Touching her skin, which somewhat returned to the quality of her previous life, a small smile couldn't help but appear on Beatrice's face as she opened her eyes.
"Finally," mumbled Beatrice, feeling the deep transformation that had begun taking place inside of her.
After a few moments, Beatrice got up from the bed, causing popping sounds to resound through the room.
Thankfully, the sounds stopped after Beatrice successfully stretched her body for a few moments.
Right now, although it had not become much stronger, Beatrice's body had fully transformed, becoming something far beyond that of a normal human.
"Hmm, testing myself would not be a bad idea," mumbled Beatrice, walking out of the room as this idea entered her mind.
After all, by now, her teacher should already have an approximate range of her Spiritual Power, hiding it so much wouldn't matter.
Maybe?
...
As Beatrice entered the huge steel machine in front of her, using her mind to close the door behind her, some expectations couldn't help but appear in Beatrice's mind.
Thankfully though, all of these expectations were quickly met as Beatrice turned on the machine, causing two different numbers to appear inside of it.
Mana: 35.247679...
Spiritual Power: ~52.4652323...
As Beatrice stared at the two numbers, some surprise couldn't help but appear on her face.
"That's a bit unexpected," mumbled Beatrice as she stared at the numbers, more specifically, at the number which represented her total mana.
Although her Spiritual power was quite a bit higher than expected, this did not bother Beatrice in the slightest, rather, all of her attention was poured onto her mana pool, which was a bit higher than what it was in her previous life at the moment she became a High Ranking Mage apprentice.
'Was it my experience with this process, or was it something else?' thought Beatrice as she stared at the number
But still, Beatrice did not dwell on this too much, as she then opened the door to the machine, and walked out of it.
...
As Selena stared at the twisted sphere of corpses in front of her, a slightly surprised expression couldn't help but appear on her face.
"She became a High Ranking Mage apprentice," mumbled Selena, before turning her attention back to the sphere, which was slightly wiggling.
She did not have much time to worry about her disciple, for now.
...
Although Beatrice was aware of the fact that her teacher probably monitored the testing machine, at this moment, Beatrice was still unaware of the sheer level of control Selena had over her own home, a level far beyond normal understanding.
As such, at this moment Beatrice walking through the corridors of the place she called home, unaware of the fact that her teacher was aware of her current progress.
At this moment, Beatrice turned her attention to one fact that still needed testing.
...
Staring at the small metal dummy standing around a dozen meters in front of her, Beatrice couldn't help but take in a deep breath closing her eyes.
After all, back in her past life, only after becoming a Peak Mage Apprentice did Beatrice try learning this spell as a trump card.
Only with her previous experience from back then was Beatrice confident that she could accomplish this without harming herself.
After making sure her ears were fully plugged, protecting her from the sound, Beatrice began casting the spell
1 second
After one second Beatrice began gritting her teeth as a frown appeared on her forehead.
2 seconds
After two seconds, veins began appearing on Beatrice's forehead as she continued focusing the entirety of her being on casting this spell.
3 seconds
By the third second, the size of the veins on Beatrice's forehead had increased in size by a large amount, threatening to burst, as even though Beatrice had more than enough spiritual power to cast the spell, her body definitely wasn't prepared to do it.
Thankfully for her though, there was no fourth second, as, at that moment, a thin arrow suddenly formed in front of Beatrice, before bolting towards the metal dummy, which was constructed from the same magically resistant metal as the rest of the room, albeit not as pure in the slightest.
At that moment, Beatrice let herself fall to the ground, stopping her control of the arrow and letting it fly on its, only leaving her Dark Barrier on, not doing anything else.
But before Beatrice could even fall to the ground, several shards of metal impacted her barrier at speeds above that of sound.
What followed were fifteen explosions.
Fifteen sonic booms were left behind by the Dark Arrow in it's quest to utterly smash the dummy into pieces.
The moment the arrow touched the dummy, the latter suddenly exploded, as the arrow passed through it, only slowing down somewhat.
Under the might of the offensive Rank 1 Spell, Dark Arrow, which was ordinarily used by True Mages, the dummy, which was resistant to spells, shattered to pieces, sending some pieces of metal flying towards Beatrice's dark barrier at above the speed of sound.
Only a small fraction of a second after that, the arrow impacted the wall of the room, suddenly stopping in it's tracks, as if it was facing an unmovable object.
Unlike Dark Bolts, which usually dissipated under the effects of the wall, as the Dark Arrow smashed into it, several cracks appeared along it's body.
Another fraction of a moment later, the arrow exploded, but this time, thankfully nothing was thrown around the room.
After the smoke cleared, all that was left inside of the room was Beatrice, laying along the floor, and around her, the pieces of the target dummy she had prepared, as for the wall, it was completely unscathed.
Even though Beatrice was in quite a bad shape, with the vast majority of her mana pool depleted, as she looked at the devastation she had caused, a weird smile appeared on her face.
After a few moments of refining some mana, Beatrice got up from the ground, that same smile still clearly visible on her face as she stared at the scene in front of her.