"That's about it, next one is the Ascendant Soul Realm. Now don't be fooled everyone just because it is just one rank above the Normal Rank, there is a massive boost from it, maybe around 50%-70%. Now this increase, I'm talking about absolutely everything, from the capacity of your Mana to the speed of how you can produce Magic and even Mana, to just basically everything that you can think of that is Mana based, all of this is because of one simple answer. The Mana is stored in the Soul Realm, to summarize it, the stronger your Soul Realm is, the better you are at handling Magic." Mio said as she finished explaining and just as she was about to move on to the next one, she stopped as she seemed to forget something.
"Oh, yes. I forgot, if you are insanely lucky to be born with an Ascendant Soul Realm, you are blessed. Because maybe only 1 in 10 Million is born with this Soul Realm, though we actually have quite a few in our Class right now. I won't be giving their names since it is disrespectful, but it is still quite possible, that is if you are lucky." Mio said before taking a quick pause to drink some water before finally continuing.
"Now, with the Crystalized and Celestial Soul Realm. This is already considered as the true peak. The reason that I say this is because out of my knowledge, there are only 20 that have the Crystalized Soul Realm, and for the Celestial Soul Realm… I believe that there is only one who had that and you can already probably guess who that single person is. As for the 20, I'm not going to give names because like I said, it is rude and disrespectful."
"But as for the characteristics of these two… they are almost the same, yet different too. Crystalized Soul Realm makes your Soul Realm so strong that it is almost impossible for you to self-destruct. What I mean by this is that it is very hard for you to damage your own Soul Realm no matter what kind of restraints you put in it, if you push your Magic too hard, it won't be damaged. Also with Crystalized Soul Realm, this is where the Soul Realm is entirely clean and there are no more impurities meaning you are free to let out as much Magic as you want without suffering consequences." Mio said and just as she was about to continue she saw someone raising her hand. So she pointed at her to let her stand up and ask whatever she wanted to ask.
It was not unusual for her to get questions and this was actually what she would like to happen most of the time as she highly encouraged all of her students to do it, in fact, she had already said in their first meeting that whenever they don't understand something, they just raise their hand and ask whatever it is.
But of course, it is not that easy as some students don't want to do that because they are too embarrassed, she knows that feeling as if she was just the same when she was still in school. She is embarrassed. She thinks that she is too dumb to understand it and that her classmates would make fun of her because she asked a question.
"Teacher Mio, if I can ask. I'm only hearing the positive effects of having your Soul Realm more powerful, but are there any negative effects that it may bring? I was just curious because the same principle can be said when you are getting more powerful, as your Mana Consumption is getting higher while your Mana is not catching up to it that fast." He asked nervously and when everyone heard it, they almost laughed at him.
Because in a sense he was right but the Mana Consumption is not that much of a problem when you have a full party with you, plus you don't always need to use powerful Spells to defeat your enemy. Sometimes using normal spells is enough as getting stronger is equivalent to your Magic Power getting stronger so that ordinary spell can be catastrophic.
"Hmmm… That is a good question. I know that everyone wanted to laugh at him, just now. But he does have a point, but if I really give a negative part about it… it would be its explosiveness. Now as we know, if a Normal Soul Realm explodes, it is enough to take out a small island right? But the jump from Normal to Ascedent and so on is immeasurable." Mio said as she then drew a circle on the board for an example.
"Let's say that someone managed to destroy the Soul Realm of his or her enemy, that explosion is enough to kill every single Human on Earth. In the short term, it is enough to destroy an entire planet. But a Crystalized is enough to annihilate an entire Galaxy, but for the Crystalized that is just a speculation for now, none of you have to be really afraid as there are only 3 people in the world who are documented to have that." Mio said and just as the student was about to sit down and thank Mio for answering his question, he was stopped as Mio opened her mouth once more.
"There's another one, but this is going to be perspective-based. Those who are born with Ascendant Soul Realm and the reason I'm using this is because all of them have felt the same thing and is that that they feel that they are growing too slowly. But the reason for that is simple: as you get a stronger Soul Realm, the stronger foundation you would need to advance. But to some people, it might be negative as they feel that it is taking too much time, but for others, it is good since they have a better foundation, and this leads to of course a stronger Magic despite having a lower Rank." Mio answered and from that, she was finally done answering her student's question.
After that, she asked everyone once more if they had any more questions and when she saw that no one was raising her hand she went on ahead and explained what is the Celestial Soul Realm. But it was just a short explanation since just as she said before there was not much difference, it was just the Celestial is a lot stronger than the Crystalized Soul Realm.
"But I did say before that even though they are different, there is actually a clear difference from a Crystalized Soul Realm to a Celestial… and I don't know what it is. Because I actually haven't seen one or even read anything about it, there are no recordings about it, so I can't say. But we know the person who has it and if we just compare her to everyone we will definitely come up with one idea of what is different." After that Mio ordered a 10-minute short break.