As he stared at his now scaly hands, Leylin couldn't help but clench his fist.
...
A few hours ago, Hasan managed to get a promotion at his job.
At this moment, as he walked down the street, a small smile appeared on Hasan's face, when suddenly, for an extremely brief moment, something caught his eye.
Instantly, Hasan raised his head, catching a brief glimpse of a shadow flying through the sky before disappearing.
...
Staring at the land below him, which seemed so insignificant, as well as the tiny figures moving about, Leylin slightly frowned.
A moment later, Leylin once again flapped his scaly wings, causing him to instantly speed up.
Even so, as he felt the light of the sun land on his scaly body, the frown on Leylin's face deepened.
"How come it's this bad?" mumbled Leylin, as he began feeling as if his skin was burning.
Thankfully though, with his newfound speed, it only took Leylin a few minutes to reach his destination.
Looking at the forest below him, Leylin suddenly flew toward the ground, landing in a small clearing a few moments later.
After that, Leylin bent down, staring at a tiny opening in the ground before beginning to crawl into it.
Even though the opening was extremely small, so small that a normal human would barely fit into it, the moment Leylin's body was about to touch the sides of the opening, it suddenly began stretching and bending along the small rocks littering it, allowing him to easily pass through.
A few moments later, Leylin's head appeared at the other side of the hole, inside of a small room.
This room was extremely simple, only having a bed and a few bookshelves next to it.
At the same time, the entirety of the room was in pitch darkness not allowing anyone to see anything.
Of course, this 'everyone' excluded Leylin, who was easily able to see in the dark, especially after his transformation.
After simply staying in the small room for a few minutes, silently staring at the wall without saying anything, Leylin suddenly began transforming, as the scales from his skin suddenly retreated, at the same time, his wings also disappeared.
Even though Leylin was in his human form, as he stared at his fist, which seemed much more flawless than before, Leylin could feel the great power lurking in it, which dwarfed anything his previous body could do in the past.
After a few more moments of silence, Leylin walked up to a certain bookshelf before beginning to search for a book
And then, only a few moments later Leylin found it.
'Demonology'
The first thing that greeted Leylin once he opened this book was a list, a list of around fifty types of demons, as well as the pages where they are described.
A moment later, Leylin flipped to a page in the latter half of the book, revealing an image of a grey-scaled humanoid beast with giant wings on its back.
A Shadow Demon
...
Looking at the sixteen little ant eggs, each of them sitting in their own little enclosures, Beatrice couldn't help but slightly smile.
Originally, Beatrice had obtained fifty-seven different species of ants.
After that Beatrice bred a vast majority of them together, obtaining thirty different species.
The reason why these numbers do not match is quite simple, as although most of the species Beatrice now has in her collection are extinct, she had to breed different species to obtain them
But that was not true for all of them, as some species still existed out in the wild, and were easily obtainable.
Of course, maybe some other species that Beatrice needed were still out there, but since she could simply breed them into existence, Beatrice did not bother spending much effort obtaining them.
And in some time, after using the Ant Growth spell a few more times, Beatrice would obtain the sixteen ant species that she needed so that she could continue her breeding process, and eventually obtain a species of supernatural ants.
Staring at the ant eggs, Beatrice once again smiled, as some of her mana pool, which had grown considerably since she had come to this place, became empty.
At this moment, some of Beatrice's mana slowly but surely imprinted itself on each and every one of the ant eggs in front of her, making sure that her control of them was absolute.
After a few moments, and after having finished casting the spell, Beatrice walked away, leaving Elias alone once again, guarding and caring for the ant eggs
...
After Beatrice walked out of the ant room, she quickly returned to her own bedroom, took out a spare robe from one of the drawers and walked into the huge bathroom that was attached to it.
As the water from the shower washed over Beatrice, random thoughts couldn't help but enter her mind.
"It's already been half a year huh, it should be about time for that to happen," mumbled Beatrice as she moved her fingers through her hair, rinsing it.
A few moments later, Beatrice finished washing her hair, but even so, she still continued staying in the bathroom, only leaving around ten minutes later, after dressing up with a new, but still black robe.
The first thing that Beatrice did when exited the bathroom was simple, she walked up to her bed, and sat down crosslegged on it.
A moment later, Beatrice began refining mana, causing time to suddenly pass by at a rapid speed.
...
Two hours later,
At this moment, after refining mana for over two hours, Beatrice suddenly stopped pouring her newly refined mana into her, feeling as if no more mana could fit inside of her.
Suddenly, Beatrice began slightly shaking, as she began refining more and more man, throwing it into her body at a fast speed.
Right now, a transformation had begun taking place inside of Beatrice as well, as her body, which was previously in the realm of normal humans, transformed under the effects of the mana.
Because of her mana, at this moment, every single one of Beatrice's organs was transforming.
She was becoming a High Rank Mage Apprentice.