In the next few days, Zevien and Vernisiapleted their quests and also absorbed magic crystals in a batch of threes.
The n had also be a D-rank n after Alucard used 2500 contribution points to raise the n''s rank. The memberspleted many missions in the past week and gathered 3850 contribution points.
Of course, Zevien, Vernisia, and other students of the Skyward Academy who were members of the npleted quests in the academy that resulted in that many contribution points.
Even though the quests from the academy only add 20 contribution points per quest to the n, there were 12 Skyward academy students as members, and all of them had alreadypleted over ten quests in the past few days, so that alone generated over 2500 contribution points.
Academy''s quests only gave 20 contribution points each because they were not as risky as guild missions due to arrangements from the academy.
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When Zevien was two days away before he had to enter the Invible Blood Garden magicbyrinth…
"Finally, we have crossed the 5000 magic power mark," Vernisia smiled as she and Zevien had just finished absorbing thest two magic crystals that pushed them past 5000 magic power.
Zevien''s magic power reached 5117, and Vernisia''s magic power topped him at 5288.
"Yep. Now, let''splete abat-rted quest and consolidate our magic core before breaking through to 3rd ss magicians," Zevien grinned. "Tomorrow, we''ll enter our 1st magicbyrinth, and the day after tomorrow we''ll enter Invible Blood Garden."
"Hmmm… we''ll have to stay for 6 hours minimum inside our magicbyrinths after bing 3rd ss magicians," Vernisia frowned before she became determined. "We will definitely find a way to escape in six hours after entering your 2nd magicbyrinth."
One part of Zevien still didn''t want Vernisia toe with him inside. But there was no changing it anymore. It would be disrespectful to Vernisia if he kept denying her entry with him.
An uneasy feeling would creep on him whenever he thought of that ce, but there was no use overthinking it. ''Opportunity… whether bad or risky, I''ll have to take it,'' Zevien remembered the words of Euclion and one of the three divine truths regarding the path of magic.
''One must not be afraid when ites to magicbyrinths and strive forward bravely. Although we are entering physically, so there''s a chance of dying, Tarto already told me that in the true path of magic, people will eventually have to enter their magicbyrinths physically. We are entering early to get used to risk and caution.''
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Five hourster, Zevien and Vernisia returned to their magic abode afterpleting two quests and also consolidated their magic core in the process.
They didn''t have time to learn another tier-4 magic spell, so they weaved the tier-3 magic spell <Lightning Dash> in their magic core for now.
"Let''s do it," Zevien said before he took a deep breath and triggered the evolution, causing him to disappear from the bed. Vernisia saw Zevien disappear and also triggered her evolution as she disappeared.
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Three hourster, Zevien reappeared on the bed with a nk expression. He failed! The evolution failed, and he lost 348 magic power.
"Vernisia!?" Zevien quickly looked beside him but sighed in relief after not seeing her; this meant that she was still in the process of evolution.<novelnext></novelnext>
"I failed… sigh" Zevien sighed as he couldn''t keep his emotions in check during the test.
This 3rd evolution was not much different from the previous one. He had toprehend a magic circle, but the situation was slightly different. After seeing the illusions, he knew that this evolution was about strengthening his mind. However, he saw Vernisia''s death in the illusion at a point, and that caused him to falter, which disrupted his focus.
Even if it was some illusion, the prospect of Vernisia''s death still affected him. He had lost her once, so he couldn''t lose her again. His mind and heart still wavered at that scene.
After sighing again, Zevien wryly smiled. ''It seems that I''ll have to take a white-rank magic crystal from Vernisia to reach 5000 magic power again.''
After failing this evolution, he was left with 4769 magic power, so he needed to absorb a white-rank magic crystal, which would increase his magic power to 5245.
Zevien decided to talk in the [-n chat-] while waiting for Vernisia. None of the members, aside from Skyward Academy students, had seen him or Vernisia, so they were curious.
When Zevien opened the chat, they were talking about epting some D-rank missions. E-rank and D-rank missions could be handled by 4th ss magicians, but even if the n reached Rank C, only 3rd ss magicians would be able to ept C-rank missions.
However, the progress of every single magician in the existence was fast. Jonathan, Medro, Carmaine, and her two friends had already be 3rd ss magicians. They broke through one by one in thest two days, probably because they got magic crystals from their magicbyrinths.
Dan and Erica spent some money to buy two white-rank magic crystals since they were just short of some magic power to hit the 5000 mark after they used their haul from Special Shop and their magicbyrinths. As such, they were also going to attempt to be 3rd ss magicians tonight.
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Approximately two hourster, Vernisia appeared on the bed.
"Zevien?" Vernisia was surprised to see Zevien lying on the bed while using Digi-watch. His posture showed that he had been resting for a long time.
"I failed, ha.. ha.. ha," Zevien said as he let out a hollowugh.
Vernisia was silent for a few seconds before she spoke. "Was it me?"
"Yes," Zevien nodded.
Vernisia hugged Zevien and buried her head in his chest. "I almost failed too because of the illusion, but I managed to maintain my focus link."
"It''s fine. I can pass it next time. It''s just, even if it was an illusion, I couldn''t ignore that," Zevien weakly smiled.
"How much magic power have you lost?"
"Not much. It can be recovered with one white-rank magic crystal."
"Alright," Vernisia nodded as she got up from the hug and took out a white-rank magic crystal before giving it to Zevien. "I''ll also absorb the remaining white-rank magic crystal to get a boost."