In just a few hours, Beatrice had managed to fully read all of the ancient books she had bought, memorizing all of them.
After that, Beatrice slowly fell into thought, remembering the contents of the books, and thinking about conflicting information, after all, although Beatrice was sure these books were very old, she did not truly know if they were right.
The best thing Beatrice could do was make sure to see if anything inside of the book conflicted with anything she knew was true.
As such, Beatrice sat crosslegged nearly all night, thinking about the books she had read, at the same time, a certain weird thought appeared in her mind.
'Water Element mages are weak in the early stage,' thought Beatrice, before suddenly moving her thoughts back to the books.
...
The next morning.
Although Beatrice had not slept much at all, the first thing she did in the morning was get out of the house alongside Elias and begin searching for a suitable pace to set up a stall.
Right now, Beatrice wanted to sell the possessions of the several mages she had killed under the orders of her teacher, mainly the spellbooks, as Beatrice still had some use for most of the other items.
Suddenly, Beatrice's eyes, lit up as she looked at a certain empty spot, right in front of an intersection of the town.
'A good location,' thought Beatrice as she quickly walked up to the empty spot and began watching Elias set up her stall.
Unlike normal humans, Elias quickly set up Beatrice's stall, as under Beatrice's guidance, Elias had already become a mage apprentice, although a very weak one for now.
But even though Elias was still a very inexperienced mage, Beatrice still felt a huge diference in the difficulty of controlling him.
The moment Elias had become a Mage Apprentice, for no apparent reason, it had become several times more difficult to control him.
Thankfully though, right now, Beatrice's spiritual power was completely exaggerated compared to a normal mage of the same rank, allowing her to still fully control him with relative ease.
In only a few minutes, a small stall had already been created, allowing Beatrice to place five books behind the counter.
These were, in fact, spellbooks for the Water, Earth, Wind, Fire, and Ice elements.
As she placed the books on the stall, a little bit of pain couldn't help but flash in Beatrice's eyes, as she knew that she wouldn't really get a great deal on these spellbooks.
But of course, Beatrice could do nothing, as the books were completely useless to her, as she could only cast spells of the dark element.
Although Beatrice, in these past three months, had tried reading the spellbooks, so as to maybe help her understand her own spells grow, but sadly, it seemed as though mana from different elements worked in completely different ways, not giving Beatrice any inspiration.
After a few moments of thought, Beatrice quickly wrote the number 379 under all of the books before sitting on the chair behind the stall and closing her eyes.
One day later,
An entire day had already passed before Beatrice had sold anything, but rather thankfully, this waiting did not truly disturb Beatrice's magic practice, as with her experience, she could easily refine mana even as her senses were exposed to the outside world.
At this very moment, Beatrice was looking at her spellbook, staring at the dark bolt spell circle trying to analyze it, something which she did nearly every day, as she had already mastered most of the Rank 0 Dark Spells which were useful to her.
As she did this, occasionally, a small dark bolt would pop up in Beatrice's hand, before collapsing only a moment later most of the time.
Suddenly, Beatrice raised her eyes, looking at the middle-aged man who had approached her stall and was staring at a certain spellbook.
"What spells does the Fire Element Spellbook have inside of it?" asked the middle-aged man, prompting Beatrice to open her mouth.
"It has most of the basic spells, Fire Barrier, Spark, Fireball, Fire Healing..." as Beatrice talked for around a minute, occasionally giving the middle-aged man a partial look at some of the spell circles, a frown couldn't help but appear on the face of the middle-aged man.
"I'll take it," said the middle-aged man, gritting his teeth as he took out a small bag from inside of his robe, before placing 379 elemental stones in front of Beatrice only a few moments later.
Seeing this, Beatrice then handed the spellbook to the middle-aged man as she placed the elemental stones inside a bag of her own with a slightly satisfied expression on her face, of course, because of the mask on her face, this was not visible to the middle-aged man.
Although her teacher was relatively generous, giving Beatrice one thousand elemental stones when she said she wanted to go out, Beatrice still felt like it was quite good to obtain elemental stones from something essentially useless.
Unlike the first day, which had no buyers for her stall, it seemed as though Beatrice was quite lucky today, as only two hours after the first sale, another mage bought one of the spellbooks.
As she watched the old man walk away with the Earth Element Spellbook in his hands, Beatrice couldn't help but smile, watching the sun slowly but surely set.
"Let's go, we need to pack up," said Beatrice as she turned to Elias, causing the latter to suddenly begin walking towards him, when suddenly, another figure approached the stall, causing Beatrice to suddenly stop.
"Can you let me verify the contents of the Water Element Spellbook?" asked the middle-aged man as he looked at Beatrice.
"Alright," said Beatrice she picked up the spellbook and showed him some incomplete spell circles from inside.
And after only a few more minutes, now with one less Spellbook and even more elemental stones in hand, Beatrice had finally finished her last deal of the day, staring at the departing back of the middle aged man.