Early the next day,
As she walked out of Beatrice's room, Alice couldn't help but slightly shiver, as she felt a certain gaze land on her from inside the room.
The moment Alice felt this gaze scan her, she couldn't help but speed up, fearing that the owner of this gaze would pull her back into the room.
At a speed far beyond that of a normal human, Alice had disappeared, causing Beatrice, who was lazily laying on the bed, to click her teeth.
"Not even closing the door behind her, she really has no manners," mumbled Beatrice as she stretched out her arms and got up from the bed.
'I really need a relaxing bath,' thought Beatrice as she walked up to the door and closed it.
...
At this moment, Alice could be seen walking through the hallways of the ship, which had already begun flying, unaware of the fact that Beatrice was badmouthing her.
Suddenly, Alice froze in place as she realised something.
In only a moment, Alice took out a bag from her currently rather untidy robe and began counting the elemental stones inside of it.
As she stared at the two extra elemental stones in her hands, Alice slightly gulped.
Knowing her teacher's temper, Alice wanted to go back to Beatrice's room, to give her back these two elemental stones, but as soon as she tried to do so, she couldn't help but slightly shiver.
"I won't go back to that place," mumbled Alice, deciding on what to do.
Although Alice knew that she shouldn't take extra elemental stones from customers, she would rather face punishment from her teacher than go back to the hands of that woman.
...
Perhaps aware of Alice's current conundrum, Beatrice couldn't help but faintly smile as she wrote something down into the information cube.
'I can't really conduct any sensitive experiments in this place, I guess I just have to practice my spells for the next 22 days,' thought Beatrice.
Although the cabin of this flying ship seemed to protect her against scrying spells, Beatrice did not trust it in the slightest.
Beatrice knew, for a near fact, that the Rose Guild had probably placed some secret way to spy on the occupants of the flying ship.
Even though this made her somewhat uncomfortable, Beatrice still had to bear with this fact, as this was the best way for her to currently travel.
A few moments later, Beatrice sank into her thoughts as she stared at the wall of her room.
At this moment, nobody could know what Beatrice was thinking.
...
In what seemed like a flash, the 22 days Beatrice had to spend on the ship passed.
As she could not truly do any experiments, Beatrice had to simply wait out the time by refining Mana and practising spells.
In these 22 days, Beatrice managed to somewhat increase her proficiency of her less used spells.
At the same time, she was able to peacefully refine Mana without having anything to worry about.
Because of this, whilst she was on the ship, Beatrice's total Mana pool managed to increase from 54.58 points of Mana, to 57.22 points of Mana, a sizeable increase that brought Beatrice closer and closer to becoming a Peak Mage Apprentice, which would happen at around 70 to 75 points of Mana.
If Beatrice continued with this speed, she should be able to reach that level in around five months, an extremely fast speed, faster than in her previous life.
'After that, I just need to become an official mage,' thought Beatrice as she stared at the ground through the window.
Although the trip back to her home had been quite expensive, costing 1212 elemental stones, Beatrice was quite satisfied with it.
Of course, compared with staying in her teacher's home, Beatrice did not know whether going on this trip had made her stronger or weaker, but Beatrice was sure of one thing.
She was quite satisfied.
Of course, right now came a much more worrying part.
"Hopefully that little girl Guinevere didn't cause too much trouble whilst I was gone," mumbled Beatrice as she touched her forehead.
Even though Guinevere seemed rather responsible before Beatrice had gone on her trip, Beatrice could not be sure what that little girl had done whilst she was gone, and what had happened.
...
At an unknown moment in time, in a random little village, an older sister was sat down on the ground, staring at her little brother
"Elias, that's impressive, very good," said Ella as she looked at her brother, who was currently holding a Dark Bolt in his hands.
The second thing Ella did after obtaining her brother back from that witch, after making sure that he was alright physically and mentally, was test his talent for magic.
After spending some elemental stones to use a talent testing device, Ella had found out that her brother did, in fact, have Magic Talent.
Elias even had the same type of affinity as Ella, allowing her to be able to reuse the spell book that she had learned from.
There was a single issue though, the fact that Elias' talent was quite a bit lower than Ella's, but to her surprise, Elias seemed to pick up magic quite quickly.
...
Looking at her brother, who was controlling a dark bolt, a faint smile appeared on Ella's face.
"Good, as expected of my brother, now create another one," said Ella, causing Elias to freeze for a moment before nodding.
Whilst he controlled the first dark bolt, Elias moved a portion of his attention away, to create a second one.
One second.
Two seconds.
Five seconds.
Ten second.
For around ten seconds, Elias stared at the air in front of him, gritting his teeth.
By around the five-second mark, a small black object had appeared in the air, where Elias was staring.
Sadly though, this did not last for long, as after around ten seconds, Elias not only lost control of this new forming dark bolt, which had caused it to dissipate, but he had also lost control of the other dark bolt, causing it to move uncontrollably.
Seeing this scene, Ella couldn't help but shake her head.
'He has D grade affinity after all, I expected too much' thought Ella as she waved her hand, causing both dark bolts to freeze in place.