Semilis hung in midair, her mouth hanging wide open.
She cast it... She actually cast it?! Three attributes! You were a tri-attribute mage this entire time?! Just how did you train this past month?!
Before Semilis could even snap out of her shock, Shulim continued her performance.
“Next up is the fourth one!”
Wait! Wait! A fourth one? Could it be...
“【ᚷᚲᚠᛏᛗᛜᚻᚠᛏᛖᛡᛣᛏᚠᚳᛜᚻᛄᚾ】”
“Breeze!”
A gust of wind blew past, ruffling Semilis's hair.
Semilis was completely dumbfounded.
A f-four-attribute mage...
The second four-attribute mage in the world today?
“Whew!”
Shulim let out a long breath. Just as a tiny shred of hope rose in Semilis's heart, thinking the girl had finally reached her limit, Shulim's next words struck her like a bolt from the blue.
“And here is the fifth spell!”
It turned out that Shulim's sigh was simply because casting so many spells in rapid succession had made her slightly uncomfortable, and she was merely taking a brief moment to adjust.
But Semilis had no time to ponder that reason; her brain had already short-circuited.
A f-five-attribute mage?
Staring at the light glowing on Shulim's fingertip, Semilis felt as if she must still be dreaming.
“Next is the sixth spell!”
Every single word of this sentence struck Semilis's heart like a heavy hammer.
No, no way... How is that even possible?
Yet when a veil of shadow truly draped over Shulim's body, Semilis froze completely, turned to stone.
“Semilis, Semilis? Are you okay?”
Shulim's voice successfully snapped Semilis out of her daze. She shook her head vigorously.
“Ah, ah, I'm fine, I'm fine...”
“I see. Then I'll keep going. This is the last spell.”
“Sure, sure, go ahead, go ahead... Huh? Go ahead?”
Semilis's mind was still in a jumble, and by the time she registered what Shulim's words actually meant, it was already too late to stop her.
And so, under her horrified gaze, Shulim cast her seventh spell.
“【ᚳᛃᛄᛖᛚᛜᛈᚠᛞᛃᛡᚪᛚᛏᛗᚠᚺᛜᛖᛗהᚠᚷ】”
First-Tier Non-Elemental magic: Cleanse.
On the final day of the one-month limit, while Shulim was agonizing over how to learn Non-Elemental magic, she had suddenly realized that Non-Elemental spells almost exclusively targeted oneself. Could it be that to master this magic, she had to start with her own body?
Thus, Shulim carefully observed herself. Sure enough, she discovered the seventh element residing within her body. Highlighted by the contrast of the other six elements, the non-elemental element was incredibly prominent, making it almost impossible to miss.
When she tried to guide the non-elemental element, she found it to be far simpler than any of the others. Because this element had coexisted with her from the very beginning, it felt like a part of her own body, and there was absolutely no barrier to communication.
Shulim mastered the First-Tier Non-Elemental spell with absolute ease—so easily, in fact, that the immense effort she had poured into the other elements seemed like a joke in comparison.
As the glowing light of the Non-Elemental spell, Cleanse, radiated from Shulim's body and swept away the dust on her clothes, it also swept away the very last shred of Semilis's sanity...
“...Has this world gone completely mad?”
“?”
Seeing Semilis standing there with completely lifeless eyes, a question mark popped up over Shulim's head.
“Semilis, Semilis, what's wrong? I won, you know!”
“Ah, ah, ah...”
Inarticulate groans escaped Semilis's lips as she clutched her head tightly with both hands, before letting out a massive scream.
“This is totally wrong!!!”
...
...
Flutter! Flutter! Flutter...
Semilis's wings fluttered rapidly, a clear sign of the intense shock shaking her to her core.
She pressed her face right up to Shulim's and kept yelling at the top of her lungs.
“This makes no sense! It's too weird! How could someone like you even exist?! It's completely irrational! Is this world really coming to an end?! Mother Goddess, what should I do—?!”
Shulim covered her ears tightly and shouted with a look of pure disgust:
“Semilis, you're being too loud!”
Only after a long while did Semilis finally manage to calm down, though she still stared at Shulim as if she were looking at a monster.
Shulim couldn't help but feel a surge of annoyance.
“Even if you play dumb, you can't back out on your promise! I won our bet!”
“Oh, right! That was a thing, wasn't it!”
Semilis slapped her palm with her fist, as if she had only just remembered.
“But that's just a minor detail. Compared to that, your situation is a much bigger deal! Shulim, how on earth did you do it? Why can you cast all seven elemental attributes of magic?”
“Weren't you the one who made the bet with me? Why are you the one acting all confused now? Don't tell me... you really were planning to go back on your word from the very start??”
Shulim glared at Semilis with suspicion. She quietly edged closer, preparing to grab her at any second to prevent her from running away.
“...”
Semilis caught Shulim's subtle movements, and a stream of black lines practically formed on her forehead.
“Ahem! I am the great Fairy Queen! How could I possibly back out on a bet? More importantly, Shulim, do you truly understand what it means to be able to use seven elemental attributes?”
“What meaning? Is it really that strange?”
Shulim looked completely clueless.
“I'm telling you...”
Semilis couldn't help but pinch the bridge of her nose.
“The person with the most elemental aptitudes in the world today only has four! Seven attributes... forget the present day, there has never been a single record of such a thing in the entire history of Shimulir!”
“Eh? But Semilis, aren't you...”
“I'm different! I'm a fairy, a natural magical lifeform. And even fairies have elemental attributes. When I was first born, I couldn't use every attribute of magic either. It was only after going through various events that, by a stroke of luck, I gained the ability to use all elements. Even so, I am the only such case in the entire world, which is why the Mother Goddess entrusted the duty of the Blessing to me...”
Hearing Semilis's explanation, Shulim gradually realized that she had deeply misunderstood something.
When she first read books on magic, they stated that learning a magic attribute required having the corresponding aptitude.
But the books never explicitly stated that it was impossible to learn a magic attribute without its aptitude. Combined with the fact that Shulim had barely interacted with any mages, and the only one she knew well was Semilis—the sole exception in the entire world.
It was precisely because Semilis had left such a profound impression on her that when Shulim read those texts, she had subconsciously assumed that one could still use magic even without an aptitude for it. She thought that while the books emphasized aptitude, it simply meant having it made the learning process much easier.
Now, the misunderstanding was cleared up.
Shulim was also dumbfounded.
“Eh... Then what about me?”
“I want to know too!”
Semilis shot back.
“Whatever, if I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have tried to slack off!”
Semilis muttered to herself as she stared intently at Shulim.
“?”
Just as another question mark popped up over Shulim's head,
She saw Semilis's eyes light up, with a tiny magic circle manifesting in front of each one.
“Your eyes! They're glowing!”
Shulim cried out in surprise, her heart shaking. It turned out you could even cast magic from your eyes!
At the same time, a completely different view unfolded in Semilis's eyes.
A series of words appeared above Shulim's head.
【Shulim Hayeral
Race: Human (Female)
Age: Seven years old
Life: E-Class
Mana: D-Class
Magic Aptitude: Fire Affinity C-Class, Water Affinity C-Class, Earth Affinity C-Class, Wind Affinity C-Class, Light Affinity C-Class, Dark Affinity C-Class, Non-Elemental Affinity C-Class
...
】
“...”
Upon seeing Shulim's stats, Semilis fell into silence once again.
This child... not only did she truly possess aptitudes for every single attribute, but her affinity rating for each one was also exactly the same?!
Just what is going on here?!
Rate on N.U.
