Semiris’s mouth hung open, her body frozen mid-air.
She did it...... She actually did it?! Three different elements! So you’re a triple-element mage now?! How on earth did you train this much in just one month?!
Before Semiris could recover from her shock,
Hulim kept the show going.
“Now for the fourth one!”
Wait! Wait a second! Fourth? Does that mean......
“【???????????????????】”
“Wind Gust!”
A soft breeze swept past, stirring Semiris’s hair.
Semiris was completely dumbfounded.
A-a quadruple-element mage......
The second one in the entire world?
Whoosh!
Hulim let out a small puff of air. Semiris had just started to hope that she was finally done—when Hulim’s next words hit her like a bolt of lightning.
“Now for the fifth spell!”
It turned out that Hulim had only been catching her breath; casting so many spells in a row had left her a little lightheaded.
But Semiris didn’t have time to process that. Her brain had already short-circuited.
A quintuple-element mage?
Staring at the faint glow flickering at Hulim’s fingertips, Semiris wondered if she was still stuck in a dream.
“Now for the sixth spell!”
Every single word felt like a sledgehammer pounding against Semiris’s chest.
N-no way...... This can’t be happening, right?
Yet when a veil of shadow draped itself over Hulim’s body, Semiris turned to stone on the spot.
“Semiris? Semiris? Are you alright?”
Hulim’s voice jolted Semiris back to her senses. She shook her head violently.
“A-ah, I’m fine, fine......”
“I see. Then I’ll keep going. This is the last one.”
“Sure, sure, go ahead—wait. Keep going?”
Semiris’s mind was still muddled. By the time she registered what Hulim had said, it was already too late to stop her.
And then, in Semiris’s horrified gaze, Hulim unleashed her seventh spell.
“【???????????????????????】”
Non-Elemental First-Tier Spell—Cleanse.
On the last day of their one-month bet, Hulim had been struggling to figure out how to learn non-elemental magic when a thought struck her: since non-elemental spells almost always affected the caster’s own body, maybe she needed to look inward to master them?
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So Hulim had focused her attention on her own body—and that’s when she’d discovered the seventh element hidden within her. Against the backdrop of the other six elements, the non-elemental energy had stood out like a sore thumb, impossible to miss.
When she’d tried to manipulate that non-elemental energy, she’d found it far easier than any of the others. It was as if this energy had been a part of her from the very beginning—no communication barriers, no awkward adjustments required.
Mastering the first-tier non-elemental spell Cleanse had been child’s play for her, making all the effort she’d put into the other elements feel like a joke in comparison.
As the faint glow of Cleanse wrapped around Hulim’s body, wiping away the dust from her clothes, it also wiped away the last shred of Semiris’s sanity......
“......Did this world break or something?”
“Huh?”
Staring at Semiris’s vacant, wide-eyed expression, Hulim tilted her head in confusion.
“Semiris? Semiris? What’s wrong? I won the bet, you know!”
“A-ah, right! The bet! I totally forgot about that!”
Semiris snapped her fingers, as if she’d just remembered something crucial.
“That’s trivial compared to your problem, though! Hulim, how did you do this? How can you wield seven different elements?”
“You’re the one who made the bet with me! Why are you acting so confused now? Don’t tell me...... you were planning to weasel out of your promise from the start?!”
Hulim narrowed her eyes at Semiris suspiciously, inching closer to her, ready to grab her at a moment’s notice to stop her from fleeing.
“......”
Semiris watched Hulim’s little scheme unfold, a vein twitching on her forehead.
“Ahem! I am the great Fairy Queen! I would never stoop to welshing on a bet! But do you even realize what it means to wield seven elements, Hulim?”
“Meaning? Is that such a strange thing?”
Hulim looked genuinely perplexed.
“Let me spell this out for you......”
Semiris facepalmed in exasperation.
“The most elements anyone in the world has ever had an affinity for is four! Seven elements? Never in the entire history of Himril has someone like you existed! Not even once!”
“Huh? But what about you, Semiris? Aren’t you——”
“I’m different! I’m a fairy—a magical lifeform by birth! And even fairies are born with elemental affinities, you know! I couldn’t wield all elements when I first came into being either. It took centuries of trials and tribulations, and a boatload of lucky accidents, before I mastered every element! And I’m the only one of my kind in the whole world! That’s why the Mother Goddess entrusted me with the task of bestowing blessings......”
As Semiris explained, Hulim slowly realized she’d been under a huge misunderstanding this entire time.
When she’d first read about magic in books, the texts had said that learning a spell required a corresponding affinity.
But they’d never said that lacking an affinity made it impossible to learn a spell. Besides, Hulim had barely interacted with any real mages—her only frame of reference was Semiris, the one and only exception to every rule in the world.
That’s why, when she’d read those passages, she’d automatically assumed that anyone could learn any magic, with or without an affinity. The books had emphasized the importance of affinities, sure—but she’d thought that just meant affinities made learning easier.
Now that the misunderstanding was cleared up,
Hulim was the one left dumbfounded.
“Huh...... Then what am I?”
“I’d like to know that too!”
Semiris groaned in frustration.
“Ugh, I should’ve stopped being lazy and checked this sooner!”
She muttered to herself, her eyes locking onto Hulim with unwavering intensity.
“Huh?”
Hulim’s head tilted in confusion—
And then she saw Semiris’s eyes light up with a brilliant glow, two tiny magic circles materializing in front of her pupils.
“Your eyes! They’re glowing!”
Hulim cried out in shock, her mind reeling at the thought that magic could be channeled through one’s eyes.
At the same time, a completely different scene unfolded in Semiris’s vision.
A string of glowing text hovered above Hulim’s head, visible only to her.
【Hulim Heyerar
Race: Human (Female)
Age: 7 Years Old
Vitality: E Rank
Mana: D Rank
Magic Affinity: Fire C Rank, Water C Rank, Earth C Rank, Wind C Rank, Light C Rank, Dark C Rank, Non-Elemental C Rank
......
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“......”
After reading Hulim’s status, Semiris fell silent once more.
This kid...... Not only does she have an affinity for all seven elements, but every single one of her affinities is exactly the same level?!
What in the name of the Mother Goddess is going on here?!
