The muscular boy of the group suddenly said, "Bruce just let her go. I'll explain once she's out."
"Ash, you heard this bitch, right? How can you expect me to let her go now?" his eyes contained madness.
"You think I need your permission to go? Don't kid yourself none of you could hit me once for the last fifteen minutes and I didn't even go offensive."
"That just means you're good at dodging," Bruce retorted
"Bruce!" Ash shouted "Ok fine you can go" Bruce relented.
"If you understand, then it's good just don't mess with me or my friends." Saying so she left the training room.
She could not kill them right there, she would easily be found out. Ciobara decided to punish the first of the four boys tonight.
'Guess I should go to the training room to continue training them'
Meanwhile, inside the training room, Bruce asked "Why did you ask to let her go?" with his veins visible it seemed he was enraged.
"Did you forget what she said? she dodged us for a total of 15 minutes. Do you know how long are fifteen minutes during an actual battle? She could kill us all during those fifteen minutes."
"She would've run out of stamina eventually. We could have killed her then" fatty said still not convinced
"Don't kid with me, she dodged [Floral Bind] of Clyde. Do you think just being evasive is enough to dodge that?" Ash almost shouted "It isn't"
"She only showed us a fireball do you remember her other affinities? Space and Darkness if she used any of those, we'd be dead already"
"What do you suggest we do?" Bruce asked with annoyance although he wanted to rebuke Ash, he knew the guy had a valid point.
"Third years, I mean seniors use your influence and get a senior to kill her."
"Not a bad idea," Bruce grinned.
~Back to Ciobara~
Entering the room, she saw Asa already inside playing with her pixie "Don't" she shouted when her pixie flew a distance from her and then dived straight to her ear tickling her.
"Hehe… Prisa! Stop already."
"Where is Yaseang?" the question got Asa's attention and the pixie hid inside her clothes.
"Teachers wouldn't leave him so soon, he's still there trying to get rid of them" She answered expressionlessly, she continued as stars appeared in her eyes "Prisa! Come out, let me introduce my bestie"
"Come don't be shy meet my bestie, Ciobara," Asa urged her small companion as it peered through the garment.
After her continuous poaching, Pixie came out and perched on Asa's shoulder, waving her hand at Ciobara.
"Good day, Prisa." "I'm Ciobara, let's be friends," Ciobara said.
"This is my pet Carl," she said, raising her hand. "Isn't he adorable?" She showed Asa her new companion while petting it.
"He's so cute!" Asa ran and patted its head.
"I know right, I'm going to raise it to be super strong."
"Can't he just stay small and cute?" Asa looked sad at the mention of its future growth
"Don't be childish everyone grows up so will Carl" Ciobara firmly shook her head, "Anyway, let's start training but first we need to draw a circle on the floor."
"What's the circle for aren't we going to do the usual mana absorbing?"
"It will help you advance into a tier 2 magic apprentice," Ciobara chuckled at her friend's question.
Like this, she took out the materials she bought last week and started to draw this circle was one of the ritual circles that can help you improve your rank.
These ritual circles aren't required, but if used they can push your rank forward faster. The one she was drawing wasn't one of the forbidden rituals.
This helps you naturally increase rank by gathering mana faster and helping you circulate in a better way.
There are training rooms with such circles in the academy even the one they rented had one but she cleaned that one yesterday before leaving to draw the one from her memories.
The circle she drew was one of the rituals she had optimized in her last life. [R18]
"I'm done. You can start with your mana absorption sit in the center and breathe calmly."
"Take a deep breath in until you are about to run out, then breathe it out the same way once you've calmed down start your meditation."
Asa started meditation at her instructions, while Ciobara observed her friend she frowned thinking
'Whenever it is meditation or training, she never made a mistake she does it so effectively that it makes me believe she is a genius, but when it comes to casting spells.
She would either fail or casts a spell so ineffective that anyone would think she should rather drop magic altogether.'
'But that amount of mana she has it would be a total waste if she dropped it. Her problem doesn't even seem like disease, poison, curse, or even related to magic'
'What is the issue? I need to help her fix this otherwise she'd be left too far behind.'
"Hope I am not too late," Yaseang said with a smirk as he entered the room taking her out of her thoughts.
"You aren't, let's wait for Asa to rank up then you can start meditating," Ciobara answered with a frown.
"wait she is going to rank up that's awesome."
"Anyway, check this, my manticore, I call him spike" he summoned his pet to show off.
It was an adolescent manticore similar size to a normal lion. It had the head of a vaguely humanoid beast, the body of a lion, and the wings of a dragon.
The creature's back was set with curved barbs, and at the end of its long tail had a menacing spiked ball made from its own carapace.
"Looks cool right? This is my manticore. I wish for it to grow as big as a dragon" Yaseang proudly declared.
"It does look good, but it's not even as half cute as mine," Ciobara raised carl a little in her hands
"A tiny turtle? I thought you would get a dragon or a fairy." Yaseang said with disappointment "What did Asa get?"
"A pixie."
"Oh, that's good. But why did you get a baby turtle?" Yaseang still couldn't wrap his head around it. As someone claiming to be able to make a non-existent profession a reality it was such an underwhelming companion.
"I don't care what I get and It's so cute, why would I want a dragon or a fairy when I got a future god of turtles."
"What do you mean future god of turtles? No turtle ever became a god they are bottom-level pets the worst you could get." Yaseang looked concerned as he said this
"Don't worry about me even if It cannot grow it can stay small and cute. I don't need a pet to reach the apex I can do so without any familiars"
"Also, it's my pet even if I had gotten a non-magical familiar it would still turn godly don't underestimate me."
A shockwave suddenly got released interrupting Yaseang from arguing back as they both looked toward Asa who now opened her eyes.
"Yes I succeeded, I am now a tier 2 Apprentice Mage" She shouted with excitement.
"Congratulation! I will treat you to a meal in the café later."
"Let me be the one who buys you the lunch, Congratulations," Yaseang said feeling good as he saw the first result
"When are you going to help me with magic?" feeling impatient he inquired.
"five more days and I will have everything we need other than a 3rd-grade beast core I am still unable to find it."
"Let me get the core. I'll give it to you in five days, let's do this."
After this, all of them started meditating and training with the routine Ciobara had prepared for them.