging, violent posture even made the surrounding air become distorted for a time.
"..."
Heith silently glanced in the direction of the door, wondering if she should run away.
Riveria was also ready to activate Defensive Magic at any time to prevent the lightning ball in Lefiya's hand from exploding due to loss of control.
But very quickly.
The azure Magic Power in the maiden's hand disappeared.
It was swift, seemingly absorbed into another world in the blink of an eye, turning into tiny speckles of magical light and fading away, catching people somewhat off guard.
This was the final ability of Lefiya's new Skill—
* Can cancel the activation of Magic at any time.
[Impossible!]
The Elf Mages present once again revealed expressions of utter incomprehension, even feeling it was incredible to the extreme.
Wait, what the hell are we supposed to learn from this?!
Wrong!
Theoretically speaking, it really could be learned. Although Lefiya relied entirely on her own Skill to obtain such an ability, this Skill was also something she "learned."
The Guild, certain countries on the continent, and many Gods and adventurers were all thinking about and researching this issue.
That is:
Can [Skills] and [Magic], especially [Skills] learned after experiencing certain events post-natally, be "copied" and "inherited"?
Just like Development Abilities, they were all obtained because adventurers "did similar things," so they gained roughly the same abilities.
Of course, Skills were a bit more complex.
Because when facing the same matter, different people's thoughts and choices are completely different. But there must be guys with similar personalities and thinking, right?
Most simply, if the Elf Mages present all started to control their Magic meticulously like Lefiya, would it be possible to learn a similar Skill in the future?
This is very possible.
For example, why is the probability of Elves obtaining Magic and becoming Mages after becoming adventurers much higher than other races?
Is it really purely because of the so-called "Magic Race" talent?
In reality, the biggest reason is likely because most Elves have learned Magic handed down from ancient times before becoming adventurers.
Therefore.
Although the Skills and Magic obtained are different, generally speaking, most will become turret-type "Mages."
So, by continuing to learn and deepen the manipulation of Magic Power, even if they cannot obtain a Skill completely identical to Lefiya's, they will likely obtain a roughly similar ability.
This was Riveria's true thought.
Including for herself.
Originally, when the Elf Princess looked at this compatriot, she still viewed her with the eyes of an "elder" and appreciated her very much.
Of course, Riveria also knew that Lefiya's ability to grow to this point was inextricably linked to Isagi. One could even say it was because of the boy that she became like this—
Not just that special Dungeon, but the most important thing was actually Isagi himself.
At this moment.
What Riveria didn't know was.
The moment Lefiya leveled up yesterday and obtained the new Skill, Isagi gave her a very, very simple and crude suggestion...
After class.
Lefiya and Heith arrived outside the City, in the grassland beside that abandoned fortress located at a considerable distance. There were still some potholes here, all traces left by the boys and girls "practicing" here previously.
According to what was agreed upon before.
Heith and Lefiya conducted "Combat Practice" for a while.
The woman, serving as a Healer, held her magic wand and chased the Elf maiden around for a long time. It had to be said that with the increase in Level, Lefiya's close-combat techniques had also strengthened a lot.
At least, she was no longer at the level where she would roll around on the grass wrestling with that idiot Cecil.
Now she could at least exchange a few moves with Heith—
Although she was a Healer, the pink-haired older sister was still very strong. Ordinary Level 3 adventurers couldn't possibly be her opponent in close combat; one had to be at least Level 4 or above to possibly exchange moves with her.
After making a ruckus for a period, it was about time.
Before going back.
Lefiya decided to follow Isagi's suggestion and use her new Skill to cast that "Magic" which was simple and crude to the extreme, just once.
Her new Skill, [Curtain Rises], could directly inject Non-Attribute magical energy into the previously used Magic.
So Isagi thought, If you inject all the Magic Power in your body at once, wouldn't you get a "Strongest Ultimate Move"?
The logic was sound.
Spewing out all the Magic Power in the body, even if just condensed into a ball and thrown at the enemy, the resulting explosive power would be unimaginable.
Heith saw it.
As the Elf maiden stood in place, the azure light ball in her hand gathered, getting bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger.
It even blotted out the sky and sun for a time, making Heith, watching from afar, feel a sense of her own insignificance.
What is that?!
For some reason, the woman always felt that following Isagi and the others, her worldview would be refreshed every day.
And regarding this.
Lefiya, following Isagi's wording, named this most simple and crude Magic—
[Explosion Magic].
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