The bright red-haired girl, Adriana, entered the class with a cold expression on her face and surveyed everyone with an emotionless deanour.
As everyone witnessed Adriana's expressionless face, their hearts seed to skip a beat, and silence engulfed the entire classroom.
"Let's go to the compound," Adriana declared, rubbing her temples in annoyance.
"She's in a bad mood today," Aur observed, a glint flashing in his eyes as he followed the students into the compound.
Upon entering, they encountered a setup resembling an arena. Old n sat on the side, their wrinkled faces carrying a serious gaze. In the centre stood a youth dressed casually, exuding an uncaring gaze.
Aur frowned as he glanced at the people. Although they didn't release any pressure and appeared like ordinary old n, there was an invisible pressure of authority surrounding them naturally.
"They are stronger than the academy teachers," Aur thought with a frown.
This realisation solidified as he recognized the familiar figure of Noah, the leader of the village, among the elders. Aur beca even more certain that they were all elders.
Williams' eyes lit up when he saw Noah, and he bowed towards him.
Noah smiled and nodded in response, acknowledging Williams' bow.
Williams held a favourable impression of Noah because he had protected him from assassins sent by his family multiple tis.
Reflecting on his family, William was consud by rage as he tightened his fist.
"Control yourself, William. I need to gather enough strength before I can have a chance to take revenge on them. If I seek justice now, I won't be strong enough, so I'll hone my blade of revenge until then," William consoled himself while managing his anger.
William had endured nurous injustices at the hands of the Steele family, starting from his childhood and continuing into the present.
His mother had been killed by his own father, and he, along with his sister, was treated like a slave in the household. Considering the circumstances, he could be considered fortunate to have survived until now.
"I hope they never find my sister," William thought, narrowing his golden eyes. After killing Lucas, the only son of the patriarch of the Steele family, he knew that they would likely co after him.
For this reason, he imdiately returned to his city to conceal his sister from their enemies until he beca strong enough to protect them.
Ever since his mother's death, his sister had been his only emotional and ntal support. With gritted teeth and upon the suggestion of Asmodeus, he went through his own awakening.
Unexpectedly, fate took a turn, and he obtained a higher talent than the village leader himself, earning him the protection of Noah, the strongest wizard in the village.
Now, the tables have turned. It was a race against ti for William till he could be strong enough.
The Steele family had crossed the line with their humiliations and the killing of his own mother. It was a matter of survival now—either William would live under the sa sky, or the Steele family would, but both couldn't coexist under the sa sky now.
William tightened his fist even more, causing faint blood to seep from his hand, his golden eyes flashing with a determined glint.
Inside his ntal space, the golden text seed to have a strange reaction, flashing with a more intense golden light.
Asmodeus and Lily, who were in the book, looked at all this with shock.
"What's happening?" Lily tentatively asked as the book turned towards the primordial demon.
Asmodeus casually shrugged. "Don't look at ; how would I know?"
"Useless demon," she said with a disappointed tone.
"This girl…" Asmodeus' eyes narrowed. "I would have killed you already if I wasn't in this chain. Lucky for you that you are lucky," he muttered.
"Huh, what did you say?"
As the two were bickering, the chains that bound them vibrated again as they witnessed a heaven-defying scene. With the radiance of the golden text, the ntal space of William also expanded.
Rumble!
The entire ntal space vibrated with it.
William, who was outside, also felt the quaking of his ntal space, which made him frown.
"Hmm, what happened?" he thought as he sent his consciousness glimpsing at his ntal space; the mont he brightened with glee.
"My ntal space is increasing?"
With shock in his heart, William had never heard about a person increasing his ntal space, not even in myths. Even in the wildest imagination, he couldn't think of such a thing, yet this was happening to him.
After a long ti, the bright radiance of the golden text finally wore off, and William imdiately checked his ntal space again.
As he counted the steps to reach from one wall to the other.
To his astonishnt, it had gone from eighty steps to eighty-six whopping steps.
"Am I dreaming?" William thought as he pinched himself, disbelief written on his face.
Ouch!
"This isn't a dream," he said in a loud voice in the real world.
Everyone gazed at William with confusion on their faces.
William rubbed his head when he sensed the gaze that was looking at him, sporting an embarrassed smile.
"Is it ti for you to be daydreaming?" Adriana looked at William with a deadpan expression.
"Shit," William internally cursed as he smiled, "it's nothing, teacher. I was just day-dreaming, and in the dream, I thought it was reality."
Adriana just shook her head. If it were any other kid, she might have done sothing; however, since he was the disciple of the leader himself, there wasn't much she could do about the kid. Anyway, why bother trying?
William heaved a sigh of relief as he looked at his ntal space again with glee.
Although the increase from eighty to eighty-six steps might not seem to make much of a difference, it did for him.
William could already feel that he could absorb mana from outside much faster, at a higher rate.
Besides that, the chances of him breaking through to a tier one wizard have also increased to the point that he felt like he couldn't fail even if he tried his best. Besides that, his attunent for mana seed to have increased.
Before, he could thinly sense the mana in the surroundings; however, with the increase in his ntal space, the mana in the surroundings has beco more attuned to him.
This wasn't only helpful in increasing his mana absorption speed; it also increased the power of his spells, since his attunent for mana was higher.
This was the advantage of having a bigger ntal space and why it correlates to having more talent.
For example, if a person with lower talent uses the exact sa spell as William, the power it could generate would always be a step weaker due to the attunent from the mana.
The only disadvantage of the ntal space with a larger space was that it took more mana to fill the space up aning it increased his ti in progression; however, the increase in his speed of absorbing mana already balanced this.
"I wonder how terrifying supre-grade ntal spaces are." Just thinking about this made William feel a chill down his spine.
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