It came from simply releasing all of the stored time magic she had accumulated.
For the past two centuries, Audrey had continuously devoted a tremendous portion of her time magic toward preserving her youth.
Maintaining her appearance had never been a spell cast once and forgotten.
It was a constant expenditure.
Every year she continued living beyond the lifespan her body should naturally have reached demanded more mana than the year before to keep every part of herself fixed at that same point in time.
The burden accumulated.
And for two hundred years, an enormous portion of Audrey's mana and magical power had remained bound solely to preventing herself from aging.
But now, she had released all of it.
Her hair had been the first thing to change, rapidly losing its color until it became a pale white.
It was simply the first visible sign that the spell preserving her youth had been abandoned.
