Step by step, Beatrice continued walking to her room, sweat now filling her forehead, unaware of the fact that a certain mark on her neck had nearly saved her.
With each step that Beatrice took, she felt her body become lighter and lighter, eventually though, that feeling stopped as Beatrice became farther enough away from that old woman that the latter didn't affect her anymore.
And after a few more moments of walking, Beatrice successfully entered her room, closing the door behind herself immediately after doing so.
The moment Beatrice entered the room, she instinctually relaxed, even though she knew that the feeble door to the room would be able to do nothing against an opponent of that caliber.
In fact, unless she got help from her teacher, Beatrice wasn't sure what she could even do to have even a slight chance of survival against an official mage as powerful as Skye Higgings, especially inside of the latter's own domain, where she could depend on the help of six other official mages.
'Thankfully it seems as though our meeting was only a coincidence, and she doesn't have any interest in me,' thought Beatrice as she sat down on her bed, feeling extremely exhausted already.
The exhaustion from her travel, her examination of the flying ship as well as the meeting with Skye Higgins, had caught up with Beatrice, causing her to be extremely exhausted.
A few moments later, Beatrice took off her robe and fell down let herself fall down onto the bed, quickly falling asleep without any hassle.
...
Two Hours later,
After having exactly two hours of sleep, Beatrice suddenly opened her eyes, all of the exhaustion previously visible on her face completely gone.
Without wasting a single moment, Beatrice suddenly got up from the bed, put on her robe, and sat down at her small desk, taking out the information cube from her pocket.
Quickly though Beatrice frowned, as she reviewed the scenes that had happened two hours earlier.
"That meeting tired me out far too fast," mumbled Beatrice as she tapped her fingers on her desk, her frown increasing.
Although the fact that Beatrice would become exhausted after traveling for a relatively long time without any rest in the slightest, as well as continuing with her usual schedule, refining mana every single day whilst practicing spells seemed rather normal, Beatrice felt as though something was off.
After thinking about this topic for a few minutes, Beatrice couldn't come up with any sound conclusion, as she, for a fact, knew that Skye Higgins hadn't cast any spell on her.
Suddenly, an idea appeared in Beatrice's mind.
"Maybe that could work," mumbled Beatrice as she suddenly took out a leather notebook from one of her rather large pockets.
After opening it and quickly flipping to the last page, Beatrice suddenly tried to alert the soul placed in the notebook using her mana.
...
Feeling a familiar mana disturb her from her sleep, Selena suddenly opened her eyes, a rather annoyed look appearing on her face.
'It's only been a short time since she last disturbed me, could something have happened?' thought Selena as she looked at Beatrice.
After a few moments, Selena noticed two rather faint auras meeting on Beatrice's body, causing a rather surprised look to appear on her face.
'She's taking a trip back home,' thought Selena, feeling the familiar aura of an acquaintance of hers bound to Beatrice.
In the past, Selena would also use the flying ship of the Rose Guild to travel back to her home, but after she became more famous, nd much more hunted down, she could no longer do so, requiring her to construct her own method of transportation.
...
"Why have you disturbed me this time?" asked the figure which had emerged from the notebook as it looked at Beatrice.
"Well, I met a powerful mage not too long ago, and I felt something weird happen," said Beatrice, causing the tiny Selena, who was standing on the cover of the notebook to slightly frown.
"Although I don't know what happened to you, since I don't have many of my important memories, you don't have to worry, things are fine," said Selena as she looked at Beatrice, causing a rather surprised expression to appear on Beatrice's face.
Without waiting for Beatrice to ask any questions, Selena continued.
"Even though I don't have my memories, I can feel my own aura emanating from you, it seems as though my other self used your connection to intervene recently, so you don't have to worry, that should be the reason for your exhaustion," said Selena, causing Beatrice to feel somewhat enlightened as well as curious.
"Even if my other self didn't do anything, You didn't have to worry, Skye Higgings is not like me," said Selena, causing Beatrice's lips to somewhat twitch.
After all, at this moment, Beatrice was not exhausted in the slightest, and she had not mentioned the fact that she felt exhausted as well.
"I understand," said Beatrice as she watched Selena once again sink into the notebook.
The moment her teacher disappeared, a faint frown appeared on Beatrice's face.
'She can interfere with me from a large distance away using our connection? That's somewhat unexpected,' thought Beatrice, clearly remembering the effects of the ritual in which Beatrice and Selena had taken part in.
With her memory, Beatrice remembered quite clearly what the effects of the ritual were.
'I really shouldn't worry too much, I can't change it much, at least right now,' thought Beatrice as she touched the mark on her neck, feeling it with her fingers.
...
Inside of a secret location,
"She's going back to her home, that's quite unexpected," mumbled Selena as some clarity flashed through her eyes.
Seeing the weird look on his Mistress' face, Ighor couldn't help but feel kind of weird.
"Mistress, did something happen?" asked Ighor, causing Selena to shake her head.
"No, let's go, We shouldn't stay here any longer," said Selena as she began walking away, causing Ighor to begin following her.